jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There's really no explanation for why EPYC "Naples" was so bad other than AMD did not internally understand the performance of realistic large-scale programs. I mean even if they had taken anything off the shelf, for free, like MySQL, they could have determined at some point before mass production that their CPU, in fact, sucked. But they shipped it and prospective customers rejected it.

Don't discount how a weak organization can make poor decisions even when all necessary information seems to be readily available.
Thank you, this is the cleanest deconstruction of this argument I've ever seen.

I think the fundamental misconception is that speech "cannot infringe other's freedoms" like physical actions can, so no tradeoffs of individual's freedoms have to be collectively decided for speech.

The idea of words propagating beliefs, drowning out others and inciting actions is just subtle enough to weasel out of whenever convenient in this world view.
At least their CEO seems to ban "Antifa" supporters: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200630/23525844821/parle...
Miners would be one party that get a regular supply of Bitcoins, and have regular bills to pay.

And any other party interested in selling would be particularly loud in publicly exhorting others to HODL, so the conventional wisdom is inherently suspect.
They just did it so I think it certainly was.
Twitter embeds are equally bad. Ended up remaking them to output static HTML + CSS to improve perf (https://leerob.io/tweets).
> Some places the drivers are so polite to the point it really makes things dangerous

I live in a small town that has extra polite drivers. It was really confusing for a while. Eventually I realized that it was a practical response to the overall street layout, with a limited number of main streets, and different areas of town not being well connected. Stopping to let others cross improves the overall traffic flow - if no one did it, traffic would just be backed up for miles.
> Of course you can. There's packages, with excellent software engineering structure, that are designed to include documentation and tests.

For me, the problem with R is that the language is inconsistent.
Many packages arose to address many problems, but they all feel like a hack on top of the core language.
Take the whole Tidyverse; it just does dataframes from R core but then from the ground up.
Now, users can choose between the core language dataframes and the Tidyverse dataframes.
Same holds for plotting.
The core issue, I think, is that the core language misses some essential features which other languages do have nowadays.
For example, a type system.
In R, since types are missing, everything is a table (dataframe) which I find just weird.

> It's not cobbled together like JavaScript or bash.

But also not as good as my favorite: Julia.
Comparing it to Bash is like saying that its better than COBOL.
We all know Bash is quite old, but for certain situations it just works.
It's essential for anyone to be able to send direct mail to a Rural Route address for $0.20?

If anyone mildly sophisticated wanted to tamper with postal mail it would be trivial to do so. Most important mail these days is sent via Fedex, DHL, and UPS.
I flagged this story because it featured no news, but was replete with insipid, tough-to-read, uninformed commentary.
500?
here's me hoping it's something like 20 :(
That was almost comprehensible.
Why is that bizarre? It sounds like a very practical way to avoid the sorts of issues that have befallen so many other pension plans. It most certainly should be done by public and private orgs, since we can't trust the mechanisms intended to free the cash b/c they are corrupt (this is one reason GM was bailed out... it looks better than everyone realizing the PBGC was bankrupted by one firm's demise).
Even for those who love SICP (and I count myself among them), reading TAoCP cover to cover would not necessarily be enjoyable or fruitful. It's useful as a reference, but not as a teaching text. (IMO.)
Hopefully state/local governments will realize the potential increase in tourist spending that Airbnb makes possible. I paid $X for a week of lodging via Airbnb. The equivalent hotel would have cost easily 3X. So now I've saved 2X... and since I'm on vacation I have no problem just spending 1.5X on purely fun stuff (restaurants etc). Also note that having to pay 3X for a traditional hotel would strongly discourage me from going on vacation all together.
Widespread cheating means people don't take education seriously for whatever reason. Cheating frequency is an indicator that the education system is doing something wrong. "The customer is always right" is applicable here.

A similar attitude existed in the USSR. Students cheated cooperatively to stick it to the man. When education is "the man" it's a sign that something must change. People see it as another obstacle, not a stepping stone. Cheating became socially acceptable.

You could detect it with software, make students use an app that records the time of every keystroke and save. If a paper is written too quickly, while shorter papers from the student were not, it's a red flag.

But that would make the problem worse, cheaters will get smarter, detecting them will get harder. Educators must try new things so that people won't want to cheat in the first place. Then after detecting cheating they should use it as a metric of their own performance. Otherwise we're well on our way to social acceptance of cheating.
I don't know the name of the fallacy/phenomenon, but it always reminds me of this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/
Discussion from a few hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8919880
Questions of conservation vs livelihoods are incredibly complex, not least in the Sundarbans area (have worked with farmers in this region) - complex in a way you don't see with human-animal conflict in other parts of the world. We are not talking about a few hundred french farmers and wolves here, but rather livelihood of hundreds of thousands.

