jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It is worth looking at "Simulated Annealing":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing

Start your optimization process with a high "temperature" (leading to big changes), and let it "cool" over subsequent iterations.
What we need is the francise model they are starting to explore in India. Repeatable processes encoded in easy to follow three-ring binders; checklists and procedures that anyone can follow. This will take care of the basics and free up resources for the gourmet care we all need from time to time.
Oh, I actually quite agree—at least in part. Jeff Bezos isn't sitting in Washington rubbing his hands together, twirling his little mustache and cackling with glee every time an Amazon warehouse worker pees in a bottle.

But...who would? I mean, that's not the behavior of real people. That's the problem, and the way these things are allowed to happen—people have a hard time understanding that real people, who love their family and tell jokes and have opinions about Game of Thrones, can do terrible, evil things.

It's not that the extremely wealthy actively seek the suffering of those beneath them (mostly; there are probably a few who are weird enough, but it's not enough to make a policy out of). It's that they don't care...or, worse, they see it as some kind of necessary evil to make the pure libertarian utopia they envision. And indeed, the idea that many of them are based in principles of individual freedom is a huge part of how they've sold the whole lot, despite the fact that carrying those principles to any sort of logical conclusion inevitably results in terrible suffering among real people.

But while I agree that there wasn't some intentional conspiracy meeting where they laid out a New World Order-type plot to take 99% of all the world's wealth, that doesn't mean that all the various efforts to enrich the wealthy aren't very deliberate—and to some degree coordinated.

Actions do not have to be taken by cartoonishly evil people to have cartoonishly evil outcomes, and looking around at America today, I can't help but think that's where we've ended up.
It is as if I am on Wikipedia[0].

[0] If you know what I mean
That's literally what we cannot do in a neural net.

It's why they're so problematic: you can determine the propagation functions of individual nodes perfectly, and that knowledge tells you exactly nothing about all of the many things it's values contribute to. There is no "concrete thing" at the node level: a single node fundamentally can't see a wing, or a color, or anything else, that's only emergent behaviour of node constellations, and one node can contribute to many constellations simultaneously.

Heck, there often isn't even a "concrete thing" at the many of the constellation levels, concrete things don't start to emerge until you're looking at the full state of all end nodes.
"In theory an optimizing JavaScript engine could reuse the same captured variable environment across multiple closures if it's the same, resulting in the same asymptotic performance as Go."

I said stack frame, not capture environment. You don't "store it" in the goroutine stack, it is the goroutine stack. Something like Node is going to be constructing and destructing frames much more often.
Sure, I don't disagree.

Though, look at QuickTime for example. That was deprecated in Mavericks, but it's going to be around for another few releases. AVFoundation (the framework I use the most) is used by FinalCut, iMovie, etc. so porting that isn't straight forward because it would break so much stuff. So I do think you'll see deprecation of certain things as maybe they move to design patterns that are a better fit for Swift, but entirely replacing AVFoundation would be straight up insane when it works so well (as long as you are doing everything by the rules laid out in a largely unwritten book).
I agree, there needs to be a ruling about paywalled articles already. At the very least, tagging them properly (so people may ignore them at their leisure) or also putting an archive link in the comments.
> Cassellius says interest in the program had declined over several years and only five schools currently offered the program...

Anyone know why? I find it hard to consider the present controversy without having a more complete picture.
Government agencies don’t willingly cut headcount because it looks like they’re overstaffed. What a quaint notion.

If the job is getting done and you have 500 employees and the budget for 500 employees, there is literally no incentive to even determine if it could be done with 400. Leaders don’t get a portion of money saved or anything like that. They just lose the budget that was for the extra employees and get a bunch of pissed off employees that now have to work harder for the same pay.
Officially. For any future readers: don't buy these drugs from random, faceless sellers.

Unless you're going to personally verify the composition of the pills you receive, you're taking mystery pills from a person/company that's already knowingly breaking the law. For what -- coding productivity? If you feel you need medication, consult a professional.
> You can achieve exactly the same thing with PostgreSQL tables with two columns (key JSONB PRIMARY KEY, value JSONB), including indices on subfields. With way more other functionality and support options.

PostgreSQL docs > "JSON Functions and Operators"
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-json.html

MongoDB can do jsonSchema:

> Document Validator¶ You can use $jsonSchema in a document validator to enforce the specified schema on insert and update operations:

db.createCollection( <collection>, { validator: { $jsonSchema: <schema> } } )
db.runCommand( { collMod: <collection>, validator:{ $jsonSchema: <schema> } } )

https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/operator/query/jso...

Looks like there are at least 2 ways to handle JSONschema with Postgres: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22228525/json-schema-val... ; neither of which are written in e.g. Rust or Go.

