jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Had this idea at least 10 years ago. Have many ideas, that said...

Fovea-oriented compression can be useful for optimized bandwidth usage in video conferencing, too.

One could even implement auto-reframe of video feed when several participants are in the same room without need for a mechanical camera moving. Or something like liquid rescale to still get a glimpse of the rest of the full frame.

Perhaps those ideas were since patented and even developed?
For some reason, wc is even slower with LANG=C.

cat words.txt | time wc -w
13018291
0.76 user 0.01 system 0:00.78 elapsed

That's on the default wc build of void linux, and not in a proper benchmark environment, but that's still strange.
Seriously. I hate that visiting a national park now involves the same sort of online shenanigans as getting a popular concert ticket. That's not the vibe that should be associated with our parks system.

Anyone botting the site should feel ashamed.
Seems similar in aim to Gitless

[0] https://gitless.com/
Would you please communicate your knowledge without being a jerk on HN? This sort of supercilious putdown is poison here, regardless of how much more you know than other people.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Investors will be diversified and not just place all their bets on unicorns.
If it doesn't change semantics, it's optimization.

It's just a zero cost one, so if anybody appears complaining that you are caring to choose the correct data structure and that's premature (yeah, it once happened to me too), that person is just stupid. But not calling it an optimization will just add confusion and distrust.
Did not know that - thanks for highlighting. Any idea what feature within openwrt allows this?
Personally, the content I'm usually interested in when I visit a page is just the text and images. There are some exceptions, but that's what a whitelist is for. Even if you don't count the numerous security benefits, denying scripts by default has made my websurfing much more enjoyable.
What's the point of this? There's nothing about overclocking in linux at all. As the article says, all the overclocking is handled in the bios. The only thing done in linux is downloading/installing a few stress test scripts.
Then it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that such nefarious people have already infiltrated Facebook and other tech giants. And they are not amateurs. Given the extraordinary value of access to the information possessed by the big tech corporations, we can expect a level of sophistication that would be on par with Cold War-era espionage.
I wonder if this being tested is related to any of the recent UFO sightings with Commercial and Military pilots.
atlantis.edu:1984
Edgey
It's a lot easier to blame an language for being slow because it's obvious. Blaming algorithms requiresputying in the time to figure things out.
Yann LeCun created a lisp called Lush which allowed for the intermixing of C code with lisp and also allowed for interaction with Python. Eventually he would later make Torch which used Lua which was inspired by Scheme. Then Tensorflow and Pytorch basically are the two large players in deep learning. Now Google has JAX which allows for symbolic differentiation of Python code.
this bothers me far, far less than free or weekly subscription sh*tware.
Perhaps the reason for the markets not performing well is the regulation in the first place?

IMO the idea of utilities being so different from everything else is only true because the government defines them to be different and then forces people to act in that (mistaken) framework.
If you account for blacks who are ex-felons or on parole who can't get jobs, black people are much more likely to be unemployed than whites.

A Western study shows that black people with a criminal history are half as likely to get a return call than whites with similar history in low level positions. Further, even for blacks without a criminal history,this same study shows that they are about half as likely to get a return call than whites with the same background.

This doesn't even include the roughly 15% of the black population currently being held in U.S. prisons who may or may not eventually be released and find that no one will hire them.

Source: UC Irvine Criminology, Law & Society C7 taught by Professor Seron Spring 2010.
Well to be fair, I never blamed it on Steve himself. And while it's normal for the lower level guys to not get recognition, usually it's while the company is being recognized ("Microsoft releases...", "Nokia develops new..."), whereas with Apple it's usually attributed to Jobs himself.
I think you need to change the way you view this from short term to long term game. If you have a free app that you want people to use and know about, help the guy out as much as you can. Leverage the limelight of your app and yourself for fun and/or profit. Find a way to monetize your free users, just build your reputation and get paid for lots of consulting gigs, or just be happy people appreciate and use your work.

