jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"You seem to have a model of the human brain as a machine with a moral selector. If it is set to "good", then the morally-correct neural programs are automatically activated, producing a moral outcome, or at least a valiant attempt interrupted by bad luck."

I don't believe in any of that, but thanks for jumping to conclusions.

This was never about morals to me, it's about someone trying to find a rationalization for a certain set of behaviours that they were comfortable repeating over and over again. I don't think the person who wrote that blog post is a "good" or "bad" person. Saying "oh well, this is the way I am" is not a solution to a problem. It's an excuse. Please also re-read what I said about people with medical conditions (including and not limited to mental illness) too.

I also don't believe that people are lucky or unlucky by nature, shit happens all the time that you cannot control. This isn't about morals at all, it's about getting shit done that needs to get done.

"Try choosing to be irresponsible for three straight weeks. Your kids will not be harmed by a few weeks of nachos and slightly-dirty clothes. I bet you couldn't do it. The salience detector in your brain would scream and you would be compelled to obsessively fix it, regardless of your previous "choice" to prove you could, and your brain's storyteller would then cook up a story about how you really meant to do laundry all along."

That actually made me laugh out loud. I don't do the laundry much (wife dislikes my choices on separating clothes into categories for washing) and I'm down for nachos a few times a week but the kids themselves don't want that. I do get my kids breakfast (always ask them what they want, and give it to them without being preachy or "that is not a breakfast food!" type of attitude), and make lunches for them while my wife gets ready for work.

I also let them dress themselves, and again don't give them the "those clothes are totally inappropriate!" speech either. Bet that surprises you.

The picture of me as some sort of obsessed parent who can't bring themselves to serve their kids nachos or send them to school without crisply-pressed clothes is enough to make anyone who knows me and reads this post laugh.

It's ironic that you have made the same snap judgements about me that I have made about the blog poster. For that I thank you for pointing it out.
I think it would be too hard to set up her clients with drop box accounts. They aren't necessarily tech savvy and many are elderly (it is an estate law practice).
Can you name some ugly, stinky problem that we haven't already farmed out to the third world?
I’d agree that it looks better in isolation.

I think that the advantage of leading with `fn` arrives when you have paragraphs of functions to scan through.

Leading with a consistent word (be it fn, func, or whatever) immediately and disambiguously identifies the line as defining a function (rather than a variable, or whatever), which is a useful landmark to anchor on or pivot from.
I think you should consider getting into QlikView development. I can't talk about my personal experience, but suffice it to say it is growing like wildfire and the idea is very similar to what you're describing.

I think it would be hard to get into this field with completely custom built apps, because maintenance will kill you in the long run.
For my ad money, I like display ads rather than pay per click ads... I am just trying to say 'Hey, I exist' and pay per click is usually not a very cost-effective way of doing that.

(now, most of my advertising 'budget' was spent on, say, writing a book... but per-click ads are the opposite of what I want.)
See also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1307291

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1051011
If you, or the company, is in California go ahead and sign it. Non-competes are not valid or enforceable in the state of California.

I am not a lawyer, but when faced with a very similar situation, the lawyer I sought advice from told me this.
Yeah, this is a great project, but different than what I was talking about :)
Although Z80 has lower IPC, it had a roughly 2x clock speed so performance was about the same Z80 slightly faster for most applications.

It would be rare however for there to be a direct "bake off" between the two CPUs -- any given design organization was either an 8080/Z80 shop or a 6800/6502/6809 shop. There weren't sufficiently great differences in price/performance between the two to make it worthwhile changing.
I've been out of the industry for a while but I spent 5 years working on regulatory projects in the MD&D sector.

We never advertised off-label. Whether it's legal or not, I do recall you'd get slapped by the FDA for lack of controls. We had many cases where doctors would use a product off-label and it'd come back to us in the form of a complaint or defect (product comes back as defective, we investigate and find out the doctor was using the product for an off-label procedure it wasn't designed for and would fail, hence the 'defect'). At which point we'd have to proactively train doctors to not do this and other corrective action measures would have to be put in place. If upon investigating we find this would be a good use of the product, we'd have to go through another round of FDA fun (sometimes clinicals and how much testing depended on some factors, definitely rounds of internal testing and implement new QA tests and procedures to ensure the product can work for the new use and have proper fault tolerances as well as new labeling and training, etc).

Now, do companies try to skirt around this? Sure. Part of my job at the time was to make sure we didn't. FDA Warning letters are no joke in this industry, it can literally put you out of business.
I once accidentally knocked out 65K websites during a "fix update". Back then I was mortified. Now, I just feel like that was amateur hour...
Snapd autoupdate.
Looks like facebook auth is still working?
Thanks, tried to keep it classic.

