jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Is someone in the third world chomping at the bit to pay $40 to open and close a single LN channel when that’s 10% of the GDP per capita of some of those countries you plan to help? Probably not.

In such cases, there is no reason such users can't "enter" bitcoin through a second layer such as the Lightning Network.

Why would they do that if it isn't real bitcoin?, you might ask. Well, for one, their local, tin-pot-dictator created currencies are often worthless, meaning that even second-layer bitcoin is a far more sound and reliable currency.

And who is to say $40 for an on-chain transaction is an "egregious fee"? It turns out having access to the world's most secure, decentralized, unstoppable, set-in-stone, uncensorable, trustless, non-inflationary monetary network is a valuable thing. Maybe so much so that $40 per on-chain transaction is a bargain in the bigger picture.
I enjoyed this article because I feel the same way about LinkedIn, and also really like the term "performative professionalism".
My site lacks an h1 currently– the layout doesn't need one– I wonder if not having an H1 is the same as having it the same as the title tag.
True. If you got two kids (I do) one can just look for both while the other one can have their shower/toilet/sleep whatever. Actually we are often taking turns sleeping.
They do, but perhaps the IRS has since changed things, since what I see on that link is not what is pictured in the article. (Ok, I see the article is from 2019, which is why it's so different)
YC was (and is continuing to be) very valuable for us. Sachin Rekhi has written up a good summary, which I broadly agree with: http://www.sachinrekhi.com/blog/2009/02/26/the-value-of-the-... -- and I would add to the list of benefits the massive network of the YC partners, who will happily make valuable intros.

Many other companies in our batch soon launched too, so we soon all ended up at pretty much the same stage.
About fifteen years ago I read a book summarizing research into the effects of different types and calibers of handguns and handgun ammunition. (Long story short: Clinton was trying to ban semiautomatic handguns or something, so my dad developed a sudden interest in buying a gun, and he borrowed some books from a friend who was quite an enthusiast.) The study was a survey of thousands of police reports on shootings, and it was done by a law enforcement guy to help law enforcement departments make an intelligent decision about what kinds of guns and ammo to standardize on.

He provided a lot of statistics and made some recommendations, but the overriding theme and message of the book was that the result of shooting someone, or being shot, is unpredictable no matter what kind of weapon is involved. Some examples:

A fatal bullet through the heart can leave a guy up and shooting for over ten seconds -- obviously an eternity for a law enforcement officer in a point-blank shootout.

A guy can get shot and not know it. Police officers are trained to check themselves carefully when any shots are fired, because it has happened that officers thought they were unharmed, went home, laid down to rest, and bled to death.

A guy can be in a shootout and THINK he got shot, and it turns out there's not a mark on him. They get knocked over, feel intense pain, cry out, etc. There were enough of these cases that the researchers were able to find some involving officers who were previously decorated for valor and had in fact been shot before.

A guy can get shot multiple times with a powerful weapon and get lucky, or he can get shot with a tiny weapon and get unlucky. I still remember the story used to illustrate this: a fight between roommates got ugly, and one guy shot the other six times in the chest with a .45. The second guy went to his attic, found his great-grandfather's Civil War-era relic small caliber revolver (something like a .22), went back downstairs, and shot his roommate through the heart, killing him. Forty-eight hours later, his desire for medical care overcame his aversion to getting caught, and he walked into an emergency room. He recovered completely.

The book had a lot of complicated reasoning about the trade-offs involved in choosing handguns and ammunition and made some strong recommendations, but I don't remember any of the specifics. I just remember the author stressing over and over again not to expect any particular result when you shoot somebody.
The writer of this article is just a mindless suit guy who appears not to understand the concept of net neutrality at all. I quote:

"ISPs spend billions of dollars building fiber networks. Why shouldn't they be able to charge what the market will bear to deliver bits over those networks? If people want their bits delivered quickly and securely, they can pay more. If they don't, they can pay less. It's as simple (and fair) as that."

