jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A neat spin on it actually! "We lose money on every sale and we have no idea how we'll ever stop, but let's do a lot of it anyways."
You see many more outlier tweets with thousands of likes when your feed is interspersed with "most liked by follows and follows of follows", as opposed to just "tweeted by follows". I think that improves the signal to noise ratio of the feed.

But yeah, I wish a simple timeline was the default, and twitter stopped switching away from it.
TBH I've found that nonsense gets upvoted quite regularly here.
Sounds like there’s a “branch if equals” step that checks the fuse in the ROM. You can trigger the code to actually perform your read without branching if you glitch the right part of the cycle. Maybe enough current leaks around at 6V triggering a “not broken” value at the fuse, or just skips the instruction pointer change.

My guess is that the e-fuse is checked on every bit-read, so sometimes you don’t get the true value because your glitch isn’t precise enough.

Possibly there’s some randomization in the timing of each read, but there’s a signature current draw before each read that you can use to trigger your glitch.
> Then XML came along in 1998.

Useful context for the youngsters: Tim invented XML. I mean, techically, there were a few other people who helped write the spec, but Tim was using more-or-less XML in shipped applications before they got involved.

In my book, that means his opinion about the importance of bits on the wire is pretty weighty, but you also shouldn't discount the possibility that he's in some sense constitutionally inclined toward standardized data formats.

About other data formats:

I have some experience with CBOR which I regret; it's more compact than JSON, but it's usually not significantly more compact than gzipped JSON, and it's usually slower than JSON, which is saying something, and is surprising given that no scanning for delimiters is needed. Its only real advantage is that you can safely include binary blobs. It's worth noting that originally CBOR was part of MessagePack until its author decided to fork it off and name it after himself, Carsten Bormann.

Cap'n Proto, FlatBuffers, and SBE (which I guess is too obscure for Tim to mention) get their "deserialization in negative nanoseconds" by virtue of not deserializing; instead, the respective libraries access the desired fields of the serialized data in place, which involves an extra pointer indirection or two and possibly some byte swapping, so it's a little slower than accessing fields of native structs. But it means you don't have to parse the entire data structure, just the parts you're accessing, so you can do things like memory-map a read-only data file instead of parsing it. In many cases, even if you're accessing the whole thing, saving the extra memory copy is actually worth more performance than avoiding the byte-swapping and indirections. This is not a new idea — COBOL was based on it, though without these systems' extensibility and consequently without the cost of the extra indirections — but it's an extremely effective idea in many contexts.

All of FlatBuffers, Cap'n Proto, SBE, Protobufs, Thrift, and I think Avro do have support for adding new fields, contrary to what Tim says about binary formats in his note; but they mostly do presuppose that those new fields are being defined by some central authority, because there are things like sequentially assigned field IDs, so certainly you don't have the level of safe extensibility that you have in JSON (or HTTP or RFC-822 mail or HTML forms or SNMP ASN.1 BER data or, of course, XML and HTML tags and attributes).
You mean people in the "arguing about politics" team are always worse than the ones in your team? ;oP

Not everyone is a knee-jerk go reds/blues/yellows/whatever supporter.

Those skilled at propaganda certainly appear to use the idea that everyone is in two camps as a primary tool in their arsenal however.
you can easily get under $1000 if you stick to base specs and get a Rift S.
I give it 2021 https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle/issues/444
Just piggy backing on the top comment to point out that the primary concern here is not necessarily for the security of the devices that you own and physically control (although that could be an issue in some cases, if others can access them too), but for the IP of the OEM which can now be extracted and flashed to cloned boards. So this may well be a serious issue for some of Espressif's customers, who are mostly OEMs, even if it is not an issue for the consumers who buy from that OEM.
Turn off my phone completely. Put it in a desk drawer. Clean my desk completely. Flip my notebook to a new page. Close all chat/email apps. Open my IDE. Write down the most important thing to do today (check Jira if I'm unsure). Open Spotify and play a lyricless music playlist (jazz or metal). Work.

So far, this is the ONLY way I've been able to reliably get in the zone. It's crucial that I avoid Slack, email, or the web until well into the afternoon. Sometimes I feel mentally "fragile" for struggling to multitask or return to work after being interrupted, but if it works, it works. I'm lucky to be part of a team that isn't too keen on frequent meetings and doesn't expect instant Slack responses.
This is a neverending spiral primarily due to the lack of marriage in lower income families.
It changed a lot. The marginal rate for someone earning $100,000 in 2020 dollars (so $31,837 in 1980) was 44% then and 24% now.
The willful ignorance of what the government does in its citizens' names is sad.
not being well versed in the embedded/industrial field, I wonder if there is any group of automotive specific engineers/suppliers looking at how electronics are made for these things. I assume there is expertise over the decades electronics esp infotainment systems being a "thing" in cars, not to mention aerospace, etc.