It's aiming to be complimentary to NFTs - if you want to own the token, go to SuperRare or wherever, but if you want to enjoy the art itself, in full quality, try Novari

How do you think it can be improved? Open to ideas!
facebook is good now
down it Italy as well
My bog-standard PCIe laptop SSD writes at 3GB/s, so anything over 10s seems like it is an implementation problem not a hardware limitation.
My bittersweet tragic morning:

0) Check hacker news

1) Read about Rockstar. Get more and more excited

2) Go to download /build the interpreter/compiler/whatever

3) It's not implemented yet? I can't write Rockstar code RIGHT NOW?!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
One of the scariest parts of this is that it seems like surveillance (if not censorship) is much more targeted. If you aren't the NSA's focus or on a TSA watch list, you might not know anything is going on. But if you are unlucky enough to trigger something, you might be visited with unimaginable torment like @chimeracoder was.
Tim Cook's greatest strength is his realization of, and comfort with, the fact that he is not Steve Jobs. Why doesn't he have bi-monthly feature reviews? Because he wouldn't have as much to contribute as Jobs. He doesn't have the product intuition and he knows it.

What was unique about Steve Jobs was that he could perform so many different roles within the company. He could convince anyone he needed to join the company, he could ascertain just what kinds of products were likely to be successful, and he could get on stage and sell the living daylights out of the products his company had built. These roles are necessarily going to be performed worse when separated into different executives, just like a basketball player who can play great offense and defense is worth a lot more to a team than ten great offensive players and ten great defensive players.

As Bill Gates said, the (old) Apple model only works if you have a Steve Jobs. The new Apple can't function like the old Apple any more than a car can function without a steering wheel. The best thing Cook can do is transition the company to a more traditional management structure. Will the company be worse off than before? Of course, but it's the best they can do under the circumstances.
i'm form the middle east. i go to europe and USA often. although i was patted down twice in the US, one random check and the other for no apparent reason that i describe in another comment here (which was hilarious by the way), the worst experience was going to Netherlands, at the final check point the officer looked at my passport, asked me what i was coming for, and then gave me a disgusted look and handed me the passport back. That was really awful. I had so much fun there though the people were exceptionally welcoming. i would highly recommend middle easterners to travel as much as they can, safely of course.
Sounds like it's a good idea to invest in a good alarm system and video tape entrance. This way you'd at least know if they had entered without a warrant.

Camera would need to back-up to something remote though, and notify you quickly.
"If there is cash to be had, it'll raise the cost of everything."

If there's cash to be had, it'll rase the cost of... some things.

First of all, obviously, of real estate, because there is a finite stock of developed real estate, there is finite land nearby (especially in San Francisco), the short-term supply curve is relatively inelastic (i.e. it takes time to build apartments) and the long-term supply curve isn't that elastic either (because local governments limit construction through the political process).

And then that will push up the price of things with real estate as an input (e.g. restaurants and grocery stores) and with labor as an input (also restaurants and grocery stores and other things in the service industry)....

But that's about it. Some things will remain cheap. You can buy the same cheap electronics and home furnishings and digital media off Amazon.com as anyone else does.
Problem is affirmative action rentacops that the TSA has become. Israeli security personnel are highly trained, intelligent folks. The ethnic profile of such a TSA would be > 90% white. Cry racism, and there goes your competent force.
More relevant, this has long been Apple's strategy. One which has evolved from primary education onto college campuses by following the money - money in the form of student loans.
yes I did but it didn't make it to the first page!
The fundamental challenge of GUIs is that they have state as a core concern. Unlike most systems, state is not an implementation detail that can be refactored away. It is central to the problem domain. The end user sees and cares about having a stateful system.

The hardest part of dealing with state in a complex system is maintaining consistency in different places. Some instances of this this can be avoided by creating single-sources-of-truth, but in other cases you can't unify your state, or you're dealing with an external stateful system (like the DOM), and you have no choice but to find a way to keep separate pieces of state in sync.

I should probably write a blog post on this
Even so, what did he expect was going to happen by CCing Steve Jobs? Did he think Steve was going to come thundering down to the engineer's office wanting to know why he hadn't replied to that guy's previous email?

Realistically, I'd say that that kind of move, trying to embarrass someone you want something from in front of his boss's boss's boss, can only have negative consequences.
If a woman said she's interested in you, never calls back, and says SHE will call YOU, you wouldn't have hope and stay interested?

I don't understand why this thread seems to be going out of their way to shit on this guy. It's not like Apple said "eh" and didn't respond, they kept saying they'd get back to him and never bothered.

It's called leading someone on, it's rude, and I'm startled at the number of excuses that are being made for this guy.
Your question seems a bit silly to me.

Just answer to these questions in your business plan:
-When can the VC expect profit?
-What makes your team/product so special?

