jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't know that I would call this a success for Smalltalk or Seaside as much as it is a win for a very smart startup who simply happened to use Smalltalk for some of their products. Furthermore, I doubt they'll be doing much Squeak hacking inside Twitter, so in some ways you could look upon it as a loss for the community.

Regardless, I have a lot of respect for the Smallthought guys. Their presence at Twitter HQ does only good things for my opinion of their business and technical direction.
I had bad knees for years, but found that running exclusively up-hill on uneven ground for about 2 years completely cured them.
This might not be practical or work for you, but I found a steady improvement after I started walking gently down hills and only running up. I also made a conscious effort to minimize the impact of each footfall.
After 2 years, I found I could even run downhill again without pain or injury.
I mention that it's impossible to cover every aspect on each side. We picked what are some of the more user-relevant features. This isn't meant to be the end-all-be-all research/we'll make your mind up for you! post, but rather an aid along the way for some one making a purchasing decision.

It may not be relevant to everyone, and sure, there will be people who think the chart is meaningless. It's the internet, I know what's up. Hater's gonna hate, etc.

Thanks for the feedback and for the constructive criticism(no sarcasm there) -- these things can quickly turn into flame wars, in which case everyone loses.
The James Webb Telescope got his 10k votes too. I hope it'll be approved by the LEGO review board.

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/3decd220-889e-4eb3-b938-96aa...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR62coEAaY8
He doesn't say which is which, I think thats the joke.
I just use them on my lap and have never had heat problems with any of my macbooks.

Before I bought my first macbook air I wrote a program on the console that slammed the CPU and left it running at the apple store. When I came back a few hours later the program was still running (100% CPU on all cores) and the machine was still cool to the touch. I then purchased the laptop.
To those who might think this article contains some novel analysis of the financial system: it doesn't. This is your run-of-the-mill libertarian politics, but at least the writer is completely upfront about it (inflation is taxation meant to serve the goals of the government -> I think the government is too big -> we should take away this form of taxation by switching to gold).
Everything "nano" methinks.
Self driving cars just have to be safer than Humans -- probably not that difficult.

Perhaps, on average. But (for example) should someone in the Netherlands trust car trained on US road rules? Or someone in Japan (where they drive on the left hand side of the road) trust software trained in India (where lane discipline is fairly.. loose).

Also, saying a system should be permitted because it kills less than humans seems a bit post-hoc. What happens if a bug is introduced that makes it worse in a specific circumstance?

Licensing seems a good way to deal with this, though I'm interested in alternatives.
I looked at the source of 2.7:

The function PyString_Format (Objects/stringobject.c) does the formatting for the % operator. For %s it calls _PyObject_Str which in turn calls "str()" on the object. For %d it calls formatint (located in the same file).

The str() implementation for ints is in int_to_decimal_string (Objects/intobject.c) and it's incredibly simple:

do {
*--p = '0' + (char)(absn % 10);
absn /= 10;
} while (absn);

The code for formatint is way more complex, and it contains two call to the native snprintf:

PyOS_snprintf(fmt, sizeof(fmt), "%s%%%s.%dl%c",
sign, (flags&F_ALT) ? "#" : "",
prec, type);
// ...
PyOS_snprintf(buf, buflen, fmt, -x);

The native snprintf is heavier because it handles precision, zero-padding and stuff like that.

I believe this is why %d is slower. %s is a straight "devide-by-10-and-subtract" loop while %d are two library calls to the full-blown sprintf. However I didn't actually profile the code because I don't have a debug build, so I might be completely wrong.

Edit: Link to code: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/a5c7a4257507a77699a1a...
I have a mid 2009, 13" macbook pro, and when I use it in my bed, I make sure to put it on something that doesnt bend, like a slim large book with a hard cover, or a plastic tray.

I don't really know why it gets hotter over the year. I guess fine dust end up clogging it, and since laptops are very slim, everything is packed, so it might be pretty hard to remove that dust. Some dust can stick to some surfaces, but I'm not sure.

