jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I can personally confirm this after an incident from 15 years ago that I wont get into...but know that I'm from Chicago, and our paths most definitely crossed. I don't think the man has a single redeeming quality. Many more stories floating around about him, especially in this city. I have a suspicion that he is absolutely miserable deep down.
We need an oath the same way doctors do. We also need Software Craftsmanship principles. Unfortunately industry sucked in too many coding monkeys to make such drastic move with good pacing. Like you said - ppl have to die or be annoyed a lot to start regulating IT hard.

But TBH mission critical software has completely different set of checkboxes that are not so easy to fulfill.
Just to nitpick, "Bruce Wayne" is the alter ego of batman, not the other way around, at least in the Chris Nolan movies. In reality he's smart and tough and hardened by the League of Shadows, etc. But as Bruce Wayne he plays a bimbo billionaire so that nobody will realize who he actually is.
I run a blog with 200k clicks [1]. For me, so far it's been two things:

1. Working on yourself and actively trying to figure out why you're doing this. Inevitable, you'll land a viral hit and it'll feel great. But once it's gone, you'll be left with the same old feeling. So to sustain, I think it's necessary to understand why you're creating.

2. It's practicing in the arena. As a perfectionist myself, I love to be prepared and I hate being assessed by others. But the more you hit publish, the more you're learning and growing. You'll understand what content you can pull off, what people like and what you prefer.

References

- 1: https://plausible.io/timdaub.github.io?period=all
Well you can't open the rear doors with a dead battery, so there's a precedent for Tesla making safety-critical features dependent on a working electrical system.
Yes. That is what I’m saying.

You should also tip fast food workers.
No, that’s just a general purpose computer. ASICs are dedicated chips for a given task, where that task’s “program” is built into the chip and it can only do that.
No mention of how many kids go to this school and how big is its catchment. I don't buy the:

"Lupiano eventually arrived at a single linking factor between himself, his wife and his sister: they each attended Colonia High School in Woodbridge in the 1990s"

In addition to the school, he and his sister share their parents genes. He and his wife lived in the same neighbourhood so they shared many other things too.
I once got a ticket from a Virginia state trooper for driving in the HOV restricted lanes, with two passengers in a two seater. I took the ticket (like there is a choice) thinking I would go to court and contest. While looking for where to appear I came across the FAQ stating no exceptions for two passenger vehicles in the HOV. Nothing illegal, just feels wrongheaded in public safety and service are the priorities of the organization.
You're welcome. I couldn't tell we were saying the same thing.
Do you already have the skills necessary? If so, beg everyone you know for a cheap job, and then beg them more for referrals. In freelance, 95% of your work will come from your network of clients and referrals.

You could also scrape craigslist and get your first initial gigs that way.
Thanks for the link to Cosma Shalizi's review of A New Kind of Science; I greatly enjoyed it. I'm also quite fond of this Amazon review:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R6B8KO2M32P8G
No reason to downvote you as its an opportunity for education. Not just for you but for almost everyone on both sides of this debate distracted and not focused on the core problem. The root of this matter is the FCC rules which prohibit tampering with devices. The only devices the FCC seems to allow unlocking are "dumbphones". The smart stuff gets special protection by laws that were originally put in place for DRM and national security.

The U.S. is building economies around government sponsored anti-competitive measures. Apple along with just about every device manufacturer and cellular carrier petitions the FCC to keep these regulations in place.

A good chunk of Apple's current market value assumes the government will keep these rules in place. Without these rules, Apple's developer agreements and cut of app and ad revenue would be normalized by competition; real free-market competition. The longer we wait to address this core problem, the worse it gets and the harder it is to move away from. Can you imagine the calls a senator or FCC insider will get when this problem finally is forced on their agenda? The lobbyist for state teachers' unions will call to let them know that removing the protections may cause Apple shares to drop 35% causing the union's pension fund to lose $20 million overnight causing a cut in insurance supplements supplied by the union. Removing the protections would have incalculable network effects.
System76 does a great job of this. 6 laptops, 6 desktops, and 5 servers. They lay them out on a page so you can make a fairly quick guess about which one or two you want. They come with Ubuntu and seem fairly reasonably priced too.
This sounds like one of the stronger arguments against getting a degree instead of going straight into a startup:

"A person with big debts that cannot be discharged in bankruptcy is not a person who should be taking risks."
Simple: Read HN every day and take fish oil pills.
Get to know your cognitive biases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
I would like to see a more extensive benchmark against some of the more popular servers like unicorn, thin, and maybe even the framework sinatra.
They responded here: http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/10/conspiracy-theory-what-ha...
via Zoom Support Reply: https://twitter.com/zoom_us/status/1241768006327336963

"Hi, attention tracking feature is off by default - once enabled, hosts can tell if participants have the App open and active when the screen-sharing feature is in use. It does not track any aspects of your audio/video or other applications on your window."

