jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Then what about the people developing those software products?

The article is very clear about this:

"I claim that essentially nothing will change for the average programmer with the advent of multicore machines."

He does not deny that people writing web and database servers do need to care about multicore CPUs. And I guess it is mostly true, so many daily tasks are I/O bound that the only concurrency most programmers will see are separate GUI/worker threads.

Of the tasks where parallelism does help a lot, a substantial subset is embarrassingly parallel. E.g. we parse a lot of large corpora (Wikipedia-size and larger). Parallelization is simply obtained by chunking a corpus, and giving every CPU in the cluster a chunk. Then there are number crunching applications with data dependencies where just a few OpenMP pragmas can easily parallelize programs. Of course, there are remaining hard tasks which require more hand waving.
Debian: YES. I have been looking for precisely this for a while.
I can't get to the article, asks me to login!
Lol, right now? Meaning it isn't usually for you? Consider yourself blessed.
The difference being that the Fed can monetize it all, while the Chinese can't. Unless, of course, they decide to surreptitiously print money as well (the kind of printing tech that the US Treasury uses is easily available to the Chinese).
Best obscure joke/satire thus far in December :)
Yea, actually I thought a bit more about it as well, and any real (analog) circuit will have a frequency response that tapers of to zero as the frequency goes to infinity. So that basically determines a Nyquist frequency for any analog circuit, even if that frequency is so high that it has no practical implications.
I completely agree with this, although as new advice "thin your deck" is good advice because new players don't remove strikes nearly enough, and the "too thin" problems only really hurt when you're doing act 4 and on higher ascensions.

On lower ascensions you get far fewer status cards added, and if you're a new player you probably don't have act 4 unlocked.
I don’t think having a fever for 4 days or more is unreasonable? If you have other symptoms of COVID maybe it makes sense to get tested, but a normal flu also causes a fever and is much more likely.
Yes, true. They were exercising their own right to vote.

However, at some point, their votes interfered with the human rights of others. At what point does the government and society step in, and say, enough is enough?
I doubt it, though I don't have any references. Do you have any peer reviewed papers on CBD and lung function?
No. My primary job is a major bank. My part time job is military. Both are considered essential. If my primary were to eliminate jobs my part time job would voluntarily become full time.
I'm not the OP, but the world just lost hundreds of trillions of dollars of wealth over the past month. When people start going hungry because of a lack of income, then we can really start comparing the harm of containment to the harm of the pandemic itself.
React and firebase :)
Copying over from our FAQ:

> What all languages can I use?

> As of now:

> Redis challenge: Python, Go, PHP

> Docker challenge: Go, Nim

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That would only happen if 100% of the population becomes infected at once. But when 60% has had the virus there will be so much immunity that the virus won't be able to spread anymore. So 10% mortality may happen in countries without healthcare, but not in modern countries.
Don't let copsarebastards phase you. They seriously hate golang as is obvious from their prolific ranting about its deficiencies in many a thread. I really wish they would just let it go, but some people really obsess over how "right" they are in their thinking. It is myopic really. Golang is a wonderful language (even without generics) :) It is the first language I have ever enjoyed writing concurrent code.
We do implement programming languages based on their specifications, we implement protocols by reading RFCs, we implement numeric algorithms by reading pseudocode in the papers, etc.

We implement spherical-cow versions of languages, protocols, etc by reading those papers and specs. Then we spend months or years fixing it to implement the actual languages and protocols.
This looks like it might scratch an itch. Only the description is so meagre and in such a bad English, I can't make heads or tails of it.
There is a procedure in which the lock is overridden in case of no-response from the cockpit; it's time based so it might take somewhere between 45 seconds to 5 minutes to get the door open.

If the inhabitant of the cockpit chooses to respond with a locking command (in the case of the A320, moving the door switch forward); the door will remain closed no matter how hard you try.
A term like "infantile" when used in a derogatory manner is predicated on the idea that being young is something to be ashamed of. You should avoid it.
Renting implies paying for the temporary use of something, there's no regular payments involved. If I rent a movie from RedBox, I'm not making regular payments - just a single payment covering the cost of the item.

If my use of the Ebook was not dependent on the Amazon (or Apple or B&N) ecosystem, then it might be easier to think of as a purchase with conditions; but if my account goes down, so does my ability to freely read the Ebook.
The NY Times article has a good description of the cockpit door override procedures.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/27/world/europe/germanwings-c...

