jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
People working for dubious 3-letter agencies aren't absolved from responsibility or reflection; they are not supposed to be soulless drones. I disagree with you: I think we really can appeal to their moral sense to get up and say that what they're being asked to do goes against their ethics. Of course six-figure jobs and sweet maths problems are strong incentives to listen less closely to one's moral compass. Cognitive dissonance must be strong at the NSA offices.
It will if there's a corresponding services.sync.prefs.sync.the.pref.you.want.synced.here pref set.
The nearly 45 degree orientation of streets in SF Soma sure do make it difficult to play.
At least in theory, actual physical installation of a tracking device without authorization would violate trespassing laws in many cases. So even if the government doesn't try to introduce the results as evidence, it might be possible to file a civil trespassing suit. But, I have no idea what the odds of actually prevailing on that are (probably low).
Well how about automatically compiling a grocery list of things you need for you... and a web interface that has a one click order for each item you need restocked?
Taxing is not morally justified BECAUSE it is a robbery. There is not failure taxing just because there is nothing to get from people who failed.
It's a push button for laundry detergent. How could anything be easier? Doesn't really matter if people buy them or not when it costs 2 cents to make.
TIL! It looks like it does support client lib generation: https://support.smartbear.com/swaggerhub/docs/apis/generatin...

It doesn't say which tier that is available in: https://swagger.io/tools/swaggerhub/pricing/ nor does it handle uploading the SDK to a dependency manager site (that I can see) but that gives you an indication of the pricing structure and possible demand.
OOC what are your grips with black's style? I generally find black pretty "beautiful" (concise maybe not as much).
Oh, no! I'm sorry you have to deal with that situation. I've heard filing as an expat is terrible with FATCA reporting etc. I'm planning to move out of the country in retirement but it's still years away for me.

If you don't mind me asking: how does managing your financial accounts work where you are? Do you still maintain USA bank/investment/retirements accounts (via mail forwarding?) or do you have them open in your country? What types of hurdles do you run into?
.. you know it already happened once right?
I completely agree with you but this will take decades, at best.

I laugh when I look at the length of projects happening in and around SF, like the Caltrain electrification project (2016-2021?), Van Ness Improvement Project (2016-2022?) and the Downtown Rail Extension (2018-2027?) that got delayed over and over again.

Corruption, incompetence and greed is such bureaucratic red tape in SF that it reminded me so much of the public infrastructure projects happening in Eastern Europe (Romania) where they siphon so much tax money.

Can you imagine how expensive SF would be if it actually got its act together? It boggles my mind to imagine.
> all it took was a 2x more expensive car

Actually in most of the World the price difference is much less. For example in the UK, Model S Performance 95k GBP versus 140k.

Not that it matters as such because both are so far beyond the means of the common driver as to be irrelevant. Any company can build an awesome EV for those prices, the real challenge is building a decent one for a price that a shop worker can afford.
> Some days I dream of a distant future in which an average being (human or otherwise) comes in contact with [today's technology].

> “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” -Arthur C. Clarke

That is precisely the premise of the "science & sorcery" genre or hyper-sci-fi as I like to call it, where relatively primitive people regularly stumble upon ancient technology that they can't hope to comprehend but use it for its incidental effects.

For example a smartphone may be good as a compact light source but not much else, or a hard drive for its shiny sharp discs and magnets.

See the Numenera RPG, set a billion (!) years into Earth's future after several civilizations have risen and collapsed: http://numenera.com
You really are gonna ride this death cult all the way to the end huh? God forbid there be IDEOLOGY on your precious capitalist hellsite!
Is it just me, or do some people have a fetish for catastrophe?

Greatly overestimating security impacts, the impacts of COVID, aggressive "new normal" lockdown proponents, militant preppers, etc.

Paradoxically, I think some might feel more secure when they are the messengers of chaos. I wonder if there's a psychological reasoning underneath.
If I recall correctly, Netflix paying to not have their data rates throttled was a real occurrence.
Warning: The video contains graphic footage of a person being shot in the neck at close range.
Yes, the Omega 6 to Omega 3 ratio is the major mechanism (but not only) for the chronic inflammation caused by the modern diet, and yes, that has been pretty well proved.

But theres no major study (besides the submitted link) that I'm aware of that links high inflammation diet to depression, even though, frankly, it's pretty obvious that there is some major link between the two.

So, until the above mentioned study happened, it was pretty much just a large collection of n=1 experiments, where people ate strict Paleo and then, well, became supermen (I'm not actually sure how else to describe it; for some, it was absolutely miraculous).
I would add that you also have to judge DF's trajectory against Apple's.

In the six or so years that DF has been running, Apple's product range, market share, mind share, and market capitalization have all grown remarkably (if not their own internal attitude), and with that has come a flood of both supporters and critics.

