jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is a very complex problem on a very volatile dataset. It would be like asking a physicist to predict the outcome of an foot race by calculating a complete quantum description of all the runners.

If that is your standard, then it is highly impractical, but not theoretically meaningless. However, "determining which of 2 pieces of code are better" is not such a problem. It is one that can be solved by heuristics and approximation, just the same as predicting the outcome of a race can.

So while there is as of yet no perfect algorithm, I would strongly disagree that there is _no_ algorithm or that there is no way to compare different algorithms meaningfully. We have measurements, and just because they are not perfect doesn't mean they cannot be verifiably correct within a useful margin of error.

We can reliably tell which two pieces of code are better. We cannot do it with extreme precision, and we cannot do it quickly enough to make predictions, but this does not mean that the concept of 'better code' is invalid or not understood in a productive sense. It certainly doesn't mean you can't make informal arguments from it.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=solder+aging

From what I know about heat treat ageing of metals something similar may be happening. Because he is pushing his system through above average temperature cycles, this causes microcrystalline changes in the solder. Ageing at even a temperature below reflow/melt temperatures can help restructure the grain.

If he didn't run his system at such a high temp and then eventually turn it off to cool so much then he might not have the problem to begin with. As a side note, personal experience building pcs for many years has shown me that pcs that sleep/get powered off don't last as long as ones that stay powered on 24/7.
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It's not clear that a self-trained design novice would have much more luck finding work, unless he turns out to have a natural genius at it.

He'd be competing for work against experienced designers, and against newly-graduated design students.
I am not saying that it is their fault for not finding a job. What I have noticed with most of my friends and classmates around me is that they aren't putting in the full footwork or effort to seem qualified for the positions they are applying for. They are sending their resumes blindly to openings, and they are not getting called back. Then they whine that they didn't get called back. Never do they take proactive steps towards figuring out why. Learn to hack the system. There are numerous creative and interesting ways to get a job. Figure. it. out.
Thanks! Although I'm not familiar with data federation or any web 3.0 spec, I did some light reading and it seems like we are already working in the data federation direction.

Consider this definition:
”Data federation is an aspect of data virtualization where the data stored in a heterogeneous set of autonomous data stores are made accessible to data consumers as one integrated data store by using on-demand data integration.”

Since Lowdefy is only the application layer and we connect to any data store, an app can easily for example pull data from two different data bases and merge the data on the client through the _mql operator and display the combined data result in a chart to a user as if it is one.

The same can be said for writing data, for instance single webform writing some parts of the form to various different data stores can easily be built.

It is also quite obvious that a implementation like this does not scale very well for larger data sets, if the federation is done on the client, so a server implementation can really make sense.

I’d be interested to learn more if you have some interesting resources to share?
Key insight. In a field with such a deficit of excellence, you can’t be exploited without your own buy in. Except maybe with certain classes of visa troubles.
It did me. The term "social justice warrior", like "nation-state", serves primarily as a flag-term that tells me I can stop listening.
It's also far harder to get shell scripts right compared to C
That is truly a nightmare situation that would drive me to suicide. I couldn't imagine a more horrible situation to be in.
> There isn't actually any license granted after that clause (it occurs before this clause)

"hereunder" does not refer to a direction within the text :)
From what I've read, most known damaging screen time studies have been with non-interactive TV and extrapolated to other digital screens. I'm under the impression there will be more screen time for my kids than there was for me and I try to steer that towards problem solving and interaction, as opposed to consumption time. My daughter (3) loves to take pictures with my phones and tablets and crop, color, add the silly effects. Somehow ( and probably misguidedly) I view this as better than putting her in front of a movie.

In my view, it is probably more important to control the specific activities more than the blanket "screen time".
+1 . Whenever I see "Cthulhu" written somewhere, I think of those racist passages from the book. And then I scroll that website and I see 0 ethnnic diversity in a poorly designed slideshow.
Yup, the lack of taste in webdesign adds to the queasiness.
At the hospital where I work, almost all HP desktops crashed within a few months...
It works super good with Car Play from Apple as well. Definitely worth it
kinda. You can use aggregates as window functions, but cannot use window functions as aggregates.

So it would be:

select a, last_value(b) over(partition by a), last_value(c) over(partition by a) from table

Note the lack of a "GROUP BY" so this will result in duplicates unless you add a DISTINCT.
The masks is more for the coughing/infected person to wear, although they help reduce transmission on either side.
Wow? For a call center? I know that if the call center I worked for in college did that, there wouldn't be anyone left after training.
Ya, online recreation would quickly be hampered by "no Martian HPB" game servers
Could you try to just say. "I'm a fan whatever they do!"? That would be a lot more sincere than trying to rationalize the fact that they just advertised the announcement of signing a contract with a half dead band as a day people would never forget. If it is a day I would never forget, it would be solely as the day Apple became a caricature of itself.
Or someone could anchor a dinghy with a billboard insulting Khosola and a bunch of cameras to livestream Khosolas property 24/7 online
That is a strange lie. Adam Back this must be your account, right?