In the best-case scenario, if someone in the cockpit wants to keep people out, it sounds like the security mechanisms provide a way to do for for at least five and a half minutes.
I didn’t like the noise and the price had collapsed. I sold the cards for a very good price. I would have made 5 or 6 figures if I had just left them on. Oh well, it’s not the worst financial decision I’ve ever made. Hell, I bought TSLA at $15 and sold at $30. F me.
Rackspace was always overpriced garbage
The best approximation of unbiased news you can get is to get news from multiple sources, understand as best as you can the biases that influence them, and do some of your own digging on items of interest.
> his position at the company did allow him access to the private information of many users, including their phone numbers

Yep, and this is after them for years claiming "not using" your phone number after alleged "verification" until EU forced them to admit they were lying.
For all the counter-culture nostalgia, the Beetle was mostly about being cheap. And, of yeah, somewhat by being fairly unsafe even relative to the fairly lax standards of the time.Furthermore, depending on one's situation an EV is often a second car at this point unless you don't really need to get out of charger range or are willing to rent when you do.
How convenient that the copyright provisions in those agreements largely come from Hollywood...
Emacs does need the full AST. The whole point of Emacs is to allow users to write applications that were UNANTICIPATED by its developers. You can't predict exactly what sort of information users will need, so you can't make some "safe" amount of information available.

It's mind boggling that this even needs to be explained. I get the sense that rms doesn't really grok the Emacs philosophy anymore.
I think that at this point in time this is a contradiction in terms. I'm sure someone at CIA has wet pants knowing that the chinese government buys windows.
https://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=B...

Research says that the nutritional value is not significantly different between organic and backyard.

However, I expect the fact the backyard eggs are fresh laid is the big differentiator. The supply chain between farm and supermarket is huge, whilst backyard eggs can be laid that day.
> that will make renewable energy storage a non-problem

I recently played around with the data from Germany 2020. I scaled up the existing renewables (only the ones that are scalable - wind and solar, hydro is pretty much maxed out) so that the yearly consumption can be served from 100% renewables. Then I added a battery to carry the overproduction over to the gaps. A 3 TWh battery would still lead to 50 days of empty battery and thus gaps in the power supply.

This is electricity, not Transport and heating. And obviously my approach is simple, no sector coupling effects, no smart grid just scaling up want we have.

3 TWh is 30 million Model S batteries. Even with sodium ion batteries I think this is not really realistic.

I always wondered why the are talking about hydrogen so much, despite the much higher losses you get in that process. Now I get it. I think batteries will be a good solution for single family homes / buildings with solar panel. But the grunt of the grid storage I think will be hydrogen. Especially because during winter, it can produce heat and electricity and the same gas turbines that are already common in German cities.

Either way, it's a big, hard project, but doable if we really want to.
I feel like that's a loaded sentence. Most businesses are "unregulated but legal", running a grocery store can be considered "unregulated but legal"
At what point does a manager stop being a pimp? Seems like everyone doing anything businessey that doesn't involve taking off their own clothes in anything even vaguely sex related gets called a pimp.

Is a strip club GM a pimp? The whole "maintain and operate facility" thing sounds a lot like a strip club.
What you describe is about technique, and can already be done by a computer.
A Ruby script to scrape and download desktop-resolution images: https://gist.github.com/schmich/243688ea24cdb6ea1c32
> Does "desktop" only include Mac OS? Neither on Linux nor Windows does the "app store model" rule. They exist, but are more like an obscure "you can also do it this way" method rather than the norm.

Even on mac OS, how much is it the norm? I think my only app store app on my work MBP is Slack.
He doesn’t sound cancelled to me.
That’s awesome! Is your model available publically? I run a site [0] where users can generate images from text prompts using models like the official BigGAN-Deep one and I’d love to try it out for this purpose. Do you also have somewhere whereupon discuss this stuff? I’m new to ML in general and was wondering if there’s somewhere where y’all experts gather.

[0]: https://dank.xyz
In that conversation, nobody flat out says "the science is settled" because it is easy to explain the science behind the earth being round. No, "the science is settled" is only ever used as a way to end a discussion without explaining the details of one's position. Not that they're necessarily wrong, but just that they don't know the answers. It is always an attempt to end a conversation on an authoritative basis.
My initial gut feeling was your response, but changed my mind quickly when reading the article. His videos being online resulted in interaction with the students, and that's where he harassed them.

It's a shame, but any other solution feels like it's a broken stair just waiting for someone to trip over it.
Bitcoin wants to waste resources for a specific operation - which is to prove that work was performed. The other aspects of bitcoin, such as sending transactions and validating transactions, have no need to waste resources and are designed to be efficient.

