jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That is very true.

Knowledge – expands,

Space exploration knowledge – expands,

Sub atomic exploration – expands, (muon and we may even find its sub atomic particles as well)

Space – expands,

Number series – expands,

Fibonacci – expands.

Science expands external knowledge and shrinks self-knowledge,
Spirituality shrinks external-knowledge and expands self-knowledge.

Be warned when something expands.
Be warned when something shrinks.

E=mc^2

where c is not just the speed of light, c is the speed of space expansion as well.

Mass expands to form energy (science)

Energy shrinks to form mass (spirituality)
If you get philosophical, I don't think you can really know anything about anything. However, in practice I have every reason to assume that I have been practically dead i.e. non-existent for the vast majority of the lifetime of our universe (and whatever universes there may have been outside our one, whatever that may mean.) And I do not recall being non-existent that bad... Dying, that's another thing, that I know nothing about and am not looking forward for it - quite yet. But I know that the amount of things I want to do here is finite. And based on knowing myself and the feelings of quite a few old people, I am quite sure that when those would be done, I would be happy to let go. (Only small thing that I might want from approximately infinite life, would be to know how this life story here on earth/universe ends.)
I'm not very familiar with WebRTC & how the browser pulls video usually, in what way is this better?

Also, what benefits does WebRTC give over other protocols?
For me in France and Germany the correct angle is that if you do not control your computer, some big crazy American corp do, and can and will do whatever they want with your content, which usually means make money with it.
If it doesn't require it, then don't use words you don't define in the first sentence of your webpage.

I'm currently on the lookout for a static website generator (new year, new blog). This webpage is very off putting.

The quick start guide -- install lenonwhatever, fine. The start new project? In what? When do I install your thing? Is your thing lenonwhatever?
DVDs are coming out months after the initial release, so timing is a part of consideration here.
I've had this kind of thing happen to me when I was graduating in physics. I was working with a liquid helium based refrigerator that had a superconducting magnet inside it, pretty much the same technology used in MRI. The setup could reach fields up to 13T and the old CRT display that accompanied the setup would visibly skew above ~6T (it was pretty close to the magnets). I was sitting on a small wheeled stool of which two varieties floated around the labs: one with metallic wheels (red) and one for use near these setups (blue). Unfortunately, one of the wrong ones had found its way into this lab, but do you normally pay attention to the color of stools? I sat down, probably around a meter from the setup, cranked up the magnetic field, stood up to adjust something and BANG, the stool collided with the fridge. Luckily nothing was damaged, but the reason for these two types of stools was suddenly very clear to me :)
Somehow I don't think the web will even miss a beat as a result of this. Content will still live on, People will still use computers to browse. I'm pretty sure I'll still be able to get news from my favourite sources, maybe those people with iPads and iPhones will pay for this content for me by watching ads. That's fine with me!

I had an iPhone which broke after 15 months, and have ordered an Android phone and couldn't be happier about it. I really don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.
E-mobile's pocket-wifi plan starts at 350yen a month and goes up to about 4980yen. They even come with a free wifi connector and the first 3 months a 1000yen off.

While they're not a cellphone carrier, they are highly competitive when it comes to ubiquitous wifi.
I've sworn by SublimeText until now. And Atom is getting released during a time when I'm increasingly learning to love console-only computing. I envision a day when I can travel the world with a cheap laptop/chromebook and do all my coding remotely via SSH.. and Vim is very much at the core of that dream.

Now I just have to master it.
They open beta invites today
it certainly wouldn't be a profit center, but from a brand / loyalty perspective I see the value.
> radicals are influential way out of proportion to what one would be led to expect by making a quick survey of people's negative reactions to them.

Is radicalism a hack for getting attention? Is RMS's radicalism such a hack? If not, could it have started out as such? Is Swindle, RMS's use of 9/11, et alia a misguided attempt to use this radicalism hack?
I have a suggestion: make it an option and give users the choice to view vote counts.
Amazon gives you the option to group things to reduce shipping. And if you do this you do get a discount and you will revive a single box with several items in it. If you are ordering small and cheap items like USB cables the discount can be significant.
As a non-programmer it breaks my heart that there is no easy on-ramp for the rest of us. When I got started in the old days we had HyperCard which was my tool of choice — you could so real programming on it, or you could do something very simple. Apple killed Hypercard by neglect, but then Microsoft put out Visual Basic. The result? Within a few years they created a monster that would scare away non-programmers. I'm even amazed that tools like Dreamweaver which should make HTML easy for idiots have become these complex beasts.

