jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As a reducio ad absurdum, suppose that Amazon was secretive beyond all dreams of a CIA director, but never ever failed. Would people care about their communications strategy?

Likewise, if they could telepathically beam status updates during a pattern of approximately half hourly failures, would they be feted or avoided?

The updates probably have a lawerly feel because when the engineers are asked for a status update by management, they get a "piss off, we're working on it, don't bug me". Indeed a smart manager would refrain from indulging the instinct to constantly interrupt work to receive status updates. Perhaps Amazon has such managers.
Virtually even doing software engineering is thriving from location based pay. If you are in a rural mud hut in a poor country you don’t even get to write code and if you are in the US you get six figures absolute minimum. People only get offended when one company pays two salaries across locations —- not when two different companies set up entirely different businesses based on locational wage, keeping software engineering in San Francisco and sweatshops in the Philippines.
There's still this:

https://experiment.com
A tech comparison would be 4 or maybe 3 nm chips. Imagine everybody in the world would fork over 200B and order 7 billion chips this year... your constraint in that case is the manufacturing equipment and there are only so many experts in that area. The vaccine technologies we are using are scaled for the first time so you don’t have a big pool of experts or companies. The Chinese vaccine is probably the one best suited for scaling up and they are doing that rapidly.
I found it really useful and anectodally so have many other people that I know. From this and your other comments I gather that you aren't a fan. That's okay - it's a free resource and no one is forced to use it.
If you force officers to carry malpractice insurance, the city only pays the base premium for a spotless record to the officers (collectively negotiated by the union most likely), anything extra is supposed to come out of their pockets. The insurance would probably disqualify gross negligence too, so police officers as a whole would have to be a lot more careful.

It is far from an ideal solution but it should help start getting the ball rolling towards a more professional and transparent police force.
Can you tell us a bit more about the product? B2C or B2B? Price point? things like that.
I don't know the ground reality of how things work in USA. The impression I get is that it is better than India. In my experience, western Europe gets it right. When I wrote about impartiality, I was referring to how Indian govt. officials get a free pass for all kinds of activities ranging from inconsiderate to criminal.
Yes, I provide this in my follow-up reply to my comment. [0]

All humans have the capability to intricately form an aural bond with their own (and other) children if they have enough meaningful interactions with that child. But there is nonetheless a specific change brought about in women during their first pregnancy that gives them an advantage on this front, especially with their own children.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26254581
I agree we need to protect against inflation, and there will be a blockchain structure that allows willing nations - not influenced by greed but consensus through decision making, reasoning, and democratic processes - save regulatory capture.
> Finally, don't rule out the possibility that the definition of "consciousness" may shift.

Memes (in the academic sense, not the cat video sense) display all our characteristics for biological life.

They respond to stimuli (other memes, changing social trends, etc).

They grow, evolve, reproduce (Catholicism->Many branches of Protestantism)

They maintain homeostasis (core principles)

They're built of cells (people)

And so on. Although I probably wouldn't say they show signs of intelligence (although it'd be cool if someone could imagine a sentient meme). They seem more like "simple" organisms, but at a layer of abstraction above sentient life, something like how biological life is a layer of abstraction above chemistry.
This isn't entirely true. The US subsidizes military costs for all of our allies. It costs a lot, and a huge amount of funds go to that.

There are parts that are like jobs programs, and the contractors intentionally drive up costs as part of their business model, but there are also real expenses to maintaining stability across the parts of the world where our military operates.
> You will still face difficulties because of your gender and ethnicity.

She is going to Europe, not USA. Unless she picks a really bad place (but most Google HQs there are in a good place), she won't have any such issues.

Europe doesn't talk as much about gender and race, but they actually do things as well, while in the USA everyone kinda pats their back for "walking out for Black Lifes Matter" and calls it a day.
I do whatever is most convenient for me. We slept with our babies until they were 3-4 months. I typically did all the nighttime stuff like changing diapers etc because I fall asleep so fast. I was never exhausted. They did breast feed, but I would put them in the right place while my wife slept, then when they were done would change the diaper.

When they started to sleep 5+ hours we moved them to their own room. We did let them cry, but I could easily tell if it was going to ramp down or if their crying was getting worse.

When she was 1 our oldest regressed and I slept in her room for a month so she wouldnt come wake us up. She regressed multiple times.

Our middle child never came down because he slept with his sister until he was about 4.

Our 5 year old has started coming down to wake me up 2-3 times at night. I told her to either sleep with her brother or sister and not to bother me (I do all nightime activities).

I found kids books incredibly boring so didnt read to my kids.

I hardly play kid games with my kids, though I do have them participate in things I like to do.

