jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They're not evil, well some of them are, but more like lazy when it comes to fact gathering/checking.
Hackers will suddenly become some of the most valuable people in society. Those tractors will be jailbroken inside of a month.

The average human wants to survive. If that survival is predicating on knowing about sustainable potato agriculture, you better believe that folks will learn.
Slicehost, much like Apple, doesn't want customers who primarily care about how much server space they are getting for the money.

Slicehost sells themselves on having superior support. (Now, I don't know if Slicehost support is /actually/ that much better than Linode, but if it is, the price difference could be a reasonable price to pay for the customers who need the most help.)
Which agrees with what Luc said. Essentially he's saying that Ikonos has to factor out its own motion. Hence the only motion left that's not factored out is the plane's.
How do database do I/O? Do they use the usual file api? Memory mapped files? Something else?
I mean a small part of the population has a six pack and a small part of the population has a 7 figure salary, but I think high salary is correlated with six pack, not anti-correlated.
I always preferred `Telemachus Sneezed'.
"That the current salaries of recent college graduates represent their probable average output over their lifetime." It doesn't represent that at all. It is saying that the value due to education can be roughly approximated by the starting salary. The gains from there are then more based on experience/work, not the education. Of course, you ignore the money made while you would have been in school. You also ignore the periods of unemployment.

That is indeed what it says, but that reasoning is wrong.

He's commenting that most of these expensive kids are unemployed and therefore make nothing. That is due to the economy. However the first job they get is likely to be at a higher salary than non-college students, and a college degree enjoys a permanent advantage throughout life in getting jobs and getting raises.

Even several years out of college, many employers will look at the presence of a degree when hiring. And it is an advantage again if you need to switch careers. (Which is becoming very common.)
This is a free service for public use.
I think this is a very worthwhile video to watch. Dawkins and Pinker (Dawkins in particular, of course) are part of a demimonde with something of a reputation for being uncompromising hardliners—no doubt because in their handling of theological questions they are uncompromising hardliners—but much of what Pinker's talking about here is teasing apart and deflecting the many superficial understandings of adaptationist and EvPsych-oriented thought that give it such a bad name. The fact is that many people who find EvPsych to be very attractive nevertheless have a pretty shallow notion of it and end up using it as a club, and offering cheaply Objectivist rationales for rape and looking at boobs at the like.

Pinker establishes two things within the first ten minutes that make his perspective a lot more reasonable and considered: any adaptationist account of a behavior MUST begin with an a priori appraisal of that behavior on its own merits. As an 'engineering problem', he puts it. So it's not enough to look at some human behavior and then explain that it occurs because it is a natural function of some basic need, if there would be no half-way reasonable way for that function to emerge as useful without already existing.

The second thing is that if you do establish or argue for some feature as an adaptation, you have only provided a possible account of its origin as an evolved behavior, and said nothing at all about its worth or appropriateness in the world.

I think that questions of behavior as adaptive would encounter less immediate resistance—and explanations of behavior as adaptive would lose much of their unsavory panacean appeal—if these factors were better understood.
Correction: I've seen that hacker spaces frown upon hackers sleeping there at night (which is fine). Am I wrong? Or is this correct? Any experience?
What if they don't have a credit card? Not everybody on HN is from a western country where everyone can get a card when they're 13.

Also, many credit cards don't have the person's full name but their initials and surname, which is useless for googling (or is the full name accessible when processing?).
The title is misleading. The article is about what not to write in an e-mail if you want to minimize the chance of the e-mail being discovered by law enforcement if you/your company ever end up in court.
Totally different network architectures. GV is all routed centrally, from my understanding. Apple cares at least to the extent that it doesn't cause PR issues. In any case, my point is merely that we don't know how much pressure AT&T put on Apple over the decision.
The name `thenables` is a good catch
I learned this back in uni, trying to optimize things with a friend who was an assembly language whiz. He could take one of my C(++) algorithms and hand code it to be 10x faster than I ever could... but sometimes I could come up with a new algorithm that was 100x faster. There's a reason we say algorithm optimisation >> cycle counting.
Hindsight? You have the same kind of folks who showed up at Charlottesville and other altercations and you can’t predict they will cause trouble?

