jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Or maybe they simply didn't have a case. Like it or not, the safe harbor clause exists.
It takes building and shipping an outstanding product to achieve certain status, if we’re talking about “superstar“ status. This has almost nothing to do with years of experience. I’d even say most superstar devs achieved it pretty early in their career.
Then the unit that clients display and transfer will be nS (nano satoshis). Afaik, it's a very minor update to allow more decimal places.
For context this is Scott's answer to this argument: [from https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/still-alive]

> Some of the savvy people giving me advice suggested I fight back against this. [...] Say why it was necessary for my career to publish those papers under my real name.

> Why didn't I do this? Partly because it wasn't true. I don't think I had particularly strong arguments on any of these points. [...]

> But the other reason I didn't do it was...well, suppose Power comes up to you and says hey, I'm gonna kick you in the balls. And when you protest, they say they don't want to make anyone unsafe, so as long as you can prove that kicking you in the balls will cause long-term irrecoverable damage, they'll hold off. And you say, well, it'll hurt quite a lot. And they say that's subjective, they'll need a doctor's note proving you have a chronic pain condition like hyperalgesia or fibromyalgia. And you say fine, I guess I don't have those, but it might be dangerous. And they ask you if you're some sort of expert who can prove there's a high risk of organ rupture, and you have to admit the risk of organ rupture isn't exactly high. But also, they add, didn't you practice taekwondo in college? Isn't that the kind of sport where you can get kicked in the balls pretty easily? Sounds like you're not really that committed to this not-getting-kicked-in-the-balls thing.

> No! There's no dignified way to answer any of these questions except "fuck you". Just don't kick me in the balls! It isn't rocket science! Don't kick me in the fucking balls!
It feels to me like "science" has become something of a religion unto itself. We started out with the well and good ability of science and engineering to understand some things and produce revolutionary useful goods. Now it seems like other fields where such principles aren't really applicable have attempted to borrow the trappings of science in order to co-opt the trust that people have given it. The only time a phrase like "trust the science" starts to seem necessary is when this scheme has been found out, and somebody is trying to preserve it.

Many of the big society-level issues that we grapple with are more properly questions of economics than science. It's more about how we choose to value various courses of action and potential consequences against each other, and there's rarely a clear, obvious, or simple answer. "Science" can only give us an estimate of what the results of a particular course of action might be, it cannot compare once against another and tell us with certainty which one is better.

"Trust the science" is usually a rhetorical weapon used by a side that is attempting to show one particular potential outcome as the worst thing imaginable that must be avoided at all costs, but in reality there are rarely things that bad. I'd like to have a world where we can look at the actual science and economic costs of all choices and rationally debate exactly which road to take, but it sure feels like we're only moving further away from that world.
Quick reminder that Mozilla found money to increase CEO's salary to $3M, while they couldn't find money to retain 250 employees.
I wholely disagree, it's just that people see the two groups differently. The bottom-5% kid who has trouble tying their shoes is an easy target for sympathy and you can throw money at special-ed programs. The top-5% kid who's bored off their ass and could be excelling elsewhere, not so much.

My explanation is that americans consider ourselves individually to be exceptional, and have trouble recognizing when others are. To the detriment of everyone.
if a person has decided to quit a company it's a bigger reflection on the company than the person. Individuals rather not leave as moving jobs is lot physical and psychological stress. So fault must lie heavily on employer side. It's completely ok to look out for yourself. Especially if you have no financial cushion. Looking for a job while you have a job is much much better position than looking for a job while employed. It literally puts you in another category.
"Stack Overflow Trends" lets you search for number of questions by tag. I personally think this is a more robust indicator of language popularity than TIOBE's method. Here are the results for Objective C vs Fortran. As you can see, by this definition, Objective C is at least twice as popular as Fortran.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=objective-c%2...
The metaphor goes further than that - you're not being paid to paint a masterpiece, you're being paid to be part of a 5 person team repainting the sistine chapel. That again is a totally different skillset.
As a programmer, please first define the words "programming" and "easy" ;)

If you instead talk about whole process of everything involved, then split it up into 50 distinct skills that all come together to 'imagine, design, mock, develop, run and support production ready software'.

To most people some of the needed skills are 'easy' and others are 'hard'.

For example just writing 'compileable code' with the help of stackoverflow is probably easy for most. That's not what i call 'programming' but pure beginners might.
> Our systems are fragile and not future proof. We haven't learned...This is called decline.

It’s a sign of technical immaturity. A Cambrian explosion of precarious innovation is standard for any new technology of any import (you can look back merely a couple of centuries to see the same in steam engines, trains, bridges, bicycles, automobiles, aircraft, pharmaceuticals...).

