jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
One perspective is: anything that can be automated (thus lowered in cost) should be. For drudge-work, of course that's good. For some examples, showing that it can be automated shows that it IS drudge-work. But replacing a creative illustrator? That is not drudge-work, it is a fulfilling and enjoyable profession. I don't think it's clear that changing it to become a hobby (because it's no longer viable as a profession) is "a good thing fundamentally". I would need to hear further arguments on this.
Define "better" in this context.
Well one way or another it's not a linear function, so calling it a non-linear conversion is technically not incorrect.

That said I completely agree that it makes way more sense to just call it a linear conversion and to pick an example that's truly nonlinear. Not that there are that many non-linear units, but something like decibel or beaufort might work.
Don't we think a lot more needs to be done about China and will Biden do more or less?
It'd be impossible to boot other OS if Apple didn't put a lot of work into opening the device. It'd be like iPhone and need a jailbreak if they didn't.
That’s not sufficient evidence for the scale of the claim you’re making about basic human nature. Many other factors can explain China’s success much less the demographic composition of Math Olympiad participants.
Oh yeah, I think what you've built can be great enabler for expression and creativity and product itself and definitely has the old school web feel to it. I think what inspired me to write above, was more of a marketing angle you are taking, not necessarily product itself.
>why not just buy it from amazon directly? does ebay/paypal have looser anti-fraud systems than amazon?

Every additional step is an additional level of obfuscation.

I don't get what you mean by "buy it directly". You don't want the book and you don't want to be buying things for yourself using illegitimate money.

>That doesn't work because if you funnel a bunch of stolen credit card purchases into that account, it will quickly get flagged for an unusually high chargeback rate.

I shouldn't have mentioned CCs. Nobody is buying $500 books with credit cards that are likely to charge back. You generally use those for drop-shipping scams where you list $5 toilet brushes for $4.95 on another site and then use the stolen CC to pay. Say you list on eBay and buy on Amazon, the people will dispute Amazon charges but it doesn't matter because the happy customers of your eBay account are getting their $4.95 toilet brushes just fine. $500 books could be an intermediary step where you have $24k sitting in a sketchy account you control (toilet brush business is booming) and you need to siphon it out. You'll be the only one buying the book so no charge-back risk.
Retail transaction/loyalty, network traffic, financial, and health data.

To be clear 'big data' is poorly defined, and I mostly do not work with terabyte+ data sets, but rather with highly dimensional data in moderate volume. Data is only 'big' relative to the algorithms you try to use on it.
Maxwell

and though obvious, Newton is not to be sneezed at.
Regarding the coining of entropy is just an example of the creative genius of Von Neumann:

When Shannon first derived his famous formula for information, he asked von Neumann what he should call it and von Neumann replied “You should call it entropy for two reasons: first because that is what the formula is in statistical mechanises but second and more important, as nobody knows what entropy is, whenever you use the term you will always be at an advantage!

http://www.spatialcomplexity.info/what-von-neumann-said-to-s...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
Based on reading the court docs [0] OP’s account doesn’t seem selective. There’s audio of the event that led to the complaint and it sounds spot on to how it was described in the blog.

The court docs include lots of info but we’ll need to see the end result. But it seems like the blog post is accurate and UVA is being totally stupid and will waste a lot of money losing this case.

[0] https://casetext.com/case/bhattacharya-v-murray
> Isn't the K8s model more "choose your QoS model" - BestError, Burstable or Guaranteed? Or am I misunderstanding your comment completely?

k8s's scheduling model is that scheduler is able to see the entire state of the cluster, thus can optimistically make optimal decisions on scheduling, especially for those long running jobs that are very picky in practice. Although k8s by default only runs the default scheduler, you could in theory run multiple schedulers in parallel (the omega model).

Mesos's pessimistic two level offer model makes it hard for second level scheduler to make optimal decisions because it might not get the right offer it needs. At the same time, first level scheduler lacks application specific information to make the right decision to send the right offer to the second level scheduler, thus the problem. We evaluated many first level scheduling algorithms, and ironically found that "random" first level scheduler sometimes works better than DRF for long running services scheduling.

> Could you say what was unique about the Mesos threading model?

Mesos uses a component called libprocess (think of it as C++ version of erlang). Each actor in the system (mesos master, mesos agent) is single threaded. Thus, all i/o operations need to be non-blocking to not block the actor. This makes it hard to integrate 3rdparty C++ libraries, especially those that involves I/O as they might have a different threading model.

Golang solved this problem using go-routing and bake that into the language. So the golang libraries, especially those involve I/O, are much more composable than C++ IMO.
> This is not the same Ruby you'd use for building web apps with Rails (far from it).

> DragonRuby is powered by highly optimized C code written by Ryan C. Gordon.