One thing for sure is that I wont use it for gaming or anything that might get it hot.
I 100% agree that some people are innately superior at math, the mental arithmetic abilities (at a very young age) of human calculators like Von Neumann are proof enough of that.

But I also agree with the other poster that it's kind of dangerous/distasteful to imply that mathematical ability is something that is not necessary to cultivate, or at least not worthwhile unless you're the next Galois.

A lot of students are already lacking in grit and give up on difficult subjects, not realizing that areas like math require a lot of discipline, struggle, and engagement to cultivate. This hierarchical nonsense about it only being worthwhile for the "chosen few" NBA superstars is not productive, especially with Ameria trailing most developed nations in mathematical and scientific literacy (which has real societal consequences, IMO).
At first, I thought this was just going to be another person discovering that analog TV sets were really just oscilloscopes with predetermined sync; and then setting up a sync for the scope to turn it into a little TV...

How nice to be wrong! Hats off on this one. Nice hack indeed.
Snowden was low-level, but he was basically an admin doing migration to a new system. His job description required the access he was given.

Additionally, one of the lessons learned from the 9/11 attacks was that keeping data too "Need to Know" might prevent people who actually need to know information from knowing about it.
I’m not sure why you are seemingly so certain that it’s not a crime. You are talking about the UK but Ireland is not the UK and you yourself are not bringing up anything relating to Ireland that would convince one that no crime was committed.

In Germany, for example, filming private spaces (ownership doesn’t really matter) is very clearly a crime: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_st...

So yeah, now we know the laws in two European countries that are not Ireland and they are different. How does that help us with Ireland? Not at all.

Either way, I think calling the police in such cases is exactly the right thing to do. If in doubt they can tell you whether it’s likely there was a crime committed and they can also likely help you at least figure out what remedies you have. Because I think we can very clearly agree that no matter whether this is a crime in your jurisdiction or not, nobody would think it absurd if this were a crime.
You wrote in the previous comment that "poor people" own lots of stuff because it's free to store. Having your living space taken up by stuff that you're not even benefiting from is a significant cost, so it's not free.

At least where I am, cheaper apartments tend not to have garages, where many people put all the stuff they are hoarding instead of their car.

As far as storage rental goes, it's generally available month-to-month, and can be useful when moving. Also, it comes in various sizes, from small lockers to garage-sized, so the expense varies. Say €60-€160/month.
...or use youtube-dl (or newpipe on your phone), which does the same for free
> For the average person, the batteries need to be recharged at least at a similar rate and range to filling a gas tank.

The top Model S can charge at 250 kW, or 15.4 miles or range per minute. Theoretically the fastest gas pumps in the US (10 gal/min) do 250 miles per minute (fleet average for new cars), but in practice you really mean a 5 minute fill-up, so ~75 miles per minute. Not that it's any faster to plug in a charger than insert a pump, but <5 minutes is basically irrelevant. So currently the best commercial electric cars are losing by ~5x.

A 5 minute fill up means charging at ~12-13 C. Hybrid cells regularly do 10+ C[1]. The batteries in F1 cars charge or discharge 3 times per minute[2], on average. It will not be long until full size BEVs can do 5 minute charges. The much bigger problem is actually getting the power to charge them; big charger-side batteries are expensive.

[1]: https://www.greencarcongress.com/2014/09/20140915-s500phev.h...

[2]: https://www.mercedes-amg-hpp.com/formula-1-engine-facts/
Could you explain that some more? How does deciding men are disposable make the future better?
I didn't say it was easy. But perhaps it is important enough that it should even be regulated.
I recently looked into GPGPU programming, and it seems to be a bit of a mess, which is surprising seeing how long it's been around and how much it is used. I think a large part of it is due to Nvidia using their strong position to hamper anything other than Cuda.

OpenCL 2.0 was announced in 2013, Nvidia added OpenCL 2.0 "for evaluation purposes" in 2017. I don't think they have final support yet.