Many people in your situation would beg or pay to have that kind of exposure. Don't be greedy. Give and ye shall receive.
The idea of a peace prize was probably good in 1895, but it has been poorly implemented in comparison with the other prizes. To me, it just doesn't feel right to say that Albert Einstein and Al Gore are both Nobel Prize winners. Yet, because that's what it means, that's what people perceive (even in academia): that they are both Nobel Prize winners and therefore somehow equal.
Yep, which is a major difference between civilian law and the law surrounding unlawful combatants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_combatant

The law of unlawful combatants is, however, pretty poorly developed. It needs to be the subject of serious thought rather than political football.
If I wanted to be a complete ass about using dropbox for piracy, I'd use GPG.

Share the GPG private key, the public key, the archive, and the password to use the key. It's too computationally expensive to automate opening these. And you could always spread the keys and keyphrase to where ever you want it.

But dropbox works well for what it is. I see no reason to trash it with pirated stuff.
network or electricity or software will go down one day and then you will begin to think about disaster recovery plans and get another colocated space in easter or western US.

A simpler option is to rent dedicated servers in 2 different hosting companies, say softlayer (US) and OVH (France) and design fall-back mechanism. It will cost you less than amazon or owning your own hardware.
I don't mean to sound facetious, but aren't we designed to also sit as well as stand/walk/run? That's what the buttocks have evolved for, after all:-

"Physiologically, the buttocks enable weight to be taken off the feet while sitting" [1]

Of course, having said that, we probably weren't designed for the amount of sitting a typical officer worker does, and certainly weren't designed for being sedentary.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttocks
My hypocrisy sensor went off. They should take a look at Mortal Kombat, Call of Duty, Blood Rayne to name a few. In these games people kill people, they slice and dice them, why not complain against those. Aren't those games sending the wrong message?

Just because a game contains objectionable material doesn't mean that the players will do that.
I'm also a non-technical founder and have also proven that "if there's a will, there's a way", the path might be longer but by no means should stop anyone. Congrats.
If there was a known attack it would obviously be a non-starter. But why take the risk that someone will come up with something comparable - in the broadest sense - to say the differential attack on MD5 that allows exploiting known bits in the salt if there is no need to?
Some babies learn to fake choking. They know what gets attention fast.
Coding against a library is usually understood to result in creating something that's a derivative work of that library.
Thank you, this is exactly it. And it's not either like anyone should consider a newspaper report the final word on the issue, but there is a reasonable amount of information presented here, and it should warrant an official investigation into Amazon's data practices at the very least.
Hum there is a setting to change that behavior
I have written to publishers (hachette, random) saying that I want to throw money at their authors, who aren't on epubs in my economy.

Robert Buderi: Radar -classic work. Not officially online. Uneblievable that a history of how the Internet and VLSI emerged (in part) is not obtainable, over the medium it documents.

Some Authors, (Ursula Le Guin, Philip Pullman) are taking a principled position because of Amazon and Apple and the bad return to Authors. The agency licencing is a giant rip. OK, I get this. Respect the author.

Sometimes its really bizarre. Trilogies, you can buy paper co-bound but only volumes 1 and 2 of 3 are online.

Sometimes, its announced TADAAA "all of Michael Moorcock coming to epub" and then it floods a bit, and then dribbles, and then dries up: Somebody held some rights, or fights over rights and the bits you want, can't come.

It really is "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY" Guys. I'm old, fat and for book buying, sufficiently rich. Please sell me the books.

Hofstader hated epubs back when they launched, refuses to let EGB be online. Its LaTeX and he's acting like we can't do PDF at high resolution online. Love the book but he needs to be taken out back for a pasting. Stop this! AZW is not the problem. (sigh)

I'm reading buderi on the internet archive, via library lending. Its truly awesome to use the internet to "borrow" a book in 12 hour chunks, or even less, and read it. Thanks!

