jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Hi! The site has too many adds, and it's very difficult to understand where is the actual content. The more difficult part was to discover that the "DESCRIPTION | CIRCUIT DIAGRAM | FIRMCODES | VIDEO" are tabs, that I must press to get the following page and not simple visual tags.
I configured a SuperMicro board with a Pentium G2030 and 32GB ECC, 4 x 3TB drives in raidz, and 2 x 2TB in mirror. Copying multiple TB of data in either direction to the raidz saturates the GigE link steadily.
I do not find procedural code unreadable, nor is that what I meant to say. Rather the contrary: I said that OOP is only better if the same problem solved in OOP is more readable, which holds only true for a subset of problems.

Regarding the redis source code: Beautiful, truly. I wish more code was that clearly and extensively documented.
That, like other articles say that the real answer is "bid higher." Is that correct? There is one way to find out: Would employers pay significantly more for an H1-B employee than any other. Auction the visas, with a high minimum bid.

If you need that PhD with a stellar track record from outside the US you will willingly pay $50-100k. If your goal is to supress wage growth in an industry with very high productivity, GTFO.
I think you're not understanding me.

They have to sell it to retailers for less than they'd get after credit card acceptance. E.g. Apple sells gift cards for $88/$100 to a retailer, who then uses the remaining $12 on transaction costs (including paying their credit card fees) and profit margin.

Vs. Apple likely loses ~2% on credit card acceptance-- and gets to keep $98/$100.

It's still worth it, because they capture money from last-minute gifts, etc...
Regarding point 8, "I wonder if there’s an SEO opportunity here", in which Robert wonders whether Google is giving Buzzed pages an artificial bump:

No way, not in the vanilla organic results. You hear these speculations with every new Google service (e.g., Knol), and they're always unfounded. IMHO, Google would be asking for an antitrust case if they started playing that game.

However, Buzz results do show up in One Box results, and are prominently featured in the real-time listings, so they are more valuable than one might expect. Also, last time I checked they don't nofollow the links in Buzz posts. ;)

So generally, I think Robert is right that there's an "SEO opportunity" with Buzz, but probably not for the reason he thinks.
In nim, it generates code analogous to option 2.
That isn't really true. While density does help, suburbs are still dense enough to support transit if everyone uses it. The problem if only a few people who don't need to drive drive anyway (and there is no real incentive for them not to - there is no traffic!) the whole fails. One the other hand, in the world where transit is common cars are expensive and primitive because there isn't manufacturing scale.

Countryside living in some parts of Europe gets a bus even half an hour - enough to be useful for people who have a choice (but still annoying)
Nothing stops you from changing the 21M cap in the code, but you need majority of the network nodes to agree to the new rules (aka a hard fork), the miners can't willy nilly change the rules of the network.

What you would have at that point isn't Bitcoin, it would be probably be called "Bitcoin infinite" or something, similar to "Bitcoin cash".
Sorry I took your reply as a reply to my post and the context from there.

No idea what this current one does precisely but they do say they aggregate the data - to what extent I do not know.
Probably they are constrained by their choice of using Broadcom SoCs, which happened because the project was started by Broadcom employees.
> All it takes to "print" more Bitcoins is for the majority of miners to agree to make a fork that will allow for more. And that will happen at one point.

Why is this a bad thing? America's founders believed that the people could mint their own coins.
This sounds like the gold/gold certificate distinction. A lot of people who think they own gold as a hedge against societal collapse only own it on paper.
Doesn't Docker already support WSL2? Or is there something different about Podman's WSL2 support which makes it better/different than/from Docker's?
I think the title was perhaps a misnomer, and it's distracting from the message. The author is arguing that we are miss-framing the literacy involved in programming, and that the real literacy is modeling. He's specifically comparing 'writing' as the act of putting words on paper to 'coding' the act of typing special words on the computer. So we're in agreement that there is an important literacy here to teach the masses.

Importantly, the author highlights 'composition' and 'comprehension' as the real literacies behind the mechanical front of 'reading' and 'writing'. He argues the parallel is 'modeling' as the real underlying literacy here, and 'coding' as the mechanical facade.

The article focuses on the parts that will be challenging for a long time, tackling the problem, getting ideas out of your head. This is much preferable to 'cargo cult' teaching of language syntax and keywords alone, although those are learned incidentally in the process, they aren't the goal.

Paul Lockheart's 'A Mathemeticians Lament' shares many similarities in the field of Math, and is also, I think, applicable to software engineering. [PDF] https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....
I see, thank you for the detailed reply. One solution could have been uninstalling open-shell, that way the start menu would be normal again. Some of open-shells search behavior can be changed, although it can be a pain.