Be excited to live through one such!
Even as Firefox continues losing market share, which put's Google's default search engine contract (which is like 90% of Firefox's funding) into jeopardy. Excellent management at Mozilla there.
An even better title would be We do not know if Fortran is getting more popular or not, because our data basis is Tiobe
Seems like a strage thing to invest Resources into. Minority computing, minority hardware, with a minority of programmers, on a text editor that doesn't need intensive processing power. Maybe Apple paid for it so they could get a headline out of it? All of this seems incredibly unnecessary.

Has sublime has ran out of things to work on? LateStageTextEditors
I lose points every time I criticize Noam Chomsky. Who are the other sacred cows on HN that if you criticize you automatically lose Karma? I'll take a stab:

Noam Chomsky
Paul Graham
Elon Musk
Jeff Bezos
Not just that, but SHA-256 isn't slow. It's slower than CRC or MD5, sure, but it's slowness isn't a feature like blowfish's is. A single round of Blowfish, by comparison, takes time to set up the key and IV that SHA256 doesn't; bcrypt compounds that.

According to http://www.cryptopp.com/benchmarks.html you could check ~6480 bytes of SHA256 in the time that it would take you to just set up your first blowfish check. If you're trying to brute-force an 8-character password, you're looking at 141 cycles per password for SHA256 and 114,950 cycles per password for a single round of blowfish.
I didn't mention YPG and neither did the comment I replied to, which is why I posed a general question.
This article is a book report on the classic,

Adler, Mortimer J. How to Read a Book. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster (1940, 1972) [1]

Adler tackles the subject of reading both in breadth and depth. The work is ambitious, rigorous and challenging. It's a complete guide to reading for any academic. And also, it's a 80 year old measuring stick of your own reading practice for any who subscribe to life-long learning.

For my part I discovered Adler's book at the apex of a personal challenge ten years after my undergraduate studies in art and design.

During a summer of underemployment in a terrible job, I returned to beloved professor's syllabus, and decided to read the extra-curricular books--recommended but not required. So, no help from classmates, or instructors. Just me and the text, but a couple of very lucky coincidences happened...

First, I heard/read about a retired professor who liked to write a "book report" on his reading. He graded the books as he did his former student's assignments. A, B, etc. Haha. Whatever, but now I had something to do with my reading. Looking back 10 years at this syllabus I couldn't recall what I had read. I had no memories of these books. All I had were random digital files on an old CD-ROM.

Second, I also needed practice typing (never had one lesson). It just made sense to copy passages from the books--verbatim. I would start by summarizing the text, and realize the author said it better, and I would quote them in my 'book report'. Of course, I was entertaining my ambition to also write about my reading.

Third, to find the quotes I liked, I would tag the lines with different keywords. More often, I would encounter a term or foundational definition, and this evolved my writing notes into reading notes as a system of marginalia. [2]

Finally, I discovered the book which the OP's post is summarizing for us (in broad strokes). It has only intensified my love of reading. Not because I follow it as manual, but because it _explained_ what I learned about reading that summer in words better than I could ever conjure or put to paper.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book

[2]: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/139g4uFXFCL1ZYrcWKTShbPsw...
Actually being exposed to western media and attitude what makes Turkish immigrant pro-gov.
Simply you are taking sides of terrorists from the point of a Turk.
Thankfully truth is not subject to you.
Another amusing event from the life of the balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard mentioned in the article: in 1793, Blanchard arranged the first American balloon flight, starting in Philadelphia. George Washington was interested enough to attend and write Blanchard a passport saying, roughly, "look, this guy is French and traveling in this unpredictable way, if you find him then know that I, George Washington, think he's cool, and you should help him get back to Philadelphia", which apparently worked [1].

[1] https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-e...
A simpler way to think about it might be "How would I assign a p-value to the personality type?" Once you have that answer, all your "over-representation" stats should, naturally, trim out (or otherwise down-weight) the poor p-value personality assignments (any such over-representation stats that you have heard very likely do no such filtering).
Something else I forgot to mention in my first response to this comment:

Snow Leopard dropped the price of the update from $129 to $29. This might have been part of its positive reception.
The funniest thing about this is the Dakin5 advertisement. There is still no solution for a company to upload financials direclty to a bank. Most still take spreadsheets and email them to a bank, who then hires people to spread those financials in another spreadsheet that is for bank purposes. Then they upload them to another internal database that tracks some of it, but that database doesn't talk to any other databases so you enter it into another database to generate a risk score.

At least at the 7th largest bank in the US by assets.
The trick is to add the signal of many pixels together, forming a larger effective sample. The output video is very low-resolution and has a low dynamic range after noise removal, but can get hundreds of FPS in decent lighting.
I believe Facebook reported in their financials though in their first quarterly earnings report after the acquisition that Whatsapp was losing $100mm+ annually. I'm not saying that won't change, but their business model still needs some tweaks.
Driverless cars booming => more paranoid articles incoming..
That is what I understood you as saying. I still don't see how my phrasing of the decidability of the halting problem as a complexity problem is any less valid.

