jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"though since you seem like a liberal you probably thought you were doing that last time so joke's on you"

Obama campaigned on escalating Afghanistan as that was the actual war where the Taliban were suspected of hiding bin Laden.

"while their budget is being cut"

I seem to recall that all the "cuts" of late are being led almost exclusively by the new "anti-establishment" conservatives and tea party republicans, of which you seem to be, so joke's on you.
Let me throw out this quote from Scott Adams [1] proposing that being a generalist has a lot of value too.

"I succeeded as a cartoonist with negligible art talent, some basic writing skills, an ordinary sense of humor and a bit of experience in the business world. The "Dilbert" comic is a combination of all four skills. The world has plenty of better artists, smarter writers, funnier humorists and more experienced business people. The rare part is that each of those modest skills is collected in one person. That's how value is created."

1. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870410160457624...
The drawback with multiple processes is that they each have all the compiled bytecode on their heap. When I "import nltk" my heap goes from ~12 to ~36 MB. Add a few more dependencies and you end up wasting a non-trivial amount of RAM on python heaps.
It seems like this headline was crafted specifically to incite a mobile OS flamewar. And yet, there is very little content in the article that explains why or to what extent Android will be used.

Obviously they need an OS that is highly customizable, and I assume that's why Android is an easy choice. But to me, it seems like the OS is fairly unimportant on such a purpose-built device.

What I'm more interested is how they intend on setting up reliable communications between the devices. Obviously they can't go into a warzone and expect there to be Verizon cell towers every few miles. I assume there is already a system in place, but the article doesn't explain any of this, or how the hardware will have to adapt to the existing system. Or how the OS will have to be modified to use the different hardware.

All around a pretty stupid article. I've seen much better from ars.
Awesome job powdahound, and I support this comment. You could show the cost units for reserved instances as a range.

For example a small reserved instance's base cost is $227.50 per year so that's a lower bound of $.0263/hour. Then adding $.03 per hour used the upper bound is $.0563/hour.

So over the course of a year you'd pay within the range $.0263/hour - $.0563/hour depending on your usage.
It's likely premature optimisation. You may have a problem with bots signing up but I suspect at this stage it is not as large a problem as recruiting users.

You might also want to think about relying a little less on javascript. Try turning it off in your browser and see what you get. For me it was completely unusable and rather ugly.
It's amazing that AWS has been affected this long, or rather that their customers have been; here focusing on one big customer, Reddit. But actually what seems more relevant to me, vis-à-vis sites like Reddit are services such as Heroku which were or still are affected. Although I can appreciate that Reddit is an extremely popular site, at the end of the day I'm more concerned with the development services that were impacted.
Yes! Especially when people use an existing word like 'redshift' as their product name. (It seems to be a popular choice! I remember there also was this astronomy software for the Mac called Redshift.)

Of course, it gets even more ridiculous as the words get more common, eg see recent discussions about 'Paper' or 'Layout'
Using the examples of Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci (as depicted through Walter Isaacson’s biographies on them) it seems like the “opposite” may also be true. Being immensely curious about various subjects and applying them to one another would definitely have merit by the same examples PG is using in this article. One can definitely make the argument by saying Steve Jobs was obsessed with design - but i’m not sure it was an obsession with design as a discipline. The same with Leonardo can be said about painting, was the obsession to make his paintings better? Or was it just a culmination about being curious about many things?
I really think they should have known better, and done more diligence before announcing the anomaly. Superluminal anything implies clock skew issues, and iirc they didn't methodically eliminate those before going public. I don't think the director would have needed to resign if they hadn't taken the bait so eagerly.
Nice.

This is yet another reason why I avoid biometrics for authentication, and I'm glad that the court backed up my assumption that it is more secure. In this particular case, I hope this perpetrator is convicted regardless (assuming he's guilty, that is), but I'm glad the courts agree that nobody should be compelled to give up information. This is a big win for privacy.
You misunderstand: The only hospital managers are former doctors. As in, they pretty prevent any non-doctor from managing them and that's what we need to do, too.

