jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For a less complete approach, look at what how the lowRISC project has proposed to extend the RISC-V architecture with a couple of tag bits: http://www.lowrisc.org/docs/memo-2014-001-tagged-memory-and-...
If you understand why I have this viewpoint, then have I convinced you to have the same viewpoint? Or, have I given away some thing about my internal reasoning mechanics to suggest that I would have erroneously come to my conclusion, perhaps based largely on blind cynicism?
taking a cue from Cancel Culture. Wants to inflict as much public shame and probably wants this rep to lose his job.

In fact, by publishing his name you're giving the company an opportunity to throw him under the bus. It redirects culpability. Microsoft and Canonical should be the only focus.
The idea that animal products are unhealthy seems to be misguided.

It seems more likely that the supposedly "heart healthy" seed oils are causing heart disease.

The Carnivore Code has some very good insights (at least in my opinion) [1]

And this talk on how seed oils are destroying our health is also pretty interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kGnfXXIKZM

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Carnivore-Code-Unlocking-Returning-An...
is there a way to disable uploading to imgur? i wouldn't want to accidentally do it!
Advertising is like drugs: There‘s always a demand, and if it‘s not satisfied legally and transparently, it will find a way through other means

If by that you mean that we should incarcerate influencers like we do drug traffickers, I'm all for it!
Actually, that did happen to me and I ended up just forgetting about it. At the time I also wondered if it was intentional.

In fact I've noticed conveniently broken web pages from multiple large corporations. I've ran into this issue when attempting to access privacy policies and other disclosures.

There certainly may be something nefarious about this. Comcast could certainly get away with it.
The US does damaging unethical things. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9285146 They aren't just observing.
IIRC it's because DosBox doesn't progress much (well, TBH, they don't release much, but their svn is quite active)

DosBox-X may also be better at some timing critical stuff such as demo's.
I am thinking it could be used to impersonate someone in a phone call to a family member for conning.
I also compare open issues to closed issues. If the numbers are roughly the same (or the open issues bigger than closed) I'd say that's a problem.
Wasm is structurally similar to those things, yes, but is so much faster that it is actually categorically different.
It's a bit like asking why Windows has a calculator :).

Emacs is best viewed a Lisp execution platform with a built-in text UI. Much like it has a "c++ app", "terminal app" and "compile this" app, it also ships with a "calc app" (literally called "calc"). Since it was being used by lot of mathy people for lot of mathy stuff, it ended up being a proper scientific calculator application.

(Also, Lisps are inherently friendly for doing any kind of symbolic calculations. A Lisp system is one of the least surprising places to find a symbolic integrator in.)
Historically, many companies have had a half hour paid lunch. This is quite a bit less common today.
Great as always, but Tim says: Open Standards Drive Innovation

These standards aren't really that open because of the committees, large companies, and bureaucracy surrounding them. And major languages we use like PhP, Python, Ruby, Java, etc. (with exception of ANSI C#, Javascript (ECMAScript) and some others) weren't successful because they were based on standards. I use FF (which was touted as standards compliant all during its transition from Mozilla from Netscape) all the time, but if it weren't for Netscape folding and IE sucking, it probably would have had much less market share than it does. I think standards are good, but the red tape slows us down. Put the specs and their reference implementations on Github (if it doesn't go down) and fork them at will, then maybe we'll see some real progress. Successful viruses mutate frequently.
The US jails far more people today than the USSR ever managed to. It seems to be working out okay for us.
I'll ignore you ad-hominem attack on people you disagree with.

Please name a single attempt to replicate the RAND experiment (i.e., a randomized trial). Really, I'm waiting. I ask because I'd really love to see something more current. It would be amazingly useful.

Incidentally, you are eliding some other interesting facts the RAND experiment turned up. For the healthiest 80% of the poor, being in the 5% copay group made them less healthy. In all cases, the variation was very small. This is roughly what you'd expect in a study statistically measuring many null results - a few measures turn up non-zero purely by chance.

Similarly, if you study the affect of prayer on 30 or 40 different medical problems, you are likely to come up with 1 or 2 positives.
That’s a great scene. For anyone who hasn’t seen the movie, I might recommend skipping the clip and watching the full film! If you’re on HN, odds are you would enjoy it, and it has an impressive cast.
Some games can be iffy, but I haven't really had any major problems with the site. My computer is from 2015, so not exactly high-end.

You could also install the desktop client, then you can play all the games easily (including the non-web-based ones).

I'm partial to this one: https://leef6010.itch.io/projectkat
Pretty neat.

Still highly dependent on Windows Sysmon 8.00.

Be nice to see this one break free of Sysmon and become applicable toward the Unix computasphere.
It is an outstanding movie. But I think this particular scene is one of the finest scenes in any movie ever made. It could stand alone as a short.
Thank you!