In any case, it's clear from your appeal-to-wikipedia that this conversation is over.
Great stuff Connor!
I prefer to think of it as a dialectic.
The only way an ID is useful is if there is a standard bearer that upholds the way in which the ID is created, cataloged, and administered. You would have to create a 3rd-party organization which government would have to sponsor or hire out to provide all ID services.
Is intellectual capital really that important? You can have a college degree studying an esoteric subject and be working a minimum wage job at a starbucks. Hell, you can do a postdoc in biochemistry, quit, start working for lyft, and get a pay raise. Until recently, semi-skilled oil rig workers in north dakota could comfortably make 80-100k.
> This is definitely not what state of the art neural networks for computer vision do, although I'm sure there are many models out there that do function in that manner.

I was just quoting the article really.

> Neural networks are unsuccessful because they are not detecting anything. They're just making statistical correlations that happen to be right for the specific set of training data they have received.

Neural networks are moderately good at replicating the part of the brain that identifies visuals, because that is just statistics and neural networks are a slightly awkward way of doing statistics.

But only up to a point, because humans don't sit around all day looking at static images. We humans move around, and the objects we are classifying move. Our world is 4-dimensional, not 2-dimensional.

Perhaps a neural network can tell what a cat looks like, but can it tell the difference between a dead cat and a sleeping one, by watching it breathe?

Neural networks are not good at replicating the parts of the brain that deal with physical properties of the world, because that is not a statistical operation. It's an algorithmic one.

Unfortunately for them, such physical properties are not an afterthought but an inseparable part of the task they are attempting to achieve.
I'm guessing this is because a merge commit is created before the merge is fully executed.
Maybe now I can finally start to get into algo trading.
How many ads could they add to the browser before you'd agree with them?
I'm not sure the everyday person actually can get or even handle real time data. I spoke to someone about 4 years ago who was doing it for their startup and they said they had serious problems handling the data volume. Talking about terabytes of data coming in per day. Typical DB systems fall apart under that kind of load.
Some warmer places drop amazingly at night, more arid regions have reputation for this. Less in tropical. Also even if 18 overnight doesn't seem cold when you're used to 40 by day, anything under 20 seems cold.

Im Brisbane and one time my partner was skyping with her Nordic family. I was getting the fireplace going and they asked the temperature, I cant remember exactly but it was about 20 and any the look on their faces was priceless.
Microsoft's Skype web client already blocks Firefox. But it's easily rectified by changing the user agent to Chrome or Edge.
The CIA and NSA are also civilian.
Yep. "tput bel" is my version
for starters this is not a controller, but the other end
I'll post a question on Stack Overflow then when I have time.
Absolutely. I'm of course supportive of innovation but I've been troubled to see this community get carried a little too far away with Tesla. I submitted this article: http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/unclean-at-any-sp... sometime ago (which is actually a series of articles that discuss possible problems with recent EVs) and it got no attention. This seems to be a trend, anything critical of Tesla, even if it's from reliable sources like IEEE Spectrum gets ignored, anything that praises it is accepted with jubilation.

edit: Just to be clear I'm not attacking Tesla/Musk, I love them both. I'm peeved by everyone pretending or thinking EVs are solutions without any shortcomings whatsoever, and I'm peeved that we sometimes ignore/attack people who are in good faith just pointing out potential problems.
I didn't draw any conclusions, or comment on the prospects of Tesla. I stated a simple fact, it is 0.6% market share. It is 4714 cars. These are figures from the report linked to in the article. This is not commentary. These are the numbers.
That person exists and he works for Microsoft, he is Qi Lu. He took on Google in many fronts in a short amount of time: technology, product, infrastructure, and people. Was it the right thing for Microsoft to do? Who knows, but he successfully executed on a project that most reasonable people (myself included) considered almost completely impossible -- which happens to be exactly what people expect out of companies like Microsoft.
It's a great filter for nonsense. Usually sites that cause problems for NoScript are crap anyways. Not always, but often enough that I see it as a net benefit.
Or it could have been a feature.

Back in 2000, I worked on the ecommerce site of a major consumer electronics manufacturer. One of the "features" that was implemented was for people that had an account, but hadn't logged in and had decided to proceed through the normal checkout process. When you entered your email address, it did a lookup at the accounts database and if that email address already existed, it logged you in as that user. Credit Card numbers weren't viewable, but were stored on the account.

Nobody understood why this was a bad idea until I ordered a digital camera to the head of internet marketing using his own account.
Thanks Chris - I really appreciate your input. I've implemented some of your suggestions for the front page.

I'm also looking for feedback on the idea itself - would love to hear what people think of it.

