jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
When I was young, we just used learnt on a regular non-adapted bike. It usually involved a few minor scrapes and bruises, but you learnt very quickly.
That is certainly possible but I'd personally bet that her own mother would know instantly if that was the case.
> From a storage perspective, no dammit, Git commits are snapshots, look at the bits on disk if you don't believe it

Except they're not. They're (often) packfiles, which are a delta encoding i.e. a diff. It's not necessarily the same as a specific commit, but appealing to "the bits on disk" is wrong.

It is certainly true that the git object model each commit object refers to a tree that represents the complete state of the repository at that commit.

It is also true that many git commands implictly treat a commit as being the diff between the state of the tree in that commit and the state in the parent. For example git show, git rebase and git cherry-pick.

It is simultaneously true that the on-disk storage system is optimised for performance and so doesn't map onto the object model in a trivial way.
True. It’s hilarious, and mercifully not spamming the comment thread.
I am most proud of my code changes when the lines-of-code goes down.
> helix: Sep 8 03:22:13: ken: upas/sendmail: remote inet!xopen.co.uk!xojig
> From ken Tue Sep 8 03:22:07 EDT 1992 (xojig@xopen.co.uk) 6833

It was 1992 and they were still using UUCP-style addressing.
This seems like the main point. Defamation can include true statements in a number of situations, notably when someone isn't a public figure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation
> This is why you should never make political decisions based on empathy alone.

Is the following a fair way to re-frame your statement? "This is why political decisions based on empathy should consider the long-term wellbeing of everyone involved."
Dropbox's website suggests that they store files using some sort of AES-256 encryption and they cannot read them: https://www.dropbox.com/help/27 I wouldn't make the claim that they are more (or as) secure as Tarsnap (especially since there is no page as detailed as http://www.tarsnap.com/crypto.html on Dropbox's website), but this suggests that files on Dropbox are not readable by the company.
Yes, living in the rural United States is far cheaper than living in any major city. Realize that the continental US is over 33 times the size of the UK, but only has about 5 times the population. There just isn't any competition for property out in the "middle of nowhere".
This seems a particularly un-constructive piece of writing. All it does is flame rather than saying what could have, realistically, been done differently or better. It's easy to tear down, much harder to build up. Likewise it's easy to talk about idealistic expectations rather than the realities of real life (ie: what can you really do when a few companies with much larger budgets control almost all implementation?).
Using the default macOS scrolling instead of their own implementation which feels off.
The paper rises a great point on tokenization affecting perplexity, that we can't compare perplexities of different tokenizers even re-normalizing taking token counts into account, say BPE vs word tokenization. This example nails it: https://twitter.com/Smerity/status/1192252147598909441
Is it possible that good teachers hang out in the lunchroom and encourage their students to eat? I don’t think it’s fair to so readily dismiss the hypothesis without a good look at the relevant data.
Voters decide what is good or bad political speech (at least in democracies).
It's already bad enough with concentrated corporate media and giant web corporations, we don't need to have another unelected group of "fact checkers" mess with this any further.

Let anyone, politician or not, make any political speech and, again, voters will ultimately decide.
Do you have any counter-example in mind ?
I think the person you're responding to putting genetics forth as the dominant influence, which is a point The Nurture Assumption actually makes. The book’s main point is about what generates the rest of the variation we see (so called Non-Shared Environment).
I have purchased Lepin. I think they're not selling under that brand anymore, I think they sell as King / Queen / Jack? Also for technic sets, I have heard that Decool is even better than Lepin, although they don't seem to have the largest technic sets. You can get them off of AliExpress, or via private sellers at r/lepin.
Why should it be?

We might not be running out bits, but keeping those bits maintained takes effort; it doesn't happen by magic.

and I can't think of any form of identifier that guarantees uniqueness; even the stone markings on graveyards eventually weather away.
Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13162-w
As a non Czech I assumed it was a nice layer on top of OSM tiles, but the outdoor trails are truly high quality.

