jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I would say we have the tech, we just don't have the political will to do so. We could have turned most of the world into using nuclear power if we wanted. We could have overbuilt nuclear to pay the energy costs required for mass carbon sequestering. We could still do it today. But not without the political will to fund massive energy projects that go beyond merely satiating our consumer demands.
I used metaballs and marching cubes on a Kinext game project back in college and had no idea how it actually worked (copy and pasted a lot of code). This description was very helpful to finally understand it.
Assume an inflation adjusted average return of 3% on your investment and a 20% long-term capital gains you end up with 2.4% return versus 0 to 1% for prepaying a mortgage.
My doctor specifically prescribes 5000 IU as a maintenance dose and 15000 IU to people severely deficient. These are numbers he got from treating hundreds of deficient patients and testing his patients blood levels every 6 months. I imagine a lot less is needed if you are in the sun for a good portion of the day every day but for most of us who spend a decent amount of time inside it seems to be what’s necessary.
> I actually really like the anti overtime policy (half your hourly rate after 20h / week)... I suspect that scares off workaholics.

I suspect that anti-overtime policy, at scale, is somewhat like a salaried position. When you earn a salary, your salary is guaranteed regardless of how many hours that you put in. Why work more than 40 hours a week? But in the real world, gains and promotion often go to people who "bleed" for the company. If salaried positions, which offer zero overtime pay, end up promoting overwork, why would offering a partial reward of half-pay factor in at all into whether the company has an overwork culture problem or not (particularly if reporting hours is the responsibility of the employee and the employee can simply decide not to report the overtime hours)?
Interest would never match it.

But ignore the interest deduction. Even if you got a 4% return and paid long term capital gains you’d be ahead.
Hi! Digest creator here. There's no newsletter signup but a good old RSS feed. If you missed the button at the bottom, here is the link: https://digest.grabara.net/feed.rss

I guess I need a bigger RSS button then...
I unfortunately see a lot of developers who struggle with solving problems and want you to solve it so they can simply fill in the blanks. Kind of a code-typist.

The other developer of this type that I've seen can only connect cloud services together.
Nobody thinks of themselves as evil, but freely dole out that term for others. How do you mind your own business when there is evil about?
Yep, you could run 3.1 in "real mode" instead of "protected mode" but the 286 was kind of a dog of a CPU and it had some pretty nasty flaws that led to 286 machines not really being all that common compared to 80886 and 386 ones.
Amazing. FenTech has come a long way, glad to see them establishing themselves against Big Fence now.
I bought an Amiga in the early days. I was pretty annoyed with it because you had to buy the peripherals (like monitor, keyboard, etc.) only from Amiga. They were standard parts, but would have an interface that was just different enough to prevent the use of standard parts.

I figured this sort of nonsense would kill the Amiga (like what happened to the Rainbow PC), and decided to not invest in making a compiler for it.

Edit: if I recall correctly, while it had standard 3.5" diskettes, it couldn't read/write DOS disks. C'mon, guys. I don't recall what I did with the machine, probably gave it away.
I also had a 386SX-16MHz with 2MB of RAM, a 40 Megabyte hard-drive, a VGA adapter and a 14” screen.

That was in 1992 and it was an abysmally slow system.
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That would be reassuring if we could be confident that truly the activities of the NSA and government agencies were only used as intended to thwart serious crime, in ways that were not harmful or invasive for innocent citizens.
John, the guy at the other end of the negotiation, probably got a pretty good deal too. He got $25000, which was probably more than it cost his company to provide the service. His alternatives would have been to either (1) walk away from the contract and get nothing or (2) sue a startup company that had negligible assets and get almost nothing (or even lose money on the legal fees).
It's worth noting that, in the United States a at least, there is a strong anti-farmed fish movement coming from the environmentalist community. They like to point out all of the damage that fish farming does to a local ecology without acknowledging the much greater damage that catching wild fish does. As a result, there is a lot of hesitation among some consumers to purchase farmed fish.
People prefer their comforting lies over the harsh reality of the truth. Your answer while perfectly rational, ignores that people aren't; his answer is more likely to affect change because it requires less people to admit they changed. Everyone just pretends it's still Tuna they're selling and eating.

