jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I disagree. I like the second example, because it explains what it's trying to do -- accumulate, over +, the values of the dice from begin to end. Instead of dumbing down the algorithm for the machine, it uses the words in the problem domain to describe the problem. (Now, you could argue that C++ is messy because you are using a hammer to screw in a screw, and that's true. You could also argue that it's stupid to rewrite code in this new way when the old way works fine and the problem is so simple. Also a valid point.)

Oh, and I don't know Boost, but I guessed that the error was a missing _ before the 1. And after reading the linked article, it turned out that I was right. So it's not that hard to figure out.

I think the article makes sense if you consider its source. This is Zed Shaw, who has given up high-level languages in favor of C, at least for the purpose of blog posts. Of course he would prefer the "how the machine does it" version of the code to "how the programmer thinks of it" version that Boost (and presumably Ruby) prefer.

I think 50 years of programming has proven that approach wrong, but he is entitled to believe whatever he wants to believe. I take the opposite stance -- describe your problem as precisely as possible, and let an optimized library or language figure out how to get the computer to solve the problem quickly. You can do both, of course, but keep the two parts separated!
I never noticed the difference in perspective you are talking about, but still: what about the screen from the Nexus One? Same resolution as the Droid, ~250 ppi and AMOLED. Yeah, one can find "Oh, shiny!" articles about it, but no one wanted to turn that into a absolutely remarkable feature.

As for the Droid quality: I bought mine in November and it's still going. Dropped it a couple of times (what caused a tiny crack on the corner, can't even see it if I don't point it out) and the keyboard "right-alt" key forces me sometimes to press it twice. I wouldn't say that the phone will outlive me, but it is far from being a "cheap plastic gizmo".
What is considered legal and ethical are not always the same thing. Please keep that in mind, the law is not the be-all and end-all. Eventually we reverse laws because we catch up and realize they made no sense. So even the concept of what is legal is very fluid.
Completely true. But is it so hard to imagine a fallback instead of a rewrite / refactor?
I mean, aren't you tired to develop for X renderers? Couldn't Microsoft adopt something like the Khronos group for once and stop fucking around with proprietary bullshit?
The "iPhone" worked on 2g networks, so I call it the 2g to be clear. The same way the "Xbox" is now called "Original Xbox", to distinguish it from the others, esp. the Xbox One.
I hope you are right, but from my experience with government IT I feel its highly unlikely that a top down approach by a bunch of smart people is going to break through all the horseshit IT fiefdoms in the US government. Billions of dollars are spent every year on government IT stuff, and all those vendors aren't just going to sit quietly while you try to replace their garbage, overpriced BS software that they are charging an arm and a leg for.

Maybe if the President has his personal eye on a project something could get done. But the President isn't going to put his personal eye on the USPTO back-end for example. Or the FAA exemptions submission page. Or any of a thousand other points of contact between the public and government.
I assume it's similar to how OneNote does things, which is to create a metadata-rich copy of the page you select (as opposed to a screenshot, which isn't searchable) while keeping as much of the formatting intact as possible.

It's probably very useful if you ever do web research or need to review web content (I do), but I'm not sure this is as big a deal as they're making it out to be. Might be some box-ticking for marketing ("make sure you find a use for the pen!!!").
> They talk a lot about working on the "modern web", that's marketing-speak for it uses established technologies that IE refused to use.

IE pioneered much of the modern web (AJAX...)! The problem with IE is that it got entranched in the enterprise and couldn't change very easily! Ya, sure, we get to go off and use Firefox and Chrome, but there are literally tons of internal web apps that only work in IE, making IE difficult to change and evolve.

> If I don't have to worry about my site working on Spartan, then Microsoft is in a position that it can start revolutionizing.

It is not actually about you, but about the corporates. Anyways, the same effect: now IE legacy has been tossed away with Spartan (the corporates can still use IE as a legacy app), MS can move forward without worrying so much about the past.

The approach taken previously, IE 10+ with a compat mode for legacy IE 6 web sites, didn't work well. Many just saw "IE" in the user agent string for IE 10+ and immediately thought "IE 6"! So Spartan lacks a compat mode, getting rid of that problem completely.