It is probably one of the most densely populated areas lying so close to a tiger reserve. The population around the reserve are some of the most climate stressed farmers in the world (facing soil salinity and monsoon variability due to climate change) and areas inside the forest reserve have traditionally been an important source for additional livelihood (honey collection, fishing, etc.).
Farmers settled in these areas were also in part displaced during the colonial era from Bihar and other parts of West Bengal, in essence forced to live in the delta - now of course these are their villages and home towns.

To add to the challenge there is an incredible scarcity of food sources for tigers in the Sundarban reserve, with few other large animals, which is put forward as part of the reason they have (unlike tigers elsewhere) have made it a practice to treat humans as food sources. They are adept swimmers and do attack people in boats meaning that even fishing can be a risky endeavour for farmers.

All in all, the conflict between people and the tigers living in Sundarban is pretty complex and in no small part caused by people outside of the delta (including the British, the increased urban population of Kolkata and surrounding districts, etc.).
Same!

But for now, baby the shit out of them. Buy one that gets legit amazon reviews for your next one. Hand wash it and mayyybe use a sponge when washing it. Only use wooden, plastic or silicone utensils in it.

If somebody cleans it with a scrubby pad or uses a metal spatula, they get shot/buy you your next pan. :)

I did 2 years on my most recent nonstick pan until my roommate cleaned it with a scrubby pad.
I'm saddened by the lack of academic rigour displayed in this thread. If you have not taught introductory computer science courses, then you have NO CLUE what makes a good introductory language choice. It appears James Hague isn't working as a teacher either, just giving advice to newbies, so his opinion is just that -- opinion.

What you want is field studies: "This year we used Haskell and 75% of all students gave up on programming stating that it was to hard. Last year we used Visual Basic and only 20% did. Ergo Visual Basic is probably a better first language than Haskell."

Lots of research is being done on the subject, see this survey: https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~eas285/Readings/Pears_SurveyTeac...
Rule of thumb: if anyone says "toxins", they're peddling anti-scientific nonsense.
> Thus, I don't really think that learning Python offers solid programming foundations.

I agree. But there is a huge class of people that this argument tends to miss - all the people who learn programming as a tool and not a way of life, like scientists or engineers from other departments. For those, it's ideal to learn one language, and it's OK if they don't completely understand CS. For them it's better to know a language that has wide range of practical applications.

So unless you are absolutely sure that you're going to learn CS, I would still suggest Python as a first (and possibly only) language.

I would also say that doing GUI in like PyQt is really easy, but the documentation and tutorials are lacking.
Buildsome [1] has make-like syntax and some interesting ideas, though I haven't personally tried it.

[1] https://github.com/ElastiLotem/buildsome
Note: By "it", the parent post is referring to even/odd restrictions, not congestion pricing.
Sure, but we are not commenting on a story about crypto-related applications. The story is about a centralized exchange going public. Coinbase doesn't care what dApps will be created on Ethereum or whatever, in the same that my broker doesn't care about how my GME purchase will strike a blow for the little guy. They're both just there to pick up their cut.
Regulation killed it - since SEC is watching more closely you either need a legal team, or you need to be very adventurous to build stuff like bitcoin tip bot on reddit :/
Sadly, this helicopter won't record any footage, it is only meant to test flight control and to proof that the idea will work for future missions. There is a interesting Veritasium episode (youtube) that talks about this (interviewing the actual designer from the JPL). The only footage will be from Perseverance filming the flight.
The fact that hedge fund managers live from the fees tells what they really think about their skills. Never gamble using your own money.

Any truly successful fund closes itself from investors. If you really generate profits, there is no reason to give it away after AUM reaches certain level.
Over the years one of the most valuable questions I've asked myself as I've worked in long living codebases:

"If I had to delete this feature tomorrow how quickly could I do it?"

If you come back to this question a few times over development it does a wonderful job of really forcing you to consider your coupling and dependencies. In most cases it's been "delete a few dispatch calls and nuke the whole feature namespace" which has held up very well when future changes come down the pike.
good point, need requirements.

i think bang for buck would be something akin to usb disk, it's arguably offsite. there are lots of software applications that can provide automation of file backup.

if you want sync, there's sugarsync and box.net, haven't used those so no feedback.

if you want online backup there's carbonite and mozy that offer unlimited accounts.
I grow tomatoes on my fire escape in downtown San Francisco. I had to self-pollinate them with an electric toothbrush. I'm pretty sure this is due to the natural lack of bees in San Francisco, not because of the bee die-off due to this chemical.

So my question to the more agriculture knowledgeable HN'ers: how hard would it be to do self-pollination at scale? I imagine the answer is "impossible." Is that too pessimistic?
After reading the article, I found the predictions quite curious, so I decided to run some numbers. Especially since it's about the global PC market, and the figures seem to include enterprise sales. Apple's computer sales have always been strong in North America, but its market share is negligible in large parts of the rest of the world. Apple also has little market share in the enterprise market.