As far as WU goes, personally I think it is overrated. The only real use for them is security, however I've found that even that is really not necessary at all. Just from my own experience I've never seen anyone run into issues/get infected purely because they didn't update, and I think that if you're tech literate it really is unnecessary, to a certain point that is.

It is still a tradeoff, but I personally find the benefits and peace of mind more valuable than missing out on security updates.
Agreed. A lot of complaints about Java are because of shit APIs (standard library) rather than the language itself.

It's certainly possible to write beautiful code in Java, it's just not very common :)

One thing that Java could benefit from greatly would be type inference. That alone would remove so much syntactical noise.

Honestly, who cares that you need to write a Main class? This is quite commonplace, and only really inhibits scripting tasks. In any real application, this is a non-issue.
> This did not make them better engineers at all.

How do you know?

I understand that FANG have themselves come to the conclusion that brain teasers are not necessarily very predictive for engineering performance.

But CS/programming questions for CS/programming roles? That seems sensible.

You can study lots of vocabulary to achieve better results on the verbal section of the GRE or similar tests. But afterwards, you will, in fact, have better vocabulary, I submit.

I am surprised that you categorically deny that they were better engineers after studying CS/programming questions.
Do you also block out images of Nicki Minaj? ...because apparently she is also a "brand."
If you're running Linux, chances are you already have an ssh daemon running. All this script does is keep a connection active to a known host. Your primary concern at that point would be securing the known host.
I should clarify: the passwordless account is a honeypot. It's isolated from my personal account and everything important. The only point is to encourage the attacker to use the computer instead of reformatting it, so I have a chance of recovering the hardware.
Supported! Can't wait to see the film when it's complete. Great topic that effects all people in tech.
Would you be upset if a US protesting app was removed? Do you think a protesting app would be allowed in the US if it was effective? (I'm genuinely asking because i don't think i have ever seen an effective protest app in the US)
"The researchers actually busy solving the hard problems of vision, natural language understanding, and common sense, do not have time to write books about how AI is not yet general."

Stuart Russell recently published a non technical book on AI. I really hope tech journalists take note
Over the years I've found that I usually fall into a pattern of starting with low-fidelity automation in languages like shell and slowly re-writing it over time into more higher-level languages, usually python first, then Java. This way, unimportant tasks can be automated in less than 5 min with one of these shell commands. If it breaks or has errors, no big deal. Python works well for figuring out the structure of the solution as an actual program, and then finally a language with static type checking when it really needs to run without errors.
"Incentives are king." That seems to be the paradigm, doesn't it? Government is seen largely as the management of incentives to achieve the desired result. Now, start throwing around money with no strings attached - what incentives are there in that for the recipients.

Of course UBI and helicopter money ruffle feathers. They directly contradict the basic assumptions our political systems are thought to work on.
I made a mobile game, and ended up with negative money from the experience. I spent a lot time I could have wasted on reddit/HN/Factorio. I'd rather a guide to ideas that could be profitable than a guide that only tells me to stops wasting time.
> If some metric claims that there is a 50% chance of recession in the next 12 months, I'd expect it to be right roughly half the time it makes that confident a claim. Similarly, I'd expect a recession one third of the time that the metric says 33%.

What if the forecast is Bayesian rather than frequentist?
Red Storm Rising is fantastic. I still go back and play it sometimes.

There was a “spiritual successor” game on Steam called Cold Waters I think, but I never tried it out.
That is why I hire people who studied Computer Engineering in preference to Computer Science. The latter are useless for making things that work well.
With Google referrer, to get around the wall: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=8&s...

And one with single page: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&v...
Note that the asterisk in `UTF-16*` is a really big asterisk. I fixed a UCS-16 bug last week at my day job.
Is your argument that none of the people Sacha has gotten to say things, actually believe those? Its just pressure to perform, so EVERYONE would say things they dont believe if put in the same position?
The latter is just a euphemism for the former, as anyone who has read 1984 can tell you.
The difference between 2000 and 2020 election cases is that most of the latter are based on wild, speculative legal theories. The last few filed really start to look crazier than sovereign citizen bullshit theories.