See? Unclear on the concept.
Windows Live Hotmail already does a similar thing with its new Sweep feature.
Yes, it sucks to sell a commodity. But if Verizon cripples their internet, someone will sell unrestricted access, and they will win.

As long as their IS competition, I think it will keep driving customers toward open access and thwarting carriers' attempts to control it.
Regardless there are people who choose to remain homeless. When I lived in Finland there were homeless, even though there were plenty of opportunities not to be.
Do you have a reference discussing core scheduling specifically to manage heating?

There's a ton of different rationales for scheduling processes to cores, and lots of core scheduling algorithms, but I wasn't aware of try to keep all the cores the same temperature.

Modern CPUs can run each cores at a different clock, and you get higher clock speeds when fewer cores are running, so depending on overall system load, condensing to fewer cores can result in better throughput. As well, individual core performance varies, so some schedulers will try to identify which cores can clock the highest and schedule tasks on those cores first.

Generally, there are benefits from keeping a process running on the same core, but there's all sorts of scenarios that end up with a process bouncing over many cores.

For example, if you have an active cpu program and get an interrupt serviced by the core its running on, an otherwise idle core may steal the process, because the process is runnable but not running. Pinning it to any particular core might work better, but if you pin processes without a plan for all your processes, you can end up with a lot worse throughput. It's pretty easy to pin too many things to a single core and that core is 100% busy and other cores are idle, even though there were enough processes to saturate all the cores. Of course, if all of those processes are working together on the same shared memory with lots of lock contention, you might have worse throughput because of cross-core synchronization.

You can spend a lot of time tweaking things, but most OSes have a pretty decent general purpose scheduler. Pinning works great for things where you take up the whole machine with a single process, and that process has good reasons to pin cpus. Ex: you're running Erlang which has its own scheduling, or you're running HAProxy and you've done the work to tightly bind each process to a specific NIC queue interrupt, so you want that process to run on the same core that handles that interrupt to avoid cross-core communication.
So I use Parler occasionally, and one of the first things I noticed when I signed up is that they banned ALL pornography. They eventually loosened up their restrictions but I haven't run into any of it -- people generally sign up to talk about politics.

They have a manual human moderation pool for removing illegal content. But they are very slow, it took over 12 hours for them to remove a spambot.

Article about the porn stuff: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/7/parler-rebut...

I keep wading into these threads defending Parler because they are nothing like 4chan, 8kun, or Gab. They do have moderation, they do remove illegal content, they just suck at it.
What's Go going to do if some ffi library written in C does a synchronous syscall? It's in the same situation.
Honest question: is it possible that some of the repercussions of Section 230 are not just reliant on a strict reading of the law in question, but also the case law and precedents built around it in the form of court decisions? Precedents in the US are sometimes more important than a literal reading of the law.
“The World Nuclear Industry Status Report is a yearly report on the nuclear power industry. It is produced by Mycle Schneider, a founding member of WISE-Paris, which is the French branch of the anti-nuclear group WISE, which he directed from 1983 to 2003.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Nuclear_Industry_Status_...

OK....
Great call to action. With other nonprofits I would immediately agree, matching is important. Is Signal in more need than other nonprofits, though? I imagine they’re still sitting on some of the $40 million the Signal Foundation got from Brian Acton, former WhatApp CEO.
imminent != immanent
I hope this is sarcasm, but I'm really not sure.
The snark isn't directed so much at people who want repeal (though techdirt pretty clearly would disagree with them on that point also) but rather at the very large contingent of people who express with total conviction that the law right now draws lines between neutral "platforms" who are protected and biased "publishers" who are not, when the law in fact does the exact opposite.
That may be true, but not for women. The article only mentions catching women, who (I believe) have multiple non-military options for their national service.
I agree with the sentiment, but there are some practical problems.

Barring a machine intelligence explosion in the next half-century, we'll probably be getting to orbit on rockets.

