jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Just to clarify, if given the choice between two hospitals: "St. Joseph's Hospital" and "John Smith's Hospital" and you hear that the former has a statistically significant advantage in the area of care that your loved one needs...

you would choose the second one, because of its name?
I know, that's why I have these:

http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ex20.html

But, when talking about this I didn't want to muddy the waters with my own assert alternatives. Programmers have a hard enough time focusing on the issue of a for-loop vs. a while loop.

Edit: malloc returning NULL means you're out of heap. That's usually catastrophic in almost all cases, but the important part is that people don't detect that, then use the NULL pointer. That's the bug.
I would say in this case what's 'weird' about the benchmarks is that the optimization strategy taken across the languages is incredibly uneven. Indeed, simply wrapping the above julia code in a `let` block so it's not out in the global scope is sufficient to have it on par with C++ (assuming the same flags are used, e.g. fastmath).
Seriously. With the amount often billed by consultants, clients aren't going to balk at double, triple, or even 10x the hosting costs of something like GoDaddy. (assuming reliability is there)

Also, I'd play with offering "unlimited" plans vs "cheap to upgrade" plans. Maybe the market you are targeting (if its a technical market, like django hosting mentioned above) associated "unlimited" plans with bad service or other trade-offs. A/B test until you're blue in the face.
No it does not.

Ask George Floyd... Oh wait, you cannot.

"Pig" is a pejorative term, I used it in connection with the violence, bigotry, prejudice, adn stupidity (forgot to mention that), the raping, the framing....

I did not use it as a replacement for "peace officer". I know what I said and I meant it
> then you're doing something you shouldn't be doing.

I agree! But I also think a standard library should withstand a bit of abuse from people who don't know what they're doing.
Stablecoins are, in theory, just a cryptocurrency representation of actual money in the bank somewhere.

I'm all for it, if it's properly audited and confirmed that the funds are in place.

I'm a huge proponent of cryptocurrency technology as long as it doesn't:

1) Depend on wasting ever-increasing amounts of electricity doing arbitrary useless proof-of-work

2) Create a new currency out of thin air, when all we really want is a way to move our existing money around. I don't want to have to buy an arbitrary cryptocurrency from some early adopters at an inflated price just to move my USD from point A to point B.
I have an environment variable to set process count for a nodejs service because everyone is finger pointing at who should be the one to sort out the fact that cgroup cpu limits and nprocs disagree most of the time. Our stuff is fine, those other guys should fix their stuff.

Thanks, everybody. Good effort.
If the real rate is 1%, absolutely no large corporation is going to leave if the rate goes up to 2%. Or even 5%. Especially if the location is attractive. (Good English, good facilities, central location, stable country, etc.)

The costs of setting up new offices would dwarf any nominal tax saving.

This isn't 'populist' it's pragmatic. Countries cost a lot to run, and if someone is renting space from you they should be paying their way - not getting an incredibly cheap ride because you happen to have some rooms (spaces) you want to fill.
This doesn't align with what I've read. For example:

https://www.cato.org/blog/middle-class-shrinking-households-...
Exceptional as in there are no longer slaves and a bunch of rich people with swords killing anyone who disagrees with them?

As that's not "exceptional", that's justice.
Until recently, Google had a form you could report scraped pages that outranked your original content.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Pw1KVOVRyr4a7ezj_6SHghnX1Y6...

The fact they removed it tells me they're confident enough in their algorithms nowdays, but that doesn't mean they're perfect.

I can see my own content being outranked by the scraping domains in this very case.

Just google "Streaming Services Availability added to Episodes and Movies" and you'll see.

If they can outrank me, I don't see how this will not affect me negatively by my content being considered duplicate ...
We are aware and there is growing criticism on it, but not nearly enough to see it actioned on :(
Can you let me know the unit you have please?
I think kickstarter modified those rules when they announced Launch Now: https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/introducing-launch-now-and-...

Now companies can just use it as an advertising platform to generate publicity, even if they have to give up a slice of revenue to kickstarter.
Missiles, on the other hand...
It seems most people have chosen the centralized system, whether we like it or not. So then, the next choice would indeed be „public or private“?
I believe you've already posted that video of Bernanke making an a__s out of himself.
How hard is it to understand that "switching" is not a discrete action?

It does not have to an all-or-nothing proposition. Do it in stages.

Try this: first get yourself to use it with a few friends. See for yourself what use cases work well and what use cases don't. Bonus points if you collect this feedback and give to the team. Bring your close contacts to use it and try to make your default app, but don't beat yourself or swear it off when you can.

Upon new release, try the use cases that were failing and see what progress has been made.

