jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is why the world needs early adopters. There needs to be people interested enough in new technologies for their own sake to invest time in them. That's a very different motivation than P&G or Unilever.
It really wasn't. FoundationDB's USP was transactions. Cassandra was designed as a AP system, and using it as a strongly consistent system came at great latency costs. In addition, atomicity outside of a row was all but impossible. Features such as lightweight transactions tried to remedy that, slightly, but suffered from poor performance (was basically just bolting on paxos using the Cassandra protocol, as I under stand it), and correctness problems (see aphyr's post on Cassandra). FoundationDB, on the other hand, was designed from the ground up to support transactions. Features such as MVCC, multi key (read: multi-machine) transactions, all while providing a sane-ish datamodel and very good performance... well boy oh boy they had some real potential.

And now they have been subsumed by Apple. "and they were never heard from again"

EDIT: a while back I commented on a comparison of FoundationDB to Cassandra, and Dave Rosenthal, the FoundationDB CEO, took the time to respond. I completely disagreed with him at the time, but think I understand his points now. Link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8745462
I felt like I was reading a "Why PHP sucks..." article.
On the other hand - I'm impressed or even astounded by how people are able to fumble through life and still end up in good situations and circumstances.
Hey, good to see the launch here. It's has huge applications and I wish the very best. Try to reach Signal, it can be awesome!
If that is true (it is theorised that was how the 1918 flu killed people) it would primarily kill people with strong immune systems, not people with weak immune systems. I saw an epidemiology specialist (Michael T. osterholm maybe?) say that luckily this isn't how COVID-19 behaves or we would see millions dead.
Very useful indeed. I found 8 articles which I flagged by mistake...

I read this option to mean a totally different thing: That it showed which of my own posts were flagged by others, but that is not the case.
The article seams very sensationalized.
I had an initial reaction along the lines of "Why didn't they use more force"(to put it mildly), but after the initial reaction and reflecting on it more I believe the officers on the scene did admirably given the circumstances and the overwhelming numbers they were dealing with.

We try to do things different in the west; we don't just massacre protesters or even rioters if we can help it. That's always how it goes, but that is how we try to do it, isn't it? The only thing that mattered, and the officers primary mission, was securing the members of congress and the VP. After that it was human life.
You can comment or share individual blocks in one click, I guess it's the point of that.
Agreed. Also, the two topics (Ballmer's versus Jobs') were completely disjoint.
It's not even a post, just a comment too long for twitter. I disapprove of it being posted here.
I fail to see how that is a counter point. It doesn't appear to be broken because the effort of the developers required to support it. The rough edges that remain are too nuanced for the average person to notice. More and more IE6 is being left behind, but the holdouts, mostly in the corporate sphere, are going to need massive user pressure to get the internal IT machine moving.
You could read out each byte of a jpeg to someone (or invent a different format in pure English). That is an example of an English description that leaves no details up to your imagination (that aren't also left up to your imagination by jpeg).

Further, really detailed and well written prose can describe 3d scenes -- and help the reader visualize them -- better than everyday photographs, 3d computers renderings, what dolphins have, etc... There is no limit to how much detail prose can include.

As a practical matter, we do not use English to its full capacity, and it's inefficient for some things, but still it is universal.
If I understand this correctly, from this page http://pepsico10.com/pepsico-Criteria.htm, Pepsi isn't so much interested in helping a fledgling start-up to change the world, they're looking to partner with already funded start-ups, or businesses that exist but haven't yet made it mainstream.

Not much of an Incubator really. More of a jump on the bandwagon if it's already rolling downhill. If it is barely rolling, it seems Pepsi isn't really even that interested in giving a push.
One of those dudes looked at his cell phone while he was talking to the audience. That is just sad.
Actually, the faster payments system make interbank transfers (for member banks) go within minutes, and intrabank transfers shouldn't take more than a few seconds.

That, at least, is my most recent uk banking experience...
>stream of business pseudo-speak.

My thoughts exactly -- and spending time at MS, that is the MS lingo, at all levels. I think the janitorial staff only speaks in business pseudo-speak.
This post was not supposed to be an analysis of the situation (and was not to be posted here), it's just my observation that SMS verification on Facebook just does not work. But credit card verification works.

It could be incompetence, but this is not from a couple of days ago. I tried this a couple of weeks ago, and the problem persists till today.

