jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Hmm, it appears that the top byte on arm64 is only ignored if TBI (Top Byte Ignore) is enabled.

I don't think pointer signing requires TBI though. Pointer signing uses the PAC instruction to sign a pointer, and the AUT instruction to verify and unpack the signed pointer, but in its signed/packed form it is not a usable pointer. So actual addressable pointers need not support non-canonical addresses.
A need may arise if a calculation took longer than a frame. (I’ve encountered this making a little programming language that generates graphics that updates in real time as you type. I’d imagine similar issues with web based latex-> pdf generators that update the pdf as you type )
Investing at the peaks isn't that disastrous as long as you don't bail out:

> Meet Bob.

> Bob is the world’s worst market timer.

> What follows is Bob’s tale of terrible timing of his stock purchases.

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market...

Better yet, just put away a little every month and get on with life:

> Logically, it seems like Buy the Dip can’t lose. If you know when you are at a bottom, you can always buy at the cheapest price relative to the all-time highs in that period. However, if you actually run this strategy you will see that Buy the Dip underperforms DCA over 70% of the time. This is true despite the fact that you know exactly when the market will hit a bottom. Even God couldn’t beat dollar-cost averaging.

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/even-god-couldnt-beat-dollar-co...
it might be a technical reason sometimes. Does windows provide an API for you to capture a window, instead of a desktop on a specific screen?
Why do you even need a calculator for a math class? Plotting a graph is trivial. Calculating stuff too. Pen and paper, and eventually - a compass, ruler, protractor is all you need to understand high school math.
Pure fantasy. And you are completely ignoring probably the #1 source of anti-US hate - their proxy support of Israel. There is no Chinese equivalent, nor is there ever likely to be.
I have a strict rule for myself: never use any curse words in any comments, variable names, dummy accounts etc.
I'm faintly bemused that the study used an iPhone app to prompt volunteers.

I got rid of my iPhone precisely because I thought it was leading me to not enjoy the times when my mind wandered.
If you're diligent to

ls cool_stuff

before changing directories, it's less of an issue. And `rm -fr /' is less likely than `rm -fr ~', since most people don't need root access to call `ls'.

But still, I don't add '.' to my path because the only time I directly reference files in my current directory, it's because of a Zsh suffix alias.
He did do some trading when he was around: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/einsteins-relative...
i tried to track a random one down (based on info in the shot)...looks like the exact shot was taken out, but i'd say it's confirmed real.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=89+Myrdle+Street+Whitechapel+e...
If you want to read the story where the "founder" gets the money, then skips town and spends the money on hookers and booze, you need to talk to other folks than Ira Ritter:

http://www.amazon.com/Big-Story-Confidence-Man/dp/0385495382

The stories in The Big Con demonstrate convincingly that businessmen will, in fact, often just give you money if you ask them for it while wearing the right kind of suit.
That particular diamond wasn't valuable because of it's (theoretical) retail value, but because of it's historical value to the austrian people. Which makes the heist even more unsympathetic: the thing he stole had some value to the people he stole it from, but no value to himself. He could easily have dropped it somewhere undetected, but he just didn't care enough to do it.
Your second paragraph describes the situation I expected at least some of the test subjects to be in.
i had a feeling he was going to put these together in some comprehensive form. tons of great info that's relevant moving into 2011, esp from a business financing perspective.

if fred went back and further tagged the posts, it would be a great move in to bring it all together in a digestible form. i know nivi & naval have done a wonderful job of neatly categorizing the venturehacks archive: http://ht.ly/3tJTv

i've heard a number of references to the startup incubators as the new form of grad school. i wonder if there's a way to correlate his writings? obviously y-combinator & techstars are highly selective, but maybe his series could be a great stepping stone?
There is never an absence of political power. Presently it is the state of humans that whenever a sufficiently large number of them congregate a power dynamic takes hold. Those who control the resources have the power. Calling this economic power or political power is meaningless. It is power and it is wielded.

The goal ought to be to diffuse this power amongst as many people as possible. Concentrated power is the thing to fear.
Creative Computing for me in the '70s, published by David Ahl. Interesting chap. http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Ahl/DHAbio.htm
While well intentioned, I sorta think this idea sucks. Maybe it's just me, but random strangers with business ideas approaching me in public would immediately lead me to think "Amway scam" or "clueless businessperson".

I wonder what sorts of people would self-select themselves into accepting this offer? Also, most people who have tried to launch a product know that random input from people who are NOT your target users tends to suck.

