jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
MS has been making a litany of $bil mistakes. Keep in mind, the $900m is just the write down from slashing the price by $150. The real downer will come when they realize that those warehouses full of tablets with now outdated hardware will cost them 3 billion.

In 2009, MS had OSes on 70%+ of hardware. Now, it's 21%. All that is from them missing mobile. They missed mobile in the same way IBM missed the PC market. If he truly was ousted, this is why.

The untold billions of lost profit from missing out on mobile, not to mention the billions the lost on product failures, and I'm shocked the guy wasn't thrown out by security long ago.
There are over 500 chemicals used in the process, and I'm guessing many of them get into the ground water.
No, it doesn't. Wayland is far, far different from X, being a protocol for handling of local framebuffers only. In fact Wayland makes the concept of window managers obsolete: all window management takes place in the compositor. So the further development of window managers is a bit akin to solving yesterday's problems today.
Both. If you View Source of the page web page you site, you'll see there's really RDF behind it. The long string you quote is a Comment that's associated with each concept. But there are also Label and PrettyString clauses that provide a primary string associated with this concept ("game") and other strings (here, only "games"), but see http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Dog for some better examples of alternative strings.
SMS doesn't provide real-time geolocation data so the best info available is based on the area code.
I know, right?!

Gateway remains my favourite hard-sci novel of all time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_%28novel%29
Or better, we need a generation of kids that are interested in science and math and actually go into professions that make things.

I haven't seen any specific numbers that break this down by degree. Given what I've seen in computer science, I'd bet that engineers and other "hard" degrees are doing just fine.
It's very possible that Facebook could integrate with Bing.
I don't see how that would be much worse. You're requiring one specific version of one specific browser either way.
You forgot to list the cons of both parents being very gentle and caring. Why does one half need be "ambitiously working towards acquiring more"?

The candid materialism of Americans (if you pardon the assumption) never ceases to amaze me. Want a "successful" family, start paying more attention to other things not exchangeable for green pieces of paper.
I think we're mixing requirements here.

Use case 1: I need to create a new page and for many corporate sites, each new page is different than the next for the majority of the body copy...different layout, one has a map etc. I need to choose where this page goes in the site as well. An in-context approach is very well suited.

Use case 2: I just need to create a press release quickly, it always has the same template, always goes to the same part of the site and it's always the same process I go through. An in-context approach here isn't that good, you want a template approach where the user fills in some fields on a form, a title, body text, maybe image, checkbox for map yes/no etc. This isn't a page at all really, it is a piece of content that is created and using the Press Releas template, the page is created dynamically at the right point in the menu structure. They'll create the page in 30 secs and be done. There is very little point in choosing from a list of modules to insert when you're dealing with a fixed template.

So you're talking about the templated approach vs the page builder approach. Neither is better or worse, just suited to different use cases.
It did enhance aspects of the US narrative, and diminished others. This is a good thing, since it added to the overall truthfulness of the narrative.

US strategy has been to hide the proxy war it's fighting with Iran from the American public, while increasing the rhetoric/rancor against Iran, so that eventually if/when there is more open conflict, the American people already view the Iranian people as barbaric subhumans.
Lastpass is surprisingly slow however - and that affects general browsing performance.
We (Finland) also do have some ideas about "let's put old people in prisons and criminals in old people's institutions!"

This way the old people could get five healthy meals served to them daily, a possibility to shower every day, have some activity arranged to them regularly, and they would get paid instead of having to pay for their care.

Criminals would get only cold food, spend almost all their time alone, have their lights switched off at 8PM, and get to shower once a week, if the warden happens to be on a good mood.

That said, I don't object to prisons being the way they are. I object to the extremely lenient sentences for violent crimes. The only crimes where punishment is harsh seem to be tax and drug offences.

Just look at the recent case where a woman was held captive for four years, was forced to give birth to three babies while being held. The sentence for perpetrators? 3 years 10 months for the main responsible, of which he will do less than two years in prison. And he's appealing for too harsh sentence. This system is slightly too humane for my taste.
Apple and IBM do different things in 2011 than they did in 1981. Apple is primarily a consumer hardware company. IBM is primarily a business-to-business software and services company. The author is right, Apple has completely crushed it over the past decade or so...but IBM hasn't been going after the consumer hardware market for awhile. The comparison is sort of apples and oranges. Over the course of 30 years, technology companies will obviously need to adapt to changes.

