jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The general idea is that ecosystems consisting of grasslands with herds of large herbivores are better than any others at rapidly fixing carbon and building rich soils, significantly more so than forests. The way this works is that grasses have very dense root systems and grow fast, especially when they are being cyclically grazed down to a stub (but not totally removed... goats don't work here because they don't leave enough). The herbivores in turn process that biomass into high-quality fertilizer and spread the micronutrients around by migrating between areas of different soil composition. The result is that the top few meters of soil are filled with a mixture of living and aerobically decaying grass roots, creating relatively stable humic compounds which serve as long-term carbon storage.

There is quite a bit of evidence for that theory... it's not completely uncontroversial, but people who have tried it in practice, i.e. raising cattle by the Voisin method or using Alan Savory's "Holistic Management" or similar approaches, usually swear by it, and theoretically it makes makes enough sense to warrant further investigation.
I don't really know much about bitcoin and how mining scales with the number of trades, but there are only a few million Bitcoin users, meanwhile there are billions of USD holders/users each of whom have (I'd guess) significantly more average daily transactions.

That's something like 5 orders of magnitude more activity with USD vs BTC.

So for something that is used upwards of 100,000x more and only takes 5x more energy, that'd be a win for USD, no?

This of course is all disregarding my strong skepticism that the excesses of the US Military is a reasonable proxy for the strength of the US dollar.
I think the title is apt. It is quite common for people to mistakingly do this pattern, I have seen this mostly happen through ORMs.

It might have changed but in ActiveRecord it was fairly common to do.

models = Model.where(column_name: column_val)

and then further down the fetch, just use two three columns from the whole fetch. This used to issue a `SELECT *` to the table if no select clause went along, and most people don't realise the harm with fetching all columns. Even if it is a single row, storage engines like InnoDB store blobs in an indirected way, which can lead to more read IO ops than required.
Both comments can work together. Yes, doing more work than necessary is bad (#1). The amount of "bad" is very low to barely measurable in most real-life scenarios (#2).
If your interview question has a correct answer, it's probably the wrong question.
Yeah. And a dose of vitamin C at 3000 mg is 30,000 larger than Moderna’s. You are comparing apples and cheese. Simply weighing them won’t tell you anything.
That's more of a fun answer to those who absolutely want to put a value and make a matter of "fair calculation" of everything, nothing to be taken too seriously.

Still, that gives some relief to the absurd notion that drives all economics that only human labour and capital have value, and that resources are infinite and free. Then, that "rational" economic considerations should drive our policies (instead of common, democratic deliberation around our competing wants and wishes, impossible to subsume into any sort of rational calculation).

Should we want to consume as much as possible as fast as we can, then disappear from the face of a scorched Earth? Or should we change radically our ways to make human life sustainable on the long term? This isn't a matter of reason, only of collective preference, that can only be decided through debate. The only thing open to calculation is what the future will be, if we do this, or that. But what future we want isn't a rational matter, and shouldn't be dictated by "those in the know", or even worse, "those in power" (irk).
This is an old article, but definitely influenced my thinking in 2010. I don't think that making a mockup in markup is practical on most teams... our process is still something like:

Paper, Balsamiq, Photoshop, Code, Design Polish

That works pretty well, but I think getting things into code quicker helps to think through flows and interactions.
> Plus I find when a book has typos (either in the text or in the code), that just makes me engage with it a little bit more.

Really? I wasted almost an hour double-checking my code due to a typo in an algorithm in _Programming Collective Intelligence_ (pg. 35, should end in "return num/den", not "return 1.0-num/den".) That's just sloppy. I added it to the errata page (http://oreilly.com/catalog/errataunconfirmed.csp?isbn=978059...).

It makes me feel that while the author's explanations are pretty good, the code samples are rather dodgy. I've switched to looking up the relevant mathematical formulas and converting them to code myself.
Maybe I'll make it so that you can configure it, yes. So you'll be able to set the colour of the font and select whether you wish for a box to appear around unread comments.
I don't think it's unreasonable that headlines are copyrightable, certainly newspaper editors put a lot of time and creative work into headline writing.

For example the British tabloid The Sun is famous for it's headlines (notable examples include "Freddie Star Ate My Hamster" and "It's the Sun wot won it").

Unlike patents, copyright doesn't block independent invention. If two people come up with the same identical headline (for example the News Chronicle's famous "Hitler Dead") then it's not a copyright infringement.

