jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting idea. But I bet it would amount (excuse the silly metaphor) to talking to more and more hyenas to figure out where Scar’s true ideology lies. Maybe it’s hyenas all the way down, maybe not. But why would Scar tell you?
What i remember from the Erlang discussions around Whatsapp, they dont keep the messages on the server, only temporary until it has been delivered. So Im guessing that is the reason why they need your phone to be connected.

Might have been in this video [1]... Not sure at the moment (will check later when im out of the office).

[1] http://vimeo.com/44312354
I honestly find it rather interesting how much it is possible for scientific research to gain funding though it be completely bereft of any practical benefit for mankind, or profit margin.

Consider palæontology as an entire field; there is no financial benefit nor practical application to be had for it, yet it seems to find ways to attract funding all the same, most likely because it does have a habit of generating spectacular news articles which sponsors would probably enjoy the publicity of.

But there is truly no practical benefit for mankind to be had in trying to answer to what extent various dinosaur species were endothermic and feathered.
I haven't had tools to do 6P4C for over a decade and almost never used them anyway, but my soldering iron works great for TRS. I'm not displeased with this connector choice.

FYI, there are 3.5mm TRS adapters out there that have green screw terminals if that's your thing. They're very inexpensive.

But connecting my own current transformers isn't the intent here, I don't think. I think the intent is to have plug-and-play kits that are hard to screw up.

And the prices for their own CTs seem fine to me.
You make it sound like that's an issue with Intel while the license is to blame.
fast fourier transforms and specifications of current codecs are a solid start.
I wish we could use that for OpenStreetMap mapping :(
"Gambling occurs when you have a poor understanding of risk, resulting in either (1) negative expected value bets, or (2) poor bet sizing that leads to ruin." Not so. Top poker players are still gambling, but have an excellent understanding of the risks. Their skill doesn't turn them into investors. Gambling is taking a high risk bet. Whether the expected pay off is high enough to justify the risk and whether you can afford to lose the bet is a separate issue.
What do you eat that you can eat on €5/day? I am no where close to that.
Investing isnt gambling, trading is.

Atleast buying and selling stock because you think it will go up or go down is gambling. Basically you are betting that you will outperform the market rate.

If you just want to get the market rate of return by passive investing, it is not gambling. This post is talking about trading.
No, what you mistake for "complexity" seems to be your general unfamiliarity of what a schema is. In fact, when you understand what schemas are, then it actually makes a lot more sense.
It's not pretend, they're rentiers offering no value. If instead of spending $200 on a scalped ticket and attending 1 concert, a consumer might spend $200 on four legitimately purchased ones and attend 4. In fact, it doesn't matter if they spend $100 and see 2 instead, you can quite clearly see it means that there's less money to go to the actual artists, the producers of actual value.

It's a net loss for everyone involved in the production of actual value.

So economically it might be neutral, but in terms of social value it's a massive loss.
pgadmin ;-P
Time and scripting were added pretty quickly — they're in VRML2/97 — but even static 3D models can be incredibly useful.
On the basis that the cryptography remaining unbroken and the protocol-genetated incentives creating a validator set too large to coopt are more reliable trust assumptions than the trusted third party controlling a traditional dark pool being competent and trustworthy.

>>It's not: it's the fault of gas making it impossibly expensive to use the most basic tool in execution, splitting your order into smaller trades and applying logic to when you choose to trade.

Yes that makes sense.
Totems are indeed an ancient concept. Their use in lucid dreaming might not be the first, but it certainly predates their portrayal in Inception.
That’s entirely modeled risk?

They basically took emissions and a model the EPA has of cancer risk (wide confidence intervals and all) then came up with risk “zones”.

Exposure wasn’t measured, which is a massive unknown.

I mean, it’s interesting but I’m not sure I’d put much weight into any one individual living in those areas.
I don't think he cares specifically about Trump, but I do think he cares about Trump being banned from the platform.
MiB refers to mebibyte, which is in base-2 (2^20 bytes).

MB is canonically base 10 (10^6 bytes).
> Idk why we treat smoke so differently than a blizzard or other such natural phenomena.

Because it turns the air into poison.
The start of the article reminded me of the movie Tim's Vermeer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%27s_Vermeer), which I highly recommend.

The tools used to obtain photo-realistic paintings, even in the 17th century, might contradict some of the more romantic notions of observation and beauty that we typically associate with art.
George's moral framework would align with taxing the ownership of gold - "land" is not just literal land but all unimproved natural resources. On the other hand we don't seem to have pressing problems with gold that is needed for productive purposes instead being hoarded as a store of value. Its main function is to be expensive, so we don't mind as much that it is.
Oh the colors are even more lies than you are letting on here.

Every object reflects different frequencies of light to different degrees, as I imagine you know. If you think of the range of frequencies in the visible light spectrum, you can construct for any object the “spectral power distribution” (SPD) that says how much light is reflected for a given frequency. So far so good.

