jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Dunno if this is "new" per se or if I've just seen enough over the years to finally identify it, but a lot of the "correctness" of a political opinion today depends not so much on the content, but how it is phrased and whether or not it is in a "proper" environment.

If you wrap a heavy interventionalist policy in the guise of "we have to defend ourselves against the Chinese doing it!", you might get one group sagely nodding about how it may be a bit sad but is clearly necessary while another group is angrily denouncing the racism or whatever. Turn around and propose the exact same policy (for the sake of argument) in terms of controlling domestic extremism and "nudging" the masses properly, and the people previously angry will be nodding sagely while the other group is now angry.

From my viewpoint, there are very few people left proposing anything like freedom. It's all a fight now over who gets to use the government to impose their views on the US and its individual citizens, not whether views should be imposed by the government. Within my lifetime, this was not the case.
Where I live it is quite normal to have mobile numbers in the online phone book.
I know what you mean, I really do. But think of an interactive document that keeps updating itself with remote data. That sounds really cool to me.
All the references to rowing reminded me of these guys: http://www.rowrenegade.org/ . I used to go out regularly for their recreational rows (http://www.rowrenegade.org/rec_rows.html) on the weekend and would recommend it to anyone who happens to live in the SFBay area, or is just visiting, as a fun and interesting experience and a cheap way to get out on the bay.
There needs to be one that gets away from the tree structure, to a general graph.
"It's like a book tour for physical consumer products."

And just like that, I understand your plan. Nicely phrased.
If dropbox opened the archives (to check) then it would be against the British data protection laws (and probably most other countries) if they were not given the access by the owners.

I have no want or need to trash it with pirated material either.
Not sure what is meant by "S3 has 11 nines of durability". Obviously not an availability number, but what is it?
> Central planning is very rarely the answer

I disagree. That's dogma. Dogma is rarely the answer. The a lot of university's research already relies on public funds which is disbursed by a central committee. There is little private money in this space because the timelines and risks are too high.

As for solutions, I heard of a few entrepreneurs who regularly visit university's technology board looking for interesting solutions that they can take to market. This is a kind of gap filling move that can be done broadly, provided the frameworks are realistic. I remembered a tale about IdeaLabs where they were spinning off a startup and decided to give the entrepreneurs 80% share of the company instead of the regular 20%. If a university has unrealistic expectations, then this can also curb the introduction of a technology/technique.

Then there are some schools who do very good basic research but little in the way of translational research (e.g. medical trials, FDA approvals etc). The reason these may be occurring is because the way research funding works is that these activities are outside of their scope and ability.
Dyson suggests replacing the filter every year but you could vacuum off the dust on the outside. Their vacuum cleaner filters are washable which is probably where OP got the idea.
What's wrong with (','.join(['a', 'b']))? If it's the order of arguments, then I want to point out that the order has two big advantages:

* partial application is actually useful: I've actually used (','.join) before, but (lambda sep: sep.join(['a', 'b'])) seems relatively useless. That's why Haskell also uses this order with (intercalate sep listOfStrings).

* it accepts any iterable, rather than just lists.
> So I assume you could make a standard compliant compiler that doesn't nothing but immediately overflows the stack.

Interesting thought. I imagine just about every language spec (with the possible exception of assembly languages) states something like If memory is exhausted, a handler is executed or If memory is exhausted, the behaviour is undefined, and it's always going to be up to the compiler/interpreter to make reasonable use of the available memory on the specific target platform.

Would a C compiler be non-compliant if it generated code that used 100x the memory that would be used by code generated by typical C compiler? How about 1,000,000,000x so that its generated programs always failed immediately?

Java is an interesting case for this, as it famously doesn't require that a garbage collector needs to be included at all (unlike .Net which does). In Java, not only are you permitted to have a conservative GC, you're permitted to have no GC whatsoever (something OpenJDK now offers [0]). Apparently [1] Java requires that the collector (if it exists) will run before the JVM throws OutOfMemoryError.

