jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> It simply doesn't make any sense going one way is 100% and the other is 0%

It's not 100% vs 0%. It's probably something like 70% vs 5% (Disclaimer: I'm pulling numbers out of my ass).

When someone who is sick wears a mask, they dramatically cut down on how much virus is PROPELLED OUT OF THEIR MOUTH. That's the big win. It still likely comes out their nose or is on their hands. But at least it isn't propelled with a cough or sneeze so if you wipe surfaces and avoid contact, you're probably okay. That mask protects dozens of people.

When a healthy person wears a mask, he protects only himself and the only thing he is "protecting" against is airborne droplets into his mouth. Most masks don't cover the nose and eyes which are the primary transmission routes for droplets. Most people don't breathe with their mouth open. You're probably safer simply wearing glasses, especially safety glasses. A lot of famous singers wear glasses/sunglasses all the time for exactly this reason.

A mask shortage will exacerbate these scenarios. One healthy person taking a mask away from one sick person is a TERRIBLE tradeoff.
Sorry, I wasn't so much pointing out what were copies as I was trying to (albeit terribly) point out that Netware was actually BETTER than AD at that time (access-based enumeration anybody???)
My version of this: "You have the gun, but you never fire it because you can't decide on accessories."
Are people saying this because the Xbox actually makes money, or just because it’s popular and seems successful? The most recent overall look at profits I’m aware of is this one:
http://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsofts-xbox-division-h...

If this is accurate, Microsoft has been turning a profit in recent years, but not enough to make up for years of losses from the first Xbox and the first few years of the Xbox 360. They’re about to launch a new system, which probably means they’re again going to be losing money again for a while.
I'd be curious to read that question... I have also been working Django on the side and have encountered migration issues.
Spam. Switch for free but pay the same annual price. Scam.
My bad. Now I've understood your reasoning.
Nuclear material != nuclear weapons. And I'm not sure why you think they'd feel they don't have much to lose.
I am surprised that people still buy them - what for?

I really like the matchbook, clip type shuffles for working out. They are super light, pretty much indestructible and have a built in clip.
It was in the air (zeitgeist). Think Unix before the AT&T lawyers (copyleft and BSD license hacks). And the Apollo launchpad starting scene says it all... (think STS)
Go to http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/
Search within that page for "Douglas Crockford", you'll find direct download links for these and other videos by Doug.
You unfortunately not only sound like a shill, but like a shill who has read Amazon's literature. I have a few questions that are worth reflecting on; I also asked them of myself when I worked at a FAANG:

* How many hours/week do you spend at your work machine?

* How often is a sprint crunched; how often does the sprint manager exhort sprinters to complete the board?

* How many incidents/quarter does your team have? How often does an incident route through you?

* How many hours/quarter are you oncall/onduty?

* How often do you have anxiety on Sunday night about going to work on Monday?

The answers should be at most 40, rarely, 12, 60, and rarely. Ideally, they would be 20, never, 3, 120, and never. Note that we don't require less oncall; we require less stressful oncall.
I’m not familiar with the source material you’re alluding to. Maybe it’s more nuanced than your analogy suggests. If that’s the case, you basically set up a straw man for your own argument.

The point I’m making is that the way in which one makes an argument can reveal more than a strictly logical reading of its premises and conclusion. So it’s possible that even if Scott wrote his whole FAQ and came out against whatever it is, people are still justified in thinking he’s more sympathetic to it than he lets on.
Algorithms for Decision Making was recently released as open access. The authors were able to get open access rights for their previous book, Algorithms for Optimization. It is a general reference book for optimization algorithms, with concrete implementations in the Julia programming language.
He has done little to suggest he has changed his ways.
Also, AOT support in itself is not hard. Making it performant is more difficult and Graal is truly remarkable/state of the art in many regards.
Two wrongs don't make a right.

Maybe we can only fix one evil at a time.

The approach that rejects the rusty-tools dentist is also more likely to reject the offshored oppressive offshored (or quite frequently, domestic) labour, rather than binning all empathy looking at either, other similar situations, or worse, and shrugging it off with a "meh, not my problem".

The worldview you're expressing has absolutely no dignity.
explain to me how that is bad? Also it is not multiple sellers. Up & go is one entity just like Uber
Prices are ridiculous, though, compared to England (except London)!
Noted that solyanka spans a big chunk of eastern European countries. E.g. it's a staple in Latvia (probably from USSR influence).
The problem is not so much "justify a controversial position as a thought exercise", but the choice of the position (armed defence of the elite) and that they would never choose or perhaps even allow the corresponding left-wing controversial position. e.g.

"The government has announced the banning of a large opposition party, and that its leaders will be subject to internment without trial. A peaceful demonstration was organised, but the Army fired randomly from sniper positions into the crowd, resulting in thirteen people dead. Write the speech you would give calling for a general strike to shut down the government until democratic representation and human rights can be restored."

