jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Do you trust software with your life?

Obviously 2025 software will be better than 2015 software but this question will still have to be answered strongly for mainstream adoption.
I'm a huge elixir fan, but in micro made up benchmarks I consistently see Ruby win over Elixir. I haven't run it with the jit.

One specific case that cripples Elixir - is as far as I know Elixir can't handle large multiplications efficiently. Ruby, Python use karatsuba or some derivative - from what I can tell multiplication in Erlang doesn't. Though I haven't actually asked anyone and was just poking around on my own.

example:
Multiplying the first 100_000 numbers together I get

ruby multi.rb 3.47s user 1.91s system 99% cpu 5.396 total

elixir multi.exs 14.32s user 0.62s system 103% cpu 14.441 total
When you’re ready to go, if you’d welcome the advice: go read through the DSM criteria and think honestly about how it could describe your childhood self, and how it might reflect on your adult experience. The thing is written to diagnose kids. Being prepared to translate it was critical in getting my diagnosis.
I track vacancies in newly-built apartment buildings is Oakland and Berkeley. There just aren't any, is the plain fact of the matter. For example the new building at Telegraph and 51st in Oakland currently has 19 of 204 units available, leasing out at a rate of about 1 per day. The building at 1500 San Pablo (at Jones) in Berkeley has 49 vacancies of 170 units, leasing about 3 per week. Both of these buildings have been open for less than a year and will hit 95% occupancy before they are even a year old. The absorption of these dwellings is so brisk, you don't need any more evidence that there is plenty of demand for new units.
Yeah same. I think I would have been more addicted to factorio if I didn't watch tutorials. My desire to minmax games always lessens my desire to actually play the game.
Yes I'm serious. Sure you can learn from made up stories if they reflect reality or are metaphors for it. But some exaggerated Hollywood story isn't go to teach you anything if it isn't grounded in reality.
I typed my phone number, and it was not found. I'm not too surprised. I never wanted Facebook to have my phone number (and my account is deactivated, though I still use Messenger.) I always ignore prompts for phone numbers on a site/app like that (if at all possible).
> the market values company X (allegedly unprofitable) at $10B but they pay effectively no tax

It's awfully easy to lose a lot of money. Corporations do it all the time. Take Boeing in the last year, for example. I saw a statistic once that half of American corporations have a loss for the year in a typical year.

It's easy for wealthy individuals to lose money in a year, too. See Donald Trump.
Most of the listed symptoms are characteristic of an executive function disorder, of which adhd is the most well known. Very few people have "perfect" executive function without drugs. In other words, it's pretty normal for most people to experience some form of executive dysfunction and it's usually something one learns to manage. Executive functioning is skill just like anything else.

From what I understand, ADHD and other executive function disorders are Defined by having extreme enough of an executive function deficit (relative to peers of a similar age and development) that it has a significant impact on their day-to-day life (because if it didn't, why would you be going to a psych to be diagnosed?). But just because it's relatable also doesn't inherently mean that you have ADHD.

If you think of executive function as being a spectrum, and executive function ability being a normal distribution, the line for adhd is some arbitrary point on that upslope.

Of course, there are people making the argument that phones and social media and the internet and instant gratification might be contributing to executive dysfunction, but this is the kind of thing that's really hard to measure against some objective scale.
It really is strange, I can only credit its success so far to the fact that it's tapping into people's primal urge to be able to literally shout down the opposition instead of just metaphorically shout them down. I don't know why anyone would find the format of being forced to debate on the spot better than having the time to construct posts at your leisure. Every clip or story I've heard/seen come out of the app has been a completely mess.
Can't you get a tabloid to print it and give the source a cover story?
you were most likely downvoted due to your choice of vernacular (i didn't downvote you).
A poll? Who cares. Unless you are 12 years old. I use a phone fitting my needs.
I agree that sleep is very important, but like I said before, I'd like to try polyphasic sleep. That would be an impressive hack, giving me more time and maximizing REM phases.