(my SO ran a bookshop. I know how the business works in some ways, others are a mystery. I've spoken to publishers and literary agents and authors. Its a minefield. I've used KDP, and print-on-demand, I have done camera-ready stuff, I know this tech is sometimes unkind to print but it can also be fantastic to printed information, done well its a joy to ageing eyeballs)
I agree that a lot of people will want to go back to 60% or 80% in the office, once again they can. But I feel you're doing a lot of looking into other people's business and being dismissive of their complexities. Or, at least, it sounds like you're using "highly operational" as a proxy for that. Yes, we're not all in the top tier of, whatever is there, maybe rocket science. But there is a very large middle tier of still very complex businesses, which may look simple from the outside, but often only deceivingly so.
That's what I've been telling people! I feel like you're the only other person that knows that shortcut!

Unfortunately, Alt+D is also sometimes overridden by JS applications. This is especially annoying in Google Sheets.

Ctrl+L will still work.
Not just sandboxing, but just ensuring that each test runs in a clean environment, without interference from files/processes left behind by a previous or even concurrent test.
I appreciate that KDE's gotten really good, but don't appreciate it fully... because I still use Xfce, and I haven't found a reason to change yet.
The Scrum Guide https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html
If I remember correctly, churches would give these to kids for free. It was part of an effort to combat the "satanic influence" of normal video games.
Humans are really good at ignoring that their leaders who say one thing and do another.
I tend to listen to the same music. Why download the same song every time I want to hear it, rather than once? Also, most modern websites are horrible and media players lack basic features that desktop players have.
What I find most strange about all of the photos of office design for "big companies"

Where does the actual work get done? Why are those pictures never included?
I believe the assumption of sexism was based on the assumption the hysterical person requiring comfort from a kindly man didn't actually exist, but was inevitably cast as female.

Personally I'm not particularly bothered by the gender of distressed people I might be able to calm down with a quiet word, but if I try to turn it into a teachable moment on LinkedIn then shoot me...
https://github.com/burrows-labs/pz
"Dominant Education Publishing Company" benefits from continuously changing standards. A history book might be good for ~5-10 years unless standards change. Then suddenly they get to print new books for every student.
Given enough investment you can hire the engineers you need. Maybe I should have said that all it requires is more money earlier.
A lot of it seems to come from the man himself:

http://frederickhutson.com/

http://pigeon.ly/press.html

It doesn't give the press a free pass, but the consistency with which those articles mention the prison time does at least suggest that pigeon.ly is embracing that angle when they deal with the press.
It is that bad. Kids should not be used like this. It should be 100% obvious that this is the adults driving it, not the child. She's just being used to act out their dreams.
Every major server ISA is, in this sense, "high level": the ISA is documented, but the microarchitecture isn't, and there are timing-relevant details known only to the manufacturers. Aciicmez famously demonstrated this with a timing attack on the branch prediction cache.
So far they won't cancel ANY of it. They are not receptive at all. I can't afford this and they don't seem to care.
Everyone that doesn't do web development?
Agreed.

Android has been "good enough" for millions of people.
From their ugly start to Lollipop, they have been good enough for many people to choose Android as their primary platform.

This is similar to many of Christensen examples, such as the mini mills disrupting "Big Steel" companies by providing "good enough" cheap steel, and slowly but steadily getting better and better.

Android right now is in that phase, getting better and better, and now is as good, if not better, than iOS.

Interesting times.
Don't forget the non-verbal (Telepathic) communications and sleep paralysis.

I have heard it theorized by, let's call them enthusiastic evangelicals, that this indicates that what people now experience as UFOs are the same phenomena, caused by the same entities and done for the same purposes as the phenomena that people used to experience as Demonic visitations.

Me, I'm an open-minded skeptic. Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence and a lot of unanswered questions doesn't imply a particular answer.
Damn, its pretty accurate the data it pulls from github, apparently my name is ricky ricardo and my tag is @ricky
I would like to know parts of the company that he doesn't like or would like to see changed. Can anyone chime in?
I doubt an adult rocket scientist or engineer is fundamentally different. Deep down he just doesn't give a crap about starving children in Africa.

