jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You would hopefully alter your risk profile and adjust your portfolio accordingly ~40 yrs from now. Stocks/index funds are great for the young, gotta diversify into bonds etc later on.
This is a recipe for stagflation -- economic slowdown (inevitable, and by choice, in response to the circumstances) with excessive liquidity in the market. The capital injections aren't going to open up restaurants until shutdown orders have been lifted, and even then, you're kidding if you think small businesses will materially benefit from Fed actions.
Working on a webbased foss sip/WebRTC/p2p conferencing solution(WIP): https://github.com/garage11/ca11
> Right, but someone still has to do the representation...

The same people writing papers now.

> and how can you ever know that someone is encoding it correctly?

Reasoning engine. As new data is entered it is run against prior data, to the end user it would look almost like a spell check.

> ...your assumption is that everything can be encoded in an axiomatic language (probably not true)...

That is an extremely safe assumption to make, as the problem has been studied for a long time and I'm aware of no evidence that would back up your position.

> ...and that we have enough information to encode it all even if it was possible.

We do.
The newer link doesn't mention them using Rails anymore. It's probably still in use in some internal apps, but the main twitter.com site should be 100% Scala now.
And it's updated every day, not once a year from a disk in a box.

...and that's a problem, because it encourages half-baked non-solutions and a "we can always fix it later" attitude. As a result, nothing actually improves; it just erratically surges around a local maximum.
Yeah, I suspect doctors would usually just call it by the abbreviation, SHH or what not and leave it at that. Osteomorphs doesn't sound that bad as long as the doctor doesn't add the origin. Sounds like a standard Greek medical neologism.

Patients I guess get to find out when they start researching whatever condition on the web. Latin/Greek derived names do sound more important though.
I mean for straightforward usecases if Postgres will work, CockroachDB isn't a bad choice to get used to early on.
In the U.S., Sharp TVs aren't actually made by Sharp. They are made by Hisense and then rebranded Sharp. The link you posted is the Singapore site.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sharp-to-americans-you-dont-wan...
Required reading for anyone who wants to extend Noweb to do new things is "The noweb Hacker's Guide":

http://www.literateprogramming.com/noweb_hacker.pdf

This came in handy when I wanted syntax highlighting in a woven document.
Thanks. Don't know how I missed the reference to Ars Technica in the article.
#freezuck the judge was just aiming to make an example of Mark for hosting a marketplace, like really, a website!? he wasn't even on trial for the murder for hire scheme
It is growing, absolutely. I would love to see products like this succeed, so I’d be happy to be wrong.
Right, why can't I just delete my comment then?

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Years ago, I recall a line from a fellow who was our then "chief architect".

>Do you program a computer, or do you build software?

Programming a computer is accessible to millions upon millions of people. Building and creating software is a craft for which we are well paid.
The article has a good message overall but I think this title works against it. A much younger and more impressionable version of myself heard Marco Arment on a podcast around 2010 saying how difficult iOS programming was, and I kind of believed him at face value. It was 9 years before I gave iOS/macOS programming another shot, and I was more productive than I'd been in any other programming language. I agree with the article that telling people programming is "easy" is probably not a good idea either.
if you dont change schema dramatically, then it doesnt make much sense to migrate to another RDBMS, because most engines have pretty much similar query planner (if you not doing "anything obviously complex").

if you do migrate due to scaling issues, then the schema must evolve, for example: add in-memory db for caching, db sharding/partitioning, table partitioning, hot/cold data split, OLTP/OLAP split, etc.
I was going to write something but then I started reading your comment.

I couldn't agree more, and I couldn't write it better myself.

Thank you
i would say of course they can and in many cases do - same for TV shows or drinking with friends or exercising. Everything can be taken to an unhealthy extreme.

What about: Do video games like those impact the potential intelligence of a person? the shopify CEO is famous for saying Factorio counts as a business expense.
If this is a quip about the site being down or something, it seems to work fine here.
It being a black box seems to be a seperate unrelated issue?
> being a senior at 22

WTF does "being a senior" even mean?
This effect originates from our native languages. Or perhaps institutional memory of how the British wrote in the colonial era.
Source: Grew up in Nigeria
Name even one that cannot be sourced except from animals.

Micros:

- Vitamins: A, B[1,2,3,5,6,7,9,12], C, D, E, K

- Minerals: Ca, P, Mg, Na, Cl, K, S

- Trace minerals: Fe, Mn, Cu, Zn, I, F, Se

Or even macros:

- Glucose

- Fiber

- Lipids

- Essential amino acids (EAA's): his, ile, leu, lys, met, phe, thr, trp, val

- Conditionally-essential amino acids (CEAA's): arg, cys, gln, gly, pro, tyr

Your definition of "extreme" is extremely dishonest FUD.
Sometimes when people refuse to learn something new because they think they know better they are right, and sometimes they are wrong. Sadly it is difficult to know in which of these group you are, so it might be a good hedge not to refuse to listen to the young people. Even the most knowledgeable engineer can become a net negative quite easily.
Elo is not a matchmaking system, Elo is a rating system.