We could use a cartel at this point, the job has gotten pretty lame and demeaning and as the only person who knows how to actually row the damn boat, I'm getting pretty sick and tired of it.
Seems odd that thin clients wouldnt be "networkable", a pixe boot server on a network would probably be the fastest way to test them. Hopefully they have a verbose post setting in the bios otherwise I suppose you could make a few live usb sticks to test them. Then its just a matter of swapping parts on the ones that wont boot till you find the problems.
True. But...

3. Causing a species to go extinct eliminates all possibility of anyone extracting any value from it now or in the future. That has an unknown and potentially enormous cost in the long run.
Measuring and optimizing bottlenecks is a core agile idea.

My team's process is to estimate and track dev non-dev time with our other sprint metrics at dev-day granularity. ie last sprint I estimated 2 non-dev days for product / design discussions, factoring in the meetings/doc writing/cost of mental randomization/etc. Planning and retrospective provide opportunities to reflect on reducing communication overhead within the team, and the metric is valuable for pushing back on top-down management-mandated overhead.
actually that statement is itself rather presumptuous. How would you know that those of us who repeat it don't know? I can state with authority that may of us do.
They are network capable. It’s just they are not on the network. I would need to set up a PXE server and connect them. I figured there might be another way besides that, but after thinking about it, I will probably do something like dis.
RDBMS functionality is a primary and integral part of almost all web applications, could any web app that uses a database back-end be said to be "written from scratch" then?

Was Facebook written from scratch? The amount of work that went into creating Linux, PHP, MySQL, Apache, Memcache, the x86-64 instruction set, etc. is almost certainly vastly greater than the work that has gone into creating Facebook.

When I tell somebody I made bread "from scratch" I don't mean that I coded the DNA sequences for wheat in my spare time and then planted, grew, and harvested the wheat myself, nor that I ground the wheat into flour. Nor that I grew, harvested, and processed sugar cane myself. Etc. You have to draw the line somewhere.
From my childhood experience of computing of deleting things I thought were useless and then finding out soon after I really borked my system, i'd be a bit more careful.
So the main ingredient in the browser: rendering engine does not matter enough and you can claim making your browser yourself if you did everything around it?
Cool, I can code my own browser from scratch in about an hour, just drop in WebView and add some controls.
Without WebKit users would not see any web pages. Kind of lame behavior for the web browser.
Yup, rendering engine in the browser is a minor ingredient, right?
It's clunky. How is it better than compiling for yourself or using Apple-blessed MacPorts?
Don’t use GIFs for videos.
You are right;
The site should not require access to your camera,
during the intro/help pages; only after launching the
service should it ask.

I have fixed this now; thank you for pointing this out.
do companies ever release their engineering documents for vintage systems?
Short answer: it doesn't make enough money, it doesn't matter.
I've done just that a few times with some side projects, but never anything I released. One in C#. One in Node. One in Racket (I liked that one the best). It's definitely fun, and I found it helped push the application architecture into a good direction for being decoupled and maintainable.
There are hedge funds that beat the market. For example, David Tepper's (Panthers owner) fund returned ~25% annually over 25 years:

https://www.gurufocus.com/guru/david+tepper/profile

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/18/appaloosa-david-tepper-advic...
I can pretty much guarantee that there was no discussion with management like that. From experience, live ops games are essentially a perpetually broken code base that was rushed into production, then a breakneck release schedule for new features and monetization. I've personally had this conversation a few times:

Programmer: Loading times are really slow, I want to look into it next sprint.

Management: Feature X is higher priority, put it in the backlog and we'll get to it.
Sort of the main point of the article, wouldn’t you agree?

At least that’s why I gathered it proposed a letter “x” for centered traits.
You can still star results (which does the same as upvoting them). As far as I know, the only thing this has ever affected was your own search results.
Intellectual property is an interesting issue because of what it says about people and how they approach things.