To me the PC represented a revolution of letting the rest of us own a computer -- and taking it out of the hands of the high priests of mainframes. But I'd like to see the next revolution occur where non-geeks can build apps. No they don't have to be complex apps, but even something that's like the old HyperCard would be cool.
Perhaps something like Montessori would work better for this student. Or something like https://www,k12.com which I know some parents swear by. One size fits all is efficient, but not everyone is the same size.
I think you're right. Also, some of the market response is already there (although still very small compared to the big players). A good example is the brave browser which could change a lot of things once a lot of people start using it.
What is common among them? What is the analogue to a phone call that applies equally to Twitter, Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook, etc?
It is hardly enough to sustain a business, the other platforms are the ones that keep the lights on.
LG phones were great before colour screens.
Without a harmonized tax, Ireland could also lose all of its corporate tax receipts to some other country that's willing to stoop even lower.

More generally, this is a variant of a mutual coordination problem in game theory, in which it is everyone's interest for everyone to cooperate, but in each individual's interest to be the only party that doesn't cooperate. Those are notoriously tricky to induce/enforce agreement on, but it has been done.
Custom IDs were not part of the leak, only number IDs and phone numbers
The town I grew up in had a local weekly newspaper that published unedited letters. It was fun — basically an analog message board.

One problem is that normal humans don’t write concisely. The other is that the Economist is a global publication... you probably would not be happy with long-form musings of Johnny Random from Papua New Guinea. You’re opting in for highbrow British style.
If any uploaded videa were assigned a token, and one turned out to be illegal, any matches against the original token would trigger an auto-deletion.
Everything I'm saying is speculation. I'm asking questions, not providing evidence one way or the other. I never said there was a problem.
Rather a simplified version of computing. Programming to me necessarily includes making machines do things.
That's the hard part(for me, and you apparently). That's why I think it's a good thing to have people with different personalities in a project. Some like to start and organize things, some like to finish things.
I'm very glad that only game writers are using Tcl for scripting their games. It's a godawful language I'd never want to maintain any real software in. Python and Ruby are bad, but Tcl is a degenerate joke. Let's please leave it undiscovered.
> If one of the kwin developers had nvidia hardware,

So what your are saying is that NVIDIA could have just sent them a crate full of low end $50 dollar hardware and been done with it? I find that rather unlikely, or rather as an end user I prefer to think that there wouldn't be that much drama over what amounts to nothing.
Is a massive refactoring an oxymoron?

'a series of small behavior-preserving transformations, each of which "too small to be worth doing"' https://martinfowler.com/books/refactoring.html
it wouldn't be free speech if there were.
the first amendment was written by a group of seditious traitors who rebelled against the state. speech is not a tool for preserving the state, it exists to protect the people.
I feel that's a bit of a strawman.

It's generally closer to: "Every time it's been tried it's been either bad or disastrous, clearly we have no reason to learn from it or try again"

Which I think is fair! Hell, even the original strawman is a fair argument IMO. Fascism didn't work once, and I don't think there's much there to learn from (and we certainly shouldn't try it again).
I use it whenever I expect a directory to be empty and want an error if for whatever reason it isn't. It's a bit niche, but good to have in your toolbelt.
I think Blender is the most exciting software being developed today. I really think we are on the cusp of an indie cg film/show golden age like what Hollywood has in the 70s and 90s.

The possibilities with CG are sky high but the barrier to entry has been equally so. Lots of money and man hours. But I truly think the next ten years will be exciting and that something like on the level of Star Wars will be made by a small team collaborating remotely.

I think Blender is really user friendly.
Yeah, you're right.

Overall I think this is a positive change and it's what every distro should do. If a distro wants to define default fallback servers then it should just be in the default /etc/systemd/resolved.conf, not hardcorded into the binary.
T13, and with some exceptions (some law firms will draw a top few students from more local law schools, for example, also certain specialties get different treatment).

But generally yes. School first, then class rank.
We can use any query to bring in and are considering various ways to process it after that. That's in the near term roadmap.

The main kind of "processing" that's done now is using all these properties to calculate cohort membership (High Value users) so that all these tools can use it: Zendesk to route tickets, Marketo to trigger a campaign, even the product to change their dashboard.
Having a trustworthy election process might go a long way (voter ID, regular verification when doubts arise etc.).

As a European I find the images from Georgia's vote counting absolutely astonishing.
Put simply, I don't know what to believe. As an IT security worker, I have absolutely no faith in the election since voting required the use of hackable electronic voting machines.

We need to restore trust in the system. An idiot needs to be able to understand and audit it. Until that happens, there will always be people who think it's rigged, and politicians will always exploit that.
Live steam from inside the Capitol Building:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNJKNpAOs5k
Somehow the priorities seem to end up this way. Incentives will out. Problem is the competition dont build that stuff in, so you end up sliding down in comparison, being seen as expensive for bad reasons, not for real reasons that add value, like doing manual upgrades... Then its downhill.
You'd have to read his comment out of context to believe that. No. This was a response to a misread headline.
Good article, but I think the reference to Dropbox is a bit out of place.

