jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's not biased to say that a newer product won at something, let alone highly biased. And I didn't dispute the stock issues.

> nobody owns one.

https://i.imgur.com/8EMeiCZ.png

This is only one source, but the 10900 numbers since launch are dwarfed by the 5800X numbers since launch. For the people building PCs with this site, Zen 3 chips are currently outselling all of Intel combined.

> Using the benchmarks in this article, the Ryzen 5950X is 2% faster.

I think this article is all single core stuff. Which is the aspect they "finally managed" to win at. It's not their strength at all, it's the thing Intel was able to lord over them. Should I have said "barely" in addition to "finally managed"? I thought it was clear enough.
IMO we have to constantly learn and unlearn in software industry.
Elsewhere in this thread the point is made that the opposite of a viral conservative video isn’t a viral liberal video. It’s either a moderate video, or no video at all.

(This might be the very point you are making, rhetorically?)
The mayor of DC oversees the police force that's responsible for policing off the Capitol grounds, in the rest of DC that's not federal land. They're not the ones who would be asking for reinforcements to help secure the Capitol, they're one of the potential sources of reinforcements for the agency that is responsible for protecting the Capitol.

The mayor's request was basically that the Feds not unilaterally start escalating and militarizing police efforts in her jurisdiction without her involvement. In hindsight, that does seem to have been the correct strategy for her police department, because all the violence seems to have been concentrated within the jurisdiction of a different police department.
ah, thanks. i guess we can exclude tourists then.
could also be fans of the regime from outside of the country.. who knows.
I spend my whole work day figuring out those problems but not once got the idea to apply them to organising my personal life.
Questioning a lot of decisions now...
You seemed pretty keen to take part in the more pointless parts - like talking about the colour of someone’s hat - so I’m not sure you get to play that card.
Maybe HN can tell me if this is normal (following the "changes volume by clenching their jaw" part) : If I clench my jaw I can hear ringing.

Normally I don't hear anything, but that could be because it's below the threshold that I'd notice it at.

Anyways: people with definitely good hearing, do you hear ringing when you clench your jaw?
Yeah, I'm sure that will work just great.

/s
Ok, start clinical trial immediately after vaccine creation. At least until the point where it's safe for humans to use the new vaccine.
> How a clearinghouse judges these risks, and therefore when it makes demands for more upfront funds, is typically formulaic. Margins can be based on equations such as value-at-risk. Exactly how the formula works, and who is responsible for losses in what order, are important elements. In the case of National Securities Clearing Corp., losses would be covered by the defaulting member’s funds before the clearinghouse’s own funds or other members’ funds would be used.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-clearing-demands-grounded-t...

WSJ says that it is formulaic.
FAANG are just big companies and startups are just very small ones. Working at a small company can be very liberating compared to working at big companies. There's no HR, processes, blocks, fake brand values or anything really. You get a hand in everything and you end up understanding how everything works. You might have less benefits in terms of salary or whatever but you get to make so many more decisions and you learn more broadly. I've worked at both, currently in a global org. I'll be going back to a small company very soon as the pace of things is a joke.

One thing to note, small companies turn into big companies and the bullshit quickly follows.
No one forced him to write about patients in a public blog nor write a public blog, he is a grown-up and he made that choice. He made efforts to be a public persona, but he can't grasp the fact that once he is a public persona, he cannot choose to be private regarding that public persona.

It's not like the piece went and delved in to his personal life unrelated to his writings. They just said he is writing that blog. This is well within ethical journalism standards.
The whole drama around it is a result of Scott rallying his followers to feel as if he has been done some wrong.

You lose your privacy the moment you do things in public.

We should definitely have the right to keep certain things private but not the thing we make public. Expecting otherwise is a very childish expectation. (Childish as in: the world revolves around you, and you get to decide the rules)
> he shipped it all the way back to Indiana in the late 20s, and the Duesenberg company updated it with a Model J steering wheel, luggage rack, and lights.

