jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I completely agree. There is more to a competition. Competing in itself is fun. But as I said in the note at the top of the post, this is my opinion. I see no reason is paying $20 to a company just to post my score on line. YOu can still do the competition without paying the $20. Thats all I'm saying. The only difference is that you wont have your name on a website. The $20 simply "registers" you online. You can still compete. Only difference is that if you were GOOD enough to make it to Regionals or the Games you'd have to have had competed in the Open. Again, these are the exceptional athletes. Not the normal folks. I'm not saying DONT compete, but I'm asking the question of why pay $20 to compete if you can do it for free?
This is my favorite keyboard.
You can do it at home with a standard blood pressure monitor with an arm (brachial) cuff but not a wrist one. Ask your GP.
We recently held a TV Writers Room workshop with these guys: https://andthenwriters.com/ We chose the show 'New Girl', split into teams, and then went into Zoom breakout rooms to work on the basis of an episode (they lead each room). Then we got back together, each team pitched their episode, and we held a vote for the winning team. It was a lot of fun and really brought the team togither!
I believe something like this would work (excuse the comments normally not allowed in JSON):

{
paths: [
{
points: [
[10, 10], // 0
[90, 10], // 1
[90, 90], // 2
[10, 90] // 3
],
lines: [
[0, 1, 2, 3, 0] // connect point 0 to 1 to 2 to (...)
],
curves: {
0: [5, 15, 15, 5] // bezier control points for point 0 (x1, y1, x2, y2)
}
}
]
}

The downside (other than the bloat) would be when writing the code by hand, you'd have to keep track of the indices in the `points` array.
There are many posts on HN about invasion of privacy and surveillance. Even if you’re “not doing anything wrong” you should strongly oppose any data collection that could be used against you in the future.

On the other hand we also seem to permit recording in other situations like law enforcement.

Eager to hear how people distinguish these two scenarios. Is it that if you’re a public figure or tax funded then your actions should be open to public scrutiny? I know companies operate in private but still need to make some data publicly available. Is there a balance? What is a good heuristic for how much data we should collect on cops, politicians, companies etc while still respecting privacy.
I think the issue is that, outside of formal tournaments, there are rarely stable teams competing against each other in typical online multiplayer. each team is a random assortment of players, where anywhere from zero to a full team are queuing together. people might queue with a friend of a very different skill level. you need to track the skill level of each individual player and then estimate the win probability for a team of players who may never have played with each other before. I play a lot of csgo, and while far from perfect, I'm surprised how good the matchmaking is. I win pretty close to 50% of my matches.
This is great, actually! I'm happy to see the police finding creative approaches to the boneheads who think they have to stream everything. Streaming everything is not a good thing.
Relevance:

A) A pulse on market frothiness

B) A pulse on who is opening their purse and looking

C) National security implications from the foreign purchaser of American munitions creator

D) C but with Eastern Europe. A lot of Silicon Valley is funded by funds with Russian general partners using British Virgin Islands entities which have Russian limited partners who made all their money with all the underpriced public assets in Russia, aka Oligarchs. Our salaries in a lot of startups come from Russian oligarchs. We consider that controversial because so much energy is also spent vilifying Russia and their money and its also hilarious that we are making them wealthy too, while they provide the capital to make us wealthy. So people pay attention to other constructive ways of getting Russian money into US assets. Soviet Union and satellite states are just too obvious. Even though one might as well use the Cayman Islands or British Virgin Islands.

E) No national security implication and just liking CZG and their quality control, and how that affects the general Czech gun image and brand.

F) Americans have a general consensus in favor of gun use, gun trading, gun modification, for vary wide ranges of reasons. Similar to computers and tinkering. So it will be rare to find a US-centric forum that fairly often posts culture related articles that would ignore this.

So this headline is a perfect storm. To the top, boys!
Yeah, I agree with your interpretation and that makes sense from Microsoft's perspective. Just one open question that that raises: does a name and employer count as "contact details"? Do Microsoft's terms allow Canonical to reach out to someone on LinkedIn for marketing purposes as long as they don't look them up using the email address Microsoft gives them?

And if the answer to that last question is no, what can Canonical do with the data that's actually valuable to them? If I were given access to a database of sales leads that I was explicitly disallowed from contacting, I would actively avoid even accessing the data to avoid any accusation or perception that I violated those terms, just in case I independently got in touch with those same leads through a different channel.
I agree with you on Netflix; I have been corrected by you and others. But I disagree with you on the latter. In practice people who believe it's important to pay the "bare minimum to keep you to stay" act very differently.
Dangerous I don't buy, but useless and unnecessary, sure.
I think thats because GCC will compile anything anywhere. MS is only Windows platform, and ICC prefers Intel x86 CPUs. Since the other compilers didn't stand a chance to compete with GCC on portability, the only other thing they could compete with it on was performance. Since they focused on it, they should clearly be more performant in their niche.
Not that I enjoyed this post that much, but when you says 'all around horrible advice it's hard to pick just one thing to criticize' it sounds to me like you don't have any valid criticisms. If the criticisms were strong, you would think the weak points would stick out clearly no?
The problem with his thesis is, as he points out, democracy is currently supporting the factors he thinks will kill it. Why challenge your country's constitution when it's much easier to just convince people to let you subvert it?

