jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Two of the three co-authors, Dan and Sho, come from high energy physics backgrounds. Dan went from pure high energy to the intersection of HEP and quantum information. Boris comes from a pure math background but he has spent a lot of time learning physics as well. People's trainings influence their work :)
You used to be able to (Windows 10 LTSC), but they discontinued it
I spend time futzing around with NixOS and mingw x-compilation just because it's fun. It's also useful for my purposes, but I still prioritize it more than I should. It's okay to have fun!
Way to set a good example.
I cannot express how amused I am at the silliness of this whole conversation, which is predicated on the absurd premise that users won't want to upgrade their versions of the compiler. What part of the phrase "backwards compatible" is lost on this crowd?
Revocation is a much harder problem than the rest of the world wide PKI put together.

With a short enough expiry, you might not even need revocation. (See: DNSSEC.)
If anything google made all types of bullshit more accessible.
Just search for articles about: Non-stick pans, chem-trails, hollow-earth theory, etc. etc.
"I am me, and I say what is my business." Wow.
Or, we could just let registrars issue these certs.

Problem solved.
Actually, many dictionaries specifically label "mathematics" as plural, but concede that the singular form is far more popular in practice.

I tend to find only one use case where I find a plural form simply appears more natural: prefixing it with "the", as in "The mathematics necessary to explain the universe are complex." Replacing the "are" with "is" just does not sound right. Funnily enough, the natural pattern with the North American "math" becomes "The math necessary to explain the universe is complex.".

Damn you, strange collective noun.
It's quite reasonable pricing. It's less than most CAs does for a one year certificate, and revoking it is more work than issuing it in the first place.

They are not without fault, but they've much good for open source project and the like, and don't deserve the bad rap thrown at them in every thread that mentions SSL.
That would be fine if the US and China were great friends and allies - like if it was the UK instead of China that was the semiconductor powerhouse. But things look stormy on the horizon. Even discounting a military conflict with China (not likely anytime soon, I think) an economic conflict seems very possible. As China begins to manufacture a larger share of semiconductors they could easily decide to favor their own internal industries that are customers of said semiconductors and not allow state-of-the-art chips to be sold outside (or to certain countries). We (the US) have done similar things in the past.
Wait... what? How is that any better?
Whether it be due to Anonymous or load from newly released hit games, PSN has been awfully flaky lately. Usually when PSN returns with a helpful integer error message, I hit Twitter and #psn to see if it's just me.

Frustrated with this, I took a few hours and wrote http://isthepsndown.com/. Obviously it's pretty useless at the moment, PSN being down wholesale, but I am hoping in the future it would save a few clicks whenever PSN barfs again.
Talk with him,and say "That's not working for me in a long term" and pay him some cash to go.That's what i did.No way to be with him anymore.If he is not a good fit ,if he stays,that will make you very sick and will make every day a hell.Better to fail alone or succed alone as he is not the rigth person to be a co-founder.
Wasn't that just a 'local' outage? I have never experienced xbox live not working here in Norway. Guessing perhaps there has been problems with the US part of the network but Europe?
As another comment said however, this kind of thing is right in Facebook's wheelhouse.

Social can drive group activity (my wife planned her HS class reunion mainly through FB), especially group sales.

This could be Facebook's big "monetizing" event that breaks them out of the hype area and squarely into heavy profits.
I don't know why this post is surprising. Google doesn't do any individualized customer service, because that doesn't scale. So they apply the same rules to everyone, including this little video game, and probably legions of Internet hucksters. There's no real incentive for Google to alter this arbitrary policy, so they don't. They don't care if you're making an RPG about dragons or selling Viagra.

At its best, this kind of aggregate data-driven decision making can lead to Google search. At its worst, it can lead to those ads you click by mistake on YouTube.
> I understand that you disagree with how Dropbox went about protecting themselves from civil liability.

I absolutely do not disagree with how Dropbox went about protecting themselves. What I disagree with is, trying to claim a tool or technology can be anti-law, rather than its usage.

All pieces of technology, from Atom energy to Internet, can be used for both wonderfully good or evil. What I am trying to say is, Laws are (should be) applied how a technology is used, not what technology is used.

That being said, I am not trying to defend or endorse dropship's reverse-engineering of Dropbox's proprietary code, and hence infringing the ToS. It certainly looks illegal.

> however the violated no laws by their actions.

Never disagreed.
Thank you. This is way better than the way amazon lays it out. Can you add the additional zones (asia, europe). Simple but very useful. Thanks
What about for something like SISAL?
The fact remains that the JVM was designed for Java and mirrors its semantics.

The "shortcoming" of Java is due to none other than the JVM:

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/DynTypeLang/...
What other value?

About the only actual benefit I can think of using a smartphone for is the ability to look up maps/directions.