> If there are "violent protesters" or "rioters" who have "damaged public buildings" and, as a result of the riots, "several policemen have died," the government has some cause to use force.

This is more or less the exact argument of the Chinese Communist party against the HK demonstrators, by the way.

Edit: I see my example controversial position is controversial on here, too.
There are several apps for hailing black cabs. There are also services where you can phone to order a black cab that have existed since before that:

https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/taxis-and-minicabs/book-a-taxi?intc...

There isn't a central service that gives you access to all cabs, though.

TfL used to have a service where you could text them, and they would text back two phone numbers for local minicab firms near you. That was really useful for getting home when you were in an unfamiliar part of town.
> Ironic that people don't want to meet someone off an app without "sniff test" conversation first, yet are happy to meet strangers at a bar with no prior knowledge of them whatsoever.

Consider the "social contract" of both situations.

With the bar situation you can literally leave immediately with no social expectation that you should have to interact with that person again.

With the "date" typically they're alone (i.e. she cannot bring friends, unlike a bar) and there's a social expectation to stay at least for whatever constitutes an entire date.

I think it is less irony and more that we have complex social expectations.
Yeah, just like Ford and GM waited out Tesla to fail... (and SpaceX is profitable as opposed to Tesla)
> What I'm saying is a might as well have dated random people for a year, it would have been the same result. The dating sites sell you on 'matching.'

Dating apps sell you on showing you more people you otherwise would never meet. The chemistry and "good match" are left to the two people to figure out via chatting and a date.
If we pretend this was a real story, Charles's manager should really have spoken to Charles about playing Space Invaders for 2 weeks straight. While Charles may be getting some valuable thinking time in, I can imagine he's also pissing off his colleagues who will feel they're working to support a guy messing around.

The exact nature of that depends on Charles, his manager, and the company, but it is possible to have those conversations without diving in and accusing Charles of goofing off.

Also, the manager made a huge mistake in judging the code based on what he saw. He should have spoke to Charles about this and tried to glean some insight into how it came to look so easy. If I'm speculating, the manager was looking to punish Charles for his behaviour and went about it completely the wrong way.
> and so arguing that the benefit of the NSA is minimal by considering only a tiny fragment of its potential benefit is fallacious.

It's indeed fallacious because there is no benefit of the NSA at all - its current activities are the very cost of 9/11 attacks. Civilian deaths are not the goal of a terror attack, they're just collateral damage, means to an end. The goal of an attack is to, as you wrote, "disrupt a nation" - which is not something that the bombs do, it's something that the nation does to itself by having a crazy overreaction.
Please make one for QWOP http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html
Good luck with your changes in 2015! I've also found that focusing on small changes can help quite a bit too when trying to change your habits. Want to lose weight? Try to find an easy way to cut 200 calories, like not putting sugar in your coffee in the morning. Once you have that down, you can move on to another small action. The small successes add up over time and the small wins keep you motivated over time.
Johnson's famous reference to himself:

Lexicographer — A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge

http://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/?p=4848

Edit: and while we're at it, the astonishing letter he sent Lord Chesterfield after the dictionary came out:

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2013/08/seven-years-have-now-pa...

Apparently Chesterfield admired it and left it on his table for visitors to read.
Median personal income in the US is ~$35,000, I think you must have looked at household. That $35,000 doesn't include people under 25. So the "7 billion" median would be even lower.
cbd1984 specifically mentions tax, so yeah - it is tax code. In absence of tax the cost would naturally be higher, and that is the price you pay for living in a remote location - but that is a real economic cost of moving the resources. Tax is completely artificial and if the stated goal is a progressive structure, than this is an obvious case of stated goals not matching reality.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8906505
Only good use for this is finding out if icloud usernames exist (checking the response body).
There are many aspects of government that non-Americans are prohibited from participating in. It has nothing to do with all non-Americans being bad and all Americans being good, but it's a decent first-level screening method. Kind of like requiring a college degree in a job listing.
We were working on a travel app (https://www.sally.guide) in the UK but ran into trouble when the country's covid situation got worse and we went back into lockdown. We tried pivoting to Australia as it seemed that they were doing better covid rates wise. Unfortunately they're also now struggling, with new lockdowns in some states too.

We came up with the idea to create a simpler app in the meantime that makes the best of one's time stuck at home with their partner.

We thought the idea of date scratch cards would be a fun central concept. Each scratch card reveals an activity challenge to enjoy with your partner. Your memories together are then recorded though photos to create a memory story-esque scrapbook.