The verification problem is for everyone, it's just that most people don't need to verify, where devs do need to.
Progress sucks doesn't it.
That's true. I'll add some credit to the app and website on the next rev.
My typical response to recruiters pitching their next hot startup "right in the heart of SOMA" is remote work with a combination of travel + corporate housing. That usually brings the conversation to a halt.
My dad, the sole attorney in his private practice firm, put it this way: "When you work a job, you have one boss. When you own a company, you have hundreds."
It seems most commenters here are missing the fact that somebody had been in his home. Without notifying him of the fact, he just noticed that things were slightly off, picture missing, etc. Is this legal in America? I mean, don't they have to tell him at some point if his private premises have been breached? Or are there special rules when you say "terrorism!", like in the London airport detention case?
I wish OkCupid could get their hands on LinkedIn's data. Then we might learn something useful.
That c++ grew the way it did by providing a slow moving target for developers.
If anybody's interested in seeing some public information about known bugs, there's public user-driven "mirror" called Open Radar ( http://openradar.appspot.com ) that's really helpful. If you file a bug with Apple you can copy/paste the description (as well as any responses from Apple) there to help others
In reality the Web UI was quite complex.
IE6 was in the original requirements and was ditched because it was unusable (luckily the customer agreed, were would have been in a really bad position if not).
IE7 has performance issues as well, even after many resources thrown at it.
I wasn't involved directly, so i can't tell you technical reasons, but i know the WebUI was "state of the art", Ajax, etc. The generated HTML code was not only huge.. it was extreme ;)
Also some JS functions were quite slow and adopting the latest ExtJS release also not possible because of not backward compatible changes.
All in all, everyone thought in the beginning ExtJS offers probably the most (featurewise). In the end, many are thinking of either going more lowlevel (jquery) or more highlevel (GWT). This will be evaluated.
Well, it depends, you can definitely have servers with NVidia hardware, and you don't need to have all of them with it. (Amazon offers GPGPU servers on EC2 for example)
I agree. Our small company which moved at a rapid pace was bought by a large company. Now because there are like 6 managers looming we can hardly code a line a day. Rapid paces are great if you actually want to learn your craft. But if you think your craft has anything to do with office politics, or any of the other things that you mentioned in this article, I would not want you to work with me and our company.
"we've had to ask you this sort of thing a ton of times. Eventually we ban such accounts"

No you haven't. What's wrong with calling out bad products for what they are?
What exactly is the sevurity compromise by allowong backups?
It’s possible for those two initiatives to be aligned.
I feel like Signal missed the opportunity they had after the WhatsApp fiasco.
Every person I've tried to convert to Signal opt out after a day or two due to lack of usability. Most of them either went back to WhatsApp or moved to Telegram.
While the tech is great and the privacy is good, if they won't invest in usability and UI they will not win the masses.

EDIT - if you downvote, please explain why. If you disagree it's not a reason to downvote.
I’m a bit lost. Combining 1) and 2), it means the test is against contextual and “fakeable” traits ?

Setting apart 3), as I would imagine a rotated iceberg might not come back to a resting state identical to before the rotation.

If the goal is to predict anything, we could also assume that context will change with time (even working at the same company, people change, assignments change, incentives change).

All in all it feels like a super weird disclaimer for something that is supposed to be useful.
They're marketing to the people who are affected by such marketing. I'd like to think the rest of us ignore any marketing and choose their CPU's for better reasons.
Most of the money in music isn't from record sales. It's from touring and merchandise.It takes a lot of planning, marketing and resources. Which means a large upfront capital investment. Record labels provide that.
I would strongly suggest prioritizing kerning. How text looks is the feature of a word processor, and I quit using LibreOffice a number of years ago because the text looked so hideous compared to anything else.
Exactly. Like if user privacy does not matter but just cold cash. Thanks to statements like this there is GDPR.
as reported by Jessica Valenti (sorry I couldn't resist)

I loved The Guardian but it became "world misery and outrage daily, and BTW all men are terrible" in the last year or two.
Sorry, I should have better qualified what I wrote. What I mean though is that if you're having trouble meeting people, try expanding your social circles through new activities.

If something works for you by all means do it, but if nothing seems to be working it's definitely a worthwhile step.
Yes, Residential ISP's can sell or lease their space to AWS, etc. for example and just start moving their customers over to CGNAT. Why bother upgrading your entire network, planning allocations, etc when you can just NAT everyone for cheap?
Port forwarding is still a bit of a NAT feature tho on these routers.

On a real firewall, generally you don't reroute a port to a different IP, you just pass or fail the packet.
Assigning users to the todo list and a list of todo's in a todo list lets you think about design (or copied from Google Keep). PS. Google Keep doesn't have "assigning users"

Also , the todo-object has a type, eg: single, list, image, sound, ... So you could make an extensible architecture.

Is that your typical "Hello-world" todo app? :-)
How did antifa and others organized in the last 6 months? Did those apps get banned?
Instead of going after tech companies I would prefer to see putting more responsibility on the political system. I came to the US in 2000. Back then politics were already bad but now the message is pretty much "The other guys are evil", "anti-american", "racists", "socialist" or whatever. all messaging is designed to put up hard barriers between people that can't be overcome. Social networks certainly amplify things but in the end we need more discipline from political leadership to not constantly incite anger in the population.

