jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Getting it fleshed out isn't actually happening unless they're building a real product in that time. Talking to people is not "getting it fleshed out". Assuming 4 year vesting then you're talking about giving up a full year's salary to work on something that has probably a less than 10% chance of succeeding. You're also going to have expectations of your time that are pretty extreme. If you want to do that, you need to participate in upside beyond what you're investing in the company ($90,000 of foregone wages) so that there's actual upside at at least 5x that. Consider you're investing $90,000 with a 10% chance of getting $450,000. Are you going to get that with 2% when that will be diluted 30% each round? Without double digit equity it's almost sure you won't. Even then you need change of control language and an understanding of share classes.
I think it is more confusing than enlightening to claim that jQuery is 'almost' a monad.
> Longform reading is magic because it's rarer than ever - it's an art now, according to people like this author.

Adler wrote "How to Read a Book" (which this article is about) originally in 1940, I wouldn't call that "now".
HTRAB is a bit dry and over-analytical, but it's definitely practical. It enumerates all questions that you should ask yourself while reading analytically, and while this may sound like an overkill, unless you're paying attention, you'll likely skip some of the steps. I read many great books only to find that they completely evaporated from my head in a week or two.
Isn't it a waste of time to spend months reading Brothers Karamazov, and not be changed by that experience?
Reading for entertainment and information already is easy as breathing for most people, but for reading for understanding to be as easy as breathing, you need to deliberately practice it.

While Adler's advice is valid, it lacks another important component, and that's discussion. A good book club (reading the great books, not whatever's on top of the NYT bestseller list) will change the entire experience and increase knowledge retention.
"Even Ubuntu needs an upgraded graphics card and RAM to utilize all of the bells and whistles."

Bells and whistles are what makes computing fun for the average user. Why do you think the iPhone is such a hit? It's basic functionality? or the fact that you can have a lot of fun on it? It even sucks as a phone and people don't seem to mind.

In my IT business, the first thing I do for most customers is upgrade their RAM because their desktops come so poorly packaged and the performance is abysmal. Once done, I have never heard a complaint.

We need to stop talking about exceptions and start discussing general usage. Most users are running W7 or Mac OS X, and run a multitude of programs, apps and at the same time. I believe in breaking bottlenecks.

Lastly, I am glad to see smaller companies making a difference, like the one in the article.
wasn't this in Outliers?
Others have given great advice, but here's something else, too.

If you need to find more time, then you have to cut something somewhere. Time is a zero sum game, right? You're already living 24 hours per day, it's all in how you slice it. So what took up the most of your weekend?

> channel surfing
> watching about 4 movies
> Watch a few World Cup matches, while surfing YouTube.

If you'd throw out your TV, you'd have saved at least 10 or 15 hours, right?
Objective-C 2.0 does have garbage collection. It can be enabled for an application in the IDE. However iOS apps do not support use of garbage collection.
An ARM-powered variant would sit on top of this Atom-powered machine, with quite possibly the same or higher numbers of efficiency when looking at performance-per-watt.

The article quotes the interviewee saying that ARMs can be used, but not clear enough to determine if they actually have ARM versions of these machines, which I'd be very interested in seeing 100k specint_rate figures for.
It's worth noting that this comparison is flawed: Judy (iirc) is designed for 64 byte cache line sizes, yet the test is performed on a 32 byte cache line processor. Currently, most common processors have a cache line size of 64 bytes, so nowadays it's quite likely that Judy is a fair bit faster. Further, the processor is old enough that memory delays were (while still important) perhaps less of a big deal than they are now: the relative latency of RAM to processor speed wasn't as bad.

Yes, this does highlight the problem with such heavily optimised structures - that they are somewhat hardware specific - but it doesn't mean that this is an accurate demonstration of the performance improvement you'd see nowadays.
SPARK appears to be a restricted subset of ADA, with the addition of formal decorations in comments. The code is compiled by a regular ADA compiler, with the problem areas of ADA avoided by only using a specific subset. Then a separate verification/proving tool is used to read the decorations and use them to analyse the code in more depth than can be done from the code alone.