Here's a working link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B126A71kXTHWVm5UQm4ycVRNbjg...
This is interesting. Always enjoy the innovations that come out of the bitcoin community.
Every week or two, I backup my data to an 8T drive. Every year or so, I take the 8T drive off site.
> Big, rich, process-driven companies and institutions are the easiest to do the least work in for the longest time.

You kinda need to weasel in there first. When I worked at Intel (& to a lesser extent, Microsoft and IBM) there were literally hundreds of little 5-10 person b.s. boondoggles that did nothing of value but had management that could spin like Rumpelstiltskin, just took the company for a ride. Get several levels of that management going and no one has to really produce anything, they just need a manager to create paper-thin goals and hit those. Why? Because managers want to retire on the job and with enough nepotism it is entirely possible to scratch each other's backs. Problem is, they are very defensive about bringing in anyone that could upset the applecart. If you find one and burrow in, enjoy it!
> second-most voted for President in American history

The population of the USA is continuously rising. This is not an achievement. All it takes is an unusual voter turnout and a somewhat close election.

> because he isn't their brand of politics.

No. They banned him because at that time they determined that his violence encouraging speech was a real danger to society.

> he is a former US President - we aught to know what he thinks, even if we disagree or think it's outlandish - no?

Also no. Traditionally, former presidents live a more private life to pave the way for a new generation of politics. And even if you think he should be able to continue to influence the day-to-day political news, he has the ability to release press statements and contact any media outlet he wants.

Trump literally is an example that being banned from social media does NOT limit his public speech. Anything he puts out is discussed in mainstream media. Just a few days ago we were informed of his utterly stupid idea of using cancel culture to protest cancel culture.
Ah, so bags are out, as is practically the ceiling. But cut sheet HDPE is easy to find, so tiles atop your machine would be relatively cheap and easy.
Wasn't the NSA tool leak due to an ex-NSA contractor intentionally leaking it?

No one knows who the Shadow Brokers are, unless that’s covered later in the book.
> The key thing to tackle is dealing with the server side state

The core problem of web UIs has always been managing state. People like statically-rendered pages because most state gets kept in a) the URL, and b) transient HTML elements, and both are highly visible and easy to deal with in robust ways. When you're forced to have server-side state it's exceptionally painful, but people usually just avoid it altogether which in most cases pushes things towards the virtue of having less state anyway.

For complex UIs with lots of little interactions the above story doesn't really work, so we've invented state management systems for the client. Managing complex state still sucks, but it sucks less with these tools.

Sounds like this approach is just moving that state store back to the server, with a greased pipeline so it isn't so horribly painful to add new pieces of state even though both sides are involved. But you'll still face all the same problems you face with a front-end store: transientness, cache-clearing, even modeling is hard when you're dealing with a big blob of mutable state. And there will be the additional challenge of associating this stuff with a user (which you get for free on the front-end, even with modern state stores).

> Let the browser maintain a DOM tree that templates over a JSON object, then reactive-ly update and it's an amazing experience. You have minimal data transfer, and minimal rendering updates. There is a great deal of power in having your UI be a stateless function over a giant JSON object.

> this is where I have my shitty idea of a programming language for board games

It's funny, I started building a web-based board game to play with family during quarantine, and I landed on this exact approach totally by coincidence :) I'm using polling requests instead of websockets because I'm lazy/it doesn't need to scale, but it's the exact same idea where the server just publishes a giant JSON object of state and the clients are pure functions of it (and send messages to the server to mutate it). I wonder if there's some aspect of board games that pushes one towards that line of thinking.
Hold no point in selling for some paltry sum of money.
I’m gonna be “that jerk on HN,” but this is that idea that just keeps getting rehashed every couple of years then fizzles out. The reason that it’s so attractive is because as developers we love to build and save time, and we think, “imagine what we could do if we didn’t have to ask for data from remote servers...”

The problem is that stateful connections suck and create artificial complexity when you don’t need them. Instead of managing the state of your app you’re now managing the state of your app and a connection to a remote server. HTTP is a stateless protocol on top of a stateful socket connection. It wasn’t designed this way by accident.

I’m all for new engineers building SPAs creating exciting new libraries, but HTML-over-websocket has been rehashed at least three times over my professional career so far and it’s not even that long.

Don’t get me wrong — websockets have their use cases. Multiplayer online experiences pretty much require them. It’s just that HTTP isn’t fundamentally broken, and by engineering HTML over websockets you’ll almost universally find yourself building protocols to abstract the state away... re-engineering HTTP in the process.

It’s certainly a fun project which I have personally worked on. But I’m not sure it has legs outside of that. Open to being proven wrong, the authors of HTTP aren’t infallible.
That makes sense to me.

