jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Known" nuclear weapons. Good part of the motivation of that arms race was to discourage the enemy to start a war, even if they had everything to win it. In that line, there had been rumours of doomsday devices (like Dead Hand from URSS in the Cold War) that could put in danger most life on Earth, that could be triggered if some side loses or other defined conditions. It is a level up from mutual assured destruction.

And that example is from 50+ years ago. I don't know if something more advanced was developed more recently by either side. Technology and science had advanced a lot and both sides had a pretty big budget all this time. I prefer to not discard the possibility.
Many years ago, before we had the internet, I started to get paper mail addressed to Yevrus and my last name. I thought it was a strange name. Certainly not one we have in the family. Anyway, this Yevrus character had really great credit apparently. He was getting big credit card offers in the mail every day and all kinds of catalogs for stuff I never bought or was interested in.

It took me months to figure out that Yevrus is SURVEY backwards! The "profile" had come from a survey (not one I took!) and that word wound up in the first name field.
Supabase does the auth emails. If you make a post and have the service email it for you, it uses Sendgrid which seems to make it past the spam folder most of the time.
There are some good points here mixed with some large assumptions.

The good points:

- Weapons fuzed for high-altitude air burst, which maximizes the damage area at the expense of not being able to kill hardened targets, are not going to produce dangerous fallout.

- The typical warhead now is significantly smaller than the multi-megaton ones that were typical during the era of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The large assumptions:

- Hardened, remote military targets will soak up a lot of warheads that could otherwise be targeted to wreck cities or general-purpose infrastructure.

- Civilization will only regress to an early-20th-century level after every oil refinery has been destroyed and the surrounding populations decimated.

That last pair of assumptions in particular raises my eyebrows:

"To put this into perspective, there are currently about 1,200 international airports and 732 oil refineries worldwide. Allocating a single warhead to each of these would leave only a thousand or so for every single other target on the planet."

and

"Most people even in major urban areas would survive the initial attack, along with a surprising amount of infrastructure. This isn’t to minimize the effects, as it would be a humanitarian catastrophe unprecedented in human history, as the global economy breaks down and regions are pushed back on their own resources. This could easily kill more people than the war itself, particularly in densely-populated areas, but I would expect things to stabilize at a technology level of maybe the late 19th/early 20th century and start back up."

It hardly matters if most people survived the initial attack if all the oil refineries are gone, along with all the infrastructure within a couple miles of each oil refinery. Early 20th century technology supported fewer than 2 billion people, most of those being people who already knew how to farm without artificial fertilizers. Today we are nearly 8 billion and a much smaller fraction have any experience farming. A nuclear war that globally knocks technology back to the early 20th century, even for "only" a decade or so, would lead to the death of most people now alive. At that point I'm skeptical that there would be enough survivors to sustain even as much specialization of labor as found in the early 20th century industrialized economies. Technology level and population could fall much further.
I am part of the 26% that has done this, although in the past few weeks I have finally found some momentum in changing this habit.

For me, it felt as though the content of my work is what drove me to do this. Building CRUD applications, refactoring legacy code, writing exhaustive tests, etc were all things that I would get stoned for, saving things like writing design docs and meetings for the non-stoned days. Combine this with a decade of using cannabis to make mundane tasks more interesting in my personal life (playing a video game I have already logged 1K+ hours in, watching a TV show I have seen 10x times, washing dishes, etc) and it's easy to see how I got to this point. The reality of adult life and software engineering as a career is that a lot of it is just boring. Now, whether or not smoking pot actually fixed that boredom is a different question...
I do.

But, I also enjoy being in silence.

Silence arrested by tinnitus.

I would enjoy a more meditative state... yet, tinnitus.

(Yes, I have tried "meditating it away")

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Even in the custom keyboard community the vast, vast majority don't require relearning typing. Whether it's 60%, 75%, split, ortholinear, typing is still basically the same.
Not disagreeing with your core point on the architectures but there are a few other areas of possible advantage:

- No 32 bit support

- Fewer other legacy ISA features to support

- big.LITTLE style efficiency/ performance cores (until latest generation Intel)

On the first two fewer transistors wasted mean more to spend elsewhere (eg on caches).
arguably this was the bay area 30 years ago when all of this started, both SV and the NIMBY regime
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Glad I am not the only one.
Pseudonymously. It would be difficult to match these accounts to real people but not impossible (dang probably has access to enough signal to make an educated guess).
Let's test #FFFFF To #00000
After "quitting" coffee I'm extremely tired the day after actually drinking coffee.
Quite. 10 fresh graduates of the University of North Central Tennessee’s CS program are capable of doing a better job of anything in the CS realm than Notch, Jeff Dean or Linus Torvalds.
Oops: 0x00000001000015af <fizzbuzz+47>: cmp edx,0x0

