jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Having seen multiple young open source projects, like Nim, play themselves out over the course of my many years in the Bitcoin space, I expect the savviest developers at this point to benefit most from Nim by establishing themselves as core contributors.

The devs who got into Bitcoin on the ground floor in 2011 and 2012 are three years later on the most sought after venture backed teams, with the whole world hanging onto their every last word. Young and profoundly promising languages like Nim offer a similar opportunity if you're willing to risk it.

It could very well be better to use the myriad of other, more mature and stable languages to solve truly pressing issues. Nim is very young, and the risk:reward ratio is skewed more towards contributors than users who can't risk bugs.
Games fighting Boko Haram and Lagos rush-hour traffic would do well anywhere.
>With javascript in the browser you can see and experience code-reload after an F5†. There is no compilation time; no real detriment to importing another non-used library if it's not compiled into your code.

While that may be true, typical JavaScript projects require a compilation step. Plain JavaScript is starting to get somewhat rare, and projects typically use a compile-to-js language like CoffeeScript or TypeScript, or perhaps ES6-to-ES5 compile step. And then you need to minify that code since it's not recommended to run a non-minified "debug" version during development. And if you're project is any complex you're probably also compiling a single .css file perhaps from .less, compiling .html from .jade and packaging it all up in a different public folder.

The point is that typical non-trivial web applications need a build step.
This is akin to saying a startup should thrive only on its merits alone and not use any marketing. Not going to work.
I tried club house but got lost in the recommendations and all of the rooms.

Meanwhile when Twitter deployed spaces it made immediate sense and i felt in control based on my followers.

Will be interesting to see what wins out long term but I’m much more interested in Twitter spaces than club house
The dark irony is that white supremacists are allowed to fly, they are just followed and watched.

The FBI is a joke. They appear to be both incompetent (911, Capitol insurrection, Malheur Wildlife Refuge occupation) and at the same time heavy-handed (Waco, "war on terror, Ruby Ridge). It is a brutal mix.
As long as the earbuds were: small, wireless, don't fall out during exercise, active noise cancelation, long battery life (although AirPod Pros could have even longer battery life), simple portable charger, easy interface.

It also helps A LOT that I never have any issues with the Bluetooth (not previously true with non-AirPods I had used, and given up on).

I'm also ok with the current touch interface on AirPods. However, I wish Apple would let me fully remap the buttons to any keyboard key or keyword-shortcut instead of just "start/stop music", "next song", "transparency/noise cancelation". Specifically, I want the AirPod controls to easily skip ahead during podcasts (15-30 seconds), unmute or mute in Zoom/Slack/etc, and volume controls.

Ideally, this sort of flexibility will be how Apple turns AirPods into a "platform".
Yeah I agree. I wouldn't mind so much if this were a second app but this is kind of scary.
> the only air bombings to be set upon the continental United States were a campaign of racial terror.

They weren't the only aerial bombings in the continental US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing
Arriving a little late in the conversation and with a little of shameless promotion... we are a small startup from Copenhagen who is about to launch a product to fill this exactly niche. Our launch is scheduled for next Sunday, but since this thread seems to fit our audience let's launch it now: https://www.voorjob.com. (We still have rough edges to fix and text to review but the MVP is usable at this point.)

Our idea is to offer a tool that - at first - aid the job seeker to keep track of job applications, cover letter and CV variations and also provide some insights about the process. Or saying in another form, we want to give you a understanding of your job search. For later we are aiming to have more and profound insights, allow the user to compare his journey with similar population and maybe do some predictions before hand.

Our product is for the final user, the person living the experience of sending 100's of job applications, we felt that the market for applicant tracking system is now really widespread, and we are aiming to give back some control to the applicant.

Feel free to check our page: https://www.voorjob.com we are really interested in any feedback that you can provide given you recent experience in job seeking.