I do recall the Nav/infotainment unit on a 1st gen prius going out, and the problem was traced to the solder between some daughterboard deteriorating after ~4-5 years. Replacement units were hard to come by and expensive on the secondhand/junkyard market...
I am using it, have used Suse distros for about 20 years now. I like it better than anything else have tried. Debian moves too slow and Ubuntu too contrarian for me. About Fedora I don't know so much but maybe too experimental. The newer ones I have not tried, like Arch.
> whether [Mongo] does/doesn't scale efficiently

It doesn't. Three words: "global write lock". Writes block reads, reads block writes. Implications: if you run a query in production that doesn't hit an index, all traffic stops. The notablescan setting is a very, very good idea. This also means all queries must have an index, so Mongo ends up with more indexes than say, postgres would.

It's impossible to configure a clustered mongo environment to not lose data: http://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb

Sharding configuration is baroque, and limited.
It's possible that what matters is not whether Google sees any value in Google+ but whether Wall Street does.
But maybe a "warp drive" is?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6238297

...so then we still get to achieve an effective result of reaching a destination faster than light.

...and since the gravity warps space, and the warp drive exploits warped space, does that mean that the quantum mechanism behind the warp drive is somehow directly related to gravity?

the ring would contain exotic matter called
negative vacuum energy, a consequence of quantum
mechanics. The presence of this toroidal ring of
negative vacuum energy is what's required from
the math and physics to be able to use the warp trick.

It doesn't explicitly mention "gravity", but wouldn't this "negative vacuum energy" have some kind of important relationship with the behavior of gravity?
I agree with you wholeheartedly, though to continue your analogy, the problem of gun violence doesn't mean we should stop innovating band-aids.
what capabilities do you allow it to have?

Docker allows 'everything' minus the explicit list linked to in the article. What it should do is allow an explicit list, which recently became possible.
Came across this after reading about someone's experience coping with (and overcoming) heroin addiction. Highly interesting stuff. From the shamanic rituals in Western Africa, the presence of an otherworldly being guiding you through your self, to the potential medical application in treatment of addiction.

More reading: http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/ibogaine/ibogaine_article3.s...
And why do citizens not care?

This is the real mystery. I can't count the number of times I've had conversations with smart people that just don't seem to care. After the PATRIOT ACT was passed I was livid and knew it would be used for non-terrorism things. As we know now, it's mostly used for non-terrorism. People would look at me like I had some tin foil on my head. It couldn't even get people to talk about it. (Lest readers think I'm sort of conversational pariah, I don't recall any other subject that causes this effect.)
iPods use emissive displays (backlit LCDs) at a high refresh rate which use far more power than the low refresh rate entirely reflective displays on most watches. If the display on the iPod watch was always on it'd have unusably small battery life.
you might like the takahashi method

http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/09/liv...
Aren't there like eleventy-bajillion enterprise tools that include exactly this kind of visual, dataflow-oriented methods of constructing large systems by wiring together individual components?

Its not exactly an "arcane" model that's been lost in the mists of time since its use in "1970s banking software".

And its very much not something that's been "suppressed by computer scientists for decades".
I'm the author of the original blog post.

I like your way of phrasing the question, I think I'll start asking it that way, starting tomorrow: we're interviewing a chap for a mid-level dev position.

Like I said on the blog, I don't think it's a good question, I just keep asking it out of scientific curiosity, more than anything else.
Is there any other way? :p
But then not regulating truth is the far easier solution.

1. The sun is yellow

2. The sun is white

3. The sun is green

Which of those statements are false and which are true? Only facts please.
Novelty he talks about is one thing, but economics is a policy driven political system, not rooted in science and hence forced on people and supported with propaganda. The difference is between fighting opinions of powerless people and fighting powerful governments that have full force of propaganda behind them and all kinds of censorship, silencing techniques that affect spread of information everywhere.
Have you read other books with similar goals? How does this compare? I've been meaning to go through and write an interpreter / compiler but havent found time / right resources, but this seems interesting cause I've grown to love Go more lately, and how you get so much out of the box. I might just try it, but I'm curious what someone else's experience might be who was in my shoes when they read it.
Complaining about tourists is something every place that gets tourists but also has people that just live there does. It's not useful and doesn't bring us anywhere, therefore the added value of doing it some more is just non-existent.

The behaviour of tourists is what you get when you get tourism. If you don't like it, don't have tourists - if you do have tourists, make them follow the rules that you want to see.
I have no idea where you're getting these assumptions from.

Laid off WeWork employees were probably employed someplace before working there and will likely work someplace else after WeWork.