Fortunately, I can easily solve the map/direction problem by: 1) looking up directions ahead of time (which I'd do with or without a smartphone) and 2) using a GPS which I already own that costs me $0/month
I consider myself pretty computer literate, but I have absolutely no issues with this. I support the EFF, but I think campaigning against this is both backwards and never going to succeed.
Isn't that a pretty big downside? Maybe I'm alone, but I use dropbox mostly for collaboration.
"valuations of private, VC-backed tech companies on the secondary market have risen a whopping 54 percent since June."

sounds bubbleicious to me ...
This reminds me about the death of SMS. MMS had multimedia attachments, it was practical and powerful. But analysts forgot that one was for sending pictures and the other for text, and that one isn't replaceable by the other.

The same thing with non-smartphones (dumb-phones, feature-phones, whatever you want to call them). They fill a purpouse for a lot of people. Not only in developing countries, but with people that don't need a smart OS.

To be fair, outside of apps, most dumbphones can do a lot of things a smartphone can, but people don't know or don't want to use those features.
"You seem to be arguing that popularity and quality are synonymous. I do not think that is a very useful way to evaluate programming languages."

No. And yes, of course. (Java is not exactly "popular" these days.)

"Do you have actual data showing productivity gains for using Java over Scala or other languages that run on the JVM?"

Do you have actual data from a study that shows such studies are worth their virtual ink? Cite it, please. Lets pretend we have an actual market economy in this country: How many businesses have shot themselves in the foot with Java? How many have bet the farm (IBM, Oracle, even Google has hedged on this tech) on Java? Are they all idiots who do not appreciate the grave "shortcomings" of Java and its impact on the "productivity" of their workers ants? Are you kidding me?

"You are advocating for empirical evidence, but are not providing much in this discussion that I can see."

One needs to point out the overwhelming presence of Java in OSS? Well, consider it pointed out. Pretty darn good showing for a language with such serious "shortcomings".

Anecdotal? Have been programming since 16. That was 30 years ago. Have done/seen enough to have a reasonably informed opinion regarding languages. Everyone of them has its set of issues. Java included. But it is actually one of the most productive languages I have worked with to date.
All his novels that I’ve read are boring, weird, and mystical without seeming to have a big point to them. I’d avoid them.

I would, however, recommend his short stories highly. There’s a five-volume collection of all of them, which I recommend. (Most people don’t seem to realize that the movies based on his writing was almost all of them based on his short stories, not his novels.)
Are they getting special EC2 negotiated rates? A two hour movie streamed to me costs 5 cents in computing power and bandwidth AND Amazon is still making a profit?

[UPDATE]
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing

This says 8 cents per GB data transfer out.
While you can obviously use Trello for organizing tasks, my application can connect to your self-hosted instance of Taskfort (https://www.taskfort.com).

If you're connected to my server, creating an account + public boards will always remain free. But you can show your support by purchasing a private board ($1 / private board).
> Flexbox. The authors missed the opportunity of offering a saner API and favored sticking to the official spec instead.

Flexbox is the saner API we've all be waiting for, in my opinion. I'm curious what the author's objections to it are. That's really my problem with the whole piece — statements like this are thrown out there without much justification or explanation.
They don't and it's a common misconception. Merchants need to stay competitive and they'll lose business by not keeping prices competitive. That's why spicy peanuts cost $.59 and only $.59 at every convenience store. The merchant fee isn't tagged on and you'll notice this on most products when you compare across stores.
Heh. That sounds like a very typical christian American answer.

I say the federal government is more evil than good. I point to its atrocities and overwhelming apathy towards its own atrocities, while at the same time being wholly insecure about the whole ordeal and classifying everything it can. Why do they have so much to hide if they haven't done anything wrong? :]

I believe the problems are more cultural than just a few bad apples in power.

America will be a lot better off when it returns to being truer to the Constitution, while it is a flawed document, on which our government was founded. We're still moving further away from this; though the rate does ebb regularly. Gay marriage is almost ubiquitous, yet the right to privacy that was interpreted by our judiciary to be implied by the fourth amendment shrinks every year.