Now, if I had an idea that seemed specifically geared towards the typical Starbucks|McDonalds|Home Depot shopper (or HIGHLY consumer oriented), then I might try this approach.
I was a contractor for the phone support group in a big mail-order PC vendor years ago. More than half the hardware that was swapped out like this was no-defect-found (NDF) after being tested, for example it was a Windows problem rather than a drive problem. For a while some vendors were recycling that NDF used hardware into new equipment but I think there was a lawsuit against Dell about it.

With the cheap hardware nowadays they don't even bother to ask you to send the old stuff back. Call in complaining about a mouse or keyboard problem and they'll just mail you a new one.
> " The Aljazeera site does that (in reverse) for the English language version. They change the colour scheme too to orange (blues complement, don't know if that is significant). "

The color schemes on the site match those of the TV channels, so that's where the blue/orange color change came about from.

> " perhaps their English language users have more bandwidth "

That's about right, bandwidth is still hard to get at good rates in the Middle East...
Thanks for that link--the first 5-7 minutes nicely covers the "what if someone judges me by the quality of my code" fear that lots of us have.

I was pleased to see your parenthetical comment as well--one of the hobby horses I ride is to try to convince people to release more of their "hacky" code than they currently do.

Quoting a recent comment I made here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2465516):

"""
At the same time I posit that there is much useful/functional (albeit ugly) code sitting trapped on hard-drives around the world because the developer is concerned a future employer/client [or peer] might judge them for it if it were released.

While this sort of filtering by prospective employer/client may well happen, I think the average developer concerned about such things has a much higher standard for work than needed.

I've tried to adjust my thinking to "Well, it works for me, that means it might be useful to someone else, so I'll put it up there. If some future employer/client can't see that it's a quick hack and not representative of my daily work, well, that probably says more about them."

I'd rather find your 10-line hack to get that obscure API working and build on it, than nothing at all.
"""
jemfinch suggested that the author did not understand the phrase, but it was not obvious to me that jemfinch understood it--a "cargo cult" and "cargo cult science/mathematics" are two different concepts, and I find physics literacy on HN rather low.

By "appropriate," I meant to suggest the author's usage of it can be construed as consistent with Feynman's meaning. I linked the source so folks could decide for themselves if the author's claim was correct in addition to having a meaning we could all agree on.

[I don't know anything about Haskell, I was just trying (and apparently failing) to clarify some muddy discourse.]
A monad is not a metaphor, but a monad is like a simile.
Right, the monad concept was developed in the 60s. Moggi applied it to computation in the late 80s.
Poster has confused the difference between lowering unemployment rates and the shifting role of labor, like that brought about by the industrial revolution.

Hopefully he isn't secretly dreaming of firing the person who answers the phones as a triumph of the information age.
Easy. You take the logs that Wired did release, and the information that Greenwald claims wasn't in there that was documented outside Wired, and you see if they're in there. Wired just went on the record saying they are. Go refute the claim.
Holy crap, you add full article text to RSS feeds? My hero!
No! Do it! Fork my trivial program and put up your results.

The square is a pretty interesting place to start, though, since we already know there's a relationship between quadratic polynomials over the naturals and the distribution of primes. These polynomials describe lines that (eventually) become straight.

This is definitely amateur math hour for me. I was a math major a few years ago, but I did not study any number theory.
Innovations which reduce the amount of human effort needed to do things also reduce the amount of human effort that is directly or indirectly needed per unit of goods or services consumed, and so to fund the same total consumption, less work per individual is needed.

There are three sides of the triangle which can move - the percentage unemployment, the number of hours per employee, or the total amount of consumption. Historically, people have simply consumed more - luxury is addictive, and people measure each other relative to what others in their community have.

However, there is a major counterbalancing force to efficiency gains - that there are only finite natural resources, and many easily accessible reserves are becoming depleted. Reserves of fossil fuels and high grade ores are declining fast, so increasingly more labour is required per unit of energy or metal - and the cumulative effects of pollution rise with accumulation over time and a rising population, more labour is required to prevent pollution.
Spent a while on the weekend reading about the seL4 kernel, which uses capability based security and has end to end mathematical proofs of correctness on the compiler and underlying kernel. Its predecessors are used in Apple's A7 and Qualcomm's chips.

Watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRndE7rSXiI and it says that it's mathematically impossible for seL4 to suffer from things such as buffer overflows.

I'm faaaaaar out of my field here... but this sounds as like a far better improvement in security compared to running things in a chroot. Apart from it being really new (there's just a kernel with a C compiler), would this be a good route to head down for improving security? Why aren't we writing a linux port on this?

Kernel info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family#High_assu...
Rather than solve the problem of not having enough resources to survive on Earth, why not solve the problem of needing the resources to exist in the first place?

Life will leave this Earth but not in the form everyone expects.
Why would it burn vacation days?