Honestly, it would have even been an improvement to take IE 11, throw away compat mode, and just call it something other than IE. I'm sure Spartan does much more than that since it would be a wasted opportunity otherwise.

(disclosure: MS employee, but far away from web browser development and speaking for self with only anecdotal knowledge about the history; also an avid Chrome user)
"The subconscious mind is a powerful problem solver. I believe this is why it is common to wake up in the morning with an unsolved problem, worked out."

Have you read anything about this? I do this all the time with my course work and I thought I was just strange. I can't tell you how many times I have banged my head against the wall with an assignment until I went to bed and then proceeded to get up an hour before it was due and finish it with no problem.
Yup, --j.

Also, the XOR version probably isn't worth the complexity.
Pingdom also has a very good free plan. It's limited to one url, but for that URL, it's just as good as their paid plans. So you get checks from a ton of DC's, and it tracks response time as well as uptime.
Around 4,000 sq ft. 6 bedrooms, library, bar/lounge in the basement. 3 bedrooms are occupied, but if you want to live for basically free and focus on your hustle, do get in touch.

I think I'm going to pursue pushing this idea out more in my area. Napoleon Hill would view it as a Mastermind.
Maybe they scrape the site for offline viewing when they come into town (something similar to RMS's 'web-to-email' setup)?
And certificate errors on https://linode.com.
well, i threw my $50 in. looking forwards to the results! (mathbreakers.com)
It was cobbled together more or less from scratch mainly based on stackoverflow questions and wikipedia articles. To be honest, it was still somewhat opaque to me (hence the extraordinarily long comments--trying to explain it to myself) but the javascript link makes things much clearer! Thanks
That does not specifically ring a bell, but Radio Lab did a piece on this topic once. Perhaps it's in there:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/262588-bitter-end/
Tokyo has just as many, if not more, earthquakes, and that doesn't stop them from making skyscrapers.
To be fair, in Soylent Green you died by opting for assisted suicide in an environment with good food, beautiful views and classical music. I'll go with that over a lot of other options. I'll swap the environment for home, and be surrounded by family, but yeah. Soylent Green was hardly the worst dystopia, I think.
I meant that with a bit of snark, which might have been completely misplaced. I did realize after writing that that Solaris is still under development. But most, if not all, of the Solaris that SmartOS incorporates (and DTrace and zones, specifically) was developed in the past at Sun, which is what 'redwood631 was referring to. That's also the only Solaris that I use personally (via OpenIndiana).

I will keep an eye out for Solaris 12 though, but I probably won't be using it; I have enough closed-source OSes in my life already. :(
PEBCAB could be an issue.
"The User is Drunk" is explained better in video by Will Dayble of Squareweave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2CbbBLVaPk

Also, OP's post seems more like "The UX Consultant is Drunk".
> The order, which takes effect in 45 days ...

US democracy can be seriously threatened by an administration incapable of using a calendar, apparently.
GLaDOS hahahaha this is just... perfect.
Stanley Parable Narrator funny you should mention this.
I find it interesting that all your gripes are focused on keyboard, yet you hate the Mac
> Right, but just like your healthcare professionals are paid an order of magnitude more than ours, you guys will be paying an order of magnitude more in taxes and healthcare costs. So I don't think it's an excuse for the level of care provided in the US - yes, it's more expensive, but you also pay more for it, so.....why is the experience worse?

I believe the nuance is in who is paying more in taxes and who is receiving the benefits. This is the distribution of taxes paid by quintile:

https://itep.org/who-pays-taxes-in-america-in-2019/

The over-arching theme in the US is the lack of political will in voters to enact policies that benefit everyone. And I believe that manifests itself in the messed up systems that we get, which are half assed measures to “help” people, but not really help people. So you end up with a much worse experience in healthcare for half or more of the population, since the goal never was to actually provide them with healthcare, but to give the appearance of it while also minimizing the amount of wealth transfer that happens.

> And I mean, Polish supply of doctors and medicine is massively constrained too, that's by no means a uniquely American problem to have.