But we don’t see “frequencies” of light. An object that reflects only yellow and an object that reflects red and green but no yellow will look the same to us, despite the fact that they are reflecting completely different light, thanks to the way humans perceive light. In fact, there is an infinite variety of different SPDs that to humans look like exactly the same color — called metamers — for any given color we perceive.

A color is an equivalence class, not a point on a spectrum.
I feel like you're assigning feelings to me that don't mesh with what my comment described. I don't want to get into a personal thing, but here's my condensed point again one last time, in the hope of clarifying:

I think this question is suitable for phone screening. You should already know if someone can do the work equivalent of tying their shoes before bringing them on-site. If I was asked a question at this level during an on-site interview, I would be a little disappointed. If the entire interview continued in that vein, I wouldn't accept the position.
There has been things in the past that indicate that large tech companies are somewhat aware of the big announcements before they happen. Look at Google & Amazon timing their cloud pricing announcements within 24 hours of each other, for example.
Bandwidth and memory usage is something I don't know how to find out myself. I have asked prgmr support about my bandwidth usage, but again no response. How do you estimate yours?
well, it generated him million dollars overnight.
I've had good luck with webfaction. I've only been using them for a couple months, but the one time I had an issue they were very quick to respond.

They're big on Django and I guess Ruby (don't use it). No problems getting a Django site up and running. No issues installing packages or other software in my user account.
It must be a reductionist comment on the transcient nature of the internet.
There is no popular position with moderation, everyone hates the umpire.

On the flip side, if everyone hates you equally you're probably on the right track.
Too little too late? The tweets has already led to action
In the 1830 King Charles the 10 of France has issued certain proclamations, but nobody found out out because the printers refused to print them, and instead spent their energy and paper on liberal revolutionary materials.

Charles pissed them off a couple days earlier by trying to hoist onerous censorship so they showed him a middle finger.

Don’t fuck with people who buy ink by the barrel.
Oh cool, so it’s okay if Facebook removes every post about and by BLM? Because they certainly incited a great deal of violence this summer.

Enough of the Doublespeak. It’s censorship, albeit by a private entity. When it inevitably happens to the left, I’ll call it censorship then too and I’ll advocate against it.
Well that doesn't make sense. The sacredness of the capitol should demand that it be protected. Images of law enforcement preventing a mob from disrupting the act of signing off on the transfer of power would be a strong statement that needs to be made, I think.
I think a lot of posts on HN are purposefully contradictory or otherwise "not getting it" simply to generate discussion and make sure many sides of a topic are discussed.
Not everyone knows how to check public records. I just signed up for PACER this year, and I'm still trying to work out how to access State and local court system's records since they're so distributed.

Like it or not, we haven't exactly done a great job at exposing primary sources to everyone. Until that can happen, media outlets who pay for boots on the ground will still have a degree of intutively granted credibility. Once everyone knows how to access it at will (and can be bothered to) we may see some better measurement on the reliabilitt of information sources.
It has A-GPS, which is inferior in some ways to true GPS, but is much more accurate than triangulating from towers (which it will resort to under certain conditions.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_devices_with_Assisted_G...
You need the www. bit in the URL. http://www.browsersicherheit.info/ produces the homepage but http://browsersicherheit.info/ produces a 404
No anti-compete agreements.

Access to highly-skilled negotiators for your next review/salary negotiation.

No "crunch time", or at least limit it and require reasonable levels of overtime for it.

Protection for various kinds of paid leave.

Protection from being fired for political reasons—and, more generally, access to highly-competent employment lawyers in the case of legal conflicts between you and the company.

That's just off the top of my head.
The funny thing about "should" statements is that we get to disagree on them without justification. I see no reason clarity of purpose across multiple humans should matter, nor any reason that people should be corralled into picking between two corrupt options.
The annoying thing is that, at least in the US, trucks are just getting bigger and bigger.

Small / compact trucks like the Toyota Tacoma have become much bigger, and other models like the Ford Ranger disappeared and have been reintroduced in larger sizes.

This is annoying, because the previous gen size of the Ranger (e.g.) is a really great and useful size. Most people who could use a truck don't need the giant "full size" models, and yet the market ignores them.
So, you obtained a 5x speedup of the whole package compared to the Python version with some Fortran extensions?
So that's where the "blue, red, orange, and green" logo colors come from!
I still love the image when you put an amount less than a dollar :)

http://cdn.humblebundle.com/hib2/sad_developer.jpg
Go ask him? Then you can know for sure and let us know too.
It looks like somewhere near the 60s, people stopped caring about not using expletives! :)
Now that this idea is validated, Apple will:

A) acquire MINIMAL and hire Scott Wilson
B) produce their own version
C) not enter this market...