(a)Your opinion is your own. There isn't a political left-right position here. If you have a position climate change, nationally provided services and welfare, etc. that are associate with a political camp you can't derive an IP position from this. It's also hard to derive an opinion from fundamentals. A person's opinion here, is more than on other issues, his own.

(b) It's very easy to know enough to be dangerous. Understanding why 'patents encourages innovation' or 'IP fragmentation' discourages innovation. But, issue is multifaceted and hard to reduce to a manageable number of parameters. Even the most theoretical advocates of one side or another generally talk about balances (tweaking patent expiration, fair use laws) rather than fundamentals. Knowing enough to sound smart is easy. Knowing enough to have what is a well thought out position is pretty hard.

Put these two together and it tells you about how a person thinks. For example, if one has a lot of knowledge, some interesting insight but still doesn't have a strong opinion that tells you a lot about them.
This article is reads like an ad for the semantic web.
Very interesting, but if you take a minute to step back and think about it for a bit, I think you would find that your experience at Apple doesn't represent the typical designer/developer/business interaction. You are in fact talking about an ideal situation for designers there. Regarding what I've read about Apple's design process, Apple affords the resources to allow for multiple mockups, design experimentation, and other practices that aren't as common in startups or most of the working world. Please share more about how things work there if you can.

However, when you're working with a startup for instance, as I have had the opportunity to do for my previous few gigs, you're dealing with finite financial resources as I'm sure you realize. Talking about limitations and how long something takes to build and everything is the difference between launching or not launching before the money runs out. When you're living in that world, focusing on the limitations of the platform and finding ways to solve problems with minimal resources and in a small amount of time is often what the businesses primary problem is.
Get in touch with savvis to do a colo at NJ2.
Maybe because you are comparing intellectual property to a physical object?
With no division it is slower (?)

Very interesting. Looks like sin is faster for arguments less than pi/4 (~=0.7853981633974483):

Edit: "Intel's sin/cos implementation sucks golfballs through gardenhoses for arguments outside of [-pi/4,pi/4]": http://stackoverflow.com/questions/523531/fast-transcendent-...

$ pypy -mtimeit -s'import math; sin=math.sin; a=0.786' '[sin(a) for x in xrange(1000000)]'
10 loops, best of 3: 395 msec per loop

$ pypy -mtimeit -s'import math; sin=math.sin; a=0.785' '[sin(a) for x in xrange(1000000)]'
10 loops, best of 3: 375 msec per loop

$ python -mtimeit -s'import math; sin=math.sin; a=0.786' '[sin(a) for x in xrange(1000000)]'
10 loops, best of 3: 177 msec per loop

$ python -mtimeit -s'import math; sin=math.sin; a=0.785' '[sin(a) for x in xrange(1000000)]'
10 loops, best of 3: 155 msec per loop
If you look up what property really means, it is not a physical object/possession, it's an abstract right of disposal over something. If you steal my car, I cannot dispose of it how I choose, and if you take my data without permission, again I can no longer dispose of it how I choose. So you have, in fact, deprived me of property in both cases.
Man I LOVED Tiger; best OS upgrade ever. It truly felt like a brand new machine and the features were not only useful they felt futuristic!
I'll take another stab with some thermo education experience added in. Much of your stab is pretty accurate though.

Starting off with the opposite, I'll compare two situations. One with whiskey and snow, the other with whiskey and an ice ball. (mass of snow = mass of ice ball)

Immediately when you drop the snow in, the temperature of the solid water in the snow raises from some negative temperature to 0 C, the temperature of the whiskey lowers to 0 C, and the surface of the snow particles melts. The slurry stays in equilibrium at 0 C until external heat inputs melt all of the solid water.