Them were the days.
Are you aware that the messed up situation with WHO funding is due to US policy?

“ Though the US paid $446.5m in 2019 compared with China’s $43m, the bulk of American funding was voluntary; the organization only receives 17% of its funding through “assessed” contributions, AKA country membership dues. The bulk of its budget is funded through voluntary donations, for which countries can earmark specific use, because President Ronald Reagan passed a “zero-growth policy” for WHO funding in the 1980s. With the assessed dues frozen at 1990s levels, the WHO has been forced to increasingly rely on donated funds.”

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/oct/19/john-oliver-...
From decoded.php, for context:

/**
* ===WORDPRESS PHARMA HACK ANALYSIS===========================================
* ============================================================================
*
* Patrick Adair [ patrick AT ionpublications DOT com ]
*
* For the uninitiated, there's been a rather-nasty hack making its way across
* a number of prominent websites hosted with Wordpress called the "pharma
* hack"; named so because it hijacks your search results in Google, et al. to
* show obviously-spoofed results for Viagra and other generic medications
* that we see spammed all the time across the internet.
*
* As you, the reader, can rightly imagine, Wordpress blog owners were scared
* out of their minds and worked quickly to remove the hacks from their sites,
* finding the necessary codes sometimes hidden deep inside of their plugins
* and striking only when search engines and automated crawlers of any kind
* hit the site.
*
* On the 24th of November, 2010, we noticed that one of our sites, Science
* and Supermodels [ http://www.scienceandsupermodels.com ] was hit by the
* hack, and after a few times of playing cat-and-mouse with it (delete the
* injected code only to have it re-appear in the same place 30 minutes later),
* we were able to remove it entirely and all was well.
*
* But I had an interesting idea. To my knowledge, at the time of this writing,
* all of the accumulated knowledge on this hack was simply removal techniques
* for non-technical users (which, admittedly, is most of Wordpress' userbase
* so far as I can tell - the consequences of making it so gorramn easy to
* install). I decided that it would make an interesting project to break apart
* and analyze the injected code to try and figure out what it was doing, and
* see if any good can come of that.
*
* Fast forward to 24 hours ago (December 20, 2010), and I've finally cleared
* up enough time to start meaningfully decoding and rewriting this script, and
* I hope that something useful will come of this - perhaps a security company
* can pick up on the groundwork I've laid here and figure out how to actually
* stop the bastards doing this.
*
* What follows is a SIGNIFICANTLY re-written version of the script, edited for
* clarity and also to test my programming chops - the original was compressed,
* encoded in base64, and even then written in an absolutely incomprehensible
* fashion.
*
* I've tried to include as much information as I can - since the control
* servers are still active for this hack (at least at the time of this
* writing), I was able to get pretty accurate debugging and data on what its
* delivery method was, and those will all be included in my Mercurial repo
* along with this file.
*
* Also, this is based off of only the version of the hack that our site got -
* it remains entirely possible that other mutations of the hack exist and I
* would be curious to see what they look like / do. If you have other samples
* of the code, please email them to me and I would love to see.
*
* So without further ado, I present the Wordpress Pharma Hack:
*
*/
How about a Sr Developer "informal" team lead ~$160,000?

As a Tech recruiter, I gained him a new job (at lower pay), and his complaint with Netflix were two fold.

Work-balance (family) and, he couldn't move up into a formal Lead role (though was acting as such, this could be a variable of the candidate itself). The new job handled both of these concerns. Otherwise, as a Tech recruiter, it was very hard to "head hunt" Sr/ Mgr / VP anything at Netflix...interesting article and discussion.
Arbitrary from the software developer's point of view, perhaps. But don't forget that *.0s have a clear marketing value.
Yes, and don't forget to actually play with the code. Reading it with a REPL handy will teach you more than just reading ever could. Experiment!
Somehow, I'm reminded of something Douglas Adams wrote awhile ago...
Is there no auto-update? I'd prefer not to have to manually update 6 computers with me being lazy and all.
He isn't the only one. My co-founder and I have done the same. And about half a dozen other ones that I know.