If I'm doing remote work in Paris instead of upstate NY, I'm going to probably feel like it's at least partially a vacation as I'm going to be walking the Seine in the evenings and visiting landmarks on the weekend.
The source you provide gives a number of 0-50 a year, not 100-250.
Does the mined volume practically matter? As a relative factor, yes, it needs to be big enough to be too expensive to compute, but, as computation grows more expensive the volume necessary is actually reduced.
That’s around what my role is, but I’ve never seen anything close to 300K p/a contracts for those, at least not actually 300K bailable since you don’t get that many days on those daily rate.

I’ve seen short term contracts with £1500-2000 day rates but you’ll be hard pressed to bill 200-250 days on that rate a year.
But are you in the majority? Timmy is happy with Google Drive, OneDrive, DropBox or iCloud. He will pick whichever is cheaper and android/office 365/apple environment may weight in each specific case, what's drop box edge? The tech savvy may already go with a personal ftp server, aws, rsync, and other custom solutions.

I would like to see data, but from my pov, dropbox is only losing market.
That's not the only way to fund drug development. For example, there was a bill in Congress a couple years ago to tax health insurance companies for development of patent-free drugs, using an X-Prize style system so it wouldn't be the government picking which research to fund.

The insurance companies get to spend less paying for treatment, and using the tax system gets around the public goods problem which prevents insurers from doing this voluntarily.
The analogy is somewhat clumsy but he really gets to the point eventually. His words:

"Does it make more sense to spend a lot of time and resources making sure that only those that absolutely require help get it? Or does it make more sense to just guarantee everyone gets help and make adjustments after the fact?

What's more efficient? All the interviewers, interview equipment, calculations, personal judgments, and spending of resources on stuff we don't even need? Or is it more efficient to just skip all of that, and cover everyone, no questions asked?"

Again, more verbose than the post you're replying to but the point is the same.
Well, but it does not exists as open source.
No apology needed! Sorry if I came off as implying you were the L-word :)
two versions of "It's hard to be a God" (in Russian) one from 1989, another from 2013:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ_D_eI6KMQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBoyjleXFz0

The final scene in 1989 movie is clearly influenced by Dune (1984).

Likeiwse it's clear that this movie influenced modern American/Canadian Sci-Fi series like Stargate Atlantis [1] and Defiance [2]. I.e. both Wraith and Votan look like noblemen from "It's hard to be a God" (1989).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wraith_%28Stargate%29

[2] http://en.defiance-wiki.com/wiki/Votan
Perhaps any company, as long as you make a case to a / the / your manager. This comment doesn't directly answer your question, but does suggest behavior I've seen beneficial.

The more senior person you report to the better. The reason for this qualification being the more senior someone is, the more they feel in control and not get criticized by others for the way others see how they run things (big corp).

So, if you're a manager that encourages shorter, or more flexible, working times, your staff will appreciate it. As long as your team deliver.

If OK with going against the grain, make sure expectations, availabilities, and deliverables, are guaranteed. No one is going to criticize you for not delivering a deliverable, or being available when you agree you are.

It's that simple.

Getting clear ground rules in place is essential whether as a manager of your own time or of someone else's time. Once that's done, just make sure your and everyone else's contribution is transparent and fair.

It really is that simple.
Paywalled... Does anyone have a mirror?

edit: They removed it, thanks The Economist!
Is it worth it for Apple to deny the industry a cutting edge database with the only cost being a single day's profits or less? Of course it is.

And you're spot on about the cost of development. I'd imagine 12 - 48 hours of profits from Apple would be enough to fund its database R&D for the next 10 years.
I thought this was trolling, but it's actually a good read.
I haven't found libraries lacking, but we probably work on different things, and I don't have any problem with writing quick wrappers for existing C libraries. There's a fair bit of Lua libs that are insufficiently documented or tested, or have bit-rot (esp. due to changes in Lua itself), but the situation is getting better.

For libs, I usually check http://lua-users.org/wiki/LibrariesAndBindings and http://luarocks.org/repositories/rocks/ .

I've written a couple libraries, as well. See e.g. lunatest (http://github.com/silentbicycle/lunatest, an xUnit-like + randomized (QuickCheck-ish) testing library) and Tamale (http://github.com/silentbicycle/tamale, Erlang-style pattern-matching for Lua).
I'm surprised it's valued that low. We constantly hear about all kinds of shitty sites getting millions in funding.
Additionally, the higher fraud/error ratio might actually mean that US scientists make less methodological errors than other scientists.