Best case, you end up realizing that the new system is not as bad as you thought and you are ready to jump out of a shitty locked-in network. Worst case you spent some time learning about a free system and you are more informed and able to help those that know of no alternative and think that being spied on and manipulated is just a given.
Apple processes the source code before releasing it as open source, like excluding some source files and even stripping specific #ifdef sections. This can be implied from shell scripts that are part of the tarballs.

Such an approach would be way more complicated if the open source release included version control history. These code drops already always come months after the macOS releases.
> Why does Twitter want to prevent him from making such a statement

Sorry, but that framing is disingenuous. Trump was suspended when he incited a mob to march to the capitol and "fight" to "stop" a joint session of congress, who then invaded and sacked the seat of government of the United States.

Later, after all this, he posted (for the very first time ever!) that he'd accept the results of the election. So... that's good. But it's not why he was banned.
If you think that supply side inflation can cause CPI inflation in a demand starved economy then you are dead wrong. As long as there are foreign investment opportunities you are going to see very little inflation. As long as unemployment or underemployment stays high you can keep printing forever without having an impact on the value of the currency.

>The FEDs of the world, that pump up the monetary supply have all agreed on the same game plan: It's call UP is the only way out. The only way to deleverage the economy is to inflate away all the debt. The Governments of the world are all on board with this policy. Why do you think they're all so desperate to create high inflation (3%-4%)? That's how you reduce the debt burden.

You know, if the central banks actually did their job properly you wouldn't want to hold BTC at all because the income of workers would rise faster than the value of your BTC. They are not desperate just incompetent (well, in theory they are unable to solve the problem).
I'm not sure. I know they've been getting more popular with the increased power of laptops and the ability to use external GPUs (via Thunderbolt 3). I'd guess desktops are more common, but some people will have both.
IRC isn't an app, it's a protocol, so it doesnt answer the question of what one should use instead of WhatsApp.

What IRC app would you recommend?
And their roadmap looks very nice: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/doc/terminal...
As far as I can tell Roboflow is more focused on being an end to end platform for AI. The customers we work with generally want to retain more control over their model building process, we just help them with automating as much of the annotation process as we can, often with the help of their own models.
Think of it this way. How many people on earth can't easily get a bank account (people under the age of 18 included)? It's a huge number that suggests massive scale in that use-case alone.
Companies can and do build their own roads -- we aren't exactly talking about building interstate highways. Schools would be paid for by SAS employees and contractors' paycheck and additional local property taxes (for those who have to relocate from another place). I highly doubt that SAS is going to get free water.
Your original document was the quintessential resource for me in the 90s. Heartfelt thank you for putting me on track back then. Highly appreciated!
Yes, it's called Lobbying. That was the point of my comment.
I did this often. Then I would buy a can of spam. :)
I believe that's 6 filters in a chamber, not a zoomed in view of a single filter.
OAuth seem to have sporadic issues, which, I guess, may cause failures to "Log in with Github" auth on some occasions.

At least I've seen a few "connection refused"/"timeout" error notifications from one of the sites I manage. Don't know the successful login counts, so no idea how high the error rate is.
the intention doesn't happen when the "run" button is pressed, it happens when the program is written.

unless it's an AI program and then I think it is back to passing "expressive individuality" with extra credit :)
This is a subjective topic, as moral decisions are individually made based on the morals the individual subscribes to. If the individual doesn't feel guilty about doing this, then how can anyone else claim they are amoral?

Socrates said, "To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom." This is what I believe he meant, to know what your own morals are. If you know them, you cannot violate your own conscience.
> Implementations are irrelevant

And that's why Rust started from scratch. I totally understand the problem and the justification to address it. Yet nobody has ever been able to justify why it's necessary to dispense with the entirety of C and C++ to achieve memory safety. The power of frameworks like LLVM give you freedom to implement whatever semantics you want. Rust wouldn't have gotten off the ground if it weren't for that kind of power. I feel this power has been abused. For example, you could create a fork of C++ that merely compile-errors when you use a pointer and not a reference unless you enclose it in some `unsafe` block that you invented -- anything you want like that is possible. One can simply start with C++ augmented so that everything is const by default; that is the ideal progress to me.

There's still no justification for Rust to be completely hausdorff to the last 50 years of established C systems and start over. If Rust doesn't really offer anything substantive for this amount of divergence I feel it will always be relegated to wrappers and a niche community.