Is there a good way to handle JSON-LD (JSON Linked Data) with Postgres yet?

There are probably 10 comparisons of triple stores with rule inference slash reasoning on data ingress and/or egress.
They still do and these clubs are very well known in the history of tech.
Why is nobody worried about the helicopter crashing to the rover and possibly destroying a science instrument? How far will the helicopter be from the rover?
> to hold individual police officers criminally liable.

Under qualified immunity that most police officers have this is not going to happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity#Police_brut...
Wouldn’t a thin atmosphere cause more disturbance? Naively, something thick and soupy is easier to push around than something thick and heavy.
Is it still useful with the new total cookie siloing?
APL will solve all the world's programming problems in just one line. Then it will take the world to figure out what the hell it does.
>does not seem to be a defensible action //

What harm is there in viewing data? None.

Defended.

Which do you find is indefensible, seeking to consume data or consuming it? Or, does one need to actively seek it and also consume it to cross your threshold of immorality? Or ...
He talks about how lisps are bootstrapped on a small core, and that is nice. Reminded me that this is the approach that Perl 6 is trying to take (NQP is the core) although on a larger and more complicated language
Two issues I could see a problem with:

-As somebody mentioned, these things can't fly that high. Is it going to be dangerous to try to fly it over tall houses or buildings?

-Even if you can get above street level, is the thrust going to, say, ruin your neighbor's garden? You could have a problem with smaller communities banning these, even if it stays legal.
This video discusses a shortcoming of the Hiller Flying platform right at the end:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_UtPmb3Z-o

"Ironically, it was the Hiller Platform's inherent stability that ultimately killed the project. The problem was that the platform had a tendency to right itself. Going forward depended on the machine's continued lean in the direction of flight, but it constantly wanted to straighten up and this made it almost impossible to maintain a consistent heading"

How do you plan to overcome that shortcoming? Gyroscopes or something?

Also, why does your platform use the slats instead of a cone duct to direct airflow like the original design?

Other videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZmULlkOE3o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwhBWxc0SSM
Well that isn't supposed to happen :(

I think I'll go home and wait it out there, but it appears that they are having some progress in recovering it. But our site is still affected.
How this compares to backbone?
They better be cutting me a check too.
Whichever date Easter Sunday falls on, the Friday before it (Good Friday) and Monday after (Easter Monday) are both public holidays.
A couple of hours into the failure, and no sign of coverage on Techcrunch (they're posting "business" stories though). It shows how detached Techcrunch has become from the startup world.

Edit: I tweeted their European editor about it and he's posted a story up now.
It's a bit ironic that Amazon WS has become a SPoF for half the internet.
The downside of .ico files is that the format doesn't support compression, so those files can get quite big.
Tom, did you design the site?
over loading on fructose, sucrose, etc in combination with high fat high carbohydrates diets are not healthy.\

The beans have a low glysemic index(spelling) compared to other carbohydrates.

As far as greens, maybe romaine lettuce as lettuce wrap dishes..such as mix beans, tofu, low amount of lean meat, and herbs to taste..
I agree that is a good point. Perhaps it is a technology that would be better off not existing?

Security aside, one of the fears I have isn't necessarily against hackers, but against legal entities making use of the private information illegally, in addition to Greplin selling "me" in a very compact and precises manner to whoever they want.
> much better programmer now than I was when I was young,

I don't think that's the angle the author was talking about.

He's actually saying this:

"By and large, programming (in terms in jobs/careers/economics) is a young man’s game"

The qualification I added in parentheses would be a fair reading based on his previous sentence: "...take a job as a software engineer."

Likewise, his 3 bullet points after the "young man's game" is about "jobs", not skill or intellect. Basically, it's about ageism in context of job slots.

Despite all the employment verbiage surrounding "young man", people are still misinterpreting it as:

"By and large, programming (in terms in intellectual ability) is a young man’s game"

Perhaps readers are too conditioned by the mathematician G.H. Hardy quote, "math is a young man's game"[1] in which he was talking about about intellectual output.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._H._Hardy#Hardy.27s_aphorisms
Maybe. But, then I'd have to maintain the list. I used to do that, many years ago, for problem domains using a local Squid installation (my first company was based around Squid, so I already ran the local Squid 24/7), but, maintenance of the list was time-consuming. AdBlock Plus is set it and go (I occasionally have to disable it for videos of something, but it's so rare that I sometimes forget I even have it running).

