jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A lot of the comments here seem to focus on sexual harassment as The Issue. I wonder, though, about the issue of how close-knit and intimate start-up culture tends to be. There was a (flagged, dead) thread not terribly long ago where some married man had gotten his female co-founder pregnant and was looking for suggestions on how best to handle this big mess. Long hours, late nights and possibly no one else around in a close-knit, small social unit (aka a startup) is probably also a concern for some women, even if the men are all perfect gentlemen. They might not fess up to this angle but I think any concerns about this which one might normally have for work generally would be magnified by the type of intimate environment of a startup. An affair at work can lead to being fired (and sometimes other ugliness). So if someone has a brain and considers this to be a potential issue, it seems to me the wisest thing to do is not go there to begin with.
The French tried to do this with the French language but failed. The most obvious success story is the Japanese language's katakana syllabury that allows English words to be written and/or abbreviated in japanese. For the Japanese, 99.9% of post-war technical words are written in Japanese katakana but then the Japanese have always had a history of successfully adopting and adapting.
There have been a seemingly endless stream of incidences of him shilling for MS, going on for several years now. The two most common themes of shilling are trying to push Mono as a viable linux technology, trying to push Mono as a dependancy on common linux systems, and shilling for OOXML like you see here.

Another (slightly less common) theme is his ad hominem attacks on [F]OSS figures/organizations/supporters such as the FSF and Groklaw, like you see here.

He's been at this for years, it's no stretch of an imagination to call it a "long history".
I walked through the app, creating a custom card and sharing via email.

I think you did an EXCELLENT job walking the user through the tasks. Instead of going about it from the engineering stand point, and creating a dashboard to manage your cards (ha) you lead me through real use cases and I was able to create a card with little effort. I'm a firm believer when a user goes online they become dumber and just start clicking buttons. Again, I was lead through the app with big fun icons and steps that had bright "Next" buttons. A 5 year old could have created and shared a card, that's awesome.

I also liked how you explained the privacy setting on step 3(?). I was thinking it, and right next to the 'Next' button was my answer.

With that said, I thought there were a few pages that felt cluttered. The share page, for example. This is your viral channel and maybe the most important step (depending on your goals) so I would make this the only thing on the page (or bigger). Removing some of the content on the right and definitely at the bottom might prevent people from not doing that final, important, step.

Also, on the share page, have you thought about an email form with a pre-filled message and the link inside? We have found (slightly different use case) that most people don't even care about changing the message and having this form just reduces user friction. However, I can see the advantage of letting the user use their own email client to..
You can do that today, https://squareup.com/us/en/point-of-sale/restaurants
It's there - you might need to page through all the comments - if you scroll to the bottom and see "X more comments...", it means there are more posts on additional pages.

This is performance workaround that I really hate and which we should be able to retire once some performance improvements for Arc that I've been working on are actually deployed. The good news is that I've been working on this a lot lately, so there's hope.
The difference is mostly the user input, MySQL query and DB table and output. This is indeed prone to typos and "brain-farts" when selecting the wrong data.

Does Laravel provide any protection in making sure you don't SELECT from the wrong table?
If we have the government to weigh in on which transactions are legitimate or not, why do we need a distributed ledger? Cryptocurrencies are trustless, but if we can trust the government to rule on ownership fairly why do we need a trustless system?
You're only counting the positives. When positives are rare, just guessing the result will be negative is usually a really good starting place.
A twitter link to a medium article….that has no content.

Going to flag this. Self promotion at its worst
in that combination, can I run all those cool indie games on Steam that are Windows only? or are they really x86 windows only? for some reason I was just hoping they only needed some APIs from Direct X instead of actual architecture
Releasing any data or statistic based on sensitive data--even once--bears a privacy risk. The primary purpose of differential privacy is to quantify that risk, both for a single release of data and over many releases of data.

As for the number of analyses you can run, that depends on what you mean. You're right that differential privacy won't allow you to set up a database of _confidential data_ that can be arbitrarily queried infinitely many times with any meaningful privacy guarantee, but this is in no way unique to differential privacy.

What you can do with differential privacy is release noisy statistics once and let researchers use those statistics for arbitrarily many analyses. This is what the 2020 US Census is doing, for example.
I'm curious what visa you'd be using to work at Repl.it (if you were going to move to the USA). I'm wondering if our startup should be using Manara.
As of right now, I think rust is appealing to the teams who need all of its features at the same time.

Java/Go will deliver similar perf for most web apps, and have more mature tooling, python will be better for ML, C++ for systems programming, JS/electron will be better for the frontend and java/scala for distributed processing.