OpenCL 2.1 uses the same intermediate language as Vulkan, SPIR-V. Nvidia does not seem to support this.

When OpenCL 2.2 was announced in 2017 Khronos said they were working on converging OpenCL and Vulkan compute, but OpenCL will remain separate. I think this means that they will both use the same SPIR-V backend to run shader code, but I don't know.

Khronos also has SYCL. The latest version, 1.2.1, was released a few days ago and uses OpenCL 1.2 as the backend. I'm guessing it doesn't use a newer version because of Nvidia's poor support for them, but AMD doesn't seem to support it well either.

Then there's a multitude of other libraries/platforms, like POCL, HCC, Acoran, that I don't know anything about but found mentions of. AMD has HIP which can convert Cuda to run on AMD hardware, so maybe Cuda is the best option for AMD as well?

I find it a bit of an embarrassment for the industry that it's this messy and complicated, and I don't see it getting better in the near future. It seems as if the proprietary Cuda is still the best option, and that's a big failure for everyone other than Nvidia. I don't want to use a proprietary language, but I want the code to run well on all the major platforms. I still don't know what to use.

https://www.khronos.org/sycl/

http://portablecl.org/

https://gpuopen.com/compute-product/hcc-heterogeneous-comput...

https://www.codeplay.com/products/acoran/

https://gpuopen.com/compute-product/hip-convert-cuda-to-port...
Is there a way that you can see that we might achieve that?

I ask because it seems to me that would require dramatic changes in government and society that are extraordinarily unlikely. I'm not even sure if such a system could be maintained without changes to basic human nature.
You’re right. I should have phrased that in a way that was not provocative.
Thank you for this, I didn't know this existed for clojurescript =)... Much appreciated!
Mass market T-shirts are worth some maximum amount to consumers. It’s a circular argument with its center rooted in this fact.

A T-shirt manufacturing employee’s wage is capped as some fraction as the value of that shirt to an end consumer times the number of shirts they can make in a year.
Sorry - that sucks. I've done job reentry work - safest bet is to just give address to employers - they rarely send stuff anyways and def not care packages!
Prove it, bitches!
I appreciate the thoroughness with which you are pursuing this. The amount of work you're doing outside of the technical aspect is definitely something I can admit that I would've never pursued. It's encouraging to see.
I would think he is rather well respected and well connected in the academic and “corporate R&D” world.

He isn’t the best interviewer because he doesn’t have the experience yet but the podcasts are very good because he gives the guests an open stage, he is never adversarial and he never seem to push the interview into a specific direction.

Overall it wouldn’t surprise me if many of the guests would just enjoy to sit down and talk to someone who is without sounding too elitists a smart as they are, being able to reach to a lot of other people is just a bonus.
> Clicking on buttons will start triggering events which will modify the state in the model that will in turn start triggering event listeners causing your GUI to flash like a christmas tree. The problem of data bindings and change listeners is that they make it really easy to introduce a hidden circular event listeners that will trigger one another multiple times (event A changes state B and change of state B triggers event A).

Agree with both of these points. You can no longer treat assignment simply as the way you mutate data, you also have to anticipate its effects in the data-binding system.

I imagine the circular event problem could be addressed with static analysis, but I don't know of any framework that does this.
Running for profit infrastructure is so stupid I honestly cannot describe it in words. You want to minimize your costs, not maximize them.
> Because the pay is dismal, which is the last thing you want right before retirement.

Doesn't the money you invest right before retirement make the least amount of difference? You want to front load your high earning activities.

The pay is dismal, but that's exactly why people who no longer need the money (retired from industry) can afford to try teaching for a few years before moving onto a startup or opening up a pub. That's what some of my high school teachers did and that's what I plan to do.
> They are doing it for money

Then we should pay kids to be good students?

Sounds good to me.
We can start with the US publicly blaming China for the attacks. Public consciousness does a lot by itself.
My understanding of ivy league schools is you really gotta screw up to get the boot. Are you sure you're ready to continue school.
> I feel like I want to test what happens if you put values like "", false, " ", 0, an empty array, etc etc etc in front of ??.

