jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As a data point: Sony, Panasonic, LG, etc… all try to have calibrated TVs that match the director’s intent. As in, the colours and contrast are defined in the standards, and they strive to show them accurately. They do cheat a little bit and have a “demo” mode the cranks up the saturation and brightness in store to compensate for the overhead lighting.

Samsung takes that cheating to 11 and there is no way to turn it off. It’s not “store mode”. It’s permanently “enhanced” to the point of absurdity.

They just don’t care enough to have two modes.
Hardly.

Moderating bot accounts and frivolous antagonists (by virtue of repeated defamation/inflammatory speech) is appropriate. Those are not in the same vein as restricting speech. If a bot account is openly listed as such with links to show it is not a human agent, then it can be openly suppressed.

This isn't a similar argument nor a difference in degree of the same position.

But I don't take your statement with any credulity based on your handle
Both of you are creating a tarbomb and should be ashamed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_%28computing%29#Tarbomb
For custom CSS, a user-level workaround for now could be to style the domain with your userContent.css (Firefox) or the Stylish extension (Firefox, Chrome).
I'm a senior developer. Having a job isn't the problem. The problem is how to get better.
Thanks for the feedback! We started with Dropbox because that is what we all use, but we do want to add support for other services. Your idea for GitHub integration is very interesting, and it's not something that previously occurred to us. It's something we'll definitely look into!
Even this sounds like a bad outcome for users of the tool. One minute you're building a product, the next you're stuck maintaining a closed source database.
We had this at Newsweek too, and it's not as people friendly as you think. Disabling ads is about brand-safety. Most brands don't want to be associated with tragedies, so you disable ads in order to protect your contracts.

Given money or user experience, most publishers will choose money every time.
I think that the philosophy is different, and this implies a lot of things. We wanted to try something different, create a language and IDE that were easy to use rather than make something more or less compatible with C; and we aimed at making a language that could replace HDLs for most uses in the long term. This is why we created a new language from scratch rather than patching things up on top of C.

In practice, this means saner defaults (and better performance) than past C-like HDLs. Cx is cycle-accurate because this is how digital hardware works, and within a cycle you can have as many instructions as you want. There is no need for Handel-C's "par" statement, and it is much easier to understand and write code with good performance. In Cx, ports (Handel-C channels) can be "bare metal" so you can interact with the rest of the world, or slightly more sophisticated (with an additional synchronization signal). In general Cx is "fat free", what you type is what you get, so I'm pretty confident that logic consumption would remain under control :-) I've never written Handel-C, but from the manual it seems kind of complicated for even the simplest designs, and not very elegant.

I think most alternative HDLs have been abandoned :-/ Often the technology did not meet users' expectations: logic consumption was too high, and it was very difficult to obtain the desired performance. Additionally, I believe that these initiatives weren't targeted at the right public, and the target market itself was way too small. If you're interested, I've written a post about this on our blog: https://blog.synflow.com/marketing-disruptive-innovation/
I've been an evangelist of static sites for a while. With over 15 yrs of experience doing sites I started in static and saw the "dynamic movement" born and grow (at some point I even programmed my own DCMS!); in most cases the motivation to install a DCMS was that the client wanted to update content in-house instead of paying a webmaster (a sound business idea?) but the reality is that even when using a dead simple DCMS clients always find it difficult to run it and still contact the webmaster. Furthermore, the vast majority of sites are seldom or never updated so having the 'kick me' sign in those cases is nosense. I guess a strong selling point of DCMS that made us all buy in even knowing that it was a bad idea where themes and plugins! So many of them, so nice looking, cross-browser tested and so easy to install. Clients where über happy with the end product.

So a couple of years ago I decided to do static sites for ALL my clients (there may be dynamic components that I normally implement with a back-end data service). I still have a few dozen sites and web apps with DCMS but the goal is to migrate them as well.
> ...the inalienable right to privacy.

Yes, you have a right not to visit any website you don't want to.
Yes. What they did here is the very essence of hacking.
I assumed 'jaccuzzi' was some sort of new programming language or framework that I missed out on, and that "suspended" was referring to a specific implementation clearly superior to non-suspended jaccuzzi ;)
If the author is here, please turn off the counter by default. We're blocking distracting things in our browser, we don't need another pointless distracting thing in our browser toolbar.
I'd love to read that book, but I'm not comfortable giving out an address.

Do you have a link to amazon? I'm willing to buy the book and give you a little profit while doing so.
There are some hypotheses that viruses are involved in the origin of life.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.0052...
I mean, this isn't the first group the CPC has done this to. We only have to look back a bit to Tibet to see a proto version of what's happening now in Xinjiang. And no one really talks about that anymore. Heck, they're still "re-educating" Tibetans now [0].