With your hypothetical scientist, while she might spend her career with rockets, I am not sure that is enough to tell you whether she also does or does not give a crap, deep down or shallowly, about starving children, or what the rough geographical location might be of any she disregards.

People are a lot more varied than that. There is no neat little box marked 'rocket scientist'.
Wow, a backdoor in the software used by the nsa to enable the surveillance state? Will wonders never cease...
I didn't pay to see the second one and I couldn't sit through the 3rd one, which I downloaded. I don't care that Peter Jackson + LOTR = money. He's a terrible director. Any movie with a traveling montage, is a failure in movie direction...which he does in every movie.
good point, if you can't even get to the domain, who cares what the file name is.
I went through a paid internship. In my case it was for a couple of reasons:

1) I was underqualified for the position that I applied for. So they offered the internship.

2) Since I did not have a lot of (work) experience I guess it was a gamble for them to employ me "just like that". So it could be seen also as an qualifications test maybe.

3) Visas are hard(ish) so not employing me made it, let's just say more legal. Paperworkswise I've been working as a freelancer for their branch in a different country.
Location: Vilnius, Lithuania

Remote: Yes, preferred

Willing to relocate: Not at this time

Technologies: Python, Django, Django Rest Framework, Golang, Docker

Résumé/CV: http://bit.ly/msamoylov-cv and https://www.linkedin.com/in/msamoylov/

Email: michael.samoylov@gmail.com

I'm an expert Python/Django, Golang and Javascript developer with 12 years of experience. I have a strong systems administration background.
An in-memory message queue server or memcached variations don't need to crash if it can't serve a particular request that requires more memory than available.

I am not sure why error-handling is a difficult concept for you.
And here I am complaining about the weather. You are a true inspiration. Great going Michelle and I hope that one day your epicondilytis gets cured.
Not to burst bubbles, but this is a Tumblr blog with all of 11 images.

http://vastpic.com/archive

Not saying that it's not worth subscribing to if you like the style of images though. :)
You might want to look at page 19 and 35:

http://www.spiegel.de/media/media-35515.pdf

Did he actually say break?
You are not blocking other users - the CPU is busy and couldn't do other stuff even if it tried. With using one process per core (plus a spare core for "other stuff") you get full CPU utilization. You are right that node is not the right tool for doing large CPU-bound tasks as part of HTTP request handling. If that was your point: yes, that's true and that won't change. But if most of what you're doing is forking out to other services and some light assembly (JS is a scripting language after all), then node is a very nice fit.
On the SpriteSheet page they say, "Unrelated to the Sprite display object." --- what Sprite object are they referring to? I don't see one in their API?
Direct link: http://www.1023.org.uk/

Very nice idea. It's sad public money is going to these crooks.

A vid by Tim Minchin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB_htqDCP-s
What horrors? Our sun is already one of 100 billion in the Milky Way, and our galaxy one of (is it?) 1 trillion in the 13-billion-year-old observable Universe. It's only a small step to accept our observable Universe is only one of 10 trillion bubbles in the Multiverse.
>There’s no reason to panic.
http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2010/12/whats-next-for-delici...
Next time you think something is odd please explain what that is. Please.
I don't have an answer, but it really undermines their "openness" argument.

Related question, if someone knows: Does the Android team take patches from those outside Google? (I know that Chrome does.)
Now if we could just get rid of Regulation D and make the accredited investors requirement sane enough that your average engineer could be allowed the opportunity to invest in the companies we believe in.
The Haskell type for that would be "Maybe String". When you get a Maybe value, the compiler gives an error if you don't deal with the possibility that the value might be Nothing.
Thin(?)/fat arrow (what do you call ->, thin arrow?) and object/array destructuring is amazing.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules ballots can't be rejected based on signature comparisons.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/23/pennsylvania-court-...