I have experience with similar techniques, and while it sounds very ad hoc it can be made to work in suitable environments. The result is tool-enforced discipline regarding code derivation and development.

As always, the system relies on

+ sufficiently detailed and accurate specifications

+ sufficient analysis of failure modes

+ correct compiler tools

+ correct hardware

+ sufficiently few transient hardware errors (such as cosmic ray bit flips)

... and other details.

See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)

http://www.praxis-his.com/spark.aspx
At least the bing text is designed to contrast the background image. The Google homepage looks awful, and there doesn't seem to be a way to turn it off.
Buy a starter pistol, you know the kind that they use at tracks. This is still considered a valid weapon for airport screeners so this "tip" applies only to non-carry on luggage. Put the pistol into your luggage and declare it before depositing it with the airline. It won't be lost, tampered with or diverted, ever.

The reason is simple. They have to treat luggage with firearms different from normal luggage. It goes into its own area and is placed in special locked compartments. There's a high level of security involved to protect passengers which ultimately aids you.
Considering that you bring up the 'rough sex' twice, and in a way that makes it seem like the books are full of it and that sex forms a fundamental part of the stories and philosophy, I wonder what it is that makes this single one-page scene in one book the center piece of many reflections on her books on general. If it weren't for that one movie (was it "Cruel Intentions"?) I would've mostly forgotten about that passage. This may be because what is considered "highbrow literature" in my mother tongue (Dutch) contains (relative to English-language literature) a lot more sex, and in much more explicit and colorful ways (e.g. Jan Wolkers but also work by Belgians like Jef Geeraerts), and that reading works like these since early adolescence has blunted my sensitivity to this topic; but still - even when I try to abstract from that personal frame of reference, I find it hard to assign to them the weight that is often done (and that you are implying)

On top of that, I resent your attempt at an ad hominem by suggesting that the main audience is sexually hypertensive adolescents. Which is a shame because the rest of your post is sound (even if I don't agree with all of it), and the sophism detracts from that.
I highly doubt the effectiveness of polyphasic sleep. I myself found myself physically fatigued when I tried something like that.

So, based on my own (little) experience, my muscles need the long rest that a good night's sleep gives.

And doing "something useful" while commuting... Well ain't there a sure sign for disaster?

Hmm. Now don't get me wrong, but your post seems to be coming from a guy who's heading enthusiastically straight into a total mental burndown...
> Most people are just not aware of the urgency and don't fear for their own health, thereby discounting other people's health. Even this lack of personal fear is probably unjustified by now - by the time they'll get sick the hospital system will be overwhelmed.

This is really problematic. It looks like outliers know-it-all could be ruining it for the rest of us.

I wonder if governments could use a heavy hammer and broadcast 24/24 (or at random) footages from Italian hospitals.
Malaria is not a tropical disease, although it's been eradicated in most tropical areas and not yet eradicated in most non-tropical areas.

The reason malaria is not a pandemic isn't the fact that it's been eradicated in some areas, but the fact that it's endemic. Only epidemic diseases can be pandemics; endemic disease (e.g. seasonal flu) cannot be. This is by definition.

Epidemics and pandemics relate to some change from the previous situation whereas endemic diseases refer to stability. This informs our policy responses.
Really?

I had the impression Prettier follwed the spirit of Go fmt, which had that claim.
If you only have yourself to take into consideration, I assume you have the luxury to relocate and have the economic bandwidth to do so.

But I challenge you to widen your viewpoint; there are so many people out in the world where 1cm would mean becoming environmental refugees.

If you don’t care about that, there isn’t much I can do.

Finally, I want to point out what that means; you lack empathy for those people.
| Why Bats?