Reduce multitasking - that is, focus in a single task at a time, agreed!!

Eat less, exercise more - agreed! That is in fact one of my pending points.

Don't commute more than 20mins each way - I would add... unless you can do something useful while you are commuting!!

Thank you!!
I like riak, and I think it's the best implement of dynamo.
I'd say one thing helping you is that you don't need to hold the camera.

I won't be surprised if Apple makes this a success but calling it epic is nothing but laughable to all of us who could do it since before the year 2000...
I thought it was interesting that HTC was being chided for providing hardware features for 3rd party software to use, whereas with Apple you'll not get the hardware until Apple has found a way to use it. Particularly in the case of video-calling where network effects matter. Do we really want to see an HTC-only video chat network?
Eeee... hope apple doesn't buy it; I could imagine them not licensing to other manufacturers and Steve Jobs coming out with some sort of douchie remark to justify it which will be parroted by the hordes.
Easy to miss but there is nice presentation on NYTProf v3 from the Italian Perl Workshop 2009.

Here's the direct video link: http://blip.tv/file/2840795
I think you mean "it sucks that we do that" and i agree. It seems to me this is an eternal problem with our large communities. With internet everything is a large community ;)
Are these seven fields all required? Because I don't have an "Address Line 2".
In the UK, locations may be encoded as Ordinance Survey map references (I've heard of people using OS references as addresses). It is what most geo databases in the UK were keyed on, until a few years ago.

The OS uses a different datum to the GPS system, so if you convert to lat/lon you'll be out by about 150 metres (where I am, at least). You need to re-project the coordinates onto the other datum to get the real location.
I wont call the Swiss decision a currency war. Swiss decided for itself, that it wanted to float the Franc again.

But we had a currency war at 16th December 2014 when Rubel dropped by nearly 40% on one day, and went up again next day.
This was a currency war against Russia that failed. Russia had to push about US$100 billion on the market at that day, to win this currency war. The other side therefor was likely also a state owned player.
Indeed, there is a part of me that hurts when people mention teaching something that is a signifier of legitimacy. As if you could fake being a real programmer by listening to a lecture in CS 102!
That's like saying "The problem with teaching people how to drive cars is that at the end, they don't know how to ride motorcycles".

There are plenty of other classes at the grad and undergrad level that teach you about lower level concepts such as pointers and memory (system, C, OS, ...). The Java classes teach different concepts.
Considering a major goal of the project / approach is precisely to deprecate the the hierarchical and file-based approach to programming, it doesn't really surprise me to find all the code in a single file.

Perhaps the better storage layer would be function definitions living in a database. That Conception uses an unindexed flat file as the 'code database' also isn't surprising given the stage of development.
I don't think the USSR would have even considered surrendering had the Germans had two 15 kiloton nukes and used those against them.
Traditionally, many OLTP operational databases are connected via ETL to an OLAP data warehouse; they are not mutually exclusive. PingCap is the company behind TiDB, an HTAP NewSQL engine that competes with CockroachDB and YugabyteDB; the OP is content marketing for TiDB.

TiDB distinguishes itself with HTAP; transparently incorporating OLTP/ETL/OLAP in a single cluster. You have to specify the ETL layer and data warehouse in addition to PostgreSQL to make an apples to apples comparison; that is the core of HTAP positioning.

SAP HANA is the poster child for HTAP, a data warehouse with good enough OLTP performance to replace Oracle RDBMS; a single system is used for both SAP app tiers, Business Suite and Business Warehouse. The same value proposition applies to cloud apps. Independent OLTP/ETL/OLAP is still robust and is more modular while HTAP is more tightly integrated and simpler to operate.
Who in their right mind would implement retained mode on top of imgui? I'm really struggling to see the thought process that would lead someone to go down that path. It's not like there's a dearth of retained mode GUI frameworks.