So no, I don't think anyone will be looking back on any of this with embarrassment and sadness anytime soon.

I do hope I'm wrong, but history has made me a cynic.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-54260732
He played a large role in Apple’s ARM SoCs and in AMD’s Zen, possibly the largest role of any individual.

Keller can move the entire market if he’s given enough space and resources. 10,000x is closer to him than 10x.
I'm assuming that while people don't like rationing things based on wealth, their objection is to the rationing more than the wealth.

There are alternatives to rationing things by wealth. All the ones I can think of are arbitrary, unfair, or unworkable (raising interesting and difficult questions too, eg, a fun example would be should highly contentious politicians be first in line for the best healthcare due to their mass popularity or last in line due to mass condemnation?).

I think that people are happy to call me ridiculous but not actually able to say how we should be deciding who gets time from a doctor. I'm very doubtful of the alternatives, I suspect that many of them involve magical thinking that wealthy people are somehow hiding hundreds of doctors in their cellars that will suddenly appear and literally cure everyone's ills if only the government mandates it.

There are a lot of problems with US healthcare. It costs too much, and there are too many restrictions that stop one person trying to help another. But the fundamental "pay money, get service" aspect isn't something that is as easy to improve on as people try to believe. It is reasonable for wealthy people to get a much better standard.
> I wish there was a way to know everything and become good at everything.

There must be some way to do it, because I constantly encounter people on the Internet, that know everything, and are good at everything.

I can’t get any of them to tell me how they do it, though...
The FAQ answer that says $200k should probably be authoritative, but... I'm just guessing Sandwich is actually surprisingly flexible about budgeting.

They do have a series where they shot three videos at three different budget levels ($1k, $10k, $100k) for the same product (https://sandwich.co/clients/wistia/). Take from that what you will...
I think that it makes more sense to "rate" programmers not by the tools they use but by the problems they solve. If I met someone who showed me a system he programmed that was capable of language recognition and disambiguation but told me it was programmed in COBOL, I think it would be really silly to laugh in the programmer's face because of the language choice. I'd ask some ?'s to be sure, but ultimately it's a matter of what the programmer feels most comfortable and productive in. Since I have not yet delivered a human-equivalent AI system, I'm not really in a position to judge someone who has based on how they decided to do it.

tl; dr - tools don't garner respect, problems do.
I don't think anyone advocated for converting large legacy codebases 2->3. But 3 should be the "default" for new projects, and only use 2 if they have a reason.
“Floating signifier” I believe is the exact scientific term. That is, if you consider semiotics a science.
You're correct on Bitcoin's network effect being currently less than that of existing popular fiat currencies. The currency market, is of course, the most actively traded market in the world. The FOREX trades over $7 trillion per day, and the market is worth over $2.4 quadrillion.

But yes, Bitcoin has already eclipsed all but a handful of stocks with a market cap clocking in at $800B-$1T, a daily volume of $50B+ and its more liquid than any stock since it trades 24/7 and can be remitted without intermediaries.
The point is the 1% case where a user trying is accessing the "internal" site while using an external DNS under the control of Mr. Blackhat pretending to offer internal services.
I thought sqlite was very resilient and have a hard time understanding how an sqlite file can be corrupted. Are they manipulating the sqlite file outside of sqlite APIs? Are they mixing up file descriptors and writing garbage into an sqlite handle?
Sure but this is almost entirely due to the cost of batteries which are steadily coming down in price. How much longer do you think ICE being cheaper will last? My view is, once Musk gets his 4680 battery factories up to speed it'll be all over for ICE. Call it five years max.
Maybe I should say didn't rather than couldn't. Everyone can rent a server for a few dollars a month to run a node. Most people home laptops are not suited to running a full node as they either have to be always on or are spending a lot of time validating blocks every time you power them on to catch up.
UK.

Source: Frequently happened to me when I rented.
Fair enough. I'm always amazed at the kind of tricks expert programmers could pull off on those old 2D machines.

Have you seen the Sega MegaColor demo? A crazy guy managed to play full color video at 30 fps in the Sega Megadrive. No graphics, no sprites, just change the background color for every pixel through DMA!
I used to work at Google, and I find the tooling much better on the outside. Heroku is much better than Google's deployment tool; Github is much better than their review tool.

The only things I miss are the snacks and the searchable codebase
The problem with the security mindset is that security goals are relative to other business goals within almost every organization. A breach can be OK. A rebuild can be OK. Some downtime can be OK. It depends on the system. To put it eloquently: I don't trust security people to do sane things. - Linus Torvalds (2017) ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
>Teachers are not feeding kids in statistically significant volumes.

Likely untrue, given a few moments search. For example, "On average, teachers spend $37 a month and principals spend $59 a month for food for their students." [1].

There's lots more data on teachers feeding kids in perhaps causal amounts.

