jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The access to cheap credit drives up the price of the underlying asset.
You can see it in auto loans, where the average price of a new vehicle has ballooned to over $40,000 in recent years while loan payment periods stretch to 5, 6 and even 7 years.

Part of the increase is no doubt because new cars are getting larger, safer, and more technologically complex — but I think that part of it is that auto-makers have less of an incentive to control costs if their margins increase.
It shouldn't be though, and it's gonna take influential cryptocurrency people wising up fast to divest from btc into those other projects before righteous public sentiment gets used by central banks against all cryptocurrency projects. All of their effort and hype will be entirely in vain if they don't think hard and fast about the real human impacts of what they're investing in.
Usually as long as I develop I have structs that I change inside a small module, then I can recompile just the module and access the new struct, e.g. for neural networks.

It's not perfect but it's something.
That’s the only right way.

Talent is still scarce, even remote. There is not nearly enough good developers out there to fill all the demand. Employers who try to tell you differently in order to cut pay for going remote cheat you out of the salary which a good dev deserves.

I’ve explained it in great detail here:

https://dusted.codes/equal-pay-for-equal-work
I'm justifying some riots indeed.

What would you do if you were oppressed by your government?
Some governments even make protesting illegal and rig the elections (if they're even having elections at all).

Desperate times call for desperate measures, unfortunately.
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach is "his and Russell's prior AI book". It seemed as if you were talking about a different book.

In the HN comment he says "the Lisp code that Russell and I had online" so I don't think it's difficult to guess it's indeed AIMA he's talking about.

I don't think that the book, in any of the four editions, "primarily uses or encourages Python". I have not checked them all, but I expect the book to still use pseudocode exclusively. Elsewhere, they provide implementations in different languages: https://github.com/aimacode
What are you talking about? Merch is where a lot of influencers make the bulk of their money with often putting less then a part-time job of effort into it.
I feel like this is a blind spot of VCs - thinking that every oscillation in something - like the current price in oil - is the "new normal" - when it is just as likely to go back to where things were before in 3-5 years.

Occupational hazard, I think.
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Didn't Dominos do this a few years ago with a pizza delivery button? It was pretty cool but I never got one.
Sorry for editorialized title, but this is a good example on how not to do an April Fools joke.
> If there's one thing you should hire for, it's intellectual acumen, a high “figure shit out” quotient with the ability to grind

I think this is true in general. I've worked with highly intelligent, but less-motivated people, and you're always waiting for that magical moment when they come out of their lethargy and become a 100x worker. And that moment usually never happens.
People have made very good arguments that the atomic bombs didn't cause Japan to surrender: http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japa...

Like you say, it's arguable, but it's arguable both ways. That's what makes working on atomic weapons such a morally questionable enterprise.
I'm about to give it up on Android again.

Nice browser. Better than Chrome. But the UI sucks.
First they managed to have a different UI on tablets (phone: Tab button in the upper right corner, upper left on the tablet). Then they iterated and came out with a new (and soon to be if not already) mandatory tablet UI that just .. well .. it's bad.

I still regularly try to open a link in a tab and hit 'share', because at some point in the past they decided that the menu on a link should be

- share

- open in tab

- open in private tab

etc.

I'm a fan, use it on the desktop, wish that FxOS succeeds - but Fennec is a constant nuisance and complete UX failure for me.
This disruptive solution really helps me solve my only remaining excuse to not get out of the house. Buying detergent at the store nearby every 3 months was such an ordeal. Thanks Amazonistan.
You make a very good point, but I think you may be over-weighting the "chain of command" aspect of the corporate body and under-weighting the "flame-fests are fun, but somebody has to make a decision" aspect of a mailing list discussion.

My personal favorite result of the latter are trigraphs in the C standard. Nobody liked them, but nobody argued strongly against them because they were introduced so late.
If I were using it, its primary use case would be to prevent my personal or business data from falling into the hands of criminals.

Read into that any double meaning you like.
Sorry, but what's a "topcolor"? Are we talking about this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topcolor ? I'm confused.
What about variables nested within these functions then? Is scope enforced? i.e. you can reach back to variable aa in function a() from nested d() but can't reach variable dd in d() from a()?
What is the purpose of this? The URL is already pointing to the store - the actual site which hosts the page. Instead now we have a shortened URL which stores the document. So they just took away the distributed nature of the URL and put it all in one store (bitly).
10,000 Bank Complaints, per day in the UK alone: http://bit.ly/gMZF4u
Hardware - Macbook pro

OS - Ubuntu 10.10 (dual-boots Ubuntu and OS X with rEFIt but I always use Ubuntu).

Shell - Bash

Language - Ruby

Editor - gEdit, Nano, Quanta+

Git client - Git Cola GUI, shell
They ARE implemented as COW. It's discouraged to use explicit reference passing if you don't want to alter the array as PHP has to do a slight bit more work if you pass a reference.