Really, the reason people get excited about dear-imgui is the fantastic ease with which it allows you to create debug/dev GUI stuff. This is primarily of benefit in game development, which is where imgui arose and where the vast majority of dear-imgui users work. Once you have it set up, you can place code to create GUI elements anywhere within your application, allowing you to place widgets that let you tune values while your code is running in shockingly little time.

It's not really a good fit for standard application development, though. Primarily this is because it is "bring-your-own-rendering-pipeline." If you know how to set up a simple opengl context this isn't all that difficult, but it's not a route that most app devs are going to want to follow (especially because it kind of assumes you are using a game-loop-type architecture based around a framerate). Some people do use it for user-facing UIs, but that's not where its strengths lie.
However, if you compute EV as the geometric mean of outcomes, instead of the arithmetic mean, it works again. (This is mathematically equivalent to the log utility you allude to.)

This is the right way to think of repeated bets (rather than in isolation) and Bernoulli's 1734 paper on it is a very readable intro to thinking in terms of the Kelly criterion.
Or the token gets lost or the token is stored somewhere and goes down or ... a million other scenarios, that are just as easily served by a database?
Great way to get lynched by angry drivers assuming the person with the gear is the culprit.
Does such car exist? (Tesla Maybe?)
In case you are wondering what whacky top-level-domains there are right now (there are over 1000), I'm working on a faster search & categorisation of them at https://domain.garden.

While some extensions are just absurd, I think there is a good branding potential with choosing some of these TLDs (like for crisp.chat, frame.work or magic.link).
Perhaps it matters what is considered "relevant". As a sibling comment points out, there are diminishing returns on extra knowledge of the same kind. Learning the next thousand thousand prime numbers is not very interesting if you already know the first few million, and of very limited practical use. It would take an exceptionally boring life to keep being interested in additional prime numbers tbh.
The ham radio folk, of which I am one, are probably down there with scanners now and could tell you the problem ;-)

Before I was a licensed ham I put together a little AM transmitter with a 9v battery connected to a portable cd player. I was shocked that I could pick up the signal several miles away (and yes I know hams, very bad behaviour, I was ignorant).

I'll put my money on a new antenna having gone up nearby.
Yes, cost of ownership (unpredicted or not) ought to be much lower with an EV. I’d love to finally move to electric but my personal main problem is that it only really looks like a viable option where I live for house owners due to lack of infrastructure for the many, many people living in apartments.
They don't care that you aren't clicking. The ad industry is moving towards impressions. That you are seeing the content.
I have a folder called 'important' that contains sentimental items such as my college admissions or my first research paper. I dont see why the author simply doesnt orgonize important stuff!
I actually think she's doing a pretty tremendous job. If you've ever taken LSD, and tried to explain what it's like to someone who hasn't, then you know how difficult it is to describe. Even trying to speak coherently when you're tripping balls is pretty challenging.
> Meanwhile, a child was abused to make kiddy porn.

Drawn pictures (e.g. manga) are absolutely considered child porn in large parts of the world (e.g. the UK).
v0.4.0 is up.
I wasn't asking for any distinction from "a deep understanding of category theory". Neither "learning monads" nor "memorizing 3 rules and building intuition" stands a chance of being identical to that, though.
Today they're silencing the President in the name of preventing violence (highly questionable whether this achieves that goal with respect to a mob of people who believe there is a conspiracy among the media to silence them). Tomorrow maybe a Senator who calls for an antitrust investigation into Twitter or who questions labor practices at Amazon finds themselves mysteriously silenced for "hate speech". When it happens, just remember it was what you wanted.
The article really has nothing to do with face recognition.

And in general, I'm having trouble coming up with any scenario or example where one "side" would see disproportionate impact from face recognition? Aside, that is, from the well-known generic problems with the criminal justice system.