Upvoting this so I hope more people can see the nonsense like Adam is spreading. He did not invent anything (plagiarized others work) and has been lying about it for years.
REALLY love the idea though. Great work!

Thanks! That's really nice to read.

The only problem I can see is the significant size increase in emails

One of the big contributors to the size is the inline CSS, which is required if the images are going to be included in emails. That said, there is alot of work that can be done on optimization.

Right now I use a list with ~pixel-high items and paragraphs. It makes it easy to represent the image in html, but I'm not so sure that it's the most efficient way. Tables or divs might have a smaller footprint, but I haven't had a chance to investigate.

It's potentially a very interesting problem. My analysis professor told me that he likes image processing because it's one of the rare fields where you can apply the more abstract concepts.

Unfortunately, the prospect for making money off of this thing is pretty bleak. Newsletter publishers could be my biggest customers, but they like external images for tracking purposes. Right now, I'm waiting to see if it gets traction before I do any more work on it
Reality: every group of founders is different.

There are no set of rules all startups should follow. There are however guidelines that ought to be considered, and discussions that absolutely need to be had.

If you believe in the concept, believe in the team, and believe it will be successful, don't sacrifice all of that due to not getting an extra 5% you believe is deserved.

Find what works for your team and build something incredible. Remember you likely are not capable of doing this on your own.
I've owned the original 12" Powerbook G4, and the first-gen MacBook Air (no SSD). With both of those I ended up with some buyers remorse about six months later, feeling like I was making some huge performance tradeoffs for the portability that ended up biting me later on. The 12" G4 was just plain slow, while the first-gen Air was hamstrung with crappy GMA950 graphics and a really slow disk. From what I've read the SSD on the original Air was on an IDE interface
and wouldn't have made much of a difference anyway.

I bought the new 13" Air the week after launch and absolutely love it for a dev environment. XCode runs nice and smooth and it now seems to me that an SSD is nearly essential to make Eclipse feel usable.

We're coming up to the 6 month point where with those older laptops I would think "oh God why did I spend $1800 on this," and I still think this is the best computer I've ever owned.
Sleep doesnt work reliably on my first-gen MacBook (running Snow Leopard)
I think there is way more amateur content published today by passionate users, it just doesn't look amateurish. Wikipedia is the canonical example.

There are tons of users on tumblr and flickr which are passionate about photos. Such photo sites were very rare in the old web.

Blogger, Wordpress and YouTube has a lot of passionate amateurs posting high-quality content. asymco.com is a passionate amateur who provides better content than the professional media.

The old amateur web required users to do everything, including design. Most people can't design well (e.g. choose colors that fit well together). So most people ended up with creating square wheels or "see my 'leet skillz" designs.

The old web was a small village: very small selection of shops, but you knew all of them. The new web is a huge city: shops for everything under the sun, the problem is finding out which shop that sells the stuff you want to buy.
I'm not a nutritionist. My understanding, however, is that sugars are the culprit. When you look at what has changed over the years, that's the big one.

Sugar: The Bitter Truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

There are lots of other articles concerning this, but I felt this was the best one for pure information. He's not alone in discussing this, so I don't have to just take his word for it. But like I said, I'm not a professional in this area.
Heh, just installed ubuntu-10.10-dekstop-amd64 on my EverRunNote notebook.

Now this came out :)

Btw, there is no ubuntu-10.10-notebook-amd64 - probably because there are not many 64-bit notebooks?
Some caution on this...

WoW guild leadership was a good exercise in how to lead volunteers. There is a gulf of difference between leading volunteers and leading paid people. Yes, there is overlap, too, but it is much harder to motivate volunteers to do tasks they do not feel like doing at the moment. It is a different kind of beast to lead, and Joi Ito certainly deserves respect for learning how to do that effectively.

Note I said "was". With Cataclysm's release, Blizzard introduced built-in incentives to do things for the guild. A guild member gets rewarded by the game for working for the guild. This reduces the leadership burden quite a lot and focuses it more on the "getting X number of people together at Y time to raid/PvP" task. Additionally, guild leadership can now check the WoW Armory to see what raids potential guild candidates have completed and how many times; thus, players have incentives to work with guilds to establish their experience/pwning ability. That makes it easier for guild leaders to gather people for raids because people have more incentive to be there. Effectively, members are now paid to work for their guild or to increase their own standing if they want to work for another guild.
did anyone else get a double meaning of typing?

