jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
And the more frequently you drive in your car the more likely you are to have a fatal accident. The more frequently you fly in an airplane the more likely you are to die in a plane crash.

Many people drive in their cars every single day without dying in an accident, and many people fly nearly every single day for business without ever dying in a fiery accident.

No one hears about the companies doing extremely innovative stuff on the iOS platform because they're not complaining. Look at TapTapTap and the apps they've built and how imaginative and beautiful they are. They've made millions of dollars with just a handful of people working on their apps. Take a look at Smule and the Ocarina app they made that lets you blow into the microphone and play your iPhone like a flute. Really innovative and killer apps that are in the App Store, now, available to purchase.

You can build incredible, mind-blowing, futuristic apps for iOS without getting close to any of the provisions in the Terms and Conditions. The article's main premise is that "killer apps" go beyond what Apple allows you to do with iOS but that's bullshit, anyone can build a killer app with what Apple gives you.
I don't think there's much point nit-picking on multiples - who knows for sure without seeing their code - but my point still stands. Would you have been surprised if StackExchange ran on 50 or 60 front-end servers? I certainly wouldn't have. And that would be the equivalent of being able to take 200ms a response for the same amount of traffic. In ruby/rails that's a pretty horrible end goal. GitHub's mean web response time is currently 57ms, for example.
$ 10,000 seems like a magic number. Another Microsoft Research project, Detours [1] costs $ 9,999.95.

[1] http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msus/en_AU/pdp/Microsoft...
It could be useful for future compilers and languages that use refined types (e.g. `x : int if x > 0`). Check out Liquid Haskell!
Or just use the google talk feature that's part of gmail, and phone out to anywhere in the US and Canada for free.
I don't know if you saw the story about Joyent's Triton dealie-majig yesterday or not: But do you know if the Solaris Zones are considered secure enough for multi-tenancy?

I'm excited about giving that a try, but I'm trying to find out if anyone has really different opinions on how well it can/will work. So far people seem to be really, really positive and I haven't seen much skepticism/criticism yet.
Too little is known about whether money spent in education is worth it, period. The US spends more on education per capita than almost all OECD countries, but performs worse on international metrics. What's the value proposition?
We don't have innovation in apps, so not surprising. I suppose it is a perfect storm of walled gardens, locked devices, everything social and strange monetization.

People are not building apps, but social graphs they could sell. Or addictions that they can milk. If the software happens to do something useful is a nice side effects.
I suspect that they've sold a fair few licenses in their time. SMT solvers are widely used in industry, and to my knowledge Z3 is one of the better ones.

It's probably just that the volume of sales isn't going to make sense when comparing to the size of the team.
What are the differences between hardware and software culture?
I would point to "Ghandi threatening you with nuclear weapons" as a counterexample. Civ AI players were notoriously mercurial and their behavior is so bewildering that people developed elaborate theories about software bugs that are completely false to explain them (the "Ghandi becomes violent late-game because of integer rollover" myth).
It used to be looked down upon because there was a connotation that you just couldn't make it in your own circles, but eventually people figured out there were real pros.
Probably not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage#Ricardo.2...

To take your pot example, there are places where it grows well, and places where it's not so easy to grow. It's better for everyone if it's grown in the easy places, and traded for goods that are more easily produced in the 'not so easy' places.

That's the theory, at least. Naturally, that specific example also has a lot of legal issues surrounding it!
If you haven't seen it, there is this discussion in the issue tracker:

https://github.com/HugoGiraudel/sass-guidelines/issues/28
Wistful remembering of a "golden age"? Check. Whining about "entitled millenials"? Check.

I foresee a fantastic career in print magazine ahead of you.
The data is written twice when using WAL. From the same link you pasted:

> The original content is preserved in the database file and the changes are appended into a separate WAL file.

The difference is whether the journal keeps the new data (WAL) or the old data (not WAL). If you are writing big chunks of data, WAL will probably be more I/O intensive.

Taking a wild guess I'll say that if you are adding data to the database, and not using WAL, the data will only be written once since the journal won't keep a reference to old data if no pages is being overwritten.
This implies there is no equivalence relation with == in JS. In order to form an equivalence relation, it would need to be reflexive, symmetric and transitive.
Why? SELECT count(*) does not actually mean fetching all fields. It actually means fetching zero fields (the SQL standard is a bit weird) while SELECT count(uidpk) means fetching one field, but some databases optimize that to SELECT count(*) if uidpk is NOT NULL.
Meeting indoors has been illegal in London since December 2 and based on current communication will be illegal until at least March 2, so that'll be four months of it being illegal to meet any person from outside your household indoors.

I actually had to look this up in order to make sure I had the dates right, but it's absolutely correct.

