jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's a shame to see the conversation here bypassing the real issue, which isn't taste, technological wow-factor, production efficiency, environmentalism, or entrepreneur chic. The real issue is animal welfare.

Remember, every time you eat meat, you are actually eating the body of a former living creature, equipped with eyes, ears, a nose, a tongue, and a complex nervous system capable of integrating its sensations, of feeling pain, fear, and depression. Rememeber, you have no way of guaranteeing (and in fact can actually be almost always certain) that this animal's life wasn't short, miserable, and didn't culminate with an utterly barbaric episode of fear and torture - and then rapid, mechanical dissembly into anonymous pieces, shipped off to your local supermarket or burger shop, its brutal, dirty provenance hidden by a facde of bright and happy advertising. Remember, every time you eat eggs, eat dairy or buy leather, you are participating and endorsing the same thing: industrial scale mistreatment and torture of animals.

Watch the video linked in the article (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRS-kzgoRq0) and remember, if you live in the US, the USDA is a captured regulator, completely toothless to prevent animal torture in slaughterhouses - in fact it simply assists in declaring whatever practices the food industry wants to use as humane. Remember, the majority of states are busy passing laws to make it illegal to film undercover videos in CAFOs and abattoirs, so no one can see what is actually going on (because if people did really see it and really understood they would be disgusted to their core.)

If you live in any other country in the world, the situation is either much worse, or a little, but not much, better.

If you believe that humans should live compassionately and avoid inflicting unnecessary suffering on other feeling, emotional creatures, then go vegan. Not vegetarian, vegan. Don't wait - do it today, not tomorrow. It's the only way that a person can look themselves in the mirror and be truly proud of what they see.
Entertaining find.
On those kind of issues, the google results are a bit muddled. You'll get the results saying "No, of course vaccines don't cause autism", alongside a bunch of BS articles saying "It totally does, because I had my kid vaccinated once, and he's autistic!". Unless you actually search through the sources and figure out which is more credible, it's hard to get a straight yes or no answer.
A lot of this is really just opinion, but the basic idea that you should listen to your customers is still good advice.
Maybe the causality works the other way around. The collective pie is so much smaller in the high-IP industries, people try to hold on to their share of it with much more ferocity (i.e. more lawyers).
What I meant by they were still making a 15 billion dollar bet for a few millions of dollars in annual return. was the company risked its market cap for whatever return they received from their approach to managing money. Credit crunches are not uncommon and often kill large companies when something bad happens in the middle of one.

As to safe return, as you say their stock holders where paying a premium for safety and unless the R/W was awe inspiring I suspect most of them would rather gone to safer route.
Oh wow, moral of the story is that hamburger menus, like every other design decision, requires careful consideration, and has its place in modern app design.

Who knew.

Not using hamburger menus doesn't magically make your app better. You need alternatives. Would I suggest a hamburger menu for a menu with 3 items? No of course not. But if you have an app with 10 core menu items, there's not many alternatives. You could try to force and cram that into a navigation bar with 3 item-categories, which open pages with deeper navigation trees, and that'd tick all the 'why-not' boxes of the menubar the article mentions (like unnecessary clicking, users that can't find their information, don't know where they can go or where they are on the page etc etc).

Fact is that a lot of users are indeed familiar with hamburger menus these days and they're becoming a type of standard just like a back arrow is universally understood, and find their way outside of apps, too. (like the Chrome browser which I'm typing this on right now.)

Combine that with the fact the top navigation bar's title telling you where you are, and a non-crammed side menu showing you exactly where you can go, it's certainly a decent solution for many apps.
http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing
Emulators suffer from bitrot just like the software they're emulating. I've seen several fall into disrepair in recent years -- eventually we'll lose the people that remember how the the old systems worked. Centralizing the development and publishing it on the web seems a good way to keep the preservation effort humming.

(And as pointed out in the OP, getting something like Trumpet Winsock to work against a 21st century internet is non-trivial)
Just want to make note that DrRacket has the best integrated REPL of all the lisps around, its highly underestimated.
Btw, you guessed the wrong answer – it is actually 10 (as number, not as string).

So it is definitely not as easy as you make it seem.
I don't even count. I have a contraption I made where I put rice/beans/ect. in and then just run the water through until the water runs clean.
Dungeon World [0] is a hack/slash dungeon delving fantasy game using the AW engine. Fantasy isn't my bag, so I haven't played it. But it gets good reports. It won Indie RPG of the year, too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_World
Have you tried Chess.com?
I improved my English spelling and punctuation by doing CastingWords transcripts a few years ago. Perhaps the main motivation for some people is the actual money.