Elo tells you how skilled a player is, how surprising a result (win, loss, draw if applicable) is, and how a player's rating should change based on a result and how surprising the result was. It does NOT tell you who should be matched up against who.

> The biggest issue is fun is not the same fair and its a lot more complicated to tune for fun.

> You could, for example, play 100 matches where you were given the closest opponent but at a disadvantage for every single match. There's a lot of other scenarios around how you want to fold in ping based match making and how that smaller pool effects the fairness of the matchhing.

Elo tells the system that if you play 100 games at a disadvantage, your rating should not go down as much when you lose, and should jump up more on a win. Elo is the math that tells the system that if your skill does not change, your score does not change, regardless of whether you play 100 games at disadvantage and lose most of them, or play 100 games at an advantage and win most of them.

I agree that Elo handles uncertainty poorly; when you're rating a chess player whose career is tracked over the course of decades, this isn't an issue, but online play with transient accounts, players who blip into a game when it's hot and then never play it again, smurfs and account buyers, people who take a break for a while and come back, patches which might radically change the meta, etc, uncertainty should be accounted for. Note that TrueSkill is, for all intents and purposes, just Elo+Bayesian inference. Like Elo, it is a rating system, not a matchmaking system. TrueSkill does not handle the problem of playing 100 games in a row against players who are better than you. TrueSkill, like Elo, just tells you what a result means, not which players should be pitted against each other.
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> Especially companies having "dev ops" engineering model, where engineers must be able to work on all stages of the product lifecycle - from design, development, testing, to deployment and operations.

This is what DevOps is _supposed_ to be but often not what "DevOps Engineers" are hired to be. In my experience most companies hire DevOps Engineers that are one of two things:

1) Sysadmins that also know Python and whichever public cloud dominates the vertical the company operates in

2) Developers that don't actually develop but spend all of their time managing CI/CD pipelines, SCM, JIRA, etc.

In either case their roles are obviously secondary to the developers that build actual solutions; they are the mechanics for the software engineers, which inherently means that their contribution to the value stream is not holistic and it's just another way of enforcing the traditional dichotomy between people that build solutions (developers) and people that keep them from falling over (operations).

I've held the title of "DevOps Engineer" at least once professionally and when I would talk to recruiters or new employers about a software engineering position they'd often ask me what "got me into DevOps" or why I'm trying to "get back into coding". If you know and like working with dev tools and infrastructure then my advice to you is to be a Software Engineer that does DevOps, not a "DevOps Engineer".
> Every other industry has tools with finer tolerances than anything they produce. Except this one.

I agree with this, actually, but I wanted to point out that there were some crossed wires.
I'd agree if its most other jobs but I thought devs were one job where appearance doesn't matter as much?
It was ruled out early on, along with fungal infections, HIV, etc in an array of tests. Basically every test I've had has come out clean, minus occasionally a little high blood pressure. And the IgE levels in orbit as mentioned above.
Some (but I believe the advantage is that it’s much harder to inject valid code from a buffer overflow).
I'll bite, the second phrase never happens. NASA isn't trying in the same way that SpaceX is trying at all, they are doing amazing stuff, incredible feats like Mars rovers. When that feel of commentary comes around is when the bureaucracy of the government gets in the way of taking the risks to make the discoveries possible. We cheer SpaceX because we see them taking action, taking risks, and making progress.

We get frustrated with NASA because we've gotten use to the idea of go fast break things. However http://www.nasa.gov/missions/schedule/index.html shows they are launching 3 new projects, they just aren't the sexy science right now so don't get all the cheering. You better believe there was a lot of ooo's and aaahhh's around the new Hubble photos. So they come out with something amazing like that, then you hear that the government (in 2004 mind you) is not willing to fund them enough to keep Hubble alive, combined with the feature of loss of human life from the 2003 Columbia disaster making them risk averse.

When we see SpaceX taking risks and making discoveries, or SpaceShipOne doing the same and exploding, but then the team keeps going, we cheer that, we rally around the against all odds determination to make space accessible.

NASA has done amazing things, but they are hamstrung by the government and their own bureaucratic growth. What once was a warm blanket in the space race is now being used to try and smoother them to death now that there isn't a commercial or war time payout.