I was thinking: well, of course you have to think, you have types! You have to align the universe to a representation which is no easy feat.
I prefer Kompare: http://www.kde.org/applications/development/kompare/
I don't mean to be cynical but it might be more constructive to make your son a fan of technology and design, rather than a corporation. If Woz's or Jobs's ambitions were to be CEO of HP or IBM, we'd never have Apple.
You're not bursting any bubble, you're just parading your cynicism and knowledge of a specialized field before a technical audience.

In this case, I'd have to say that it's probably well deserved cynicism, though. An extremely effective first filter when any scientific or mathematical discovery is announced is to ask, "Does it look like science?", where "it" refers to whatever materials have been released.

In this case, the announcement does not look much like most science, and in fact the design reminds me more of all of those "Einstein was wrong, here's the real special theory of relativity!" sites than anything else.

This might not be a 100% correct filter, but I can't think of the last scientific breakthrough where the author didn't bother to at least set the paper in LaTeX and throw up a preprint somewhere. These days, even most incorrect proofs and discoveries look more like science than this does.

That said, as I know nothing about this field, I'd definitely be curious to hear what an expert had to say in about the specifics of these claims, as well as the other stuff at http://www.superconductors.org - it looks very crank-y to me, but then again I have known legit scientists that suck quite badly at web design, so who knows...
This is how Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper describes "knowing wife's password and logging into gmail":

"The guy is a hacker," Cooper said in a voice mail response to the Free Press last week. "It was password protected, he had wonderful skills, and was highly trained. Then he downloaded them and used them in a very contentious way."
I find the poll rather offensive:

Should it be legal to snoop into your spouse's e-mail?

-No way! Privacy is a basic right, even in a marriage

-Sure, why not? How else can I keep tabs on him/her?

Why does the second option have to be framed from the perspective that anyone who logs into their spouse's email is doing so to keep tabs on them? What's wrong with a simple "Yes/No"? This isn't a webforum of friends joking around, this is a legitimate press entity.
I'm not obligated to wear a suit to work, and I don't mainly for reasons of economy and the fact that I'm too lazy to take care them properly. Despite that, I still agree with everything that is said in the grandparent post.
This is a great tool. I love playing with Ruby on my Android.

I actually believe in using straight-up Java for the Android device (and I hate Java), but this is great for getting quick and dirty. It's actually the only app which makes me regret not having a slider keyboard anymore (I went from the G1 to the Vibrant).
common errors in other languages -- your segfaults and NPEs and buffer overflows

I never see those in Smalltalk. I'd be surprised if that's an issue in Python, Ruby, or Lisp.

(But the number of DoesNotUnderstand errors in Smalltalk is quite impressive. This is why XUnit unit testing was first developed in Smalltalk. Unit testing with good code coverage is the only way to reliably prevent those.)
One could just as well say that thrown objects interact with squares, as a square's area and a thrown object's flight path are both modeled by parabolas.
Like a few other posters here, I got my start in QBASIC (kids want instant visual feedback, and QBASIC certainly did that). Parents bought a computer, then forbid us to play anything resembling a game. So I wrote my own (and also discovered Gorillas). I think the first thing I built was a slot machine making use of random numbers.
The usual answer to the date controversy is that since there wasn't a year 0, each decade must be 1-10, so the 10s start in 2011.

I'm comfortable with saying, instead, that the first decade had 9 years and the first century 99 years, and so on, but other people seem to object more. :)
Been there. Ah, those infinitely nested INKEY$...
In a couple of weeks I will launch http://storageroomapp.com and a little later move to Buenos Aires for a couple of months and work from there.

This of course has disadvantages, I cannot speak to local customers in person, but on the other hand living is much cheaper and more interesting than at the current place I call home.

I wouldn't want to manage a startup while traveling from place to place, but I think it should be no problem to just work from somewhere else and do weekend trips. This is exciting enough for me and I think I can get to know the world better with a couple of short term stays than traveling non-stop.

If I feel I need to go home to make progress, I go home, otherwise I will continue to live in different places all around the world.
80s - TI994A
83% of the world population lives in the developing world, according to a quick google search.

http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2013/2013-world-p...
Asinine victim-blaming. "If you were good at C, it wouldn't have memory safety problems."