Also keep in mind (and this isn't meant to disparage Apple), but they were almost dead until one man, Steve Jobs took over. It's his vision that brought Apple back from the dead.

Over the long term (30 years from now), we'll have to see how that plays out. I couldn't name one specific person at IBM who's responsible for their success and they're doing very well these days too.
> For me, whenever I have "an idea" I take it as far as I can take it sans having it developed.

But that's the problem. You know why? Because anybody can do this. You can have one million people do this, for one million years, and you know what you'd end up with? Nothing.

Don't get me wrong, it's great that you also attach careful research to your idea, but that only serves to lessen the risk you've overlooked obvious reasons for it to fail. It doesn't mean it won't fail. If your idea was guaranteed to succeed then crossing over into development wouldn't be a problem. You'd be able to get the money somehow. I know many ordinary people who have set aside as much as $50-100K just by being focused. Or you could get investment, or a SBA backed bank loan. But idea people won't actually work to do these things, because they know the truth: their idea may end up failing (being worthless when actually tried). Either that or the other truth: even once an idea is developed it takes time and effort to grow it into a success.
Agreed that its fraud,I'm sure we've all known this for a while, but who's behind this practice? Buyers and Sellers? And why aren't people more upset about it?
Does anyone know any details of the thrust and delta-v capabilities of the proposed combined launch abort / retro landing system?

Is it going to be just a bunch more Draco thrusters, or something else?
Lets look at the "Ideal interview" examples, it doesn't look like any of those involved asking technical questions (e.g. coding on the whiteboard)?

The trouble is that unless someone is highly referred from a technical coworker you trust, it's going to be hard to know in advance if you have the technical chops or not.

Anyone can write down on their resume they've done A, B, C and are well-versed in X, Y, Z. They might even be able to talk the talk. But when it comes to writing code they might completely freeze or write something that would make college students blush.

Finally, the time is limited (could be 45 mins, could be 1 hour) during the interview, and the most important thing in most peoples minds is technical chops. That's why I'll usually start out with that (unless the candidate was referred or seems highly qualified, in which case I'll merely get into that later), since it could just weed out the candidate before getting very far.

With your regard of "Convince me why I want to work at your company," I think that only happens once a candidate has proven to be worthy. At least in my last company we would be in "sell" or "buy" mode for a candidate (sell meaning we try to convince him/her to join, buy meaning we try to convince ourselves if he/she should join) and it would start out in buy mode.

There's nothing worse than interviewing and hiring a candidate with a great personality than just finding out he/she couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. That being said, I do dislike interviews where they spend the entire time just asking technical questions as it should be obvious after one or two, so a particular balance needs to be sought.
Three thoughts immediately came to mind:

Doesn't the US spend enough on the military already?!

I wonder how much information an enemy could obtain if they got a hold of one of these?

And then the realization that the answer is probably "not much" and that by an enemy holding on to one, they are almost certainly giving away their position. So I wonder if a lot of the utility in the long run will come from tracking phones that get lost and stolen on a battlefield.
Hah, I had to drive around that on my driving test. I distinctly remember the sinking feeling as we approached it.

Aced it mind.
This is without question one of the best short technical presentations I've seen. To the author hats off to a masterful job.
Are you referring to when far right racist Adrian Zenz horribly misinterpreted some official Chinese government documents to make his case for "forced birthrate suppression"?

Please link this "evidence". The actual primary evidence.
I went with betting half my assets every time, and for whatever reason, the first go around I managed to cash out the first time at 7 flips. (I did better than 79% of folks) I was so spooked I ran the simulation again, this time just maxing out. After a couple dozen tries I cashed out at 5 attempts. I still only did better than 79% of participants in that study.

(I always went with 60% no matter what, in both extreme cases I never lost)
The community of https://fakeyou.com users has been using Colab to train TTS models. Changes late last year to available free instance types forced most of our users to have to pay for the pro plan.
Even if you're going to do it only once it is still very dangerous compared to the risks we normally take. 1:5000 is 200 micromorts, about 25x as dangerous as hang gliding! [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
No this is because the profit incentive demands new features regardless of the privacy violations of the customer. China's faults are the same we have, out of control capitalism causing social harm, workers abuse, and violating customers.

This feature, and one used by many other conference companies, is for proximity detection of zoom rooms. Other implementations are bluetooth beaconing, but ultrasound is reliable and BT is often disabled by corporate security due to all the vulnerabilities it has and are constantly being discovered for.