If anyone hopes to make change, they can start by actually making sure their local judges are competent and suited for the job. Even if this means running against them in local elections.
The military's defense in depth can get crazy though. Without going into details, the smart people you want to do interesting things frequently end up so severely hamstrung they give up before starting.
Is there any existing tech that even approaches this? Tesla cars are an evolution and improvement upon tech that previously existed. Ditto Space X. But I'm not aware of anything that even approaches Doc Ock-like articulating cables/hoses that are able to overcome the force of gravity.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8818212 (79 points, 11 hours ago, 21 comments)
Or Spacemacs with Slime.
It's not apples to apples. I'd like to see a 4 wheel drive F-150 vs the Cybertruck with equal weight.
On one hand, you're right, there's a limited number of accepted calculators

But on the other, there are a newer entries on the list that seem totally unrelated to the incumbents like Casio and HP, like this one:

https://www.numworks.com/

It makes me wonder what the actual certification process looks like, maybe it's just adding things like exam mode and presenting it to the board
Typically the interior property will have a cross access easement, a legal document that gives them access across the encircling piece of land. This is also pretty common in commercial developments where you have to cross a parcel to get to an outlot in a development.
What I think it /should/ mean is that 13:00 becomes the center of daylight. Who knows what's in that bill through ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

I wish we could stick with Noon as the middle of the day and adjust normal work, school, etc schedule around that. But I'd take "permanent daylight saving".
Yes. The number were tiny. Pretty much non violent. An unarmed protester got shot by security.

As they have said in congress already, all that was achieved was the vote was delayed for a few hours.
I'm familiar with vents, but indoor vents are basically one-way air valves. I don't know if this is required by code, but it's definitely common practice (you don't want poop smell coming out of your vents)
He ended his speech by telling them to go to the capital and be strong republicans and then after they forcefully invaded the capital building he made a video saying to be nice to the cops and he loves them.

So much value in splitting hairs.
Some devices derive their keys from a recovery seed that you can store offline in paper form. The benefit of this approach is that you can recreate the key on a backup device using the recovery seed, should you lose your primary.
FakeCoin: used to let others know not to waste their time on articles that yield no utility or usefulness whatsoever.

Proof of work: reading random bullshit on the internet about fictional cryptos.
We had a broken arcade game at after-school, every so often someone would bump it and someone would have to reach around and push the switch that wasn't properly covered by the backboard in order to turn it back on. I reached around without looking one day and shocked myself. Today, it surprises me that it was using enough current to be noticable, and that it only needed to be pressed to turn on, not stay on.
At the moment, we don't account for circadian rhythms. As we explore some of the insights to the oral microbiome, that's definitely one of the avenues we'd love to dig into. We do ask customers to fill out a relatively detailed health survey, so that we can explore associations between the oral microbiome in health and disease.
Great demo.

Wondering whether it would be more efficient if extracting frames where the content has changed (e.g. over a threshold and/or all I-frames)?

Also, could this be used to identify event type in videos? I'd love to run my 25 years of home videos through this an have it annotate: "Christmas, birthday, park, camping...".
> but restricts them from using contact details for marketing purposes ... Canonical then tells us that this person was a Sales Representative

I don't understand - what's the difference between marketing and sales? Sales is trying to sell you something? But that's also marketing?
They have been trying to establish a causal connection between saturated fat and heart disease for many decades, with no success at all. The failure, despite such effort, is its own evidence. Similarly, others have tried for decades to find evidence for a benefit to taking statins when you haven't had a heart attack, and have again always failed.

There are pretty good reasons to think eating lots of meat is bad for your heart, which they have always blamed on the saturated fat. Now they have having to backtrack, and try to discover what else it is in meat that causes trouble.
I signed up. $50 to be a guinea pig... Well it will get me to follow where you go, which I think is interesting. Ideally this would already be tested in a clinical trial, so you wouldn't need customers to pay to be your guinea pigs, but it's a low enough sum that I'm willing to do it for the entertainment and educational value to myself.

By the way, I was looking for an About page to see the team and couldn't find one (maybe I missed it). I found your link to LinkedIn and saw one of the founders went to the same college as me. That's cool, but I think you should have a "Team" page to give customers confidence. Unless none of you are medical researchers/biologists/doctors/etc. In that case it may actually detract... But surely you at least have some on your advisory board?

Good luck and I look forward to trying out the product. I assume part of this might be to eventually sell my microbiome's genetic data, which I'm okay with. You didn't mention on the website (at least I didn't see it) whether the kit also collects cheek cells and such to get my more generalized genetic data. If that's the case, I may just consider it a $50 loss and not participate.
(1) My state doesn't use machines with a paper trail, so it's sort of irrelevant here.

(2) Many of the machines with paper trails don't show the voter what's printed is the same as their vote (although I haven't looked at the models you refer to).

If there's a printer paper trail that the voter can see, that's a big step forward.
I'd phrase it by more carefully separating the "is" from the "ought". "Modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to women" gets the "is" part pretty close, though I'd say it as "modern, postindustrial society is less well-suited to men than what preceded it", because the former misleadingly implies a men-against-women zero-sum game. The "ought" part is what I said in my previous comment: men ought to recognize that the trend exists, and when they hear masculine virtue demonized, ought to stand up for it by word and by example.
Full disclosure: I live in Texas so I see lots of trucks.