OpenSSH, a program written by one of the most security conscious groups of developers out there (OpenBSD), used widely by pretty much every technology company out there including all of the top 8 companies in the world, has had multiple memory safety problems over its lifetime, /none/ of which would have happened in Rust, Zig, or any of their ilk.

Yes, portability in LLVM-based languages is a problem for sure. Even an LLVM/GCC monoculture isn't particularly great. But saying "nah, you're just doing it wrong"? No.
She describes herself as happy... and yet somehow has been at gunpoint and knifepoint, both of them multiple times. Most people manage to never have either. This suggests such people have extremely high death rates, and she's just lucky enough to still be around to be studied & interviewed.

I don't mind feeling fear occasionally if it helps me live out my natural lifespan.
There are plenty of mid-level editors out there. Sounds like Notepad++ and Sublime Text are up you alley.

Also, it depends what you mean by bloated, but VS Code can be stripped down to work just like the two I listed above. Language servers aren't required by any means. If you're looking for sub 50MB ram usage, then stick to the two above and search for "Sublime Text alternative" and I'm sure you'll find more equivalents than you ever wanted.
The big foundational lie is that there are no biological differences. This is demonstrably false, but you will not see it, or any of it's many corollaries censored.
The one thing I really feel like I'm missing out on, in my own no-build-system Github Pages site, is an RSS feed. A couple of people have emailed me asking if there's a way to be notified if I make a new post, but I don't see how I can do it without bringing in an external service.
5.25in drives did not vanish immediately. The transition occurred over a period of years. What really got things going in PC compatible land was the PS/2 series of desktops from IBM, which couldn't even fit a 5.25in drive in the case.

At around that time it was somewhat common to buy a new PC that had both 5.25in and 3.5in drives, and the common clone makers (Gateway, Packard Bell, et al) could fit either or both in their more-or-less standard PC/AT form factor cases.

For a while you could buy software that was on either format, and in some cases, like for utility software (Norton, etc.) they would include both in the box. Back when you still bought software in boxes...
I enjoyed this quote:

> Such wireless bit rates are beyond even the scope of the optical-fibre currently used to deliver internet access and high-definition television to the home.

FTTH is typically 1Gbps because that's all anyone has to connect with at home. The fibers can trivially do much more, but nobody is going to pay the extra $1000 for CPE with 10Gb NICs on it.
Musk is only the epitome of being borne rich and having the backup financial support to tryout ideas that might fail. Other ppl get one shot.
If I understand your question, the cache GP is referring to is not meant to help across users. Rather, when someone sends you an email the images are pulled into a cache [0]. When you view the email you aren't seeing the resource loaded from the tracking pixel URL, but rather a google cached version. This would mean that the sender wouldn't be able to know about you looking at the email multiple times, etc.

[0] I don't actually know if it works that way. Just what I believe the GP is saying. I could maybe see this being done so they can run heuristics on the assets, or something like that.
This is a very bad-faith argument. It basically comes down to "Bitcoin doesn't replace civilization in a single stroke. So, there."

"There are no power stations without a central authority." is a clever twist of words. It's a false statement that sounds true. There are lots of power stations. They are not under A central authority. They are under huge number of centralized authorities locked in a symbiotic/adversarial relationship. The USA can't stop North Korea from powering Bitcoin miners. That's not a happy example. But, it's a strong one.

I've heard of great strides towards decentralized power generation and distribution in Europe. Particularly Germany. But, I don't know the details. I do know that one thing crypto is exceptionally good at is recording, publishing and paying for attribution down to micro details. I would be amazed if someone hasn't started some DistributedPowerCoin. It won't be a Bitcoin script. But, it might be backed by Proof of Staking Bitcoin.

"Can't produce chips and have a computer supply chain without a working legal system." Bitcoin doesn't attempt to replace the legal system. Arguing that it fails to accomplish something it does not attempt to do is bad form. Ethereum hopes to eat a large slice of the legal system's pie. But, that's another topic.

But, in general Bitcoin does not set out to replace central governments entirely. It seeks to reduce their power over individual finances. Arguing that failing to achieve crypto anarchy means failing entirely is not convincing.
I bought a house and recently bought a router for our Comcast service. I wanted to “future proof” so I bought the ASUS WiFi 6 Router (RT-AX3000).

Before at our apartment a little further down the road with the same Comcast service, we were always flipping WiFi on and off on our phones and tablets to reconnect because of hanging connections. I was blaming Comcast, but it’s now clear to me that it was the router and not the connection itself. Our new router has never dropped my connection and I get a signal throughout the house. Streams start instantly and downloads are as fast as at the office. I can work from home via VPN and it’s indistinguishable from sitting at my desk on a wired connection.