Im trying to give them independence as quickly as possible. We have a rule that the youngest person that can do a job has to do the job. So the youngest has to fetch things, while the oldest is starting to make meals and do laundry.

They only get internet from 6am-7am once they are ready for the day and in the evening once all their work is done. I have never had to wake any of them for school ever. If they complain about being bored they get to do chores.

I dont really use anyones' advice and would never feel shame or confusion about how to raise my children. I do see how many of our parents are scared to parent their kids.
I am really looking forward to a future where we can all spread out to the locations we want and live the way we want. The trends of the past few decades towards big urban destinations means that people come to cities and encounter political strife trying to each make it how they want it, and no one is ever really happy. We already have a fix for that in our political system, which is to limit the amount of governance at higher-levels of the government (state, federal) and let local jurisdictions decide how they want to manage themselves. But taking full advantage of that requires more distributed economies. Hopefully this economic revolution (decentralization away from offices and expensive cities) also lets us decentralize politics next, so we can lower the temperature and be happy.
Nobody's saying we shouldn't have a well educated citizenry... the point that I was making was about whether it's worth going six figures into debt to become a well educated citizen. When you're investing that much money, it has to be a consideration.

Also, the idea that a four year degree has a monopoly on making people educated is just incorrect.

If you think it's the best thing for a society to have a well educated citizenry, then I hope you're working to get the government to pay for free college for everyone. The idea that people should have to make enormous personal financial sacrifice for the greater good of society is just bad.
This will probably resonate with people here[1]. A brilliant video by Tom Scott for Computerphile, where he starts to explain what coding timezones correctly is like and by the end of it is in full polite-mini-rant-mode :D

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
Requests made for the demo don't have an access token. On the back end I look for this case, and then see if the request has "when" and "encrypted" parameters. "when" is just a date/time stamp, and "encrypted" is the same thing..encrypted. If I see both those params, I decrypt the "encrypted" and make sure it matches the "when" to validate the server created it, and make sure the "when" is less than one hour.

Otherwise, all requests require an access token.
Yeah the ill-named Speed Haste, which unfortunately does not seem to work in the recent Internet Archive DOSBox thing:

https://archive.org/stream/msdos_Speed_Haste_1995/Speed_Hast...

For the record, the source code for the game is available on GitHub:

https://github.com/TheJare/SpeedHasteSrc

We were bit oddballs in the demoscene because we had been making games and professional software for years, and we were 5-10 years older than most sceners.
I would have thought the whole point of a web client was so that people who don't have a supported phone can get in on the fun. If I have to have WA on my phone to authenticate a web client then said client is just the useless toy described in the article.

I confess, I've never used it and don't want to pass judgment without actually checking it out but if what the article describes is true than, yeah, they screwed this one up big time.
Footnote 30, on Page 13, is very very important to understanding the limitations of this ruling; the ruling concerns inventory searches and not the more common searches incident to arrest. If you are arrested, in most locales in the US, it is very likely that evidence taken from your phone at the time of your arrest will stand up in court. Keep your phones secure.
Fire fighters often need to find people who are not breathing or otherwise moving.
High traffic and high volume sites driven by CMSes, like newspapers, tv stations, etc., largely cannot rely on static files to deliver their content. Rather, they use caching layers for speed and security. There are two better ways to improve security for sites like these, which are highly targeted and poor candidates for static sites:

1) Use a headless CMS. WordPress on the backend that provides and API which is consumed by a Node app, for example.

2) Shift any user-facing dynamic feature off the CMS. Commenting, login, subscription management, etc., can be handled by purpose-built apps that tie into the CMS-driven site via Javascript, preserving the security and cacheability of the CMS.

That's not to say that it's impossible to drive a large-scale news site with static files. I believe CNN does exactly that with their in-house CMS. But no open-source CMS that generates static files is powerful enough to use in a newsroom context, or popular enough to gain traction.
This is a bit more than A/B testing fonts, colors, and so on, though. They have almost completely replicated the look of Google, except with a Yahoo logo.

It's an interesting catch-up technique. I assume they are not looking to copy the UI in the long-term, but are looking to establish a baseline.
Ever walked barefoot on the grass early in the morning when it is soaked with dew. I think there is a lot going on their to give a very distinct smell, which we can all relate to.
There appears to be ongoing work for AVR support in both clang ( https://github.com/4ntoine/clang/ ) and llvm ( https://github.com/dylanmckay/avr-llvm ).
It still boggles my mind that, with a 15% car ownership rate, how NYC not only still allows cars, but subsidizes them with absolutely free parking on city streets. The real estate price for a single parking spot in NYC must be astronomical.
Do you find there to be a good amount of overhead in running your own Kubernetes cluster? I'd think initial setup would be a bit of work, and then keeping the cluster updated and patched would be a good amount of work as well.

