jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They can pivot, refine, experiment and endure temporary setbacks in a way that would kill those kids with their uncle's money. Their margin of error is incredible compared to someone bootstrapping. Obviously this has a flip side as well - they might be too lenient and careless. But money is a major factor, always.

That said, I'm not saying they have won - they've just been marked by Sequoia to do that. That's a hefty thing.

We don't like to admit it because its painful, but the cool kids with the VC money, get the hype, the coverage, the big names C-level executives and the follow investment that are needed to win big. Many fail, but this is how you build a first rate startup.
Thanks for the advise, I'll just stop lying to myself about my non-neurotypical brain that I have since being a child [0]. Who knew it would be that easy to overcome by just trying harder.

https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S22150366173004...
There was no Nazi economic miracle - it was built on debt and was unsustainable, which is why it's discounted. Not because somehow it used existing expertise, of course it did, that's entirely normal.

As far as that, I don't see how hiring foreign advisors somehow make your own economic achievements worthless - anyone can do that, and it's stupid to expect everyone to reinvent the wheel.
I’m not an American but I think it’s not fair to focus on the jobs being exporting rather than the people doing the exporting. There’s no shortage of funding for wars. Wars in the Middle East have cost 5-10 trillion as per various estimates. There are trillions of dollars held abroad in tax havens that the government is too afraid to touch. America has enough money to give every family high quality education, college, daycare and welfare Cheques.
>What problems do you imagine that the Chinese government has solved which Western governments haven't?

I'm not imagining anything. For one, China has been able to deal with the pandemic much better than the average Western government, beyond that there is the issue of infrastructure development such as high-speed rail, internet connectivity, etc.., as well as the issue of staying away from major wars, and so on. That's not to say it's overall any better, but that Western governments do everything better is simply false.

>It certainly hasn't solved violent oppression of minorities, though admittedly it's more industrious and organized in that field than any Western government.

Since you're making the comparison, I don't think the Western massacre of around 150 million minorities for it's development nor the murder of 1 million+ people in the Middle East for a recent example, or the millions in penal labour, is anything that the Chinese have to envy. Murder and opression works just as well in "free" governments, thank you - it's just exported, for the most part.
I understand we can’t have copyrights on APIs, but something about it just doesn't feel "fair" to me, though.

Fair use makes sense to me when you're talking about the table of contents of a book. If I take the table of contents of a famous novel and write my own chapters, it makes sense to me that the owners of that book shouldn't be able to sue me. No one is going to read my book instead of Faulkner's. There's no equivalency there.

If I take an API (the table of contents equivalent of software), that's seems totally different, if not the opposite really: the interface is what matters, and the implementation is secondary. If you apply the analogy to a novel, it's as if I took the table of contents of a famous novel, write my own chapters, and it'll be equivalent to the famous novel. My chapters could be slightly "worse", but readers wouldn't necessarily notice a difference between my version or Faulkner's.
Isn't the problem attempting to be solved here solved by event sourcing[0]? Which lets you 're-create' your changes and is - ultimately- suppose to allow you effectively log each change in such a way its re-playable backwards and forwards

[0]: https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html
You’re right. I just don’t know how to refer to SAP otherwise. “Enterprise” software sounds too broad.
Do Right to Repair laws include software? Most commercial software is covered by a license making it illegal to even disassemble or reverse engineer the software.

Do Right to Repair laws make it so items have to be reparable by people of average ability and using commonly-available tools?

If Right to Repair laws aren’t providing for these things then who’s interests are actually being served?
ADHD is not a in the same class as “defects of human physiology that exist or come to exist from sitting and focusing on one thing (usually alone) for long periods of time.”

Here is a better definition:

ADHD represents the extreme end of the distribution of several highly correlated normal traits in the human population, just like intelligence. In this case, these are inattention (specifically distractibility, poor persistence or sustained attention), inhibition, and executive functioning (self-regulation). When the degree of deficits (symptoms) in these traits reaches a certain point where they lead to harm to the individual (impairment in major domains of life activities, increased risk for injury or death) then these deficits become a disorder. So the status of a “disorder" begins where harm or impairment begin in such cases of dimensional traits - in short, the environment kicks back creating adverse consequences for the individual at the extreme lower end of these trait dimensions (or higher end of symptoms).

From: http://www.russellbarkley.org/factsheets/WhatCausesADHD2017....

Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D., an internationally recognized authority on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD or ADD) in children and adults who has dedicated his career to widely disseminating science-based information about ADHD.

http://www.russellbarkley.org/
In the article: "The keyboard could be “noticeably” changed, cramming the keys together to take up less area. There are also a few key changes — the power button, for instance, has moved to the left-hand upper corner, to the left of the escape key."

If this is true, then who in the heck at Apple hates vi users?
That's great! It's about time I am so fucking tired of the Big Red Dog: the same stupid dog featured in hundreds of books.
Thanks everyone for the help! I hope to post my site here soon
Oh, so your revenue comes from affiliates? I thought that you have a monthly subscription fee :)
This machine with 16GB of RAM would probably be a good replacement for my current laptop. I only wish it didn't have the proprietary 'onelink' and 'ethernet' connectors, I know that those will go away and later this laptop will not be nearly as useful to me with just the single USB 3 port for stuff like RPI's, Bus Pirates, etc.
qlmarkdown. It enables OS X to show (pretty/formatted) Markdown documents in Quick Look.

I also forked something called Add-Another for replicating parts of web forms (when you need to collect 0-n things from a user, e.g. emergency contacts, images, etc.)
The service industry will commute 60 miles via underground tunnel to and from the utopia. All citizen shall agree in writing to disagree on principles. Criminals, and would-be criminals, will not be allowed to enter the city. The women will be very pneumatic.
I didn't realize you could do that. I guess I learned something new today.
I've talked to a lot of people who use iPhones, and none of them would switch to a hardware keyboard if given the chance.

Touchscreen keyboards work better than physical ones (the keys are larger), they're better for anyone typing more than one language (accents are easy, different keyboard layouts are possible at all). The touch keyboard isn't there when you don't need it, leading either to an increase in screen space (vs. RIM's offerings) or a more practical physical design (without slider mechanisms that tend to be awkward, get damaged, or make the phone bulkier).

I had no problem typing on an iPhone the first day I ever encountered one. The first day I laid hands on a blackberry, it took me minutes to get a single sentence out, because the keys are so tiny and packed close together.

The key to effective touchscreen typing is to trust the autocorrect (and to have good autocorrect in the first place). My typing speed skyrocketed when I learned that if I just kept typing, the iPhone would be right 90% of the time, and the other 10% is easy to fix.
My sister and I are completely opposites. I am an introvert, she is a crazy extrovert. She is a crazy risk taker, while I am risk adverse.
I disagree with most of his ideas, but I love the beginning idea: starting a new city from the ground up.

EDIT: If we're going to make new and arbitrary rules for this place, wouldn't it be cool if there was a cap on business that only allowed for them to employ 30 people or less? Small businesses that are highly specialized working together instead of large corporations who have huge amounts of divided workforces.
Currently fireballed, also available at:

http://fireballed.org/linked/2010/11/23/rafe-freedom/
I've never had trouble getting the number of fully diluted shares once an offer has been made. If a company isn't willing to share this with me, I'd probably assume they were going to figure out a way to screw me over one way or another.
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Thanks for comparison. I have not played with either your tool nor RTD yet, but I look forward to trying both.

I came across the APIDoc project when watching an excellent presentation by the Gilt CTO titled "Immutable Infrastructure with Docker and EC2" [1]. It is worth a watch and he mentions that APIDoc allows them to more easily create new micro services in their cluster (of which they have over 300!).

I was reading around the APIDoc site and saw they had a note to investigate Swagger 2.0 to see if it could be useful [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaHzdqFithc
[2] https://github.com/gilt/apidoc/blob/master/TODO#L95

I would love to see a few projects explore this concept of generating docs, client code, and server code from a single "ground truth" file and eventually have them all merge into a single defacto standard. That would be exciting indeed (though it seems Swagger may already be approaching that point in some circles).
No, you misunderstand: he mentions a common optimization where before you run your diffing algorithm, you find the common line suffix/prefix for the file, and how that will improve performance (if you have a compact 5-line diff in a 10,000 line file, it's unnecessary to run the diffing algorithm over the whole thing). His point was that this suffix/prefix finding thing was surprisingly slow totally apart from the actual diffing.

I was talking about that part, how hashing there is unnecessary. As I mentioned at the end of my comment, for the actual diffing algorithm, it's fine to hash away.
It was born in an era when there were many different *nix versions, all slightly different, with different names for include files, different C compilers with different flags, etc. Different OSes took differing numbers of arguments to certain library functions, etc. It was a necessary evil in the 90s.

I still remember the perl config script that would say "Congratulations. You aren't running Eunice!"