Ps. If anyone have doubts we would be really happy to answer back, but since this is literally our launch, first we are going to drink a bottle (or two) of champagne :D
Useless use of cat is almost always more readable and better for explanation. It shows the direction of a pipe unambiguously and splits out commands from files at a quick glance.
So what do people here use to learn/fool around with GPU-dependent ML stuff (non production use cases)? A non Mac laptop? Or do you do it all in the cloud? Using the cloud presumably gets expensive over time and I also would think that the overhead of dealing with a cloud setup and all the associated legwork to get started can be frustrating compared to working locally.
Use https://decentraleyes.org

"Protects you against tracking through "free", centralized, content delivery. It prevents a lot of requests from reaching networks like Google Hosted Libraries, and serves local files to keep sites from breaking. Complements regular content blockers."
The name itself might give you a clue, or just look at the code: https://github.com/tevador/RandomX
Transactions are hard. You can't just abstract it. Those different isolation levels are there for a reason.
> This just seems like speculation based on watching mafia movies.

People get killed for far less.

> The article speculates she's alive.

And I'm speculating she isn't.

> The Ignatov family seems involved in various frauds, so I wouldn't view her as an innocent woman who got in too deep. She knew what she as doing and has family connections.

I never said she did not know what she was doing.

> Also I am not sure what "she stands out" even means.

It means that there are tons of photographs of her and she may blend in in some places but even there a little bit of reward money will almost certainly turn her up unless she goes full Osama bin Laden and we all know how that ended. True, he had more powerful enemies but she also has less powerful friends than whole nations willing to help hiding her.

Hence my speculation she's no longer around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_Internetwork_Archite...
Genuinely interested in this console generation for some reason, seemed to be so important for the transition to online, but then we saw another reversal right after. It’s mistakes like this that I think caused Sony to re-pivot. Thanks for sharing.
People are really poor judges of character and people are so desperate for a certain kind of hero that anyone who appears to fill those shoes will and you can't persuade them with facts.
This is great news to see. I have tested HHVM with our particular application load and I found it to be a bit tricky to tune just right. However PHP 5.6 has been solid in production for us handling 5 billion requests daily.
TIL, thank you for that.
Reminds me of this wonderful 3D rendering I saw yesterday, titled "16-bit memories"[0].

The artist is Toni Bratincevic, and you can find more of his work on his website[1]. It's the kind of art that makes me wish I had an ounce of artistic talent so I could illustrate my thoughts in such splendor ;/

0: http://i.imgur.com/0gZzv.jpg

1: http://www.interstation3d.com/new_gallery.html
Hot topics usually do slide down the rankings pretty quickly, pg and dang mentioned this over the years. You probably remember when bitcoin, NSA and Assange were like every other article on the home page a few years back.
Fixed a typo in the HTML for your viewing pleasure...
I wonder how that aligns with age, does each generation get fatter as they hit a certain age, the parents' eating habits get worse and that is passed on to their children.

It seems as if California went back, less bodyfat, a bit in the 1989 and then again in 2002 what happened? You can still be unhealthy and not have a lot of fat, I'm curious as to what caused bodyfat reversals.
I didn’t say it was a cogent argument.
It is entirely possible for something to be "ruined", and then open sourced as a last resort when the ship has long sailed for that being a useful tactic.

So while I haven't followed the ecosystem since Turbo Pascal for DOS (when I wrote a Battletech simulator over summer in college and had the entire runtime API committed to memory aside from pie graphs)..

My impression of it over the years is that it was closed source for way too long as whoever owned Delphi tried to ride its legacy paying customers as they dwindled to nothingness, and then open sourced it.

I have the same vague impression of smalltalk as well, but I never programmed in it.
Crawford's travails remind me of the story of the pottery class (https://excellentjourney.net/2015/03/04/art-fear-the-ceramic...), in which half a studio is graded on the sheer quantity of pots they produce, while the others are graded on making one perfect pot. The "quantity" group ends up making higher quality pots because they've practiced and learned from their failures.