It should also be noted that PubMed only covers a small, non-representative part of the entire research landscape.
Here's a list of things you can try:
http://blog.chromarati.com/2010/04/rsi-my-problem-child-10-t...
I searched for "russian doll pseudocode" hoping to discover something elegant, but the clearest "code" there is a nicely colored Venn-ish diagram.

http://ijcai.org/papers09/Papers/IJCAI09-106.pdf
I have used the "Better Bow Knot" (http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/betterbowknot.htm) for over 20 years. I found it in some book about knots ages ago. This Better Bow Knot is harder to tie, and harder to learn to tie, but it rarely comes undone, even in slick, round nylon laces.
I am arguing that the doctor must remain alert and not be lazy (though doctors are often overworked and tired, but that's a different problem), but that her default of "aspirin and rest" is a good one.
I hope they don't cut the size down too much so that the M1 Pro/Max/Duo/Quad chip that they will inevitably put in will not be thermally throttled.
Very explicitly the latter, but predicated on the assumption that energy production is infinitely elastic — as long as you priced power high enough, someone will eventually generate it for you. In this case, however, you could run the spot price up as high as you wanted (and the PUC did!), but producers couldn’t bring additional capacity online, and consumers couldn’t moderate their demand (since they were constantly freezing, then thawing as soon as they got power back), so the market catastrophically failed with inelastic demand and production.

I was in power markets when Texas dereg happened, and our economist termed it a “priced to fail” market design. Wasn’t wrong!
Adding a simple honeypot would probably cut spam in half.
I wish they provided one of the original source photos.
DMCA doesn't apply here; there is no copyrighted media being copied.

HIPAA doesn't apply either; the in-flight wifi carrier is not a health care provider.
Didn't Aereo go out of business? This is what I see on www.aereo.com right now http://i.imgur.com/d6UBCPQ.png

(SIDENOTE: Must be kinda annoying being forced out of business only to watch the law be changed to allow said business soon after)
Don't tell me what I should do. It's condescending. You don't know me. You should learn how to write without adopting a tone of presumptuous condescension.
There's apparently some controversy on the point. I don't personally have an opinion but this link has some discussion of the 85% stat among others. [EDIT: Oops. Link: http://bicyclesafe.com/helmets.html ]

The effect of helmets on skier injuries is also ambiguous--presumably because the widespread use of helmets has at least correlated with more risky behaviors.
Maturity in the compiler != ecosystem maturity. To pick up the broader mainstream also means external tooling(ide, debugger, etc.), library code, documentation, examples and tutorials, live events like conferences and lectures, and "friends who use it" (critical mass in localized communities)

When you miss some of these elements the barriers to entry go way up and the community is limited to people who can tolerate the environment without it. That's true regardless of how good or proven the base technology is. Hype and institutional use accelerates this cycle by forcing it onto developers - you end up with more people early on who say "yes, i put this into production and i can tell you how it worked."
>However, I find it important to realize the question shouldn't be about what Facebook/whateverelse can "do" now, but what will "they" be able to "do" in the future.

Exactly. It's not about Facebook or the authorities mining data for criminal activity. The problem occurs once the authorities have you in their sights, for whatever reason. With reams of private data available and no context, they can (and will) use it to paint any picture of you they need to.
I find this post and many remote-advocacy posts like it are overly optimistic about the problem of timezone differences. A critical flaw is that most of the "solutions" mentioned assume you're all working at the same time. (Skype, G+ Hangouts, chatrooms.) That may be ok for workers living in less expensive parts of America or the western hemisphere, but that certainly doesn't hold true for overseas workers, which is what Paul Graham is mostly talking about with immigration.

An 8-12 hour timezone gap is not something easily bridged by chatrooms and videoconferences. To even have a conversation with the remote worker/team, one or both of you need to schedule time at very early or late hours and even then you only get a little bit of overlap. For the most part you are left to collaborate by email or blogs -- which is a significantly degraded way of collaborating, much moreso than just not being face-to-face. Without an easy way to have a realtime conversation, closing the loop on an issue can take 24 hours.. or several days if there is a lot of back and forth.

This style of working can be very difficult in a highly dynamic, less structured, fast moving startup environment. It is not magically solved by "modern communication tools" or high-latency asynchronous working styles. The fundamental issue is.. daylight and human sleep schedules.

I wish all conversations about remote work would qualify which context they're talking about -- near or far timezones -- instead of just lumping it all together as "remote work from anywhere".
Maybe he's following the New York Times model for acquiring subscribers?
The conclusion of internet experts before about 2000 or so was that an attack to shut down the internet was impossible (you couldn't get enough bandwidth from an attack point) but the consensus changed around then as P2P came online and there were the massive virus infections.

If you could control a very large number of nodes (say all the Windows machines) then you could certainly disrupt the internet as a whole.