Also because it is at 0 C, heat transfers from the environment quickly (heat transfer rate depends on the difference in temperature, the bigger the difference the more energy is transferred in the same amount of time)

Downsides:

* Cold whiskey

* Immediately diluted whiskey

* Faster heat transfer.

Now for a solid ball of ice. As opposed to the snow, there isn't an instant change to a constant temperature. The ice (which in my freezer is at -19 C) initially only warms towards 0, there isn't a significant amount of melt until the whole ball is at 0 C. The whiskey likewise don't instantly, or perhaps ever cool to 0 C. This warmer whiskey accepts energy from the environment less quickly, which warms the ice ball less quickly, which results delayed and slower ice melt.

This all happens because the surface area in contact with the fluid is much much smaller than with the snow.

So you get

* warmer whiskey (desirable for more flavor)

* less water immediately in the whiskey

* slower introduction of water into the whiskey

This is all because the large mass, low surface ice ball slows down the thermodynamic process which has all desirable effects. * The key is not cooling the whiskey as quickly & not keeping the whiskey at 0 C. If it _did_ keep the whiskey at 0 C (for example with lots of stirring) there wouldn't be a difference between snow and ice ball.

Normal ice cubes are a middle ground with undesirable effects to a lesser degree.
I hope so too. I really like the idea of Tick-Tock OS releases; first one is features, second one is performance/refactoring
> When we visit or she vists and brings her laptop I'd switch her to the next LTS release.

Best part for me was when I found out on such an occasion that mine did it on her own.
So what happens to the money? It gets sent back to the people that "donated" right.
Am I the only one that doesn't like QR codes? Just use a URL instead.

1) You need a smartphone to scan them. People without a phone handy can't scan them, so if you see an ad somewhere, and want to check it out later you can't just remember the URL. For example, you might not want to take out your fancy new superphone in the subway.

2) It's slow. If you have a current top-model, it might be tolerable, but it's easier to just type in a URL on many phones.

3) It only works ok in the best cases. QR-codes on non-flat packaging, or codes that you can only scan at an angle (people have different heights), or codes behind reflective glass (bus stops) are difficult to scan

4) You need an app before you can actually scan them. Right there you're already missing half your user base.

5) I don't know where the code points to. If you give me an URL, I can already know something about it (e.g. cnn.com/ad2), with a QR-code, anything could happen. No thanks.

6) It looks stupid when you're scanning the code.
https://uk-amazon.icims.com/jobs/search?ss=1&in_iframe=1...
Yeah, except this does not require a new distribution infrastructure (widespread electric car use would overload current grids) and is a very convenient high energy density fuel convenient for many uses.

There's still the small problem of greenhouse gases.
Still no bidillybidilly boop noises though, and I don't look like a real hacker when I make those noises myself.
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1277

Tim Sweeney said from experience that every single precision flop/s need byte/s of bandwidth.
Great, see you there.
What jobs are okay to remove next for you? What makes one job more okay to remove than another?
It's like a form of incredulity that a higher level can exist on top of a lower level. It's all 0's and 1's, so it can't be anything more.
Gatekeeping may not be the best word, and I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say. OP is not merely pointing out a deficiency: they are suggesting that there is a decline in software quality because of these non-CS people entering the market. Pointing out a deficiency and blaming said deficiencies for a trend of bad software quality are two very different claims. It suggests that one cannot produce good software without a CS background, with which I disagree as an absolute statement. That may be a slight leap, but I think OP made a pretty broad suggestion.

I haven't and wouldn't suggest that people be moved to a position with responsibilities over their head If you want to move up and you need to learn more, of course you need to find a way to learn the required concepts. I did this and continue to do it.

My point about bootcamps is most people who finish them aren't out there getting jobs that require knowledge of CPU pipelines. If that IS happening, someone is really bad at hiring.
I’ve been working with gridsome.org recently and so far it’s been great.
I’m normally in Colorado + Idaho. Team at minimal.app :)
> (Until recently, "nerd" was a very offensive insult.)