Rust has the innards to do all of these things at the same time with one shared code base (albeit somewhat poorly today). It's the only one of the above languages that hasn't made some decision which makes a use case impossible such as running on a VM, no function serialization, no direct hardware bindings etc.
I'm not an expert, but I think F-16s were designed as fly-by-wire from the start, while 737s had mechanically-linked controls. This probably made it an easier sell on the F-16 case.
Now you're just being silly. Nothing good ever came from that backwater university. ;)

Flashes back to massive football losses...
"It's alright, it's ok, we're gonna be your boss someday!"
College students can be such insecure jerks.

(but, yeah, totally agree - the vast majority of students will do just fine with a degree from Big State U)
Actually I might! I've starred the repo for later reference.
These systems do have a feel of cellular automatons. Questions like: why every proton is exactly the same? how particles interact? why are these clouds of particles? have much neater answers, if there is a correspondence of a "stable pattern" to a "particle".

https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Spaceship#2010s
Not that I know of. SVGs can just be a bit tricky to scale. At least compared to a PNG/JPEG. The two main keys to making it work is understanding `viewBox` and `preserveAspectRatio`. viewBox is what sets what part of the SVG should be within the view. On a simple SVG that is 24x24 pixels it is just `viewBox="0 0 24 24"`. Changing it to "0 0 20 20" would crop 4 pixels off the right and bottom of the SVG.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/v...
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/p...
The problem is that populist rage won't fix anything.
My philosophy isn't to wait for /better/ hardware, so much as to wait for /tested/ hardware. I've been burned often enough buying first-gen technologies.

Second generation usually has the bugs worked out.

Apple has done an impressive enough job with the M1 that if I really needed a new computer right now, I might make exception -- the reviews have been phenomenal -- but barring that, I'd wait for M2.

Perhaps irrelevant to this discussion, but with non-critical things, I also often buy used. It's eco-friendly. I wouldn't buy a used /work/ computer, but for something like school or entertainment, there's a lot of upside to buying used:

* You can find teardowns on iFixit if you need to fix something.

* Someone has figured magical Linux kernel commands to disable NCQ to prevent some oddball crash.

* All the bleeding-edge stuff is supported; drivers are in mainline.

* If there's a keyboard design issue, fan failure, etc. people will have discovered it.

* In a lot of domains, you can also get upgraded/off-lease corporate/industrial equipment, which tends to be cheap and a few quality brackets up. Companies will offload old AV equipment, off-lease laptops, lab equipment (oscilloscopes, etc.), etc. A 5-year-old professional 1080 camcorder will wipe the floor with consumer 4k equipment.

Buying older stuff, you also spend around 1/2 to 1/3, and it's no different from having been born 2-5 years earlier. If you were born in 1990, you'll get the same equipment at the same age as someone far wealthier than you born in 1985.

Except for expiring Android phones and Chromebooks. Google like landfills.
And yet people mine it. And it follows the "I can get out before you" game the OP describes.
I've had similar problems and I've concluded the main driver was stress after all.
Google has earned billions thanks to techs like python, and never contributed much to it compared to what it gained.

Then suddenly this.

Now I'm wondering if MS hiring Guido triggered some reaction to not loose control of what is currently one of the most popular language in the world. Or something else I don't know about.

I really want to rejoice. My favorite language gets $ 350k.

Yet I can't help but be suspicious of philanthropy coming from big players. I'm getting cynical and always look for a PR, strategic investments or counter attacks.
Other than the Mac mini.
Aristotle has explained this a few thousand years ago - there is no need to reinvent the wheel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modes_of_persuasion

The author's expressing the fact that it is easier to compel by pathos, rather than logos. Yes indeed.

The people who shake their head at the likes of Sapiens and Harari do so because anytime the masses confuse mediocrity for brilliance, it splits culture into what the masses consume and what educated people consume. The widening of this gap does not bode well for either party long term.
Cloud hosting... if you're on the same physical node as a malicious actor, then ouch.
It'd be cool if there was something like VSCode's model where it set up some sort of daemon that provided a shell environment (instead of an editor) remotely. Perhaps mosh can do something like that?

Or even just a script which could quickly bootstrap a shell and dotfiles on a system.
paypal accepts transactions without accounts just cards...
Interesting - are you based in the UK?
If we lived in some magical world where you could make an exact copy my snowblower and rent out that copy when I wasn't using mine, I don't see any problem and would not consider it stealing. Otherwise, your analogy appears to be theft by the letter of the law.

Perhaps a better analogy is when you rent/loan out your snowblower, are you stealing from the manufacturer who otherwise could have made additional sales to your rental customers? That would cover your demand component.
I suspect macOS Virtualization [1] will be addressed with software updates rather than new silicon. Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) transitions incur tradeoffs and the mobile-like SoC architecture of the M1 has to make hard decisions about what goes in the SoC (e.g. Ultra Wideband doesn't seem to be included in the M1).