As a fashionable, designed product, it seems right up their alley, and Moore's Law says each version will get smaller. It's one of the few positions to carry a device, that people are used to (phone, watch, wallet, purse, keys, glasses, shoes, clothing, necklace, bracelet, ring).

BTW: How far off are facetime watches (aka Dick Tracy wristphone)? BTW: LG announced one in 2009 (multitouch, no video): http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,477744,00.html and someone claims not a good idea http://dvice.com/archives/2010/07/wrist-speakerph.php
And in addition - there is no convenient way for me to get notifications about new comments in posts which are interesting for me.
I just want to see the new posts (filtered from unwanted) and new comments in one simple page, no more.
Here's David's c.l.j post that caused a lot of controversy:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/msg/37cb...;

If you want to see other criticisms for them, search c.l.j archives on Google Groups (I admit it's not easy ever since Google ruined Groups search).

The thing with jQuery is it's not as simple as "I hate jQuery." The basic idea behind jQuery (selectors) is a great way of doing stream processing over the DOM. This is a really convenient way of working with existing HTML pages.

The main reason David Mark dislikes jQuery is that (at least at the time) it was poorly implemented. Before I ever came across his posts, I tried reading jQuery code and thought it was very hard to understand, but bought the conventional wisdom excuse that JavaScript programming was special because of cross-browser hacks and people like Resig were "ninjas." Then I came across Michaux's code, read Mark's posts, and realized that the "JavaScript ninjas" were really just writing bad code.

But that doesn't change the fact that jQuery is very convenient to use for manipulating existing HTML pages. But there's another problem there - jQuery does stream processing eagerly at run-time. This is extremely inefficient, and there's no reason to do it for pages where you have control over HTML.

A lot of work has gone into caching in jQuery to avoid duplicated selector search, by far the biggest overhead (conceptually, you're doing an exhaustive search over the entire DOM every time you execute a selector).

But that still doesn't address the fact that the results of the selectors are produced eagerly, and processed by every operator eagerly. There are two optimizations that can be made here: map fusion and lazy evaluation. The latter is possible, but would require rewriting jQuery and changing its interface. The former is impossible without a preprocessing step.

But like I said, there's really no reason to even bother using jQuery with pages where you have control over your HTML and can put the objects you need into arrays and hash tables to be there when you need them. That, and the move of web applications to canvas (at this point I'm convinced it's inevitable) make jQuery irrelevant at this point in time IMO.
About half-way down the page, the article said this:

Small communities might look green, but they consume a disproportionate amount of everything. As a result, West argues, creating a more sustainable society will require our big cities to get even bigger. We need more megalopolises.

That's what they call "burying the lead". Or "lede", depending on what country you're in. It should have been in the very first sentence of the article: holy crap, big cities are green. It's a counterintuitive assertion, and sure to draw in readers. Instead, the whole first paragraph is a bunch of human-interest waffle that has nothing to do with anything. I almost stopped reading right there.
... that would be the greatest common divisor.

The words divisor and factor are usually interchangeable except in cases where they've been assigned some special narrower meaning.
Starting up: expect lots of discomfort. There's so much bigCo support you have to re-build and it is hard to hire. It might be better to spend 6mths - 1yr at A/B stage co first then only to the founder stage. Alt, try doing something on the side to begin with. Find a partner in crime.

L7 & single? You can afford to pay the outside co-founder a bay area survivable amount (140-200 varies) and have that person work through some of the early situations and then skip out when things are moving along (eg. think A round). Risk-adjusted & safe but yet keeps a lot of the upside while allowing you to taste what it's actually like.

L8? Risk-reward ratio is skewed towards staying at a FAANG. Find and fund a few projects. See what happens. Get excitement outside of work (take all! possible vacations)

Either way, maybe find some time to talk with a proper counselor/therapist (and not HN...). Doesn't hurt and can help with the disconnected feel.

ps. funding env for form FANG, it's good assuming you are doing something sort of close to what you were responsible for. Don't expect risk-reward to be favorable though..
It would be amazing if someone could design a programming language around debugging. There are many languages that are designed around preemptively catching bugs using a type system, and I do use static type systems, but this in no way oblivates the need for a debugger.

The way I want to write code is directly as it is executing. I think the distinction between writing code in an editor and debugging is arbitrary - I want to edit programs as they are running and see the data as it flows through beside the code. I want to be able to browse the object graph as if it were a filesystem like I could in Objective-C (I think Smalltalk invented this?).

This does require a different code architecture to be effective: more pure functions and less tangled state, but those are usually considered to be good things. Improving debugging might have a positive effect on code quality.
Staring with calculus I think, we had problems that basically tested our ability to use a graphing calculator. The classes are designed to use one, and trying to do so without would be very tedious.
The ham radio exam is a joke (at least for the technician class in the U.S.). Just a bunch of multiple choice questions from a public question pool. I literally went through the pool twice before my exam and got a perfect score, although I hardly knew how to install and operate radios. (I just needed the license to be able to remotely operate a radio telescope.)
> I've noticed

That is sample bias. People notice what they dislike and disagree with much more than what they like or agree with.