DF is not commenting on fringe products such as OSX 10.3 anymore. He's commenting on a major mobile phone manufacturer and the maker of an popular and unusual new computing tablet.

I would venture that Gruber feels no need to feed the Apple supporters, but he does feel a need to call the critics out when they just don't understand Apple or advise Apple to behave more like other tech companies.
Since you are such a critical thinker, care to back that assertion up with any evidence or statistical data? Clearly you've done your research since you are a HN member but for some reason I don't see any links in your post.

At least expand on why you think it would be a disaster. Would it be a disaster like the right to health care? Or a disaster because of changes to our farming system
Clearly you understand the article as did I. Minimal help from government can be positive without always dissolving in to socialism (the horror) or some Orwellian nightmare.

If I was to respond to lionhearted (which I won't) I would say he's missing the point and overreacting to the message. But that's only if I responded to lionhearted which I won't because his comment was so well written and thoughtful.
I was thinking for a long time this was possible. Everyone always complained about performance.

But for these work arounds for performance, it is totally worth the extra 30% of your revenue you get back by distrubuting through the app store. Instant upgrades, works offline just like an app. This is the future.

Although, some have said, watch Apple closely with how fast they innovate mobile Safari as this type of application would bring developers away from primary apps - apps that Apple makes money from.
Is there a webcast with sound? I want to leave it running in the background and be alerted when something interesting happens.
hahaha.

I've tried similar schemes to punish negative posters on a forum I had: the site would magically be much slower for them. They figured it out quickly though.
Wonderful list of quotes. I read DF a lot, often gritting my teeth, and this is an accurate summary of his points regarding the App Store.

I agree on John's recent insistence that web apps are the solution to App Store woes. But that feels like a cop-out. Apple hasn't fixed the three problems Gruber identified in October 2008 from his article on "The Fear", which are:

(1) App Ideas Are Rejected Only After the Apps Are Actually Built; (2) There Exist Secret Unpublished Rules Regarding What Is Allowed; and (3) When Apps Are Rejected for Violating the Unpublished Rules, Apple Refuses to State Just What These Rules Are

http://daringfireball.net/2008/10/the_fear

They've gotten a little better on point 3. When My Frame was rejected, the developer did get a phone call and an e-mail from Steve jobs saying that they now refuse an entire category of apps. It's not much better, as Apple didn't give any justification for why they sent this rejection. Are they planning their own desktop environment? Do they think the app competes with the built-in photo frame functionality of the iPad? Who knows?

It depresses me that Gruber doesn't see the "build your software as a web app" angle as a cop-out. Instead of fixing these reasonable problems with the App Store that it would be in Apple's best interests to fix, Apple ignores them and highlights an entirely other method of delivering content to users.

I imagine a restaurant with chicken and fish on the menu. The chicken will randomly come out poisoned, but the fish always comes out fine. When someone complains about being sickened by the chicken, the owner says, "just order the fish."
and if Uber does something bad, you'd complain.

You should also complain now.
That is true, but if we can make an AI even slightly smarter than a human, then it will be better at designing AIs than we are. It then designs an AI even smarter than it, and so on. That is the progresion that leads to the singularity. How smart could AIs go? There may be no practical upper limit.

If you have a super-genius AI, massively more intelligent than any human, how do you know you are not being manipulated by it? Tricking us into disabling it's safety protocols, or gaining multiply indirect controll over capabilities dangerous to us, might be as easy for it as an adult tricking a 3 year old. We could never know if we were safe from such a machine.

ed - Don't quite understand the downvotes.
I'd like to know how well this works for you.

I am contemplating a similar offer. Rather than translation I would offer free debugging and performance optimization, as a way to promote my consulting services.
I'm trying to come up with an explanation why TI would do that.

The only explanation I can come up with is that TI wants a closer relationship with their customers. They don't want to be a commodity chip producer.

When distributors host the datasheets, then customers would probably never visit TIs website, and just compare chips from multiple vendors on the distributors website. Customers are just going to pick the cheapest part that matches the specs.

Maybe TI wants to be seen as a premium vendor. They don't want customers to look for a LED driver on an electronics distributors website, they want you to look for a TI LED driver on ti.com. They can explain the benefits of their chips much better on their own website.

As someone who occasionally tinkers with electronics, I think this decision by TI sucks. I like that Mouser and Reichelt host all their datasheets. But I guess TI doesn't care if I'm going to buy two LM3886s or not.
Your points 1 & 3 are handled by subways & streetcars.

Cities in Asia show that point 2 doesn't have to be a problem. Shopping clusters around the train station. Restaurants and groceries are more dispersed. Everything is reachable by foot in <10 mins.
The first paragraph acknowledges that trump did not have the damaging impact to existing institutions that the media said he would.

Then it says that regardless our democracy must be tended to.

