jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So is this a further attempt to discredit Assange in the eyes of the rabid right in America?
I was aware of a few startups in the area, but I had no idea there were this many. If you work at one of these startups I have a question.

Are you guys feeling the talent shortage reported in Silicon Valley and New York, or have you had little trouble hiring the right people?
That was my impression, also. I'm not opposed to it though, as this will probably get picked up by the mainstream media which would do a lot more good than another mirror, IMO.
A laptop for VERY strong people with huge storage needs ;)
Welcome to cosmology and relativity. Yes, it's hard to wrap your mind around the concept of space and time being dimensions much like the x, y, z axis. Yes, it's hard to wrap your mind around the idea that this spacetime "thing" forms a 4-dimensional blob that is not infinite. Yes, it's almost impossible to visualise what it means that this spacetime blob that is our universe has a point where you cannot go 1 second earlier because there is nothing there. Yes, it's hard to even imagine the idee of nothing.

Quantum physics, Relativity and Cosmology all have an annoying characteristic, which is that they're not intuitive. Quantum physics is unintuitive because things don't behave classically (i.e. like pebbles) at that scale, instead they behave like wave-particles. Relativity is unintuitive because space and time are tightly linked together and this is not an effect that we observe during the course of our daily lives. Cosmology is unintuitive because the timescales and concepts it deals with are so mind-boggling.

So I can only assume that when science says space and time, they don't literally mean space and time, sort of like how science and laymen differ in their use of the word theory.

Nope, they do mean space and time. And yes, they do mean that something came from nothing - or rather, if you study the topic, that something came from <X> where <X> is unknowable.

Interestingly, this leaves a pretty good place for that "God" concept to hide.
And knowing that someone is pregnant is extremely valuable to advertisers[0]

[0] http://mashable.com/2014/04/26/big-data-pregnancy/
Hackers news work perfectly fine without JavaScript.

JS should be an enhancement to improve UX, but not a doorstopper for search engines, web scrappers, and blind people.
I suggest changing "it" to "SimCity" in the second sentence:

> Ultimately it's a game to be played for entertainment, and if you can get some people to think about social issues as they play it that's wonderful, but it's still supposed to be enjoyable.

Right now "it" seems to refer to "homelessness" from the previous sentence, which confused me a bit.
If am assuming Mr. Rahmstorf is qualified enough to understand the data. And with this part "So far, the study finds, we’re looking at a circulation that’s about 15 to 20 percent weaker. That may not sound like much, but the paper suggests a weakening this strong has not happened at any time since the year 900. Moreover, this is already more weakening than scientifically expected — and could be the beginning of a further slowdown that could have great consequences" I believe there is certainly a need to worry about.
Depends on your theory regarding arts and profit.

For others, including prominent art critics (of the European persuassion at least), "culture and progress" can mostly be harmed by profits.
I think the obits are all written by one person, Ann Wroe. I heard a really good interview with her a few years ago but I can't find it now. https://medium.economist.com/the-art-of-writing-an-obituary-... is reasonably interesting.
Put up a divider. Or update the app's UX: "[ ] I'm blind and have a service dog."
"Sample: 52% of the company's IMs were being sent between 6pm and midnight."

Sounded unbelievable to me! As it turns out, it's not true.

The author links to another of his articles that links to the Harvard Business Review paywalled article, but Microsoft has directly published the actual statistic behind this claim.

"Workplace Analytics data showed the share of IMs sent between 6 PM and midnight has increased by 52 percent on average."

https://insights.office.com/workplace-analytics/balancing-wo...

There are a lot more IMs being sent in that time range relative to pre-pandemic, but by the given chart, it's clearly nowhere near half.
Was anybody's choice of editor really a major point in their developer progress and productivity?

Having used multiple IDEs and editors, from DOS edit/qbasic to notepad.exe, RHIDE from DJGPP, Visual Studio, Xemacs (briefly), Vim, Eclipse, IntelliJ, probably others...

