jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> being an in-demand speaker, except her ability to ‘direct government largesse’

She was a decent economist. Her work not associated with politics ended as the 20th century was in the rearview mirror. Take a look at her bibliography[1]. The interesting non-proceedings/non-Fed papers end in the 90s.

There are many other economists who are just as good (i.e. capable of talking at length in sleep inducing tone without providing any deep insight but making general statements about topics that sound like they should be interesting). No one pays them a bazigillion bucks to read their policy papers out loud.

What evidence do you have that she gets paid the bucks due to her attributes as a speaker?

[1]: https://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pye21.htm
Yes, but ... there are degrees of trustworthiness. Results in physics tend to be very trustworthy and can withstand time well. On the other end of the spectrum, there are academic disciplines that have little more to offer than opinions. And there's a lot in between. You can only trust a discipline to the degree it has shown to be trustworthy.

That, of course, says nothing about trusting individuals or daring new hypotheses, which is what the article seems to address rather pointlessly, with some hand-waiving, and avoiding the difficult issues: you might want to apply the proposals to physics, precisely because it is so trustworthy, but probably not to the other disciplines.
I suspect this is a direct leak from GCHQ, trying to get ahead of future stories

Among other things, it shifts the focus from domestic surveillance to Middle East surveillance, which presumably less people have an issue with.
Well the general strategy that SteveB has been preaching the past year is the "devices and services" strategy as well as consolidating Microsoft into functional units. And given Microsoft's push towards services to meet their bottom-line, cloud/services is likely their target.

I think the best way to look at it is to start off by looking at Microsoft's acquisitions in the psat 10-15 (20?) years and see which former CEOs have integrated well within Microsoft. Consider that Microsoft doesn't even have a current Chief Software Architect anymore. I'm not particularly familiar with Microsoft's portfolio of companies, but perhaps someone like the former President of Skype (Tony Bates) would be someone they would put into the CEO position.
Interesting point of note: the US Navy's nuclear program has far more miles of safe travel than the shuttle program, or any other program ever, despite a maximum speed in the vicinity of 30 mph. That means the number of operating hours is fantastically larger.
It's mostly my opinion, based on the rise of mobile. I don't think they're going to go away, but it does seem like they're already becoming more specialized. Hardcore gamers will always be with us, but the much larger casual market is moving away.

I think the numbers back it up to an extent, though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_conso...

None of the latest generation of consoles are near the top, despite the fact that populations are larger, and the population of people able to afford video game electronics is much larger. That the PS3 and Xbox 360 barely outsold the original NES, despite having access to a billion or two more potential customers, says to me that the market is declining relative to the overall computing world.
From the skies! The overhead wires are antennas sucking it out of the air.
I remember the campaign ads suggesting Biden would sell us out to China (or something), but I don't remember any factual basis for pushing that narrative.
I don't get it, why an analytics company is buying bitcoin ?
> Of course having your only engine fail would make your plane crash.

That is not a given at all - many planes, especially commercial airlines, will still be able to glide with no engines operational.
Surprisingly, true: https://www.cnet.com/news/fbi-paid-geek-squad-staff-to-be-in... However, they aren't all FBI agents (duh).
I understand that, but those are the wrong motivations in my point of view. That's just overbloated hyped, I don't see it stick.

>Kind of cool to be able to flair one of the first really pricey NFTs, which also happens to be an art piece you think is kind of rad.

Which you nailed here, it's like they are pricey for the sake of being pricey. Or they're unique for the sake of being unique, not being unique because there were restrains that make it rare.

If some of these pieces are going to millions of USD, then we might be at a point where any Picasso painting reached the billion dollar mark, that circles back to one of my questions: is there so much money in circulation? Or this is just fake money being thrown around?
> If someone wants to smoke weed all day and do nothing, that sucks. But if they're high achieving and want to relax _after_ killing it, who are we to tell them no?

Why does it suck? If people want to self-medicate, why judge them? A society where everyone must be “high achieving” sounds like a dystopia. We’re practically already post-scarcity on a lot of goods and automation is going to further eliminate the need for workers.
Technology!
We raised my son in the DC suburbs (Herndon, VA). There is still a "town center" of sorts, with several parks nearby. So, free for him meant a combo of going to friends (mostly in the same large subdivision), getting to school on his own (bike, board, foot, bus), and running around after school (parks, downtown, whatever - I know a few of his common haunts, but didn't track his every waking moment).
Do you worry about how rapacious a cockroach is on a distant island in the middle of the ocean? Even if, one day, you decided to visit that island and see what this distant place was like, would you feel compelled to seek out the cockroach and destroy it? Would you worry about the possibility that a million years from now the cockroach might develop the technology to escape its island and challenge you?
> They also added the PCLMULQDQ instruction to efficiently implement ECC.