More succinctly, "real artists ship."
not too long ago i remember there was backlash against investors buying up real estate (i think the example was london) and then just sitting on the investment. The houses weren't being used for housing, but as stocks.

I'm sure if it wasn't for the fact that bread expires we would see it traded like stocks too.
In one respect, it's all relative. My guilty pleasure would be having bonfires or driving unnecessarily. Relative to my influence and impact on the world, these are fossil-fuel heavy activities. Bill Gates, on the other hand, might use that jet to attend conferences which lead to further clean tech transition. It may be a guilty pleasure or indulgence, but he might "atone" slightly by changing society on a massive scale.

That said, it's not necessary to have a private jet or Porsche. Those are temporary pleasures that a true Stoic, someone truly in control of their urges and desires, does not need. Do we require our most influential and innovative thinkers and actors to also be the most Stoic individuals?

Look at the US founding fathers, they created a nation of liberty and small farmers, and yet loved expensive french wine and the pecuniary benefits of owning slaves and indentured servants. They also held back women of their own caste and race, for no good reason except sexism. And yet, these founding fathers perpetuated a nation that aided democracy in many ways, and that became an instructive example and lesson in democracy for future nations.

All this to say, most famous people have mixed legacies and mixed personal lives.
One of the reasons I like podcasts is there are no surprises. I subscribe to a carefully selected list of shows that I really like.
I also own a reMarkable 2 since last December and the fact it is not a light source makes it valuable when you spend almost all your waking hours staring at screens.

For me, the most useful trait is that it gathers all my note in a "physical" gadget rather than being scattered on several laptops/smartphones/notebook.
That’s one of those famous “Bezos statistics”. Where Amazon brags about year over year growth and shows charts with no Y axis with actual numbers.
In the US, CPI doesn't include health care and housing. If health care and housing were to be added to CPI, interest rates would go up, resulting in lower asset valuations(both housing, and stock market). The elite will never add housing and healthcare to CPI to keep their asset valuations pretty high.

UBI without cheap housing and almost universal healthcare will just siphon off the majority of monthly UBI payouts to land lords and healthcare cartel.

Only after fixing housing and healthcare first, can one see the benefits of UBI.
I'm actually surprised this doesn't happen with wireless microphones more often. While the industry is slowly moving towards digital transmitters, many broadway shows still use old body pack analog transmitters on their actors. Since these shows are stationary they are likely using the same frequencies for each transmitter every night.

I can't imagine it would be too hard to figure out some of these frequencies and transmit over them into the PA. There is a pilot tone but I don't think it'd be difficult to spoof.

I used to work in a shop that rented out audio equipment to broadway shows.
Pretty much any IOT device with the business model of subsidizing hardware to provide some data based product paid subscription.

Smart home camera/doorbell systems are good examples of this. I bought a house and didn't renew a ring subscription so the whole system was basically unusable and we replaced it with an 8 Dollar doorbell.
You're talking about an incident involving a mark-39 bomb which was built in the 1950s, the same time period when USA ran reactors with a man wielding an axe to cut rope to drop control rods as an emergency shutdown measure.

We have come a long, long way since then in nuclear safety both in weapons and reactors.
We know a great deal more about biological general intelligence than we do about AGI. Many animals create their own goals and work to achieve them. We learn what works and what does not, and adapt our strategies to compensate. Humans do this (obviously) but a lot of other intelligent animals can do it as well.

One of my favourite examples is the New Caledonian crows who have learned to use traffic to crack nuts [1]. Here, a crow had no pre-defined objective function apart from "eat food to stay alive" and has accomplished something remarkable. It found a food source that it had never had access to before, it developed a complex model of its urban environment, it combined its knowledge of the problem (the hard nut shell) with its knowledge of its environment (cars crush small objects), and it constructed a sophisticated for strategy for using cars to crack open the nuts and fetching the contents when the traffic lights indicated it was safe to do so.