That just makes Rust a simulacrum.
It is, for JavaScript and CoffeeScript. Additional adapters can also be created. Read http://ideas.pencilcode.net/home/htmlcss/droplet-paper.pdf :)
Ok thanks, I reread it, that seems to be the case! I hope the seconds field is honored along with ns. WinCE had a bug where they used a long. If latency made your call for a small interval occur after the interval had elapsed, you slept for 19.5 minutes instead (nearly a full count). Combining the ns with a second counter should be enough bits to avoid that.
How long will that take you to assimilate those C++20 features?
> Another thing is that it's often harder to write your question/problem in text as a message, when in verbal communication it's a lot easier

yes, we're finding that a lot of folks have deficient written communication skills.

another problem is that a lot of developers can type fast enough to program, but not actually type fast enough to productively use email/slack. that one surprised me!

i had a coworker right before covid started, who, you'd send him something in slack, and then watch the "JimBob is typing..." indicator flash on and off for 5 minutes. then he'd just show up at your door and say "no. five." or whatever the very brief answer was.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/cold

> Sense of "indisposition involving catarrhal inflammation of the mucous membranes of the nose or throat" is from 1530s, so called because the symptoms resemble those of exposure to cold; compare cold (n.) in earlier senses "indisposition or disease caused by excessive exposure to cold" (early 14c.), "chills of intermittent fever" (late 14c.).

Put less technical: shivering, runny nose, etc, are symptoms of both the common cold and being cold.
Well, you "big boys" cause a whole bunch of problems, for limited gain.

There's basically no resource overhead for using the pointer abstractions that C++ offers.

Recall that the original comment was discussing whether to re-write something originally written in Python into C or C++.
The price of gold was increased at the same time, not afterwards. So they repaid people 65% more than it had been worth the day before.
They’re mostly useful when the outside air is heavily polluted.

They’re also useful when you can’t open windows for some reason. Indoor air pollution is generally much higher than outdoor air pollution. Houses concentrate dust, etc.
And the U.S. Government isn't making a phone call to get the data.

They have a "law enforcement portal" they can log in to in order to request the data.
We observe the death of that iconic 80s late-night TV talk show title card music sound.
Return to Forever, Crystal Silence, Romantic Warrior, My Spanish Heart, Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy.

When you're done with those (I figure, five years or so :) ), then you will want to listen to everything else...

My personal favorite is probably Crystal Silence, that is such an amazing piece, it never ceases to give you more joy and new bits of discovery, even when you know it note-for-note.

As for other good Jazz albums, Pat Metheny, Al di Meola, Weather Report might be to your liking, and maybe McCoy Tyner, try 'Fly with the wind'. And a bit more off the beaten path, Friedrich Gulda, the 'terrorist pianist'.

Enjoy! And mail me if you want more.
If you’ve left your town without your landlords permission, you enjoy a freedom that medieval peasants didn’t have. If your apartment changed hands without you suddenly becoming someone’s property, you’ve enjoyed a freedom peasants didn’t have. If you’ve been involved in a legal process that wasn’t adjudicated by your land lord then you’ve enjoyed a freedom peasants didn’t have.

I can’t believe I need to explain this, but democracy is nothing like feudalism.
>The on-by-default setting was technically a violation of the standard

A standard written for advertisers by advertisers. This is the problem. There are technical solutions, but the biggest advertiser (Google) makes the browser. This is the same as "the revolution will not be televised." The adversary controls the medium.
I've seen some browser extensions that use local copies of the usual CDN scripts and such. I wonder how much better that could be if it was a proper browser feature coupled with some sort of a privacy proxy? Though I imagine that the same local cache fingerprinting issues might still apply here.
I didn’t say they bound themselves to a castle, I said they bound themselves to someone who could raise a castle.

And I’m sure the first peasants had some choice. Later ones ... not so much.
Context: I started building a synced browser game, having never done anything similar before, and realized that multiplayer game state isn't supposed to be stored in a database, the way firebase works. It's just kept in a server's active process memory, so there's no reads/writes to a DB involved. Otherwise realtime speed would be impossible. I never knew this before, having never worked on it or thought about it. But if you want such a setup, you basically have to write it yourself. And that's hard.

I just wish there was a SaaS (much like firebase) where you sign up and have an API that lets you define the data that your game-state involves (which may be a large schema), and then provides you with a suite of methods for letting clients create, find, and join group sessions ("games", "matches", however you want to call them) where the game-state is synced across all clients in that session until the game ends, with each client being able to modify the game-state within defined limitations (i.e. play the game.) I suppose the server would have to know under what conditions a game ended so that it could notify all players and end the session.

It just seems very daunting to me.
Amazing! too bad I haven't used a stamp in many years
Old wallets can be huge, tens of thousands of receiving addresses large. Most aren't even displayed to the client (change addresses).
Then you haven't been to Reddit. There's a guy there who lost 4000-ish coins.
It's an bad question to ask outside the context of a relationship. It's like asking a very personal question of someone before even meeting them for a first date.