Trying to force people to accept that we're driving an animal to the brink of extinction is a far harder sell than you seem to realize; they don't accept it and can block attempts to do anything about it. It's a losing strategy that will result in extinct tuna.

Finally, it's not a lie, it's a brand change and Tuna is just a word that is the brand really. Tuna should just mean any fish that can pass for tuna in the context of food. We'll call it Tuna®
I wonder if there would be some way to host the images externally (imgur, for example) and have a git hook to add the image links to a file that is version controlled. Depending on the markup, GitHub could pull the images in.
Where I differ from Schneier here is that I think it is quite plausible that the NSA doesn't know what Snowden actually took. One can more easily audit what he had access to and what he could have taken than one can audit what he did and given his long period of service, what he could have taken is likely to be very large.

You have to remember that even mandatory access control systems aren't really designed to keep sysadmins out, and logging has its limits both in the sorts of information you can extrapolate from a log entry and what you can log.

My point is that it is quite possible that the NSA has a list of documents that Snowden could have taken and has no idea which of those he did.
Some of these fall into the old correlation-causation trap. People who wear leather jackets are more likely to get into motorcycle accidents, but putting on a jacket alone doesn't change your likelihood of an accident.

There's also contexts missing from many of the other statistics: where you drive and the kind of car affects the mortality rate of driving, for instance.

The micromort is still a useful concept in specific controlled conditions (radiation exposure), or as a first approximation of quantifying risk, but the general statistics should definitely be taken with many grains of salt.
An out there question, because that picture of the arrangement of wind turbines reminded me of a depiction of a superconductor in a physics book. Is there any relationship between air flowing more freely between pairs of contra-rotating wind turbines, and pairs of electrons, with opposite spin, flowing freely though a superconductor?

(If so, there's an article for Dr. Karl: the connection between fish and quantum mechanics!)
> Something that succeeds as well as Java has to have some actual value.

Like cigarettes?
>Something that succeeds as well as Java has to have some actual value

Well yes, it has some value. However, just because a lot of people like/believe something doesn't make it good/true.

It's not like corporations have some vast conspiracy in place to encourage the use of Java; it's simply that Java, for a number of reasons, is attractive to middle-management types, even though it's not the best language to make good software. That's not necessarily a criticism of Java; from many perspectives, making good software is not the primary goal.

Dijkstra's big thing was prioritizing good software over cheap software. This may not be a realistic goal, but it certainly explains why he preferred Haskell to Java.

He wrote some really good essays on why you need languages like Haskell to raise the overall quality of software floating about. The more you can shift the burden of guaranteeing correctness away from humans and towards infallible mechanical systems (like Haskell's relatively powerful type system), the more likely you are to end up with good/correct software.
Italy makes some really good firearms, I'm a big fan of Beretta. Too bad only criminals can easily have them in Italy itself. Life would be a lot safer for these people if people besides criminals and bribed cops had them.
Private property owners generally only have airspace rights in so far as "enjoyment". That, is they can shoot fireworks, have balloons, loft their own drones, etc.

Unless a pilot of an aircaft (including balloons, etc) is somehow being intentionally disruptive (e.g., hovering their helicopter over an ex-girlfriend's birthday party), they have a higher obligation to safe flight. And if that means overflying Coral Reef Ranch, Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer's show ponies are just going to have to deal with it.
Just wondering ...

Maybe the USA wants China to overinvest in a new generation of human piloted aircraft instead of building cost effective combat UAVs.
Anyone who thinks the that the peg was unsustainable should remember a basic bit of supply of demand.

Assume the demand of Swiss francs is "x".

Assume the supply of Swiss francs is "y".

If the price of francs is higher than what Switzerland wants, then:

x = y + z

where z is the amount needed to match supply with demand.

In that circumstance, Switzerland can print z amount of francs -- that is entirely sustainable. And that is what it was doing for the last few years. Keeping the price stable is the same as saying that it was printing z amount of francs, so that y+z equalled x.

Anyone who says this was unsustainable is simply not thinking clearly.
Steals billions of dollars then catches a RyanAir flight?!