Nitrous oxide and methane are two big greenhouse gasses. So to get to space, we're going to have to dump a whole lot more of this stuff into the atmosphere.

Note, I haven't run the numbers, so I may well sound like an idiot by noon.
I strongly believe in:
● space = area (programming, twitter, mail)
● window = subject, search, etc
● tabs = the subject expanded (pages relative to a search, links of an article)

Can you see? It has 3 levels of Hierarchy! If you use Google Chrome you have only one! This stacking thing is another trying to circumvent some OS's crappy UI. If something has to be done is go beyond the App centric paradigm and go to the 'task' center paradigm (like Palm OS's stacks).
And before you sneer at Waterfall, go build me a nuclear power station with Agile

That would be interesting. Scrum says that your team should get themselves an appropriate set of tools and processes for the task at hand, and iterate, then inspect and adapt.

For a mission-critical lives-on-the-line software system, I'd imagine that there would be a lot of simulation and testing before the production release. Do you see a problem with that?
No - they're diversifying their product line-up. That is all.

Furthermore, I'm thrilled that WP7 is getting high praise. Nothing enhances an ecosystem like competition. With Apple, Google, and now Microsoft all playing their A game, things are only going to get better in the smartphone scene.
if it is per year then it is a real miracle of mass scale production at Google.
facelift and in Las Vegas. Reflection of the modern reality.
Says the college student who, let me guess, never worked at microsoft.

As someone who has, PMs are not technical people, at least not in that company at the time I worked there.

I think ignorant college students who are not smart enough to know the limits of their own knowledge are the reason that hacker news has gone the way of slashdot.

Oh, since you're probably under 20, slashdot used to have good discussion from actual engineers who were knowledgable, then it got overrun by ignorant gnu weeneis around 2001 or so-- back when you are 8.
I once had a client ask if they could just not pay a $2M bill (after 18 months of work) in the name of the "relationship" (because presumably there were much bigger deals down the line.) My boss, to his credit, didn't miss a beat before saying "that's not the kind of relationship we want."
Soon these people are going to discover thunderbird :)

Why does history always seem to repeat itself?
Amazon unveiled its new electric delivery van designed and manufactured by the EV's new founder, Rivian.
I don't know about college, but I do know for a fact (being the father of a high school junior) that high school math is now the equivalent of what grade school math was when I was growing up.

So kids going into college are far less prepared than they were a generation ago. Maybe the engineering programs in college pick them back up to where they need to be, I've been out of the undergrad world for many years.
I'm not an anthropologist of biologist, but I think modern life is basically incompatible with how humans evolved. I mean, we are hunters. If we do not spend the the energy to hunt what we eat, it seems clear that we get obese.

Our natural instincts tell us to eat as much as we can whenever food is available. This is because we evolved without any guarantee of frequent meals. Post food-scarcity society seems basically against our natural instincts.
I suppose smaller cars are harder to see at intersections (side-impact) and when in traffic, smaller cars can't see past the larger vehicles in front of them to see the traffic stopping so braking response is slower.
speedtest.net consistently shows pings in the 38-45 ms range for me with starlink, with 150 Mbps down, 20 Mbps up. I've been able to video chat and game without any issues. My previous satellite connection was nearly the same price as starlink, for only 100GB, pings of 600-800ms and only 1-5 Mbps up/down. For those of us poorly served Starlink is an absolute quantum leap.
You've gone from one environment in which you have little to no control over your hours to another environment in which you have little to no control over your hours. That one is sporadic and the other is static is true, but both are still outside of your control.
The popularity of PG relative to MySQL is going to be unavoidably skewed by the popularity of WordPress and its tight linkage to MySQL.
Emphasis "in the US".

Here are Swiss prices (German/French only): https://compendium.ch/search?q=Semaglutid

While injections are still quite expensive (~$130 per 3mg), pills are available for as little as $4 per 14mg dose (and judging from the dosage information, those pills are splittable).