First it's clear that lots of people buy trucks. But from my experience only a fraction of the people who buy trucks actual use them to any extent. That is people buy them for commuting and as a status symbol. I rarely see a truck with anything in the bed or with scratches and dirt from being used to do work.

So what's shaky is I took this truck analogy with PCs to mean that PCs will be around and useful but only to "professionals". This may be the case with PCs in the future, I'm not arguing that. But I don't think that's true of people who buy trucks. Yes farmers and construction people use trucks, but they're really in the minority of truck drivers.

And this is not even considering SUVs which are really just trucks without a bed. My understanding is they're manufactured with the same frame and engines, and are considered trucks by regulators (so they have laxer safety regulations).
Market making. Suppose I decide I want to buy 3000 shares of IBM right now. I'll have made the trade within minutes, because I'll probably have bought it from a computer which holds shares for twenty minutes. Four years later, when I want to sell, I can sell it within minutes too, because I'll be selling it to another computer that will probably sell 'em off to a series of other computers, before eventually winding up in the pocket of another long-term investor.

If long-term investors were the only ones buying and selling shares it would be much more difficult to buy and sell shares when you wanted to. Net result: shares are a less attractive investment, IPOs raise less, economy suffers.
If mining speed is any indication of GPU performance (I am thinking TensorFlow training), M1 is about 50 times slower, than RTX 3090, and about 18 time slower, than 1080 Ti.
Yes but does your code actually do tree diffing or does it just do line based diffing?

Proper tree diffing is a really hard (I would say unsolved) problem. The "standard" algorithm is O(N^4)!
iPhone users must login to use the phone. Those users need to provide valid identification info considering the phone is linked to their phone service account. Combine that with apple defining every single action the phone takes, they could easily flip a switch to start collecting "anonymized" data.

Or they could simply update the data-sharing default to "Yes" and 75%+ would never disable it.
See Matt Levine:

> The people signing contracts to buy Texas electricity at wholesale prices were doing so to economize. In some theoretical sense they accepted higher price volatility in exchange for usually lower prices, but in a much more practical sense they wanted the usually lower prices and couldn’t afford the higher price volatility. And then when prices rose they were wiped out.

> But the Griddy stories suggest that there’s something to it. It turns out to be really easy to accidentally engage in risky financial speculation, to somehow make disastrous bets on spot power markets in your monthly utility bill because it’s simple to sign up. If life is a constant series of high-stakes financial gambles anyway, perhaps it is tempting to choose some of your gambles on purpose.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-22/electr...
Interesting threads here got me thinking about the fact that “off grid” is clearly not synonymous with “not being on the internet”. There’s like “the grid” and then “The Grid”. I wonder how many people would argue that being truly off grid means exactly that - no mains water, electricity, but also no internet. I don’t know enough about these sorts of communities to hazard a guess.
It's simple as a system engineer - nobody else can compromise your machine because it's already too broken for even you to use it.
Is that any Switch you can do this with, or just the old Switches with the Tegra vulnerability?
Google does the same if you search “speed test” they have one that runs through the search results page.

Cloudflare runs one too. https://speed.cloudflare.com/

Those are all harder to game than speedtest.net
wider range of subject matter ?
Maybe us nerds/tech heads like other subjects ?
Could also be the comments, but I don't comment very often and rarely read the comments except to be sure I am not repeating what was already there
Depending on what you mean by hacker culture:

In the "unauthorized access" sense, Sneakers is great, especially with how they much they make use of social engineering. Pretty good from a technical perspective too- I think if you replaced the Mcguffin with a quantum computer that can break asymmetric crypto algos the plot would hold up just as well today (not coincidentally, Len Adleman, the A in "RSA", was a technical consultant).

On the "building something cool in a scrappy way" (aka engineering porn), I'd go with The Martian
I think you'd be surprised how many candidates you'd be able to filter out using a very easy task, despite the great credentials touted in their application.

That said, I don't think this is a VERY easy task, per se. And even if it were, there's achieving the stated objective, and then there's you taking the ability to demonstrate some additional skills. I'm in the Java world, and whenever I requested candidates doing exercises, them building a solution with no unit tests, or at least not voluntarily acknowledging that omission, would be a red flag.

And then I'd ask: let's say this wasn't an exercise, what things would you add before shipping this to production, which would be a great conversation starter around (again) testing (second chance), observability, logging, and so on.
The ergonomics suck. Whose laptop do you use? I’d want my own. Oh they want me to use sublime? Maybe I prefer Vim with all of my macros. I’m a professional and I rely on my macros and tools. Maybe it’s a PC and I only develop on linux.

It introduces an entire problem space where you’re evaluating something that’s neither important to you or your company.

Way too many moving parts.