In that sense, perhaps society has made a little progress, in socially embracing those that seem eccentric, quirky or uncomfortable - maybe not always for the right reasons, but it allows more people to be themselves and be happy.
FWIW, making to-do list is often a way of coping with inability to focus and hold coherent thoughts for longer periods of time in one's head. At least that's how I do this - especially now that I have a kid. I jot down lots of random throwaway todo lists for the day or week; otherwise, between the job, family and unwinding on HN, I'd essentially never do anything other than daily chores and "firefighting".
Yes, they are the same as prairie oysters. They are rich in zinc, so if you feel a cold coming then it may be a good idea to eat a few of these “oysters”.
> I don't like microphones being always on either, but it's his phone and his home too.

But it's also your home, and he should respect your wishes for privacy when you make them known.
I suspect there will be a great sort between remote-only and office-only, with employees choosing one or the other. Some people really love working from home and some really hate it. Both models can work well, but what works less well is a lot of mixing of the two models within a single organization.

What I'm curious about though is what level this sort might happen at. Maybe it doesn't need to be at the company level. Maybe it can be at the level of an "office" (in abstract terms), which I think is what Stripe seems to be trying to do with their "remote headquarters", or maybe it could be whole product orgs choose one or the other. Or maybe it works at even more granularity, down to the individual team level.

I'm not sure how it will work, but something the pandemic has taught me is that there are a lot of people who love the office, and a lot of people who love being remote. I think figuring out some way to give both kinds of people what they want, somehow, is going to be the way to go.
> finance doesn't necessarily require perfect accuracy

Maybe finance doesn't, but billing does.
Now there's a business in iPhone firewalls.
Most of the world is not rich enough to live as sparsely as we do. The suburbs are a miracle of prosperity and technology - a car for every adult, the energy to run it, the infrastructure to drive it on. Most human settlements in the world are walkable because they have to be.

Actually it is because car centric design was associated with wealth and status that the “backwards” old ways became prohibited. This inversion now, where walkable environments seem to be luxurious, is a legacy of that prohibition more than anything else.
Title was updated because of some primary research on the data set. Thats kinda cool.
It's never a compiler bug, but when it implies new physics, it is more probably a compiler bug
> You'd need to make your case in terms of things that science PIs find valuable, and in the process of trying to do that, you might actually discover that what you wanted to argue for isn't so critical after all.

This is a great sentence - thanks for contributing.
Same reason that hurricanes (and now powerful tornados) are named.

Naming something makes it more real as a thing and easy to speak about.
It looks like it's just a 5 barrel General Dynamics GAU-12/U.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-12_Equalizer#Specification...

^- Same video as YT

What's delay in integrating this into the platform? Haven't they done this several times before? Or is this a low priority item (how often do jets use their cannons)?
Chiang mai's old city
http://www.nikdaum.com/news/mai231.jpg
Speed and performance "improvements" of the new protocol do not justify all the additional complexity that comes with it for almost everyone in the world. Of course everyone could use some improvements, but they are not the things large corporations benefit from, they are thing that concern people who do not have planet scale infrastructure at their hands. I would like to see changes for easier resilience or even for distributed client/p2p caching for example. Doesn't matter though, we already lost.
True, although I am also thinking the only advantage of the half height is if you have a garage not big enough for a car. So this is for people who want an elegant looking small garage. Some houses do come with small garages where the space has been reclaimed for living space, but most garages could fit a regular system.
I was just trying to figure out what the GGGP meant, that wasn't my choice of words.

I'm not a DNS wonk either.
Definitely not, that's why I built multiple variations :)
Right:

- Limiting what compeditor apps are 'up to the standard' for their app store

- Giving their own code and apps special access and APIs that no competitors can have

- Charging competitors for the use of their store

- Ranking of store apps in the favor of Apple code

More importantly the controlling of the ecosystem allows networking effects and developer effects to win Apple money and market share.