If you're going to make a business plan based on a template...
Well...
How are you going to stand out from all of the other templates?
We're a bootstrapped company and the initial capital outlay for servers would be a serious investment at this stage. Rackspace gives us access to hardware on-demand at monthly prices that fit our budget. In addition, we have a partnership deal with RS that gives us a discount on hardware. As we continue to grow, any of these criteria may change, at which point we will re-evaluate the situation.
I submitted a spam report about that site the other day. I've been getting up to scratch on ruby and a lot of searches for gem names return that site. I have gotten so used to trusting the top results in Google that I never think to check the domain - I need to stop that.
I think you'll find the culture here to follow the idea that business plans are bullshit and you should spend your time on your product/service and customer service instead.

Just as agile software development has killed the big-design-up-front method of building software, starting businesses has thankfully followed suit.

If you're really successful, you get to write a book about how you did it, and then you can write what looks like your business plan, with the hindsight advantage ;)
We've had discussions about selling Haystack licenses before, but that requires a fair amount of work to get it in shape to do so. It's possible we will open source it someday instead. Nothing has been decided at this point.
How is lying being polite? I'd rather get no response than a flat out lie.

If you email Steve Jobs and he says, "I'm sending you a new iPad in the mail. Just send us your address." Are you happier that he responded then if he hadn't (except for the fact that you now have a good blog story to tell).

Being polite would have been "thanks for contacting us. As you can imagine we're swamped with work, but we are interested in this. I'm going to have to put this on the backburner and get back to it when I can. No promises. I'll follow up with you when it looks like there's a good fit schedulewise. Thanks."
The boom and bust cycles of capitalism continue!
Actually the short name worked for the searches, the problem was reading element names from a subtree

It's not as much as dodging the requirements but rather an inconsistency in the API.
Hence, languages with a proper macro system.
Your car is also huge, yellow, and driven by a sober professional?
I learned GL in the 1990s on SGI systems. Shaders didn’t exist, poly counts were in the 100s, and textures were a massive processing burden. The rendering pipeline of course was quite different. And yet so much is the same! Code organization, data types, all is quite familiar, whether it’s OpenGL or DirectX or what not. The achievements of SGI engineers have literally benefited generations.
Again you’ve described a paradigm like functional programming but failed to address my original question.
I’ve been programming for over a decade now, and have seen this symptom over and over again. Someone sees shiny new paradigm => realizes is holy grail => fails to see how it fits into _actual_ working teams.
My problem is that you are going to have a hard time selling this academic approach to _PRACTICAL_ teams doing every day work with every day deadlines and bottom line business dollars.
Until you make this seamless and easy the extra work is just going to be _extra_ work which will be ignored.

I say this as a FAN of Statecharts and functional programming. I myself love this idea. I am looking and prodding people like you for SOLUTIONS to make teams adopt this.

So far you’ve failed to convince me on how to sell this to teams or make it easy to integrate.
So we don’t do location-based pay at our company, but we do factor in PEO costs in order to ensure folks are full time employees for legal reasons. So, if you’re a senior software engineer in Nigeria (for example), your salary would be exactly what we’d pay a senior software engineer in SF, NY, etc. but we’d lower the pay by ~40% (for example) if that’s how much the PEO firm charged us to operate within that country.

I hate that we have to do this, and I’m really looking for PEOs that charge less but they all seem to take a significant amount of capital so we’re starting to consider spinning up entities in order to scale more efficiently and take on lower operational costs. However, then we get back to having to hire within that country’s entity to get that benefit (Ireland for example).

Anyone know of cheaper PEOs or better ways? I want my team getting paid as much as possible because, at the end of the day, it’s the same cost to our business anyway.
I think it's a fallacy to compare different countries in this way. If you take the "What right do you have to complain" route it would just be a race to the bottom, and guess who wins? The companies who get to pay everyone less. You can advocate for making your local community better while still advocating that other parts of the world who have it worse off as well.

However I think missing in this argument is an admission that SV wages are ridiculously inflated thanks to the playground of economics software tends to play in, which is what is causing this issue to crop up in the first place.
Yes, potentially, if that is how you program it. But typically you call QWidget::update() which repaints the widget next time through the event loop, if anything changes. Calling QWidget::update() several times will usually only call one repaint.

One thing you have to watch out for it that programmatic changes can fire signals. If you don't want this you have to add QObject::blockSignals(true);...QObject::blockSignals(false); around your call.
For devs, there's no reason to have to use an old version of Rust, especially given Rust's strong backwards compatibility guarantees. It's not like Rust takes advantage of dynamic linking by having all libraries being compiled with the same compiler.
What would the anti-China xenophobes be saying if WHO were to say, without sufficient evidence, that human-to-human transmission was happening and it turned out to be mistaken?