This feels like a liability for the long term. The community is now depending on Ryan to maintain this custom Ruby implementation, if I'm reading correctly.
I'm not sure this is a viable argument considering that we also share much of our DNA with apes/monkeys.

It seems like minor genetic differences can create large disparities.

I definitely think environmental factors can compound on a genetic baseline though, and of course the earlier you start compounding the greater the returns.
The Fuchsia security model is a significant departure from classical Unix derivatives. They will presumably want to keep it going for that benefit alone.
Not XML, but, the classic 'never parse html with regex'

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...

:)
They're using an established term, referring partly to circularity in resource consumption, i.e. a closed loop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_economy
Phoenix has a thriving tech community? What?

I lived in Phoenix and I moved to San Francisco to find work precisely because of Phoenix's dismal tech industry. After my contract ended last year, I had three or four job opportunities in Phoenix that I had to turn down. There is no worse feeling in the world than turning down work when unemployed because those jobs would have been huge steps backwards in my career.

One was with a college where I'd be rewriting the same web form in PHP with some rudimentary javascript every day--no growth opportunities. One was with a custom automotive shop that hosted their website on phpBB and had the worst code imaginable as demonstrated to me on a programming test. Another was with a web design firm that listed the most extreme political candidates in the state as its clients. None of these jobs were accessible by transit, incidentally, and would have given me upwards of a 20 mile commute from downtown (the only place in the Phoenix area with a modicum of arts, culture, and entertainment options--and that's about 0.001% of what the Bay Area can offer).

IMHO, it's still 2006 in Phoenix's web dev industry, with a bunch of crappy PHP jobs and maybe five Ruby on Rails jobs postings a year. Companies that serve millions of users and are on the absolute cutting edge of technology simply do not exist in that town. I am certain that my job, writing enterprise social media management software in Ruby on Rails does not exist in the state at all.

Practically speaking, the access to venture capital, tech journalism, and labor in San Francisco and Silicon Valley is utterly unmatched in the nation.

Personally speaking, my quality of life, partially because of a 43% higher paycheck (before bonuses) than I'd ever make in Phoenix is unmatched. My rent might be three times as much, but I've more than made up for it in improvements to my social life, mental health, dating life, and about two dozen other factors. The funny thing about expensive places to live is that they're worth it. Your idea that people have a better lifestyle in Phoenix compared to San Francisco is an absolute Dunning Krueger--there are FAR more factors to one's quality of life than how big their house is.

When I talk to Californians about Arizona the only positive thing I heard was that somebody liked Sedona or Spring Training on vacation. The vast majority said Phoenix was too hot and racist and couldn't imagine living there for any reason. I wouldn't move back to Phoenix for a part time job that paid a half million a year.
Standard operating procedure.

As soon as a company operates where some amount of secrecy is considered necessary, the easiest thing is to maximize that secrecy. The alternative is to have to think each whether X information should be given out.

Some candidates might actually not want identifying information "out there" so it's strip everyone's information than figure out who.

Naturally, this makes things a bit absurd and inefficient but it is simply the natural logic of secrecy. And hey, secrecy appears whenever you have an adversarial market relation. So we may as well relax and enjoy it.
Can't upvote this enough.

1) The early homeworks in this class were basically puzzles, where if you’ve seen the style of problem before you more or less knew the answer. The goal was to expose us to these types of problems and teach us how to think them through properly.

2) The class was taught by Luis just as he was beginning to hit mainstream media. The guy has a unique approach to problems that was absolutely inspiring. His lectures were one of the few that I actually made an effort to go to.
2012, actually. In 2008 we had Firebug with not even a JS profiler, IIRC ;)
Hire someone who has done HIPAA before.
The self-signed certificate can be MITM'd.
Yup, I pretty much want it to be trivially easy for define macros that are themselves macro-extensible. It's definitely possible to do this in Lisp, but:

(a) it's not a well-known technique

(b) it's not in the standard library of any Lisp I know of

(c) there are interesting open design questions to be answered in the implementation of such a system

I hope this article will get folks thinking about these issues.

For example, walking the AST and calling macroexpand will work, but then you can't have a macro that expands differently in different contexts - when interpreted as an expression versus as a pattern, for example. I think this is an important feature.
Eh, I had a Luna CA3 sitting on my desk for a while. HSMs aren't that exotic. I'd be more concerned about the HA aspects which could require extra code. I suppose you could just shove a USB HSM in several of your servers and encrypt every password with at least 2 of them.
Sadly, assholes can be right, too. Having a good asshole filter doesn't mean you have a good 'this person is right' filter, or vice-versa.
Sussman tried to use scheme as a mathematical notation (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/s...) to avoid ambiguities. I don't know how many people saw this, and what the critics were.