</rant>
A lot of really big companies have super flat hierarchies when I worked at one we had MPG2, MPG4 then Senior Management U,T,S

Promotion was brutal you might have 20 MPG4 slots every 18 Months for the entire Division (60k FTE) - just getting to the Board Stage was tough enough.

I think a MPG2 was equivalent to a Captain an S was a Grade 7 (GS15 in US terms I think) Full Colonel
remember Nayirah? how can i make sure this isn't another case of US falsifying testimony to justify it's own agenda?
Similar to https://freeillustrations.xyz/
I only use Discord for a very specific group interaction. How is it used more generally?
>>The UN/IAEA process requires unanimity among the major powers.

I think your assessment of the outcome of said smoking gun is unrealistic. The scandal described would have massive political repercussions that would go far beyond any letter of the deal.

>>The structure of the deal made some form of renegotiation inevitable (since the main restrictions were temporary).

Why would it inevitably need to be renegotiated?

>>The question is how to do it.

By honoring the deal and working with other countries on a new one if/when it's needed.
One of the biggest (but dumbest) things is I signed up for Spotify with Facebook...and need it to log in.

I'm too lazy to like transfer all my playlists and liked songs to a new account.
True but I am tired of seeing a free pass for the leaders, legislators, board, share holders etc. but bring out moral pitch forks for engineers who perhaps have the least amount of decision making powers in a company as massive as FB/FAANG.
I am willing to bet that even the ones here that are in disbelief about how one can work in such a company, I bet uses their products and/or is invested directly or indirectly with these companies and don't complain when their portfolio makes bank.
I liked UltraEdit back in my Windows days, but this story kind of put me off: http://www.ultraedit.com/company/IDM_full_story.html
So I take it that you are less likely to buy toothpaste or cleaning products?
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence"

When I first learned to program (err, actually just to press buttons in an IDE, anyway), I had a "great" idea how you could make a site like Facebook, just simpler and better. Thankfully the friend I explained my idea to was more sensible than me at the time.
Hey TechCrunch, the next time you complain about how the "mainstream" media doesn't take blogs like yours seriously and doesn't consider your writers journalists, you can look at your handling of the Delicious story as an example of why you shouldn't be taken seriously and your writers aren't journalists. You are TMZ for nerds.
x-post from reddit[1], the guy who took the screenshot said he received it on an MIT mailing list

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/enraz/coder_nee...
As far as I'm aware, there is no such debugging mode for CoffeeScript. The current method of debugging really is to look in the JS and then find the corresponding CS code. They do make this easier by keeping the JS code as readable as possible.
Copenhagen interpretation has my vote.
So, he's a god botherer, don't judge him for that.

Judge him like a proper 'hacker' would, and that's by the quality of his products and his code.

Matz is Mormon (and he's Japanese, seriously what's with that!), and Jamis Buck is also a well known programmer who is very religious.

I'm not into god myself, but we're programmers and let's judge each other on our works, not our beliefs.
I think everyone is talking in Mac context here. It's more laggy than Textmate when I open a 500-line-file. Unfortunately I don't have 500MB ASCII file to test.
The purpose of this feature is to ward off those of us with design OCD. We are the most annoying users to support
"When I use reddit or Hacker News, I find that it’s trivial to get thousands of karma and a handful of awards"

You have to be kidding! It takes me months to earn a few points that I flush down the toilet the next day with some insensitive comment.
> these bills under consideration truly will hurt jobs, growth and the economic vibrancy

I hate discriminations, especially those made for so-called religious reasons, but I also hate lies, even those made for "good reasons", and I think this is a lie.

No-one knows if a decision to discriminate is good or wrong for the economy. And would one be 100% sure discrimination is good for economy, it would still be 100% morally wrong. I think it is dangerous to let people believe that the reason to avoid discrimination is economical.

(I discussed this with an American friend and we failed to agree. I'm European and I consider this disagreement one of the most salient difference between US and Europe: we consider morality and justice above and unrelated to economy).
I highly recommend Jane Street Capital, have a friend who worked there and absolutely loved it. Not only that, but that experience really gave him a leg up in terms of experience/applied knowledge for when he went on to work at a trading desk elsewhere.
It's a good thing that in our field there is no single winner and the rest are losers. As a programmer, I want to become as good as I can, be one of the few. I might never become better than Linus Torvalds (simply because he'll keep getting better too), but that won't prevent me from achieving my goal.

Our field is not a competition. There is plenty of room for a bunch of great programmers.
Apple locking Google out is the same thing as Android competing with iOS. Yup. What's new?

One side is competing with the other. The other side is locking them out of the platform on an application (Google Voice) and an advertising level.