RyanAir has to be the most budget airline I’ve ever been on...
They are worth each other. Lock-in should be avoided, both from Apple and Nvidia.
Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That just makes this place even worse, which is why they specifically ask you not to reply like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Tensorflow stopped supporting MacOS w/GPUs a year or two ago. Maybe if you're using Pytorch or some other framework that supports MacOS w/GPU/external gpu... but to my knowledge that doesn't exist/isn't widely used.
Reia isn't "interpreted" in any manner different from the Erlang language itself. It's somewhat similar to CoffeeScript in that it uses parse transforms to produce Erlang parse trees which are then compiled by the Erlang compiler just like any other Erlang source code. However, it's a bit more like JRuby in that it ships a runtime, core types, and a standard library.

It's slower than Erlang, not because it's executed in a different manner than Erlang, but because it supplies a separate late binding mechanism for dispatching methods to their receivers.
I'm afraid you're mistaken on a number of fronts:

- GazeHawk has the features you mentioned: video gaze tracks and aggregate heatmaps. Your claim of us offering "a single heatmap of one static image" has never been true: we launched with more than that.

- GazeHawk has user testing: that was also a launch feature.
Could you, uh, undact the location of the racist managers?
There really is an interesting post-mortem to be had, but I'm just not sure you're going to be able to interview employees to get it. The most candid talks happen between employees in IM conversations and over beers, and likely won't be hashed out online.

I loved my time at Digg. I worked on some great things, learned a ton, and yes, came out with some cautionary tales that will serve me well through my career.
They're going to be very handsomely rewarded for that in 2011. A firm that suddenly discovered it needed a new marketing campaign at short notice would need to spend $20k to get this level of quality at short notice, perhaps more. These guys should start looking for an office rental.
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The described phenomenon remembered me of giant waves called rogue waves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave.
Visualization and background of the FPU problem: http://stemblab.github.io/fermi-pasta-ulam/
So a while ago I read all of the UK Companies Act 1985 with someone when we were trying to work out how to set up a non-profit. It's actually not too complicated and looks remarkably like a programming language for company operations. For example, here's some input validation from the more recent version: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/57

But the vast bulk of it was clearly exploit prevention "code". You can quite clearly work out what the scam was that caused each of the overly specific rules. This makes it somewhat irreducibly complicated.
Why should it be too late now? Because Finland botched a single plant? Even though it is preferable that we had more nuclear now I really can't see how you can say that nuclear is not a step in solving the climate problem
Input formatting like, emails, phone, or things that you can know in the frontend, can all be done (and should be) on the client side (many even on html itself although it's a bit lacking in some cases, that would definitively be the ideal although I also don't think html is going to be able to cover all use cases ever - or that it should - but in the end it always seems to be missing just one tiny thing that forces you to write JS).

What you may want to do is to submit changes in case you want to see if an email has been taken already, for instance, to display additional information while the user is writing and this no matter what technology is used would always require a round-trip? No saying that you need that, but it's up to you when implementing deciding on what is the UI/UX you need and take it from there, it's not like it forces you to do that.

(sometimes articles take it a bit too far and end up showing anti-patterns, mixing problems it solves and problems it creates when misused)
Dynamic/adaptive cruise control is a really nice safety feature which I use whenever I can. I guess the 'autopilot' capabilities is just another form of that, but I'd still be hesitant to be hands off and read a book.
Yup. About a year ago.
> The offshoring of the production of consumer electronics devices is mostly the result of the free-trade policies of said countries, coupled with market forces.

This fails to explain why everything moved to China and not Mexico or Brazil or India.

> As for the Chinese government's massive spending and subsidization of key industries, it's largely due to being free of the particular ideological constraints which force the US government to entrust everything to the market (except the military industry) which has predictably led to brittleness and vulnerability.

Entrusting everything to the market works great when it's a level playing field. When a country is doing things that would be an antitrust violation if done by a company, that requires another country to stop them. Typically through the use of trade sanctions, i.e. tariffs.

> The American approach does resemble the Chinese one in a sense. Whereas the Chinese government prefers to directly subsidize e.g. semiconductors, the US government pours unfathomable quantities of capital into a military capable of dissuading any country from capitalizing on the US's dependency on any of their industries.

In other words it's completely different?
> I built a 256 GB CFexpress card for under $100, and you can too.

Probably because you valued your time at zero.