The traditional static symbolic notation of math may be the most efficient one, It's constrained, but forces abstraction to emerge. If people had Excel before, we'd never know Gauss sequence sum formula, we'd let the system help us.
That may be true, but all it would take for OP's argument to be valid would be for much of the rest of society to share the same misinformed beliefs about these fields as well.
I am a Java programmer and I consider Jodd micro. YMMW.
So someone in Egypt was poor and took pages out of an early Christian bible to make a mummy mask for them.

One that could be the book of Mark carbon dated to be 90AD or earlier.

Do they keep the mask or heat the glue to remove the paper to decipher the gospel?
No, we should only break it if we can learn something from it if we do; obviously, we should only do it if we have very good reason to think that, but if we do, why wait?
It basically has zero value now, but perhaps my only claim to "fame" in the 90s was writing the first (at least popularly known) raycaster in QBasic which then spawned a ton of clones (the comp.lang.basic.misc community was strong then). It was absolutely hideous and naive but getting credited in far smarter people's larger creations as their inspiration was an eye opener for me :-) (And a feat I have not repeated, alas!)

http://home.kpn.nl/nebula/articfls%5Carticle1.html
http://www.o-bizz.de/qbdown/qbcom/files/txtreng.bas
Thinking that something might happen is not the same as having an intent to cause it to happen. That would make every reader of Cardinal Richelieu to have mens rea to any crime. I also know that by visiting HN I might cause enough drain on their servers that a server breakdown happens, yet I have no intention to cause that.

What the prosecutor might argue however, is that mens rea is not needed for cases of assisting criminal copyright infringement. This is what happened in the pirate bay trial, as the prosecutor brought up precedent cases in which an friend of an accused held up a window during a burglary, and got sentenced even if he was not aware what his friend was up to.
I don't think Wal-Mart improves my standard of living. I think they're predatory, pushing manufacturers into cutting corners beyond sustainability, pushing workers into cutting wages beyond sustainability, and papering over the cracks with government subsidies for food and health care for their workers.

They can get away with it because they're gigantic. And that's the problem with wealth inequality; extreme wealth isn't a problem per se, but it involves a concentration of power that allows the extremely wealthy to switch over from enriching themselves by making everybody better off to enriching themselves by hurting others.
Over 500 million new people have joined the middle class in the last 13 years - https://www.allianz.com/en/press/news/company/point_of_view/...

I do agree we need to look for more effective policy to better manage natural power-law effects (inequality), but globally in many ways things have never been as good as today.
My 1st guess was forcing everyone to download and use Messenger
This seems analogous to the stable kernel ABI difference between Linux and FreeBSD. But I haven't seen any particularly deep articles comparing them, and our treatment of the respective project leaders.
Absolutely and not a surprise at all. The worst part of this problem is that even raising the issue will get you labelled as a misogynist or sexist or just weak around the Bay Area.

There's an incredible double standard. Unfortunately, given the politics of the country, there isn't going to be any support for male victims any time soon. Our only option is to be far stronger, emotionally, than is ever expected of female victims, accept the heavy victim blaming we get, and move on.

source: Male, formerly physically abused by a live in girlfriend. Finally left when she pulled a 10" knife on me and starting swinging.
But in this case they didn't successfully do that, as they used self-signed certificates.
I was under the impression it was limited to llvm supported targets; of which m68k is not officially supported.
Ha, making gameboy games in zig would be neat.
I always hated excel. Then I met Airtable.

Airtable is basically MS Access for the current age and it's absolutely amazing.

When dealing with it, I realized what makes Airtable so wonderful and different from excel: It's typed! Each column has a type which allows airtable to build this easy to use featureset.
Not sure why the sociologist’s desires should take precedence over the original posters’.
Personal optimization schemes fall apart when we have to interoperate with others, just like in system architectures.

Think about the cognitive load of your spouse when you decide how a system should work.
I went to high school in Boston and spend quite a bit of time in mass, main, and nh and feel that this stereotype is vastly overstated. As my dad used to say, "how are the people around here? Well what were the people like where you came from?"

One thing I remember from urban life in Boston itself in the 70s/80s is that the neighborhood identity was extremely strong. The most fun cities are extremely neighborhood centric but this was extreme: though my city high school had kids from all over the city, it was clear that some of them I could not safely visit at their homes. You could tell from someone's accent where they lived in the city. I can't say if this is still the case.
No, violence is never the answer here.
Actually the annoying thing here is, that the pointless discussion is achieved, while the link to the source code doesn't work (maybe temporarily overloaded from HN? Maybe dead)
The point is that vaccines are more blindly accepted than they should be. We tech people are way more cautious with patches on full production systems.

The outage analogy is that assume you were patching your systems (all of them) against, say Duqu, and you blindly deploy the Duqu patch to your "millions" of servers, and instead - you INSTALLED Duqu to said servers. That is bad.