[1] http://neatoday.org/2013/09/10/report-teachers-spend-37-ever...
So, virtual machines include finite state machines? I guess parsers and other stack machines are right out too, then. It could be argued that the regexps are a "minor feature."

jk

Supposedly, this is based on use of private APIs.
> programmers must manage pointer offsets to each heap structure

I'm sorry but I don't understand this statement. Can you re-phrase it?

> I would be more interested how they plan to handle IO effects or if they want to omit that.

I'm not sure exactly what you're asking for, but see the Coroutines, Effects and I/O pages in https://github.com/google/wuffs/tree/main/doc/note
What historical period are you referring to? If you look at the first 200 years of US history, for example, there was plenty of real world growth on spite of slow price deflation. Gold and silver jointly backed the banking system until the Federal reserve started the current USD system in 1913.

In much of the rest of the world, the 40 years prior to WW1 were largely characterized by economic growth, while on an international (albeit decentralized on a national level) gold standard.

What event are you thinking if?
Blockchain co-opted "web3" with web3.js, that's the real story. Decentralization has been around for a long time.

Finance is the niche, you can only trust what was created on chain, as trust breaks down in the transfer from IRL to the ledger.

Anything is almost certainly going to have a worse UX. Finance will accept it because UX is broke as hell in the industry already.

Hyperledger Fabric is an interesting project, proof of authority based. Blockchain affectionados don't like it tho :]
Mental illness is when one ignores basic facts which have been independently validated by scientists around the world, all for the sake of his own narcissism. I have no time or respect for people too intellectually lazy to do basic reading while praising themselves for their own ignorance. The very people who rationalize their ignorance with self-indulgence inevitably end up revealing themselves to be the greatest slaves to their own cognitive dissonance. Their minds are simply too weak and their egos too frail to admit flaws in their worldview.
totally agree. I get sad every time I hear vaccines were thrown away because people didn't show for their appointment :(
You probably have had sites that either had no such options, or stuffed some tracking into required/legitimate interest/essential sections and tracked you anyway however.
Do they seem like caring otherwise?
I recall seeing recently (somewhere in Europe, I think) the idea that because the government tracks this information anyway as people get paid throughout the year, all that is required is basically you (the taxpayer) attesting that the information being submitted is correct.

At that point, you just sign the form and send it back.
> For all Canadians reading this, try WealthSimple Tax (previously SimpleTax).

As noted, SimpleTax can mine your data where previously (pre-WS) it did not.

A list of NETFILE-certified software is available from the CRA, though as I type this it has not been updated for the 2020 tax year yet:

* https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/e-services/...

I've mostly used StudioTax, which is a client run locally: in the past it's been donation-supported, but starting this year you will have to pay CA$ 15 to upload your data. The 2020 version is currently available (but not yet officially certified). It allows you to log into your CRA account and fetch all the available T3/4/5 data that has been uploaded by financial institutions.
The idea of velocity is pretty simple. If you print a $1T coin and hand it to me, then I throw it in a safe and forget the code, did the increase in supply cause any material increase in inflation experienced at the point of sale by the average person? Probably not. The supply went up, but the average velocity went down commensurately.

How this interacts with assets is in my opinion not super clear. Pricing of assets is supply and demand, unlike the CPI basket. The CPI basket is based on human need. There's no human need for AAPL shares. However, there's a ton of stimulus money, and folks who remember 2008's V-shaped recovery, and a bunch of people stuck at home day trading. I think that's much more likely to be driving asset prices than supply. After all supply is enacted by changing lending parameters.

To the extent asset prices don't put pressure on CPI, they reflect an increase in welfare, not an increase in inflation.
Not necessarily, no. The second phrase comes from a bunch of stories which I don't have sources for right now about people having their laptops searched at various customs posts around the world, including some where people have been asked to log into their email.

However, if you log in to your gmail while in China you should assume there is a risk of it being compromised, such as by SSL MITM or targeted exploit.

And theoretically in the future entering the UK might require turning over your entire email archive. The proposition that "MI5 should have access to the full communications history of everyone in the country" implies that as people enter the country MI5 should acquire their entire email history. Otherwise there are people in the UK whose communications MI5 cannot read; and that's what Cameron was saying was "unacceptable". Not that this is directly likely - it's more likely that MI5 will pass all PNR data to the NSA and ask them to check their copy of everyone's email instead.
> Hastings was convinced he was a target.

This kinda hints that he had some dirt on government operations.
Plus, it's very hard to tell if a feature has been _removed_ or just hidden away where you're unlikely to find it.

The core of the Google UI at the moment is: "Hey, move your mouse around the screen or just click somewhere and maybe something useful will slide out from where we've hidden it!"