If Democracy is in any real danger I think it's from the ineffectiveness of the governments of the world when it comes to controlling themselves. It's easy to imagine a world where democratic governments simply run out of money and have to start cancelling debts. At which point banks start to fail and the government doesn't have the financial power to prop them up. Which in turn causes an economic collapse the likes of which we've never seen.

That's exactly the type of environment that breeds dictatorship (and is in fact how Hitler turned Germany from democracy in World War II)
I didn't realize Vim 2.3 came with this!

This is me, happily switching from my hacked together aesfilter solution.
I'm so glad someone else is aware of this fact. Every time I see someone blatantly not the target market I think back to that dude that shot down Dropbox because he could do everything they were planning on his Linux box.

Dude should have been asking for a ground floor share holding job rather than shooting it down if he was able to so easily do it
On top of that good key management is hard. Even in circumstances you totally control (say, databases), there are so many gotchas and so many little things to pay attention to that the chances of ending up with an insecure solution is very high.

Now, add to that the problems of exchanging keys over the internet and the fact that this almost always involves some loss of control somewhere. I am not entirely convinced that all these problems are solved once we get into government interference scenarios.
My guess is that they locked down ARM (and only ARM) to allow for subsidized devices, in case someday they might have to match subsidized devices being offered by competitors, or in case they might want to offer subsidized devices at a loss to grow the market for their software.
What a waste. I want one. I'm so conflicted. Does wanting to buy consumer oriented yet entirely unnecessary products make me more American, dumb or both?
I think I win the "Earliest Pre-existing Example" award on this one: 1998.

Fire up a copy of IE (or Netscape 4) and check it out:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010314213015/www.jasonkester.co...
I don't know, the Ax FX is insane. I would bet good money that 99.99% of people couldn't tell the difference between it and an amp in ideal situations.
I realized the source of the original paper[1] is available for a price. The dedicated website[2] has more details, including the source code[3].

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03229-4

2. http://www.ramanujanmachine.com

3. https://github.com/ShaharGottlieb/MasseyRamanujan/
Just to be clear, BigQuery bills per byte scanned. So how much work they have to do on the data is almost irrelevant from a cost perspective.

There are improvements to decrease data scanned, for example, good sort orders and partitioning. BQ supports predicate pushdown for both of these.
In your life, I’m sure you try to pay as low as you can for things. Have you ever said ‘no, I will pay more for this car because its value to my life is higher than $10k’ ?

Remote work is great, because it’s making a more free-market. It’s almost like we immediately recovered the mobility that the population used to have overnight.

This will also mean that you are competing with 10x more people, so wages may go down because of that fact.
Based on the title of the article, I was hoping to finally read what happened from the words of the officers themselves. Sadly, the bulk of this is the author's narration speckled with truncated quotes.

The facts surrounding the death of officer Sicknick are not clear:

> That officer was one of at least two to be assaulted with such a device that day; another, Brian Sicknick, died from his injuries the following day.

Also from propublica:

> He texted me last night and said, ‘I got pepper-sprayed twice,’ and he was in good shape, said Ken Sicknick, his brother, as the family drove toward Washington. 'Apparently he collapsed in the Capitol and they resuscitated him using CPR.

https://www.propublica.org/article/officer-brian-sicknick-ca...

This warrants further investigation to come to a conclusion.
Have they ever aired a negative review?
Maybe connected to the right leaning of kisses. You lean right and look to the left. Just like you look left when your babys face is to the left.

A hypothesis...
Well, historically this is what happens when you have an ill behaving upper class and great wealth inequality (c.f. French Revolution).

I think it’s enough that we just don’t rehabilitate his image and refuse to work with him or anyone else who embodies the worst of our industry.
I don’t see this happening. Others mentioned IP issues already, but the sell quality is just low:
For playing it does not work, as it is not minifig scale and is only the cockpit so what is there to play. For visuals I am missing the plane and I don’t find the build to be directly recognisable as a very famous plane either. (I am no plane expert, just an adult lego builder).
The outside on its own is a bit odd in my opinion and it is the first thing you see.