Then you've just traded maintaining one system for maintaining another.
We can start with companies with a market cap over $1bln for example. And tinker the policy based on empirical data.
> 99% of the police are some of the best people you will ever meet

The best people I would ever meet would not protect bad cops at every opportunity. The fact that police who stand up to bad policing are consistently removed from the ranks does not lend credence to your assertion.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/what-polic...
Others have already answered why surrogate pairs are irrelevant (and not UCS), but I think it's worth saying what the probable actual reason for 5-6 byte variants was. Remember that UCS and Unicode were at this point still two separate things; Unicode was supposed to be 16-bit (and later it got expanded, causing the whole surrogates mess), while UCS was supposed to be 31-bit. I assume the 5-6 byte variants were for UCS (back before it got merged with Unicode).
You find it odd that people think about what intelligence is, or how it presents?

If you’ve got links/references/keywords for research that invalidates (or validates!) these ideas please share them, I’d love to look them up. From what I’ve read the idea “intelligence can be (at least in part) described as having knowledge and being able to apply that knowledge to new problems” is a well trodden one.

I haven’t seen much on the idea that some people may be predisposed to engaging with stimulating situations, so anything you have on that topic would be highly appreciated. I have seen writings on how a stimulating environment is important, and on how encouraging engagement can be effective (for example asking questions of children and allowing them to answer, vs answering for them).

[edit]
In my original post I should probably have written “is to frame a lot of what people call intelligence as” - I definitely don’t think this is all intelligence but I do think it has a significant role in what the gp was talking about, this ability to see answers quickly.
2+ hours? Dang, what COTS UAS achieves that?

Also keep in mind that range and payload weight is likely a huge factor here... the ability to deploy and move long distances, circle rapidly at altitude for a wide FOV with frequent insights at new angles... can your thermal quad do that? Does it have multiple magnitudes of optical zoom? The ability to overlay situational awareness info like street intersections based on positional lock?

I am curious. Maybe your solutions do achieve this. But I was impressed from an optics perspective, SA HUD perspective, etc.
Crazy right? And then you realize you can publish a legitimate epub using a JAMStack, which means some of us may have turned our onboarding documentation into a book, preloaded it onto a cheap branded android tablet, and then sent it to our premium clients as marketing schwag!
Sometimes they aren't renamed, like the Mitsubishi Pajero..
> I’m all for the promise of the Internet of giving a voice to the voiceless. But the time and quality of thought required to put words into print was a higher bar, and ostensibly higher quality on average, than the time and quality of thought I put into writing a quick blog post or vapid tweet.

I used to read a lot when I was younger. A lot of it was junk. I enjoyed it, I would not mind if my kids read it, but really, it did not had more quality in it then random blog.
" Following his life is pointless because he's poured his life into the software and now they get to keep it.

You've stolen his soul like an old sepia tone photo of a Cherokee warrior."

He's conflating life with soul, and ego with both. I think his logic error occurs right there.
> ==Live with Your Parents==
> I'm serious: This is what I did!

How to save money: Spend other peoples' money.
Alipay differentiates login password and "payment password", and it always asks SMS verification code if one tries to login via VPN, from new device, or from new location. I think that's good practice for websites.
Sitting around a conference table with physical files is a far traditional way to collaborate than doing it all electronically

OK, fair enough. So why don't they just print the whole thing? Some submissions will be on 2 pages? Sounds better than truncating it.
The announcement makes it sound as if the magazine isn't coming back - just a relaunched website. Anyone know if this is the case? I'm one of those people who likes to have a physical magazine to flick through.

I paid for a three year Byte subscription with my first pay cheque and got two issues before the magazine folded, so am keen to get back to it!
You seem to be conflating the idea of closures and functional programming. Functional programming is more about avoiding state and side-effects, which is antithetical to most Python and JavaScript code. A lot of languages, including C, support the kind of programming you're describing, but that's not "functional" per se.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming
Thank you both for your answers! I wasnt being sarcastic at all, my poor brain didn't seem prepare to spot a Fibonacci sequence in a list of "Top Gawker passwords" .
Yup. But some problems -- for instance, discriminating between spam and non-spam emails, and keeping up decent discrimination as spammers vary their tactics -- are (1) "really simple" in that sense and (2) apparently quite difficult to solve, given that there basically were no really effective spam filters before naive-Bayes ones came along.
This is the most important take-away here. Possibly communicate via a lawyer, whether you are giving a friendly heads-up or otherwise. This type of thing could be construed into conspiracy.
CentaurTechnologies ran benchmarks against ICC with the CPUID set to the default and then with it set to the name of an Intel chip with equivalent CPU flags.