The Trump campaign filed several lawsuits prior to the election challenging various election procedures--which is how it's supposed to be done--and found mixed success, sometimes winning, sometimes losing. After an election, there is very little legal recourse--even Bush v Gore made it clear that challenging election procedures should be done before an election without very good reason. In the case of 2000, those challenges were largely about various recount provisions, and even then, these were filed very quickly. But in 2020, a lot of the cases weren't filed until previous ones had failed (laches! laches!), and even tried the novel legal theory of arguing the entire election should be thrown out because of a challenge to long-enacted laws (laches! laches!). The lawyers involved changed too--the competent conservative lawyers didn't want to sign on to Trump's crazy legal theories, but Trump apparently decided to not listen to anyone who told him he had no remaining viable recourse.

It is worth pointing out that the defendants in one of the suits have filed a motion to impose sanctions on Trump's lawyers. Amusingly, they ask for a fine of all the money raised for the legal suits, although they are unlikely to get it.
That'd make more sense if heart disease had a significant chance of killing people breathing the same air as you.
This article is confusing. It starts off by saying this is an analysis of "best" and "worst" case scenarios for continued growth in cases, but later it says:

> HSJ understands that the briefing was part of an attempt to get senior clinical leaders to focus on what they would have to do, if current growth trends were not surpressed by the tighter lockdown.

So, er, what if the growth trends are suppressed by the tighter lockdown, as seems likely? Will things then be better than the "best" case scenario?

It sounds like there's a bit of misreporting going on here. The leaked document forecasts demand based on pre-lockdown trends, to highlight the significant risks. But the article is reporting it as if running of beds is totally guaranteed in all circumstances, which doesn't appear to be the case, if the lockdown works.
I would understand conspiracy theories when the incumbent party keeps on winning. It's easy to come to conclusion that the game is rigged in less democratic countries where the person wins over and over with 90% of the votes, or with leaders such as Putin.

But I just don't understand how losing an election that was looked over by members of your own party, and won by similar margins which you won by previously, can be this controversial. Let alone the fact that the party still did really well in all the other ballots including house and senate.
Right, both papers are mainly what should be done right now. They both conclude that a hard lockdown is the only realistic option that won't overload the health system in the next few months. It's not so clear what to do afterwards.
I’ve used Paperspace.com a bit. It’s cheap if you don’t leave it online all night :)

Be sure to use their “ML in a box” image for least hassle
The advantages and disadvantages of the two may be clearer, but Rust is clearly most similar to C++ from a complexity and usage domain view. I don’t see why this is not the only discussion on ‘Rust vs’. The same arguments against C++ being compared to C are almost directly applicable to arguments comparing Rust to C, and the same goes when comparing against higher level languages. I get that Rust has its borrowing/ownership semantics and a ML inspired type system, but Rust and C++ are more readily comparable than almost any other languages in general usage.
What your thoughts on this? do you agree that following your gut is better than making decisions by reason alone?
What browser and version are you using? Does the whole top bar flash?
"After about 20 emails, he’ll know that you are serious, and he will answer. But know that those 19 emails leading up to the one that does get answered were not in vain."

I felt slightly sick reading this article. Maybe that answer is to tell you that the last 15 emails kind of creeped him out.
You can achieve even less key strokes if you have your vim automatically removes trailing spaces, which is a neat feature itself and a common hack.

autocmd BufWritePre * :%s/\s\+$//

53 is the least I got.
who voted this down? 3G is obviously 2 key stokes while :3<CR> is 3
>director of operations

How do you do that straight out of college?

>Yale

Please HN, soothe my charred black soul and tell me there's some other reason he's the DoO straight outta compton.
Shake it, baby.
I don't think the history regarding how courts (and juries) handled eyewitness testimony, is all that different from how they handle DNA evidence. It's regarded as far more reliable than it is.
> I think it's probably fair to say that the woke crowd would not oppose such a thing today

Why would you think that? To use one example, Bernie Sanders opposed it then and he would still oppose it today for basically the same reasons. Human Rights Watch et al wrote reports and did investigations about Tibet then and they do reports and investigations about Uighurs now.

> In my experience woke folks are very pessimistic about any narrative of progress that would make the US seem better than other countries -- they would quite literally want to defend the idea that the US is no better than China on the whole

This is a Fox News caricature of wokeness. To be sure, such people exist and Fox et al seeks them out and amplifies them but mainstream progressives have no problem recognizing that there are important differences.