- high-population densities and the usually gregarious roosting behaviour ... increase the likelihood of both intra- and interspecies transmission of viruses

- Large-scale movements of bats due to their ability for powered flight are also likely to facilitate viral transmission within and among species, including the exchange of novel viruses and virus variants across biomes or even continents

- The extreme relative longevity of bats compared to other mammals of similar size

- Reduction of body temperature associated with hibernation of temperate zone bats lowers both viral activity and the metabolism of hosts, leading to increased incubation periods and therefore reduced likelihood of epizootic fadeout

- Bats are ancient mammals in evolutionary terms, and virus utilisation of highly conserved cellular receptors could facilitate transmission to other mammals

- the relatively high body temperature (about 38–41 °C) and metabolism of bats during flight may select for viruses tolerant to such conditions, meaning the normal febrile defence mechanism of other mammals is ineffective, making bat-borne viruses potentially more virulent and lethal for other, non-flying mammals.

| Coronaviruses

- Bats can regularly be found in markets in China, which makes direct transmission of the virus from bats to humans likely.

- a small fragment of a coronavirus PCRed from an Egyptian tomb bat (Taphozous perforatus) showed 100 % nucleotide identity to virus from the
human index case-patient of MERS, suggesting that this species may be one of the putative natural reservoirs of the virus

- The intensified search for viruses in bats worldwide has led to the detection of coronaviruses other than SARS and MERS, whose potential to be or become
zoonotic has yet to be investigated

- No clinical symptoms associated with infections with SARS-like and other coronaviruses have yet been described for bats.

| Conclusion [no, it's not "kill all bats"]

- educational efforts [such as re: not eating bats; not disturbing colonies by culling; etc.]

- the natural habitats of bats need to be better protected to provide bat populations with sufficient space and to prevent range expansion into urban and suburban areas, where contact with humans and livestock may increase the risk of spillover events
COIN = counter-insurgency?

FIBU = ?
It can be helpful for certain scenarios. And others don't have to enable it. For companies, at least in the enterprise plan you can also disable it company-wide (according to reports by others). So companies can simply opt out for everyone.
You should have included the year in the title, as it wasn't obvious at first.
What number or fraction is acceptable before it becomes "disturbingly" large?

A lot of good math and science was done before the Enlightenment - look at Newton or Euler or Descartes, for example. The scientific environment often operates rather independently of the political environment - the Soviets also had high-quality science going on.
If you consider the recent popularity of lead (known to be dangerous for hundreds of years) and asbestos, you might not want to reconsider where the burden of proof should lie.

It would probably be a better idea to require that chemicals used around you be proven safe rather than proven dangerous.
I agree SQL is way too hardcore for the average person, but the CLI wrapper makes it a little more approachable. Still a little too hardcore for most people but one cool part is that I can generate spreadsheets easily as well.

Anyway no I don't use a mobile app since this is more for long-term tracking and not something I need to update or query on the go, so mobile wouldn't make sense for my use cases. I'm probably a bad example though since I don't use mobile apps at all really.
It's open source. If you are having so much trouble with your ultra niche filename use case, just open a pr and clean up some of the code.
There are plenty of perfectly mundane, common settings that are only accessible through the old control panels. And, of course, there are a couple of different styles of old control panel to begin with - the more recent 'modular'-ish ones and then ur-panels with lots of tabs and 'Advanced' buttons. As a UI thing, it's easily Windows at its ugliest and most baffling.
I know plenty of pot smoking gays that drive pickup trucks. Not sure of they're communist, but likely they have a socialist bent.
If you want to be famous, go be an entertainer, athlete, or politician.

If you want to be a programmer, check your ego at the door. The two biggest roadblocks to success in programming are incompetence and attitude. BigEgo = BadAttitude.