Your link about mail in ballots says they are secure because of measures like signature validation, except we got rid of that.

Not that it should matter, but I'm not a Trump supporter. He is a war criminal as far as I'm concerned.
Isn’t the problem profit motive? Wikipedia is a foundation, so it works the same way it always has. We need this for more basic services like messaging and identity
I'm not sure this is your position, but one extreme is to describe this "shared reality" as being imposed by force on everyone by one privileged group.

But I'd like to highlight other forces. One was technological, 3 TV channels or whatever was all they could do, and this implied that there was going to be a pretty high degree of conformity. You couldn't broadcast weird Italian movies because only a few percent were interested. The 4 big car companies who bought the ads which paid the bills really didn't want to be associated with anything partisan, they all needed to sell to everyone.

Another was historical / emotional. The nation had just emerged from this gigantic world war, and it was a spectacular victory, which gave enormous prestige to the huge centralized machines built to fight it. They built a lot of similar machines back home, big corporations with a commander-in-chief who wasn't a self-made robber barron, he was promoted up the ranks. Big unions, and big regulation.

This experience also squashed a lot of earlier differences. You say "Women? Marginalised people?" but this seems like a modern take, I think they would have said "Irish? Polish? Jewish?". These earlier identities and divisions were eroding in favor of this shared one, I mean, a Catholic could be elected president, that was a big deal.

But all of these are gone now. So perhaps 100 years ago is a better guide than 50 years ago.
Thank you for putting together the list! I've been watching this space for a bit, and got really excited with High Fidelity.
Are the people with big guns in that video law enforcement or protesters?
I don't know, so far it looks more of a show of resilience.
Amazon has plenty of spare cycles most of the year (hence Mechanical Turk and all this excess datacenter capacity they can contract out).
- They have this b/c they need to be able to accommodate their extrmeley peaky demand (i.e. holiday shopping season!!!)
- I wonder if this means netflix streaming will be significantly for flaky in the run-up to Xmas :)
This is always the case with movies and videogames, so I think the same applies: the people who are interested in the product go to see/watch/read it first. Eventually, "everyone else" gets around to try it out, and the score drops accordingly.
I wonder why Acacia?

This plant is not native to Africa, but only from Australian continent. I checked other sources, and found references to "Hardy, drought-resistant acacia trees now dig their roots into 330 miles of northern Senegal's Tessekere-Widu rural region. Planting began in 2008."

What are the dangers of planting a foreign tree monoculture without importing the wildlife that supports them? Why didn't they use a native African tree?
It depends if your dreams take you in an area of the software industry well known for long hours, terrible work practices and comparatively small pay. AFAIK, nobody asks pentesters to work 90 hours a week.
This is a real thing, large companies including bay area tech companies use them to graze lawns instead of just mowing. There was even a Shark Tank pitch.
On the road to Hana there used to be a place that sold smoked breadfruit tacos. Alas, by the time I got there they stopped selling it as it's labor intensive and tourists wouldn't order it, preferring to eat kalua pig.
It seems to me that most successful lisp programs use voluntary expressive names to cope with the lack of type information.

(defun turn-cat-into-dog (cat-or-nil)
...)

From such a definition, it is clear that this is f:[cat,nil]→dog, but the compiler isn't required to help you if you pass in a 4. This may cause some run time overhead in non-optimized code, but from my experience, is rarely a source of bugs. Has your experience been different?

Perhaps then, the biggest benefit of the type system is that it forces the programmer towards expressive code?
Is it the same as MSI installers that people are complaining about in the bottom thread? :-)
An idealized assembly. And I certainly agree that Knuth's texts are of the caliber of the books in the above list.
"...[Zynga] now looks like the Facebook to EA's Google."

In the "up-and-coming business" sense or the "don't give a damn about privacy" sense?
How about the words and their meanings, though?
Local wifi-based printing and printer discovery (same as Airprint) is already available on Google devices. No Cloudprint required.