This is an interesting perspective. Can I ask what your background is that exposed you to this way of thinking?
This seems like a good a time as any to sell my single share I bought so I could be part of... whatever the hell was going on. Or should I hold?
Pop OS doesn’t use grub :(
Sectioned?
Unfortunately, it is impossible to modify the way a locked iPad/iPhone syncs...

Even assuming you can trust that the internal data structures of iPad/iPhone versions are identical - you can't implement this as a 3rd party app you install, as 3rd party apps are sandboxed and can only access their own data. And the only sync supported is via iTunes, which again can't be modified or replaced without jailbreaking the device.
exactly my point. But what was defined as "real" at that time was that earth is flat.
In case anyone's feeling nostalgic, you can still buy Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics for $19.99: http://fallout.gamesplanet.com/game-fallout-trilogy2-interpl...
The ’70 ball was designed to be visible on TV and somehow ended up becoming the archetypical soccer ball. That is, I think, a pretty cool story. The soccer ball I grew up with, the one I drew whenever I wanted to draw a soccer ball (always looked ridiculous because drawing icosahedrons is hard if you don’t know what you are doing) as a child is actually just forty years old!

But I don’t think that difference is actually that big. Sure, there is the color and it’s a icosahedron, but just look at a volleyball. They still look like the ’66 ball looked. So this change of shape didn’t have to happen. (Recent design also abandoned the icosahedron – it’s quickly becoming a thing of the past.)
Whoa, I didn't know there are other Malaysians on HN. We should probably meet up.
Umm. Yea. Right.

Good luck putting your sqlite db under version control, templating it, modifying it easily from the commandline, etc.

The idea is just idiotic, especially considering how little configuration is needed in first place for something like a mongrel.

There's a reason why almost all services expose their configuration in a more or less human readable file.
And the short term.
One of the great delights of the internet is having NYT op-eds followed up, almost immediately, by critical blog posts written by knowledgeable writers. I still remember a decade or two ago, when arguments like this were conducted through magazines and each volley would take weeks to be published and mailed out. I'm not necessarily commenting on the meat of the argument, but certainly this much-sped-up rhythm of debate is a win for us when quality writers and thinkers are involved in the discussion.
Dammit.

In that case the vowel omission is inexcusable.
yea, that kind of made things a little more difficult, but I suppose it's realistic to actual conditions
In case you don't like short stories and didn't click the link, the title is a line from a Jonathon Coulton (of Portal fame) song, "The Future Soon" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZEEDa9Mej8
>COICA is the digital equivalent of a lynching

The analogy isn't obvious to me.
This article is so based in false premises its hard to know where to start. For 1) San Francisco has the highest minimum wage in the country. 2) California has an high sales tax with a base of 7% and 8.75% in "the city". She also choose a trendy place for her $6 dollar breakfast that and taxes are a large reason for the amount.

I think what everyone really notices is the exorbitant rent prices in "the city". The reason for that is rent control and subsidized housing which artificially lowers the supply of housing thus raising prices. I am techie living in a crappy part of SF in a crappy building since I don't want to pay half my salary in rent. Across from me is a Mercy housing complex with an income limit of 30k. They enjoy large rooms, views and cheaper rent than me but no blames pricing on that. Its all the techies fault for bringing income and demand to "the city".
I first thought this person must have done MDMA - though iboga sounds even more powerful.
> * It is also why I have to tell my friends I can't view their Youtube link because it says I have to sign in.*

You can avoid this by deleting assorted Google cookies. It only tells you to log in because Google is tracking/recognizing you anyway, even when you're logged out, because of their cookies.
So long as grocery stores exist, cost of eating at restaurants has zero correlation to cost of living. WTF?!?!
I always wondered about this. If changes in gravity propagated faster than light, could you build a transmitter by modulating a gravity field by colliding matter with anti-matter?
The Homsar or Disco Stu of business.
Oh ya, it's definitely not nothing.

But it's not the huge windfall I think that OP implied. It's not "if we didn't spend so much money on sports we could fix all these problems we have in our education system" money.
I wonder if they will stop disabling features for the chrome UA if/when they release their electron app on Linux? One could hope...
Personally probably wouldn't follow HN'd advice on running a ballet company, I'd ask people who have run ballet companies.
Would love to know how many Trees/Algea farms/plants generally would need to do the job

Also growing plants and converting to fuel is exceedingly cheap for diesel

And before anyone gets worried about food prices going up.. it takes a surprisingly small amount of land mass to cover currect sneeds in energy, sorry no references no time..
Well, it's also manipulative. It wasn't created by Alfred Nobel but the Nobel Foundation does refer to it as a Nobel prize: https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/economic-sciences/
This is the common narrative, but is there any source confirming this?
I'd call that implied obsolescence
I'm not super familiar with AI/ML/RL at all, so I'm sure this is a naive question, but isn't it obvious that the answer is to just build in costs to the utility function for behaviors you want to avoid (what they seem to refer to as constrained RL in the article)? That seems both the simplest way to handle it, and most elegant in terms of mapping to the real world domain. Like are there alternate solutions that are even remotely competitive with this? I'm sure I must be oversimplifying and I assume that there's some nuance I'm missing. E.g. is this more about how you design those constraints to minimize the overall loss in learning efficiency, or something like that?
Exactly!