I measure my success not in fame, but in the value gained by those who use my software, and the value gained by those they serve, and so on, and so on. I don't know them and they don't know me, but I'd like to think the world's a better place because of all the ones and zeroes I've arranged. They are the stars and that's good enough for me.
Agreed, but perhaps the article is referring to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home in which Kirk decloaks the Klingon ship on Earth in the Bay Area (above SF IIRC).
It's pretty much the same thing that happened to Google at I/O, including the same general solution and audience reaction... The real difference is Google should have known better than to use wireless keyboards in that sort of situation. I don't know that Apple had much choice with getting data to the phone (unless there's a reverse tether option available that I'm not aware of).
OTOH, many people think that every cool innovation from Apple comes straight out from Steve Jobs' brain.
With no swap OOM Killer will kick in if you run out of RAM. It will kill a process in order to free up memory.
Just that many people fewer consuming NY Times content as the NY Times goes bankrupt with the rest of the newspaper industry.
I played with the same idea a couple of years ago and published a library for it:
* http://www.bramstein.com/projects/jfun/
* http://www.bramstein.com/articles/pattern-matching.html
* http://www.bramstein.com/articles/advanced-pattern-matching....

Although the implementation works great, I couldn't get past the (obvious) syntax issues and never actually used it in production code. It was an interesting experiment though, especially when combined with Sjoerd Visscher's algebraic data type library (http://w3future.com/weblog/stories/2008/06/16/adtinjs.xml).
They will just have to move to putting the ads into the article copy.
To my knowledge, he hasn't ever written a line of code, but if he did he would've been an excellent example.

Bill Gates is also an interesting example - he is known to pretty much everyone for a number of reasons, among those, probably the least, but still, for the versions of BASIC he wrote.
This thread is older, you are linking to the duplicate
If only OpenAI's GTP-3 was open-source
Start date is April 1 but other sections were written later, so I'm not sure if this is serious.

The main problem I see, unaddressed in my skimming, is the analog level: you need to replace the transistor with something more sophisticated, or possibly two different types of transistors.

Worth noting: SSDs do store data in multi-level cells (generally with much more than 3 levels) to get better density out, but they can get away with this because the performance requirements are much lower than those of a CPU and it's not doing any actual logic, just translation.
> seemingly unconditional refusal to explore technology companies

Don't forget they bought a truckload of IBM in 2015, leaving everyone scratching their heads. Probably lots of IBM'ers on here with better insight, but from the outside it appeared they were pooping where they slept: selling off hardware units, dabbling badly in cloud, offshoring key consulting operations and in general hurting their brand. Of course Berkshire sold it all in 2018 and bought more Apple.

Please tell me they didn't think IBM was a consumer company, as an alternate play to Apple in the same space as Apple? Right now it seems to be a poor services company.
> Current and former top executives at SolarWinds are blaming a company intern for a critical lapse in password security that apparently went undiagnosed for years.

The SolarWinds execs have provided us with keen insight for the root cause of the SolarWinds attack, but the insight they conveyed is probably not the insight they intended to convey.
The key point from that quote is "when people are fearful, a pessimistic future is currently priced in" and "when people are greedy, an optimistic future is currently priced in."

So, effectively, it's setting up a win/tie dynamic on change/expected. Vs a lose/tie dynamic on change/expected when investing with the current sentiment.
Yeah, but you have to have people switch to that chain.

Miners won't because it would devalue their coin.

New buyers might because they can "buy cheap"
And before a crash
The starting idea - federal tax share has shifted to individuals from corporations - is true, because of a long-term intentional shift to do that by successive governments. Once upon a time, corporations paid taxes. No longer.

The idea to solve that - make families into corporations - is ludicrous. Instead, we should raise taxes on corporations.
I have a similar thing with telegram bot: https://pastebin.com/Ei3hjcKa
Written in Go so it's static and portable.
I literally had the opposite experience - a couple of years ago I was leading a data team designing a cloud-based solution and migrating the company from bare metal.

*AWS* - Lots of sales calls, but eventually redirected us to a "partner", who came up with basically a lift-and-shift.