Then it suggests a vetting system by “peer review” to only allow select candidates to run for office. I don’t see how that is pro-democracy at all.
No, that doesn't follow.

Inlining doesn't change what a call stack looks like - the call stack frames are still there, yes possibly just a metadata annotations on real call stack frames and recovered when needed.

With tail calls, the call stack frames are completely gone, and cannot be recovered.

Try this thought experiment - can you implement tail calls in Java and meet the same language specification? I think you cannot. Therefore it is not an optimisation. If you can please email me how and I will implement it and you can publish the paper and get the glory!
I mean, what else are you expecting them to do exactly? Genuine question.
Stabbing a bit in the dark, but maybe TI wants to prevent a competitor from being to say "we didn't steal anything from you, we got all this info from sites that you were perfectly happy to let continue to operate freely".

The legal departments within companies have very, very different measures of success than that of just about anyone else. If you have weak company leadership, legal will start to drive policy more than it should.
What would a country "going to prison" involve?

Either way, this system is not feasible without basically a UN replacement. Until then, remember the US' long list of crimes before you call for economically crippling the Russian citizens.
wow, it seems to have made quite an impact in resume builder circles (-:

On zety its listed as a good example tho!
I've used Simple since 2014 and it's easily the best banking experience I have ever had. I've spread my spending and banking activity out over different banks/services over the years, but I always use Simple as my main bank. Honestly not sure where I will move my main account over to.
For a banking provider? I would not trust either of these. They're both trivially gamed.
Cannot agree with you on firearms point, but more or less on everything else.

https://mobile.twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1347277542588...

If your aim is to stage a putsch for real, you wouldn't be bothered by some gun laws, you would've gone all in.
What we're striving for is to consume media sources that produce the least number of mistakes when we're reading them - the number of past mistakes may be an indicator on the likelihood of future mistakes or it may not. I think trying to make any strong statements leaning on historical data should be carefully weighed.

I can't really answer what the best tactic for weighing news sources is since I think that the true measure would need to involve observing the reporters and editors behind each specific article which isn't really feasible. I don't think it's wrong for you to be hesitant about trusting NYT, and feel free to never trust an article written by Miller - I personally think she's shown a lack of care for discovering the truth - but... Eh, balance in all things.
I worked on COD:AW and we used video in game often. The lead UI artist would have used it significantly more if performance was better. Might be an exception but it's not uncommon, I've worked on multiple titles with full 3D and video playback at the same time
We've grown a lot in last few years and haven't caught up with the policies. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/118661 for details.

Note that those statistics are incorrect, but pushes to master still do happen.
yeah, I think it's not right.

There are plenty of studies that show all resource use has dropped with the pandemic, including lots of delivery traffic.
> Whatsapp has crushed most of the messaging apps, imessage included.

Not in US. And specially not within teens in US. ( And you can exclude Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and possibly Australia as well. Edit: And of course China. )

To this day I still dont understand how anyone use iMessages on a day to day basis. It is possibly the worst form of instant messaging I have had for years. Even worst than ICQ.
Yet another "which color is better" problem.
Nvidia really needs to get on Wayland already. I tried a few months ago to run KDE on Wayland+Nvidia it was literally unusable. I could not put a panel down without bugs. I'm running mixed DPI with the Nvidia driver and it's just easiest to make seperate X screens despite all the downsides that brings :/.

I'm going to be sad that a lot of little WMs are probably never going to make the jump. I'm not sure Wayland is ever going to get that many.
> If your joke is not funny enough to be distinguishable from a real brand collaboration

Do you think that there were people who actually believe Nike collaborated with Satan?
> it was important to get as much information from a single compiler run

That's a good point. I remember debugging a core dump... in hex... and going and circling memory addresses with a red pen and chaining them together until I found the problem.
Let us remember some of his grace:

“If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed.” (to British students in China, during the 1986 state visit)

“I declare this thing open, whatever it is.” (on a visit to Canada in 1969)

“I hope he breaks his bloody neck.” (when a photographer covering a royal visit to India fell out of a tree)

“Do you still throw spears at each other?” (in Australia in 2002, talking to a successful Indigenous Australian entrepreneur)

“Where did you get that hat?” (supposedly to the Queen at her coronation)

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/04/prince-phili...
The graphics could use some tuneup in general. :P Unfortunately there is no way to kick anyone yet, so you'll have to setup a new game if he refuses to wake up.
OP here. Lots of people at Google have PhDs. Most do not. My role is actually a Tech Lead Manager, which is far more technical than a typical manager position, and indeed I am on the Software Engineer ladder. I would say about 80% of my time is spent on technical things (writing code, design docs, evaluating designs, etc.) and only about 20% on "manager" activities like doing performance reviews, hiring, and the like. More here: http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2013/04/running-software-team...