Mike
I would suspect that is why they bought Placebase in 2009 and Poly9 in 2010.
>Many of OP's questions are problematic

They're important data, though. Probably best to wait until you've got an offer in hand.
> it makes no sense to add two RGB colors.

Sure it does. If you work in linear space, the RGB values corresponds to the number of photons.

> It does not make sense to add two RGB colors. The result is not a meaningful physical quantity.

5 photons + 3 photons = 8 photons

> (7.8 earthquake) + (8.3 earthquake) != (16.1 earthequake)

The Richter scale is not linear, so of course it won't work.

More importantly, several earthquakes won't combine onto one. That is not a problem when combining beams of light, since they are already composed of a number of photons each.

Even multiplying RGB values have a physical basis. If one RGB value is the number of photons in a beam of light, the other RGB value represents the probability that the photons will pass through a filter, such as colored glass.
So worst case scenario, someone could have hacked my profile and "upgraded" my account since I just have the basic account. Oh and they could have harvested the spamgourmet email address that has boarders.com as the exclusive sender.
"Downtime that is their fault" is kind of a giant caveat, no? Is it their fault if they lose transit or power, for instance? With that level of refunds I suspect "their fault" basically only covers one of them accidentally running over a server with their car. The problem is, that guaranty isn't getting anyone anything of value.

I suspect Heroku has SLAs for their bigger customers, but don't really know for sure. I do think you're overestimating what kind of incentive an SLA is for a provider, though. SLAs are basically an on paper way of showing your commitment to keeping things running and responding to problems. If you don't have that commitment already, the paper isn't going to change anything.

Pointy haired bosses and lawyers love SLAs, but smart people who shop for this stuff don't care all that much about them. An SLA isn't going to convince me to go with one provider over another, nor is lack of an SLA going to make me avoid a provider I already like and respect.
Ah! Outside of academia. sorry.

Read that as some sort of underground academia
As a developer in SF, I've been telling everyone that Portland is the place to be. You can actually live comfortably and (relatively) safely ride your bike to work. Plus, it's undoubtedly a more beautiful city.

Unfortunately, I haven't been too impressed with the job selection in Portland. Though, I may be doing my own startup in a few months; Portland may be my spot for seeking residence and capital.
That is exactly what combating privilege is. Instead of bringing people up it is about bringing people down.
There will be a set of circumstances where you will be resorting to beeps to alert pedestrians without engine noise.

Time spent to contemplate whether to beep or not constantly may also be wasted time.
"The release of Microsoft’s Skype Translator, which translates multilingual conversations in real time, is an early success."

Is it just me who has seen loads on the updates to Google Translate but never heard about this?

If not, then that suggests that shifting media perception about Microsoft will be critical, and isn't there yet (this piece will help). Only when the media (bloggers and mainstream) filter Microsoft announcements through a context of 'they do innovative exciting things' will product and feature releases garner the publicity Microsoft needs to change the broader public perception.
That seems like a certainty. Isn't it true that there are more people alive now, than have every lived before? Geometric growth works like that. So conceivably, everything is more popular in absolute terms, than it can every have been in history.
Security. The internal ops/security game at AWS is waaaaaay more advanced than any of their competition.
Hidden in here are some old telephone bills. If you missed them, http://www.wb6nvh.com/MTSmisc/Bills.htm
Yeah - frankly, for most VCS's, it's pretty hard to achieve an uptime as poor as github locally(1). There's just not much that can go wrong; even doing virtually no maintenance you'd do better simply because github is hosted else and effected by all the vagaries of the internet.

(1): by uptime I mean time up during office hours under the assumption that dev workstations can run. There's no point in measuring uptime during a power-outage...
How about [1]? Corrupt organizaiton's loyalties typically lie with those who sponsor it.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-pled...
You could also call gold "speculative mania in shiny trinkets with little utility", but that one has lasted thousands of years so far. Describing something in colorful language doesn't make it a strong argument.

Being so sure that BTC is a bubble is just as naive as being completely sure it's going up to a million dollars per coin. It's just speculation either way, and there is no fundamental law of nature (or even principle of economics) preventing either outcome.
Tried a few of those. Fluffychat looks promising so keeping that for now!
I didn't subscribe to their premium service either, but now in hindsight, maybe should have (paying $10/mo for a business checking account is totally ok). I previously moved away from Silicon Valley Bank due to their $200+ monthly fees (I had just 5-10 incoming/outgoing transactions per month) and every other month I ended up having to call them for various reasons.
Never thought of Ben Horowitz until now, but since you mentioned it, I'd really like to see that happen!

Chances are that Bill Gates becomes interim CEO and personally recruits the more permanent leader from the outside.
It will prompt you if an app doesn't yet have migrations and ask if you want it to. That prompt is currently a bit aggressive - asking you every time - but that will be fixed soon.