Isn't this more typically used in GHASH implementations? Maybe it's applicable to both.
Urbit is exactly this: "We got tired of system software from the 1970s. So we wrote our own on top. From scratch."

It is _dramatically_ different from what we have already experienced. It's really far out there, so far that it's hard to wrap your head around, but there are some really neat ideas wrapped in the extreme weirdness. Fun to read about, at any rate.

http://doc.urbit.org/
Managing Director isn't exactly as high up in the chain at MS as it sounds and he could definitely still be getting his hands dirty directly with technical decisions at that level. When I worked there I worked with one MD who was 3rd in line on the pager list and was more than comfortable logging into the servers to resolve problems if there was an issue that for some reason 1st and 2nd level weren't in a position to respond to.

Edit: I got MD/ED backwards. Ignore the above.
What? Physics is not a branch of mathematics, it just uses mathematics and mathematical properties. That's like saying psychology is a branch of mathematics because it involves statistics. Using math isn't the same as being math. Admittedly physics is one of the "mathiest" fields, but it still involves doing experiments and coming up with mathematical models that fit the data rather than coming up new kinds of mathematics. The line was much more blurred in Newton's time, but these days the distinction is pretty obvious.
Yes, Moby integrates his recordings very well with modern music.
You should have seen the YC hackathon, it was pretty clear they took the youngest applicants. Speaking like that is appealing to high school and college kids rather than using more formal language. He wasn't addressing journalists and CEOs, he was addressing kids. I think "be awesomer" is a fun way to phrase it for that target audience that is less likely to come across as dry or put them to sleep compared to alternatives like don't bury the lede.
The issue is the expected value of the thread [1]. Decent debate is great but requires a more substantive starting point than usenet/mailing-list flamebait.

The OP is fine in its original context of an OpenBSD mailing list, because that's a focused-enough system to respond coherently. A large, weakly cohesive forum like HN is more like all the mailing lists put together in a blender. Posting the same message to this context amplifies the provocation by 1000x, if not 100000x, and the thread will fill up with comments by the self-selected most-provoked on all sides. This leads to boring, shallow comments, an effect which compounds as more comments appear. This is a failure mode for the site.

We've learned over the years that threads are sensitive to initial conditions: the same forum can respond either substantively or with meltdowns on the same topic, depending on fairly small input perturbations. If the goal is high-quality discussion (or, let's be reasonable, as quality as possible under the circumstances), the highest-leverage place to focus on is the starting conditions.

When a provocative post like this gets flagged sufficiently to remove the thread from circulation, the flags are usually coming from a coalition of users: one set who dislike/disagree with the author, and one set who recognize the thread as a failure mode for HN. That goes for all provocative topics, not just programming ones.

[1] I've written a lot about this in terms of comments—i.e. a comment's quality is the expected value of the subthread that it is the root of—but as in many things, you can treat a submission as a kind of root comment and the argument works the same way: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
You can think of the Scandinavian systems as mostly a forced savings scheme.

Everyone pays in a solid fraction of their earnings, and when in need, the state steps in and pays.

This routes around the case where people saves nothing and have be bailed out, while those who do save get nothing.
I've asked around a bit, but haven't found anyone with information on the UC architecture.
So basically: “I’m not calling you racist, just your entire peer group”.

Cool, thanks.

You do realize plenty of white people live around the world outside the US too, right?
I am also extremely interested as to why this stopped being maintained.
C is more portable than Rust when you define portable as "it compiles". If you define portable to mean "works correctly" I expect C is about as portable as Rust in the context of most applications.
For sure it's bad for the laptop, I totally agree, and if you have something better to put your laptop on (a small table that goes over your lap, for example- I believe Ikea sells such a thing) do that. But given the choice between pillow and no pillow, I'd rather damage my laptop than my body.
I would absolutely prefer to file directly with the IRS.
drinking booze, i'd imagine...
>Big Sur has been out for 3 months now and the company I work for, like many others, has a blanket ban on upgrading to it because of mountains of compatibility problems with mission-critical software.

I have being a Mac user since Apple II. All these changes really saddens me. Can we start some kind group similar to class action law suit to pressure Apple into changing this kind of behaviour in Big Sur. If not enough people upgrade, maybe they will have skip a version and come out with something more light weight. I think that happened with Snow Leopard ( don't remember the exact one).
Interesting concept - a solution that could compliment daily stand-ups- maybe a suitable solution for "show and tells"?
Still unknown is why the dramatic speed up. This is not the normal 5-10% improvement. Some of them nearly doubled. I am thinking if it was an error on the benchmark or something.
This is a termionology issue based on what "theory" actually means in science. Theory in science means a foundation of how we think things work. For example people are perfectly fine with the "Theory of Gravity" being a "Theory" although no one doubts the observable effects of gravity. In the scientific community evolution has a similar standing.
I echoed this exact idea in another comment in the thread, right down to that commit having a fixed ID. (I proposed the all-zero SHA (which is not really a SHA)).
It is not robust enough to be unmonitored by a human.