A good analogy is password hashes. If you have a hashed value, it is expensive to find the original input. If you want to check that an input is equal to the hashed value, that is a cheap operation.
Replace YouTube with porn and it happens all the time.
I would say there are at least a significant amount of people where you can hear what music they're listening to while sitting ~2m away from them in the train.

Granted, the apparently nonexistent noise isolation of hardshell earbuds makes it pretty easy for sound to escape.
How are the curves defined? Is there a 'standard' curve that's generally used or is the curve itself randomly generated along with the keys?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8836065
It's crazy how some people in this thread get so emotional and negative about a new tool. If you don't like it, just don't use it. Yes, we know that CGI is slow and that you don't like Javascript.
What about when I have auth or any number of middleware and am hitting a cached-object store; do the performance gains continue to stand out? With just a few dict and string operations, their tests showed performance dropped considerably. I'm going to be doing more than that in each request; I'm not going to use this to use Python to serve anything but dynamic content.

Would be nice to see them on https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r9&hw=p...
I don't see a problem. I think a little training for dealing with media is a good thing.
After spending a few minutes bouncing around to other discussions trying to figure this out, the answer seems to be something like "Use Flow if you: 1) use JSX, or 2) can't be bothered to annotate your code but want a chance of maybe catching some classes of error anyway."

Regarding #1, I don't personally like JSX, but a lot of people do, so maybe they should use Flow. It seems likely the TypeScript compiler would barf on code that employs JSX.

Regarding #2, I can't see how that will drive any appreciable adoption of this tool. If you care enough to statically analyze your code, you probably care enough to annotate it to get the much stronger safety guarantees that will provide (not to mention other benefits, like "free" self-documentation, and enabling more sophisticated tooling, that have been discussed elsewhere at length).

Maybe I've missed an important use case here, but that's what I've been able to piece together since I skimmed the article. And since the author was recently interning on a large React codebase and never mentions TypeScript in the article, I have a feeling he falls into use case #1 above.
How well does flow play with third party libraries? ie. TypeScript has type definitions that are pretty well established for most commonly used 3rd party libs. I'm wondering if there is a similar project for Flow?
But there is a big difference between "professional" (their work affects others) and "hobbyist" (simple tasks nobody uses).

Think about the hobbyist... The PHP/Razor like templating, since you mentioned it, gently mixes known (html document that they can see) with the unknown (magic code). Do they really need anything more advanced for the type of things they're trying to produce?
No, but they first used Java applets and then Flash, just to re-implement the native scrollbars with a lesser version. The horror...
Would you mind giving me an email regarding the up sell on SIM cards? Got something quite interesting coming up in the EU that may be of interest to you. Email's on my profile.
In arguing that they should add more people in order to ship faster, the only incompetence on display is your own. That's not how software development works, which you should know if you've done it professionally.
Ok, but Bitcoin doesn't need an expert to do that, just widely available open source software that's already been vetted by thousands of developers.
I live in the States and don't participate in anti"social" media or dopamine-addiction with a phone glued in my hand, neck hunched over, and nearly get run-over absorbing distractions in the form of outrage, manufactured infotainment, or virtual, meaningless lives. Selfies still look to me like narcissistic loser mementos that someone can't find another person to take their picture because they're all so glued to their phones and socially-clueless to interact with anyone else.
In a sphere where we usually choose our names and expect other people to use them, instead of what's written in some official document, I don't see how chosen pronouns are any different.

Honestly, it's not hard to call people what they want to be called.

You might feel the line between innocent mistake and maliciousness has not been crossed. Other people do disagree.
No.

"But even when it is uncontroversial to call the subject depicted a 'child', that is no excuse for censorship. Having a photo or drawing does not hurt anyone, so and if you or I think it is disgusting, that is no excuse for censorship."
The problem is that gender is a complicated social issue and not every transgender person wants to be thrown into an "other" category with their pronouns. Given how simple it is to use someone's preferred pronouns once they've been made clear to you, I don't see how it's a problem to do so.
Someone here could just pick up a job as a clerk and then use AI and mturk to do all the work.
The golden rule is not about what you want, it is about something you could will as a universal maxim. So you must take the masochists etc into consideration when universalizing.
My current favourite for quick prototyping is Flask. A minimal Flask app is just a few lines of Python, plus some sensible defaults, which is great when you just want to throw something up quickly as proof of concept. There's a set of handy extensions when you need to do more, such as ORM stuff.

It's also pretty easy to integrate with the Google App Engine, which I personally don't like (I mean, Python 2.5 ? It's nearly 2011 already !) but has its uses.