I don't know the reasoning behind studying the effects of injections vs oral admission.
Just looking at the list of contributors, I'm wondering whether they got permission from each of those to relicense the codebase. (Did they do that when they "non-commercialized" their vulnerability db? Can't really find a notion of that in the issue #435)

EDIT: Just saw their "6. Contributions" clause... IANAL but I don't think that that is enforcable, esp. not without having a CLA.
"Laywers need to protect themselves when giving legal advice."
Well, yes, but that's not the reason here, the reason is the other thing - we can't give a definitive answer because none exists.
"but it still doesn't perform nearly as well simple greater/less/between where clauses"

I would have to write it, but I think the performance would be fine on a large dataset.

I have found that stored procedure and queries are quite easy to unit test. Particularly in this scenario where you can build simple input data and get out specific row(s). It is actually a lot easier than testing some Classes since you need to mock up sets of objects. With stored procedures and queries you can test the code in a harness without mocking up anything.
I never said obesity isn't a problem, so right off the bat you're misleading on what I said.

In fact the US did not have an obesity problem in the 1980s. Between 1980 and 2000, the obesity rate doubled among adults in the US, per the CDC. What I originally said is accurate and easy to prove.

The obvious point, is that America has only become "inept" in the last 20 to 25 years on obesity. It's a very recent problem. It can be reversed and solved as quickly as it become a problem. I'd argue that peak obesity has already occurred, the causes have almost all been clearly identified, and over the next 20 years Americans will get less obese measured by every five years that go by.

2) Total healthcare costs stopped increasing several years ago. In fact it's more likely that healthcare costs as a % of GDP and income will decline for the next 20 years. It's not going to bankrupt the country without major reforms. Not even remotely close. The US has among the highest disposable income levels in the world, healthcare expenses are a very manageable problem even at these elevated cost levels.

Americans do not have a healthcare access problem. In fact Americans are the most over-doctored, over-tested, over-treated people on earth, and it's a huge contributing factor for why Americans spend so much on healthcare. Americans consume more healthcare services than any other people. Nearly 90% of Americans have health coverage now, and the majority of those in the 10% that do not, choose not to. The poor in America have had complete coverage for a very long time, via state medicaid, among a dozen other programs.

Saying something is so, does not prove it. If you're going to make outlandish claims (the US will be bankrupted by healthcare costs), you should back them up.

3) The universities in the US outrank their peers in other countries across the board on a direct comparison basis (top vs top, middle vs middle). It's embarrassing how far ahead the US has been for the last 40 years. It's universally accepted that the US has by far the best universities. There's no debate to be had here, at all.
I'll put my vote in for Buckland's Programming Game AI by Example. It is very approachable, code-heavy, and it's also got some great examples to visualize the techniques discussed. Very easy to translate what you learn reading this book into any projects of your own, particularly if you take the time to actually code the examples and work through the exercises at the end of the chapter.

I've got a copy of Ian Millington's AI book that I need to finish reading. So far it seems to be very good. It's not as example-driven, but it seems to have good breadth on real-world game AI topics.

The Game Programming Gems series is worth reading through, if, as others have noted, a little dated in places. The general game design and AI sections hold up better than some of the high-performance math and graphics tweaks included from that era. I believe a good portion of them are available for free online, although I may be confusing one of the other Gems series.
That's 750 per month (a nice round number to cover a 31 day month):

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/usage-and-billing#750-...
This article is part 4 of a series by Steven Levy about Google research. I rather like Levy's writing so I wanted to find parts 1, 2, 3 as well.

The navigation to earlier parts of the series seems broken to me (Iceweasel/Debian Sid/noscript set to allow page) so I backed up to the front page and found the links...

Part 1

https://medium.com/backchannel/how-google-search-dealt-with-...

Part 2

https://medium.com/backchannel/googles-secret-study-to-find-...

Part 3

https://medium.com/backchannel/google-search-will-be-your-ne...

