jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don’t think that I’ve missed the author's point; but any time I see an if statement and polymorphic code used near each other, I question whether or not the programmer understands OOP. His example is not exactly using polymorphic code, but he is basically dispatching based on the runtime type.

We know that a method that accepts parameters that are reference types should check to see if they are null. Since instance methods cannot check their first parameter (the this pointer), we make it impossible for outside code to call instance methods. Now callers never have to worry about the runtime type of an object or whether or not it’s null.

If you’re going to circumvent the type system with explicit casts then, of course, you’re going to get invalid cast exceptions, but that’s for the client code to deal with.
Fair enough. I guess my assumption is that all diet advice is garbage and people should just figure out what works for them. The government and health system have obviously been of no help to people.

I was surprised to learn when my kids were born that hospital food is just about as greasy and generally unhealthy as any fast food you're likely to come across.
I forget whether it was leaked or not but I read an FBI report on this exact issue and there was a truly alarming amount of [censored to avoid compromising an ongoing investigation].

If this doesn't get snipped pretty quickly this is seriously "end of a society" material.
Pfizer is the manufacturer of this vaccine. I don’t follow.
Thanks for the reference. But this misses out on another important tool already in use against spamming: White lists.

Yes, in theory PoW makes mass mailing very expensive and thus directly hurts spammers that are not on the common anti-spam white lists. Organizations that need to mass mail users for legitimate reasons are however most likely already on anti-spam white lists and thus need not to do a very hard PoW hash or none at all as they are already proven to not be spamming.

So this paper's conclusion is not the real deal.
So, lets assume this is price manipulation is true.
If they print tether, and buy BTC/USDT on an exchange than someone else has to go long the other side (USDT/BTC). When 600 mil of USDT was printed and was used to purchase 600 mil of BTC/USDT, then who purchased 600 mil USDT/BTC.

It doesn't make sense that people who want to cash out of BTC at a certain price level will cash out through USDT because there is no exchange to redeem USDT to USD directly. You have to cash out through USD/BTC or USD/ETH.

There are arbs traders who maintain the peg the USD/USDT, but arbs traders will always attempt to have a net 0 position, it doesn't make sense for them to hold tether either. Defi flash loans like AAVE and byz offer 0 collateral loans. If they are not using flash loans, then they will post collateral with USD (as this is presumably how they want profits) to short whatever ticker they need to short for the arb play.

If bitfinex and tether keep printing tether, someone is holding all this tether. A lot of this is probably held in defi liquidity pools and AMM pools, but the total reserves in these exchanges (Compound, curve, dydx...) is far less than the 600 million printed.

Perhaps the same institutions printing are the last holders, but Why would tether and bifinex hold their tether if it is truly a scam? I am confused as to who the last holders of tether are, if people are swapping tether for BTC and BTC for USD. Most people that buy tether (other than people supplying liquidity pools) do so to swap to another token for a real potential of gains, since Tether will never gain in value significantly with a 1:1 peg.
Pointing out bias and lying are ad hominmem attacks now? Almost every one of the videos posted to Ngo's twitter are accompanied by his own commentary so I'm not sure how you could claim otherwise. And even if they weren't, I know of at least one specific incident where his sharing of a carefully edited video with missing information created a completely false narrative. His "reporting" has been deeply intertwined with the violence in this city, directly collaborating with violent far right groups, helping to doxx political activists and leading to multiple instances of death threats.

I understand that you're not in Oregon or even the US - and even though Ngo clearly speaks to your politics, he's not an accurate source of information. There's an abundance of information showing that to be the case.
The barrier to being a creator on youtube getting paid is much higher than it was in 2015. The minimums insure most will never make it as google takes 100% of those ads.

Instagram is falling out now. The market is drying up. People want real experiences.
Where have you been OP? I've been waiting for years.

I will totally pay for this. Tired of paying yearly subscriptions to Parallels Desktop Lite which is another frontend to the OS hypervisor.
I'm not singling out Aladdin.

IMO all the live action remakes are shameless money grabs. Remakes in general are creative bankruptcy. Very rarely do they bring something new to the table.
> Healthcare, for one - there are lifesaving treatments...

The correct metric would be life expectancy, as it sidesteps the zero priors problem. Using that, the healthcare you are talking about looks a lot more like the diminishing returns you get on higher priced modern cars. Before anyone says anything about "quality of life", I'd recommend looking at the way assisted living operations are run. Anyway, we really started to lose steam after dentistry... dunno what the analog would be for cars, power steering?

> If the house you "need" to fulfill a specific lifestyle...