Also, he raised it after he came here.
I turn monitor's brightness down to around 30%. It helps a lot with eye strain, at 100% my eyes get tired after only a few minutes, at 50% after a few hours, and at 30% I can go all day.

Obviously these % depend on the monitor or screen. Some screens are brighter than others. However most Dell and LG monitors are set way way too bright by default (something I call "showroom mode," essentially set to look nice, not work well).

30% is still plenty bright. Whites are still white, not washed out and gray (which happens around 10%).
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8927539
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CipherSaber

This is the best relic from the past war. We may need a new one soon...
> Meanwhile Airbnb creates a level of convenience and affordability that makes travel accessible to the masses.

Clearly a greater good than, say, having a place to live, no?

You have a point with your first paragraph - it would have been a good place to stop. Until the bigger issue is addressed, optimizing for a hypothetical situation is premature.
Yes I like that visualization.

One consequence of Uber is more cars on the road.

If only one consequence of Airbnb could be YIMBY...
This is pretty cool. Hope GitHub implements this idea!!
I suppose you have to be sure of the rockets detonation point to know if you are moving away in the right direction. I'm not sure that is a thing you could be sure of the moment the rocket is fired (or if you would know).

Also the target (at least initially) was large formations of Tupolev Tu-4s who can only climb 15m/s. So that puts them right on the edge, but assuming more than one rocket is fired or that they simply don't always have time to realize it was fired quickly enough... that probably does it.
I am not an Apple fan and when I say it I say it in its strongest sense. But I love my Macboook Air (and find almost anything else sold by them priced ridiculously high). I have been using OSX for last 3.5 years and I moved to OSX from Windows and Ubuntu and it was good till they one decides "let's blur OSX and iOS" and trust me it's been a clear and sharp downhill slope from then.

As per the list you have made, I didn't find any difficulty with anything but fonts and that was ten years ago. Some of my friends still use Ubuntu and when I say this I am not saying with any malaise or Apple-hate (which I honestly do not posses) but I must confess, today's Ubuntu's font rendering is a lot better than OSX's.

Not to mention it just works out of the box now, everything! And if you are the tweaker type, no doubt you have got the endless possibilities. But as you mentioned and rightly so, ymmv.
I think this distinction is very important, for the following reason: Once you've acknowledged that firewalls are technically optional, but used in 99% of cases, there's no reason to say why home routers wouldn't come out of the box with IPv6 firewalls in 99% of cases too.

And this is in fact what we see in the real world with IPv6 deployments. Roughly 50% of my country has IPv6, and every single provider provisions it with sensible default firewall rules.
EPYC is like FU to Intel as AMD64 killed its EPIC-based Itaniums and they obviously intended the same to Xeons now. Just silly marketing having fun.
Thanks for the anecdote! There does seems to be diversity among the suite of tools large companies use to conduct business.

The parents point seems to still stand -- a significant proportion of companies use Office internally, and Excel is bundled as a part of O365.
The markup on most products is such that US businesses could easily manufacture their products in the US at current minimum wages and still handily profit.

They simply choose not to, because that means they have to pay their executives and owners less money and no executive wants to forego their country club membership, each of which is equal to the salary and benefits of 3 or more line workers, or their annual bonus, which is equal to the salary benefits of between 5 and 20 line workers. Or hell, the excess of what their salary is over the value they actually provide to the company (usually just a lit bit over an individual line workers' contribution).
IPv6 is a mess, over-engineered, non-intuitive, magic addresses etc.

All they needed to do was expand the address space, but it looks like the kitchen sink got thrown in.
There are homeless people on the streets injecting drugs into them. And to send your 5yr old into that path will likely result in challenges.