The article states that, at this moment, global market share for Apple desktops and notebooks is 4.4 percent. It predicts that Apple's desktop and notebook market share won't change much in 2011. About 300 million desktops and notebooks are sold annually.

Apple's computer sales have outgrown the market by 25-35% for the last couple of years, but ofcourse, such continued growth would translate to only 1.5 percent point next year (so that doesn't contribute much towards the predicted tripling of Apple's market share). Apple sold 13.66 million Macs in the last four financial quarters -- at this rate it will sell ~20 million Macs next year.

The analyst predicts sales of 37.2 million iPads in 2011. Combined with the 20 million Macs, that would make for 57.2 million Apple computer sales. If that makes up for 12% of the global market of desktops, laptops and tablets, then that market consists of 475 million units in 2011.

I think the total market for desktops, notebooks and tablets will be smaller, closer to 330 million units (that's still a 10% increase!). That would mean that Apple's market share will be even larger than the analyst is predicting: a whopping 17.3%

It's obvious that iOS is working out quite well for Apple, but with iOS devices outselling Macs 6 to 1 in 2011, I hope it continues to love Mac OS X and iOS equally.
Nice piece of data visualization there. +1 for using great circles instead of straight lines.
the lack of china is pretty interesting. russia is practically non-existent too, but it's much larger (especially with this map projection) with a much smaller population.
At $350, it's a bargain too. Win-win.
I'm betting the testing procedure is even more amusing.
I thought it was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek - I didn't take "Drinking Heavily" entirely to heart either.
Edit from my side(since for some stupid reason did not explain why i prefer Wordpress):

I have experience from CMS`es ranging from enterprise solutions to all round platforms like Wordpress, my brief opinion about some of them:

1) Polopoly:
A enterprise solution typically used for magazine/news sites. The problem (with many enterprise solutions) is that it is very advanced and not easy to use at all for new users. I would almost say that training is a must for such a solution. I feel pretty sure that with better usability in focus, it could have been almost a killer app for larger sites.

2) EZ:
Taken from the name, EZ should be easy to use, it`s not. This is just another solution fallen into the "Enterprise" trap, instead of focusing on the users that actually have to work with it, they focus on the bosses and persons with the money, in order to sell in the system. The solution itself is relatively plain but you can not simply log in a place and select "new article", instead it is typically creating objects here and there.

3) Wordpress:
Finally a system that has the user in focus, the system is designed for people NOT being geeks. Anybody will without any training be able to login and create some content. It is plain and simple but in the same time it gives the user the needed information and not everything else.

There is a good reason Microsoft has decided to close their blogging services and rather move all their users over to Wordpress.

So to conclude:
I put Wordpress on first place, with the possibility of Polopoly going to first place for larger solutions if they could get their user interface in order.

* I guess some of you would say that Wordpress is not a CMS,in that case i do wonder... What is the difference between Wordpress and a "real" CMS? :)
That's not necessarily the case. There are many niches that aren't obviously profitable. From the outside, it seems like they'd be a waste of time until someone discovers a way to make money with them.
... think of the startup you could bootstrap, if this happened.
Is there a study that shows that scoring well on standardized tests does NOT reflect real learning? Perhaps there is, but... There is a lot rhetoric to the effect that "scoring well on tests just means you are good at taking tests", but (1) there is nothing wrong with getting good at taking tests, and (2) are we sure?

Also, the process MAY or MAY not have harmed other students -- there is no reason to believe it would, that I can tell -- again, please respond if there is.
We don't revolutionize teaching because TENURE AND SENIORITY RULES ARE LOCKED DOWN BY THE UNIONS.

Want to revolutionize teaching (and save some money)? Break the unions and fire the worst 10% of the teaching staff. Then do it again next year.

(Edit: we really DO care about teaching, and spend enormous amounts of tax payers dollars and collective worry on it.)
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway" -- Andrew Tanenbaum
This strikes me, especially the last line. It seems as if your Chinese customers are spending like Americans do during bubble times.
There really isn't one. Symbian might be the closest that's still out there. Android would be somewhat quirky at best, and Apple wants you to use their toolchain.

Having said that, take a look at Appcelerator's Titanium (appcelerator.com) or AppMakr (appmakr.com). They both provide tools that enable you to create HTML/CSS/Javascript screens and also intermingle with other scripting languages to produce a compiled app for desktop, Apple, Android, and others.
String literals are implicitly pointers and pointers are mostly equivalent to arrays.

char digitAsChar = "0123456789"[digitAsInt%10];
>Back in the days, I remember the isolation.