All of those would result in the variable being assigned those values: the null check uses the same semantics as is_null(), and the truth table for those values is:

$v is_null($v)
------------------
'' FALSE
false FALSE
' ' FALSE
0 FALSE
[] FALSE

If you want to all falsy values to use the fallback value, use the shorthand ternary operator (?:) instead.
Where can I get one? Will I get a guarantee that my set would be unique and impossible to recreate?
Surely there can be more than one thing which has an influence on rates of entrepreneurship... Why couldn't it be the case that both increasing ease of access to capital increases entrepreneurship and, separately, increasing security against risk of destitution via a strong welfare state increases entrepreneurship?
I'm sorry, but what's the context for this? I assume it's because I mentioned conversion. I added that part because I expected someone would ask what happened to conversion rate when we started requiring credit cards for trials.
Looking at the name of the UI components, that definitely seems to be true, as a lot of them have "ios" appended to the class name. But, even if you're writing Objective C, you might have different storyboards for the phone vs the iPad. so I don't think it's unreasonable to have different views for the different devices.

My concern is that it actually works and isn't buggy as hell on one of the platforms, which is something that I haven't found from similar toolkits.
This is an interesting way of approaching what business people call "crossing the chasm", when getting your product to market.

The "want" are like early adopters.

The "need" are target demographics.

The "utility" would be trying to hit the mainstream or general audience.
> bunch of MBAs mismanage the company to the point that they squandered a two-decade long global monopoly on computing

I'm generally happy to blame MBAs for quite a bit. But isn't this also part of the nature of monopolies? A lack of competition means that in the short term, strategy doesn't matter at all. There was a period where Intel execs could have run the company via astrological chart or coin flip and done just as well for themselves. Managerialism and other MBA ideologies make that worse for sure.
We were partially cloud based with our source code and some of our internal support docs, and I’ve been going in to migrate the rest over. Our employees have been using RDP in the meantime to access our internal tools and docs. Not the greatest, but it’ll do until I can get a more permanent solution.

How did you get a virtual game set up? In the past I’ve used FaceTime, the Notes app, and the honor system that the people with the physical game wouldn’t look at the virtual person’s cards.
http://www.milleniumit.com/media_room/gui-press_releases.php offers turnkey HFT solution.

HFT = Algor trading + Flash trading

and Flash trading is possible if you've a seat in the exchange.

http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney04162010.html
Welcome to working in a startup.
Not related directly to the issue; but I have seen another issue that I wouldn't imagine being there in any payment processor. The ability to see all subscriptions in one place. The only way to stop google apps from charging my checkout account is to disable auto renew in the dashboard (won't help if I helped a friend buy a domain because he didn't have a credit card) or to remove the payment methods associated.
Dual external displays, $300 cheaper, physically smaller, same upgradability options as a MacBook.
http://www.civanon.org/
Any technical explanation for why iPhone apps just used straightforward pixel doubling on the iPad, even for text elements? How can iPhone apps seamlessly take advantage of the extra pixels on iPhone 4 but not iPad?

On a related note, I think even iPhone 4 apps will still look a little bit odd on the iPad since your still taking a small, high-dpi interface and displaying it into a large, low-dpi device so it would still be worthwile to recode your interface.

Android, it seems, lets you provide resources and layouts for both large devices and high-dpi devices independently.
This is really quite cool. My best so far: http://azarask.in/projects/algorithm-ink/#0e7ff5ea (Edit: Nope, this is definitely it: http://azarask.in/projects/algorithm-ink/#29b97a74 )

I think I may implement a desktop version of this over the weekend -- would be pretty straightforward with SDL.
> Griddy no longer exists

Griddy is shutting down. They exist for the moment, the debt they are owed is an asset, and even if they are dissolved their assets will be sold off to pay their creditors, so someone will be owed the money.
Looks like Church Slavonic.
> Do you expect to receive $15,000 of value from the F35 program? I'm not sure I won't: perhaps it'll keep oil/energy prices stable and I spent well more than $300/year on energy...