Meanwhile the NSA has meetings where powerpoints titled "I hunt sysadmins" are a normal thing. And where your Cisco is intercepted, hacked, and shipped to you. Or where the previous president offers pardons to criminals doing his bidding and culminates with an attempt to murder Democratic senators to stay in power at the capitol on 1/6. I don't think you want to play "my country good, other country bad" unless you want to be corrected.
You know what? Let them and the celebrities get scammed with these useless copycat NFT art. If they did not learn from 2017, then let them learn the hard way. Whenever they get involved it is always a scam.

Those types of NFTs (images, audio and videos) will wither away.

Not all NFTs are about images. Blockchain domains have some utility there.
>Sure you did. You called her Bruce instead of Caitlyn, that's "deadnaming".

No I didn't. I said Bruce Jenner won Olympic gold medals. That is a fact. We know that Caitlyn Jenner never won gold medals because no woman has ever won Olympic gold in men's events. In fact no woman has ever qualified to even compete in men's events in the Olympics. That is a fact that nobody disputes. Since that is a fact, how can Caitlyn Jenner have possibly won those gold medals?
Well, those recommendations make it impossible for you to just read whatever it says on the slide to give the presentation so in a way they are also about the content of your presentation.
To be fair, V8 kicked of an arms race that has benefited the whole industry.
Half the population of the world? You might need to think about that, not many in Asia or Africa is that concerned about Nazis. That makes it a non-issue for around 75% of the world.
Slightly offtopic, but I was unable to download PDF of the book in question, which the article uses to compare e-readers. It only showed up 38 pages out of 533 available.

The book is
Success: A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
http://books.google.com/books?id=Slc1AAAAMAAJ

EDIT: Using Advanced Search I was able to find a copy that I can read fully online at Google Books, but I still do not see any option to download the book.

Perhaps, this is because I am not really familiar with Google Books. Perhaps it is because I am in Europe?

Copyright is 1921, so the restriction must come from the library not the author, one presumes.
It's common sense, but unfortunately it's not common :(
I will make a transcript. Wait.
Functions are usually longer than what you're seeing there.
Minimal bread requires only grain and water. At first this would have been unleavened bread, but because the yeast is already present on the grain, leavened bread can be accidentally invented just by forgetting about it for a while.
Why do you think that compensation should have anything to do with 'deserve'? There is no 'deserving' value for work, it is just about balancing demand and supply for work. The only realistic way to raise average wage is to saturate supply of work by providing enough demand.

It is possible to outsource work tho third countries for less money, why everybody does not do that and there are still work in developed countries? Because it has some costs that may or may not be apparent. Therefore if you require to pay the same wage, you discourage anybody to give work to people in developing countries.
Is test result caching only possible due to a fundamental design of Bazel, or could you modify for example the maven surefire plugin to achieve the same?
> There is a story (probably made up - please fill in correct details) that a group "conquered" one of the islands (maybe Saba?). They took over whatever building, raised whatever flag. And everyone just ignored them. They eventually left.

I would guess it made up, because when people conquer stuff, they tend to have actual material goals and need. Starting from basic - their army needs to eat. The way you get that food is to take it from people who are there. They need wood and what not, if you are the armed one, you force local population to get it for you. When people used to run from incoming armies, it was not for fun. It was because the armed men tend not to ignore you.

The miracle there is not island people ignoring incoming people. The miracle there is the supposed conquerors being content with raising flag, without trying to take actual benefit from it. I guess in some rare situations they would conquer thing for trolling/emotional purposes, but generally the goal is control and things.
Ah - forgot about this. Thx for posting this. These little languages really keep the system footprint tiny compared to OpenSSL.
Cheating by what standard? Surely all forms of lobbying for self-interest should not be called cheating?
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So can distributed systems? All you need is a queue in the right place or some other kind of data store? It’s relatively easy to decouple data models from processing, you just have to consider failure scenarios? I mean, the distributed non-mainframe way of doing things is you just use more units of hardware to make up for deficiencies? I imagine the hardest thing to port is well, the equivalent to “if we scale up this machine and buy lots of RAM, our data fits in RAM and we can run this code that much faster,” but even then, can mainframes really handle that much more data by virtue of being mainframes with all their legacy?

The way I’ve heard it described, it’s not the features of a mainframe that sell it now, those are commodity. Instead it’s the existing code that ties companies to mainframes - they don’t want to rewrite logic they likely don’t actually understand the details of if it’s already been tuned and tweaked to work for their business? To that end the future of mainframes is probably virtualization of hardware and improved static analysis tools to better support codebases we don’t understand because they’re decades old, etc.?
Couldn’t one make the argument “there is no use because Big Tech have so many lawyers” no matter what the new policy is?