The "outage" (clearly you didnt read my post) - We went to Chicago to go to the zoo for a week. Prior my Daughter got the chicken pox vaccine. The first night in Chicago, she actually got the pox from the vaccine. and it ruined the vacation and we had to stay an extra week, basically in the hotel until she was clear to fly. That was an extended 'outage' to our vacation...

Clear?
Crazy for a Gen-Z like me to think about a time when the latest computer developments and chatter was transmitted in actual paper magazines, development was done on bare-metal or very close to it, and the finished product was boxed and plucked off shelves the way new iPhones are today [1]. Speaks to a more exciting era where everything was a novelty and evolving (from chips to systems to software), compared to today's relatively stale web and computing platforms (Windows, Mac, Android, Google, Facebook) that practically everybody takes for granted.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/sRGxoKy.jpg
Suddenly Dimon got quiet. He leaned back and slowly smiled. “So hit me with a fine. We can afford it.”

In which Dimon lucidly articulates for us why fines will never be sufficient -- and that these people won't start behaving themselves unless they start facing the same penalty that the rest of face for (in general) much lesser transgressions -- namely, jail time, and outright expropriation of their holdings.
My problem is with some items that I buy only twice a month, like bath soap or mayonnaise. I notice that it's about get empty (or it's already empty :() and I put them in my mental to-buy list. If I'm lucky I'll remember them the next time that I go to the supermarket. And probably also the following time and a few more times until I realize that I got a lot of it and I remove the item from the list. So I don't have to buy them for a few weeks...

I really like that it ignores the repeated pushes.

> Unless you elect otherwise, Dash Button responds only to your first press until your order is delivered.
The Chrome only aspect is touched upon in the article. They are using the requestFileSystem() API, which only works on Chrome. I'm not sure why they couldn't have used a more standard means of storing data.
I would argue the "rarely needed flexibility" - our traffic is very spiky, and we scale from 3 to 11 or even 13 front-end instances between our lowest and peak usage. If I had to maintain all that hardware capacity for 10% of the day, it would be more costly.

Then there are the ancillary benefits - I can lose a server and another is in its place, attached properly to the stack within 60 seconds. I can take advantage of compute power when I need. I don't have to run nginx or haproxy for load balancing (and I don't have to manage the load balancer servers) and spinning up an identical stack in Europe or Asia is a single command line statement away.

Also I'm not a server admin by trade.

So I realize there are scenarios where bare metal could be cheaper, but the opportunity and admin costs need to be factored as well.
What about 'hyphen'? I use 'minus' / 'hyphen' depending on context.
I thought microsoft had done enough to screw vista customers, with their slow and bloated OS. But theres more, now they can deprive them of IE10 when there seems to be no technical reasons.
one of them resubscribed after seeing how I handled it

Could you explain more about how you handled it?
I'm not so sure about this? Has tumblr gotten its way to profitability yet? I don't know.

I'm sure they will figure it out eventually, I'm just unsure whether they are going to have an easier time then this chinese clone(at least to the point where they will be pointing and laughing).

Lets not forget that tumblr has spent millions of dollars and years coming up with the mix of what makes tumblr work and it has been essentially copied wholesale, if this ends up working in a chinese market, thats a huge competitive advantage for the chinese clone, because they didn't have to spend any of that money or resources to begin with.
I am working on a very in depth guide to Twilio development, which covers this. Short version: unborked division of responsibilities between web app, cron jobs, and queues. I now check for validity prior to execution in addition to before insertion. I also have a few new failsafes, including automatic rate limiting that would have stopped the DOS if it were possible to schedule it now.
There's not necessarily a distinction between the two, though, because many companies willingly share data with governments (either due to disinterest in fighting requests, for economic or political gain, or some other reason), or else share the data with other companies who in turn do so.

From that perspective, a large company having your data seems likely to be equivalent to multiple governments having your data, unless you have some reason to believe the company is not sharing your data with governments, and is not sharing your data with other companies who will share the data with governments. Otherwise, the conservative guess is that a large company having your data implies that the governments of all countries they operate in, as well as the governments of all countries their business partners operate in, have access to your data (or at least, can get access if they decide to).
5DB2FF because I like the blue/ocean shade.

However setting a topcolor is a waste of time as the "Add Comment" page doesn't obey it, and the Y logo looks pretty horrible with anything but the default.
They're nice to have but you can do some or all the same things using recursive CTE in PostgreSQL, for one.
It still means you can't reliably grep code for an identifier. Strikes me as a really stupid wart in an otherwise great language.

go format is a much better solution to the same problem.
Oh, you can download it in PC Settings if you are already running windows 10, then you can go under Update and recovery and press preview builds and download the new one :) easier since you don't have to run the installer.