It went live on the App Store a couple days ago, meeting our pre-Valentines deadline! :)
Arduino is OSHW but its AVR microcontroller isn't, yet we still regard Arduino boards as OSHW. But I see your point that the crucial component of this OSHW key is not OSHW.
Your point is bad.

If you don't want companies to use your work without paying, then don't open source it under free licenses. Simple, simple solution. You can't make something freely available and then complain when people use it. You don't get to choose both sides of the argument.
Well, the ones which fail (and which become outdated) can also teach us valuable lessons : looking at the current state of the art doesn't necessarily tells you what happens if you do things differently.

In other words, we tend to focus on positive results, but negative ones ('don't do this or.. !') can be equally interesting and useful.
> We might as well just taking the same approach to crime, and start locking individuals up or not extending job offers,

The main difference is that people have right to trial and to be considered innocent until proven guilty. But there is no 'right to credit'. Credit is fundamentally two-party contract.

Also there is shared limit to risk, forcing creditors to take more risk with some people means they may not take that risk in other cases (not giving credit to someone who would be marked lower risk with more informed decision) or forcing them to raise credit cost to everybody.
tldr: they didn't test for covid but the cats lungs were badly damaged by pneumonia
Perhaps that's true. But I think it's a valid strategy to pit China against itself instead of trying to fend off the attacks. GitHub (in my mind) is so important these days to the open source movement that my hunch is there would be substantial backlash in China if their best programmers could no longer participate.
That's exactly why it's called a deflationary spiral: once you're in it, it's hard to get out even with aggressive monetary policy.
Guess what his business he is in now.
humans have been dealing with babies since long before the invention of cars. maybe its not such a good thing that we haul around so much child-paraphernalia that we can't even carry it without a freight wagon.

also consider that it might not be such a great thing for a parent to become a glorified chauffeur for their children. something is out of balance with the suburban lifestyle. there is an awful lot of driving around, with your kids in the backseat, in a big hurry to get to the next place to spend money on some junk for your kid.
I've noticed that many of the Rails advocates moved to the next 'cool' thing, which is Javascript frameworks like Ember and React.js.

In terms of employment, it's better to learn PHP and Python.
I believe all of the Palestinians Repl.it has interviewed have come from Manara. Manara has a pretty strong vetting system and in order for applicants to be accepted into the cohorts, they have to pass a coding assessment, video interviews, etc. Manara takes strong Palestinian talent and tries to make them exceptional. This is the reason why they might be performing better than more experienced engineers.
That's the status quo; economists don't often factor in biodiversity. How is that working out?
Income tax is one thing, VAT is another, other taxes exist as well. We will have a rainfall tax introduced this year... It depends on how much area of your land is covered by buildings, sidewalks and so on.

Minimum wage here was recently increased to 7000 Euro a year (2800 PLN a month, gross, around 2100 PLN of actual cash in your wallet). Personal allowance/tax allowance here depends on your income, for minimum wage of 32000 PLN gross a year you will have exactly 525 PLN returned. Or not paid, to be precise.

With higher income, tax allowance gets smaller.

My flat rent plus upkeep is around 3000 PLN a month (capital, suburbs, almost 60 square meters), half of that in a small city. Big Mac is 18 PLN, coke 330ml (small can) in large store chain is 2,50 PLN or more (recent "sugar tax"). Trash pickup fees just went up from 18, to 60, to amount calculated based on water usage (around 120PLN in my case, two people in flat).

So that 525 saved ain't much. I can't even keep up with new taxes my government creates, but we still have 21% of people saying they pay no taxes at all. That's not wording. "at all".
Is this really a problem though? Departments, shifts, brigades have been organized based on plant layout, machines, manufacturing lines, mine shafts, routes, regions and so on for ages.

Microservices or not, above a certain headcount there's no escaping this reality, there's an overhead due to communication, organization, etc. As long as the throughput is greater this way (than without organization, or without the increased headcount) it makes sense to do it.
Sure.

- No way to upgrade major postgres version without full export and import into new cluster.

- Incredible delay between postgres versions. IIRC, it took nearly 2 years for them to add postgres 11 after it was released.

- HA is basically useless. Costs double, still has 4-5 minute window of downtime as it fails over, doesn't avoid maintenance window downtime (both primary/standby have same maintenance window) and you can't use it as a read replica. Honestly, feels like a borderline scam since I'd imagine a new instance could be spun up in the same amount of time a failover takes (but I haven't tested)

- With default settings, we experience overly aggressive OOM-killer related crashes on a ~monthly basis during periods of high utilization. On a 32GB instance, OOM killer seems to kick in around 27-28GB and it's incredibly annoying.

- Markup over raw instances is almost 100%, with no sustained use discount outside of a yearly commit.