As such your imaginary 5 % isn't just too low or too high... I don't think there is any realistic way for your argument to be anything more than some so-so story your brain came up with given a bunch of prior believes.
Do Canadians and Australians need as much healthcare as aging and obese Americans do?
I read it, and it doesn’t say that at all. Why lie?
What is the flagship Linux OS on the desktop for an average user?
The very reason other issues make for less incisive examples (than slavery, genocide) is that they are less clear-cut, and more beholden to complexities and tradeoffs.

It's a rhetorical trick to invoke slavery/genocide, and then group all the other controversial positions held by my political opponents as being in the same category of clear right/wrong.

But if they really were so clear-cut, they'd be invoked as broadly indisputable, standalone examples just as much as slavery and genocide are.
And that is their right, and nothing wrong with that IMHO. And, I will support that.

However, I was simply noting that it is not a requirement for private organizations.
Fighting the good fight to maintain your social credit score, eh?
BraveMind is a heck of a system for sure. The 'guided' part of it really is a step forward.

Over at Children's Colorado and they are also trying out VR for pediatric pain management. It seems to be effective thus far.

VR's killer app may well be Alyx, but there are a lot of potential uses that are out there that can really help out.
So this is a real problem in the short term for astronomy, but it feels like the start of a golden age of astronomy. With satellite launch prices going down and improvements are in optics, I can imagine a fleet of tiny satellites being launched that can more than rival any ground based observatory. With signal processing, a ring of satellites working in tandem can give you the equivalent optics as the diameter of the earth.
what if each local part was something long & random?
Might as well plug something here, forgive me:

Years ago I co-developed a C library to connect OSC endpoints together in a decentralized manner and semantically translate messages with arbitrary operations such a scaling and filtering. There are still a few users and developers.

http://libmapper.github.io/about.html
Probably not much of a backstory, it's common to make copy-and-paste mistakes when implementing multiple similar things. For instance, when implementing both the Add and Sub traits, it would be normal to start with one of them, and duplicate it to make the other, making the relevant changes in the copy (Add -> Sub, add -> sub, + -> -); it's easy to forget to make one of these changes.
This looks great. But I wish there were a self-hosted version. I work on a project that could use this, but it would really need to be tightly integrated with our existing hosting, I think.
> > The smarter question to ask is what problems require a global append-only database with code execution capabilities

> Global financial systems?

Clearly not since those have functioned for centuries without one. You can argue it could be more efficient than the status quo but it can’t possibly be a requirement to use more compute capacity than the entire world had only a few years earlier.

> Somehow I sense that you're not compelled. That's okay.

Well, I do tend to require something in the way of evidence.
You may want to have a look at Bismuth https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth . It's the successor to Khronkite.
That does sound useful. I usually have a raft of local files with logs or different test scripts but not with the main extension of the repo (e.g ten .plan files and that one new .tf file , or seventeen config files but that one go file). And forgetting to add that new file is our top build failure I think.
Counter-Point: I've had three disputes resolved via PayPal and all in my favour (fairly, I want to add). In fact, I've heard quite a few small online traders refuse PayPal, as they've been scammed in the past (as sellers) and PayPal did not side with them.

I'm not a fan of PayPal for other reasons and this is anecdotal as well, but in my experience PayPal is very biased towards the buyer.
The same is true of passwords now since the invention of rainbow tables. The best way, aside from voluntary disclosure, to compromise any password is brute force. The best way to eliminate brute force is to require a long minimum character count and to hash passwords using a 512bit hash algorithm.

Imagine the size of a rainbow table of SHA512 or SHA3-512 hashes for a 60 character password. A 60 character password could be as simple as:

* I enjoy driving my tiny white car with a standard transmission.

* My big cat, Ace, really sleeps a lot during the day while I work!

