jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I guess I was trying to draw a distinction between biological systems and man made machines. I find the difference striking. I can look at a car engine, and if I stare at it long enough, I can make sense of it. The engine makes sense to me not just because it was designed by another human but also because its design is non-random. When I stare at the protein KcsA, which is the biological system that I study, I cannot make sense of its design. My conclusion is that its design is an outcome of chance. The protein works and has a design but it is not one that I can figure out.

Man made machines have a rational design. Biological systems have an "irrational" design. The most striking characteristic of a randomly designed system is that you cannot restart it. Once you shut it off it dies permanently.
And a bunch of those are using Wine, which requires mapping code at the zero page, so they're compiled with a special load command that allows them to map the zero page.

On Yosemite, 64-bit binaries aren't allowed to do this.
My recommendation would be that asking for advice in this form is not productive. This is talked about in "Art of the Start". He essentially says that when you present a new idea to people in mass everyone is just going to tell you why it won't work, and that you should ignore all this.

Obviously it is natural and probably helpful on some level to ask people what they think of your idea, but you should be a lot more selective in whose opinion you care about.

While I don't really know anything about this market it sounds like an abstractly interesting idea. But like I said that really isn't important. My suggestion would be to find 3 people you are pretty confident will love this idea (friends of yours on the maps forum) and ask them why it sucks. Then find 3 people who you're pretty sure will hate this idea and ask them why it rocks. Really you just want to pick these people's brains asking very specific questions. Keep doing this until you have refined the idea enough (and have a strong enough grasp of its market potential) that you are ready to take the next step (whatever that may be).

Oh and if this first step takes you more than a week, you're doing it wrong.
"That sounds a lot like depression to me. Depression isn't always sad or melancholy, sometimes it's just like you said."

Depression is a serious illness and shouldn't be equalized
with an unmotivated mental state.
We looked at a bittorrent/murder based system also, but found that the time it takes to get the (IMO massive) code base on to the machines is one of the stages that takes the least amount of time.
No they're not.
You need a credit card from a US bank.
Amazon FPS has some really good aggregate payment features that I can't find anywhere else, so I'm starting a US company primarily to get round this.
Thank you, that looks very interesting.
Thanks, their website is a bit hard to navigate, they only emphasized simple payments and Amazon checkout.
"... and the recharging days suck ..."

They don't have to suck. It's mostly a perception of what
you should be doing. It's sucks, because you think that
you should be doing something, that it's not right doing
nothing. It's a social issue.
Depends if you care about "code fast" or "develop fast".
That code is only run once per application lifetime. Without risking DRY, I don't know what you mean by 'pre-processed'. Do you care if it is run at the parse time instead of the Class Object definition time?
true, as a 20+ year sec guy, I didn't get interested in crypto till I started buying it in 2017. I might be able to retire in under 5 years if crypto keeps growing at the rate.
What were they? How do you find out?
Doing something that helps you and helps your similarly-situated fellow worker seems like something that would qualify you for a union leadership role.

Further: People do all kinds of unpaid work to make their community or shared experiences better without (most of?) us accusing them of advocating for slavery.
It's funny that you mention the breaking of keys using outdated algorithms; I booted up my Standard Notes app and there's an "Encryption Upgrade Available" notice at the bottom which has you enter your password to locally regenerate your keys. I could imagine something similar working here, and perhaps let your progeny have access to your credentials postmortem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_domain

> By connecting each device directly to a port on the switch, either each port on a switch becomes its own collision domain (in the case of half-duplex links), or the possibility of collisions is eliminated entirely in the case of full-duplex links. For Gigabit Ethernet and faster, no hubs or repeaters exist and all devices require full-duplex links.
I made one of these about 8 years ago!

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:113044

Although theirs is a much better execution =)
And even meters that don't have zigbee might be readable using an RTL-SDR. You do have to figure out which one is yours and which are your neighbors, though.
They have an almost perfect, managed K8S offering.

Major issue that I am facing with them currently is their managed load balancer offering. They have a cap of 40k Maximum Simultaneous Connections / second. I am mostly sure that they are not measuring it correctly.

they have random resource limits which don't make sense.

Also I think AWS lightsail is a competition to DO, but AWS doesn't seem to be promoting it that much.
California is an outlier in most ways viz-a-viz the US.

Population is ~40M, which is more than Canada (~38M) or Australia (~28M). If California was an independent country it would be something like the 9th largest economy in the world. It's a massively productive farming region on top of having the high-end of US technology, and has other national or international-tier industries like Hollywood.

If I want a barometer for the US, tell me how Ohio is doing.
Since epidemics are indeed specifically bound to a particular population, especially a geographical population, there can be no doubt the AIDS is an epidemic if it only epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa.