It is also illegal to meet a single person in your garden or outside unless you're exercising. I don't have exact timings on that, because in order to protect my mental health I've stopped following the news.

"A tad excessive" is understating it a bit. It's inhuman. Writing it down makes me feel ill. When people talk about it as if it's normal and okay, I get an intense feeling of anger and a desire to cause them pain.

So if you want your perspective on why people are acting like "covidiots" or whatever offensive name we're applying to our brothers now - this is why.

I am done with bureaucratic despots telling me what to do, I am not a guinea pig to be experimented on.
Probably at least 80% of Britons don't even need to do it, it's only if you're self-employed, have capital gains over the allowance, extra pension contributions and you're a higher rate tax payer, etc. that you even need to self-assess.
I agree on some of your points but not all of them, and some examples are downright wrong ("Unix to OSX" has nothing to do with visualization and all to do with reliability). We are talking about visual programming, not generic interaction.

One thing that your examples tend to have in common is that they deal with describing states (documents), not modelling processes. Maybe that has something to do with it. Describing actions ends up effectively requiring flowcharts, which is what visual programming typically ends up being, and that gets painful and slow tremendously quickly. That's why visual programming tools do not endure: because once you get skilled enough, you will find them annoyingly constrained.

I can just point out that my niche (accounting) is arguably one of the oldest in computing. Visual programming to address accounting challenges has been tried over, and over, and over, and it failed. every. single. time. It's a massive target that everyone hopes to hit, because the jackpot is massive, but I would argue that it will never happen. Excel keeps winning because it doesn't even try to play that game: if you want to do anything beyond instant calculation, it gives you VBA and off you go. That's what people really want: if they are smart enough to want advanced process modelling, they are smart enough to learn how to write an "if" block.

> it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Believe me, there is also a large industry of programmers invested in visual paradigms; and their salary depends directly on not understanding the lessons of the past.
It's important to keep in mind that COVID is a danger for the entire planet at least until every nation on the planet is vaccinated.

As long as this virus can spread in unvaccinated populations, mutations are bound to happen and sooner or later they will be knockout mutations, circumventing current vaccine effects.

So no one on this planet is truly safe from future lockdown/pandemic status until we are all vaccinated. And even that is debatable.
bellard is a programming genius and true C hacker. his works are so great but how humble is his website! why doesn't he write blog posts? why he has so little online presence? hmm. let us wish him a long and productive life.
I don't see the field you're referring to, but I'll try to answer with a best guess anyway.

Most web spam bots fall into two categories:

1. They target a certain web software package (such as WordPress), for which they know the HTML layout and the range of possible CAPTCHA challenges.

2. They try to fill out every HTML form they find blindly, using heuristics based on the names of form input elements.

To defeat both, all you need to do is to write a custom HTML form by hand (which defeats category 1), and add a simple CAPTCHA challenge (which defeats category 2).
So long as Wickard v. Filburn remains precedent, it is really quite settled. The only question is if it will be enforced. Since the states had voted to legalize it, it is obviously politically unpopular to clamp down on them, but they will likely continue to make the operational aspects of these business very difficult (banking, credit card processing, etc).
You seem to be quoting from here:

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/29/europe/ukraine-azov-movem...

Cite your sources please.

I note that they also say "Moscow has given the regiment an outsized role in the conflict" ... "Ukraine "is not a cesspit for Nazi sympathizers" ... "There are far-right actors prominent in Russia, too." ... "For its part, Russia also has a thriving ultra-nationalist scene that is tolerated by the authorities." ... " some experts say Russia's fixation on a minor player like the Azov movement serves a purpose -- allowing the Kremlin to frame the conflict as an ideological and even existential struggle. However remote from reality that may be."

> "Azov's military and political wings..."

And which one - military or political - is of interest to you?

The first, the military wing, is just another regiment (not a Battalion) under regular military command now.

There are _militant nationalists_ in a country's _national military_ ? No shit, that's literally the right place for them. Any country will be the same: people who want to fight for their country are a natural fit for ... fighting for thier country. Tell me that the USA doesn't have any gung-ho conservative patriots in the armed services ranks before you make a big deal out of this.

This is not remarkable about Ukraine outside of Russian propaganda, as the above CBS and CNN links make clear.

You say that the army is "very much involved in the current conflict"? No fooling, what else would the actual army be doing in wartime?

The second, political:

Myth: "Nazism is rampant in Ukrainian politics and society, supported by authorities in Kyiv."

Reality: "The candidate for the far-right nationalist party, Svoboda, won 1.6% of the vote in the 2019 presidential election."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/03/russia-ukraine...

This is a much lower percentage than in many EU countries.
And I that see your "far-right National Corps party" was similar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Corps#Election_result...

Reality: President Zelenskyy is secular Jewish, and the Odessa religious Jewish community was thriving in 2018

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/.premium.MAGAZINE-...