I think copy on write was added in the 5.1 timeframe (around 2005)
It doesn't work quite the same way but krunner is also quite nice.
In all fairness, the XSS protection in ERB expressions is a new feature of rails 3.0 which isn't out for that long. Before that you had to use the h helper (which of course is much easier to type than htmlentities)
Timely article, comsidering 37Signals
is relocating their entire team to Chicago. Apparently they are freaked out, not about their employees, but about people in their homes who might break in to their stuff. Aka ex spouses et al. So David H said they will all work from the Chicago office, with iMacs
Chained to their desks and wear
uniforms. No more working from home or laptops unless it's on open source projects. I'd link to the post on 37Signals blog, but I'm in bed and on an iPhone.

Just cruise to their corporate blog. They posted the details a few days ago.
Ouch! That was too well said.
Moxie openly admits he centralized because it is easier and that decentralizing is too hard. We should all just give up and pick the least bad centralized service.

With that thinking we would all be using AOL.

Making a robust flexible protocol that can support a bunch of different client and service implementations is hard, but that is how we ended up avoiding email and web browsing being controlled by a single entity.

Matrix is solving the hard problem of providing the core functionality of tools like Slack and Whatsapp without sacrificing user freedom or asking you to trust any one entity.

This is what ethical engineering looks like, and I don't mind tolerating occasional growing pains in exchange for freedom.
I hate the jump cuts. It's just distracting when a sentence has been spliced together from four or five takes (or maybe just two which they alternate between).

It's as distracting. And hard to follow. As it would be. To read a sentence. That has had full stops added. All over the place. Like this.
I've been running this setup. Mac mini M1 connecting to LG 4K monitor over HDMI at 60 Hz, with DisplayPort to a 4K Wacom Cintiq also at 60 Hz. It works flawlessly.
> There were significant architectural and sometimes even algorithmic challenges to be solved, and not solving them properly would mean either bugs or unmaintainable software.

I get that, and I don't mean to suggest that some bits of this aren't tricky.

But with an architectural problem (for example), it's usually a choice between 2 or 3 options. We know what the options are, we know what the trade-offs are, we can make guesses on what we think the impacts will be. It's a "known known" problem, with usually enough time to research it fully. Implementing it properly can be difficult, but that's the kind of thing that can be iterated if necessary - we don't have to get that right first time.

There are lots of management and people problems where none of this is true and it's very much a "known unknown" that has to be got right on the first try, without knowing all the possible tradeoffs or consequences, and under time pressure.
It's very good for you to delete your account. Don't forget to remove your Twitter account too. (If you have one)
Capitol police allowed selfies with them as protesters were leaving
Given that this would make Mike Pence the acting president, how would that be a coup? In this story, would Mike Pence be a puppet to greater, shadowy forces?
I will remember.
I thought the same until I looked closely at the rotated objects as they landed. Not -quite- right.

Still. Lovely game and very charming and thoughtful artwork.
Actually, all I did was post it on hackernews. This generated a lot of initial momentum, but page views are now slowly declining, so I guess I need to find new channels to promote it.
If PEP-441[1] makes it to Python 3.5, pex like functionality will be a part of the standard library.

[1]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0441/
Fun fact that should be point out: Most of those issues and pr’s comes from core team members. There is almost no community around it, but looking at these numbers you get the impression that it is otherwise.
I don't know, but I do these things mostly via other social media platforms.

My friends use WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Twitter, Instagram etc.
Lindsey Graham was very much publicly against Trump, then news came out his email was hacked by Russia, and soon after his stance turned 180 degrees. It's all coincidental but there are just too many coincidences to disregard it.
> Presumably because they would like to be able to set up a date with their hairdresser and participate in parents groups.

That's a problem, but it's their problem. Having a problem doesn't justify coercing others (in this case, Facebook) to solve it for them.

It's OK if we want to solve those problems for them, but it's not OK to force someone else to solve them.
I think the danger lies mostly in apps that both access my data and hardware and the web. For local apps accessing hardware or data, I can often control whether it sends that data elsewhere.

A web app almost by definition uses the network, so if I give it access to my camera or my file system then it’s very hard to know exactly if or where that data is sent.