With companies censoring more and more information it's pretty much guaranteed that they will also censor information that's inconvenient to them. The internet should be open and stay open.
My problem with shells is not just about the obscure syntax, but rather about the point, that it is next to impossible to write reliable and reusable scripts.

By default return codes of failed commands are silently ignored and `set -e` does not work under all circumstances. By default every variable is part of the global scope and the best you can do about it in a POSIX compliant way are sub-shells, which in turn have no way to change variables outside of their scope.

It is just broken by design :-/
> Which is precisely the intended effect: it makes you judge the writer by the writing.

It wouldn't be fair to judge non-native english speakers this way. However, if you are referring to what is being said, then it's not as easy as just reading what they wrote.

Indeed, the majority of people out there can't discern reality from fantasy. I did a study on this 15 years ago, where it showed conclusively that presented with factual looking information, even professionals in the various fields were unable to discern fact from fiction on specific topics. ;)

Simply put, without anything to verify this comment, you have to judge it purely on what is said. Accountability, credibility, attribute are all critical.
Have you looked at this?

http://www.loggly.com/
Technically the parent process for a contained process with Docker is containerd-shim.

Also, Docker does support live restore if you want to keep containers running over daemon restarts https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/live-restore/
I liked the first part of his book, that was a biography. The second part with the principles seemed strange. Meetings had realtime feedback dials so you tell the person listening you were bored? Every meeting is recorded and kept forever. I'm working from memory, but it seemed cultish and strange.
I think the logic is reasonable but the response is too strong.

A doctor driving around vaccinating whoever he can find at their house is clearly not how you want to distribute the vaccine in early December, it's not going to get to the most at risk people as soon as it can and any issues that arise are a huge liability problem unless he can fix it with what's in his car.

At the same time not having any plan or procedure of how to use the remaining vaccines or how to decide if the last batch should be opened is only going to create bad scenarios so you can't blame the person following the instructions for having a bad outcome if that's all you gave.

What's really messed up about this (and probably why the response had to be overly strong) is it was made into a news story about how he maliciously took the vaccines for his own use when really it's a story about how the vaccine rollout procedure wasn't good enough and left him in a shitty situation.
They're being downvoted because they're wrong.

>On Dec. 22, Dr. Gokal joined a conference call in which state health officials explained the protocols for administering the recently approved Moderna vaccine. The 10 or 11 doses in a vial are viable for six hours after the seal is punctured.

>Dr. Gokal said the advice was to vaccinate people eligible under the 1(a) category (health care workers and residents in long-term-care facilities), then those under the 1(b) category (people over 65 or with a health condition that increases risk of severe Covid-related illness).

>After that, he said, the message was: “Just put it in people’s arms. We don’t want any doses to go to waste. Period.”

What he did was explicitly ordered by the government. It is what the health department told everybody to do, in no uncertain terms.
Certainly an unexpected answer too!

Working together must be a different kind of fun. Cheers to that.
You may be able to get it from your local library via an app like Overdrive[0][1]. Some library programs even have a way for you to get free access to Safari Books Online[2] (I'd say most if not all, in the US at least)

My experience has been that there is rarely a backlog on technical materials like this.

[0]: https://www.overdrive.com/

[1]: Example of for the LA public library of what I mean: https://lapl.overdrive.com/search?query=The+Linux+Programmin...

[2]: https://www.spl.org/books-and-media/books-and-ebooks/oreilly...
Hardly a thing that 99% of crates are even viable for. What company would pay me 3k$ a month to full-time (or 1k$ for part-time) maintain some crate that barely anyone uses?

Only popular crates would have a chance to have support contracts like this.
Almost like classical finance has worked forever. Remind me what we’re Expending this energy for again? Or are we closing in on the end of the speedrun?
As far as I know it can do so but not when running rootless, I also don't thing it's currently possible to be done rootless.

You still can run podman as root without damon.

Or you can run a podman deamon (through systemd) which is even compatible with docker-compose but has most of the drawbacks of running docker.
Is that a serious question? Is selling Windows software that a user can install in 5 minutes easier than selling Linux software which likely requires a municipality to buy all new computers (and all the local government budgeting that involves), teach all its employees a new OS, standardize on things like distros and window managers, and then maybe be able to run it? Yes, it's much easier.
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Did you finish high school?

Besides a high school degree or a G.E.D., 4 year colleges, including engineering ones, don't require prerequisites. They are unlike graduate school programs in that gaining admission to an average engineering school requires nothing more than taking typical high school courses(Precalc, English, Physics, etc.) and landing decent grades in them.
You don't need to spend years at a community college - just jump right into engineering, if that's what you decide.
Uhm, this is my 4th book, and they've all been fairly successful. I've just compressed all the stuff I've learned into this one so people don't have to waste all the time and energy I did.