I'm no aviation expert, but isn't that only because the systems in civilian aircraft are decades old?

The state of the art in military drones seems to be autonomous landings on aircraft carriers[1]. The safety requirements for an Airliner are of course much higher than for an UAV, but the underlying technologies seem to be rather mature already.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/10/4511476/autonomous-drone-f...
Spring Boot certainly makes it very easy to get started, and to grow your system in the way that Spring envisions. For getting started, there's even the Initializr:

https://start.spring.io/

However, as soon as you want to go off the beaten path (eg to have two databases), Spring starts to become an obstacle rather than an assistance. In this respect, it's similar to Rails or any other large, opinionated framework.
Me too. What I like about Clojure (and other JVM languages) is that I can choose how much I want to take part in the JVM ecosystem. There is usually a spectrum from pure-clojure <---> clojure-wrapping-java <--> pure java and I get to choose where on that spectrum I want to or need to be based on the needs of my project.

Since the Java ecosystem is huge, this gives me a lot of confidence that most of my needs will be met by existing tools.
I still prefer Reddit desktop on mobile, but double tapping doesn’t work consistently on iOS anymore.
The problem is thinking that upvotes mean anything. If your goal is to have interesting conversations, then getting replies are maybe what you should value. But focus on conversations starts with how you approach the convo.

Generally that means focusing on the OP. If the OP is some short burp of a statement, the OP isn't there for conversation so the entire thread is a waste of time. Then secondly you can wait a day or so for the up/down locusts to have passed on. OPs who were genuinely interested in discussion will reply a few days later.
Updated original comment to clarify :)

Although, to be fair, the article is about GKE.
And Realm, and couch/pouch
Consulting company. After "senior" my career stalled. An older candidate was brought in and made "lead" immediately on a project that I built from the ground up and lead. I was moved to a different project and promised architect. Did architecture. Unofficially given team lead title. Officially, all serious talk of my career is avoided.
The company owns the wires and radio bands. Maybe by a funny coincidence using alternative blockchains and working remotely for other companies creates an 'unfair to the other users' drain on bandwidth.
Look up Pullman Car Company Town, tried it before, didn't work too well haha
Documentation on actually using cpan is hard too find as well. I was using perl for > 6 years before I knew cpanfile was a thing; Even now it's hard to find the relevant docs for it. IMO perl5 should be discouraged for 99% of all development today. There's just so many better options.
Foolish. Very foolish. Allowing tech companies with no regard for public trust or public institutions set up their own "justice courts" on sovereign soil is about as crazy of a thing as I can imagine.
Usually, when I have to deal with these crazy complicated YAML files at work, I'm not thinking, "I wish they had just turned all the configuration into a mess of shell scripts." I'm thinking, "We really need to clean this up. It's way more complicated than is necessary."
If ARM debuts all future designs under 10nm, then ARM China is out of the game (for now), unless they want to try to backport to 14. Some useful contract language will also forbid access to ARM's customers.

ARM processors are also in many, many things besides Apple products.
You're very quick to dismiss others' opinions. What have you done to earn the benefit of the doubt? Instead of assuming the error is on my end, maybe you should try engaging the author critically and charitably.
>liked

That's not really the issue though. I said top 10% by some measure of quality. Whether not the top 10% of PHP programmers liked the language is a separate variable from their levels of competence & intelligence as compared to some other language.
I don't think fanboys realise what Elon is, what's his strategy, what self driving requires, the state of the current tech, &c.

So far it's ridiculously underwhelming, even I didn't think it was going to flop that bad and I was very skeptical to begin with.

Tesla users are experiencing some sort of Stockholm's syndrome, it's scary
Well you could if you have a line-unfeed. So by default it would do both but then in the uncommon case where you want overtype you could go back up.

A little late for that insight, if its even worthwhile, but typically I would optimize the common case by default and add features for doing advanced / uncommon things.
Does anybody know of a good free Haskell tutorial where the theme is "writing a game"?
If you've got testing, code reviews, QA, and CI/CD, Friday deployments should be totally fine.
Do you have any evidence for this? We pretty much get Gaussian distributions whenever we try to measure inherent skills. I happily stipulate the measures are difficult and flawed, but still, Gaussian distributions with a large variance is just how it plays out. And, it correlates with everything I have seen in reality.

Explain MVC to a 5 engineers with equal experience and language skills, and 1 might end up finishing your sentences and extrapolating to other domains, while musing about limitations and gotchas, another couple will just sort of follow along, and perhaps one fails to understand and keeps asking you to repeat yourself and explain in different ways. Engineer 1 will go back to their desk and spin out reams of productive code, whereas #5 will make a mess of it and create technical debt. #5 will put many more hours into it than #1, for whom this is effortlessly assimulated. People have differing abilities.