I think it works better as an instruction guide / rebrickable for plane enthusiasts than an IDEA set.
I'd love this. Imagine if you could also commit incremental changes, so if someone pushes a 'pork bill' you could push changes to pull out some of the pork and 'trim the fat' so to speak. You can have the defense of women act without making prisons worse for minorities by pushing changes.
How many variables do you need to track, though? $X spend, Y signups at $Z each, AA% churn, $BB retained MRR for an estimated $CC CLV based on an $X/Y*(1-AA%) CAC - why does it need to be much more complicated than that when you don’t have millions of users?

(Seriously though, I’m asking, not poking fun. You probably know more about this stuff than I do, having actually done it. It seems really simple to figure, to me. What am I missing?)
Yes. That's the actual definition of democracy, and what the term and the institution was created for (in ancient Athens).

Citizens should be expected to keep up with affairs, understand issues, and vote on every issue that comes up.

They don't have to be experts on issues: actual experts can present the different sides of an issues. Judges are not experts on the things they decide over either (neither are jurors), and a CEO is rarely an expert on the technicalities of the stuff their company produces.

Besides, it's irrelevant whether they "correctly" understand an issue or not. Since the result of a vote affects them too, they should get a say, like everybody else.

Democracy is not some process to select the "right" decision. It's a process so that everyone participates with their choice in the decision.
I guess this will have to be limited to accelerators because a CPU/GPU/NIC/etc. in an FPGA will never be remotely as efficient as a real CPU/GPU/NIC/etc.

Open source software has been successful at creating generic infrastructure, possibly because generic software can support large communities. I still don't see how to create that kind of effect in hardware.
The jurisdictions selected for study already had market labour rates near or above the new minimums, so the expected effect should be something approximating zero.
Do you not live in a bubble of hypereducated successful people? If not, why not? Wouldn't it be more interesting and fun to live in one?

The Bay Area has a large one, but any city with a university has a smart bubble.
Because the incentive of the actual legislator is to write smelly code. Gotta get them kickbacks.
Perhaps that labor and the experience needed to do a job correctly is often more valuable than the materials needed for the job.

Or maybe it's just about motivation.
Does that translate to 5-10% chance of false-negative? Can't that be improved simply by having multiple tests with a few more drops of blood?
I assume this is showing up on HN because of the recent CGP Grey "footnote" video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JN4RI7nkes
Earlier in my development as a programmer, skimming books and hacking was standard. But, as programming became ingrained, reading on the topic became more and more enjoyable. Appreciating the intellectual approach, holding the ideas in my brain without needing a computer to figure out the concepts upped my appreciation of good writing rather than tutorials.

Books that I've really read and enjoyed:

JavaScript the Good Parts
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517748

Coders at Work
http://www.codersatwork.com/

Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World
http://www.pragprog.com/titles/jaerlang/programming-erlang

On Lisp
http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html

The common theme: the authors reflect on the wyhs not just the hows. Programmer personality matters.
why does it need to be updated in a background process, vs counting how many comments someone has made as well as their total?
Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby.

You may already have heard of it, as it's a classic in the Ruby community. It feels more like a work of art than a mere programming book, but you'll learn an awful lot while reading it. :)
Yes and nobody lives there. Are you always this obtuse? Ford is not selling 1.5 million trucks per year to the residents of Inyo county.
Denver is generally cheaper than Boulder.
No, it really wouldn’t. The base requirements differ so greatly that starting from scratch would be both cheaper and more practical. They are not different takes on the same vehicle, they are two fundamentally different automotives with extremely different terrain, durability, maintainability, and optimization goals. From the very start it is virtually impossible to go from a unibody design like this cyber truck to a true all-terrain body-on-frame construction and everything else depends on that.
No. My initial presumption is that the pipe they found with the tracker was actually taken out of the evidence room, from a previous drug case, and planted at the search site solely to justify a further search elsewhere on the property. The comparison would be to see if they were using the same piece of evidence for multiple cases.

It probably would have been easier to just watch the bodycam and dashcam videos.
Does anyone know how different this is from the version used by LG for their TVs?
I guess it's time to start leaking billions of records of junk data to pollute the waters.
The Linux equivalent of Folder Actions would probably either be inotify¹ or inotify-tools².

1:https://linux.die.net/man/7/inotify

2:https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/wiki
No idea, that happened long after I left.
This seems a bit unfair as github is kind of "the" place for Rubyists (especially those working with Rails) to publicly host code. Different communities seemingly embrace different tools. It's quite likely that the JAVA and C++ communities favor some alternative to github.

If we looked at launchpad.net instead of github, would the story be the same?
well that's just pretentious.
What happens when they grow beyond a few laptops and monitors?
Agreed. If you're going to make sacrifices like that, you better have a "set for life" equity stake in the company. Otherwise, you're just a sucker.
On the other hand, everything that has ever been declassified regarding UFOs suggests the phenomenon is mundane. That the government has probably taken advantage of the popular culture of UFOs to cover up their own projects with false reports and sightings makes the waters purposely murky.