Yes, some of those bring unique abilities that the others lack, that have an effect on the way I write software. Had I just picked one editor or IDE and never used any others, I would be much less accomplished. Vim, for example, is for me incredibly rapid at rearranging and replacing words/lines/regions of text compared to the others.
I was going to include a snarky comment about wanting iOS to graduate to a big boy memory system like a big boy OS but decided to be more polite. :)

Rule of thumb is an app can allocate approximate 50% of total device memory before crashing. But there's no hard limit and it depends on your allocation pattern. If you request too much too fast it'll crash as well. Sometimes you have to let it fail and spin for 3 seconds trying to allocate again hoping it'll go through. Sometimes it will and sometimes it won't!
I found it really fun testing out various phrases and see where people had written before:

HN

Hacker News

Hello

Test

Nooot
I'm reading http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1598635034/ref=olp_product_...

which was chosen because I hoped that the "angle" would be useful for me as a DJ who needs to start making some remixes to go to the "next level". I'm about 4 chapters in so far and I'm pretty happy. I've also been supplementing it with Tenuto, Theory and Fiddlewax Blue (All iOS apps). I plan on getting FiddleWax Pro soon as it seems really fun.
Of course, email wasn't regulated so it was legal to connect AOL and Compuserve to SMTP. If corrupt developing countries allow their banking systems to connect to Bitcoin at all, I expect the fees will be just as high as Western Union is today. Crypto-hawala may be more promising.
Ok, I hadn't tested with both before. Keeping the array alive and using --nouse-osr makes io.js only 2.3% slower than my original measurement for Node 0.10.35. Median of 5058ms.

And Node 0.10.35 shows basically the same results as before. I see less than 1% difference. Maybe just random fluctuation. Even if not. 1% is irrelevant.
I think the problem is that education has a deeply embedded tradition of disciplined austerity. I grew up with plenty of "fun interactive multimedia education" but the people commissioned to make that stuff are frumpy and boring as hell and probably hate their jobs.

By comparison, very few people who upload educational videos to YouTube do it because they were told to. It's something they're passionate about. All the best teachers I had made heavy use of YouTube in the classroom.
For me, the most difficult part of conquering anxiety is the physical symptoms. Stomach duress, stress, sweating, and bracing for the next wave of anxiety. These symptoms feed into each other and can set off a new attack or make an existing one worse.

I've found Hope and Help for Your Nerves by Claire Weeks to be the most helpful book on dealing with the physical symptoms. Once you're able to remove or at least tame the physical aspect you can better fight the mental manifestation.

This book literally changed my life and I'd recommend that you don't hesitate to check it out if you suffer from anxiety in any capacity.

http://www.amazon.com/Hope-Help-Nerves-Claire-Weekes/dp/0451...
The pictures he takes reminds me of those deceptive "before" and "after" shots from makeover shows (dour, poorly lit shot before, and lovely smiling pic after). It starts with him looking a bit peaky with his face illuminated by artificial light and ends with him grinning in the sunshine.
Okay, so do the current node operators publish their peering requirements?

Given your description it sounds like governance is whatever the MobileCoin foundation and its partners dictates. Unlike the consensus in this thread I think there's a lot to like and explore for a privacy token that chooses a different set of tradeoffs but the opaque governance, token holder distribution/circulating supply and lack of acknowledgement to the Monero project really sets it back.
Uh, yeah, of course. I wasn't saying anything contrary to that.

All I said is that people focus on the FAANG perks way too much, as if they're contributing to some problem. Even in the article, one their shining moments was when they cooked for themselves and found another doctor (??).
Yeah that's the tragedy of it.
Most companies, for better or worse, value time to market over fixing every last bug.
And hOw many of them are technically astute enough to see the problem?
reikonomusha, you left one out:

// GHCi, version 6.12.3: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
Prelude> :set +t
Prelude> 5
5
it :: Integer
Then why does their website make it look like shareware garbage? Yellow? Ow. :(
It's also important to note that Google has been able to ship a mostly-competent competitor to the iPhone, and is improving incredibly quickly. Palm, a company with vastly inferior resources and shallower pockets than RIM, has been able to also.