I don't notice the performance or memory problems being discussed, so it's not a big deal for me. My lappy has 8GB of RAM and I've never run into memory problems. But, I guess my tablet (with only 2GB of RAM) or phone probably shouldn't run AdBlock Plus, even if it becomes available for Android. Somehow I never see auto-start audio ads on those devices. Maybe I should just figure out how to make Flash and audio behave the same on my lappy.
There is the anecdotal correlation to the contrary w/ May being the first or second most popular suicide month and also the month when the American Psychiatric Association has its annual meeting. I think that was mentioned in Infinite Jest or some other novel, but it is true as far as correlations go.
You could also join an existing start up. =) I'd be interested in talking with you guys if you want. I don't see any contact info in your profile, so send me an email at jeff at starsonata dot com.
> on the other hand politeness isn't the most important trait for reporters

True, which is probably why I prefer to read about them rather than watch or interact with them.

Even so, it seems to me she could have broached these subjects much more subtly. I have a hard time believing she could build rapport and get reliable information out of people with her approach.

I should also add one other thing about her questions that bothers me: she's walking around a society where people likely get 'disappeared' quite often for not walking the proper line. She's loudly asking obnoxious questions about potentially sensitive things, endangering others with a sort indignant, lax attitude that bothers me.
That's a common line from the telcos but in reality very little of Canada is actually populated and a huge percentage of our people live within 100-200k of the US border. The most difficult area to cover is BC because of all the trees & mountains. If you look at coverage maps they seem to have little trouble covering even the most rural parts of Alberta. Say Rogers has 1,000,000 3G customers (very modest). How many years does it take to pay off the cost of building the network? 2? 5? 10? At $50-80/month per customer they pull in at least $600,000,000/year. I don't care what their operational costs are they can cover it. That's assuming they have only 1,000,00 customers paying $50/month, while in reality they probably have closer to 5 or 10 million customers paying them upwards of $80/month.

I just agreed to pay Rogers $30 for 10MB of roaming data in the US while I'm at WWDC. I'm obviously going to go over that and will be charged $3/MB all the way up beyond the 10MB.

That is just greed. They take advantage of people who either have the company paying the bills or don't really know how much data they'll use. There's no way I'll use my phone normally while I'm away, but I should be able to. This has nothing to do with Canadian infrastructure and everything to do with being taken advantage of because we are locked into contracts, and even if we weren't Canadian telcos do not compete with each other. They all have outrageous pricing last I checked. Maybe things have changed with providers besides Rogers during the last couple years but I doubt it. They have no reason to compete with each other if they can fix prices and all make a killing. Prices are too similar across the board for me to think otherwise.
Probably quite a null point (everything has to be come across through some medium); lots of stuff gets posted to 4chan and little of it makes it here... :-)

I'd say it's a pretty good filter.
Is Notifo working for you? I associated a notifo account with my HN account to be notified when I get replies, and I never, ever get a notification. But I don't know which part of the chain is failing.
Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1406299

Plus the original didn't link to the CNET/ZDNET bandwidth waste.
Is it more often than when it leads on the right path? Is there a study around this?
Throughout all of history Palestine was a part of Syria.

From the "Syria Palaestina" of Roman times all through the Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, and Fatimid Caliphates, the Ayyubid dynasty, and the Mamluk Sultanate, the borders of Syria have nearly always encompassed all of what is described as Palestinian territories today, with a special exception made either for the occupation of Jerusalem by the Christian First Crusade or in the 19th century the Jerusalem Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem was split away into a special region given legal autonomy as a city-state, much like Vatican City.

All through this time, for thousands of years up through the Ottoman era, the borders of Syria included what are now described as the Palestinian territories. You can see them on a map here:

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

You can also check maps available on Wikipedia for the historical borders of Syria during the Caliphates, which have always encompassed Palestine.

Palestine was never an independent nation at any point in history. It was always a part of Syria, and Syria today considers it Syrian temporarily-occupied territory stolen by Western-sponsored violence and terrorism.
This.

What is amazing is that everything has been filmed and yet people still disagree with what is being seen .
Nothing in nature grows exponentially. If it did it would overwhelm the universe.

YC News is mostly a forum for software developers, which means most of us have a tendency to want to keep things simple. That's fine for simple thinks like operating systems or proving all problems in NP are also in P. But nature is on a completely different level.
LBRY is not just for videos. You can upload files to LBRY if you want and they are shown on your channel feed.

>Did LBRY somehow convince people to sign up and cross-post their videos

Yes they did. When you create a channel they give you the option to do this.
POTUS account different than Trump account
What a good idea, let's all have Big Media that doesn't have to provide a source for the information in their publications /s

We live in the information age, why is it so hard for a newspaper to add "example.com/news/1234/sources" to the bottom of the article to give us a nice little Harvard format list of references to all the claims they make?
Ah, I hadn't heard about that before. That's either not available or not common knowledge in the UK.
Other shoe, meet floor.
Not quite what you're looking for, but have you seen this? https://www.their.tube/
Because people/companies with bargaining power can get things more easily.