Only have managed to fault it once whilst trying to decide how to descend a mountain in Slovenia.
The EU bet pretty heavily on AstraZeneca and that's not the Eastern European countries fault. The EU already ordered in August, while they only ordered from Biontech and Moderna in November (11th and 25th). It wasn't wrong to buy AstraZeneca, it's cheap and more importantly easy to handle. The failure was to bet so much on it. AstraZeneca wasn't something that was odered as well, it was and still is THE vaccine that's intended for the largest part of the population.

Money also can't be an issue, the EU has come up with 750B euros to fight the economical impact of the pandemics. That was already in April or so. For the vaccine the EU only had around 2.7B available for most of 2020. The UK alone spent more than that, the US over 10B$. The worst thing: 2B of those 2.7B euros were simply repurposed from an already existing fund. That means the EU states only had to come up with 700M euros together in total. Even ignoring all of that, the vaccine is so cheap compared to the costs of lockdowns (and lives) that the price simply does not matter much. Ironically the price they got is the part the EU is especially proud of and EU politicans are quick to point out that Israel payed twice as much per dose.

What they don't say that the Pfizer/Biontech vaccine's price depends on the amount and delivery date. So you could actually pay more to get the vaccine sooner. It seems the EU chose not to do that because they felt good enough with AstraZeneca (they were supposed to start production in October). Unfortunately that information isn't public so we don't know for sure. But this would both explain why the EU didn't expect significant shipments from Non-AZ vaccines in the first quarter and why they got it cheaper.
I have picked up my sisters children from four different nurseries over the years, and absolutely none of them would let you pick up a child without having had the parent previously give your name and identifying information to them. One of them I had to go in and show id before i was on the list. And even then they had to tell the nursery specifically each day that I was picking them up instead of a parent.
The big risk for kidnapping at nurseries or schools is non-custodial parents. This means the threat model is someone who knows the children, knows their schedule and is recognized and possibly welcomed by the children. Learning what time they normally leave is worthless.
> Software engineering is, what, 50 years old, tops?

I've been working in this industry for nearly 45 years now. I still see endemic vulnerability to single points of failure, and little recognition of that.

Heck, the SolarWinds hack was first discovered by a security company because it had compromised their own internal systems and gone undetected for some time.
How well does echo cancellation work in these cases?
> The vast majority of even the developed world is nothing like SF.

For American workers, most tech hubs are SF or very similar to it, in terms of CoL. SF, LA, Seattle, Manhattan, etc.

> it definitely doesn’t sound good to an extrovert

Engineers tend to be introverted.
Per capita doesn't seem like the most useful measure here unless you're expecting people to spin the turbines by hand. Texas has (by GP's numbers) 16 times the land area and 2.5x the annual sunshine hours [1,2] (given Texas's proximity to the equator relative to Denmark, I'd be shocked if those hours didn't confer significantly more power too) but "only" 5x the generation?

Edit: Of course, it's 5x the wind power. For solar power in Texas and Denmark the difference is about 4x - 4,324.3 versus 1,079 MW [3, 4] so the point stands that Texas still has a way to go relative to the resources available to them.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_sunshine_dur...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark#Climate

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Denmark

4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Texas
The vendor's competitors, of course.

Humiliating the competition is good marketing.
Of course, but such simplifications are necessary given the limited power of typical 8- and 16-bit home computers of the time. And you don't need to do anything particularly advanced to create an engaging game, which Balance of Power is.
Eating too much of any food is usually unhealthy due to the excess calories. Burgers aren't especially bad or good in that regard.
Sure, P-521, whatever. I make no claims to accurately ranking curve popularity, except I am pretty sure as a practitioner (not a cryptographer) that the P-curves are still the most popular, and that 25519 and its variants are close behind. Curve448, the Hamburg specification? That's got to fit in there somewhere too?