The question then is whether it is also epidemic in a greater region, for instance multiple continents or world wide. Since there are subsets of the population in all areas where it is widespread, it seems fair to say that it is pandemic.

Cause and mode of transmission are not relevant to the definition of epidemic or pandemic that you have selected.

So your argument goes like this:

P1. An epidemic is the rapid spread of a disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time. (definition)

P2. AIDS has spread rapidly through people in sub-Saharan Africa and male homosexuals worldwide. (observation)

P3. People in sub-Saharan Africa are not a population. (assertion)

P4. Male homosexuals worldwide are not a population. (assertion)

P5. AIDS spreads sexually, via blood transfusions etc. (observation)

---------- (by P1-P5)

C1. Therefore, AIDS is not an epidemic.

P6. A pandemic is a widespread epidemic, spreading through multiple populations e.g. multiple continents or worldwide. (definition)

----------- (by C1 and P6)

C2. Therefore, AIDS is not a pandemic.

But from this, P3 and P4 are obviously false and P5 is not relevant since mode of transmission is not referred to in P1.

I don't feel like I'm at risk of getting AIDS, so it's a little hard for me to worry about AIDS as if it's a pandemic. But that doesn't mean AIDS isn't a pandemic. It's definitely epidemic according to the definition you picked - I'm just not part of the relevant populations through which it is spreading. You're definitely arguing poorly, since you demand we hold premises that are obviously false and you introduce irrelevant points that have nothing to do with your case.
Is the expectation that SARS-CoV-2 will become a seasonal virus, permanently with us, like the other 4 coronaviridae (which we don't have a vaccine for)?

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/general-information.html

It seems that those keep coming back each year either because they mutate, or the antibodies produced by our bodies are no longer produced/effective after a year or so.

So even if we had a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, would it lose its' potency after a year, and people need annual booster shots? Or would the virus mutate so that the specific vaccine no longer works?

Also, is the expectation that the mortality rate of SARS-CoV-2 will reduce over time because of evolutionary pressure? Is that really the case, given that much of the spreading happens in the first 1-2 weeks, before the host is potentially dead?
What I can personally comment on is that if people go on with hoarding on quinine derivatives, we're gonna have a massive problem whether it's found effective or not.

The hoarding is even happening among my lesser scientifically-reasonable md colleagues. This has to stop. Now.
I don't know about beaches. I can easily go to a beach and stay more than 2m away from others and I get to enjoy lots of fresh air, exercise, and time outside of my tiny apartment. Definitely a necessary therapy in these times.
Yep, at some point, given that the system is successful, you will have to tackle archiving.

Still a lot nicer than paying for complexity you don't need before the system has even proved useful.
A worse and impossible to mitigate problem in other scenarios is that user agents will cheerfully "bookmark" or "favourite" a URL or just let you "share" it and it's often not obvious to the end user that this shares their current state which they probably don't want not just the thing they're looking at. Example: you try to share the forum help link but instead give the recipient your logged in account...

This is the reason not to put authentication tokens into URLs for example.

When the state users want to bookmark or share literally is the state that's encrypted anyway this mismatch isn't a threat. If I send you the URL for this drawing of a cat and then I'm astonished you can now see the drawing of the cat I've got real problems technology can't fix.
Yes, I can hardly use my travel netbook for Rust hobby coding as pulling new dependencies will keep me waiting for 20 minutes on average.

My hobby coding on C++ is never so slow, thanks to binary dependencies. Even source based package managers like vcpkg allow to stage binary libraries, so you just have to compile the world once, and can share with the team, or whoever you feel like it.

Then C++ compilers, not only support incremental compilation (which Rust also supports), they also have incremental linking, even at function level.

So unless you are doing some crazy metaprogramming, even C++ can be faster to compile than Rust.

What they can do is having cargo support binary libraries, and also have some form of JIT/AOT integration, like many other toolchains allow for.

Interpreted/JIT for development and AOT for release mode, for example.
I am most surprised by how they are scaling shipments in my area. I have only seen Amazon branded vans in my area over the last few months, but my last two orders were delivered by:

1) A plain white van with Laser Ship magnetic signs visible on the inside.

2) A sedan driven by a lady with her kid in the passenger seat.
i'm not trying to defend a task killer so much as the act of terminating applications. i used to "force stop" apps from the applications menu before i got the killer.

that said, low memory situations exist. task killing reduces their load on the system.

your links are informative, but i'm not going to let my phone crawl next time it starts to because i shouldn't have to kill apps in a perfect scenario.

i used to reboot my phone to reclaim performance, now i use a task killer.

from your first link:

"can be killed by the system in extreme low memory situations."