This is another thing I've been dealing with recently. I've delayed entry into the housing market way past what I'd have liked because the pricing makes no sense to me, and I've found that usually if something doesn't make sense to me - it is because it is misrepresented. After watching the market for a few years in two very different parts of the country I noticed something interesting: sub-million dollar homes were quickly getting more expensive, and multi-million dollar mansions were relatively static. I wonder how much of that has to do with home-loan accessibility, similar to the cost of educating students magically increasing in lock step with student loan program scope and availability.
> Something interesting and disturbing has been happening over the last twenty years. The Internet stopped being a technological puzzle and became a social and political puzzle.

The “internet” as a thing is still capable of the same things it was 20 years ago. The proportion of people using the internet who care more about the social and political puzzle rather than the technological is what dramatically increased.
But synagogue can also means a place for religious study. In some Islamic cultures even today (e.g. Afghanistan under Taliban rule), a "school" is synonymous with a place for religious study--learning to read & write and even basic arithmetic is incident to the purpose of studying religious texts. Couldn't this have also been true of many Jewish communities in Eastern Europe? That is, "school" simply referencing religious study activities at the local synagogue, such that going to school quite literally implied going to the synagogue?

After all, in the West schools for children as we understand them today are relatively modern inventions--not just the details (e.g. the Prussian system), but the whole notion generally. Christians historically didn't emphasize literacy as strongly as Judaism and Islam.[1] In general it was something acquired at home, and when and where schools were eventually organized they naturally had a more secular character, notwithstanding they were usually administered by clergy. Few Christians would ever conflate "church" and "school"--neither place nor function--but in some other communities (contemporary and especially historically) such distinctions are rather subtle if not empty.

[1] AFAIU, Islam always emphasized literacy as a component of religious practice. But for the first several hundred years still maintained a distinction between secular and non-secular scholarship that we would recognize today. Then a sect of Islam erasing that distinction became predominate, achieving in Islam what many Christian sects have heretofore failed to achieve despite unrelenting efforts over the millennia. (Absolutely nothing new about the religious right trying to "put god back into the classroom". It's just that Christianity as a whole, especially Western Christianity, has been an outlier in maintaining a persistent theological and practical distinction.)
Nice! I've built a little game in Vue.js (IP wasn't mine and it never launched), but I found that the CPU usage was heavier than I'd like it to be when functionality became non-trivial (many things moving at once). Maybe I modelled it badly though.

Can you give more detail on how you hooked vue into phaser? I'm really interested in whether that would have fixed the issues I saw.
CPI measures annual change in the price of goods consumed. A house is not consumed within anywhere near a year, and also has expenses. The parties in a housing sale may not be consuming the house at all, but treating it as an investment and renting it out. Stocks, investments, etc. aren’t consumables so they aren’t included either.

Rent is the price of housing consumption.
The Finnish air force is in the final stages on deciding the purchase of next-gen fighters to replace the aging F/A-18 Hornets. I wonder how this might affect the decision process.

(Currently on the short list are: F/A-18 EF Super Hornet, F-35A Lightning II, Dassault Rafale, Eurofighter Typhoon and JAS 39E/F Gripen.)
"I still see uptime in terms of weeks including mandatory reboots due to OS updates."

This now applies to every OS out there. Windows, iOS, Linux, ChromeOS (aka Linux :). It's simply not a bragging point anymore.

"I think it's easy to say that other desktop OS's are years behind and falling farther behind with each release."

You're right that it's easy to say. That makes you technically correct - the best kind of correct :). I personally disagree, and think this XKCD strip is relevant:

http://xkcd.com/934/
No complains about android ? Lollipop is the worst Android update ever, there is a bug where the system process take up RAM until the phone can barely use one app without killing the last one and slow everything.
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=79729
Needless to say, /r/buttcoin has run out of popcorn. So it's had to move to altcorns.
Fantastic achievement if they pull it off.

Incidentally, Alex Honnold, one of the climbers interviewed in the article, is the star of one of the most frightening videos I have ever seen - him free-soloing El Sendero Luminoso:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phl82D57P58

Even though I know perfectly well that nobody fell to their death on that climb, and have done a fair bit of climbing myself, I can’t watch this video without having a powerful physical reaction.

It’s mind-boggling what some people are capable of.
I have exactly the same problem on multiple machines.

Plus, the wifi fiasco, over which more than one person should have been fired.

I am barely sticking with Apple for now, mostly because in startups it is the default, but I don't plan to replace my apple equipment with more apple products.
Modern Monetary Theory, basically it's a preposterous idea that central banks and governments can just willy nilly print money to their hearts content to do anything they want without ever having or worrying about inflation or any negative side effects whatever.
Unless there is some curious property of light I don't understand (and given my perplexity at radial polarization, there may well be), there's no way that external light coming into the glasses can be diminished by internal light emitted by the glasses.