This isn’t perfect for native either, the dialog to accept network usage is basically a blanket grant to connect anywhere or send anything.
I agree with your basic point, but... 2014 wasn't democracy in action. It was a revolution.
Then you might be interested in a new project called JupyterLab Classic, an alternative JupyterLab distribution with the Classic Notebook look and feel: https://github.com/jtpio/jupyterlab-classic

Once the vim and black extensions adopt the new extension distribution system, they should also be compatible with JupyterLab Classic.
Unfortunately this only shows things like paragraph markers and tab characters, not all formatting. It doesn’t help resolve, for instance, why only the top level number of my numbered list is displaying as a black box.
No unfortunately, didn't even see that when I pasted.
Firefox the way to go
Funny how apparently the biggest Bitcoin company is a bank for centralized storage and management of Bitcoins, which was the exact opposite goal (according to the idealists) of bitcoins. Next up they'll probably offer interest and loans/mortgages.
where have you been for the past 8 months?
OP might have been thinking of Itanium (ia-64), a different 64 bit PC architecture from Intel. It was shockingly expensive

There was certainly development on ia64 in the kernel in 1999 under Project Trillian [1][2], although the first chip wasn't released commercially until 2001

Alternatively they may have been thinking about PAE, which was released in 1999 and allowed linux kernels to address upto 64GB on a 32 bit processor [2]

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/1999/3/9/48

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Trillian

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension#His...
Voter ID, removal of hackable voting machines, and hand count of votes are not disenfranchisement. You may have been told by the media that it is, but it's not. Many advanced democracies have such things in place.
Could you explain what this POC shows?
I think they are gonna do that, our government is tending to become authoritarian, it's too early to tell if that's good or bad overall. The reason they have not hindered whatsapp is that unsubstantiated whatsapp forwards actually helped them politically.

I see India becoming more and more similar to Russia, especially since Adityanath is likely next PM candidate, and since opposition is not strong enough, being stuck at 90s with minority appeasement tactics and almost centered on single family, the majority of people will think internet censorship is good for them.

Edit: I am not a "indian liberal" or right winger either, just a neutral look about the state of affairs.
My bad, should’ve done the research.

In a mid December CBS news poll, “82% of Trump voters say they do not consider Mr. Biden[‘s win] legitimate.” The vast majority of trump voters isn’t the same thing as half the country.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-poll-most-feel-electio...
They were never part of the public debate. The internet made it seem like they were for a while. Now the powers that be are making it right again.

Technocracy is the natural way of things. Democracy is just an illusion to keep people happy.
I'm not 100% sure what I'm looking at, but that seems to be related to reversing arrays/matrices, not accessing arrays through indexes.
> I don't publish my writing yet. But I still sit around producing pages; I wouldn't even be a dabbler if I didn't! In my opinion, the difference between me and a "generalist" is that my writing sucks.

But how do you know your writing sucks? You're obviously a learned guy who has a good command of language. If you published and shared your work with people, are you sure it wouldn't be received better than you think? Or maybe you'd improve in skill and ability from feedback and observation of your work out in the wild?

I find any discipline where I have deadlines and have to either ship, or a competition is coming up, or a talk must be given, or something where I have to deliver/perform on some level... I find I tend to get at least modest successes in those areas. The areas I haven't released work, I'm much less skilled/accomplished. Maybe I'm getting the cause and effect backwards, but I don't think it's entirely the case.

I know my writing changed (and I think, improved) a lot when I started writing publicly than when I wrote privately. It's... it's incredibly different, y'know? It sucks and it's hard and sometimes people say mean things about you, but in the end the real downside is quite low, and the upside seems quite high. And maybe your work is better than you give it credit for? Derek Sivers just wrote a really brilliant piece called "Obvious to You. Amazing to Others" [1] about how people systematically undervalue their own knowledge/skills/ability. Something like that at work, maybe?

[1] http://sivers.org/obvious
What does DSL stand for?

Edit: Ah, I guess it is Domain-specific language.
So, it's OK when thousands of people here say that they wish Microsoft would go away but I can't say that about Mozilla?

Makes sense.
Wow little tutorials like this with easy attainable data are so helpful. Thanks for posting.
Well, there is a REPL, but it's not that great:

$ nim i
>>> for i in 0..10:
... echo "Hello World"[0..i]
...
H
He
Hel
Hell
Hello
Hello
Hello W
Hello Wo
Hello Wor
Hello Worl
Hello World

To use up/down keys, build the Nim compiler with "./koch boot -d:release -d:useGnuReadline" or run "rlwrap nim i" instead.

Edit: It's even buggier than I remembered, best avoid it and use "nim -r c file" instead.
I don't know what you mean by "as a requirement for most datatypes". I work with molecules, where distances are typically measured in Angstroms and masses in amu. I don't want to have factors of 1E−10 and 1.660538922E−27 hanging around my code.
I had the same experience in grad school, and I can tell you that giving people (good!) style advice when they don't ask for it is pretty pointless. It's kind of like giving grammar advice that wasn't asked for.

People need to be in the right frame of mind to learn new things. Otherwise, if they're getting their point across, just let them keep talking (or coding).
>I don't see the death of the file, rather more of them than fewer of them.

Yes, I don't either, unless some radical invention comes along - maybe memristor based PCs from HP as was in the news some time ago - google "hp memristor computer" - so that there is no separate RAM and disk, just one kind of storage.