Being skeptical is acceptable but not to the extent of rejecting the evidentiary process.

Also, Taiwan News is notably anti-China and is associated with Taiwanese nationalists.
What are the others? If you have some sources I'd be happy to look at them.
Neither. Parents don't pay for schools in Sweden, so profit driven schools are just as free as other schools. Also, they are not elite schools in any sense, they are just slightly better organised and attract students that care enough about their education to select a different school than the default.

Sweden is not the US, it's quite different.
Don't you suppose you're being a bit dogmatic about it? Every device has to be as flexible as possible or it's against the law? Genuinely not trying to straw man, but should my oven manufacturer have to account for me wanting to turn it into a space heater if I feel like it?

Companies make and sell products for specific use-cases all the time. Saying the can't sell something unless they also make the product able to break away form that specific use case, regardless of time and cost to the company and consumers for parallel built in systems or whatever the lift may be doesn't sound feasible to me.

I don't know, I'm on your side that I should be able to dismantle my iPhone and use the parts to my hearts content if I want to. But I'm not sure that it's something Apple has to build into the system just in case someone feels like doing it, especially since I could buy any number of other computing devices that might work just as well.
Don't you dare touch the holy commercial real estate that is luring in all those stupid techies who are driving up the value of my house. Oh god I hate techies, I made this neighborhood good for them, they are taking advantage of my hard work and now they dare to come here and settle down? Preposterous. Look at all the landlords kissing their asses by building expensive luxury apartments so they have a place to live in and driving up the price of housing. I bought this neighborhood without the techies and they should stay outside.

This is satire. Please do not take it seriously.
I really like his take on recording a shot vs. recording a scene. Thanks for sharing!
I am based in California, US. I will either use Stripe for payments, if sales tax is not a concern at this point. Else, I would like to go via a reseller like Paddle to help with tax collection/deposit etc.
Nice job guys. I imagine Dubai police as first customers:)
>John Clark, president and CEO of NCMEC, told Motherboard that in 2020, 10.4 million of the nearly 21,500,000 reports were unique images that were identified and reported multiple times

>"We found that more than 90 percent of this content was the same as or visually similar to previously reported content,"

Hard to tell where exactly this falls between the extremes of "a few images being shared widely and reported many times" and "20M unique instances of abuse". Obviously it's neither of those, and there is a subset of images that account for many reports, but is there a long tail of unique instances? I don't feel like I have a good handle on what the scope of the problem is from the numbers and descriptions given in teh article.
Yeah, cheap money never goes searching for yield.
Did I see the same chart you did? I went back and looked, all I saw was "Q1" and "Q3" labels while the data showed all four quarters, but only half were labelled. It /was/ missing a Q4 though at the end.
There are other websites doing that since ages. What's the difference here ?
Interesting technology. I feel it creates more opportunity like your favorite IDE configured with SCM (say github) available right on your browser. Code as you go. No more setting / configuring the IDE more than once.

Now i goto grok the stack vm code. ;-)
My review:

http://lumma.org/temp/iPadiOS4.html
Note that Mike Rowe did pretty well on that deal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft
While browsing for related source after making my post I found this site:

http://tunes.org/wiki/category_20theory_20101.html

I liked their explanations of algebras and coalgebras.
I tried it last night on the iPad (4.2.1) but it seemingly required a .me login.
I blame Tony Haile ;-)
This is the book that taught me the fundamentals of how computers work. It has done me wonders. I highly recommend this book to any novice, geek or anyone who is interested in computers.
hey buddy, i like your thing but umm your app won't download in the app store. it says that it is no longer available.
Uh,

I keep hearing the ICE-is-tasked-with-counterfeiting-so-this-isn't-a-power-grab argument.

Whatever the merits of the general argument, you need to find a different term for you say it isn't. Because it certainly is a power grab by the normal use of the phrase.

We haven't seen mass domain seizures previously and this ability certainly is power. It's been done with dubious legality, dubious constitutionality and just dubiously, so it's effectively a grab.

If the Department of Agriculture started arresting people for using too many pesticides in their home gardens, it would be a power-grab even though the department sure-enough is tasked with regulating agriculture.
Partly this is because naive Bayes's unreasonable independence assumptions (which are almost always badly violated) turn out not to actually hurt classification performance in a lot of cases, even in theory, because under a lot of distributions the independence violations basically cancel out: http://www.aaai.org/Papers/FLAIRS/2004/Flairs04-097.pdf
I don't necessarily think you're trolling, but I totally understand why you're being downvoted.

Being able to compartmentalize and analyze different facets of something is (I think) an important intellectual tool. Example: I can enjoy Richard Wagner's music even though he was a demonstrably terrible person.

I'm not an LDS, and I don't like some of the things that the church does, but I can still appreciate the things they do well.