That is not an indicator of widespread "neo-Nazi leanings".

So why do you continually bring this misleading scare story up? It's nothing but Russian propaganda talking points that don't have basis in current reality. The CBS link above made that clear, but you did not respond to it. Your own CNN report says the same.

Talk to us about the same in Russian military (e.g. Wagner Group) and society (Mr Putin's recent unhinged speeches calling for more Russian Lebensraum) before you say that this is a Ukrainian problem.
I should know better than to comment in crypto threads, the "discussions" are rarely interesting. Here's the meme, you'll understand why it's so fitting. There's probably a more proper name for this type of fallacy but I don't know it. https://youtu.be/A-RfHC91Ewc
You can only argue religion with atheists. Everyone else is a stakeholder. Something someone told me at university and it has been remarkably true.
I’m now imagining a consortium of software companies that all put most of their service requests behind a shared speed-test domain, to do the same thing as a common good

Maybe this could even be a standalone service
If you’re in the west. A major bank failing and Govt + insurance not covering the losses for customers means something we have not encountered as a modern society. That’s as close to a break down of modern society as you can get. Sure it’s possible. Cash will def be great then. However this is such an extreme situation that there’s no way to know what will be good in that situation.

I would think in a situation like that, we would have something similar to what happened to job losses and the stock market cratering like in March and April 2020. Except that cratering and job losses would continue while riots and protests all across would get bigger and bigger. Crime presumably would go up a lot too.

It slips out that your family has $20K in cash at your home…who knows what’ll happen in this dystopian situation.
>> If you figure out how to profitably get wires to people's houses, you solve the ISP's problems. I

Same as they did with electricity a century ago. If you want to provide service to the profitable urban area then you must run wires to the non-urban areas too.
Today, GFW start block VPN. So it only would become worse in the future..............
What i am getting at is that, no matter how hard you try, the result won't ever be the same. The fact that the melody is the same isn't good enough, it simply won't sound the same. The instrument has a definitive palpable impact on the end user (the listener in this case).

That's simply not true of programming languages. The programmer may take longer to get the same result in Java than in Haskell, but he can reach the exact same result.

It may be true about programming languages ecosystems (libraries and such) and this may have a much more profound effect on the user experience, but interestingly enough, the ecosystems of Java / C++ are amongst the biggest and most fertile, so that's definitely not a point against them.

EDIT: One point you might be making is that the programmer's pleasure and frustration will have an impact on the end result. While already very far from the musical instrument analogy, for the reasons i have explained above, this really remains to be proved. The fact that haskell and other 'state of the art' languages are more pleasurable when you program for yourself doesn't necessarily map to the fact that it would make programming in an enterprise context more efficient. It could, but i would like to see cold hard data of this before making statements such as "the end result won't be as good".
3 fake posts made it through. I'd consider > 0 a failure. I guess you could use a super secret From email address?
Dammit, I accidentally flagged this, and then it seemed to drop off the front page.

Is that how this works? It seems to be unflagged now, but still off the front page.
Again, sounds nice, but an ME wouldnt be so cocky if he had to smelt his own materials and quality grade them before even starting to build the bridge. ME's get the benefit of a older, more mature industry that surrounds them and enables them to make rational decisions. See how quickly that goes to hell when getting substandard parts from a sketchy supplier. Then you can see the schedules and the budgets go to hell.

Multiply this times 100 and you are just about in the same situation as web developers. Maybe in 100 years, an ecosystem will grow around to support us? I can only hope. For now, i cant even rely on xml to be marshalled the same unless i control both client and server.
Why don't you back up your statement with data? Your argument (that most developers live in the USA) is the one that requires convincing. Maybe you slept through your social studies class but USA is just one part of the world and there are many other countries. And they all use computers and smartphones. And it's obvious American developers are not the ones who coded apps that run on them.
I think the other side of the DRM elephant is piracy. Books are so small compared to movies, a few hundred meg can provide years of reading material.

It can be hard to find a pirate copy of a single book, but it's fairly easy to find a huge package of hundreds of fantasy or science fiction books.

I think there are some interesting opportunities for startups to explore new publishing models. I think authors should be looking at what is happening with free to play games or crowdsourcing.

It might be hard to convince investors there is serious money in fiction, but people like to be entertained and I think there are ways you can get people excited about, and spending money on, written stories.

Actually, if anybody wants to toss ideas around I'd love to chat some more.
All the evidence we have points to the conclusion that the mind is embodied. There are no unembodied mental phenomenon reported or observed, nor can (you seem to conclude) there be such a report.

So I repeat, to the extent it is possible to answer the question, within the bounds of reasonable skepticism, we can conclude the mind is entirely embodied and therefore that an afterlife of mental experience is impossible.