This is general intelligence!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGPGknpq3e0
Dinosaurs aren't extinct. They're all over the place. They just are much smaller, have wings, and fly these days.
> In that sense everything is dangerous

No. Open your mouth and utter the sounds ‘water is wet’ demonstrate how these words are dangerous. It is ludicrous to assert that all sentences are equally liable to be dangerous
is this the routing DSL you're referring to here? The activerecord query building stuff is much simpler than this, i know that.

If anyone wants to get a head start in understanding the magic, Ryan Bates has done excellent walkthroughs of the routing DSL and the activerecord query building method chaining source code:

http://railscasts.com/episodes?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=wal...

edit: to add to the list of stuff that rails does which is 'magical,' I still get uncomfortable over the way that instance variables I set in the controller scope are 'copied' to the view scope. This is obviously a necessary evil though.

The real cost of rails' magic is the rampant and wanton Demeter Violation, which can make testing very difficult in some circumstances.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Demeter
The only issue with w3schools is it is basic. Otherwise it covers a lot of material fairly well. At least it's not wrong, like many other resources.
When Google started to make noise about Chrome OS I had a similar thought - what company in their right mind would want two mobile operating systems?
What's wrong with line breaks? What's sloppy about nested tables?

It's the easiest solution because pg can't be bothered messing about with "proper" layouts and I can understand why.
We have a "sleep 3.years if user == 'shin_lao'" in there.
Look at what Microsoft did. Dumped Windows Mobile 6.5 for Windows Phone 7, yet it also had the Kin phones with their own custom OS. They died, came back, and seem to have died yet again...
I remember when we were in Mongolia, an axis of our minibus broke. At three in the morning. Our local guides drove around in the second car, and managed to acquire one in an hour or so; the third guy they asked had an axis to spare. The first two guys had some pointers for finding the third guy in the first place.

And Mongolia has almost no population density.
For CSS I would suggest that you get a look at Stylizer (http://www.skybound.ca/).

That won't teach you CSS, but will certainly be more productive than anything you'll read/work with.
Man, very rarely do I get water in my eyes!
Actually, the word I used was "prediction": http://friendfeed.com/paul/1af77944/prediction-chromeos-will...

That I don't work at Google is not relevant. (though perhaps you are working on ChromeOS?)
I just do a quick whois look up and CC the offending mail to both the legal department and the abuse email of said company automatically.
Heyo - builder here! This was a weekend hack. The main pain I found using Twitter is searching bios. Follower Lead is a simple tool allowing you to match words against twitter user's bios.

Let me know what you think.

- Royce
It's a work in progress but we hope to have something to show for it soon. :)
I find it amusing that Embedly says FB's embedding is "broken" when their platform doesn't tell you which site is embedding your video... talk about fixing.
One interesting addition would be the ability to "short" companies who you think are overvalued.
How about that: Open source, he said, creates a license "so that nobody can ever improve the software," he claimed, bemoaning the squandered opportunity for jobs and business.

http://www.wired.com/2008/04/bill-gates-what/
I just responded at the arc forum. Email in profile.
I used to feel that way about Costco, until they changed their "Customer satisfaction warranty"! Change return policy
on electronics--fine I get it. Change the return policy on a
$2500 grey market watch--underhanded. I was promised verbally if it ever broke, because it's not sold by "an authorized seller"; just bring it back. No so anymore.
My first response got downvoted so I'm going to try again.

You're completetely wrong. Steve would have simply come up with another solution, or used a different technology. The original Mac wasn't C or Unix based.
> Treating low skill commodity workers as human beings on the same social level as yourself is such a destructive western practice. So is hiring a stranger with a great github rather than your brother in law, hiring a woman if she is the most qualified, etc. Or there is that destructive western practice of managing by output - the boss is working until 8pm but you can go home as soon as you hit your quota.