There have been tons of HN threads about Chinese state activity and nearly all are overwhelmingly critical. The HN Search box at the bottom of the page is helpful for finding things.

> I'm not making accusations

Since that insinuates just the opposite, your comment breaks the site guideline which asks "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Two questions: (1) what are you currently doing, and (2) what workplace culture issues have you either observed or been impacted by?

Regarding (1), I've seen a lot of sentiment about certain types of work being a literally bor-ing grind, but as someone who doesn't have much of a finger on the pulse of industry, I have zero access to anecdata about _what_ it is that makes it so boring. So, yeah. Open-ended question :)

All the recent media and controversy notwithstanding/aside, I get the idea that culture generally plays a huge (if not the biggest?) part in the sense of work feeling like an imposing burden instead of a sense of empowerment to the individual and others around them (liberated customers, similarly-empowered teammates, etc etc). I'm curious what the impact there is. (Open-ended question here too.)

Trying to be very general to raise the chance it's possible to answer without having to get really specific :)

Others here will provide far better (experience-backed) advice about what to do next, I'd just make myself look silly if I tried to do that too.

Appreciate your time!
> The entire human body is built from 700MB of data in the
DNA.

I think this notion is misleading. It doesn't relate to the ease of simulation it on our current computers. You'll need a quantum computer to emulate this ROM in anything like realtime.

The DNA program was optimised to execute in an environment offering quantum tunnelling, multi component chemical reactions etc.
Until postgres 12 (if you were using postgres) CTEs were an optimization fence. Where filters would not get pushed down into the CTE if they were only specified outside the CTE (but in fields from the CTE).

https://paquier.xyz/postgresql-2/postgres-12-with-materializ...
"They" = Zuckerberg & his minions after acquiring Whatsapp and falsely promising that no, they wouldn't dare mining Whatsapp user data or -god forbid!- integrate WA's backend into FB's.
A teen in a pyjama is nowdays a serious cyber security threat.
So when American companies invade the privacy of European citizens its okay, but when Chinese companies do the same with American citizens this is "digital totalitarianism"? Anyone care to explain this to me?
The price of GPU inference can be brutal, but there's a lot you can do on the infra side to improve it:

- Spot instances

- Aggressive autoscaling

- Micro batching

Can reduce inference compute spend by huge amounts (90% is not uncommon). ML, especially anything involving realtime inference, is an area where effective platform engineering makes a ridiculous difference even in the earliest days.

Source: I help maintain open source ML infra for GPU inference and think about compute spend way too much https://github.com/cortexlabs/cortex
It might be easy if they had a detailed (and accurate) spec to work to, a good test environment that mimics the current production one sufficiently, and time/money for the required dev/devtest/qa cycles. It sounds like they had none of the above.
> You'll still need humans to make anything novel or interesting, and companies will still need to hire engineers to work on valuable problems that are unique to their business.

Give it 10 years :) GPT-10 will probably be able to replace a sizeable proportion of today's programmers. What will GPT-20 be able to do?
I made gifs to explain the different types of window functions: https://dataschool.com/how-to-teach-people-sql/how-window-fu...
I don't see an or operator in the post anywhere, so I'm confused about which search you mean.
>Treasury will unveil sanctions today on General Ahmed al-Asiri, former deputy head of the Saudi intelligence services, and the Saudi Rapid Intervention Force for their involvement in the Khashoggi assassination. Crown Prince MBS will NOT be sanctioned, per officials.

>A new State Department policy named the Khashoggi Ban will also be unveiled today, which will allow State to restrict and revoke visas to any individual believed to be involved in targeting/harassing/surveilling dissidents and journalists extraterritorially.

>Then White House chose not to penalize the crown prince directly despite intel report concluding he approved the operation that led to Khashoggi's murder. One senior administration official said that to do so would put the U.S. in an extremely “hostile” position wrt KSA.

>"The aim is recalibration, not a rupture, because of the important interests that we do share" with Saudi Arabia, the senior admin official said. U.S. officials and departments will continue to deal with MBS at the appropriate levels.

>More from SAO on why MBS was not sanctioned: "The United States as a matter of practice has not generally applied sanctions on the highest leadership of countries with whom the US has diplomatic relations. Nor even generally speaking on the leaders of countries with which 1/

>the US has no relations. And having looked at this extremely closely over the last 5 weeks, there was unanimous conclusion that there were other more effective means to dealing with these issues going forward."

https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/13653707662047477...

UPD

https://www.state.gov/accountability-for-the-murder-of-jamal...