USA wants chips manufactured in the USA for jobs and probably more importantly for national security. Too many chips made in/near China + Intel going down the toilet.
Maybe triple-glazing is more rare, but at least in Poland, by my observation, almost everyone seems to have double-glazed, PVC-framed windows. I only ever see single-pane windows in really old and poor houses. IIRC, there was a rush of replacing old windows with double-glazed ones in the late 1990s/early 2000s.
I don't see any one spending 1M.

There is some value though, a game dev don't need to copy all of it. Sub routines or component especially not in the UI, could save some dev some money. You could also learn a lot from the workings of the src code.

Value survived the source leak, ultimately the brand and experience is what worth money, plenty of open source projects make money.
If you're in the market that doesn't respect copyright law there's a surprise for you - no one will buy legal copies of your game either, and it will be banned everywhere else.

Also code for the game itself means almost nothing without the tooling to produce assets for it. It could be written for scratch but then....just.....use unreal or unity? Pirate copies if you really don't care. Like, I work in games development and in house engines are incredibly inflexible, they are made for one game only usually and it's a titanic amount of effort to use them for anything else. You could probably use the Witcher engine to make a crappy clone of Witcher, but you're not going to use the engine for anything else.
There's this, could be helpful for basic Julia: https://benlauwens.github.io/ThinkJulia.jl/latest/book.html
Was. They might not have an OS but their mobile apps are up to speed and they provide backend infrastructure to a sizeable chunk of others.
That wouldn’t be correct, because it wouldn’t be possible for everyone in the world to rely on bitcoin.

And in any case, there are other ways to build a global system for transferring money that is many orders of magnitude more efficient, so there is still no reason for society to support the cost of bitcoin, because it’s a terrible alternative.

And no, people don’t want or need a completely decentralized, trustless etc payment system. It’s a non-goal.
I remember many years ago learning how to use select() with this guide and then use it to speed up some scanning tool I had found on the internet.

It felt incredible that _I_ could do that as someone who had just started programming.

Thank you Beej.
Thanks for the thorough response.

> They're not much more evil than any other publicly traded

Ok, that's basically my point, but people seem adamant that they are somehow exceptionally evil.

> content repackager

> companies who take user-generated content, repackage it

What do you mean by taking user-generated content and repackaging it? I understand that users often do this themselves, but what exactly is Facebook repackaging?

> "default location" for a lot of people to go when bored

For me this is HN

> keep people addicted

This does seem evil, if the product is causing the user harm.

> They believe the entire internet is theirs to scrape user activity

I could see how this bothers people, though it doesn't bother me that much personally. Follow-up question: do you view Fullstory as evil?

> Facebook being fingered as directly responsible for enabling reprehensible behavior

To me, this is a sad misuse of a tool. But yes, efforts should be made to limit the tool's possibility for evil usage.
An interesting argument for it is a novel point of view! Thus please allow me to also dare an equally novel, opposite point of view:

On the other hand, what does the non-tinkerer majority of humanity do to deserve the tinkerers inventing things for them instead of spending their time upon personal happiness? ;)

Is it the usage of inventions to exploit, rob and kill each other which makes humanity worthy of getting more science? Certainly not :)

To be more specific:

I've seen the Internet before the tinkerers developed sufficient usability so the "normies" could use it. What it has become now that they're here is an abomination. HN is like a nuclear shelter, except outside its not radioactive but a giant, never-ending shitstorm.

So I often wonder: Should I really try to make my software accessible to the average person? So that they can go there and use it to propagate racism and other garbage?
Or rather keep it difficult to use and play Factorio or whatever instead?

Tough decision to make for sure.
Is that really a qualitative difference though? Clearly, MP3 players had been around before the iPod. What set the iPod apart was much better design. This is, in a sense, a matter of quality checking, but to an extreme extent.

Does the extremity of the quality checking turn into something qualitatively different? That seems to be a rather subjective judgement, hence why you had the back-and-forth.
> Yep, see what happened in the Arabic countries (and some other countries outside of the Islam-sphere).

I think we need to make a distinction here. See Egypt, for example.

A secular military government was in power for decades long (with support from the west). Their "Internet generation" got together and managed to overthrow Mubarak, and call for elections. They had elections, and the most organized party (Islamic) was able to elect their candidate (Morsi). But because of the religious inclinations, the laicist sector of the society asked the military to overthrow the president again. Now the military is in power and killing islamics who protest against the coup d'etate (again, with support from the west). It's back to zero.

So, Egypt attempt to adopt democracy and a more equalitarian state didn't exactly played out well. In fact, there, the government is a major chunk of the society (military control 30% of the economy). As it seems, democracy isn't the ultimate solution for every country.