As far as "wasting education" is concerned, I've blogged extensively about the differences between doing applied research in industry and doing that kind of work in academia or in a more pure research setting, see for example http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/11/why-im-leaving-harvar...

I find that applying my skills as a systems and networking researcher in an industry setting, where I have the chance to develop and launch real products, is far more satisfying than just writing academic papers. But this is of course not for everyone.
On the other hand, I see a lot of Java code where the unit tests are woefully inadequate but the fact that Eclipse/IntelliJ/Whatever had no warnings and javac liked the code meant the programmer thought he'd done a good job.

Hell, most of the world's C code was written basically that way. Often with a lot less testing and most of the testing that was actually done included no edge cases.
Yeah, that sounds lame, its on the todo now.
SVG is my favoriate web language. It's good, and so close to being great. Honestly I think if it was almost anything other than XML that would push it over the top.
I agree and am also disappointed. On the other hand, I really don't miss Swift outside of iOS because of Rust and Kotlin.

I wonder if Kotlin is too far from "arms length" from the low level details in your mind? Because other than that, I actually prefer the language over Swift, generally.
Just FYI, the speaker in the Sun keyboard only existed to emit status beeps when the computer is powered on and self-tests. Most non-suns have the same speaker integrated into the computer itself. At least when those sorts of beepy-PC-BIOSes were more common.
This is delightful, I love it.
If it turns out that lies are mostly told "from one direction politically", it then follows that "fact checking" will go "in one direction politically". I'm not claiming this is the case, but it certainly follows.
I think there might be some more hardware-specific nuance here. e.g. /proc/cpuinfo says this on a couple of different x86_64 systems that I checked.

address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual

PS: I don't understand what this means, btw.
That depends on who you ask. The left thinks it’s perfectly OK to a cost someone at dinner, and harass them out of the restaurant. The right does not seem to believe in this tactic. Personally I think that we should all be able to sit and eat in a restaurant in peace, and should not have pitchfork mob standing outside of our homes, but that is a video absolutely rejected by the left and I think it’s very dangerous.
More people in France can read English that people in US who can read French.
Anecdote: I went to science/tech magnet school, and quite a few of us were interested in guns. Same thing in engineering school (though that was GA Tech, so kind of a gimme).
Normal Accidents is a real classic of the genre of disaster studies and points out some very useful realities for tightly coupled systems. Engineers building highly complex systems would do well to read the book and take its lessons to heart.
How old is snow leopard?
This is also true for previous versions of HTML, as well as omitting some optional end tags.
> I'm getting payed a little bit lower than what the industry would pay.

You mean for a "normal" (if I may) industry job or for doing a PhD within the industry?

Because before starting my PhD, the salaries that I've been proposed by recruiters from various companies were more like the double (and sometimes more, like with Google or high frequency trading firms) of what I'm making as a PhD student (but for a way less fun job, as you say).
Put the impact zone in your favorite geopolitical enemy's backyard. Kills two birds with one, err, stone.
Depends on context.

For example, what is the bandwidth and latency when you ask for the value at the same memory address in an infinite loop? And how does that compare to the latency and bandwidth of a memory module you buy on NewEgg?
Algorithms was one of 18 courses in my CS major.

You want to check my computer science background, ask me about: regular languages, LR0 grammars, interpreters, compilers, system calls, threads, virtual memory, concurrency control, TCP, consensus protocols, raytracing, scene segmentation, sensor fusion, database indexes, block cipher padding schemes, etc.

But no one cares about the other 17 courses, they just want me to have internalized a crazy level of detail on one in particular, as if I had studied nothing else for 4 years.

The performance problems I've been called on to solve, I solved by having a vague idea of what's going on at the OS and network level, something that apparently makes me a wizard at a company that allegedly selects for "CS fundamentals."
There's a saying at least here in Norway that goes along tje lines of:

"If you owe the bank a 5 million NOK and cannot pay then you have a problem.

If however you owe the bank 500 million NOK and cannot pay then the bank has a problem."
If we are using board games analogy, that's hardly a checker's game. If you are POTUS your opinion affects the market. You can easily affect the market.

Imagine how easy would be to make money through stock options if you had the power to affect any stock to go up or down. Only ethics would stand in your way and if you think ethics are for loses, nothing is stopping you from doing that.

If you want reduce your risk further, you could simply get paid by your friends from Mar-a-Lago (by purchasing expensive rooms in your hotel) by letting them know your announcement ahead of time and let them do the investment. That will also reduce connections to yourself.
> I'm wagering it'll turn out to be the most vulnerable.

Which part of the article leads you to this conclusion?
I think this is fair to both sides.
I dress casually for interviews not only because that is what I prefer to wear but also in hopes of getting rejected by anybody who would consider that a red flag.
The M1 has extremely high single-core performance.