At a minimum probably 30 minutes to buy the components - although realistically with the shortages at the moment might take longer because you'll have to look around for places with stuff in stock.

Then let's say 20-30 minutes to get the components in place (I'm including packaging removal time here).

Plus a bit more for testing, labelling etc.

Sure it's not the most labour-intensive thing in the world, but the time soon adds up.

And that's assuming everything works first time and you don't have to spend time troubleshooting or returning broken components.

What hourly rate does your salary work out to ? ;-)
So how much was it worth back in the 70s?
I made that comment because I know people are going to use the linked example of what happened in Argentina as the predicted fate of what will happen in the US. That seems to be what you are implying here by drawing parallels between the two. But I simply want to make it clear that the US is at 8% inflation for the last year while Argentina spent decades with the average annual inflation rate measured in the hundreds. The two aren't close to the same.
It's a hidden, regressive tax.
We had an original Hero 1. I remember drooling when the Hero 2000 came out, our robot was already outdated in 1983 or so. I remember typing in programs on the keypad on its head to impress my friends, but it wasn’t very practical.
Yeah, I use an extension [1] that shows EXIF data on hover. Very handy.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/exif-quickview/kji... (there are lots more advanced ones on Chrome store / AMO, but this works for me.)
In addition to this excellent reply, if you were using the type core::panic::PanicInfo commonly (i.e. "twice") you would import PanicInfo at the top of the file

use core::panic::PanicInfo

and the function would become the much shorter

fn my_panic(_info: PanicInfo) -> ! {
> In theory drive through should be the best possible food mechanism in terms of risk to the workers (and patrons). If they could arrange for contactless payment (already possible, just affix a tap reader to the side of the drive through window),

I don’t know if they support this in the UK, but for the US McDonald’s has an excellent mobile app. You can order and pay using the app. You can pick up by going through the drive through and giving the 4 character order code from the app, or by parking in a spot reserved for mobile order pickup and then entering the spot number in the app and they bring the food to your car.

If you do the latter, and roll down the backseat window while keeping the driver window closed, and ask the person to place the food on the backseat, that should be pretty safe as far as person to person transmission goes.
I dunno.. why is jlg blogging about Apple so much... he ran Beos, but that stalled and then went belly up.
Is he looking for a position at Apple? I hope not.

As for the cpu side.. Apple switched before. Also, the tooling is way more up to date and code is more high level these days than before.

Intel as a company isn’t performing, so it’s been AMD and their own CPUs.. they pulled it off before, and I think it will depend on tooling, and app compatibility/performance when emulating. Although I’m not sure if that would require a license
I'm not sure if it is the same thing that this commenter was thinking of, but the show "Formula 1: Drive to Survive" was a breakaway hit on Netflix (not Amazon Prime) when season one was released last year (which followed the teams across the 2018 season) and brought a ton of new fans to the sport. It is really well done and very engaging. Season 2 just released in February and follows the teams across the 2019 season.

Heres the Netflix link: https://www.netflix.com/title/80204890
Please don't wear this while sleeping - it's missing some safety features, and you can kill yourself by re-breathing air, without even realizing it.
As ever, it's the vegetable supply that is in question. Calories come from grains and potatoes and such that are heavily mechanized.
It's 2020, aren't we supposed to have Aerogel-Wiz in a can, and quick-dry spray-on Velcro in two cans: hooks and loops?
Dynamic scoping doesn't require long variable names. Having one namespace is what requires global variables to have reasonably long names.

Under dynamic scope you have the additional problem that a global name can be be overridden by accident by local names that clash with it.

Rather than trusting mere identifier length to address that problem, there is a namespacing convention to deal with it: putting "earmuff" asterisks on the names of global variables.
Everything in Office can be navigated using the keyboard...
I don't think this is the sort of thing a non-web developer should try to tackle on their own. If you are building something for emergency information, there is a lot of risk (loss of life?) if you can't get your message out.

Hire someone who knows how to build a scalable website. This isn't a horribly hard problem, but it's easy to make a mistake.
The personal license cannot be used for any commercial purposes (basically just academic research or play). The single-user commercial license is over $2000. Not that any of that is unreasonable in industry, but you're making it out to be cheaper than it is.