I really don't know what to say. If it is your assumption that every firm/organization in India follows nepotism and doesn't value true merit, it would be simply a wrong assumption, IMHO. Aren't we all aware as to how Wall Street or any big business in the West hires? cough "Business Networking" cough I guess a good read in this regard would be 'Liar's Poker' or 'The Big Short' by Michael Lewis. [1] There have been corporations(might not be in the truest sense, but a collective of skilled workers with a common directive nonetheless) in India which have achieved amazing feats in the past. One could even say that few of the harmful practices of the West (reckless crony-capitalism for one, or the practice of prioritizing the aim of maximizing shareholders' investment over general public/social responsibility) was an unknown thing but now, it is gaining good traction in India unfortunately. One might find it surprising that India didn't face a subprime/financial crisis when US was neck deep in it. 'Managing by output' isn't really a copyright of the West. In fact, the concept of measuring butt-in-seat time or shifts was totally alien till folks from the West brought it here. (And later pushed further by Adam Smith's Labour theory) Prior to that, it was pure ownership of a task and responsibility. Kautilya's Arthashastra specifically deals with labour theory and even flexi-time to an extent, by taking into account productivity and quality of throughput and not just rote effort/time spent. [1] The skilled artisans/craftsmen never worked by the clock, and thus were able to achieve great things. For them, it was all art. There wasn't even a clear line between art and sciences, but everything was art, including science/maths/engineering.

Off note, I wonder if the mother of that kid that died in Bhopal on that fateful night might have wondered, how the world would have been now if the white man hadn't embarked on the noble enterprise of burdening himself to civilize the non-white people.

Also, am quite sure that the affluent and middle class folks in the West are terribly happy treating low skill commodity workers (who might be immigrants) as human beings on the same social level as themselves.

I really would want to write a long post. Will certainly do so once time permits.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar%27s_Poker / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Short
[2] http://userwww.sfsu.edu/mbar/ECON605/Arthashastra.pdf
Still, he is entitled to his opinion. You don't have to downvote it. :>
It's not necessarily in a browser. It just seems to be using WebKit as an engine. This means that rather than having to embed e.g. vimscript, elisp, or Python into your editor to make it extensible, you get JavaScript for free. And graphics.
Because we need to hear this more often:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU7axyrHWDQ

Copying is not theft!
FWIW, the last few routers I've had (supplied by UK ISPs) have had random admin passwords set by default, printed onto a sticker.
They have too little entertainment value for a too small market, yes - not necessarily because they're not realistic enough, just that people don't get very excited watching a counter on screen go up. I realize one could say 'soccer goals are just a counter too', I dunno nor do I have the inclination to really formulate a theory on why I feel this won't work - let's come back to this post in 3 years and we'll see what the market thought about it. I'm not going to invest in Ultimate Samuraisword Championship, LLC, that much I know.

But hey I didn't buy BTC 3 years ago either so what do I know.
"...most of them still had Micro$oft BASIC"

Behold the genius of Bill.

Also of note, I first learned programming in QBASIC. And by programming I mean dozens of GOTO loops.
11% having antibodies in September seems implausible. There would have been a major outbreak to get those numbers. It's more likely false positives on the test.
Because they print over a 100 articles a day and a couple of them might peeve someone off who then decides the NYT sucks forever.
I suspect that sharing vertex/index buffers won't really help (alone).

Last time I profiled something graphically intensive on the pi 4, I found that touching any of the draw state or uniforms between draw calls would trigger an expensive re-validation on the whole pipeline. 50% of my cpu time was spent in the driver.

Of course, the app I was profiling was pushing quite a lot of uniforms per draw call. Your workload might be different, so profile before doing anything drastic.

I recommend building a version of mesa with symbols so you can see exactly where CPU time is spent.

BTW, try prepending `mesa_glthread=true` to your command to see if that gives you a free speed boost.