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Not quite there yet (no hierarchical structure etc.) but I think sheetlabs seems like what you're looking for: https://sheetlabs.com
I think one of the interesting things about this article is the principle of relatively and how people will tend to do things within their means. You're more likely to violate traffic rules if you have a more expensive car because it's faster than the other cars and you want to be able to utilize the car's features or you know if you do something wrong and get caught, you're able to pay off the fines because you have so much money. I'm sure there's a ton of rich people who are very happy, and I'm guessing the proportion of happy rich people would be about the same as the proportion of happy average people. I think one of the things these studies do is that they use the relatively small and highly selected sample size of rich people and compare them to a group of normal people and then come to a generalized conclusion of rich people being more miserable than average people. But I would beg to differ if you were to take rich people in other industries besides the banking industry, such as tech, healthcare, or natural resources you'd probably find a lot of people who love their loves.
Direct link to addon store: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/type-the-web/...
Here's some ideas I had after looking at this wonder what you think?

1. if you added a login + uploads and this could be used as a super simple alternative to document sharing.

2. Add page versioning and this could work as a wiki.

3. Add notifications and teams could use it for managing internal documents, photos, etc.

4. I think if search we're added theres tons of possibilities though you might not want to go there..
To answer the question at the bottom: yes, literal rockstars. More prosaically, authors fit the bill.

There's some parallel world where programming a computer is obviously considered an author's profession (we use grammar, do we not) and where the profession of software editor is well-paid and prestigious. I'd rather work in that world, to be frank.
The author mentions Michael Jordan (and LeBron James) but fails to mention how rare "Jordans" are (the buildup highlights the skill differences, not the scarcity).

Truly elite software developers are as rare as Jordans, i.e. one every 20 years or so. John Carmack would probably fall into the elite category, Dennis Ritchie was probably his generation's "Jordan" - but if you're defining elite in Jordan/LeBron terms we wouldn't expect to see many elite developers.
KCSS (Keep Cron Simple, Stupid)
I sympathize with the sentiment, but biology is not a simple reduction to chemistry (although chemical principles do undergird it, and it is useful to describe biology in terms of chemistry as often as possible)

Nonetheless it is appalling how little chemistry biologists know. We were having a dna shearing issue in our lab, and I once asked, "what is the chemical mechanism of shearing" and no one could provide a convincing mechanism, which meant their solutions to the problem were not much better than shamanism.

It's even worse with the faddish worship of interdisciplinary-ism... Basically chemical biology (versus the more classical field of biochemistry, which is deep) is littered with dilettantes who were neither good enough to do straight chemistry nor deeply knowledgeable about biology.

If there will be a grothendieck or a Hilbert in biology, that person will almost certainly have to have some amount real chemistry training, and also deep chemistry knowledge. Probably training in information theory is important too.

In my view, physics is the study of the universe focused through the lens on energetic state functions, with a reductionist bent, chemistry is the study of the universe focused mostly on the diversity of matter with a passing nod to path dependence, and biology is the study of self-organizing information propagation with a strong acknowldgement of path dependence.
The difference is that humans know they are seeing noise, they don't claim 99% confidence in their image, but rather a very low confidence.
Have real paid support?
I know that Ruby works on Apple Silicon. Or at least it has not failed yet. However will go work, will rust? Would be a pain to get so far and then find, oh yeah that doesn't work either

Once the python package for tensorflow is working then I will be back with python (where it is applicable)
> Five people died as a result of these actions.

I can guarantee more died as a direct result of BLM "protests" in 2020.

Nevermind billions of dollars of damage that fell on the shoulders of minority and lower class communities.

I have a hard time imagining that someone concerned about insurrection would unabashedly gloss over CHAZ/CHOP as though it's not a cut-and-dry act of secession.

I guess you support secession.
Because there are so many dog whistles used when talking about this issue that usually are just a stand-in for racism.

These accusations are belittling and removing agency from people on multiple levels by saying democrats import immigrants, that immigrants who become citizens shouldn't have a say in how this country is governed, and that immigrants vote for democrats for any reason beyond their political policies.
This is exactly why Telegram is beating Signal.

They're singularly focused on the user experience and what users want.

Uninstall / reinstall / multiple-devices works flawlessly.
See also:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/three-senior-traders-fired-amid-... (Oct. 14, 2014)

http://www.fca.org.uk/news/fca-fines-five-banks-for-fx-faili... (Nov. 12, 2014)

So the conventional wisdom was that this cartel involved almost exclusively bankers at the largest global banks including JPM, Goldman, Deutsche, Barclays, RBS, HSBC, and UBS.