Both of these companies were largely reacting to the success of the iPhone and got sideswiped much like RIM. Unlike RIM, though, both companies recovered quickly and were able to ship compelling products (though not all commercially successful).

RIM hasn't shipped squat that would even begin to compete with the user experience on iPhone. Hell, RIM hasn't shipped anything that I'd use over the first-gen iPhone, much less iPhone 4.
Well, in many languages you don't have to declare it: it is inferred, starting from some basic assumptions on what the string '5' is probably intended to mean in the vast majority of cases. However, that is besides your point: even if it's taken care of in some other way, it's still necessary to add a type to the string '5' you just typed in an editor. This also holds in dynamically typed languages.
I can’t find any details on BoA having an equivalent feature to Simple’s Goal. Do you remember what it’s called?
The other comment in response covers it, mostly. To your second question: the first thing that comes to mind about China is “did it happen in modern China or Nazi Germany?”, not “oh noes whites are not in charge there!”
That line summarizing the article you linked isn't inaccurate but left out some big chunks of logic. Just to clarify the article outlines that Fox News was created to prevent something like what Nixon did ever having a disastrous effect on the party - rather than preventing what Nixon did.
Linux support is first-class native as well.
What about using Swagger[0] with flask-restful-swagger[1]?

[0] https://helloreverb.com/developers/swagger
[1] https://github.com/rantav/flask-restful-swagger
This looks awesome. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to support HTML5 video for YouTube; it complains that I don't have Flash (which I don't).
Not sure what your point is. I'm not threatened by the fact that I don't know anything about, say, fighting a fire.

Either you've risked your life jumping into a burning building to save lives or you haven't. It's true ... and I haven't. I'm not defensive about it and I don't feel like someone who says that is denigrating what I do for a living.

Sure, the "either you've X or you haven't" construction is a little trite, but so what? Why are you so bothered by it? Seems like threadcrapping all over an inspirational article.
Is there any planned support for Linux, I'm aware of Cadmus (and can't get it to produce any noise) & Noise-torch (only turns off the mic when there's non-speech) but neither of these haven't worked to effectively filter out background noises.
Good stuff!!!

I feel life is an edge for everybody but having impulsive ADHD turns into a very exciting knife ridge on a mountain with one side sunny, happy and not so dangerous and the other, dark, enticing and dangerous.
A large portion of post processing in photography seem close to impossible to automate.

Typically best studio quality pictures are retouched, where a lot of eyeballing is done - touched up until no further "issues" are left.

Example of an issue resolution would be dodge and burning. It's a locally applied lightening or darkening of picture. It is used to tone map an image and apply make up, among others.

Tone mapping itself seems like a good candidate to automate, cause most often it's used to squish down high dynamic range scene into a screen quality image. It can recover details that would otherwise be overblown or underdeveloped.

Still, retoucher can selectively apply dodge and burn to guide viewers attention to main subject and away from distractions. That's near impossible to automate,the decision if it should or shouldnt be done for a particular image.

Most often than not, a good post processing (or retouch) is those actual decisions, where to apply and what kind of change. Everything else can easily be automated
I'm pretty sure Swordfish was one of the films he was slamming. The movie is rife with "hacking the TLA with a gun to one's head". Not to mention, the visual programming bit was pretty ludicrous.
I don't know if it's exactly equivalent--Draper's not just an old man, he's an old, crusty, rather unhealthy looking man with demonstrably poor hygiene.
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I didn't say there's a need to define it as a catastrophe. I said: If the science is as claimed, then we may in fact be facing something that meets any reasonable person's definition of a catastrophe, and there's nothing wrong with saying so.