I exaggerate, but only slightly....
We have seen this situation crop up with employers who refuse to do try outs. these great devs then get picked up by employers who try devs out
PS I work for GroupTalent so I am biased
Modern USG is neither proscribed nor prescribed by the written constitution - it is extraconstitutional (same as Google). However, as it has usurped the constitutional government and is forcefully extracting our wealth to fund its empire, it is a domestic enemy.
Just because you can buy a $6 breakfast (consisting of a cup of coffee and a slice of toast and jam), $300 jeans or $200 yoga pants in SF doesn't mean you have to. For every The Mill, Blue Bottle, LuluLemon or whatever hip-jeans store there is in SF, there's a McDonald's, Denny's, Marshall's, Burlington Coat Factory and Payless Shoes counterpart (and god knows how many pop-up import shops). That's the great thing about SF -- you can spend as much or as little as you like on material goods.

The rent situation is, of course, out of hand, but that's mainly a supply constraint problem that's not easily solved due to our unique brand of NIMBYism.
Agile is planned, just on a shorter time scale and gets more vague over time. Sprints have end goals, and so do epics.

Waterfall had big upfront design, which meant every time a manager asked for a change it screwed up the design and had to modified which took a lot of time. So people didn't ask for changes and the resulting software didn't do what they really wanted.

Iterative development tries to embrace change, it's an attempt at controlled change.
I've noticed that CPU companies are focusing more and more on power efficiency to compete with ARM potentially. Maybe turning off the features described in the OP makes lower end CPUs run faster?

That might be significant since i also presume most laptops use those same lower end CPUs. Laptops being the ones that need to save energy much of the time. (Desktops are obviously plugged in).

This is probably most significant in the Microsoft Surface (it uses a real intel CPU if i recall correctly).

I wonder which features it has marked "off" , and what impact that has on battery power.
i would be careful right now with storing data on clients after those flash cookie law suits this and last month.
I've been using the nexus s for a few days and I enjoy it. The biggest problem I have is the lack of notifications. No blinking leds or anything.
You did the same thing I did which is to forget to force floating point division.
I'm guessing English isn't your primary language. There are numerous typos and grammatical errors throughout the document. Spellcheck would catch about 90% of them as they aren't project names. The grammar errors might be more difficult since you are getting the right wordstem and you're getting words that are close.

It also seems like 2/3 of the way through, you started templating your answers and reviews and didn't do as thorough an analysis of the competitive solutions.

The thesis does demonstrate that you know and understand the technology but I don't get the sense you have an in-depth understanding of what was done. While the results suggest the project was successful, it seems more like you were an observer, validating decisions. It also seems you don't agree the decisions made were the correct ones based on some of the underlying tones.

Still, there is a lot of great information in there, presented very well. You might consider submitting it to highscalability.com.

Would you implement the current structure the same way after writing your thesis?
My first though is she should just sign up. This is how the industry is. Do it and be part of it or delete your stuff off the internet and start distributing on vinyl
I loved his approach too, but if you want to end up with something that you can search freely for properties it gets a little tiresome with just bash and *nix tools :)
Safety from what? The devs responsible probably believe (quite reasonably) that if there's untrusted code running local root exploits on their machine, they've already lost most of the battle.
I think there's an argument that taxpayers are indirectly funding all of this.

If you assume that the government needs $X to perform its function then when tax rates are cut for corporations and those wealthy enough to game the system, its everyone else whose taxes pay the shortfall. The reason there is so much money floating around the top end is specifically because they've figured out how to foist their tax burden onto others.
Java, in a few places, has optional trailing commas. That is, if your last item also has a trailing comma, that is okay.

To put this into SQL notation:

SELECT
col1,
col2,
col3,
FROM Table

Now the columns were on separate lines, it is easy to comment/uncomment, or copy/paste columns around. just write every column with a comma at the end. But not in SQL -- just in various places in Java code. But I wish that were in SQL.

In Java enums are the first that immediately comes to mind. Every item can have a trailing comma. After the final item (and its optional comma) use a semicolon to begin class level declarations for the enum (if any) such as a custom constructor.

In Java, another example is array initializers:

int[] values = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, };

If those initializer items were on separate lines, it is easy to comment/remove/interchange rows because they ALL have a comma.
I appreciate the subtle environmental commentary
"because until you're a graduate student the only messy, incomplete work you ever see is your own"

That's assuming, of course, you never ever try to solve a problem with anyone else before grad school. That seems possible but highly unlikely.
“I thought science was just like math, really boring,” he said. “But now I see that it’s actually quite fun."

Well, I guess it's something...
It's also about what signals it would send. That contracts are binding is not only the foundation of Capitalism but of all civilization since antiquity. Invalidating contracts by government decree would roughly be as disruptive as a Communist revolution. A global recession is preferable to changing 2,000+ year old legal principles.