This new article finally links banks with the other two facets of this FX-rigging "triangle" cartel: private sector companies that have no direct banking operations yet who have intimate prop trading exposure, as well as central banks themselves.
I don't think that any legislation was created for UBER in this case and here in the UK at least, we regularly prosecute unlicenced taxi firms - http://www.thecomet.net/news/unlicensed_taxi_driver_from_she...
Last I heard the "folding" distributed computation projects were mostly only being used to publish papers on distributed computation; and not really to advance medical science... (In contrast to Foldit)
I tried "@faketwitter" as the twitter user name and it complained about it. I'm not too familiar with twitter user names but I thought that should work.

edit: removed the @ sign and it worked.
You shouldn't have to horizontally scroll with most content on a widescreen monitor if you have the window maximized (which is when your argument applies).
"I bet Stallman's projects, and the free software movement itself, are responsible for the non-existence of numerous jobs."

Indirectly, perhaps. Application-level software projects do tend to have the "automate people's jobs away" effect, but AFAIK, Stallman has been mostly involved in infrastructure-ish "enable some people to work (on automating away other people's jobs)" projects.
Yes, it's within a restricted area ('R'):

http://skyvector.com/?ll=39.34010380401439,-76.1800231869041...
While I appreciate the convenience of this, I think you may be misunderstanding how Julia does method dispatch. Rather than dispatching purely on the type of their first argument (as in Python) or into a class hierarchy/namespace based on that argument, then by parameter types (ala Java) Julia methods are fully qualified over every parameter type.

Sadly, that makes it hard to ask the question "what methods can I call on an object of this type?" because the answer might include functions with that type in any parameter position. In many cases that wouldn't be a meaningful answer - as in the case of, say, a numeric type which could be used for all kinds of indexing, iteration, and offset methods involving collections, IO handles, etc.

You might benefit a bit more from using the 'apropos' builtin to lookup functions based on simple keyword matching. Given a type name it lists methods that take or emit objects of that type (which may or may not be exactly what you want, but it's a starting point at least).
You're not getting exclusive access to a core, you're only getting part of a core. If the host machine has 20 cores and 256 GB of ram, then you're probably getting (2 * 20 / 256) of a core. Would you rather get (2 * 20 / 256) of a single core or (2 * 20 / 256 / 4) of 4 cores? Time slicing and threading adds overhead, so you're generally much better off with a provider that pretends to give you a single core than with one that pretends to give you 4.
This is a great app. I have a similar site that is more curated but less searchable: http://www.scoratic.com

What are you built on?
Regarding the 15% example, did they not want to lower the rate because they decided it was worth it or they were afraid to piss off the sales people?

If it is the latter, there is a work around. Sales people hold their percentages tightly and get pissed when people lower them. We own them. Don't raise and lower the one rate, add and take away others. So say if you know now you are willing to pay 15% now but think that rate will go down to 10%, introduce the 10% as the rate, but add 5% as a temporary incentive, making it an effective 15%. This way their rate doesn't go down in there eyes, it is just the extra spiff that goes away--which wasn't theirs to begin with really. They knew that 5% was temporary. However if you lower my 15% to 10%, I will always feel like that 10 should be 15.

Dumb psychology but it works.
Fair enough, point well taken. But I don't think acknowledging that difference changes the crux of the Q&A here. What IaaS does it better than AWS? Seriously. It's not a surprise that Heroku, Engineyard, and various other PaaS options are built on AWS.
I've been using it to learn Erlang (along with a couple of books) and it's been pretty fun. I'm glad you're doing this!
When describing standing in sports you don't say "X won less than Y so Y is ahead", you say "X dropped below Y in the standings". Most financial reporting is based on sports speech.
Yeah, I missed that one.

Definitely enough to pay for one lawyer for several minutes against Sony.
They have, even with equity participation.
GM.com and AIG.com are all working on some cool stuff, supposedly.
Also, binary views will bork your terminal.
I've seen several and they are underwhelming. Those photos of glowing curtains of color are taken from space, here on earth they just look like dim green glow (brief explanation below). You are not missing anything, I promise you.

Most of the energetic particles from the Sun are deflected around the Earth by the magnetosphere, but some get trapped. Electrons trapped in the Earth's magnetic field (the magnetic mirror effect) are accelerated along the magnetic field toward the Polar Regions and then strike the gases into the upper layer of the atmosphere, called the ionosphere. In the ionosphere, the speeding electrons collide violently with gas atoms. This gives the gas atoms energy, which causes them to release both light and more electrons. In this way, the gases of the ionosphere start to glow producing the spectacle that we know as the auroras.