What if Google said they weren't going to allow Apple apps on Android or allow iAds on Android (not that I think either would ever happen in a million years).

I simply can't fathom the double think that Gruber uses to excuse Apple's actions while pointing fingers at Google.
That is the first problem.

Never work more because somebody else screwed up.

Second, document your estimates and then let the manager write his and in the end, see who was closest.
I don't think that's true. People say "I love my BlackBerry". Regardless of where they got it, they form the emotional attachment to the brand. Jay-Z mentions his BlackBerry in his music. It's a lifestyle object, it says, I am taking care of business, baby. I am an insider, I have my act together, I make decisions. People call them CrackBerries because they're addictive.

But I've never heard anyone say "I love my Android", people talk about how clever it is, but the brand doesn't seem to resonate nearly as much, and it's not as clear what it says as a lifestyle accessory.
If you liked that maybe this is also for you.
"David S. Rose on pitching to VCs"

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_s_rose_on_pitching_...
I think this is the right way to approach this kind of technology.
There are at least 5 comments in this thread saying "just use the tool I use"
>it is not clear this bill is being passed in good faith

You expected otherwise from Goobernor Abboot?

This is a huge distraction in the hope that people won't demand fundamental things like:

1) Fixing the electrical grid to the level that the Feds pointed out needed to be done in a report from 10 years ago the last time this happened.

This isn't just winterizing the grid, but also having enough fine grained control that you could shed enough load to do rolling blackouts.

The Texas grid doesn't have enough fine control so too many extra things are on the same circuits as "essential" services and the grid simply couldn't shed enough load without pulling the plug on things like hospitals.

It also doesn't help that residences just use fundamentally less electricity nowadays thanks to LED lighting and efficient appliances. Pulling the plug on residences just isn't a big enough lever anymore.

2) Giving ERCOT real statutory authority so that it can actual compel actions as opposed to being the toothless political sinecure it currently is.

ERCOT couldn't do jack shit when everything went to hell because it has no authority to compel anybody to do what they need to do. For example, the only way ERCOT could force some industrial plants offline that were refusing to shut down was to artificially raise the electrical prices instead of being able to give an order to summarily force shutdown.

But hey, "Regulation bad. Fox News say so."
While I believe that this advice is technically true - it avoids a very critical issue and is thus misleading. The more important questions are: How "good" do you have to be to get an outcome comparable to the average lawyer or physician (or MBA grad)? How many other people are this good? How different are the outcomes between people who are "good" and those who are not "good"?

You could make the same argument about playing professional basketball or football. If you are "good" you won't have any problem finding work and you will make a lot of money. The problem is that only a vanishingly tiny minority qualifies for this standard, and players that are only marginally not good enough to make it to the NBA have significantly worse outcomes.

Computer programming is a fun intellectual challenge. If you want a conventionally successful career study law or medicine - professions which take protecting their wages and bargaining power seriously. Computer programming is something where you must be motivated by a love of the craft. I remember reading Stroustroup's C++ when I was in high school and he pointed out the trend toward the "deskilling" of computer programming. His comments had a somewhat cynical disillusioned tone to them and they turned me away from programming. When I have seen how the careers of some of my high school friends developed and how they feel about the experience I'm glad that I ran across Stroustroup's "advice"
I suspect that the advent of nanotechnology is going to cause civilisation upheaval the likes of which we haven't seen since the industrial revolution, if ever. All this shit will happen, and much, much more.

Hell, why limit ourselves to the surface of the sea? The materials nanotech promises to deliver will make it possible to live far above or below sea level with equal ease. Sky-steading, anyone?
IIS7 is still awful compared to pretty much any of the major linux-based webservers.

I'm a few days late on this, but curious: by what measure(s) do you mean that?
How does that apply to a place like HN? What's the common case for anonymity here? Sure, I'll accept the occasional exception, but what's the benefit for anonymity?
From the matches I've seen so far, the latest ball seems very light. For long range passes the player has to be behind the ball to trap it with foot or control it with chest before it drops on the ground.

Players who try to control the ball after it's bounced are being deceived by the bounce as the ball seems to move off the pitch like it's very wet (but it doesn't look that wet on the TV). Passes over the head of the forwards (for the forward to run onto) are going straight to the keeper or out unless the forward is very quick.
Oh, just use Safari 5's reader.
I don't think so. Checksumming is useful for detection of errors during download. When it comes to security, we have pgp.
After a month in any entry-level job in any field, you'll know, and all your co-workers will know, if you're "good."
You don't need to "verify" yourself. I think you are taking it a bit extreme.

After all, both you and I have been able to identify ourselves well enough that we can be found out.