I presumed it is less supply constrained due to the lower price point. I know it’s quicker and easier to become a doctor in the UK than the US, but potential doctors in the US may also have better career alternatives.

> I'm sure the deeper legal nouances of legal liabilities are of course not the same, but at least on the surface level it's similar - of course you can sue a hospital for malpractice if it occurs, and you will be awarded damages.

I don’t know enough about this to make any solid claims, but I was just going off the worldwide reputation of the US being more litigious than anywhere else. Also, the healthcare providers’ higher incomes in the US also probably result in bigger liabilities since there is more to gain in a lawsuit.
Hey there,

So I'm going to build 12 startups or small projects every month for 2021. This was originally done by Peter Levels and I always wanted to try it so actually doing it this year.

Also I bought too many domains last year (like 30 - woops) so it will be good to put them to use.

If you're interested, I'll be posting a monthly video on YouTube with the launch of that month's project and a review of the previous month's project launch.

Thanks!
It is certainly not consistent with observations. Imagine you set up two detectors at two locations. Imagine further that the schrodinger equation shows that the particle has the same non-0 amplitude at both locations.

Nevertheless, you will NEVER see both detectors detect the same particle. You know with 100% certainty that if one detector "saw" the particle, the other one didn't (this is true regardless of how far apart the detectors are).

Furthermore, imagine an experiment like this:

1. A particle P1 is fired, and it has some amplitude at locations Det1 and Det2.

2. At location Det1, a second particle P2 is made to collide with P1; the collision will throw P2 towards location Det3.

Now, the correct probability of finding P2 at location Det3 depends on whether Det1/Det2 are activated. If Det1 detects P1, the probability for P2 to reach Det3 is 0, but this is inconsistent with the Schrodinger equation for P1 and P2. To make the results consistent with observations, you must update the wave function for P1 and P2 after Det1 has detected P1.

Now, the MWI tries to circumvent this by postulating that both results happen at the same time, just in different worlds; and that Det3 becomes entangled with Det1, so their results are perfectly correlated. But that runs into other problems, both philosophical (how could the other worlds be "real" if they are fundamentally undetectable) and formal (e.g. it is not yet agreed that a consistent, non-circular definition for probability in the face of many worlds can be given that is consistent with the observed probabilities computed according to the Born rule).

Edit: I should also mention that without the Born rule, if Det1 and Det2 were both going to launch a satellite if they detected P1, then both satellites would have some amplitude in orbit; and you would start expecting to see the gravity of both satellites, which breaks off with experimental observations even more sharply.
what does this mean? "with not more than $6 million in offers by selling security-holders that are affiliates of the issuer"

Thanks!
Matt
>> Kubernetes was supposed to be scheduler for Mesos and Google invested in it.

> I never heard of such plan.

Oh, there was a plan:

https://github.com/kubernetes-retired/kube-mesos-framework

But it wasn't really in anyone's business model interests, even if it may have made sense for customers and the community.
I hear this all the time but in most of our apps average query time is less than 5ms in postgres. And it scales with threads, so it's more like 30k queries per second.

We have a single Postgres instance and serve thousands of requests per second. You're going to be scaling Django way before that.
Elsewhere[1] in the thread it's been claimed your organization owns 85% of the total market cap of this coin. Can you speak to this? Is it true or not? If not true, what is the correct percentage? How much is left?

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26715348
NCQ also tries to do this. I think that’s at block level though rather than whole file level. I’m surprised that giving more commands in parallel made things slower if NCQ was working.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Command_Queuing
That's the one my text book often referred to.
It isn't advanced difficult traffic analysis if it is all your servers. Or all your logs landing in one logstash.
For one, "7nm" and "10nm" are just marketing names at this point, and don't really correspond to the physical dimensions of anything on the chips produced. Intel 10nm and TSMC 7nm are considered to have very comparable density. TSMC 5nm and is quite ahead though.

As to why it's not just a matter of buying a bunch of ASML lithography machines and plugging them in: In addition to what the other replies have noted, there is so much complexity and precision required in a fab. Consider all of the challenges that would be involved with starting with a bunch of industrial robots, and trying to build a fully automated assembly line that manufactures cars. Then scale precision requirements up by many orders of magnitude.
> Bitcoin had no pre-mine and has been fairly distributed from the start.