Variations in colour are due to the type of gas particles that are colliding. The most common auroral color, a pale yellowish-green, is produced by oxygen molecules located about 60 miles above the earth. Rare, all-red auroras are produced by high-altitude oxygen, at heights of up to 200 miles. Nitrogen produces blue or purplish-red aurora.
Could it be that the drivers are quite aggressive and impatient since they're paying by the minute?
Wow. I didn't know they'd dropped the convertible round. The new arrangement is a great deal -- more than a $1.7 million valuation for each company accepted.
>>I think AI will be the solution to the problem.

No, it will not. Sufficiently smart AIs will be sentient beings just like you, and it will be immoral for you to keep them as slaves.
And it's equally possible to interpret this data positively. Perhaps VCs are becoming more selective and concentrating their money on better teams/ideas instead of casting as wide of a net as possible(I am not saying this is actually the case).
I don't understand why so many journalists try to find catastrophe in the absence of contrary evidence.
I was offended as well, I thought they were portraying a black guy as the befuddled hiring manager who won't interview anyone who isn't currently employed.
You make fair points, though I think the central one is flawed:

No permanent damage to any involved; perhaps a net win for Gizmodo and Apple.

Exposing a trade secret the way Gizmodo did probably did hard-to-calculate damage to iPhone sales for the past several months. After all, there is a reason they stovepipe these announcements. I think it'd be hard to argue that this is a net win for Apple.
I think the opportunities that you miss are likely ones we have not thought of.

Perhaps make an offer to do some (paid) work on the book, for example, proof reading, a forward etc.

Maybe highlights of the book should be included free with your software as documentation.

What happens if they never complete the book or publish it? Maybe agree that it goes public domain if that happens, so what is done is not wasted.
I look at it as a self-correcting problem. It's a brain-dead stupid HR policy and firms that adopt brain-dead policies will eventually be beaten out by firms that don't.

And yes, I am a Libertarian. :-)
Higher taxes might actually lead to lower tax revenues or a tax revolt. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Like anything else in America we're going to need a crisis for anyone to even consider doing something to resolve the problem. It seems to me that a drastic cut in military spending, raising the retirement age to 70, raising taxes on everyone, closing tax loopholes, and an across the board cut of 5%-10% should be a good start to get this resolved in the next 20 years.
Or a drastic reduction in our bloated bureaucracy.
I'd be willing to offer advice or a hand to a fellow HNer in need. This will require some discussion so e-mail me if you want to take me up on this offer.
Maybe, maybe not. Right now, anyone using Bitcoin pays for use through a) constant inflation of the monetary base through mining rewards, and b) transaction fees, for a+b. Once (a) disappears, (b) will rise... but will the new b be bigger or smaller? Given the inflexibility of mining rewards and the rarity of double-spends in the wild, it may well be that right now the block reward is wastefully high.
In an ideal world right now would be just about the perfect time to introduce a real virtual machine (as a first class citizen with full DOM access rather than forcing it to live inside a display box) into the the browser space (including mobile browsers) rather than continuing to rely on a spotty designed-in-two-weeks (at least according to Netscape lore) language that is often (badly) used as a virtual machine.

I can't imagine it will actually happen for a few reasons, chief among them being browser vendor politics and the lingering taste of the failure of Java applets... but it would be nice.
If you're writing includes anything technical (and frankly if it in any way references society,) then I see it as almost a duty to datestamp, otherwise it's impossible to infer context. It doesn't become timeless, it becomes potentially misleading.
Yes, the correct solution is structured cabling with punchdown jacks, punchdown patch panels, and commercially manufactured and certified patch and lobe cords. No one is going to pay commercial electrician rates, even lv, to futz around with a crimper, especially when one little plastic tab getting snapped off means a cable needs to be re terminated.
7,018 undergraduates [1]
9,118 graduates [1]
2,118 faculty [1]
2,872 clerical [2]

It appears that Stanford has a very competitive student to bureaucrat ratio. I would think twice before handing them $60k/yr.

[1] http://facts.stanford.edu/

[2] http://facts.stanford.edu/administration/
> Today is Arduino Day!

> Posted pretty much at the end of the day

Swing and a miss there Arudino, swing and a miss
To be fair there are tuition deductions that probably make it slightly better...
Isn't this the middlebrow dismissal we're supposed to avoid here? I'm not sure where the ubiquitous, portable, high-quality music players are that make Pono redundant. Are you referring to smartphones?

If you look at actual studies of the performance of smartphone audio you see it's not a trivial task to get right[0], if we're seeing problems on a large company's flagship model like Samsung's Galaxy S5 then this isn't a solved problem.

Playback at home while plugged into a 120V power grid with equipment that only needs to fit into a shoebox is a bit different from playback from a device that's simultaneously a computer and a phone which also happens to have severe space and power constraints (and a giant color touch-screen to boot.)

[0] - http://www.anandtech.com/show/8078/smartphone-audio-testing-...
overt complexity for no real gains