And stop with your America has this problem and Europe doesn't. Each country has its pros and cons. And people make choices accordingly.
>is give you a pool of users far larger than you'd ever encounter in a single night out

If the paradox of choice is actually true (as with anything in psychology, it needs further research to be sure), then this could be a major negative instead of a major positive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice
Playwright will install the browsers seamlessly, also you can opt into using the browsers that are already installed on CI. See https://playwright.dev/docs/ci and https://playwright.dev/docs/browsers for more details.
MobileCoin is already liquid on multiple exchanges so the coins would just be purchased at whatever the market price is. It also doesn't make sense for late adopters to get the same price because there's a lot more risk associated with being an early adopter than a late adopter. This works both ways — if something bad happens to MobileCoin that tanks the price late adopters would be able to buy at a cheaper price because the new information gets priced in.
FreeBSD uses Apple's open sourced Clang compiler, which is licensed under a BSD style license.

It seems like the Karma is in balance here.
Why does a decentralized communication system need a defi based payment system that has the requirement of a CEO to run it?
You may be missing the subtle point - the APK provided is the same one from Google Play, which includes the Google SDK encumbered libraries (links? hooks? features?). If you run a libre device without the Google Play store (non-Google android build) then the software cannot function. The code for the client is open source, but the act of compiling it against the required Play store libraries encumbers the final binary. F-Droid requires that all code compile without the Google SDKs in order to be hosted (IIRC).
It isn't unconstitutional since you don't have a right to fly since it's a private endeavour, even though it's highly regulated. Clearly the are abusing it as punitive rather than preventative measure. it's stupid in this case that it's being used as a punishment for no good reason. Congress need to address this and give a much better definition for what can be used to "put you on the no fly list"
Seems like the kind of thing that'll be nice for the big language. The nice thing about Scheme is you can implement it in a weekend. You want as little as possible in it. But having standard recommended ways is a good idea. I.e. "IF you include mutable strings, this is how you do it." Maybe the big language might have that.
I didn't downvote, but I assume it's because you're making a strong counterfactual* assertion without any support or reasoning, and reasoning in counterfactuals requires strong assumptions about causality. These causal assumptions are highly contentious, rarely agreed upon, and almost never supported except by the barest loincloth of evidence, as evidenced by your cato.org link.

It was such an out there statement that it seemed like trolling to me, which is why I didn't even bother to downvote, and assumed that others would take care of it.

* Counterfactual in the sense is that it is about a world that does not currently exist.
Current 0-day or no, you'll be doing much more good in the long run if you replace the pre-installed acrobat reader with a 3rd party viewer.
Yes, they do. But that's quite an exception.
Is IE8 really so bad?
- Top 100k pageviews/month average on my tech blog

- Write first book

- Write first webapp or mobile app

- Create something for sale (eBook, tutorials, etc.) for passive income

- Graduate from college

- Spend more time with family and away from the computer

- Something exciting and unexpected ... that's what makes life special, after all!
"Given how corrupt US politics is, I'm sure the two are connected."

Prisons get to extend the sentences of inmates if they test positive for drugs while in prison. Guess whether it's public or private prisons where inmates are on average 8 times more likely to test positive for drug use.

http://www.bop.gov/news/research_projects/published_reports/...
Looks a lot like Haskell. Is there any reason Haskell couldn't just be ported to the CLR?
>those are literally the three things that are a major pain in the neck for me [sedan]

Never been a problem for me with a Honda Fit, at it's a subcompact with a footprint of a VW beetle. The seats fold down almost into the floor, giving me plenty of cargo space.

My friend had a minivan with folding seats, he used to carry his enduro motorcycle in it.

I have a hard time believing anyone living in a city needs a truck for anything except work.
Here is a cautionary tale for any company - Try to hire as diverse an organization as possible. At least if you try and you fail you can document that failure (like Cisco has) and folks won't hold it against you.

Or you can be Google and claim that such information is a trade secret. Sigh.
>It only flies when you have sufficiently obvious experimental results at your disposal to cast doubt on a theory.