If it were true that using the word "catastrophe" amounts to "encouraging people to run round like headless chickens" then of course I'd agree with you. I don't see any reason to think it is.

What, in your opinion, is the right, ethical, apolitical, and non-hysterical way to raise this issue? Would it have the consequence that politicians everywhere would completely ignore it? (Since, after all, the action we'd need to take to deal with the issue of climate change properly would be (1) expensive, (2) unpopular with many politically influential interest groups, and (3) large-scale enough to require a lot of government involvement. All of which, of course, is why such a lot of money and effort has gone into spreading confusion about the science and why even with all the talk of catastrophe not very much has been done.)
http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/
You, as always, make good points. I have great sympathy for the editor on a human level, and I too have wound up in over my head in the past.

And yet, it is far better for a failing business to be forced to close and for someone that cannot handle the job to be removed from the position than for them to continue to be coddled by employers or society.

I must respectfully disagree with one statement you made though. You said, "she truly didn't have what it took ever to be good in this field". Clearly, I have not met this lady, but I am a great believer in people's ability to change. Perhaps success in the field would have required that she learn more, work harder, and perhaps even alter her personality, but I suspect all of those things would have been possible if she truly wanted it. Such drastic changes are likely rare, but they can be done.
Mike Belshe - An Argument For Changing TCP Slow Start (Jan 11, 2010):

http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/spdy/An_Argument_...
This calms my fears that there will be a global tax on solar power tithed to this individual. :-)
Well, everyone's talking about alternatives, but kudos for putting your own touch on the concept and launching your app. I'm going to try it.
Computer science helps in improving the stuff running on a computer, but it does help elsewhere, too. Examples:

1. When sorting cards by hand, I find myself switching algorithms depending on the size of the data set.

2. Caching/page replacement strategies do apply to the case of a scholar writing a book. His desk will not hold all his reference works, so some will have to move to the table next to it, others will be closed and moved to a bookshelf, possibly in a different room.

3. Without the theory behind multiprocessing, of course, philosophers couldn't dine together :-)
That's exactly what the problem was, the building was an old Victorian printing press, with some desks and an internet connection thrown in. Half the windows weren't flush when closed, and there was a big steel door entrance which conducted away the heat with ease. It was cheap though, if I remember correctly we used to pay 65pounds per week for two desks. Normal rates were probably double that. There was a good crowd of people there too.
My guess is that you could probably sue her if you get skin cancer. If you could prove in court that her property made you ill, you might get a nice, big load of money. Either that, or she'd have to give up her claim that she is the owner of the Sun.
imagine writing an accounting system without knowing how to accurately handle decimal values[1] or what a B-Tree index is or what a race condition is. I won't even begin to mention systems/library/algorithm implementation work.

Are you certain that business systems are written by people who know all three of these things? My conjecture is that most practising business programmers will tell you that "libraries" and "frameworks" exist to solve these problems for them and that knowledge of the details is nice to have but not necessary for employment as a business programmer.

"Systems/library/algorithm implementation work" is another thing entirely, but I'm sure we can agree that at this moment in time, there are very few people doing systems work or building libraries compared with the number of people using them to build business systems.
Given grades are correlated with having understood the material, I assume the implication is that the material you might have learned but didn't hasn't been at all relevant.
Just yesterday I saw GitHub publicizing some of their official channels for reporting security issues....

https://github.blog/2022-04-15-security-alert-stolen-oauth-u...

[I don't have any direct experience with how comprehensive or effective they are. Just sharing something I saw yesterday.]
There should be a giant disclaimer, this somewhat true for inflation indexed bonds, if you can hold bonds to the maturity date. If not, all bets are off.
>> Also, the choice of Boehm GC is a little bit disappointing
>Which one would you recommend?

boehm is conservative. this is a costly and very unnecessary implementation for a language which already has a compiler and knows explicitly which values are pointers.
One, Elon Musk is not a social media platform.