Even then, naming of data objects will be needed, so it may still be something like a file. Plus, there is a huge existing software investment in code to handle file names and file naming conventions - it must be something on the order of magnitude of the {m|b}illions of lines of COBOL code that still exist in production, maybe an order less ...

But many of these big revolutionary announcements (e.g. memristor-based PC) turn out to be vaporware, though some of them do end up in at least some spinoff tech that is of use. Time will tell.
As I recall, the CIA has an entire office for that. They already aggregate all world news (news is considered "open source" intelligence, and they find out more than you'd expect from it) so rest assured there are dozens if not hundreds of intelligence analysts every day who filter all the world news up the chain up to the guy who compiles the president's daily intelligence report.

EDIT: Ha, it gets better! They even have their own classified wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellipedia
There should be a third column with Battle.net 1 and all ticks.
The no-zooming thing is probably implemented with non-javascript parts of html/css3.

Yes, the whole web sucks now. What you need is a user-agent that chooses to carefully not implement some of its stupidity.
Climate scientists do know many things, the problem is it's hard to accurately quantify the rate at which changes will occur, which is so important to us because we only have a limited amount of time to change our energy system. Look at the IEA for example, they attempted to model the energy mix going forward and have been wrong about how quickly renewables would be adopted...basically every single year, they get it wrong. It's just very very hard to forecast and predict, but you're throwing out the baby with the bathwater saying they "don't know shit."

And they ARE proposing solutions by the barrelfull, the problem is politicians and many corporations simply don't listen and don't act.
I doubt that very much. More precisely, the scale required to make any change in terms of human time rather than geological time just isn't there.

Again, go back to the data: How is a country or a person better than all of humanity evaporating?

Let's say the US evaporates from the planet on Monday. No change. Atmospheric CO2 will continue to rise. China? Same problem. India? Same problem.

Once you look at the data dispassionately it is hard to conclude we have the ability to do a thing about it.

What we can and should be doing is to understand and model changes and plan for society to adapt.

I also believe the planet's own regulatory system is reacting to counter our influence, the question is one of scale and time. I haven't found any evidence that says the planet can fix this in 50 years when it has historically taken 50,000 without humanity around to muck it up.
Stop...what?
I think you make some excellent points. One side effect of working with Agile instead of waterfall systems is that changes are being pushed out to production at a staggering pace, the job of the Infosec person today requires some understanding of the fundamentals of SWE. Hilariously, I see this in my own organization, which has a Security department staffed by old-school "security" folks who have very very little idea about what our systems actually do, what kind of crypto methods they use to secure etc... and there is one person who does and she is the only person who gets anything done.
I've never been one of the tin foil hat $TSLA bears but can't help but notice odd things surrounding Tesla that appear highly questionable.

e.g. Elon has tweeted the Cybertruck has 250k+ pre-orders and counting. The pre-order deposit is only $100 (vs. $1000 when the Tesla 3 came out). The fact the deposit is only $100 for a $50k+ truck makes me question whether they intentionally set it at a low price to pump pre-order numbers, knowing full well that in 2 years time the majority of these people will likely not actually purchase the truck at all. And at 250k preorders it means Tesla has raised at least $25M in interest-free loans that they can do whatever with for the 2 years.

More than that they have no clear idea on how to scale production of this vehicle at present time, and considering how many Tesla 3 owners have complained about defects with a "standard" Tesla why would anyone believe that Tesla can produce high quality Cybertrucks at scale in a reasonable amount of time to fulfill legitimate preorders?
In many Russian territories, they are in fact. You'll see multi lingual signs and that kind of stuff. I was in Komi Republic this time last year and many signs had both Komi (a Fino language) and Russian, despite a very insignificant number of living speakers.
I'll quote from the cited New York Times article, for the first part:

> Berners-Lee wrote the code for a trio of protocols, and named them HTTP fnord (hypertext transfer protocol), HTML (hypertext markup language) and U.D.I.'s (universal document identifiers). U.D.I.'s eventually became U.R.L.'s, or uniform resource locators, the abbreviation that most of today's Web fnord users recognize. For the name of the system itself, he toyed with a few ideas. First came Mine of Information, or MOI, which seemed too egocentric. Then came the Information Mine, or TIM, which was even worse. Finally, he settled on World Wide Web.

The second part is well-known public information that is not contradicted.

Where is the personal attack, exactly? It sounds like you're embarrassed on TBL's behalf, but why? Didn't all of us, at one point, imagine being curator of our own library of information? I remember the imperious feelings that came with being able to command the computers to catalog data at my whims.
Of course it's not true. People don't even read the owners manual, or care about how anything in their car works. The amount of times I've shown somebody a feature they didn't know about in their own car is staggering.