I suspect that something like a M1X, an M1 scaled with additional cores and more memory capacity, will target higher TDP Apple laptops/desktops/workstations. More of the same continuous innovation, a good thing, in my opinion. Many of these decisions are pure marketing; a cheaper MacBook Air with an A14 makes sense to me technically as does the 13" MacBook Pro offering both low-TDP M1 and high-TDP M1X.

A departure from the existing continuous innovation might be a Neoverse-style chip like the Graviton for desktops/workstations. The current big.LITTLE architecture of the M1/A14 makes perfect sense for mixed use devices.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization
I'm the same way, and I don't think it's ideal. I tend to do my work with the minimal set of tools that I usually expect to be available, and I'm extremely biased towards using the default settings and configurations of those tools. I do have settings that I really prefer so I have to use, but I naturally keep them to a short list that I can set up within a minute or five. I can tear them down in a minute or five also - I may not be using my account; I often find myself on Company X's account installing Company Y's software on Company Z's servers, and I wouldn't want someone else coming after me to be confused.

I don't even really change the wallpaper on a desktop anymore, feels like polishing a hammer, a waste of time.

I wish you could carry your environment around with you, but I don't see how it could possibly work that way neatly.

An exception is that I usually end up installing a lot of stuff on Windows desktops to make them vaguely usable and scriptable, but Powershell and WSL will probably eventually mean I give up doing that, too. The previous sentiment was really about UNIXy systems.
I hope she's not called Rebecca Mary-Rachel Ford ...
I wonder if the best investment advice would be to convert the 1,8 Million into a pension, so that he can not just squander it away on a drunk binge?

Then again it's probably also possible to squander away the pension by getting loans against it.

Some kind of Ulysses contract should be possible?

And what are the legalities of signing contracts while drunk - do they count? Afaik people are not legally able to consent to sex while drunk, so perhaps contracts/agreements should be impossible while drunk?
It's about the display with 8K resolution, not 8 thousand monitors. Good to see that they are prepare to be future-proof for the next 5-10 years.
Sure is, but it's kind of impractical to always have a wire connected to your laptop. Sort of defeats the purpose of a portable computer.
Yes, like reddit, ycombinator, facebook, whatsapp and all others.
Entheogens are far and above the most successful treatment for alcoholism. Also depression.
(And a third: Python ;)
I have a Yamaha DX7. Haven't played it in a while, interesting to hear its origin. Its a really heavy beast of a keyboard. Its impressively constructed (I got mine in the early 90s)

The sounds are good, but honestly its an 80s keyboard, so although it has a bunch of sounds, none really sound like they're supposed to (horns and pianos..) The stings and bells where the best sounds. Its fun though and has the all important midi.
You can make your own sounds with the dx7. I actually modded it with a chip from a company called "gray matter". I could double the sounds and add some detune to make sounds "fatter".

The manual has made it online (thank you internet) and has some interesting reading on Fm systhesis including making your own sounds or "voices". They have a lot of diagrams on the top of the instrument to help you allong your way. Programming it was awkward with just a 2 line display a slider and a few buttons. The interesting FM stuff starts on page 9.

http://www2.yamaha.co.jp/manual/pdf/emi/english/synth/DX7E1....

Computer music is really interesing now. I've been poking around a litte in my free time. "pure data" and other software let you make sounds programatically.
Don't tell your boss you're looking. You're not required to do so by law or convention, and the results are unpredictable, but veer toward the negative.

If you want to be particularly decent to your boss, be willing to stay on a fairly long time after you give notice (up to a month, say.) Since the typical transition time is two weeks, that's generous on your part. They may take you up on it, or not.
If we're talking about "which bottleneck is the biggest" memory size is traditionally the big one on consoles; there's a longstanding preference for a performance profile of small/fast memory, mid-tier CPU, and top-end dedicated graphics, because, as the saying goes, "graphics sell games," and in most games, the kind and quantity of assets in a scene are limited and the design will allow for them to be carefully streamed in as necessary, so it's more important to allow processing headroom. This also accounts for a difference in design style between PC games and their console equivalents, where PC stuff tends to incorporate deeper simulation aspects with more persistent data being tracked, because there's some extra room for that stuff, while console games are forced to be "lean" with most of their memory dedicated towards the assets while the stats and save data are relatively light.

Like everything else, this has changed as we've gotten closer and closer to photorealism and games that are glorified tech demos constitute less and less of the overall market; the current generation consoles have substantially changed their profile to generalize and be more like PCs - the 360 had only 512MB at a time where gaming PCs were going for 1-2GB, while Xbox One and PS4 are roughly in the same ballpark(5GB and 8GB) as current-spec gaming PCs.
Yeah, I left a startup last year and exercised my options on the way out. The check I had to write for the strike prices was a lot bigger than the AMT hit. (Which is not to say that that's always the case, but it definitely was for me.)
Action is really needed. A system that can be breached just by any CA company that is more interested in money than in security (also at least one big CAs has a bad history concerning security) is plainly broken. There should at least be a kind of overseer that has the ability to intervene when bad behavior is reported.