Online backup/sync, which is what Dropbox does, was readily available when they arrived. The thing was, nobody was using these services because they were not straightforward enough to set up, or were too costly, etc. Dropbox "got that right", so to speak.
How is it possible that someone doesn't know his eyes color? Never had a mirror? Wired question.. Can you explain?
wget isn't the only part of the puzzle you may need Restart Recovery for - the CPU-bound map/reduce portion may also need to recover from partial progress. Unix tools aren't well-designed for that.
If the title used any of those other languages, you likely would not have made that comment.

But it says Go, because the author used Go, but apparently some people are tired of hearing about Go.
Very unlikely. Ive is the successor to Jobs on the design front - what he and his team want to build chassis-wise, they're likely to build. He's got a great deal of political capital in the organization because he's been such a hit maker.

My semi-informed understanding of how things work at Apple wrt hardware is:

- Industrial design mak es cool concepts, showing whats possible in hardware

- Eng & UX makes cool features, showing whats possible in software

- Product marketing determines mix of features that make for a compelling release

- Marcom figures out how to pitch it

Obviously lots of back and forth as a particular concept of what makes a compelling release is refined and roadmapped, and many other teams involved. That said, typically product marketing is driving what gets released.

As to the importance of product marketing itself, its one of Apple's greatest strengths because the vast majority of electronics/computer companies have a hard time figuring out a) what different segments of the market might want, and b) what is the intersection of possible AND useful with technology.

An easy way to determine if someone knows what they're talking about wrt Apple is if they complain about a monolithic 'marketing' bogeyman, because it shows they don't understand the nature of how products are built at Apple, nor how products succeed in the market.

That said, they occasionally miss. The keyboard has been generally well-received (tho a bit polarizing) EXCEPT for the obvious quality disaster. Not sure where the breakdown was there. And the touchbar has been very polarizing among the pro segment - the choice to bundle it with the high-end machines for the developer market segment was a miss likely entirely on product marketing.
I keep all my email around because searching is so easy and useful.

So many times, I will find some reason to search for an old email that might not have seemed important enough to save at the time; I might need to find the date I did something on, or get the spelling of a friend's name that I never thought I would need.

There is very little cost to keeping everything, and I certainly see benefits.
I wondered about this too. Just for fun, I plotted the household income distribution on the same chart: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/667/income-distribution.jpg

Income distribution looks quite different from wealth distribution, and is more equal than the estimates in the original article.

[ Household income data from here: http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/DistributionofIncome.html]
The things you mention are what inflation is meant to nullify. In an economists perfect world the amount of a normal good you can buy with $1 would be the same as the amount of that good you could buy for 1 inflation-adjusted dollar at any other time in history.
Looks nice. One note: It says it requires MacPorts. You should probably say it requires the source-highlight package, regardless of how you get it. (I'm going to install via Homebrew, some might compile it manually.)
Here is a definition of a pyramid scheme:

pyramid schemes — also referred to as franchise fraud or chain referral schemes — are marketing and investment frauds in which an individual is offered a distributorship or franchise to market a particular product. The real profit is earned, not by the sale of the product, but by the sale of new distributorships. Emphasis on selling franchises rather than the product eventually leads to a point where the supply of potential investors is exhausted and the pyramid collapses.

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

Seems like, under that definition, the question is whether people are paying you for the book, as opposed to paying you for the right to engage in the pyramid scheme.

Remember, copyright law gives you a right to exclude, but it does not absolve you of other legal obligations. For example, you can commit antitrust-like violations using a copyright (this is called "copyright misuse"). So if your scheme is indeed a pyramid scheme that violates the law, then copyright will not protect you.

That said, I'm just hypothesizing on facts I'm imagining, so obviously consult a lawyer with any real situations.
It's surprising that with all that talk about how bad packaged ruby is, not many seem to be pushing for automation to fix this. CPAN situation is very similar to gems (apart from the speed of changes in the interpreters). Some perl modules are missing, some outdated, but `dh-make-perl --cpan Module::You::Want` brings you all you need almost every single time. There seems to be an old dh-make-ruby (dead ~2006), dh-make-gem seems to be in the works (early 0.3.0 version available).

Even upstream doesn't seem to be interested that much. On the download page, there's:

For example, on Debian or Ubuntu apt-get provides an easy and elegant solution:
% sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-full

It definitely is confusing / silly to the outside observer... There's rvm - how hard is it to automate package building reusing it's elements? If it's not - why isn't it done? If it is - why all the packages hate, instead of pressuring upstream to improve the situation?
So I am pretty sure you have your successful open source story to share. Where you saved the queen, anything green, the oxygen, as we know it - and made millions along the way - while slaying bad guys around.