The very idea that no-one could see this coming is ridiculous.
And this is a real problem because you don't really own your phone number: it's leased to you for as long as you pay for it but I don't think there is anything to prevent a telco (or VoIP service like Twilio) from taking that number back from you. This is another problem inherent in using a phone number as the source of your identity on a service. Email addresses are better but can still be subject to seizure. Perhaps the answer is what Session is doing: you get a GUID is that is assigned to you and that will never be assigned to anyone else.
Most days that’s fair. This week however, they should’ve had the unfriendly man with the M2. This was a predictable problem to literally everyone but the people in charge of protecting the capital.
Plus, classification is reserved for government documents, right? If someone's goal was to specifically expose "DNC secrets," a la Watergate, the most damaging information would likely not be "classified" in the formal sense of the word.
No. CDA section 230 covers all online services. There is no special social media exception.

The only way for the service to be a dumb pipe is to not involve any kind of promotion or ranking algorithms to it, other than spam filtering. In other words, you can't have a dynamic high quality forum that is open to the public, with focus on the best content displayed first, and also be a dumb pipe. To prevent all moderation and ranking based on quality and opinion would quickly turn most sites into pure trash.

It is unreasonable to apply such regulations to anything but the actual dumb pipe, the internet connection (net neutrality).

Federation is indeed a much better choice. Allows the host to still set a quality standard on their server, and is at the same time free from gatekeepers. See Mastodon, Matrix, etc. Go to whichever host will accept you, talk to anybody willing to talk to you, and bans only kick you off specific servers.

No regulation needed.
PPAP - production part approval process

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_part_approval_pro...
Better than that might be an internet-free LoJack. Finding a laptop thief might be at least as valuable as retaining the encrypted information that's on disk.

Edit: Also, stealing a laptop that belongs to the office of the US Speaker of the House will essentially never end well. There are endless examples to suggest that yesterday's fracas wasn't thought-through by the participants. This is one of them.
I find it hard to believe that people would want a free whitepaper or something like that in exchange for their email address. Why offer them anything - if they are interested in you product they'll sign up for your mailing list - if not, is there really something you can offer them to help.
First job out of college (2005) I was contacted when I posted my resume on Monster.com. Second job was at a startup which I got through a headhunter. Last one I made for myself! It's the best way =)
Thanks for the second book. Just got into programming this year and the book seems like a perfect read. I'm reading a book that's just like The Talent Code now, Talent Is Overrated.
Not to mention it isn't even BP's equipment. The rig was leased from and operated by American company Transocean.
Holy XSS injection, Batman!
> I'm going to reject the Continuum Hypothesis, ok?

OK.

> Now I take a subset of the reals, including Q,
> with lower cardinality but uncountable still.

Call it K, so K contains Q, and |Q| < |K| < c=|R|. OK.

> So now "almost all" of reals aren't these guys?

Yes. Almost all the K aren't Q, and almost all the R aren't K.

> And I can keep injecting infinities in there like
> this, ok...

Yes.

> Math doesn't tell me I can or can't do this!!

Correct.

> So I think I can choose my intuition, and math
> isn't even going to tell me otherwise.

Non-sequitur. The purpose of intuition is to guide you in developing proofs or solving problems. Feel free to use your own intuition and reject that of others. If you're not going to be proving theorems or solving problems, there's nothing wrong with having an intuition at odds with everyone else's.

However, as a data point, the intuition that's developed over the last two centuries or so, the one you reject, seems to work in proving theorems and solving problems.