*GCP* - The Regional Business Head was in direct contact. We were provided almost limitless access to a very helpful and experienced Customer Engineer - who spent _weeks_ with us, designing architecture, doing presentations, giving us learning material and eventually was instrumental in my team's increased capability and skill level to do the new infra design. Both came to visit the office several times. Eventually more senior engineers got involved.

We were also repeatedly given generous credit extensions. And best of all - there was a GCP summit in the country, during which I literally had a sit-down with PMs from a lot of GCP's product offerings - including Spanner, BigTable. 1:1 video calls with PMs from FileStore, Dataflow and BigQuery as well as early access to some key features.

Worth noting that we were hardly a "big" customer, or a huge money spender. Perhaps it was the technical challenge that interested them, or perhaps the reputation of the company/founder in the region. Whatever it was, I've had great experience with GCP.
> Can you give more detail on how you hooked vue into phaser?

there's many details that might not work for every game, starting from how the game structure is organized (it's the same for both games, except for the library bindings) - for the Vue Game:

- Vuex.Store contains the game world state

- The game has a management phase and a combat phase

- During the management phase you manipulate from Vue components the world state (economy, units, groups, movement orders etc)

- During the combat phase, the UI doesn't provide feedback for the whole world state in real time; the unit groups within a playfield get removed from the global store, moved into a local 'combat' structure, a new phaser scene with a different Vue component root gets drawn, the combat plays out, the effects on units are moved from the combat structure into the VuexStore world

- The combat effect at phaser level are simulated, targets, shooting, damage is all calculated ion the game frame update

- The combat updates are sent with an action to the vue combat component data structure in packets - unit health changes, units killed, unit without ammo etc are collected and the state sent about every second

- The Vue components that represent global unit health and ammo have transitions whose start and end point depends on the relevant stat, so that the damage or supply usage doesn't just change every second, but gets interpolated

> many things moving at once

to answer at this specifically:

- On the phaser combat render side, there's a fixed pool of tweenable effects (i.e. shoot trails); rendering every single shoot animated was too much, especially for not accelerated mobile browser (like chrome/ios - idk if it's still not accelerated today, but back then was a issue) - so even if there's a thousand shoots flying around, only a hundred or so are rendered, picked at random (and nobody ever noticed)
Agree. What’s the upside? How can Coinbase be valued at nearly that of large banks that process orders of magnitude more transactions and can actually earn money on balances? NYSE and NASDAQ are surely not valued at anywhere close to $100b. Does that mean Coinbase can acquire them? Bubbles are bizarre.

EDIT: Yes, it is valued at more than ICE and NASDAQ combined with a fraction of the revenue and significant risk. Most optimistic outcome priced in at $100b. Is the benefit of *NoPOs” that there is no underwriter to push back on the valuation? Maybe you can get a few suckers at a super high price therefore you should?
He has many, many BTC and if they move the market will shit the bed.
Well, I believe that some minimal pushing is necessary. Like you can’t be motivated in a topic you don’t even know exists, so if nothing else, giving a broad view of the “palette” is the task of a parent. And of course as you write, enabling said activites.

Also, I do find it bad when parents push their child from an overly young age into some specific thing, but at the same time the reality is, that both physical and mental development improvements in such a young age have a really profound effect. So looking at a 5 years old play the violin is sad in one way, but at the same time at his/her teenage years he/she can choose (at least hopefully) to continue the efforts and with an inner motivation he/she can have a bright future, much more than only starting it at 10+ years old.
What is the reason the Raspberry Pi is not open at a lower level? Is it because the Raspberry Pi foundation is shipping a premade chip package, or do they run their own software and have their own reasons for keeping it closed?

Also, what does this closed-off lower level hinder or prevent?
Satoshi's water has billions worth of bitcoins. If they moved and were sold suddenly it could move the price.
>These are insane fees ripe for disruption.

The disruption is already well underway. The only thing that slowed down DEX's eating of a bigger part of the market share is the current high fees on Ethereum.