Points to this article: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115000538083-Atten...
1. You can still do contact tracing of a dead person, and follow-up on who they interacted with.

2. Bigger death numbers allow medical professionals to go to their government, and demand for more stringent quarantine measures.
Where is your argumentation? Ditching together something that is looking like a neural net and boost it with statistical tricks, is just not a brain.

If you just define something as "intelligent" without even trying to benchmark it to original, well than you also can just a statistical experiment done with a lot of CPUs. I am sure Intel would be happy with that.
Huge release. Glad to see this engine is still making progress.
I genuinely love the fact that you have been able to build a company providing support for Django. I find that seriously inspiring.
I presume there are companies that do a lot of image compression which have the financial incentive to employ people to improve the compression efficiency. Either because of the CPU costs where the company will get a return on engineering hours to improve the speed of the algorithm; or because of reduced bandwidth costs where the company has an incentive to reduce the size of the compressed image even if the CPU usage might be higher.

However it isn’t obvious whether such companies have any incentive to share their code, even just because the code is too specific to their hardware?
You present a logical fallacy called a false dillema.

Guns are legal in America and it's safe to walk in my neighborhood.
Seconding this – Hetzner also has pretty decent technical support considering the price.

If you get one of their servers, make sure to check the manufacturer and type of hard drives and compare to Backblaze's Hard Drive Stats[1]. Also keep an eye on the S.M.A.R.T. status of your disks. In the past Hetzner has shipped servers with less-than-ideal hard disks (e.g. Seagate ST3000DM001). While their staff is pretty fast in replacing disks they do tend to start breaking all around the same time.

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html
My impression is that tech is one area where union membership is very low in Germany.
> Valve definitely doesn't treat developers poorly (well their commission is too big but they are quite reasonable in how they interact with developers).

I'm including their own employees under game developers. There's various stories about people having to leave after trying and failing to get the company to actually make a game or ship any products lately.

> They ban games involving sexualisation of minors (e.g. your Twitter links below).

Dunno if the games contain that or not, all I can tell you is they don't have illegal content in the US. They certainly can ban whatever they want. The problem is they say they don't moderate the store, and they don't negotiate the not-moderation, so now you can't find out how to avoid it.

The developers are not criminals or trying to gross you out, but they do have weird fetishes and I think might be physically incapable of making something Westerners would be fine with without a lot of handholding. I mean, Jun Maeda seems to think he's doing a good job at writing women, but they all come out acting like they have an IQ of 10.
These badass nerds create havoc. Gentlemen, we need to accelerate the open-source hardware initiatives to counter these elites. Back in 2010, I even think about an LCD that act like a two-way mirror. Now it's become reality. Your LCD is a camera in disguise. Chant the mantra, 'Only the paranoid survive..'.
Look up Power Query, which has been part of Excel for a while.
I would also like to second the recommendation of checking out James Hoffmann's YouTube channel!

He made me appreciate filter coffee and brew a V60 everyday!
ahem Rebekah Jones would like to have a word with you.
It's not because "you had money" simply having money results in 0 taxes. The capital gain comes when you lend your money to some other entity and they use the money to do work: produce a good, provide a service. Although there is a sect in the US government that wants to tax your money simply because you have it.
eh...to be honest Scott should have known that he couldn't have kept it up forever. he should have made plans to either be SSC or not; it was apparent it was way too big to expect it to be a side gig he does.

Scott was dishonest to himself as well. When you get quoted by writers in the NYT and your concepts become part of the lexicon of a rather wealthy intellectual movement, its a bit too late to wonder about if you can keep the day job.
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I have no expertise to comment on the contractual merits of this general approach.

On the specific issue of payments: if there was a way to perform real-time "splitting" of bulk payments from distributors to the "broker", they could subtract their small fee and pay the artists at the same time.