The concepts of infinity contain much that seems contradictory. Intuitions based on your finite world simply don't work. The best way to develop new ones is to work with these things, or to accept the visualisations that others provide.
Legal discovery means that, when a lawsuit happens, both sides ask for (and receive) huge volumes of documents from the other party. Producing those huge volumes of documents can be quite challenging.

For example, someone in litigation with Google might hit Google with a discovery request saying "We want all documents, memos, and emails pertaining to search spam." That is, conservatively, millions of documents. So Google has to grab every email a Googler has ever written, then winnow that set down to just the relevant ones, then have lawyers pick through and exclude the ones protected by privilege, then get those hundreds of thousands of pages in a lawyer-accessible format delivered to the opposing party within a very tight timeframe.

This is challenging on Big Freaking Enterprise scales. Logik does the painful bits of it for you. They presumably charge Big Freaking Enterprise prices for it.
I only have one thing to point out about Borg and that is large numbers of Borg developers started working on Kubernetes. They got rid of Borg mistakes and replaced them with all new mistakes. :)

I don't see K8S being about lock-in at all. Using a cloud provider gives you some sort of lock-in and you should be utilizing that providers strengths.

Using Kubernetes is all about the patterns that it provides and how it removes a certain class of problems for you. Deployments, scaling, logging, etc are some of the patterns it provides and the consistency matters. How many of us have worked at companies where deploying two services have been completely different? One team runs the jenkins pipeline while another ftps the files over. Now multiply that by several services and several tasks (logging, scaling, etc).

The benefit is in the patterns.
I think I've already captured enough complexity in MakePostSell to make it possible to implement sales tax. It's not an unsolvable problem since we have plenty of examples in the wild.

I'm sure the examples hide the complexity with abstractions and I'm currently naive to all the edge cases, which makes me but not thankfully not ignorant to the path ahead.

From first principles we should be able to form a generalist approach to solving sales tax. Should be an algorithm in the public domain as far as I'm concerned. : )

I'd take a solution that got me 80% there.
In that case, I wonder why nobody has profited off it yet. I mean the volatility seems very helpful here.
We are all living biological computers.

(Well, except for the occasional experiments where people let GPT-2 or 3 post for them to see what happens).
Bitcoin can be used for transacting if you're not looking for instantly verified transactions.

In ye olden days, when Bitcoin was a few cents worth, transaction costs were tiny. I really doubt Satoshi et al predicted Bitcoin to be so unstable, so as to make transaction costs pretty much out of reach for 99% of normal everyday transactions.
>As of February 2021 Walmart has a market cap of $374.31 B

>As of February 2021 Costco has a market cap of $148.54 B

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/american-airlines-stock-si...

>“We are troubled by [American’s] wealth transfer of nearly $1 billion to its labor groups,” Baker wrote in a note to clients.

Treating employees well is punished by the market and neither Costco or American Airlines treat them particularly well, just less terribly than their competitors. A company necessarily has to treat its employees like shit in order to succeed.
I feel like the XPS 13 trackpad is fine, what's your beef with it?
I remember hearing a story, maybe from Ken Kesey, of someone who was given LSD during a medical trial and left with a pen and pad and told to write down how they felt about their mother. The researcher would be back later to get their notes and ask questions.

Research returns and is disappointed to find the pad empty and the subject unwilling to talk about his mother. The reason? He's just seen God and is busy drawing God on the wall.