Part 4

https://medium.com/backchannel/the-deep-mind-of-demis-hassab...
That's actually not entirely true. There are some classic games that still have run super slow until recently.

Pac Man/Ms. Pac Man comes to mind. Donkey Kong too.

Emulating analog audio circuits accurately requires higher math functions executed millions of times per second. Some of the oldest classics run super slow on sub-3Ghz CPUs.
> Of course, rewriting and existing kernel stepwise would be interesting, if possible.

Perhaps it's possible to write a new kernel in Rust, and have it be backwards compatible with Linux, by "wrapping" the Linux kernel and drivers in sandboxes?

So a Rust kernel with some kind of built-in environment isolation, in which it can run the real Linux kernel. The running Linux kernel would then access physical hardware through a wrapper in the Rust kernel, while the Rust kernel would access hardware directly.

That's really the only way I see this project gaining widespread adoption: by leveraging Linux. Linux simply has too much momentum to be replaced with something non-compatible.

Of course, a Rust kernel could be useful for all kinds of things other than replacing Linux. Like a Mirage OS-type kernel that uses Rust to write drivers in Rust (instead of OCaml).
These exist. Here in Germany, the major (actually, only) rights-management agency is the GEMA, which is wholly controlled by "the artists".

It's a nightmare, though. It is ruled by the bureaucrats running it, in conjunction with the artists that actually profit from it, i. e. old people with a large back catalogue. It's constantly fighting with the businesses using music, i. e. youtube still blocks 90% of videos with music because they haven't agreed on prices. Clubs might have to close because they've tripled prices recently. Small bands sometimes sign up, only to find out they actually have to pay to play their own songs, and through the magic of the most convoluted payout formula ever, might not actually get as much back as they pay in. Even if they get something out of it, it may take 18 months.
Well, Google can hardly sue you - but yes, don't expect much maintenance if they can't get this fixed.
Why didn't you use Coursera for this MOOC? Roughly 5% of students registered for a MOOC actually complete the course. If you'd like to educate the world, do it through a platform that could actually make it possible.
I'll describe the best and worse daily routine I ever had during my working life.

Best (I was truly happy with this routine):

08:00 - Waking up with somebody that makes you happy. (When there is urgent "homework", getting up at 06:00). Tasty and elaborated breakfast.

08:40 - 20 minutes walking to work, independently of the weather (sun, rain, snow). Good time to contemplate and meditate.

09:00 - Work that I really like, feeling that I'm making something that makes a difference, with people I respect and being reasonably well paid for that.

12:15 - Lunch. 2 options: a) Buying something in the shop and walking around or going to the park to eat it. b) Going to a restaurant with colleagues/friends.

13:00 - Work that I really like, feeling that I'm making something that makes a difference, with people I respect and being reasonably well paid for that. Anyway I prefer to work mornings.

17:00 - Walking every day to a different gym in the city. Normally meeting friends there.

18:30 - Arriving home in the city and having a girl/woman with a great smile on her face waiting for you. Making/having a tasty and elaborated dinner together.

20:00 - Time for novelty: movies at home, meeting friends/new people, going somewhere. No TV. Unpredictability is great here.

24:00 - Sleep with a girl/woman with a smile in the face.

Worse (my unhappy times):

08:00 - Waking up alone.

08:30 - Long commute(1.5h) during rush hour to work, changing transportation 3 times.

10:00 - Work that I really hate, feeling that I'm making bullshit, with people I don't respect and being very bad paid for that.

13:00 - Lunch. Taking food from home to compensate long commute costs and low wage.

14:00 - Work that I really hate, feeling that I'm making bullshit, with people I don't respect and being very bad paid for that. Afternoons are even worse.

19:00 - Long commute home.

20:30 - Arriving home in suburbs. Too late and far way for gym. Eating something.

21:30 - Too late and far away to meet somebody. Crappy TV/internet till sleeping time.

24:00 - Sleep alone.