In my personal opinion it's perfectly reasonable for a news website to ask people not to reproduce their headlines (or link to their stories). Sure it's not good for news aggregators, but the aggregators don't have any inherent right to make money off other people's content.
FTA: "...browsers can render mockups that are just as beautiful as those created in an image editor"

This gets at something I never understood about the start-with-PSD school of web design: if it's not possible to get the effect you want in a browser, what is it doing in a mockup?
It reads like someone who understands perfectly how evolution works. The point of anti-fragility is to make the losses non-fatal, and wins by proxy can be convex. The idea is you can keep playing the game. You might be looking at it from a species perspective vs an individual.
OnePlus was great when they hit the market because their phones had all the same stuff... but for cheaper to significantly cheaper.

They were never really sold as competing with a Nexus 5, and most people weren't buying a Nexus 5. (Even so, it was still ~20% cheaper.) People were looking at a OPO against a Galaxy S4/S5 and the other flagships that were all more than twice the price.

It was "marketing aura" in the sense that they took a phone that would have normally only appealed to developers/phone geeks and managed to market it to the masses to some extent.

But it wasn't _just_ marketing aura just because there was one other phone on the market that could compete with it. It was a legitimately good offering at the time when a Samsung cost twice as much and their offerings in that price range had seen so little care and attention as to be barely functional in many ways.
ebaum's?
Oops, I did not mean to be harsh and apologize for coming across that way.

Tcl8 introduced the Tcl_Obj and a completely new api to deal with them. The old string-based interfaces were kept in place, because we value back compat a lot. They are flagged as deprecated in the manual pages and should only be used by legacy Tcl7 code, or when performance is known not to be an issue.

As to printing the list to the console: that should compute a string representation of the list object without discarding the representation as a list.
I believe this tells us a lot. The torrent crowd does not represent exactly the moviegoers audience. Lots of downloaders would never go to the movies, even if they crave a movie, it represent different age groups, different behaviours

For instance, "Kick Ass" which is largely a film designed for geeks, is #2 even though it only did $98 million at the box office. You've got to wonder why it's ahead of Inception. In the same way, "Alice in Wonderland" did $1.02 billion in 2010 but it's not on the top 10. The torrent demographic is probably the same one that'd jailbreak the iPhone or use Android more than the rest of the society. A demographic immune to marketing, which can sort out good movies from bad perhaps better than the press, but also biased towards a certain type of movies (Kick Ass, action hero etc.)
I saw a title of "14 Ways" and was ready to criticise, but this is an impressively practical list.

Two additional qualities I prioritise in a startup CEO are 1) the knack for making friends with a room full of strangers under hostile circumstances and 2) a terrific amount of empathy. Social comfort has obvious applications in sales & fundraising, while empathy is key for knowing how far to go with the other points you raised. For example, buffering the team from pain is good, but going too far removes their sense of agency and destroys morale. Same with firm decision-making.. the balance between spending time explaining and simply saying "do it" is a very human issue with big long-term performance implications.

So many questions in a startup are completely arbitrary... how much equity do you give to that early employee? When's it going to do more good than harm to ship the entire office out to the pub for an afternoon of camaraderie? Each member of an early startup has exclusive access to such a significant chunk of the company's institutional memory that being able to walk that efficient/emotional line seems increasingly important.

While I largely agree that a traditional management education/experience is damaging, I do think that theory & book learning have important roles to play. The biggest is an understanding of how your industry fits together and how the business models work (which you could certainly pick up from a uni course or book if anyone chose to teach it). You see a lot of websites using subscriptions because that's what the sites they use do when there's actually a much better model out there for them.
It's a good question. The app would be taking up resources so it has some not-insignificant costs to us regardless of the traffic. Having said that, if an app has value and we like it I'be happy to discuss and try to work it out. Awesome apps built with IndexTank are good for us!
A nuclear bomb was only one of the possibilities listed:

>“aspired to create a combination of missiles and weapons of mass destruction,” historian Rainer Karlsch, who has long researched Hitler’s pursuit of an atomic bomb and worked with Sulzer on the project, told the Sunday Times. “They wanted to equip [a V-2] missile, or more advanced rockets, with poison gas, radioactive material or nuclear warheads.”
I wrote about trying to get my Nexus One engraved, and how I was going to go about avoiding the depreciation in the secondary market. See the section "On Engraving One's Phone" at http://blog.yafla.com/Android_22_Engravings_and_the_Google_N...

I think it would be a clever solution for next year's YCers
it made me think very highly of him. i'm sure the people along whatever career path this man follows will feel the same.
Another way to go is:

Illustrator => Markup => CSS

The strength of this is that Illustrator is extremely efficient for working on layouts at a high fidelity without worrying about pixels. You can and will try out many more layouts in a shorter time than can be reasonably accomplished in pure CSS. Then you jump straight to markup and avoid all the pixel wrangling issues with Photoshop, and you can focus on the fine refinements in actual CSS.