You've not on what grounds we could conclude otherwise, you've just said you can imagine it to be, and you 'tend towards' thinking this or that, and you're willing to venture some mechanics for it. What could falsify your opinions?

I don't think you've really thought about it. Outside trying to match it with your Buddhist predilections. Why would memory be a qualia that is brain based, but others would not? Isn't the experience of remembering a qualia? Can you give an example of a qualia that wouldn't use any memories or associations what so ever? Do you think some memories are encoded outside the brain, whereas personal memories are brain based? Do you think hormones are involved in qualia? Would there be virtual hormones for disembodied qualia? Qualia isn't 'magic'.

I simply can't fathom how you conclude that some more understanding is needed to figure out if parts of the mind is disembodied.
So advice like this:

> 4. Be skeptical, read the literature; understand the risks you are taking.

is bad? Is the idea that we should turn off critical thought and blindly accept pro-LSD arguments, while blindly rejecting the anti-LSD arguments? That seems backwards.
http://librelist.com/browser//persona.advocacy/2015/1/24/the...
Mark Zuckerburg is no Steve Jobs.
Thanks - that's a bit better of a teaser. I'm happy to see mine isn't red, but it's pretty tightly clumped in the main group of solutions. That's not really surprising as it's not that far off from your reference solution, which seems to be the most straightforward way to go about it.
I see a "g902.d" on that graph -- is that a typo?

EDIT: and also a g900.d and a g901.d. Maybe not a typo after all.
Gifts for people you don't like?
r.e. electricity production; I might be able to help. My degree was Electronics (rather than Electrical) Engineering but you can't help pick up a few tips :)

(I expect there are more qualified people here too; but if none appear...)
I have a 40 minute commute (each way) that is mostly a train ride. When I first started with this commute I was very worried about wasting that much time every day, so I brought lots of printed material with me and would try to study on the train. Now that I've been doing it for 3 years I've completely abandoned that - I just use the commute as a mental break. After a hard day of work ~40 minutes of daydreaming is just what the doctor ordered before making the most of my evening.
Just wanted to say thanks for the link--I've been searching for a legitimate ebook directory.
Open letters in general seem childish to me. As if they were saying "Hey internet! Look over here at me. I'm putting Mark Zuckerberg on notice! Officially!"
Germany has one of the easiest visas.
You sound pretty miserable, with unempathetic partner you obviously resent, why are you with her?
Yes - this was a common criticism if you were trying to get MySQL into an environment with a different database since this was a SQL92 feature which was good for performance and security. That had often been seen as a performance move or a way to avoid confusing error messages but that started to change by the turn of the century as the technique became more visible and so many web apps were fronting databases rather than static.

Poking around https://metacpan.org/pod/DBI I notice support added by some point in 1997, possibly as early as 1996. Python’s DBI spec had it no later than 2001.

The other thing to remember is that it wasn’t uncommon to have drivers emulate this behavior on databases which didn’t have protocol level support for it. That didn’t help performance but it did accomplish the goal of making sure that data wasn’t confused with code.

To be clear, I’m basing my comments on having used PHP professionally starting with PHP 3 for many projects, including some household name companies. I trained a fair number of people, some of my earliest open source work was in PHP, etc. so I don’t hate the language but I definitely think there are cautionary lessons to learn about the value of defaults and how languages are taught. As we’ve seen with C, telling people to be more diligent is less effective than making the default safe behavior you have to opt out of rather than the reverse.
No, I said HN is a cesspool on some subjects and that you shouldnt use it to make financial or political decisions.
> which hasn't even been confirmed.

Maybe not by the JCVI, other bodies see the link

EU and UK regulators find possible link between AstraZeneca and rare blood clots
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-astraz...
Ah so now we're talking about the elephant in the room, the huge tax hike. Most people pay a percentage of their healthcare costs, their employer covers the rest, and it comes out of pre-tax dollars. We'll still need all that money so now it will have to come in the form of a huge MFA tax on businesses and individuals.
> Are there any other text editors that have interpolated variable references?

Maybe Leo? I'm not sure if it qualifies as a (plain) text editor, but then maybe neither does keenwrite.

http://leoeditor.com/

Or you could pair markdown with m4 - but I wouldn't really recommend it.
If I recall correctly, no. The only upgrade from Jensen & Wirth was separate compilation.
There was a plausible scenario in the earlier days that an ill-timed crackdown of Chinese miners could effectively cripple the Bitcoin network. If one of the big mining pools went down early in the "2 week" cycle, it could potentially be months before the difficulty readjusted and in the mean time, the Tx throughput would crater and the unconfirmed transactions would just pile up. I assume that's less possible now, but trouble can come from surprising places even in robust systems.
Your comment would make sense if the global banking system went down, instead it was just a tool the Fed uses with Banks.