But even so, meaningful collective global action is seeming less and less likely. So I can imagine that some with surplus greenhouse-neutral energy could capture CO2 to offset emissions by others.
I believe Skype for Business has been discontinued, but I may be wrong.

Edit: I actually bothered to check and the EOL is 2021. New customers are directed to Teams. I used Teams at work, and it’s crap quality UX, but it does the job. For chat at least. (PowerPoint crashed on me multiple times this week from within Teams.)
I'm not sure I'd agree with the comparison to the FM transmitter. That TV DAC claims to have a SNR of 90dB, which is well above the ~70 of FM radio, and comparable to "CD quality" (modulo marketing BS).

That being said, the benefits of 24 bits over 16 (which I'm not convinced of in any case) would certainly not survive that setup.
The puzzles posed in interviews at Facebook (and at Google) have a lot less B.S. It's more geared toward data structures/algorithms. Failing to solve these puzzles is a deal breaker.

here's a kind of medium example from Fog Creek: given a list of elements in lexicographical order (i.e. ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']), find the nth permutation

I'll add that they'll give you a certain amount of guidance if you require it, but beyond a certain point they're just helping you to make it less awkward.
it looks like most of your data came from crawling us (yellowpages.com)
The reality, for better or for worse, is that a lot of the companies that are using puzzles like this prefer false negatives over false positives. In other words, they would rather pass over the occasional excellent engineer than accidentally hire a mediocre engineer. This is the case at Google, Amazon et al, and likely at Facebook and others as well. It very well might be the case that you're just an unfortunate casualty of this sort of hiring practice.
I think it is important to note that everyone can be a hybrid of all three.

I do it all the time, and I just wrote about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2042017

I find that looking at the problem enables me to pick which hat to wear. Do I need to bust out some spurs and cowboy up and hack a way? Or, do I need to sit down and identify the state of the problem formally? Or, do I need to write up a specification and ship it overseas?
> The market seems to be poised to become a 70% Android lead and the rest split among Apple, Microsoft and Nokia in quantities to be determined.

How can you just throw this out there like a foregone conclusion? Mobile markets are still rapidly evolving. This is far more of a leap than my main point which is that Apple of the 90s and Apple of 00s are two completely different companies which do not have relevance to each other.

> I'm not even sure Apple will be able to get second place, to be honest, which makes the comparison to the Windows market even more relevant.

Who will be #1 again? HTC? Motorola? Samsung? LG?
Sorry, I mean how they moved all the jobs from the states overseas in recent history. In the "hey-day" of AOL they were all around the country and a very big employer. But they ran their ship into the ground, by being stupid and greedy IMHO.
Due process in the military is not the same as due process for civilians. This is well-known and not sprung upon people after they join the armed forces.
I took each x axis line segment
x(1) -> x(6) for example
and hashed it at 1,2,3,4,5,6
and did that for everyone
then it would simply be a question of iterating each M point and looking at the hash table

Probably a stupid way to do it but it worked.

I think the issue was that I did not know points == queries
Hate to post "me too," but I did the exact same thing.
The embodiment is changed of course. But the process of successive ranks of weighted accumulators has not been. Which is the neural model. Of course its different. But there's still the question of, could failure modes of the mathematical model be present in the biological one? Its a question of modeling, not wetware vs hardware.
For example, full text search over your text queries, or range queries for your numerical data.

The idea is that data in databases is organized in B-Trees, so we traverse those from a remote client. It is fast enough because usually only logarithmic fraction of a tree needs to be seen by the client.
To give some perspectives, the article is written by someone in Singapore and intern rate there is about SGD 1000 per month ~ 750 USD, so 5k USD is kind of big deal for 3 months of work. I used to work for Apple Singapore for 800 SGD per month.

Additional figures, fresh graduate CS major worth about 30k USD per year.
It does feel a little flimsy and it takes a few tries to get the hang of it reliably. At some point square will need to provide more heavy-duty readers for higher volume merchants.
You're probably not the only who feels that way but it's as likely that this could speed it up. NFC is just a fancy way to communicate a number which is the easiest part of a credit card transaction. Square will be well-positioned to serve the long tail when/if NFC gains traction.
There are no dynamic types, but there may be dynamic typing. All those so called dynamic typed languages are actually statically uni-typed and figure out at run time the so called dynamic type.
Types are not properties of data, types are proofs about your program. In general type safety provides proofs of preservation of types and that your program won't get stuck due to types.
The perception you have about types is exactly the problem that Prof Harper is trying to avoid in his students.
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