So he utterly failed at his assigned task, but he had (arguably) achieved something far more important.
This doesn't actually sound like a "hack" or a "break-in" at all - at least according to Microsoft. It sounds like a lot of people are just getting phished or hit with malware. Not that that's a good thing, but it isn't strictly a Microsoft break-in, nor have Hotmail, xbox live, or Microsoft live been "hacked."
I don't think anyone is saying it's a necessity, just arguing the benefits. I seriously doubt it enhances code quality during the trip but the ideas and ways you visualize the problem may be drastically different. I'm guessing it's kind of like those ah-ha moments in the middle of the night when you solve a difficult problem.
I don't agree. A hacker is first of all characterized by the desire of knowledge and has little to do with coding itself. I don't believe that coding OS kernel all day is sufficient to call yourself hacker indeed.
There is a good chance that this particular comment came directly from Sony as a part of some sort of misdirection and damage control campaign. It does not read like something a teenager would write, it sounds more like a mom lecturing her adolescent, but I can't see parents taking time to comment in GeoHot's blog. So given the context it looks artificial.
When I bought peepcodes, they were always great. Usually including a couple of hours of video with an accompanying pdf. The production quality is excellent and for the price, you can't beat it.
V'Ger guy was being downvoted initially.
haha, this stuff is great !
What you're missing is that the CPU in Dell is the U series, which has a base TDP of 15 watts and goes up to 25 watts if the cooling is good. The CPU in MB Air is a 10 watt Y series, which is really weak (MacBook 12" leve weak). So you get miles more performance in Dell. Judging by the lack of comments on the CPU difference, Apple is really successful in fooling the public into thinking that a MB Air i5 is the same as any other ultrabook i5, which it is not at all.

Dell's CPU: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/196603/...

MB Air's CPU: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/196589/...

Apple used to put the U-series CPUs into Air up until 2015, leaving the much more performant H-series for the Pro. But ever since the 2016 they now put the U-series into the 13" Pro while the Air gets a really weak CPU. They effectively shifted the performance one step up in pricing. While all the PC manufacturers stuck to using the U series in the air-like chassis,relegating the Y series to laptops that need to be very thin and light, and small tablets.
Profitable.

Would be very profitable, if they had the income from their advanced processes without the R+D expense for those processes.
Thank you for writing this up!
From reddit:

“This is basically the report_final_FINAL2.docx of register names.”
Very interesting indeed. When do you expect the beta to start?
> For most, this is a Hail Mary attempt with only 50% survival rate.

Non Hail-Mary Ventilators have only a 30% survival rate at 1 year mark:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8404197

Incidentally, that's exactly why medical systems to not stockpile ventilators. Under reasonable condition, the number of ventilators closely mirrors the expected number of Hail Mary procedures done at a given time and some spare units.
But when you try and load the URL for this article with https://, it just redirects to http://.

So it would be pointless to change the URL to https.
This is quite an interesting piece as a survey of some of the Left and its relation to the climate crisis https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4404-eco-fascisms-and-eco-s...
The human body (and biology more generally) is fractal-like in its complexity. One day we may be able to model things accurately enough to not require experimental work, but probably not in our lifetime.
I wasn't sure if I was just dumb or if everyone recommending this book just kept it on their shelves and talked about it, sort of like Knuth or CLRS. I don't necessarily think it is a bad book, but it is hard to think of a better one to give someone to discourage them from getting into deep learning.

I started with a top-down approach via the fast.ai courses and learning Keras, then spent time brushing up on some of the math concepts (as you said, it assumes a fair amount of previous knowledge), and then went back and started re-reading it, and I finally feel like I'm starting to get some value out of it.

Definitely wouldn't recommend it as a first book, though.
Re-read as 30% slower in average and then it's a factual statement.
I was wondering about this. Will the design fail as it's so out there and truck owners see themselves in a classic truck shape. Or maybe the design works because truck buyers want a large, stand-out vehicle and the extreme design of the Tesla might just appeal to those who really want to stand out.
Not corn syrup. That takes way too much CO2 and water to produce. Not even corn itself I suspect.

It's partly the problem alleged marshland and forest sequestration schemes face, alongside the assumption they're going to grow well in the changed climate.

(Limited experimental data suggests this works up to some 500 ppm as long as there's excess water and minerals. If the conditions are bad you lose capture potential. And what do you do with the methane releases from these systems? It's much more diffuse than from landfills.)
Would really have to be a myriad of other things if that’s supposed to explain a 5x difference without the obvious reason for it.
The best about this is that for those multi-worded titles, you can create a different goatified name for every single noun (and most adjectives) and imagine a surprisingly different goat-game for each version.