Somewhat like PayPal Adaptive Payments, but with a potentially very large number of recipients per transaction. This way, none of the artists' funds are ever held by the broker, even for a short time.

There are lot of details here around varying fee percentages for different services, and ensuring that information does not leak between distributor, broker and payment gateway.
What bank does that?
Tor is not 100% safe, as every system it has breaches.
If you want to use it you must know that depending on which router/proxy your data travel the response may be very slow.
Safety has a price and even if Tor is not perfect and a fully safe way to use the net it is more safe than any other public protection.
The focal point is a problem. It is advised to keep your screen at >65cm so your eye doesn't have to accomodate (coincidentally, the length of your arms). A big problem of Google Glass is the focal point is a few cm away and it is known to give headaches. The smaller the screen is, the more myopic you become.

It is absolutely possible to use a lens system to move the focal point to the distance, but hasn't been done yet, probably because you can't do it on 120x120 degrees.

I wouldn't work on a virtual screen for long hours until there's an answer to that. But once it is solved, I can see how we'll all become Holographic addicts ;)
>We’re getting organized: inputs in vertical columns, operations in horizontal rows.

OH! Bloody hell, so that's why we write it like that!

>The eigenvector and eigenvalue represent the “axes” of the transformation.

>Consider spinning a globe: every location faces a new direction, except the poles.

>An “eigenvector” is an input that doesn’t change direction when it’s run through the matrix (it points “along the axis”). And although the direction doesn’t change, the size might. The eigenvalue is the amount the eigenvector is scaled up or down when going through the matrix.

Very nice! I'd had an algebraic (ahaha) understanding of eigenvectors/values before, but hadn't a geometric intuition. Thank you. Now I can neatly imagine why the eigenvector is orthogonal/perpendicular to the "direction" of the transformation.

Determinants, too.

Excellent article.
I'm always so inspired when I see these. The idea that it's possible to make such a significant impact in the world by taking a smarter, more focused approach is so simple but so powerful. Some of the cheap and practical steps around saving newborn lives are exactly the kind of actions that have a huge impact. Although Gates clearly has significant resources, it makes me feel that I too can help, and that's really important.
Cheers :)

On the backend it's PHP, with NodeJS for the real-time aspects (chat and device preview).

On the frontend its just vanilla JS with a few libraries used for bits and pieces like currency conversion, date formatting, color picker etc.
I learned programming on one of those.
It had a magnetic card to store your programs. You could connect it to an electric Olivetti typewriter. Imagine that, a real affordable printer back then!
The cars don't pollute, but odds are that the electricity they run on came from burning coal, and lithium batteries aren't exactly environmentally friendly to manufacture or recycle. The rare elements required for the electric motors and batteries aren't earth-friendly to mine or refine, either.

But the car itself doesn't obviously emit any of this, so the public image it presents is great, hence their popularity. For me, wake me up when we have a diesel electric hybrid, since that's actually a very efficient tech which doesn't necessarily require any batteries and has been around for over 100 years (popular on ships / submarines / trains).
This doesn't contradict the previous post. Evolution may have resulted in a mix of adaptive neural physiology and the lack of self-awareness. But perhaps the latter is tempered as a result of the acquisition of language.
An AA battery holds about 4 watt hours of energy, or 14.4 kilojoule. Dividing by 9.81 m/s^2 times 1 meter, yields about 1.5 metric tons. Not quite 360, but still quite a lot.
They obviously did both
> However it usually requires several levels of additional licenses

This should be highlighted. I work at another car company, and we're not even allowed to drive the very lightly modified test cars without a special license, and those are essentially production vehicles just with extra debug logging. That extra license requires being CPR certified as well as two separate driving course certifications. The idea that Tesla can push this out to basically anyone who wants it is absolutely absurd.
It's a software system overriding pilot input on Boeing 737 MAX airplanes, designed to make up for cost reductions in adequate hardware design. Pilots were deliberately not well-informed and the system caused two crashes. It was brought up elsewhere in the discussion. In general cars are headed into an aviation-like situation with automation, so case comparisons are becoming more frequent.

It's very apples to oranges here, but loosely relevant wrt/ information/documentation and in the cameras-vs-LIDAR/sensor fusion debate.
I could have been clearer here. I had a debate with a Randian that was trying to convince me that taxation was theft and I leaned a little too far in that direction with this paper.