If taxing the big companies is the aim, how does one gauge the policy suggestion?

(I am not Americans just watching this curiously from outside)

Edit: spelling
The winners write history.

It's interesting that the Z3 was denied funding from the German gov't for not being war-important. It turns out they were ahead of the computing game and squandered it, as US and GB relied on computers for code breaking and performing calculations for developing the atom bomb.

It's not a blunder to the tune of invading Russia, but it's still interesting.
Rather than music, I find a much better comparison in sports.

Football is easy. Anyone can gather friends in a court or park and kick the ball for a while. Kids and middle aged fathers do it all the time.

However not everyone can play professionally, say in a second or third division, and earn a living wage out of it.

And still less people make it to the top teams of the first division, becoming millionaires and celebrities.

The ratios are different, but these groups roughly map to people ability to code. Probably most people can "write code" to some extent. Few of those will be able to make a career out of it as professional developers. And yet a smaller number will make it to FANG and other top companies, making 6 figure salaries like it's nothing.
Valve did this with Portal!

Or at least I feel like they did after playing through the games XD

The games theme felt like a giant analytics test where everything was noted!!
It shows just the opposite. These instructions were being provided to people who should never be opening the JavaScript console because they couldn’t understand what they were pasting into said console. And for some browsers, that means potentially opening up things like USB because of inane standards like WebUSB.
Very cool site! Awesome design. Awesome domain. Great job on the project.
Revenue share with acquisitions are rarely worth it IMO. First of all, a good number of acquisitions get shut down. I don't know if there are stats anywhere but it might be close to 80% from my experience. If you're even considering selling it for that cheap, there's likely some related overhead you don't want to deal with, and they won't deal with it either.

It sounds like you just want a better job, so why not negotiate more on that?
When I switched from Mac to Linux a few years back, I also had this issue. My solution was radical, I switched to i3 and configured many, many customized shortcuts. Having to "re-learn" nearly everything made it easier because I was forcing a learning curve.
>But given R* is a large company, this probably wont be fixed for a long time, and GTAO is probably being maintained by the lowest bid contractor group.

They've also made just an absolute assload of money from GTA:O in spite of the godawful load times. Why bother spending the money to fix it when people are happy to deal with it and keep giving you their own cash?
The problem with web forms is that they don't allow to discuss ambiguities - like, what if a parent can't for some reason provide required information.

So it's plausible that if such a form doesn't contain "other" option, then any data submitted should be as good as any other.
It honestly worries me. It's pretty well proven that science advances only when old scientists, leaders in their fields, die. Imagine a society where the majority still though interracial marriage (let alone gay marriage) was wrong. And only because they thought that when they were 20 and haven't updated since...
I think this position is being applied somewhat universally with no supporting data.
It's ironic that a lot of the commenters here lack the basic comprehension skills required to see this is an old man lamenting his life's work because of a reason I struggle to pin down

either

- he was born to the wrong era

- he didn't spend the time to create the demand for the ideas he peddled

In any event: If you want to post something about how "he's not that smart": the problem is actually you. The dude's a legend, is incredibly bright, but can't articulate that well.

But please, by all means waste your bandwidth being angry at an old man rationalising the long list of life decisions they have behind them
(developer here)

RethinkDNS is both a firewall and a DNS client. Not sure about pdnsf, but RethinkDNS doesn't leak DNS connections over TCP (afaik, Blokada does). Besides, RethinkDNS can also prevent one class of SNI sniffing attacks (typically employed by ISPs as a poor man's firewall to censor websites) which Blokada and PDNSF both don't / can't.

Think of it as a (limited) cross between Little Snitch and Pi-Hole with anti-censorship capabilities.
> (incidentally in my country these are called "American" stops)

As an aside, this has always been funny to me—you called them American stops; in America they’re called California stops; in California, we called them L.A. stops. The buck stops there, though: in Los Angeles, nobody stops.
I'm not sure how this relates to my claim
It’s not profit till you sell/spend it.
I think e-ink screens would be great for musicians too! A lot of musicians are using iPad Pro, but I personally would rather have a dual screen e-ink device like this (for better battery life, better readability): https://www.gvidomusic.com/ ($1600!!)

First company to build something like this and bring the cost down to something a bit more reasonable will get my business.