'Who the LP's are' is basically none of your business unless you are entering into some kind of relationship, even then - it may be out of bounds. Of course you have the right to not take money even in that case, but that's a different thing then knowing when to ask.

All of this talk about 'tainted money' is bordering on naive - it's very subjective, moreover, if people would actually take a moment to grasp how this world operates they might find a lot of things they don't agree with.

I'm not suggesting people don't make decisions about where their money comes from - that's very reasonable - rather that it's much more complicated than 'boycott Nike or Chic-Filet' populism.

As far as LP's - it's definitely not a question you ask, unsolicited, over email, without an established relationship.

You can try to do your own research on it, or, ask 'in person' once you have some semblance of a material conversation with an investor and hope they give you a hint one way or another. It would help to ask it in an informal, indirect manner, possibly lumped in with a few other speculative LP questions.
> Maybe it's time to tax automation?

1000% yes; I work in industrial mobile robots and it's obvious that governments need to find a way to capture some of the value which is being created there, particular when it's a more-or-less direct trade of a wage-earning employee for a one-off capital investment.

Are there are any major proposals yet for how this might work, or has already worked? The "existing" section on this suspiciously-OR Wikipedia article is pretty scant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_tax#Existing_laws
> Second, the "stock perspective". An investor would ignore the underlying company, but look at the stock itself. It didn't really matter if the company was doing good, but only if the stock itself had good potential. […]

> Finally, the "game perspective". An investor would not really care about the stock, but only about the behavior of other investors.

Well, momentum investing does give good returns over the market average:

> Momentum investing is a system of buying stocks or other securities that have had high returns over the past three to twelve months, and selling those that have had poor returns over the same period.[1][2]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum_investing

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum_(finance)

Basically:

> Every January 1st you look at the newspaper and find the best performing stocks of the prior year. You invest your money among those stocks and then go about your life for 12 months.

> On January 1st of the next year you check the newspaper again to find the best performing stocks over the past year. Any of your current holdings that are no longer on the list are sold and any newcomers are added to your portfolio.

> Repeat every year until rich.

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/let-them-vote/

Excess returns are respectable:

> From 1927 to 2011, momentum had a monthly excess return of 1.75%, controlling for the Fama and French factors. Moreover, momentum is not just a US stock market anomaly. Momentum has been shown in European equities, emerging markets, country stock indices, industry portfolios, currency markets, commodities, and across asset classes.

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2041429
Why not collaborate with AMD for once an improve HIP?
If AMD and Intel stay divided all hope is lost and nvidia will stay the main target
This is because most people think that Congress/institutions as a whole are dirty, but ask them about their congressperson and support shoots up significantly.

If we can’t analyze our own choices as potentially contributing to the system, including not voting (which is more of an endorsement of whatever happens rather than a denial of approval), then we cannot move forward.
Same happens for safari on latest iOS!
We all went through a year of quarantine, and it made many of us more anxious or depressed, but not what you just described - and not like going to your doctor and getting diagnosed for an psych disorder that then shows up in the stats of a Lancet study.
It's becoming a big issue because there are people trying to actually make a living being superstars and/or trolls on these platforms, and because they've become a vehicle for large scale political propaganda. There's money and power involved now, and that changes everything.

That being said I agree that the argument is disingenuous. Freedom of speech is a human right. The use of someone else's platform on which to speak is not.
> Python provides a better syntax in almost all areas

Examples?
You're intentionally giving a bad-faith interpretation.

The term "gate-keeper" is colloquially used to refer to those who needlessly prevent or discourage others from participating at all in an entire hobby/career-field/community.

Conferences and publications and employers should absolutely filter candidates by their actual ability to do the job they're being paid to do; nobody in their right mind would suggest otherwise. But this is a) a temporary condition of the individual's ability at that particular time, b) relative to the specific task at hand, and c) just one piece of what it means to participate in the field as a whole. A person might not currently be fit for programming job X but simultaneously be capable of programming job Y, and in the future they might even become capable of X. They might not even be capable of any paid programming work at all, but in the meantime should still be welcome to learn and to hack and to participate in the community.

Of course I didn't really need to explain all that, because you knew what I meant and chose to frame it differently, but there you go.
Ryan has a custom compilation of it actually. That editor will go to the grave with him :-P
I had a copy of D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths as a kid. My favorite illustration was the full page shot of Athena busting out of Zeus's head in all her armored glory.
> I'm a big boy, I can manage allocating and freeing memory when I need to, I can write my own memory managers and so forth.

Your expertise is laudable and am sure, hard won. The trouble is with expecting a larger team to buy into that philosophy.
Humans are cruel when left unchecked.

Did you really need to look at the article to know he was black?
I believe those figures are per-capita as well.