> I can't recall the last time I saw it mentioned in the nytimes for example

What are you talking about, there are dozens of stories covering it over the last year

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/uighurs
How long are you giving it for sleep to actually turn off? "Hybrid sleep", which is on by default now, can look like this - the monitor and peripherals will turn off first and then it can take another minute or so while the machine writes out its RAM for the hibernate portion.
I think you're probably right, but I do think guitar has one ease of use advantage over piano. scales and chords are "moveable" on guitar in a way they are not on piano. once you learn, say, the c major scale on guitar, you can just slide it up a fret and you have a c# major scale. same pattern and muscle memory. to do the same on piano, you have to actually keep track of what is sharp/flat in the scale. ideally you would develop a good understanding of the circle of fifths either way, but you don't necessarily have to on guitar.

maybe it makes no difference and I just feel this way because I've spent more time with guitars than pianos. when I sit down in front of a piano, I can't escape the feeling that it's biased towards c major.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26736285

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26729989
Non-paywall version https://outline.com/H3mXrZ
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Good use of what otherwise would have been a waste of time!

It's really quite amazing all of the different initiatives being pushed by one company. Amazing.
> Who says the page has to be replaced? Webkit and Opera (IIRC) happily render the page up to the first error that they encounter.

That shocks me quite a bit. This definitely didn't use to be the case for Safari, early versions implemented draconian XML error handling and refused to display non-well-formed documents.

> Gecko's decision to do the YSOD was a bad one.

Meh.
The group your tabs feature in FF4 is very useful. The bookmarks manager is much more advanced than chrome.
Just saw this, from the Wikipedia article about the book, and thought it worth posting:

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/8.12/soul.html

It's a short article in Wired about Tom West, the leader of the team that built the machine, many years later, when he was retired in a coastal town.
While it's nice to get paged, and look at every 5xx error; it doesn't really scale all that well once you get past a certain point, particularly if your application is gracefully degrading.

That said, I love the wisdom in your comment that you find all sorts of super rare bugs, or conditions that could seriously effect performance, or availability if they become more common (which they often do). Past a point, I've found that an approach which works well is to encourage engineers/operators to drive by metrics, and pay close attention over time to p100's (max), as you've suggested with your 500 errors. Lots of goodies can be hidden behind them, just like you've found with the 500 errors.
After you eat the rich you don’t eat.
> Talented and capable people who end up working low impact non profit jobs at low pay. If you had a real job

These are real jobs. As real as any other job. It is absurd to consider them not real. It is also not like people would be super lining up at those positions.

And third, the people week make that choice do it because this is what they want to do. They might or might not be successful or happy in corporation. If only stupid people worked in those positions, those non-profits would never be a good place to send money to.
I don't think service workers would help in this case. As mentioned elsewhere we are working on a revamp of the I/O subsystem that should significantly improve startup time already.
I guess it’s affirming to think that people reject one’s ethical outlook because it would necessitate such an awe-inspiring commitment or burden. Rather than for more analytic reasons.
There is "people intentionally side-loading", and "people getting social engineered into installing something they shouldn't".
These points seem more applicable to me than the median productivity content.
IANAL, but I think you've right that you don't need to hold on to the shares, and you've pointed out the only groups of investors who would benefit from the judgement. The most benefited would be those who were harmed but sold their shares before the lawsuit was announced; shareholders who sold their shares before the matter was decided are likely to benefit to a lesser degree.

In reality, class-action lawyers go looking for class members to file suit on behalf of, and make special arrangements for them to receive additional compensation above and beyond what 'regular' class members get.
You are correct. Safari does not support webRequest blocking and will almost certainly never support it. Indeed, Google Chrome has already announced its deprecation of this API.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
You can do a lot without changing the air frame, but every successful aircraft comes to the end of its run eventually. The Russian PAK FA/T-50 is in pre-production and should significantly overmatch the F-16, not just with stealth but with supercruise and thrust vectoring.
This could be huge. If more ML gets ported to Disco, it will be a rival machine learning platform to other big data stores.
I read the article. I honestly do not understand what this guy is doing that is so problematic.
He's a symptom, not a cause.

(Although possibly not a very original symptom.)
Some of my friends get this argument all the time from their less mathematical business-manager bosses. "Sure, probability applies to playing cards, they're random, but it doesn't apply to business_process_X, because there things happen for reasons!" (I've even heard "sure, probability applies to baseball players, but it doesn't apply to website visitors"!)

Pretty much everything that we use probability to model has underlying causes and reasons, if we could only detect and measure them (at least until you get down to quantum mechanics), but probability can still be a useful way to model problems where either we don't fully understand the underlying causes, or the underlying causes are just too complicated and tangled to directly model.
The problem is that for small companies, it's too easy for management (aka founders) to funnel funds out without giving shareholders anything. That's why VC is not interested because even if the company is a success, there is no guarantee they will ever see a penny.