Intel's response was roughly "We don't trust CPU flags, so we have kernels for each specific Intel chip, and a generic kernel for non-Intel chips"
Strong disagree.

When writing optimized code you typically check for CPU feature before CPUID, and profile to verify that it actually is faster.

In Intel's case, libraries like MKL/IPP don't decide which implementation to use based on available features but CPUID, and fall back to slow versions even if the CPU supports all features required for the optimization.

There's nothing stopping Intel from providing fast libs that are optimized for their hardware, profiled on their systems, and utilize all the secret sauce they want while still being more or less "fast" on AMD.

But all that said those libs aren't especially compelling when there are alternatives that may be a bit slower on Intel but kick ass on AMD, when a non-zero segment of users are transitioning to the better value processors today.
Perhaps the examples were too specific, and outside your particular area of expertise? In other words, do you program primarily in Java or C# / .NET applications?

I've seen (a little) of both sides. While I use mostly free tools now (like VS Code!) to program Node, etc., when I was programming .NET / MVC applications with C#, Visual Studio was essential and excellent. I still have a few odd projects geared up for those environments, and while can poke around clumsily with VS Code, for deep dives and local builds, I'll fire up Visual Studio.

Of course, all that being said, the Community version, which is free, is sufficient for me. But it doesn't take much to find scenarios where professionals have to pay for tools to gain specific efficiencies.
What they're saying is that the worker either gets 8/hour with a job or 0/hour with no job. I'd rather have the job.
What is not in doubt is that better paid workers means not quite as well paid executives.

Something to back this, other than personal experience/opinion, would be nice.

A = better paid workers

B = better paid executives

Your point seems to be that A => ¬B. Which, even if statistically accurate, seems a bit weird as a causation.
good to see that you are adding more info about how it works. please keep posting more info. sounds like an interesting technology.
Keep in mind this book is really just a large collection of core papers. If you are looking for something more structured as a how-to of developing DBs this is useful as a reference but not the best introduction.
Lobby politicians to outlaw discriminatory risk assessment just to maintain balance of power in the market?
The way to be tall is to seek short company!
I think this summarizes what they do:

"Does gpl-violations actually have any ability to do this ?

In the situations where violations have been found and action taken enforcement has been successful. This includes out of court settlements with several large vendors and a legal injunction against Sitecom. We strive to resolve issues amicably. When this fails we resolve them through legal actions."

"Why do you send warning letters to GPL violators without contacting them first?

When we started enforcing the GPL, we tried it by sending e-mails, faxes and letters ourselves, rather than going through lawyers. However, those letters were simply ignored in almost all cases.

Therefore, it is our experience that trying informal means of communication is not worth the effort, especially since it reduces the amount of time we have for applying to a preliminary injunction (in Germany), and therefore puts us into a worse position.

Formal warning notices sent through our lawyers always tend to draw attention at the appropriate management level, and therefore tend to be addressed with the required seriousness for a major copyright violation.
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So, that ~200 million goes to supporting ~10k would-be homeless in supportive housing. That's ~$20k/year per person in supportive housing. That's also before accounting for Prop C which postdates that article, which will bring in an additional ~$250 million pa.

You can't say "if you exclude the people SF spends the most on, then it doesn't spend that much per person!"

Though I concede the average is probably closer to $25k/person serviced than $50k/person.
> And this is not money laundering of the corner drug dealer, it is the laundering of the wealth of entire nations by transnational crime syndicate masquerading as governments (e.g., see RUS, VNZ), and transnational gangs which are large enough to warrant military attention, which is currently driving geopolitics.

The problem is that it doesn't actually work for organizations with that level of resources.

A multi-billion dollar criminal enterprise doesn't need prepaid cards to launder their money. They can buy arbitrary amounts of soybeans or crude oil or laundry detergent. There is nothing suspicious or even illegal about a shipping container full of soybeans. Anybody can cook up some books that say that Alice paid Bob a billion dollars for soybeans and Bob paid Alice a billion dollars for licensing intellectual property netting to zero, when it was really a billion dollars under the table and the intellectual property was worthless. Then the commodity goes to whatever country, get sold on the commodity market there and turns back into money.

That's assuming they don't just use Bitcoin.

That's assuming they don't just keep doing this:

https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/hsbc-moved-...

Anti-money laundering laws are a failed experiment. They don't work. They cost far more than they're worth.
Exodus: Bitcoin consumes more energy than all of China and transaction fees exceed 1 BTC. Exodus is a modern (scalable, environmentally friendly) implementation of Bitcoin that uses proof of burn to generate 1 XDS for each 1 BTC burned. Users permanently burn Bitcoin by sending them to randomly generated public addresses whose private keys are unknown. Exodus is expected to surpass Bitcoin as the Internet's de facto store of value by 2025.