I imagine the formal methods folks must have done some thinking on this topic, as their whole field is about doing better than just go ahead and test it out. Could a standards-compliant C compiler used in a safety-critical domain generate code that, only very occasionally, uses a billion times the memory it typically uses?

Somewhat related: one of the motivations behind the Zig language seems to have been a frustration with clumsy handling of memory-exhaustion. [2][3]

[0] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/318

[1] https://www.kdgregory.com/index.php?page=java.outOfMemory

[2] https://youtu.be/Z4oYSByyRak?t=300

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18422631
Yes, or, at least it has been used to do so. Microsoft's xbox 360/xbox one USB controller adapter is actually a standard wifi adapter with a custom firmware.

Source: https://github.com/medusalix/xow#how-it-works
I have tried google glasses , after actively using it for 10 minutes, it will get very hot and start to burn my face. And luckily that won’t last very long due to poor battery life.
It's crazy to think this was produced in the 90s.

https://youtu.be/lEeb72ZJKAk
low effort clickbait
You're right, I had Real and Standard mixed up. You definitely didn't want to run 3.0, though. That was a complete mess, and the beginning point of where Microsoft started to make a turn-around in stability.

3.0 would crash every 15 minutes on average.
3.1 would crash every 45 minutes on average.
95 would go a day at a time, 98 would go several days, XP was stable a month at a time when there weren't major exploits or bad driver behavior.

...and so on. I may be overstating the impact SLIGHTLY, but 3.0 really was crash prone to the point magazines heavily pushed people to 3.1 when that came out, and 95 was definitely significantly improved over that, and so forth (skipping ME, of course) until XP.
Yes, even the M1 doesn't come close to 1991's PC technology in terms of surprise-factor.
This seems to be at the cost of the something much more expensive. The bubble bursts sometimes soon ?
This has nothing to do with art. NFTs are the best money laundering method in the cryptocurrency world. Just like how druglords use fine art auctions to pay for cocaine shipments.

Think about it, anyone could be the customer or the creator of the NFT 'art', the platform can charge a percentage. Meanwhile if the platform offers financial services the need for KYC/AML locks them from doing business with themselves and anything else doesn't have enough volume.

I think AML/KYC is an extremely draconian regulation so I sympathise to some extent but NFTs have no value as art. They have various interesting use cases though but those things require more effort (you know, cause they are actual products) but no one has done anything like that yet because blockchains have not had a big enough market or fast enough transaction speed to attract talent to build on them (yet!).

Hopefully we can leave this era behind soon and abandon nation states and taxes for insured crowdfunding and internet-as-means-to-solving-climate-change, i.e. fair allocation of the earths resources.
just came across an example. I saw a retweet and thought "that's self-evidently false", started looking at the replies, and then decided to mute the original author... turned out it was someone I had already unfollowed, because they were tweeting nonsense. And the curation algorithm had deliberately shown me the most provocative tweet it could find from a person I'd unfollowed... Twitter is an unethical outrage machine.
M-Pesa is very important, society changing financial app/system that did not need iPhone or Android to be dominant. It was built on SMS and why it could achieve such market share. Don't give smartphones credit for putting interfaces on successful technology.

Mobile computing is obviously important, but its importance says zero about the possibility - and that's all I argued - that cryptocurrency could also be very important.
This is cool, but I like this style better.
http://2d-code.co.uk/bbc-logo-in-qr-code/
ayee! Another fan of Senna :)
What about Graphite http://graphite.wikidot.com/faq ?
I've never tried but it is described as "Scalable Realtime Graphing". It seems to use an internal database so maybe it's not ok for you..