For instance, if you're looking at a white wall in the real world, there's no way to render a black shape in front of it. You can only add luminance to it, in the same way a video projector can only add luminance to the screen it's projecting an image onto.
China has two economic spheres in that respect, the market economy and the state economy. Woe betide any private company that tries to compete directly with a state enterprise. They can work with them but not against them.

This is probably why Jack Ma got in trouble over ANT. Banking, or at least a large swathe of the official finance sector, is largely a state monopoly. Private companies largely rely on informal or private financing.
> pretty much just like IRC

The media capabilities are nothing like IRC.

In fact I moved to Element because Conversations had trouble with media.
I once did an exercise where I went over every single news article on the front page of my prefered online paper and asked myself if that was relevant to me and my life.

The answer was no to everything single one. That was pre-covid, and sometimes the news are relevant, but you can mostly do a quick checkup once a week. Prefer something in text form that you can scan over.
SRE would of course require to be on-site but I think building some docker images and checking if some LAMP stacks run fine could be done remote.
And this is what has made the far right (and Trump) so attractive recently. The far right says "No, fuck you!" to pretty much everything the far left says, speaking power which is attractive. And in a country where you only have two political choices, it's always a devil's bargain because the policies of those parties become more and more polarized by their extremist elements.

Most people don't want the far left OR the far right, except they basically have no choice but to pick one, so they pick the one that feels the least like they're being trampled upon and then dutifully demonize the opposition. When both sides are peddling oppression, the people choose out of pain avoidance rather than positive, thoughtful action.
"...get started:

Pick a social media channel..."

That's the best way to have a rug pulled from below you later, whenever the social channel decides so. Maybe not even the channel itself but any intermediary like Paypal.

IMO much more more than "presence", contacts are valuable and should be aimed for. The more channels, more possible contacts and more opportunities to do business directly without risks mentioned above. Of course there are still risks, but it's better when 1 client scams you than when your whole platform suddenly moves on.
Assume this: My open, but as a private person, opinion is that it's ok to steal money from my employer. Should I be CEO?
Maybe they're both overvalued?
Using Google Spreadsheets as a bare-bones CMS is a very popular option in news media, like newspapers.
Might be one of the saddest things I've read linked out of Hacker News. As developers we're doomed to a future of using a awful language because it happened to be at the right place at the right time and was good enough. Now we're stuck with it. Reminds me of DOS.
> SETI comes off as such a useless endeavor, especially when you consider we couldn't even detect a civilization like ours.

This is easy to say BECAUSE of SETI. Data supporting the null hypothesis is still useful.
>My only point was that blackmail is not rape in Illinois. Interpret that as you wish.

The issue here is that, in your ignorance of legalese, you've misinterpreted the word "force" with a colloquial definition.

Then, because of a mental bias like Dunning-Kruger, you did not stop to think that your ignorance to law would prevent you from having an understanding, you assumed that you were correct in your interpretation by default.

In law, "force" is an interesting concept. You assumed it meant only "unlawful violence" but in law "compulsion" is the second major part of force. As in, compelling someone to act against their free will, which violates their Inalienable Right to Liberty.

You should investigate the legal concept of "force" further because I think you'll find that coercion, blackmail, duress, or any other form of behavior control constitutes legal force and would quality as rape under Illinois law.
> You must be a real hardcore hacker to enjoy it, though

Why do you say this? I thought it was very accessible.
Caveat emptor. If you plan on reselling you should think twice about stuff like this.
I attended a conference once where the invited speaker, Raul Rojas, showed that the Z3 was a universal computer, which wasn't previously believed to be the case. The basic idea of the proof was to show that you could have a single while-loop on the Z3 containing a big case-statement in the body of the loop which basically simulates a (finite) Turing machine.

The interesting part of this talk however was this: the Z3 did support neither loops nor conditional branches per se! Instead, it could just compute a series of mathematical operations encoded on a punched tape.

To simulate the case statement without the conditional branching, the trick you do is you execute every branch of the case-statement each time, but you only allow one of the branches to write the results of its computation back to the machine's memory.

But how do you get a while-loop? Well, you just glue the ends of the punch tape together! ;-)

(More details here: http://www.zib.de/zuse/Inhalt/Kommentare/Html/0684/universal...)
I just called the hotel, but they were not particularly helpful. I was transfered four times. The only person who answered my question could barely speak English. He said, "21 and up." I've never gone to this particular bar, but I doubt that's true. I used to organize happy hours for some interns at my last job, and I picked hotel bars specifically because they rarely carded at the door. They typically expect a mix of underage and overage patrons, and card at the the time of order.