(I'm not trying to be snarky, just sort of expressing the sentiment of throwing up my hands after having a grip on P-256 and Curve25519).
> but I can't think of any realistic policy that could be applied to stop these kinds of attacks, not without massively disrupting the technology industry at the same time

Why wouldn't Dan Geer's proposal to attach traditional products liability to closed source software improve the situation? Over time, source availability and reproducible builds should make this kind of thing a lot more difficult without wrecking anyone's budget. No?
The contract lengths yield different prices. griddy has referral recommendations for several 1 month contracts through different providers until prices stabilize
As a game developer I like Chris Crawford but it’s like someone should have told him decades ago that the first step of making game devs listen to you is to create games that are fun or interesting to play. Last thing of his I tested felt like a web toy proof of concept which wasn’t doing anything mind blowing and not really a game at all. In my professional opinion he has been far too much the “ideas guy” but without compelling execution, he’s just one of hundreds of “misunderstood” game design geniuses out there who never got a great game produced.

It’s sad because I think his mission is very worthwhile. He reminds me a quite a bit of a few other tragic underground game developers like Ullillillia and “Bobs game”.
+1 for the second line, but I'm very curious about "eels". The rest generally makes sense.
> Currently, Vim is the only supported text editor.

Are you familiar with the $EDITOR and/or $VISUAL environment variables?

Text-based (i.e., CLI) applications which spawn a text editor should respect/support them as much as possible.
I just finished reading the book. Although it does appear, the linguistic subtlety you mention is lost in translation and I'd have found that particular passage confusing if I hadn't read your comment first. In short, at one point Glebsky figures he can definitively discover Brun's gender by asking him/her a question such that the answer would be something like "I had a nibble" or "I wolfed down two sandwiches". In the text, it's left unclear how one could infer gender from such answers.
Martin, I fully agree. I threw it in there to show that the argument isn't just myopic on revenues alone.

The reality is that web apps and sites that generate monthly recurring revenue come in many forms. Either the microprenuer variety (i.e. one man shop) or the larger VC-backed startup (ala dropbox, etc.).

Depending on your situation it really is up to you to decide to swing the pendulum whichever way you want to go. For example, Dropbox would likely focus on growing revenues as fast as possible, sacrificing profits in the short term - and that's a perfectly respectable decision because they have tons of VC cash in the bank and makes total sense.

So that was just shorthand for me saying that once you make that mental shift from advertising/eyeballs/uniques to monthly recurring revenues, you can then decide how you want to tackle the profit question (more now or later).
But a plugin with higher adoption than HTML5
I've found that "hyper-nicheing" via twitter is a good way to go. I basically follow specific niche interests that I have and unfollow anyone who mentions any mainstream news. I just don't need those messages to achieve any of my goals. I dig deep into the message areas I'm interested in.
Or like all the "TSA-compliant" pocket multi-tools that have everything I could possibly need in a pocket knife except, well, a knife--which is probably the tool I'm most likely to have a use for.
I don't necessarily like it as much as DBI, but I find Cx_Oracle easy enough to use.
I don't think it's so much "ugly truths people try and sweep under the rug" as "we do not yet appear to have a practical way to actually do anything about it without vastly reducing the usefulness of the system". There are ways to improve things a bit with your choice of sandboxing tech, but those are frequently either ineffective (oh good, an attacker who compromises can only get to my bank account, but not my SSH keys), high-friction (flatpak portals are cool so long as you don't mind manually approving all file access), or both.
Uber and Lyft definitely expanded the market though. I went from taking cabs very rarely to using them as part of the normal fabric of city life.
This is the Recruiting Coordinator question. Just wait until you see the Principal Staff Engineer’s question!!!
In the US most people are reportedly served by a single ISP and cannot really choose. ISP that intentionally pisses off speed-sensitive customers would be sued in no time.
Pedestrians can be at fault for an accident with a car.