EDIT: I read another comment from you, you said it's rrd-like so it gets rid of old data, not what you're looking for..
That was my conclusion as well. I visited yahoo for the first time in years to reaffirm my account name (and hopefully grab some other ones).
Do the math on salaries vs. hours worked and you have your answer.
Out of all the pretentious "this isn't Hacker News" comments, this is the most ridiculous example I've seen. If this isn't Hacker News, what is?
These guys certainly seem mature and professional enough to run a company, especially funded with other people's money
It's showing it's age.

The real problem is they're still selling it brand new (in the form of the non-retina Mini) and with Apple's policy of supporting devices for 2 or 3 years that means the device will get six years of updates, even though it's already aging badly at this point.
Wikipedia grab: "Opportunist behaviour can be self-reinforcing: if there is a lot of opportunism, then not to be opportunist oneself would mean that competitors take advantage of that, and therefore people can be forced into an opportunist role as a defensive strategy."
We do own grantree.co.uk, and so long as you enunciate properly (grANT-Tree) people can hear it fine, in our experience. The key is to emphasize the ANT and separate it from the next T. Otherwise people sometimes hear Grunt-ree or something.
For me it's about 7.5 hours continuous, then a good piss, then another hour and a half. Saturday and Sunday only, unfortunately.
Attributing to Deep Blue a "surprising strategic insight" is just anthropomorphism, since the 'insight' was basically another result of brute force, it's just probably the humans didn't see it coming.
It's probably an issue which is why to get rich it's good to own equity in the company. Take for example Brian Acton, turned down for a job at Facebook in 2009, cofounded Whatsapp, acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $19bn.
Perl 6 is a new language. Its not a Python like scenario where people are looking to migrate their existing code bases from 2 to 3.

Perl 6 is for new projects. Perl 5 ecosystem continues evolve untouched. Unlike the Python 2 scenario, where 2.x won't be supported and 3.x series and its library ecosystem isn't ready anymore.
> What makes it fancy or scary?

Its an abstraction and abstractions are hard. In away, its similar to why beginners tend to have trouble with recursion (if you try to understand a recursive program by stepping through without using abstractions like preconditions and postconditions)
Less than I want, more than I should
What does memory leak free mean? It has a semantic meaning.

If I have a queue with elements and I won’t be accessing some of it in the next part of the program, is it a leak?
Also, remember that certain GCd languages intern strings, is it a memory leak since it will not necessarily use it anymore?
>Having basic authentication in Elasticsearch would be the pointless equivalent.

Instead of that they could implement a PAKE. That would provide security with no certificates.
So, it is nothing on the scale of that. But things like land,real-estate,equipment are cash intensive. For example one of my better ideas will work with an app and a lot if infrastructure. But even at a very small POC it will cost at least $50K which isn't an earth shattering amount but still too much for me.
TFA says:

> Adawe said in addition to public health concerns, “it’s a racial thing that keeps encouraging that people should change their skin color, and we don’t want to see that.”

But I do agree that changing ones appearance is OK.

Someone will perhaps bring up blackface. However, that's entirely distinguishable, in that the intent is typically racist.
Could you point out those assumptions?
Much better taxing solution: Single monopoly tax. Make companies/individuals pay proportionally for monopolistic privileges they get from rest of the society.

Examples:

- network industries (railroads, pipes, energy) will always be naturally monopolistic. There can't ever be efficient competition. So embrace the monopoly and make the receivers pay. Nice example is AT&T monopoly and a "monopoly research" tax imposed on it, resulting in Bell labs and great innovations of 2nd half of 20th century

- Exclusive access to electromagnetic spectrum. It has to be regulated to monopolistic access, otherwise congestion. Companies with access pay for privilege in an auction repeating after several years

- Exclusive access to natural resources. Why should a mining company have indefinite access to some portion of land, just because it was there first? Let them participate in a recurring auction, which would maintain proper pricing for the exclusive mining rights when there are many other such companies competing for it

- Land ownership. Similarly, why should someone have the privilege to exclusively own a parcel in prime area without paying, just because he was there first. Inefficient allocation. Actually - unfair at that. Infrastructure buildout in the area paid by income taxes of people increases value of his exclusive ownership rights. The result is redistribution of income of people who are prevented from accessing that parcel to the one receiving the privilege of exclusive parcel use. Shouldn't it be the exact opposite?