(Eunice was a bsd unix compat layer for VMS)
I like to check the recipes when cooking

Also looking at step-by-step instructions allows me to quickly understand the recipe if i know most techniques involved. This way i sometimes just need a few seconds to absorb a new recipe or put it into mental cache while constructing my own based of multiple ones from the internet.
There should be no discrimination, if you a non activist and an activist did the same thing (posted same shit on FB) then you both should have the exact same treatment. What I read from this and other articles is that management goes hunting for reasons to fire people they don't like. In this case someone posted about bad work conditions and got fired, in other casaes people posted "wrong political thoughts" and got fired, maybe there needs to be a reasonable reason for firing somebody and there should be a body that would have the job to try and defend the worker.
They are free to name it as they please, but their reasoning is spurious. There was nothing wrong with the original name and if one took it negatively, they seriously have some maturing to do. Are French chefs going to start renaming Coq au Vin? I think not, because the intent of the name is fully understood by English speakers and understood in its context.
In my view, there's a big difference between successfully training, say, LSTM RNNs, versus successfully training "vanilla" MLPs.

This work opens the door for using new kinds of massively parallel "neuromorphic" hardware to implement orders of magnitude more layers and units, without requiring greater communications bandwidth between layers, because the model no longer needs to wait until gradients have back-propagated from the last to the first layer before moving on to the next sample.

Scaling backpropagation to GPT-3 levels and beyond (think trillions of dense connections) is very hard -- it requires a lot of complicated plumbing and bookkeeping.

Wouldn't you want to be able to throw 100x, 1000x, or even 1Mx more fully distributed computing power at problems? This work has paved a path pointing in that direction :-)
Not that it matters anymore, but I always pronounced it more like "coke" than "cock":

https://youtu.be/bIraCzL3dtI
"Affordable" is doing a lot of work there, particularly when before you didn't say "affordable" and did say "very respectable".

I went to a "very respectable" public land-grant university in my home state and today that school costs $15K a year outside of room and board ($35K/year for out-of-state), and students should live on-campus at minimum the first year--so let's say, best case, you're looking at $70K for in-state. Plus living expenses, and despite your claims elsewhere in-thread I can personally attest that part-time jobs even ten years ago took a bite out of but did not solve the problem of food, board, etc.--so we're probably talking closer to $100K when all is said and done.

Even if you assume some defraying of costs, a student loan bill of $50K (which was about what I left school with) is staggering for many non-technical folks, coming out of college looking at salaries closer to $40K than $100K when they can find a job at all. Further, the knock-on effects are financially hazardous. If you end up on income-based repayment because, y'know, jobs are hard to find unless you're a computer toucher and even then there probably aren't enough for everybody, you will be paying less-than-interest, and the principal only grows.

Put frankly, I would advise the cultivation of more empathy for those not as economically advantaged as you or me. This stuff is staggeringly, mind-wreckingly expensive for people who aren't in tech, and yet functionally required because of the structures we have allowed to be built.
Alright then, for the sake of argument then how would you feel if there was a website named "wikipedo" where people take the normal photos of children posted on social media and aggregate them thusly with a vastly different intent?
Excuse me but how are "officials" special here? By that logic any job should have these protections.

They don't for obvious reasons. If people need protection from certain laws, then write that in the specific laws.
Recommending the standard set of modules is the opposite of "going simple." Poetry removes a lot of the complexity and user-unfriendliness inherent in the previous set of standard modules. For any Python beginner coming from another popular language Poetry is likely going to be very similar to the dependency and package management in the language they're coming from. Python's standard set of modules sticks out like a sore thumb when compared to the tools in other popular languages.
For the sake of the downvote: Note the tentative nature of my giving this any credence - "were this to have any truth".

The point still holds: It'd be interesting ...
> And you're back to solving the same problem, just in a more complicated way with no helpful conventions.

Not more complicated, exactly the same amount of complicated. You can add the conventions.

> After being bitten in the ass a few times you learn to say "Call me at 3pm eastern" or whatever.

And then you still screw it up because DST changes a week later in one country or another, or some such. Even when you do it frequently, it's not a solved problem by any means.
I can imagine a lot of people that, while having lots of friends, are emotionally lonely.