All employment is temporary. They still extracted billions. Some got more then others. Most just got a job for X years. Likely well paid. How is that anything other than a benefit?
There are a lot of companies that set up shop right next to Boeing, and simply provide services to them. Probably all the other big aerospace companies, too. That sounds like a great way to get your foot in the door.
Galileo being right or wrong is not really pertinent for PG's argument. See this piece of his text appearing as a html comment: "When you suppress heresy, you silence not just your opponents but also everyone who contradicts you unintentionally. And because ideas are so interconnected, you're almost certainly silencing more people than you realize. "
AMD's open source driver is fully usable for normal usage (including gaming), and in general more performant than the closed source version.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=rx590-li...
> quirks of the inflation calculations

it's correct - improvements to tech is considered this way as well. I personally don't believe this is a good measure.
I use Chrome exclusively for this... What issues are you seeing in Chrome? Have you filed bug reports with the Chromium bug tracker for the issues you've seen?
No indeed, and I'm quite willing to concede that one can do a certain amount in JavaScript without knowing what the prototype property is. But you can't seriously be taking the line that knowing how to attach methods to an object's prototype is advanced knowledge: it's essential to any sort of OOP in JavaScript.

I suppose my basic objection here is that most of the criteria given set the bar for "advanced knowledge" so low that it would be met by any half-decent programmer with a decent working knowledge of the language. In other words, it's the absolute minimum I would expect of anyone I intended to hire for a position where a fair bit of JavaScript programming was required.

JavaScript is perhaps unusual amongst programming languages in that there are many more people than usual who've never got above the first rung on the ladder of understanding, but that doesn't mean the ladder is any shorter than for other languages.
I really don't understand why they are not letting 3GS and 3G iPhone use the free Find features for free ... it can handle it.
Which is why when the letter arrives in their office you'll get an email saying so. You'll also get their phone number so you can make a follow up phone call. Keeping this type of loop is important if you want to get heard.
I'd rather live in a world where people realize that pretty much everyone takes silly photos, and it doesn't have any effect on one's ability to perform a job.

Regardless, photos started off being visible to everyone at your school, which basically makes them accessible by anyone. There are no previous guarantees of privacy that have somehow changed. It's also very easy to set your privacy to your desired level.
I've thought about moving their and ran the numbers. It's comparable to the US when you include local/state/property taxes and health care. Services in the US are a la carte, Europe is all-inclusive.
Here's where the critique of Facebook gets interesting: we criticize it for creating a "closed silo of content" in which information is not represented in open URLs, while simultaneously criticizing it for not providing and enforcing strong, simple privacy controls.

I'm not being a smartass here: both of these issues concern me - to the point that I don't have a facebook account - but I'm not sure how to reconcile them in an internally consistent overarching critique.
Not to boast, but merely to inform.

Technical degrees (like engineering) don't have problems like this. I'm a Junior with ample internship offers for next summer, and my friends who are seniors all have job offers coming in. Last I checked our school was ranked in the 80s nationally, so it's not like we are MIT or Stanford.
The concept of recursion in is independent of computers. Recursion is just the mathematicians idea of how to repeat get arbitrarily big objects out of limited definitions.

Loops are a just a special case, and not really closer to the hardware. Branches and jumps are closer to the hardware. "Yes you can hack together [a compiler] to try and make [structured programming] perform as well as [goto] does, but what really is the point?"
The excerpt is at http://www.infoq.com/resource/articles/the-joy-of-clojure/en...
I think the pendulum will swing back to open pretty soon, it kind of feels we're at the black end of closedness in terms of the social graph.

In fact, a great time to start new companies shooting for the social graph. Facebook executes fantastically, but they'll stumble.
This is nothing more than a despicable smear campaign based on the oldest misdirection in the book: Shoot the messenger.

Sounds familiar...
white iphone
It is a typical idea of this time to think, that playing around and emphazising on creativity is the right way to teach children.

But beside creativity, there are also other important things to learn for children. For example using a method to approach a problem, or planning about what your goals are and how to reach them. These things all are pretty boring for children, so they don't really fit into this creative/funny learning environment.

Why are these concepts important? They help to fulfill longtime goals, things where you have to work a long time before you get any gratification. But these goals are also the bigger ones and the better ones. When you just care about how to fill your stomach right now, you might starve to dead another day. But when you think on how to always have food in your home (a.k.a. finding a job) you will never have to suffer from this kind of problem.

That is why I think there is always a need for a boring kind of school for children. These methods and the way to think long term is something that you better learn, before you understand its value.
I'm surprised that support at Twilio is a non-tech role. Considering it's heavily targeted at developers, I would imagine most queries being fairly technical, no?