And two, how?
So why doesn't it exactly? What exactly do you think formal logic is and what is it used for? I mean, this sort of thing is an observation and an insinuation not a syllogism. Who needs all these formal logic classes again? The structure of the society in 1984 is widely considered "bad" and it is quite clear what is meant by saying something like "this is like 1984" when it deal with something quite analogous. It's quite clear what is meant by this and the reasoning is very evident. Now, you could counter with something like "No, no I think we need Big Brother because ..." or "We must burn books because ..." I don't think everyone has to construct formal syllogisms for all their arguments, presumably we are intelligent people rather than some kind of x86 processor that can't deal with anything beyond very formal, rigid syntax.
It is funny, but Theo (OpenSSH leader developer) thinks that SSHv1 is more secure than v2:

http://www.ossec.net/dcid/?p=10
Good developers should also understand product development and marketing, basic UI principles, and good software design. Obviously you are more than the sum of the tools you use.

That said, it's expected of developers that they continually learn new tools or improve their knowledge of existing ones. It seems however the same does not apply to designers.
They could simply run them on Android and install a couple of apps.
That's pretty clever. It can be tempting in such a situation to immediately go for the big guns (patricia trees or whatever), but often a simple hack like that gives a lot more bang for the buck.
How about paying $8 billion for Skype, a zero-profit company, and almost paying $40 billion for Yahoo?
> It is easy to not succumb to peer pressure. You have to just change the way you are thinking - people follow peers to become accepted. But if you do, you will not get noticed.

When you are growing up I think it's very difficult for kids and teenagers to avoid pressure especially for something as prevalent as this. I feel like "nerd" fashion is in so you see that a lot in society as rappers and athletes sport that look so that aspect of the nerd life is acceptable presently.

The other aspects of nerdery that might not be socially acceptable to teenagers are playing with robots, programming a web app, and building a mobile application. To me if you like doing things like that you are probably the type of person okay with going into computer science or engineering.

Until that's just as socially acceptable as joining the football team I doubt you're going to see much mindset change around the idea of going into engineering vs traditional liberal arts.
Because human social competence does not fit as something evolution and natural selection can deal with.

We still don't live in a world where society comes first, which is something which is more happening in Asia.

I don't think the quote "evil prevails where good men fail to act" is always true, but there is no formula for success, there is only domination. You don't become a leader because you know how to make the world a better place, you become a leader because people trust you how to lead, and leading is about making choices and decisions.

Leaders did not invent technologies, but they were important into making them viable in business terms, which is as much important.

But nobody should forget true inventors are not as much valued as good leaders. A good leaders will be a leader who has a minimal technological knowledge, but also understand its compromise.

For example, Tesla would not be viable without introducing the high end tesla roadster, which is a classical business model inventors will have a hard time dealing with.
This is absolutely true if you are writing idiomatic Scala code (especially if you are using their collections api).

That said, you can lower your memory requirements dramatically using pretty standard high performance JVM techniques in Scala much as you can in Java. I've designed server systems in scala that produce no garbage for weeks at a time.

This can be a good option if you have some small subset of your system that needs to be memory sensitive/high performance without having to lose the benefits of the JVM in the rest of the system.
Boredom primarily, and a sense of competitiveness in trying to be the first to finish the test. Oddly enough, I get the same emotions filling out the patient information paperwork at doctor's offices etc.
Personally, I don't start worrying about it until it actually becomes a problem (i.e. when an alter actually takes more than a few seconds to run). At which point it's easy to migrate to using pt-online-schema-change.

Then again, I do most of my DB maintenance manually (I have DBA experience), so while I do use Django in production, I have less need to rely on generic automation tools.

Or use PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL, or... lots of options there.

[EDIT] As a final thought on the topic, never be afraid of making schema changes, even in MySQL. It may require a bit more work to implement, but there are a bevy of solutions (most of which can be automated) which can limit or eliminate the "pain" caused by such alters.