"and it will often be killed by the system when memory is needed elsewhere."

so task killers just accelerate the system's own ability to close applications that aren't being used anymore.

also, only two apps that i have offer the ability to close themselves. if i know i am done with the app for the next few hours, my task killer gives me the ability to close the app.
The author knows a lot more than I do. But I wonder. There's healthy frustration, which reflects a restless desire to fix _anything_ and thus can't measure the worth of anything, and unhealthy frustration, which despairs of ever making important improvement. Mistaking either for the other seems bad. If mature, talented people are losing interest in improvements because they seem futile, that seems like a danger signal to me.
I spent two hours chatting with him at a conference recently. I did not experience any arrogance, insufferable or otherwise.
The only real free alternative to Google Analytics tbh.
https://www.propublica.org/article/sheryl-sandberg-and-top-f...
Or whatever's "good enough" to solve your problem.
Better title for this article: Apple Will Become the Most Valuable Company in America

The "how" in this article boils down to "by being worth more than the other companies in America."
As a Canadian, I'm actually a little appalled by this. Toronto and Vancouver are hotbeds for gaming, are fast becoming thriving startup communities, and need smart, motivated entrepreneurs more than ever... why can't Mr. Wong stick around and do some good for his country if he has already secured funding?
Here's what the announcement is actually about (I didn't see an obvious link to it): http://programmers.stackexchange.com/
They're at TD Ameritrade in an institutional account managed by an automated Y Combinator investment firm. How do you determine which brokerage firms lend shares out for shorts?
> Exploring how chemicals affect your brain is fun if becoming a different person is fun. So don't do it unless you're sure you dislike yourself.

This sentence isn't really logically sound. There are lots of reasons to make a transition from a place of satisfaction to a place of uncertain satisfaction. Happy people often explore!

Aside, 'Becoming a different person' implies a large amount of permanence. I'd really enjoy seeing this assertion sourced. Especially with regards to one-time or infrequent use of psychedelics. Could you point me to anything you've found particularly convincing?
Well... when dancing bachata it's considered good etiquette to take things out of your front pockets and put them in your back ones.

But I wouldn't sit down with a phone in my back pocket, it's uncomfortable as hell.
Some of your criticisms are good and valid, but

> Sorting out what was returned requires a "match" statement, which is rather verbose

is particularly low quality: even the code you quote above demonstrates (or at least hints) that this isn't true. `Option` provides a variety of combinator methods that avoid the need for manual pattern matching: http://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/option/enum.Option.html

Also, this isn't extremely true either:

> Note that none of this code does any computation. It's all field access and update

Doesn't accessing fields and updating them count as computation? Anyway, nothing in date/time handling is just field access and updating; time libraries are hard (and I'm very happy that lifthrasiir is tackling it, their libraries are always high-quality and diligently written). There's actual "real" computation happening, you can see this looking at the underlying implementation: https://github.com/lifthrasiir/rust-chrono/blob/cf5e2f322fbc... (and tracking those functions calls through inside that module).
Did you not read my comment? A guy ALSO has the risk of being assaulted. Maybe by the woman, or maybe by her boyfriend.
Like true Scottish people. I don't want to be a prick, but that's a can of worms, right there.
I agree! There are quite a few provably insecure algorithms in the project. That said, I do think they are useful to keep around: As a reference, for legacy systems, or to practice cracking.

It'd be a little silly to not add AES-256 since I already have AES-128, but I will definitely look into adding CAST5 and CSPRNGs.
If you consider personal data as unknown to everyone and public data known, it sorta ends up looking like randomness and order, with the opportunity for chaos to exist in between.
It's called history. The web is not only about the new, in a hundred years all these data will be important for others.
Indeed. I said questionable. Go to any review of the release of Android 2.2 and you can see the performance improvements that are pretty much universal across devices. This simply conflates the two and implies something that isn't true.

With 2.2 the Streak is competitive with other 2.2 devices. There is no surprise there, given that it runs essentially the same processor as the Nexus One.
The headline looks like an exception to Betteridge's Law, in that the answer is clearly yes.

The crucial thing is that you don't know the true distribution of returns when you invest, trade, or speculate. There's always some probability that you're gambling, in the sense of this article
> Basically US provides military services to oil producers in exchange for global tax. This is only possible if US is able to retain their military position.

this is just not how economics works at all
Any software used to convict people should be open source. Full stop.
This is also terrible advice in a different way. You are correct that nothing you do can really make the pain better.

But as someone that recently lost my mom, I can tell for a fact: real, practical help makes a real difference. Common sense things like help with sorting out the affairs of the loved one, cooking meals or shopping for the bereaved person, help with planning a memorial, etc. And you don’t know to do these things by asking: “If there is anything I can do, please let me know...” Especially if you are close to the bereaved person, the about one of the worst things you can say. You usually know about some things you do to help without being a busybody. I took those who said that as being unwilling to provide any help whatsoever.
> 90% of money problems seem to come from a few things: * Expensive cars - bought with debt. * Expensive housing - again bought with debt. * Expensive schooling - even more debt.