I specifically talking about the fact that a lot of 'profit' or 'economic' rent takes advantage of the disadvantage a person is in. For example, the gas stating that charges $50 for an empty gas can to the guy that just walked 5 miles because his car ran out of gas. Of course you CAN charge it, but should you?
When? That was the intention from the
beginning. The first goal was to serve
90 US cities. Broadly there was nothing
seriously wrong with the plan. The idea,
now common in the VC community, that can't
plan such things accurately enough is
absurd.

Once virality started to take hold and
the package volume grew, standing in the
sorting center was an enthralling
experience: The astounding, mind-bending
variety of what the US economy wanted to
ship with high priority was beyond
comprehension and belief. Early on, time
critical legal papers? Sure, there were
plenty of those. Okay.

A cubic foot of some specific small metal
fasteners a big production line needed
ASAP or shut down at some cost of
thousands of dollars an hour. Fine.

But bricks? Yup: A brick oven could send
some samples to an architect, or an
architect could send the samples to a
customer.

Spare parts for computers, etc.? Yup.
But baby chicks? Yup. Medical samples on
the way to a medical testing lab? Yup. A
live baby bear? It happened.

The variety was beyond all belief and
comprehension.

No question about the need, definitely a
must have -- a large fraction of the
customers would have paid nearly anything,
often beyond all reason.
Pocari Sweat tastes like dispersible aspirin. I still don't know if I like it or not.
It's easy to say "you are on the wrong side of history."

Indeed. No matter how convinced I am that I'm right in a discussion with friends/family, if I used a phrase like "right/wrong side of history," I would immediately lose their attention if not their friendship. It's vital to remember why people still disagree with whatever you believe in, rather than just steamroll and ignore them.
I wonder what would happen if FB and Google went a step further and decided to give Apple the Windows Phone (or Huawei) treatment, by pulling all their apps from the App Store, citing these changes as the reason they can't support Apple's platform. I'm not sure the majority of iOS devices users would be happy with any of the involved parties, and that includes Apple.
How would assuming guilt until proven innocent lead to a more just society? It seems to me like that would just lead to mob rule.
As a start up, the only way to 'profit' is to find your 'product-fit'. It is our responsibility to land you there in one piece!
Thank you! Glad you like the structure too -- sometimes I wish I could do more free-form writing too, but so far it was more of "have a problem -- convince yourself it's important to solve -- come up with solution -- document a narrative how you did it" :)
We dropped using the pi for chromecast. Much more responsive and less maintenance, though the Pis are great learning tools.
Sudden? If you live in a company-owned house, would you really expect to stay after quitting?

If you want to leave, you plan your move along with your change of job. If for some particular reason you may think this will be exceedingly problematic, you can move before quitting.

I don't see what's so worrying about this.
>(and with no good reason, either).

From their site:

OE is not available with HTTP/1 servers because that protocol does not carry the scheme as part of each transaction which is a necessary ingredient for the Alt-Svc approach.
Well, there's your rough estimation, and there's actual statistics recorded in, for instance, the G7 over the last 100 years[1]. They disagree. Did something change where this is the 'new normal' and I'm just misunderstanding you, or are you claiming all the statistics were recorded wrong?

[1]You can use a different basket of countries if you want but changing political situations tend to overshadow the economics everywhere else.
Yes, Firefox for Android still uses Gecko.
Over which you have to navigate by opening, closing, switching tabs etc.

I frequently find myself overwhelmed with the sheer number of files such a convention generates.

But the strengths of the single-file approach reveal themselves when you have a lot of small components - it enables you to just glance at a file and immediately know what's going on.

Also it puts a psychological barier against large, bloated components.
At one point in time or another I have been on the entire length of I-35 from Duluth to Corpus Christi. Not as a mission, just happenstance over the course of years. Probably not on all the side loops, though. I don’t have a point. It is just interesting to think about one’s travels in terms of line coverage.
All health systems in Europe are starved of funding. I live I Austria and every year the health insurance covers less and less requireing you to fork more non life threatening stuff out of your own pocket. This is due in some part to an ever increasing aging population needing expensive care and lower tax income due to slower economic growth.
There is research going into their more fundamental structure to try and defeat their whole family at once