This is not new by any means. This idea was supported by one of the most influential economic movement of 19th century - single taxers. Every time it has been implemented it brought the promised results, because it hits the heart of the wealth inequality problem. It always ceased to function long term due to politics of people who got more well off because of it and didn't want to share the wealth with others - namely with future generations.

Singapore, Hong Kong and sudden growth of other asian tigers in 20th century can be considered the movement's largest documented success. China missed its chance of lifetime with Mao's cultural revolution. Sun Yat-sen was a huge fan.

The monopoly-busting progressive movement of early 20th century can also be considered its influence. It perhaps is not a coincidence that the original progressivists were fans of the pivotal book Progress and Poverty by Henry George. Shame that "progressive" drifted with its meaning somewhere else, similar to words "liberal" or "agile".
I find that to be a somewhat reductionist view. First, some things have a fundamental energy cost. Food is one example. You can’t value food for free even if we agree to, because it takes kWhs to produce it and they have to come from somewhere. I guess you could say your life isn’t worth the cost of the food to sustain it and stop eating it, but not many will do that.

Second, you have natural scarcity: truffles are not commonly available. How much you want to eat them may put a ceiling on the price, but again there is also a floor below which no amount of energy would bring you more truffles.
These might be helpful to you and Hummingbard's creator:

https://choosealicense.com/licenses/ provides a concise rundown of a few common ones

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html: a more detailed list

https://github.com/plibither8/licensed: a CLI tool to help choose licenses (we're on HN).
One of the nice things about ECS is how easy it is to integrate into an existing structure. In the engine case you just make your existing object hierarchy one component type, and whatever subsystem you're making ECS into its own component. At a library level you just wrap that library's per object state in its own component.

What issues did you have?
I thought it will be a 100 page book but hot damn. 487 Pages for what?
OP might want to go live somewhere sufficiently rural but partially on-grid to try it out and see if it's for him. I'd suggest something with at least access through a gravel road, traditional electric provider, but with off-grid well and septic might be a good start. When you're at the point where you don't need to call anyone to do something for you, then maybe you're ready to live full time off grid.
But one can break a law and get away with it. It's selectively enforced.
Meh. A thermostat makes decisions without a central nervous system too.

But the title of the article is actually, "A memory without a brain", which is actually much more interesting. A better rewrite of the title would be "A single-cell slime mold can remember the locations of food sources", which is actually pretty cool.
Has Google bought up this domain, then? I'm just getting redirected to google.com
I'm curious if you think this is relevant today. Don't get me wrong I respect the author but I haven't picked up a newspaper in forever and I'm old enough to remember Mr. Cronkite doing the news.

So do you think stories are written the same way today? I agree the first paragraph is usually the most important it's loaded to get you to read more. However do you think journalists / bloggers have the time to think a story through and not add opinion?
You make at least four factual errors here. It'd be a great exercise for you to figure out what they are.
> It's articles like this that perpetuate the acceptance of unpaid overtime.

No it's not. Unpaid overtime is perpetrated by the incentive structure at companies where it's in the culture. The same bosses that are so happily getting their peons to work overtime for free are the giving positive performance reviews to people willing to work long hours. There's an economic incentive to working longer hours, so people who are willing to work longer hours will flourish and people who aren't will languish or find a new job where the incentive structure is better aligned with their work habits.

If you don't like companies like that, don't work for them. They'll have no shortage of other employees to choose from: most engineers coming out of college have adjusted to the notion of long work hours.