* Growing up my favorite song was Time by Pink Floyd about regret :(
Makes a lot of sense if you already checked bags anyway.
Yes you described it better than I could have. It is a kind of nostalgia for the past moments of peace. I was in High School during the XP era and going into college into the Leopard era. Both were times where I wish I could redo so many things but also times where things were so exciting about the future and life in general.
It looks like the more expensive the schools (Harvard, Standford, ie) the greater the emphasis is on the honor code. I wonder if there’s a bit of socioeconomic bias at play here. By that I mean that it may be possible that state schools or those that are cheaper, view cheating as a grater threat, and thus justify the use of monitoring software. Whereas more affluent schools may presume their students are of a “different breed” so to speak and would not knowingly cheat. Sort of like Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson who said "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail."
That's a nice write up, Antoine's post is insightful as well!

Spice must flow!
Heck, this nothing new. I guess the cycling community isn’t familiar with it, and new tech makes it easier to do these scams.

At least, they aren’t full-fat counterfeit bags (I’m sure those are on the way, now that the bag is shipping).

New York has had Times Square Rolecks watches for decades. It’s so bad, that even high-end watch sellers are getting fooled.

Welcome to the big leagues, guys. I’m sure you’ll do well. As pointed out, this isn’t really a bad thing; just annoying.
Oh I never thought about that either. Thank you.
There's a slew of individual things that can be done. EU companies can be prevented from doing business with a (willfully) noncompliant company. Wire transfers going through the EU and other operations can be blocked. And, of course, the service itself, its apps, its sites, its traffic, can be blocked from accessing the EU internet (or being accessed from it).

That's not even getting into international pressure levers.

I don't know that we've seen any of those kinds of actions yet, but they're clearly on the table if a company breaking the rules became a real "problem".

The thing is, if you're just completely avoiding doing any business with the EU, having any EU customers or users, and just not touching the EU with a 1000 mile pole and avoiding the GDPR in such a fashion - well, then there's no reason to go after you. The legislation has done its job.
Honestly don't wait on all the web Dev to fix their app. Buy yourself a programmable keyboard that tells the computer they are a "normal US layout keyboard".

Now when you press "shift+7" on your keyboard it only sends "regular US keycode for /"

As a benefit you'll maybe also realize that Azerty or Qwertz are pretty bad layout for typing French/German, and you'll come up with something better.
That's a huge trouncing and shows Amazon workers clearly reject the idea of unionization. It's clear the media will continue to push their agenda in favor of unions, though.

As long as union campaigners refuse to acknowledge the past disasters associated with unionization, particularly in the auto industry and more recently the gas industry, they'll continue to be met with overwhelming rejection.

Reform or die.
I was in high school in the early to mid 90's and actually went up into the Air Traffic Control Tower at an airport, once a week, for class. Now, everyone involved would go to prison. Times have changed. A lot. 9/11 ruined things.
Here's a good write-up about the issues with Tether from a few years ago:

https://tonyarcieri.com/the-tether-conundrum
Sure seems like it could be - I wouldn’t opt-in to allowing mine to be distributed, why would I? And I don’t think Twitter has the rights to do so. So you’d at least need to solve the anonymization problem, or you’d have to package a data release such that you can replicate the ranking algorithm without it.
> OP, you should charge users a small amount ($24-50 a year)

This is a great way to ensure that the website fails by never hitting critical mass.
Someone seemingly qualified that answers your questions: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/quantum-comput...
Having .us implies it’s only for Americans
What a piss-poor excuse for an article! Reads like a press release; all puff and no down sides.

Anyone with any familiarity with the V project will know it's been mired in controversy from day 1, thanks to the [often hyperbolic] claims of its inventor. All of which seems to have passed the author of this article by, as he just gushingly repeats them unquestioningly.

Mind you, he does describe V as "all new", so maybe he missed all that previous discussion.
Are you aware which website you’re on? Having strong opinions on esoteric topics is a HN mainstay. Also as a non-American driving in the US made me think about a lot of things I wouldn’t otherwise consider. (Yes you have too many stop signs)
Plainly Difficult on YouTube covers these kinds of stories. Tragic as they are interesting :/