Goat Space Program, Kerbal Goat Program, Kerbal Space Goat.
Goats of the Old Republic, Knights of the Old Goat, Knights of the Goat Republic.
Sins of a Goat Empire. Sins of a Solar Goat. Goats of a Solar Empire.
Goat War: Rome. Total War: Goat. Total Goat: Rome.

Each of the variations tells the condensed story of an entirely different imaginary goat-game and all of them are good (the stories, not necessarily the games).

I met the same thing before, only with movies instead of games and Jesus instead of goat. Had an IRC channel full of people who don't mind religious jokes running for hours.
Why? What is the threat model here? It's not like some serial killer is known to use random whois data. Your home address might already be "on the internet", in the form of the phone book.

I don't know if it seems alien to you, but it's an honest question. The first thing I did when I got Internet access was to put my contact info in my finger banner. When I got web access I put up a "home page" with my contact info. It's been there since, and I think it's a feature that people can contact me if they want.
Several thousand? Evidently you like to exaggerate. The content is circa 1000 words - but the point it makes in relation to this context is delivered in the first sentence.

I've used both before. Matlab in my CompSci BS and MS and Octave in my professional career.

I'm just making the point that your critique of Octave seems a little harsh, and to the Leyman skews the reality - that Octave is an open source alternative. Yes, a little rough around the edges if you intend to use the visual aspects of the tool, but for matrix multiplication etc it has its use cases.
That's a sentiment I would disagree with. Surely, there are better static type checkers out there, but all of them have compromises.

Many users of the language Java have trouble understanding the complications of proxies, generics and reflection. Unless one is well-versed in these technologies, one might be tempted to blame the type-checker.

Frameworks such as Spring or Hibernate, perturb the purity of the type-system. This creates complexity in larger projects, and again the users would blame the language, instead of the framework.

There are many valid complaints on Java's type system, such as its verbosity or type inference. Scala seems to solve the most pressing issues with these.

I'd say Objective-C's type-system is much less powerful.
Everyone always considers Apache as being synonymous with old school Java technologies. But they have a set of newer big data tools that are integral components at almost every major corporation or serious startup these days:

Accumulo, Ambari, Avro, Cassandra, CouchDB, Falcon, Flume, Hadoop, HBase, Hive, Kafka, Knox, Oozie, Phoenix, Pig, Samza, Spark, Sqoop, Storm, Tez, Zookeeper.

I can imagine many database companies in particular Oracle and Teradata wishing Apache wasn't as fantastically competent as they are.
An adjacent example is the continued use of cloth masks long after the supply of high quality disposable masks increased.
I've used them to install High Sierra on my Hackintosh and I don't own any Apple hardware. Apple may have restricted the availability of system images, but as far as I know, you can create fully-functional installer USB drives.
And Facebook will promptly ignore that too: https://ruben.verborgh.org/facebook/
Probably because it allows them to extert control over their hardware even when users hold it in their hands. Given System Integrity Protection this allows them to enforce rules on the client and trust them on the server. For example shipping apps from the app store that can't be pirated and trusting that iMessage clients are actual hardware owners with unmodified clients.

It is basically a DRM system.
Punchline: GitHub accepts arbitrary user input and spits it back out into page HTML without verifying it.
This fella is down at Northrop in Smell Segundo! My Dad always shoots me a text whenever he's had a chance to look at it. He told me a neat story once about the mirrors inside it... that when he stood in front of it, he felt really strange. It's because the mirrors we are all accustomed to have so many imperfections compared to the types used in this device. He wasn't used to seeing such a perfect mirror image.
A useful reminder: Brin and Page raised $100K in their angel round (from Andy Bechtolsheim). Their company HQ was a friend's garage.