"Indeed, being alone is no requisite for being lonely; for many live in the middle of strangers, yet they do not feel safe and loved."
correct link: http://techno-logic-art.com/tower.htm

<i blame my fat fingers>
Freaks and Geeks was amazing. That 80s show was dumb but featured a super hot girl who sported an extremely punk spike hair-do which challenged the viewer to recognize her hotness. It was two levels of difficulty above the thick frame glasses previous shows have used
>Google's custom software to analyze

So Google can analyse user's software too.
Ha! Traction control in my Subaru Forester is a joke. On snow and ice it turns my car into one of those football players in that vibrating football game. The only way to drive in Iowa is to turn the feature off, every time I get in the car.
That's pretty genius actually. Women definitely tend to be more interested in men who are being sought after by other women.
Yeah, it’s not great, but I don’t think using Bitcoin solves any of those problems...
The stock is up 400% from a year ago. Is CloudFlare really 400% more valuable than a year ago?
Great write up. It's common to add retry or reconnect mechanism to connections even there is no requirement. It's basically "restart your computer" to see if the issue disappears. So, it actually hides bugs for decades :)
Are there places where you can buy Bitcoin with lower fees than buying US dollars?
That is just the base Federal rate. After NIIT, State, etc it can be >35%, which is actually quite high for a country where the cost basis is not inflation-adjusted. That is higher than most countries in Europe.
That is SUCH great advice - and particularly the part about encouraging them not to chase the high. thank you so much for your input!!
How does OMR relate to TruffleRuby? What advantage would it have over it?
Wow congrats Eric and team! Does that offer for coworking out of your office still apply? ;)
Wow. Google actually listed a support e-mail address at the bottom of the page. I'm floored.
Great view here in Jensen Beach, FL.
Sounds like a great fit for a great team! Congrats to both parties.
Awesome - big congrats to the whole Movity team!
Race is a social construct, constructed socially in the United States.
For http://www.dragonflydigest.com I find the "Lazy Reading" articles to be some really great pointers to all types of cool articles. The "In Other BSDs" is a great survey of the BSD news highlights.

For general news, undeadly is in my rss feeds. I also like the BSD Now and bsdtalk podcasts. BSD Now is from two folks from PC-BSD and FreeBSD, but covers the other BSDs as well.
Actually, it's an incredibly good idea, cause you can then just implement constant folding on the AST, and that (unary negate)1 turns into an actual -1, as well as a lot of other good optimizations.
Because most real applications don't model very well as a dataflow system at all. If you're thinking of linux utilities, I'm sure you see everything "works fine" as a dataflow system.

Now imagine writing a complex application like Excel, or Photoshop procedurally. It's not impossible. During the Windows 3 series that was actually done.

Here's how it looks :

http://www.transmissionzero.co.uk/computing/win16-apps-in-c/

Read through it. Ideally install Borland C++ in a windows 3.1 in Dosbox and make it work. Then you will fully understand why people switched to OO.

But the more general reason is this : procedural programming doesn't allow you to raise the abstraction level of your code more than a bit. OO allows for more "distant" abstractions. Algorithms that are far further removed from the actual datatype being operated on. Since we've seen a regression in program complexity due to web browsers being the main application delivery method, OO is falling out of favor.

On the other hand, maybe mobile development is simply the pendulum already swinging back. Both android and ios apps are OO apps, by necessity. And as everybody (hopefully) agrees, they beat the pants of websites.
She is an academic in the UK, I'm not sure fair use applies but something else probably does. She's far more aware of those issues than I, I just advise how to get things done regardless of whatever constraints she may be under. My understanding though is that the constraints are technology based and how they interfere and prevent some things, rather than legally based and whether she is allowed to do something or not.
If I can install it, I can disable it.

I own multiple devices (smartphones, PCs, and tablets) you could never be on all of them and I could bypass your restrictions.

Plus I have three+ browsers installed and am familiar with safe mode and incognito mode.
The best part is that it is only a matter of time until the IME is cracked and root kits come with bits that you will never be able to clean without getting a whole new computer. Did you know the IME can send and recieve IP without the host processor ever seeing it? It's the ultimate way to own a machine.
Obviously I understand that nobody reads EULA's, and I completely agree that its crazy they even exist. Judging from the fact that I got downvoted for simply stating the obvious it appears people assume I'm ok with EULA's, but I'm not. That doesn't mean they don't exist though, and even though I don't know the intricacies of their legality, the fact that I'm not aware anyone ever successfully challenged an EULA in court (which would mean they should be history by now), I'm assuming that, sadly, content owners and distributors can strip your rights by presenting you with an EULA that no-one reads.
Now for uTor to see this, that'd be great!
Should have committed to the bit and registered that domain.