PS. It is easy to spot a clown.
For those curious, the photo at the top can be seen in San Francisco if you head north-bound on Mission as it turns onto South Van Ness, moments before South Van Ness crosses Market and becomes Van Ness.

See for yourself: http://goo.gl/maps/FfBW
Yes, the only difference is that to become an affiliate, you must first buy a book, making it an MLM scheme.

But since the cost of producing and delivering an extra copy of your book is essentially zero, we have created a legal system with the same economics as a pyramid scheme. Right? So is it legal?
As per Kod 0.0.2's changelog, the special snowflake license was inspired by this blog post: http://blog.robrhyne.com/post/1043407467/selling-open-source
I think he's saying as soon as you can without feeling nauseous. I'm not sure if all people are like this, but if I eat within 30 minutes of a hard workout I have a rough time.
I agree with you. But wouldnt it be good if high level languages supported concurrency. This would make it easier to program certain tasks. A popular opinion I encounter often and also reflected to an extent in the article is that such a route has no merit.

There is no reason to believe that HLLs have to be particularly inefficient (for example the scheme compiler stalin can hold its own and often run faster than an equivalent number crunching code written in c). I am not arguing that Python should be that high level language, but that the current state of "divide" (c for programming servers python for apps) is a little artificial and is a result of a lack of options. Not grappling with parallelism only makes the scene a little more entrenched.

I find X10, Fortress and Chapel quite exciting as they are trying to straddle this gap.
Julia v1.4 Release Notes :

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/v1.4.0/NEWS.md
What are the main obstacles to scalability of production and of use?

Could the former be amenable to treatment as an engineering problem? There are a lot of motivated engineering minds right now.
Wasn't Intel planning to become a customer of TSMC?
Hi everyone - I made Vidrio because I saw Tony Stark's holographic display and thought, "I want that." I made the closest thing that could run on a Mac. I used Vidrio for some presentations and screencasts, and got some amazing reactions. Now I'm releasing it for all of you. It's perfect for remote working via Zoom, screencasts via YouTube, live coding on Twitch, etc. I'm making it free for all COVID-19 remote working. Let me know what cool videos and presentations you make with it!
The incentives are wrong in the US. If you can face life in prison for petty crime, you might as well take a cop down while you’re at it.
Not sure. I thought raised buttons rock!
I'm curious, how do you do this? Don't you need an endless amount of displays and setups to make sure Lunar supports all of them?
Game, set, match. it's over for Intel. They sat on their asses for too long and now are getting eaten by the previous underdogs.

This shift is great news for literally everyone except Intel's execs' bonus packages.
I'm working on developing a collaborative learning framework. To be used when designing online learning experiences.

I believe it works across most groups (early learners all the way through to university and professional development).

Initial idea https://t.co/7MvEMI5xSl

Further development of the framework and value proposition for learners and educators. I am also workong to develop/document examples is my current plan.
> the matter is now moot, as it is impossible to issue the requested relief.

> do not warrant the wholesale disenfranchisement of thousands of Pennsylvania voters

> such inaction would result in the disenfranchisement of millions of Pennsylvania voters

> That remedy would be grossly disproportionate to the procedural challenges raised.

> tossing out millions of mail-in ballots would be drastic and unprecedented, disenfranchising a huge swath of the electorate and upsetting all down-ballot races too. That remedy would be grossly disproportionate to the procedural challenges raised

My impression is that’s the crux of many of the decisions.

⅘ of the states would have needed to flip, so as legal avenues close in states the ROI on pursuing other cases begins to turn negative quickly.

Let me be clear: I’m not arguing that any of the arguments are valid or not, just that they weren’t given the time or resources for discovery or developed argument that would provide any type of closure. In many cases the remedy may be worse than the outcome.
It's a perfect example of the general shittiness of life. Just little things that, in of themselves, aren't bad, but they add up to make everything more difficult.

Once an IC is designed, the datasheet doesn't substantially change. It isn't a computer program that gets continuous updates every couple of months. They might add some errata for some corner cases or clarification. What happens when the IC is discontinued? I still need the datasheet, so I can understand the circuit when finding a replacement IC.
You shouldn’t preemptively set broad regulations based on some hypothetical boogeyman scenario because regulations have unintended consequences.

It’s entirely possible that there is a non-neutral ISP service that would benefit customers. Allowing Netflix to co-locate for free is one example. T-Mobile’s voluntary video slow down in exchange for zero rating is another.

It’s unreasonable to ban business models because it’s hypothetically possible AT&T would ban 99% of the Internet.
The theory and reality don’t match.

Drugs are likely the number one things bought using crypto as currency.

Firearms and pornography can be bought with dollars if you’re using crypto to buy them or other unpopular goods or services, you are veering dangerously close to black markets, which invite regulation.