"Here are a few common scenarios under which a pedestrian may be found at least partially at fault for an accident involving a vehicle:

* jaywalking, or crossing in the middle of the street, outside of a crosswalk

* crossing against the traffic signal (i.e. in the crosswalk but against a red "Do Not Walk" command)

* entering a street or highway while intoxicated, and

* walking along highways, bridges, or causeways where pedestrian access is prohibited."

http://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/auto-accident/pedestrian...
People work from home from time to time and it's fine. We do have a couple of remote contractors as well. I don't see how free food prevents this.

We don't tell employees what to think about or talk about at lunch. Sometimes it's work related and sometimes it's just shooting the shit. In either case I feel like both employee and company win.
> Common Lisp, just seemed like any other programming language except that I was restricted to a functional style

Lisp is often referred to as a "functional" language but that has always seemed odd to me. Side effects are first class, and some dialects (like scheme and common lisp) are quite procedural. In fact the "ultimate" papers cite Algol as an inspiration. It is in no way a functional language in the sense that that term is used with, say, Haskell, Erlang or Prolog.

I do find Lisp the most expressive language I have ever used (and I wrote a LOT of code in it in the 1980s, 100s of KLoC over the years) but there are other languages I do use from time to time when their own particular strengths. For instance, string handling can be a bit roundabout in most Lisps. shrug.
Reminds me of an interesting project my friends worked on in 2003 that did something similar: http://web.archive.org/web/20031203135012/http://www.midiweb...

Nice to see a spec for this!
Yes but they don't explain what the mitigation is.
Can confirm, was there in high school at the same time and had the same experience :-)

I still use programming languages like AWK to this day (I even list it as a known language on my resume; someone commented on it once, it's always a +1 for the company if they do). Recently though I've been exposed to some stuff in the Windows world that makes me think that, sure, they evolved slower but they evolved in a really interesting direction and possibly pulled themselves out of the local maxima that is the Unix world. (I'm referring to PowerShell.)

It's a little weird to me when devs don't immediately go to the command line, given that's just how I learned, but you've gotta recognize that it's not a flaw that they don't. Everyone just learned a little differently.
A two bedroom in Nebraska runs you $500 per month. Timezone is off by 2 hours. Internet is 30 down 5 up for $60 per month.

There is a reason why companies like http://www.hudl.com/ are killing it here. You can fight for years, or have a ranch with basement when you're a 26-year-old developer.
Of course, you don't necessarily have to find "professional" work. I know a few small-time ranchers who raise sheep and alpaca on modest plots of land, for example.
Phrenology has had its adherents over the years, none that I know of were successful in proving any real predictive power though.

Brain size and intelligence seem to only be correlated in the loosest of ways anyway. Everything we know about performance of information processing systems says that their size and weight is almost irrelevant compared with their design. We expect simple algorithmic optimizations to provide orders of magnitude of improvement, and more advanced ones to provide more orders of magnitude on top of that.

If I recall rightly the metric with the best performance is ratio of brain to body mass. This would make sense if you assume that brain performance is determined largely by its 'design' and scales only modestly with mass, and that creatures of the same species share the same design.
Totally agree. In addition, it can just get plain overwhelming. Don't use a global, use a function -> what's a function? -> a subprogram with parameters and return values -> what's a parameter? a variable with scope existing only for the subprogram's duration -> what's scope? -> ... -> what's an abstract syntax tree?

When really they just wanted to increment the score variable by 10.
Say what you will about the technology, but the Bitcoin community attracts the most unsavory, scandalous people imaginable. It truly is a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Everything even tangentially related to it instantly becomes a source of scams, illegal activity, and just general shadiness. It's what has always turned me off of blockchain technology in general. I'm sure these same people exist in the fiat financial world as well, but it just has a lawless, wild west, dog eat dog atmosphere that is so off putting.
I’m pretty sure this was one of the main criteria for building the helicopter since the -reject is not essential to the mission but is instead is a demonstration.