In the current situation, it is impossible to trust this "system of trust". It just sounds similar as I shall give the keys to my house to the thieves guild to prevent burglaries.
http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/03/maintaining...

is a better URL. (For potential future reference, the current URL is http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/google-warns-of-unau... )
That was a long time ago, so my memory is a bit hazy on the details. If I recall it correctly, it was the laptop I was using at the time, and I almost always powered it off when leaving work. I still have another laptop of the same set at work, so I could look up the exact model tomorrow if you want (it's an old Dell Latitude IIRC).

But I can clearly recall that I thought at the time precisely that: "how is that even possible, powering off the laptop should have cleared the video memory, and this laptop didn't have a Windows install for years!" Yet, there it was, a Windows desktop with one window (or dialog, can't recall precisely) open. (I don't recall how I knew it was from its old Windows install; it might have been showing some work-related information.)

It wasn't the screen saver; IIRC, I used the "blank screen" screensaver (or some other equally simple screensaver), not a "slideshow" or "random" screensaver.

Yeah, it's hard to believe. I myself would have found it hard to believe if I hadn't seen it. I even took a photo, but it was several mobile phones ago, so I'd have to search through my old backups to see if I can find it.

The only explanation I could come up with was that the video memory on that laptop for some reason retained its contents as long as the laptop battery wasn't removed (while the laptop had been powered off many times, its battery had not been removed), and the Windows driver used the video memory in a different way than the Linux driver, so that desktop snapshot never got overwritten. Then one day a glitch made the "read the screen contents from here" pointer point to it, and so it showed in the screen. It's ridiculously unlikely, but I couldn't come up with a better explanation; it's even more bizarre in that the "ghost" image was perfect, with no visual glitches.
It's Twitter, youtube, and Facebook. Obama used both FB and Youtube to get out messages.
Same; I value constructive criticism and don't mind people telling me I might be in the wrong. It's not the fact that I'm getting downvoted that perturbs me, it's that I might not realize what's wrong about my statement if someone doesn't speak up.
I saw the tweets and videos. He was NOT deescalating. Are you kidding me?
It's incredible that people here are celebrating tech companies censoring the president.

You'd have to be extremely shortsighted or naive to think this is a good thing.

Every day, many here are screaming zuckerburg is evil, twitter is horrible, break up tech companies. And yet the same people are celebrating these tech companies censoring a government official.
Why not just do it now? It rings hallow.
I completely 100% agree.

I do give a small amount of consideration to the sacredness of the capitol, and the additional damage that images of blood spilled on the steps of our capitol would do.
Being the president doesn't mean you can say whatever bullshit you want and incite violence with no consequences.
In answer to your questions:

The grandmother hypothesis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_hypothesis

Evolution of sexually dimorphic longevity in humans:

http://www.impactaging.com/papers/v6/n2/full/100640.html
I'm in the exact same boat. Goodreads has always felt...clunky to me. This is the first I've heard of LibraryThing, so I'm excited to try it out!
When I was a kid, I spent a huge amount of time reading everything I could find in the msdos programming archives on x2ftp.oulu.fi:
ftp://ftp.lanet.lv/pub/programming/mirror-x2ftp/

Denthor's tutorials were also included in the "PC Game Programmer's Encyclopedia" (also on that site) which collected many useful documents. I had been programming for a while, but Denthor's tutorials were among the first that allowed me to go beyond simple text adventures and graphics with the BGI (Borland Graphics Interface!).

All that stuff had a profound effect on me; not just the technical information, but the idea of communicating that information for free in a way that was comprehensible to novices.
It's a ploy

Kind of like the legislation?
Michelle, I have hand and arm pain that limits my typing/mousing also. Congratulations on not giving up. I may try the nose thing now.
100 % agreed, not sure why they have written such a bad article
Email solved this problem 20 years ago.
Yes, learning about visa/work permits is a lengthy process. If you want me to explain to you the UK one feel free to drop me a line at mbesto AT gmail.

My company (IT consulting company, mainly in ERP tech) may have something...I don't know specifically but they have their hands in everything from online MMO to betting website development to big ERP tech. We also have a partner recruiting company, could put you in contact there as well.

Glad to hear you want to get intl experience. I can't recommend it enough. There are some restrictions I have to deal with as foreigner but otherwise it's a great way to see the world.

sidenote - literally just started learning Python myself and love it so far.
and Switzerland apparently. Since last week.. No TV shows though.
That uses a full core on my laptop.
I don't know reddit, but concurrency is very hard with high latency.
What happens when computers are able to do their own symbol manipulation?