For larger projects (especially client-related) it's definitely Django, just for the number of features out of the box (such as the admin). If you're just starting in Python you might find Flask (or similar micro-frameworks such as Bottle or web.py) easier to get started with, as there's quite a learning curve with Django before you really get to know the framework and it's better (though not required) to have a good grasp of Python first.

It's been bread and butter for me for the past couple of years though and I'd definitely recommend it for "serious" work.

If you're used to C# and want something a bit more familiar (i.e. Java) Play is quite interesting and quite unlike the typical over-engineered Java framework.

Outside of Python, for something more esoteric, I'm starting to get into Clojure and the Compojure/Ring stack - I love the concepts, but my mind isn't quite in functional mode yet.
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What are they going to do? Ask you for money as you exit the plane in B?
If there is a husband who is living with his wife, and he drugs her and sexually assaults her, wouldn't he also have access to her ID to scan it and upload it? I guess at a certain point, any kind of roadblocks will lower the chances this person uploading the content.

What's the alternative to victims scouring the internet and issuing takedown requests? Some centralized porn database where you can type in someone's name and see what porn they've done?
It is totally ready for visitors. I visited, I enjoyed it. Doesn’t seem particularly wise to advise people something isn’t ready for people to visit, when those visitors are the only ones who can actually give useful feedback.
“ByLock can be considered sole evidence of Gülen network membership: Supreme Court”

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/bylock-can-be-considered-s...
I feel like you misunderstand the ADA. The ADA does protect those people - they just need to ask for reasonable accommodations and be prepared to back up that request with documentation.

Please note that this suit is not about a person with PTSD being forced to drive a guide dog. It’s about a person who has a guide dog continuously being denied reasonable accommodations.
You should make plans to replace it because it's quite likely updates for it will end soon. Corporations are well known to bail early when a profit center is axed. You don't want to end up hacked.
Yahoo Answers served as a social network for kids shortly after chatroom culture died. It was particularly the home of underrepresented and oppressed groups, like LGBT youth and minority religions. I spent time there as a teenager and saw a huge number of people ask about things and talk about things they couldn't in real life. Gay kids trying to figure out their place. Muslim kids questioning things they'd been taught. Terrified kids going through a pregnancy scare looking for guidance and reassurance.

That it became an alt-right cesspit is a terrible shame. It was a silly place but it deserves a better place in internet history than that.
Rubbish. Your assumption is that unions are always a benefit to their members.

I have seen enough actions by unions where the outcomes were detrimental to their members for me to believe that some unions are a net negative for their members.

Someone can choose to not belong to a union because they are a good person that just believes that a union is bad for everyone.

Edit: Disclaimer: I am not stating that I think unions are bad. However the few direct experiences I personally have had with unions have not been a clear positive for the members (as an employee or student, never as an employer).

Edit 2: Or you could just believe unions are net neutral, so be against joining. Because who wants to voluntarily submit themselves to an organisation or people they don’t believe in?
I don't think there is any useful conversation to be had re: "forgetting" that public data. It's a matter of fact. Once data is public it's public. There no magical "forgettable" bits for special classes of digital data.

Deleting copies pof data from public and quasi-public forums isn't practically possible, short of taking away everybody's general purpose computer. I don't think that's going to happen (and I certainly wouldn't want it to).

I think it's just a world we have to live with. I don't particularly like it, but I don't have a choice in the matter.
If you take the money that the school gives you and make your own lunch for less money than the restaurants charge, that's better than a free lunch, since you have more money.
I wonder if they are aware that there is an 'AI' that captures carbon and has been rolling itself out throughout the entire world for billions of years. Oh, right, that wouldn't rake in the same attention.

I am pessimistic when it comes to this stuff. Most initiatives like this are half virtue-signalling, half VC flytraps. I believe the only realistic way we can halt climate change is with geoengineering. One proposed method is an aerosol dispersed between the Earth and the sun to reduce the amount of energy received.

Oh, and fusion. But no amount of Elon Musk's reality distortion field is going to make that happen in 5 years. That needs time, a lot more funding, and educated scientists.
"In the previous article on Donkey Kong, we saw that the game designers built in a mechanism to prevent the player from ever passing level 99. After level 99 is reached, it repeats forever, never advancing to 100. However, this is not widely known because a timer bug prevents anyone from ever passing level 22. If only the designers of Pac-Man had done something similar.

But they didn’t, and Pac-Man suffers from the well known split screen when level 256 is reached. We will examine how and why this occurs, and create a patch to fix the program’s bug."