I stumbled upon this at my current startup because our creative director is not a web designer. This obviously comes with a lot of costs, but it also gives the designs an uncommon sensibility that lends a lot to the brand. As long as everyone working on user-facing features is somewhat competent with CSS then it works pretty well even if we spend some extra time shoehorning stuff in. The ultimate brand differentiation is worth the cost.
Maybe this explanation will help you see how your response to the parent just goes to prove his point:

"Monopolies are thus characterised by a lack of economic competition for the good or service that they provide and a lack of viable substitute goods." - via wikipedia, with book citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly

Please don't forget about the last bit. There are a million (bad) substitutes for an iPod, regardless of how they end up connected to the computer. The word monopoly should be used with economic rigor or not at all - even economists tread lightly and discuss heavily before labeling any entity a monopoly.
As far as I know, Qt is entirely being managed by the people who used to run it before -- Nokia just bought them, gave them some new priorities (main target is now smartphones), told them they don't have to make a profit anymore and set them loose.

The major changes that happened at Qt (namely the LGPL release and dropping copyright assignment) are a direct result of getting paid by Nokia to make software instead of selling it.
I hate to say it, but looking at the list of sites that were blocked, good riddance:

http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-seizes-bittorrent-sea...

Sites like these are the scum of the internet, run by the scum of the earth. I'm not familiar with every site personally, but I have little doubt that they were all involved in flagrant copyright infringement.

And looking at torrent-finder.info, I have no doubt that 99.99% of the people going to that site were going there for the purpose of stealing stuff, not finding linux distros. The cheeky incredulity with which fans of these sites say "it's not their fault that everyone that uses their site is using it to traffic stolen goods!" is laughably transparent.

The western world is moving away from manufacturing physical goods, and these idiots using file sharing are making damn sure that nobody produces content either. What's going to be left? Finance?

There's a totally legitimate slippery slope argument to made for not blocking websites, and this story does smell bad in terms of legal due process, but I have a really hard time feeling sorry for the degenerates who ran theses sites.
> Of course, I do not install personal software...

> My remedy is to install a virtualization system...

which is personal software.
If I've written and published a new algorithm, and my submission to the open-source community is met with "It sucks, go read up on our guidelines"* , I'm not inclined to spend my free time on a resubmission.

It seems childishly wasteful to turn away potential contributors because you simply feel you have the right to be an asshole to people. Personally, if you want to treat me harshly for my work, I expect some good money.

* Paraphrased reaction to software a classmate sent in after completing her thesis
Reminds me of the Mitchell and Webb sketch 'Kill all the poor', where they statistically decide whether it would solve their problems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owI7DOeO_yg
Given that the only time they were used in a war it was directed at cities, many people believe that nuclear weaponry is cumbersome, strategic, and massive in effect. This is hype; barring terrorism, the most likely use of nukes in the future are will be attacking data/ energy infrastructure on the surface and in space. One does not need multiple megatons to render whole satellite constellations useless from a relatively long distance. Nukes, while sexy on film as city leveling fire pillars, are at their most useful as a disparity leveler in terms of force count.

This is all conjecture, of course. I think/hope nukes really come into their own as mining and propulsion resources.
I picked up laravel a few months months back. I have been doing PHP for years, so the only hurdle I had was getting use to the framework. It is great for rapid prototyping. Originally I was going to do everything in Mojolicious, but I wanted some batteries already included.
Agree with everything you say, but would like to comment on this: Capitalism and profit give the correct signals - what is it that the market demands. What do people truly feel they need?

Art is the big gap here. Few could argue successfully that the world is not a better place for the creations of JS Bach, Kafka, Keats, Van Gogh, yet these people did not make their fortune from their life's passion and work. Only after their death were they appreciated for what they did in their figurative basements.

Capitalism provides one set of signals, an overpoweringly large one at that, but it does not provide a complete picture of value to humanity.
This was the first paper he wrote after earning tenure at MIT. It was his blowing off steam fun project.
Here's the comic for that: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2314#comic
Here's that time where the legacy media threatened to doxx someone if they made memes they didn't like again:

>CNN is not publishing "HanA*holeSolo's" name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same.

>CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/kfile-reddit-use...
If all Intel has left over the competition is artificial vendor lock-in, they're in big trouble.
I swear Metamask uses the same thing with fox lol.
One of the most valuable things that I have learned, which you can learn the basics of in 30-60 mins or less, is how to meditate (Vipassana). Basically you sit and close your eyes and focus on the feeling of your breath below the nostrils. When another thought comes into your mind, bring your attention back to the sensation of the breath coming in and out of your nostrils. That's pretty much it. And it is the only thing that was able to treat my panic disorder, and I tried many other things before meditation.