There were newsgroups, basically SO on comp.* subgroups.
Oh, by biography I just meant his life story. I didn't have a specific book in mind.

Orwell is famous for having been early to break with political allies whose tactics he abhorred, even though they were fighting for his side. He had a genius for intellectual honesty, which made his writing exceptionally clear. If there's a clearer writer in English I wonder who it is.
Surely everyone already knows what happens if you maliciously create a .gov domain? What would making an example of this security researcher do, other than have a chilling effect on the field as a whole?
Everything you do or experience "alters" your perception. It's just that we slowly build up habitual perceptual patterns and "tracks in the dirt" over many months and years of time, and so the changes usually occur too slowly or subtly for us to notice easily.

But not always! On rare days, something happens... a long series of cumulative affects finally precipitates or something unexpected comes at us in the just right way, shattering our view. And then after a brief period of processing, we wake up the next morning with a different perspective.

Psychedelics are like that in their own way. They seem to temporarily weaken these deeply-habitual thought patterns and perspectives, allowing one to look at things in a new way. It doesn't "alter" reality. It loosens our iron-grip on our own accumulated view of what we think reality should be. After the trip finishes, our grip re-strengthens, but it may be holding something slightly different, and perhaps a bit less desperately.

It's pretty fascinating stuff. I think it can be a powerful tool for our well-being if we use it carefully. Emphasis on the careful use! They can certainly cause harm if they are misused.
She was once asked by the personnel department at Berkeley to describe what she did each day. Her answer:

> Monday--tried to prove theorem, Tuesday--tried to prove theorem, Wednesday--tried to prove theorem, Thursday--tried to prove theorem; Friday--theorem false
LA gov doesn't belong to CA gov, federalism, etc.
The title could be usefully improved by specifying 3D semiconductor design.

It's not really anything to do with any other kind of 3D design (CAD, etc).
I would also like to add signing up for an AWS Gov account was at least 12 months ago...a completely automated process where I was approved in no more than 15 mins. The account had a credit card but otherwise was 100% still in free tier mode, and in fact was being used by an open source team so it included ppl from around the world.

The CIA has stated multiple times in court documents (typically they have emerged in cases where the FBI attaché that all embassies have post-911 or someone similar is testifying) concerns about this and why they demanded and got “AWS secret”, a level higher than gov, that was opened in 2017.

Keep in mind though that many governments at state and local still use the TLD of “.us”. For instance Texas has widely used, until within the last year, “https:<subdomain>state.tx.us”. Many states have this legacy naming convention left over, and of course the restrictions are about as somewhat paper thin and avoided on .us as they are on .gov but more. There are changes in the works for this though.

More concerningly though is that the recent issue with the .org TLD clearly, and this can be proven in a straightforward manner, involves a group with unlimited funding by the People’s Liberation Army making this purchase. Ethol Capital is a joke of a firm. They’ve already sanitized the Google Search Results about them, which lol should be obvious when you realize they have taken out a Google Ad for “keypointsabout.org” when you Google them. The proof though is that if you look at court documents from 2015 you will find mention of a firm...SharkTech. Another front company that the PLA loans out from time to time to the Middle East and even as I recall Israel. Anyway as I’ve stated before in comments if you do the reverse Whois searches and dns subdomain enumeration you can find the trail back to No 31 Jin-rong Street. I’ve been asked before to write a post about this always elaborating and Christ I finally took out a domain https://blog.12security.com ... it has nothing on it but Jesus just look at the DNS records it took forever to get that DMARC record to the strictest level involving no 3rd parties and also to split that DKIM key across 3 txt records...which you have to do sometimes for the 2048 keys.

EDIT: forgot to mention there is obviously a connection between SharkTech and Ethol Capital. That will be proven in the blog and it is on me and my very tardy credibility to do it :)
look at http://dcsmanage.com out of Los Angeles though if you want to get a head start, and if anyone claims that’s a real IT firm...
Trust, but verify. In the TFA case at least, it shouldn’t be that hard to call the office’s number (not the filled out Google Voice number of course, but there has to be a number published by/available through reliable parties) and confirm “is it really your office who’s registering the domain”? if (printed on official letterhead) { return authorized; } is beyond stupid.
I can't tell. Is this a joke? Is this for real?
Works great. Each Coursera class takes about 1GB of HD space. Will watch the videos on my BART commute.
Ah, thanks.

It's interesting to see how the corporate alliances are shaking out. Bosch is supplying hardware for BMW and Daimler-Mercedes self driving efforts... not sure who is behind Volkswagen Audi Group's efforts, as Stanford's efforts seem to be off the shelf components (LiDAR and such).
Its too much - the tail of the list is crap
Check out this video, he's very humble and down to earth. He's worthy of the praise he gets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOpmaLY9XdI