Except for that small initial 1 million that stayed with Adam
sometimes it is just easier to grant a small favor to a jerk than to spend any mental energy rejecting/arguing with him.

The most important safety rule on the road - "yield to the moron".
I found this[1] when playing with the Google Code Play Ground. Not really a vulnerability, but:
i. it is on the appspot domain
ii. I can do ANYTHING I want; make a site, force redirection
iii. That's all I have

*They were notified a while back.

How they can fix it?
i. Check ip of sender and receiver
ii. Use htmlfill or append a new script instead.

[1] http://www.christopherwoodall.com/blog/?x=entry:entry100814-...
http://xfd.build-doctor.com/
A bit perplex by these two statemnets.

"But it’s an awkward time at Google, where a group of employees can leave, create a start-up and come back two years later through an acquisition with $50 million in their pockets."

So employees leave, create their own startup and Google happens to buy those startups. Here it sounds like a bad thing.

Yet.... a few sentences down she says , "Google needs to find a way to foster its employees’ entrepreneurial desires and talents"

Wouldn't this mean more employees would leave? If I have entrepreneurial desires, I'd quit my job and tried to pursue my own startup.

On a different note, I feel that Facebook is a trend supported by hype that can be brought down by any other hip social network site down the line. Just like Xanga, and MySpace before it. A good example is Digg, once thought to be a behemoth it died almost over night.
And Chrome's sync feature makes sure that you won't have to go through the steps every time you format or use another computer.
I don't really see how they are bad for the web, a shortened link is still a link, reading Tim-bernes Lee today (http://bit.ly/dhfd2S) he emphasized the importance of links and links from anywhere to anywhere rather than walled gardens like Facebook or iTunes. In fact increasing amount of internet connectivity is on mobile devices and with the smaller space and harder to use keyboard shorter links are essential. As you say it would be imposibble to use a service like twitter to its full effect without link shortening.

One downside could be the extra tracking and analytics URL shortening services provide, and people could see this as an invasion of their privacy. Personal belief is that there is so much tracking in the form of web analytics that goes on on the internet anyway that URL shortening is hardly making a difference. It has also provided some businesses like bit.ly with a way of generating revenue and creating jobs and for bloggers and people like me who do like to share what I find interesting on Twitter or Facebook with a way of seeing if anyone is actually reading what I have shared
I get the human factors (i.e. the jail was big).

>>The constant comparisons to a prison reflect the theoretical reality of leaving the country accurately, but poorly reflect the psychological perception of the issue by most citizens.

Of course, with information control from the cradle...

>>Vanishingly few Americans have ever traveled outside the country, and a non-trivial number have never left their state or been beyond a neighbouring one.

I thought Soviet didn't allow people to move to the place they wanted? Or was that just the big cities?

But sure, people traveled in the military service...? :-)
Correlation does not equal causation. The article assumes that because Sergey and Larry aren't Twittering and Facebooking, "Google does not understand social." I can't begin to tell you how myopic that view is. Sergey Brin, for one, is very much behind Buzz, and in many ways Google has not played its hand yet.
I think a Chinese one would be especially nice to have, since youtube (and thus the Khan academy) are blocked here. Put it on Tudou or Youku.
Volume warning for those at work!

Minus the IE9 politics, I kinda liked that.

Felt a little "Witch Hunter Robin" meets "GITS SAC".
As submitted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2482679
Some of these positions can be personally identified. I just picked Physic Ventures to start and with some not too hard logic was able to figure who's salary was listed on the site.
So, a non-Sony employee, on a non-Sony forum, admittedly "speculates" what appears to be a bunch of garbage nonsense, and that's newsworthy?
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While not exactly the same as lnav, at Mobile Jazz we're building a remote logger for mobile devices (iOS only at this stage, support for Android, JS web apps and native desktop applications coming soon): http://bugfender.com/

We use Bugfender already for our own applications as well as for our clients, but we'd love to hear some unbiased feedback from other people whether or not this would be a useful product worth paying for. You can sign up here for a free beta account: https://app.bugfender.com/signup