But from the article

> The Air Force alone wanted nearly 1,800 F-35s to replace aging F-16s and A-10s and constitute the low end of a low-high fighter mix, with 180 twin-engine F-22s making up the high end.

> Fifteen years after the F-35’s first flight, the Air Force has just 250 of the jets.

I'd say it's just as valid of an argument to make in this case that I'm not sure I won't see more than $60,000 of value out of efforts to prevent the economic infrastructure of the U.S. from crumbling, especially amortized over 50 years ($1,200/yr in preserved income or purchasing power).

I don't disagree that it's a decent frame of reference to use when looking at government programs...but it's important to apply the same level of rigor to measuring output value.
Having worked at Amazon’s retail division and at Apple probably gives me some credibility to share a different perspective. Perhaps? :)

Companies that acquire smaller companies and let them run independently typically create a schism in the culture — a division of haves/have-nots and run the risk of overspending without justified returns (Twitch for example retains typically Silicon Valley perks but doesn’t generate as much revenue as Retail site does).

Apple acquisitions on the other hand are solely about technology & integration. I can only think of Beats being their only acquisition that has some independence still. I don’t know what’s going on there though. But I work with a dozen or so teams that were all Apple acquisitions and their entire charter is build for Apple and shut everything else down. Makes it much simpler to organize people/teams and makes purpose of teams super clear from a product perspective.

Amazon, Microsoft and others’ acquisitions make it seem very much like a conglomerate of sorts. I guess that has benefits too — typically not in core technologies though.

Perhaps I just disagree that is hostile or anti-competitive from that perspective. It seem like FB’s acquisition of WhatsApp (and similar moves by others) is more characteristic of anti-competitive behavior (ie capturing potential competitors early etc)
I don't understand how NFTs change anything, though? Like, why do I care that Bob technically "owns" the file that I have a bit-for-bit identical version of?
I can see it helps with lists. And maybe with tables?

I don't know if the following is valid HTML but it shows 3 list-items perfectly in my browser:

<li> one

<li> two

<li> three

There are pros and cons. I don't mind having to type a few html-tags here and there when most of my content is just plain paragraphs anyway. I can keep a list of HTML snippets handy I need daily, and copy and paste them into my text.
I'm not totally following what you're saying, but I can answer this:

> Is a wontfix with lots of comments more expensive, than a wontfix with comments blocked?

Yes, it is more expensive. When 100 developers are CC'd on a bug that is generating regular "but did you consider this argument?" comments, it's a lot of overhead.

You could argue that everyone CC'd should remove themselves from the CC list when this happens, but by that time we'd already have taken the hit.

These bugs are not fun for anybody, dev or unhappy user alike.
That's such a great idea! Do you have any suggestions on what microscope to get?
yeah, while i personally suspect that a high enough fidelity simulation would be comparably conscious, and i think we should certainly err on the side assuming that's the case from an ethical perspective, i do fully agree it's still an open question.
The CPI is a weighted average of several categories. and some of those categories severely underestimate inflation. For instance, the CPI says new car prices haven't increased in the last 20 years but, that's obviously not true, if you calculate the real cpi for say a corrolla or a camaro or whatever model you choose, you can see it's gone up about 40 to 60% in that time which means for that category, they're undercounting CPI by almost 2 to 3 %.

I think they're trying to prevent people from calculating the real CPI. there's alot at stake: the bond market, social security, federal interest payments, perception of real wages, real productivity per capita number, etc.
This sort of perception about community bias comes up with every $BigCo. Then the comments complaining about it get highly upvoted, undermining the supposed observation.

I think it has more to do with how our emotions subtly influence how we weight what we read. We're more likely to notice the cases we dislike/disagree with and let the ones we like/agree with glide by without affecting our impression of the community. Because of this, negative impressions and overgeneralization are much more common than the data really support.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...