I am really good at programming. I am moved deeply by music, but my interpretations when I play are somewhat pedestrian and/or copied (I play classical guitar & piano). I don't even grok ballet. I don't get how the movements correspond to the music, I don't understand why person A is rated better than B, and so on. It's an alien language, and I could study for 10 years and it still would be. Yes, the greats (in performance and appreciation) worked harder than me at it, but even if I worked that hard I'd still be a ballet doofus (citation needed).
Agree 100%. Joel had a great essay on this back in the day called "Hitting the High Notes" [1]

Perhaps a better way to look at this is to assume the average is 3X, and there exist developers at X, 10X, 0X, -X, and everywhere in between. And this productivity depends massively on circumstances like the size and makeup of the team, the established codebase, and the technical difficulty of the work.

I've worked with several individuals that are absolutely a 10x for a technically-difficult project where they are leading the architecture, but range from -1X to 0X as a regular contributor to a large project.

1. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html
It's probably worth it for your company to pay the $84/yr rather than have you go through hoops to move Hubot somewhere else.
>> It also doesn’t require a fan for cooling, which allows the device to be thinner and quieter.

Seems like it doesn't have a fan, but until someone actually tests the device there is no real way to know if it will overheat or not.
Probably not/no, it doesn't. It has an Atom X7 with 2W SDP, while the least powerful Surface Pro 3 has 6W SDP, the i5 and i7 versions are somewhere closer to 10W.
Except all projects, including production ones currently get the first dyno free. So my 1x$0 + 2x$36 now becomes 3x$25.
Everyone agrees that my sarcastic jokes are funny. Especially the metajokes.
From Figure 5 of Like.com's patent:

510. User selects an image of a merchandise > 520. Perform image analysis > 530. Perform similarity operation to identify merchandise that is similar > 540. Return result with images of merchandise deemed similar

From Fortune column, a description of what Modista could do:

It could take a particular handbag and match it to other similarly shaped and colored items.

According to Kumar, "Modista’s technology was better". Then, Kumar "contends that the patent should not have been given in the first place" and "Modista should’ve been given the chance to compete on its own merits."

I don't know about the validity of the Like.com patent or how different Modista's processes are from those described in the claims of the Like.com patent. But, looking at the patent issue from another perspective: How would Kumar feel if one of K9's other portfolio companies -- such as twilio, whose cofounders have filed for several patents -- learned about an upstart with a very similar technology? Would he be willing to let the company compete with twilio on its own merits? Or would he want twilio to play hardball, too?
I'd never heard of the machine you linked to but was familiar with the 80186 at the time. That Philips computer has a lot of similarities to the RM Nimbus with the lack of full IBM PC compatibility and the 20MB HD. I wonder if they shared some heritage.

The Wikipedia entry makes it sound a little like the "Atom" of its day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80186
How can I see who's winning this argument without seeing the vote-count!
How does that option help the main poster? Forcing him to vote on comments (even as abstention) is just meaningless mechanism that gets in the way.
> Get rid of karma. In fact, get rid of associating usernames with comments.

These two things are very different. I'd be all for getting rid of karma, but usernames provide identity.

I.e. when evaluating someone's comment it would be good to see other comments they've made that might provide insight into their biases.

1) username <-> insight into what you think over time
2) karma <-> insight into how popular your comments are

I want (1) and not (2) for my own learning. (2) is interesting in terms of studying group behaviour.
If points aren't being shown, why have them in the first place? What's the point?

Points should reflect the quality of the comment. If it's not being used for that, it's worthless to have.

Showing them days later, after the discussion is finished, is also fairly worthless.

I'd much rather have some indicator of quality posts. We already have an indicator for poorer quality posts. Their is value in knowing what your peers think.
And yet what we've left in is the feedback mechanism that provides people a self-centered understanding of how well the community receives them. ie: People are still "scoring points," though maybe we have made the points less valuable.
I've said this in some of the other threads on this topic, but I'll say it again:

The huge (and incorrect) assumption that people are making about upvotes is that everybody reading the comments is stupid. We're not using the upvote count as a 100% perfect indicator of if somebody is correct or not, we're using it as an indicator of how many upvotes the comment has gotten. It's just one of several things that we can use to judge a comment's merit.

This information is useful, and I cannot fathom a benefit to withholding it.
Even "sunk" or "disappeared" money must end up somewhere. In Amazon's case, they have a shitload of investment costs (warehouse/datacenter building and staffing, both need massive upfront investment and take quite a time to go black) and costs for failed/under research-projects like the Fire Phone.