Good for you though! As you say, there's a lot to learn :) (but the good news is that you don't need to know everything to make something)
I have no particular knowledge, but this looks like an appropriate citation:

§ 5.22 The standards of identity.

Standards of identity for the several classes and types of distilled spirits set forth in this section shall be as follows (see also §5.35, class and type):

(a) Class 1; neutral spirits or alcohol. “Neutral spirits” or “alcohol” are distilled spirits produced from any material at or above 190° proof, and, if bottled, bottled at not less than 80° proof.

(1) “Vodka” is neutral spirits so distilled, or so treated after distillation with charcoal or other materials, as to be without distinctive character, aroma, taste, or color.

This definition does not seem to preclude the existence of "flavored vodka":

(i) Class 9; flavored brandy, flavored gin, flavored rum, flavored vodka, and flavored whisky. “Flavored brandy, “flavored gin,” “flavored rum,” “flavored vodka,” and “flavored whisky,” are brandy, gin, rum vodka, and whisky, respectively, to which have been added natural flavoring materials, with or without the addition of sugar, and bottled at not less than 60° proof.

http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&rgn...
Over the longer term, time invested in writing about what you're doing can pay off with future contracting gigs or even full-time employment.

Even if the goal now is 'passive' income, at some point he's going to graduate and will have the time to spend on contracting.
It is sort of ironic coming from a lisper - the raised hackles of comp.lang.lisp about this sort of thing are pretty legendary.

I don't really want to talk about agreeing or disagreeing with the post, because if ever a discussion were going nowhere fast, that's the one.
Perkeep devs built a tool to grab the originals: https://github.com/perkeep/gphotos-cdp#gphotos-cdp
Use a Virtual machine? I hope your old PC is not so old that VM is very slow.
For those who have a controlled weight already, is a higher metabolism actually something to aim for?

Perhaps not; as I get closer and closer to my ideal weight, I wonder if I should taper off my exercise routine. The problem is that exercise has more benefits than just higher metabolism. There are hormones that get released by exercising, not to mention that functional fitness is necessary if you are trying to reach a goal.

I'm not an expert, nor have I seen any research along these lines, but I've heard arguments made that since exercise speeds up metabolism and gets the blood flowing, it should clean out things like histamine (reducing allergic reactions) and disease faster. There's all sorts of reasons to not take my experience as scientific, but I certainly seem to have less allergies, heal faster and get sick less often the more regularly I exercise. I also tend to be more relaxed, have higher clarity and am on more of an even keel emotionally after I workout (and it tends to last most of the day, so I prefer to workout first thing in the morning).
That's what mtgox said too, I believe their figure was 98%:

On average 98% of customer bitcoins are held in cold storage...Offline wallets are generated from an offline system and kept in paper format in three separate locations, using a technology based on raid.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=23938.40

http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/bulletin/mtdailybulletin/ar...

But of course, they weren't really in cold storage or offline after all, because somehow they all disappeared...

Not that I mistrust coinbase specifically, but without insurance, audits and regulation (i.e. without a banking license), I'm not sure I'd trust anyone to store significant amounts of money.
Yet another bullshit article.

IT has zero entrance barrier, anyone can pick up tutorial from internet and start software development. Many people give up after they find out that software development is actually very hard.

And work from home is not luxury. Even East Asia textile sweatshops offer work from home. It is just Californian startups who require total control over their minions.
Even for that there is a due process requirement, contained in E.O. 12333. Obviously the requirements are far lower but even there a random NSA analyst can't simply ask for the data, they'd have to get a supervisor within NSA to approve sending that request outside the agency.

But on the other hand I've not seen evidence that Google simply sells information on specific individuals or otherwise gives it away without that legal mandate.
Collectively, we call our engineers "nerds." That's the URL for the engineering blog.
Someone told me that union dues are 1% of annual compensation. Wild. Although I learned that teachers pay closer to 2%. Seems like a lot.
I heard on NPR that Amazon logistics delivers to a super remote Canadian town that event the post office has trouble delivering to.
I spent much more time learning Latin than Lisp and Prolog together. But at least Lisp was somehow useful, if I look at it from today's perspective.
A family member bought a very nice, decked out, brand new truck. He could pay cash, no issue. They gave him many thousands of dollars of discounts for financing it if he promised to keep the loan for 3 payments (or their fee from the bank would get clawed back).

He held up his end of the deal, paying 18% interest on a massive truck loan for 3 months.

The sad thing is many people would do the same thing without the ability to pay it off in full. At that interest rate and a ~7-10 year loan term, you'll be upside down on the vehicle until the very end of the loan. And most people wouldn't keep the vehicle that long because something else changes in their life...or they just want a newer vehicle.