The number is 202.484.1000 if you want to give it a try. It already exhausted my annoyance threshold, since I am over 21.
I personally like documentation to be brief. This is easier if you are targeting management, because they're not going to digest details anyway, so you only include the essentials.

Brevity helps maintainability. It increases the chance of correctness. It also saves time; you will never anticipate every question, so it is far better to document some basics and instead just expect to answer questions periodically.

To be able to answer questions, you should document the people involved with each part of a system. This makes it incredibly obvious if you have any holes (i.e. is there any place in the system where, if ONE guy leaves the company, you're screwed?).

OmniGraffle (on the Mac) is an outstanding tool for making various charts.
Bravo! Well said, all around. The world is changing in so many ways. Those of us who work day-in and day-out in technology are probably among the most aware of how if you don't adapt, you can very quickly fall behind while the rest of the world moves past you. But your post touches on a lot of other points the guy made, and how they're kind of ... not quite right. Anyway, thanks for the wall of text. Good read - better than the original blog post even.
I probably would, yeah, unless I actually took the time to examine the design and calculate Q. I'd've been wrong in that case.

Actually, I probably wouldn't, because if it had occurred to anyone that they ought to ensure that the bridge design had no high-Q vibrational modes, the problem would have been found and averted before the first caisson was sunk.
Unless we're talking about adding the debate to the queue of debates we're having, that is. Even then, I suppose, it should be enqueue...
yep, our blog is hosted on a third party service completely unrelated to our website and APIs
Is anyone able to explain the OpenFeint business model in a nutshell? Are games paying to have OpenFeint support? That doesn't seem likely in this environment. The OpenFeint platform, at least on android, doesn't seem to offer any cross promotion or advertising.

Is it a spyware/marketing intelligence play?
The commenter, Akhil Mathew, finished third in last year's Intel Talent search. He's a freshman at Harvard now.

I googled him after the announcement, and when I found his Math Overflow profile, I remember being really stunned--the idea that a high schooler could be interacting on such a high level with some of the best research mathematicians in the world is amazing.
Can't agree with this more. A self-driven and independent person is worth 3 people who are smart but require direction. They make your life easier and increase your productivity by not just helping you with your work - they help you with your thinking.
As things stand now, we don't have a perfect understanding of how the Earth's core works. Even if we did, though, the amount of energy that would be required to start up a magnetic field on another planet would be, well, astronomical. Keep in mind, the planet weighs 6x10^23 kilograms. A full mole of kilograms is going to take a lot to get spinning.

Will we ever have that much energy at our disposal? That depends on how likely you think humans are to a) annihilate ourselves and b) continue our roughly exponential growth of technology indefinitely.
I think earlier liquidity is healthier for the eco-system.

It allows more mobility of employees and the creation of new companies when people cash some of their stock for cash and move on and found new companies.

It only sucks for companies that treat their employees badly, or don't compensate enough, etc...
Remember that in a lot of cases you're not comparing against the cost of online advertising, you're comparing against the cost of an external salesforce.

Many businesses are perfectly happy to spend 10k to acquire a customer who'll pay them 50k over the next three years.

Assuming you're not running hugely expensive hackathons a low conversion rate can still give a decent ROI.

Even if you CAC is relatively low you can still make hackathon commercially viable. A lot of smaller vendors will partner together to split the cost of hackathons between them or will become external sponsors to third-party hackathons in order to reduce the costs involved.
You realize that the alternatives are fax, postal mail, and attachments on cleartext emails, right?
And in the case of food processing, cache "expiration" is definitely something to take into account :)
The benefits of a tech interview is that you have an opportunity to present a challenge to the candidate that contract work may not have. I increasingly use problems I have run into myself while working on the product we are hiring for. It's good to know how a candidate will solve these critical problems, because bad solutions can be really bad for your team and product. Contract work will also eat up time just getting the dev running the development environment and leak code/product secrets.
The advice i gave to my kids when walking to school... don't assume a vehicle is going to stop for you at a crossing.
I understand the downvotes -- after all that someone's parents pay for their rents shouldn't necessarily disqualify that person's viewpoint, right?

But, after living here for almost a decade, after paying my way through NYU ($100k to go! Wheee!), after watching disgusting situations (like an 24 year old account "executive's" mother call her boss to complain about the hours she was working), I have to strain every muscle in my body not to immediately disqualify kid's (because the good majority are just that, kids) who's parents pay the rent.