It's just a lot of money to pay for a crashy, outdated version of Postgres.
I disliked it. Assignment happens more often than comparison, so it makes sense for assignment to have the shorter symbol (Shannon would agree). := may make more sense for students, but maybe not for professional programmers.

Then I injured a the little finger on my left hand. And then I loathed :=, because I had to get to the left shift key to type the :, over and over and over, and I couldn't use my left little finger to do it. (If you're a professional programmer, you may not think of yourself as a person who works with your hands, but you do.)
Performance is a real need. Iterating and maintenance is also a good thing.

A 2x refinement may be a difference in degree, but a 10x refinement will be a difference in kind that will enable other kinds of innovation.
> "power + prejudice" is referred to as "structural racism"

I'm not sure where you got that idea, but structural racism doesn't actually require prejudice at all (it often involves it's, but includes institutional features which preserve disadvantage through neglect as well as active discrimination.)

> It was never intended to replace the common definition of racism

Yes, “power + prejudice” was, when coined in 1970, specifically designed to replace the common understanding of “racism” and explain why relatively disadvantaged groups (who those endorsing the definition tend to describe actually powerless rather than merely relatively disadvantaged) cannot be racists in the context of the society in which they are disadvantaged, no matter how prejudiced they were.
That's becoming less of an issue these days in general. But many of the examples use underscore/lodash, which do in fact support old IEs.
Am I right to understand that this can even be a server side cookie, i.e. that it can't even be killed by disabling javascript (since the server can tell if there was a redirect)?
The thing is, if you ask any rank-and-file Google engineer, they'll totally agree that the sweatshop layout -- oops, I mean the open-office layout -- is hugely detrimental to productivity and morale.

So it's not like the company isn't aware; it's just that they seem to believe the negative effects aren't bad enough to offset the cost of more office space (or the opportunity cost of slower hiring)
You don’t have to be a football genius to make a living coaching a school team, etc. I think you are being needlessly pedantic
> I wonder if humanity will ever have a platform shared by the entire world that wouldn’t be discarded every 10 years where people would actually want to invest long-term.

The nice thing about physical land is that you can't discard atoms (in numbers big enough to matter), and we have a multi-millenium history of landownership being good for fostering multi-generational wealth. You can also do neat things with land like agriculture, and I don't see the opportunity to do something similar digitally, since there is always a subscription model, not ownership. Of course, governments and real estate law can change, but it does so much more slowly than digital "law," and the benefactors of the last regime often overlap heavily with the benefactors of a new regime.

IMO, any digital asset would have to have a healthy and growing market for at least a generation or two for people to start making the types of investments you see with real estate.
> Your story is amazing, but there is this tendency to conflate bootstrapping with re-investing-your-own-earnings which you admit to doing (from your other businesses). I'd rather call that "expanding" your existing business or "pivoting" rather than bootstrapping.

That seems like a crazy distinction. Pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps means not getting outside assistance. Growth through reinvesting your profits is entirely the deal. Otherwise what else on earth could it mean?

We started Cygnus with 15K (about 30K in today's dollars; it was 5K from each founder) and didn't take outside money for seven years at which point we have about 150 employees and had never had an unprofitable month after month 3 (though the three of us had to skip paychecks some months during the first year, and I gave the company free rent for a few months -- but staff always got a paycheck).

edit: It wasn't just the cash; we also had an old Sun-3 that Sun had somehow appeared -- still had a Sun property sticker -- plus we had the first production prototype of the "pizza box" sparcstation which had in fact been legitimately given away.
Well, they care about their image, I just don't think they care much about this social issue. According to them, people that have to pee in bottles would never work for Amazon.
We know that GPUs are really good at far more than ray tracing and matrix multiplication. Oversimplifying a bit, they’re great at basically any massively parallel operation that has minimal branching and can fit in memory. Using a GPU to just add two images together probably isn’t worth it, but many real world workflows allow you to operate solely on the GPU.

If you’re Disney, you can afford boxes with 10+ A100s with NVLink sharing the memory in a single 400+ GB pool. Unknown if that ends up being more economical than the equivalent CPU version, but it’s important to understand in order to evaluate the future of GPUs.
Yeah, that's a classic troll right there. Absolutely none is that stupid.
There is a game like this in Ireland, often referred to in Celtic mythology, where a definitive set of rules is unknown:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidchell
No it's quite silly to talk in absolutes like that. The rule is that it is permitted to take life for justice. No one said that taking any life for any reason means that another life must be forfeit. The Quran is very clear on this: https://quran.com/17/33
There is also the fact that many things we perceive as senses are actually knowledge. We may think we see a red door when in fact we just know the door is red.

It’s possible your OP was noticing that a certain smell makes him know a thing is purple. Under normal circumstances he would just perceive PURPLE and think he was seeing. But on drugs he might perceive that his nose was also alerting him of PURPLE in the flower.