It’s probably also why they’re waiting to fly it so that the rover is a bit further away
Is your goal educating students to the best of their individual abilities? Or correcting for societal inequalities that aren’t that kid’s doing or fault, meanwhile using the kids as pawns in the pursuit of that goal of equal outcome?

I’m heavily biased toward meeting the needs of the individual students. If you don’t, affluent parents will nope out of your school anyway (and possibly out of the neighborhood altogether), as they reasonably should.

We are heavily pro-public schooling, attending and volunteering often at the elementary school and intending to attend the high school, but grades 6-8 schools are a mess in our town, so we’re going to private schools for those years. It’s not worth sacrificing our kids’ academic outcome at the altar of fairness and equality pulled down to the lowest common denominator.
Do you believe the following investments are equally attractive?

1. You invest $100,000 into a fund which has a 1% chance of returning 100% and 99% chance of returning -100% each year.

2. You invest $100,000 into a fund which has a 20% chance of returning 100% and a 80% chance of returning -100% each year.

The possible payouts are the same. The expected values are not. Given the opportunity to invest in both with no difference in fees or other structure, would you leave your decision up to a coin flip?
If you’ve ever poked around the spec files for Fedora, CentOS, or RHEL you know that this wouldn’t work. Everything is extensively patched. You might as well just call everything rhel-$project. Some projects genuinely have a hundred separate patches.

Linux distros simply wouldn’t work without this. Once you have two pieces of software that depend on different versions of libfoo or two different versions of glibc it’s over. Nix is doing heroic work in this space but it’s also doesn’t care that you have 12 different versions of zlib that in an enterprise world still need security backports because upstreams don’t do that.
FWIW, s390 wasn't really discontinued in 1998. There's still new s390 chips being designed and used.
>NVENC/NVDEC are not CUDA, they are API's for accessing the fixed function hardware on Nvidia GPUs.

Not necessarily, NVENC can use CUDA cores for hardware acceleration too for certain features[1] -

>HEVC encoding also lacks Sample Adaptive Offset (SAO). Adaptive quantization, look-ahead rate control, adaptive B-frames (H.264 only) and adaptive GOP features were added with the release of Nvidia Video Codec SDK 7.These features rely on CUDA cores for hardware acceleration.

>Nvidia Video Codec SDK 8 added Pascal exclusive Weighted Prediction feature (CUDA based). Weighted prediction is not supported if the encode session is configured with B frames (H.264).

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_NVENC
Bootstrapping a defense business with ~zero background in defense was tbh one of the most amazing possible things to do in 2003-2005. I probably should have bailed in 2005 or so and go back to startups, but I was still convinced the 2001 recession was there.
I have a BS in Mech Eng from there I got a MS in Computer Engineering working on Computer Vision and robotics. If you are good with python and care about good code then it should be no problem to switch.
"a) most engineers suck at programming."

I find that to be not true. Most engineers suck at regurgitating the correct textbook CS algorithm or data structure from memory, but they are very good at engineering, which is what the overwhelming majority of programming is.

If I had to choose between a CS major and a ME for an engineering project that involved software development I'd choose the ME almost every time, all else being equal. The exceptions would be cases where academic CS knowledge is required. They exist but not nearly as frequently as Silicon Valley would have anybody believe.
But that simply isn't true! What training did Michael Phelps do to get those extraordinarily long arms and flipper-like feet? Now don't get me wrong, he trains like a madman, but someone who trains equally hard without those genetic advantages is going to lose. Doesn't mean it's not worthwhile trying to be the best swimmer you can be. It does mean that you shouldn't get depressed if you can't beat him.

The people at the top of any field combine hard work with genetic predisposition. You need both because you will be competing with people with both.
Whatsapp was not bought only for its revenues or revenue potential, but also to protect against them turning around and using that userbase in a way that could turn into a threat to Facebook (whether themselves, or by selling to someone else).