Nick Maggiulli made a good observation in a 2020 weblog post:

> All the expense tracking and goal setting in the world cannot make up for an insufficient balance.

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/the-biggest-lie-in-personal-fin...

The bottom 40-50% of US households can either barely or not-at-all cover the basic necessities: housing, food, transportation, healthcare. Note that this doesn’t include any money for education, clothing, or any form of entertainment.

> That’s why the biggest lie in personal finance is that you can be rich if you just cut your spending. And the financial media feeds this lie by telling you to stop spending $5 a day on coffee so that you can become a millionaire.

[…]

> Instead of trying to convince everyone that they can be rich, we should be trying to convince everyone that they can be not poor. Now that would be a start to undoing the biggest lie in personal finance.
The correct perspective, aka reality, is that market value gravitates towards the intrinsic value in the long-term.

And if you're a very long-term investor, you can ignore the market price and just collect the dividends.

By intrinsic value I mean the sum of all expected future cash-flows where each cash flow is adjusted for time and variance (risk).
North Carolina, where the new data center is, is EST just like NY.
Closer! That got me the executable. Now I get a stack trace....

% ./tsukae bash
panic: runtime error: slice bounds out of range [:7] with capacity 4

goroutine 1 [running]:
github.com/irevenko/tsukae/cmd.GetShellCommandsUsage(0x1205b84, 0x4, 0x7, 0x4, 0x3, 0xc000066180, 0xc000127d78, 0x1159965, 0xc000120500)
/Users/pww/tsukae/cmd/shell_name.go:22 +0x16d
github.com/irevenko/tsukae/cmd.glob..func4(0x135df20, 0xc00005c8b0, 0x0, 0x1)
/Users/pww/tsukae/cmd/commands.go:88 +0x1bf
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).execute(0x135df20, 0xc00005c8a0, 0x1, 0x1, 0x135df20, 0xc00005c8a0)
/Users/pww/go/pkg/mod/github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.1.3/command.go:856 +0x2c2
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).ExecuteC(0x135e1a0, 0xc000000180, 0xc000127f78, 0x10069e5)
/Users/pww/go/pkg/mod/github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.1.3/command.go:960 +0x375
github.com/spf13/cobra.(\*Command).Execute(...)
/Users/pww/go/pkg/mod/github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.1.3/command.go:897
main.main()
/Users/pww/tsukae/main.go:12 +0x36
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Yeah because they /totally/ aren't.
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Web seeded torrent?
I think you meant the reverse of what you said in the first paragraph. It’s true that Malaria (ague) cases occurred in Medival Europe as far north as England, but it was very much climate dependent. With massive differences between what became the Nordic countries vs say Italy. However, I have never heard a significant objection to calling it a tropical disease.
Well that's great news!
I had an interview once where I was asked to award myself a score out of 10 in C++. I pointed out that Bjarne Stroustrup rated himself 7 out of 10 once.
Because H1B's are about 'minorities'? Doesn't make much sense to me.
You aren't going to make ddos attacks go away by offering prizes for a miracle software solution. It amazes me that there are so many programmers here who don't understand this basic principal. I think the only way we can get people to understand the situation is with an analogy.

Let's say your pipe can receive 1 Liter per second of water. There are some impurities that you can filter through your faucet, this is analogous to the software firewall. However what happens when someone starts piping 99 L/s of sludge through the other end? No matter how sophisticated the filter you have on your faucet, the water you will get out of it is going to slow to a trickle.

Now I can already hear you asking, why does the Internet allow people to send whatever sludge they want? And the answer is because that's the way the internet is made. There has been a push to stop spoofing called BCP38, but this requires EVERYONE to do extra work and spend extra money which is why relatively little progress has been made since it was released 15 years ago, and is likely to never succeed.

If it was as easy as creating a piece of software to deal with, large businesses like Prolexic wouldn't be banking their future on a problem that would be so easily solved.
Maybe developing and mantaining HN is one of pg's few connections to his developer side.
Sure you can: have more flexible pacing. Don't tie the different subjects' timelines together. There's no need to specifically have 5th grade reading, 5th grade math, and 5th grade history that all must be done at the same time. Have multiple tracks. Have many subjects be entirely optional.
Wow. This is entirely different here in India. First of all, it has been made mandatory (it's slightly inconvenient). This is not implemented as a popup. It redirects to the Issuing Bank's website for verification. Signup should be done in the bank's site as well (e.g.: https://www.3dsecure.icicibank.com/ACSWeb/EnrollWeb/ICICIBan...).
Seems like it would be easier to use xargs or GNU Parallel.
Does this lead to certificate revocation as the next form of economic trade wars?