Belief isn't evidence of anything but a convincing story. People believe in things which turn out to have been untrue, misconstrued or plain fraud all the time (see: the Cottingley fairies, Piltdown man, WMD in Iraq.)

Yes, there always could be some super-super secret treasure trove of classified information showing that UFOs are really alien spacecraft but it also seems increasingly likely that none of them are.
I love Twilio, let me count the ways. Doing flow control of an online or offline process from a phone is awesomely powerful. (Particularly cell phones.)

Here's a related example which I'm busy coding today: I wanted people to be able to record custom appointment reminders, but (following many years of supporting non-technical users) think microphones and MP3 encoding are probably beyond their ken. So instead, when you click "Send Mary Smith a custom reminder" on the site, it pops up a lightbox saying "Call 555-123-1234 and type in the code 1234", and when you do so the phone will say "Leave your custom message for Mary Smith's appointment on June 16th from 5:00 PM to 5:30 PM after the beep." Then, after doing so, your lightbox automatically closes and you get visual indication of success.

Bonus points: registering new numbers in Twilio is so cheap that I can trivially afford to give every customer their own call-in number, and tell them to put it on speed dial. Then I can use the same basic pattern for any number of tasks.
> It's offensive because it's true ...

Something about that sentence isn't right.
It may be nonsense when applied to humans with our fancy pre-frontal cortices, but in lower animals there's no interdiction between memory and action—that is, animals always do "the first thing that comes to mind." To put it another way, every memory an animal has is a habit. You would visit the supermarket after it has closed because it's hard to break that habit (disestablish a memory with a number of positive re-trainings), even when you "know" that it's no longer true (from a single negative re-training).

Consciousness is theorized to be precisely the brain experiencing indecision between two alternative motor programs (i.e. habits), and rationally picking one or the other. Animals don't do that.
Well, he is still growing, which is good, and likely to lead to a hands-off approach by Amazon. Amazon might just let them work things out, rather than integrating them too much into Amazon.
I have to say, using OWASP as a resource and then not including Aspect Security in "Friends of the Class" is a little rude (or an oversight).
Yeah, the first question I have after reading this article is "how do I short higher education"?
They also have to pay their 4 employees and their VCs need a return on investment. If you're 1/2 of their product w/ 1/20th the cost, you have options. Consider ways in which your "low cost/complexity" can be used to your advantage. E.g., drastically undercutting their prices (destroying a large part of their market) and moving on. This might compel them to aquisition.

Fundamentally, you do not need to make as much money as they do because you're a lean team.
I am not sure what's up with the first two. But in the latter one, I believe the array is being coerced to a string, which is its contents separated by commas, so in this case just "42". Then either the left-hand 42 is coerced to a string or the right-hand "42" is coerced to a number, I'm honestly not sure. It hasn't been all that long since I read the spec about this, either. Sheesh.
Generally speaking, municipal bus systems tend to have profitable routes and unprofitable routes. The subsidy is to run the unprofitable ones. Of course some commercial entity can come in and compete on the profitable ones, but that doesn't mean they should get a subsidy too unless they also run the unprofitable routes.
There are four basic lines of argument:

- legal. It's against the law; there are strong 1st and 4th arguments against surveillance, and 5th and 6th amendment arguments as well. Some people have even tried to argue that if encryption is a munition the 2nd amendment applies. The "we could stop bad people" argument applies especially to the 4th.

Similar legal protections exist in Europe, although not generally as strong.

- practical: either a system is secure or it isn't. Handing it over to anyone increases the risk of compromise. Bans on effective encryption are self-defeating.

- collateral damage: US intelligence agencies have a track record of killing innocent people themselves (e.g. drone strikes), supporting murderous governments (CIA in south america), funding terrorism and failing to prosecute the guilty (Iran-contra), use of intelligence for domestic immoral politics (Watergate, FBI vs MLK). Handing over data about your e.g. Chilean users to the CIA may result in them being murdered.

- international hypocrisy: saying that mass surveillance is OK says it's OK for other governments too. Do you support Chinese interception against their adversaries? Are you happy to turn over your entire email history on entering a country?

- finally, I'm going to question how much it does help. The Paris terrorists were known to the police, as was the killer of Lee Rigby. Intercept evidence is generally not used in trials. Nobody is presenting a cache of encrypted emails found on a computer used by the Parisian terrorists and saying "if we'd decrypted this we could have prevented it".
Yeah, Czechia is full of surprising moments. I remember my classmate bringing knife that could reliably kill somebody to school and spreading butter on his bread with it. The teachers noticed, made some stupid joke about it, and continued lecturing.
Looking at the istio-linkerd-traefik-consul-whatever-the-heck mess of cloud-native ecosystem projects, I want to decree that backend engineers are no longer allowed to make fun of Javascript engineers for having too many frameworks anymore.