Of course, you can flag it if you want; you're entitled to be offended by my efforts. But trying to tag me as some sort of stupid huckster who's showing up just to make some cash is really quite ridiculous.
I love reading about world affairs in The Economist, but seeing how poorly they covered this topic is making me take a second look at my preferred magazine.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to read the entire essay before passing judgement. Indeed, you'll find your point is addressed in the very essay you stopped reading.
Calling both the housing market and internet startups a bubble is not doing anyone a disservice. Both sectors experienced irrational valuation increases in which the bad rose with the good. These increases were not based on economic fundamentals but on the half witted belief that everyone could be a winner and that prices would rise today because they rose yesterday. A classic description of a bubble, in both cases.
Look for `watch -p'.
You're reading a paper that analyzes the capabilities of a particular highly-constrained subclass of Turing machines. Actual research findings aren't necessarily going to be simple just because the model of computation being studied is simple. (Although a similar investigation into the capabilities of, e.g., a similarly constrained subset of Python, would probably tend to be a whole lot more lengthy and arduous.)

The parent's point is that the Turing machine model of computation admits a very concise definition -- roughly a page depending on brevity and formatting. An industrially viable programming language or hardware architecture typically requires a standard spanning hundreds of pages to define.
In Italy you shouldn't get married (or leave for a trip) on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Possibly because those are the days associated with Mars and Venus in romance languages.
Well done!

Just wondering, has someone managed to get it work with Termux?
So the cool stuff about Turing machines is that if you get them, then you get a theoretical model of computation. And based on this knowledge you can really understand some problems, say is P = NP? Or maybe you encounter some problem at work and you cannot find an efficient algorithm to it, so you might try to prove that the thing you are working on is NP-hard (making it non trivially solvable in human words).
This is exactly what RCDs are for - with a huge earth leak like that (and therefore L/N imbalance) it would have tripped within milliseconds, before cooking the grid.

I am surprised by how infrequently they seem to be used outside of the U.K. - I’ve just rewired my house in Portugal as it was completely unearthed, and just had fuses, no RCDs.
The article is light on information about shell rings, so I immediately went to read more about them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_ring
Tesla is a car maker, not a tech company. They don't sell Autopilot to other car makers.
The people driven by curiosity will still be in those unfashionable backwaters of any field. I would think true progress is made by those individuals, not ones that chase ‘hot’ fields.
Notice that the other JVM language implementations haven't tried to reduce memory use by tuning JVM GC settings.
You can explore using craigslist.org to help you find a VA from Philippines, I found mine this way. You can get it much cheaper this way. Mine is around $2.5/hr

Or you can try sites like Elance, Guru, etc. But the VAs there starts from $3.5/hr.
Its been a fantastic fad while it lasts (lasted?) but in the end its always just been "Vans off the wall" for "big people".

I wonder what we'll use next. I've always wanted to give my wife a ring with a bit of a meteorite set in it because, hey, its from outer space. Where does one find such things?
There are some terminals which support tabbed windows, and copy and paste. If you have access to those terminals, the reasons you gave for using gVim don't apply. Though I'm not really sure that being able to use the mouse for copy and paste in vim is an advantage. I thought that one of the big productivity boosts when using vim was being able to ditch the mouse. Aren't you suppose to use v[movement]"+y to get something to your clipboard?
Theology is a science now?
The author sidesteps the issue and answers with (roughly) "education is never a bad thing." That's true enough, but that doesn't answer the question of whether or not a degree is worth the cost. Not a very informative article.

One thing I've never understood about the whole degree v no degree debate is: don't people learn on the job? That is to say: I think the educational value of things other than college are often overlooked. It's the information age! You don't have to go to a university to learn.
Yeah. The article should maybe deal in depth with the start of De Beers.

De Beers was basically formed by an English colonialist (Cecil John Rhodes). He controlled a company which basically owned a country (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_South_Africa_Company).

He also had his own private army and tried to overthrow a sovereign government (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jameson_Raid).
If you are running vim in a terminal, then try ":set mouse=a" and it will use the XTerm mouse extensions. Most terminals support this (gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal, rxvt-unicode, xterm). I don't know about the level of support in Putty, Terminal.app or iTerm.app though.
Yeah, I hate that too. The only thing even more evil are sites that present you a tiny font on mobile devices AND don't allow you to zoom.

But saying this, I have to admit while http://nodebeginner.org can be zoomed on the iPhone, the font could still be a bit bigger for my taste (but on the normal site it's ok how it is).

Any idea how to tell CSS that I want an even bigger font on Mobile Safari?