(Frankly, there's nothing wrong with this: there's a lot to cover for an engineering degree, and making it easier would do a disservice to the students.)
That's pretty much all it does. It also redirects to google.com with an expected value of six visits. It's sort of a vague representation of the game duck, duck, goose.
This is not quite true. It's a mapping, but it's not a hash table because the mapping is bijective (while hash tables just project the keys into the table space). So there is no possibility of collision, the number of keys is fixed, etc. It's just a table, like any other, and most of what is implied when talking about hash tables does not necessarily apply here.
A little vocabulary heavy, but mostly good. Be careful not to reject someone just because they use the word "threat" for a different concept than you do (but can reason fine about both concepts).

And role-playing should be seen as mandatory. It shows if the candidate can apply their knowledge. This is vital, and not everyone can.
I'm surprised that page calls IKEA furniture "well-designed". To me, and to some other people I know, it seems that they work hard to make it s ugly as possible. Or at least pretty bland.
3% magic?
> Oracle’s lawyers wrote. "The next Oracle will think twice about investing as heavily in a venture like Java if it knows that any competitor could freely copy its work to compete directly against it."

It would make me terribly happy if Oracle would refrain from doing so. I think this case is ridiculous. The same developer implemented a range check in the same way he did 10 years ago. Yes, copyright for software is broken...

And the lines in question were even removed, which is a tragedy itself, but I cannot see Oracle as anything but hugely detrimental to software. Developers should ignore anything they touch.

If they do indeed rule in favor of Oracle, it wouldn't be undermining OSS, it would undermine the whole judiciary system. It would be scientifically proven bullshit.

private static void rangeCheck(int arrayLen, int fromIndex, int toIndex {
if (fromIndex > toIndex)
throw new IllegalArgumentException("fromIndex(" + fromIndex +
") > toIndex(" + toIndex+")");
if (fromIndex < 0)
throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(fromIndex);
if (toIndex > arrayLen)
throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(toIndex);
}
Check out the Cookie AutoDelete addon – it can be configured to keep cookies from select, whitelisted domains, and delete everything else every time you close a tab. You can have the cake and eat it too :)
You're implying this was a bad decision because they didn't realise the power of internet search. In reality, had they accepted google's terms they probably would have tanked before they could even get it off the ground.

In my eyes this was not a mistake on Excite's part and is only being treated that way because Google happened to become successful after the fact.
I don't think he/she is burned out. When you are burned out you can't do anything anymore. Then you are way over 'being pissed off'.

But! being pissed off at work is a very good way to get burned out. Most people who are burned out are having conflicts with their moral and what they do or how they live.

So good for the author to make this clear to his boss and is taking action. Because in the end being mad will turn into being burned out.
I'm talking about shipping sheep/animals by sea. The conditions of said shipping can sure use some improvement, but banning it altogether seems like an overreaction.
This seems like it could be mitigated with an integration that watches the issue tracker for updates and then commits those updates to a docs folder on the appropriate branch of the appropriate repo.

This would have saved quite a bit of headache at my last job actually.
Same here. Let's hear more!
Matrix chain multiplication can be seen a special case of tensor contraction, and the https://github.com/Jutho/TensorOperations.jl package has an implementation which tries to optimize the contraction order (macro @tensoropt).
This looks cool, even cooler than TexMe! Was going to start writing a Project brief today, looks like I'm using Markdeep!
SUVs have a dreadful record for safety. They feel safe, because they're so big, but they really aren't more safe than smaller vehicles.
Reminded me of extreme ironing :) https://www.google.com/search?q=extreme+ironing&tbm=isch
Have you never heard of network effect ? Having one the size of WhatsApp is absolutely a unique value proposition since it is impossible to replicate due to acquisition costs.

SpaceX is making something physical no doubt. But they aren't the only one and their competitors aren't cute little garage startups.
Friend of mine does fully automatic translation from C to Java, including automatic OO reengineering.

Some demos are available on his page: https://www.mtsystems.ch

This work is based on the stuff he did for his PhD. I think his largest test case so far is a full translation of VIM.
Yes, but what framework should I use for that? ;)