Nonsense. Everything is wrong until proven otherwise. The burden is on the presenter to justify the statement. The moment doubt is raised then the presenter must address it. Someone pointing out a logical error in the presenter's assertion is not required to come up with some other explanation in order to explain that error.

Of course if they do they are held to the same standard.
I think it needs to be said: swombat.com is quickly becoming the best source for startup analysis/advice. Daniel does a brilliant job aggregating and curating links to startup-related articles; plus I find his long-form pieces to be generally well-written and thoughtful.

Subscribe to the blog, if you haven't already. And @swombat: thank you for taking the time to do this. Swombat.com's quickly becoming one of the few sites I check on a daily basis.
It doesn't matter what currency you make money in - at least in the United States, the government still wants its share.
But Paypal and credit cards are based on the USD, or whatever the local currency is. So, in effect, it does have to beat the dollar. Bitcoin must be advantageous enough so that people will want to use that over the standard local currency (e.g. USD). Because, you're assuming that you'd have to convert USD to Bitcoin and then spend the Bitcoins. If you received Bitcoins, you'd need to then convert them back out as dollars. When you do a credit card transaction, you don't convert the money to a different currency. With Paypal, you have the option to receive money and then spend it without adding funds or incurring transaction fees, but how many people really do that?

But, if the system is big enough, you'd be able to limit the USD <-> Bitcoin conversions and transact more of your business in Bitcoins. However, in order for that to happen, it has a lot of currency inertia to overcome.
This is of course wrong. Taxes are based on the fair market value of your compensation, whatever the type, but must be paid in dollars.

If your company buys you a house, you still pay taxes on it.
As I'm currently building a Serious Application in Backbone (dozens of Models, dozens of Views, a dozen Controllers), the differences between Spine & Backbone to me seem to come down to:

Spine does class/inheritance closer to the "JavaScript" way where properties are resolved correctly at runtime, Backbone seems a little more hackish in this area IIRC (+1 Spine).

Spine seems to have given up the separation between Controller & View. Backbone has a great separation here that has been a great aid to me in refactoring a large application. (+1 Backbone)

Backbone treats collections of Models (Backbone.Collection) as proper first-class citizens. Collections can receive & emit their own events, handle their own serialization/fetching, and make use of all Underscore.js methods (+1 Backbone)

Other than that they seem pretty similar to me. So my verdict: Spine +1, Backbone +2 :)
Sure, tho I would consider the url as a good indication of the expected response. Adding the strong-typed Content-Type for every data response is reminiscent of the SOAPAction days. This is one of the areas where I don't think it provides much value since most/all of the times the client already knows what the 200 response will yield. So in this case I consider it just introduces another friction point that adds littler or no value.

My personal opinion is that it only makes sense for 'Dumb' HATEOS clients that rely on it to delegate it to the appropriate renderer. i.e. not the clients I'm used to seeing developed.
But Blu-ray did win.

I understand your point, however, I'm sure the introduction of Blu-ray HD-DVD made sense from a business standpoint for the entertainment industry, it will take a while before bandwidth/storage makes them irrelevant on a worldwide basis. So while HVDs might be made irrelevant before they even reach the public on a wide scale, I doubt you can say the same for Blu-ray.
"holographic", "cinematic reality" - all just words used to describe augmented reality.
As far as I understand it, one of the main things that makes the Hard Problem so hard is "epistemic asymmetry": the only consciousness you can even know exists is your own. That's the point of p-zombies, not to be a clever thought experiment (about which you're mostly right, btw), but to very pointedly illustrate the very real, and very frustrating fact that (thus far) there is no proof whatsoever that the notional "lights are on" anywhere else in the universe but in one's own skull.

As for point #4, and Dennett, I'm going to have to beg off discussing, because I don't want to have to resort to that kind of language before lunch. (Read: really, really not a fan.)