It's also helped me in many other aspects of my life, but mostly because it has help my peace of mind.
Imgur really jumped the shark by doubling down on social features. Image hosting has seen a lot of players come and go. It’s a simple service complicated by business.

The Craigslist model comes to mind. Looks the same, works the same, and cheap to run compared to their traffic volumes.

https://www.developerfusion.com/media/76730/how-craigslist-w...
Is avx512 an advantage really? Iirc the machine has to go into another mode where processing across the board becomes slower except for the avx instructions, which to me seems only useful for niche hpc "measuring contest" applications.
The market has spoken. Uber as a service has shown itself to be wildly better and more loved than traditional cab services in every city where it's gone head to head in open competition with traditional taxi services.

Unfortunately people are morons that don't know how to make the "right" choice. We will be conveniently layering bureaucracy and laws on top of all of this to make sure the clearly inferior product wins by fiat of the government.

You would all thank us but you're obviously too stupid to know what's best for you.
Numberphile made a video on this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OuF-WB7mD6k

However, I tried doing this many times, but it was hardly ever successful.
Yes. Edited.
> Last AMD generation was 250W, this one is 280W: if we’re not there already, then this should be a practical limit.

A good point for people looking to use this in their home server like I am. It’s going to be really hot if you’re getting your money out of it.

At some point there’s not an efficient way to cool these processors when the ambient room temperature rises too high. Anyone have suggestions for that? I’m in a weird position where power is cheap but I can’t AC my garage (where it’s located).
There'd be plenty of ways to use existing network traffic as a side channel when you've tapped the network a few hops away (eg adjusting packet timings or sequence numbers). Also, a backdoor doesn't have to be active all the time (although that would hinder dragnet surveillance)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6149345
That was definitely the end result. For my inputs the expected survival time was about 5.5 games. For a pool with 100 players, taking the conservative assumption that every match is a coin flip, you would still expect a few people to outlast you. Even if the payout was high enough that your bet was +EV, your variance is huge, so this was definitely more for fun than for profit :)
Prophetically, and maybe ironically, fracking service infrastructure in my hometown, Youngstown, Ohio, is being built on the same land that the steel mills sat abandoned for decades.
"Malware" as I understand it is basically a catch-all term for software that is harmful (hence "mal").

Don't these toolbars usually report your browsing habits anyway though? If so they are spyware which clearly makes them malware.
Disagree. Unless the world is on fire there's no reason to interrupt someone to unblock yourself. Contact them asynchronously or opportunistically. If you see them in the kitchenette getting coffee then sure, ask. If they are walking back from the bathroom, sure, grab them before they resume work. But do not delude yourself into thinking you know more about prioritizing their time than they do.
Kotlin never fixed anything on this area, beacause it is a guest language for the JVM, and the whole Android tooling depends on Java and JVM, ART only runs on the devices.

So to be fully Java/JVM free with Kotlin-first, Google and JetBrains would need to re-write the Android world to run on ART or Kotlin/Native, including anything that might come from Maven central.
>but also their users' security practices.

Of course, as the leak would be traced to them as well. When it comes to GDPR you'd like to manage the expose and the liability associated with having the data. Normally it should that even the admin operators are not to be trusted with full account/payment/etc. details enmasse and very special care is taken to exports/reports.
How does this one compare with Whoogle?
As an example, on Whoogle I don't need to configure any account. Are the results with Giggle better in terms of speed and accuracy somehow?
yep, same. Adult diagnosis of adhd and I'm on medication.
I think rather than a language, you need a project. Decide what you want to build, pick a language that has a suitable library or framework for what you want to build, and then just start building it.

I learned programming because I wanted to make a simple web app for running some reports from a database at work, and there was no one else in my office who could code. I bought a Web Programming book and used HTML/CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and SQL. At the time that was the best way for me to learn all of those languages/tools. Later I picked up Java, Python, Ruby, Clojure, etc. from working on other types of projects. But it all started from the need to make something to solve an unmet need at work.
Thanks, I'm having a hard time with those indicators as well. One question. If I never set the indicators in my code, do they automatically get set? Or are the passengers getting on the car when there is no indicator?. (So far I've been having a lot of people refuse to get on my car, and I assume it's because my code is setting the wrong indicator).

BTW, this is a game that will haunt me for a long time to come. Even when I pass a level, I stay on it trying to reduce the metrics rather than accept that I "lucked out" with my naive algorithm. You did a fantastic job on this.
Ted Chiang's story "Liking what you see" speculates about what it would be like if science messed with the other side of the equation. How would we relate to other people if we silenced the part or our brain that recognized physical beauty?
(shadysite transcript of story: http://www.ibooksonline.com/88/Text/liking.html)