Though I'm curious how they got people from India onto the site. After all, you could only use a US credit card or Amazon credit to get paid.
IMO, i feel this is a design flaw. Without understanding
what's a NOSQL used for you can't except joins to work.

Shouldn't there be a checklist to show "What applications can be moved to cloud (appengine here)? including the myths, expectations, assertions?"
I got out of art school and went into a more technical field doing 3d graphics for training applications. Had kids, stopped doing drugs, eventually switched over to programming computers... I always threaten to get back into it and really do miss it. The creation of images more than the psychoactive chemicals ;0
I can attest to the hard work that Ethan has done on the AIR CPU problem and on my Windows 7 machine it behaves very well - actually much better than other AIR apps I have tried.
Everyone claims in a job interview they're willing to learn as needed. You hire programmers because they know how to program and will be valuable from the start. Not some novice who did some rails tutorial.
btw, Santiago ranked #1 in the list of Latin American cities of 2011/2012 by The British Financial Times Magazine: http://www.thisischile.cl/News.aspx?ID=6426&SEC=190&... there is a lot going on down here no pun intended
I guess this doesn't bother me anymore. I've used Lastpass for the last 5 or 6 years. Not having strong, separate passwords for any site requiring an account, is so 2007...
But... but... if its minimal, it can't be full.
You'll have to explain that, I don't follow. I haven't brought up OpenMP since we're both in agreement it's easier to develop for than MPI.

My point, in case it is not clear: having to explicitly send and receive data and achieve scalability is inherently more difficult than relying on shared memory. Getting a working program may not be difficult relying only on message passing. But getting a working program that scales requires a deep understanding of the data needs of your algorithms.

Of course, message passing programs have the potential for higher performance because they're not limited to a single node. But realizing that potential is harder. And I'm not including debugging, where I agree that shared memory is rife with problems.
Lawyers lots and lots of lawyers.
> It is production ready in all (vital) aspects concerning execution in a browser

As in (emphasis mine): "This means that there are important features we know we want and need, but are post-MVP" [1]

As in: "a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for the standard with roughly the same functionality as asm.js, primarily aimed at C/C++;"

It's good that you specified "vital" when talking about "all" aspects. Where vital is basically "let's run MVP in an isolated sandbox with little-to-no interoperability with the rest of the browser". Because the rest of the vital things like "basically everything" [3] [4] are still MIA.

But yeah, I mean, the modern web was built on a language designed in 10 days, so I shouldn't complain, should I.

[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/MVP.md

[2] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/HighLevelG...

[3] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeat...

[4] https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals
It does provide protection, but what we don't know is:

1) For how long

2) How it impacts future vaccination efforts

(As well as a slew of other things)

If it was just #1, I'd be with you. If we give a big chunk of the population a vaccine which lasts 6 months and makes them unimmunizable, we've changed a serious problem into a serious, serious problem.
> Public systems however have the same price pressure than private systems, since people put this pressure up via democracy.

Not at all. Far from it. This is a very naive view of voting and public choice systems. See for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice#Special_interest...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_failure#Political_s...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice#%22Expressive_in...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_ignorance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle's_ir...
Here's the key Ballmer era highlight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc
Incidentally, Uber direct to JFK is slightly cheaper than a cab too ($45-ish?). You think it would be crazy expensive, but it's flat rate. I'm not sure about from JFK into the city, but I think I was told it was the same.

I'm not too big of a fan of the AirTram + Long Island Railway (LIRR) route, which ends up at one of the major train stations, has on outside terminal (not great in the winter and slow with a lot of things to remember to do), but is about half price of that.
Yeah! You made me remember my first PC: an Atari 130XE. No mouse back then though only arrow keys. The one use for such device today would be to use your big flat TV as a 'smart' tv. I actually did that with an Android stick and the wireless kb+trackpath linked above. It was very useful that way but lack of muscle on the Android stick is what turned me off.
Yup, when it is waiting on the kernel, but in this case we know the entire context so the kernel can actually detect this and clean up properly.
I wonder how OK it is in their relationship to say things like that. That's obviously a joke, but it still comes quite bitter when such phrases are then revealed to general public.
It's sad there are people for which having an invisible boyfriend/girlfriend is an appealing idea (which is the entire premise of the service), regardless if it's the case with the writer of the article.

"On its Web site, Invisible Boyfriend calls itself “believable social proof”: When your mom won’t stop asking you when you’re going to settle down, or your weird male acquaintance keeps hitting on you, you can just whip out your phone and show them evidence that you’re not an unlovable loser, thank you very much. Homann says the service has also seen a surge in interest from people in conservative countries, particularly in South America and Europe, where the stigmas against being single or LGBT remain pretty strong."

I find the whole premise depressing.

Be proud of what you are or, if you are unhappy with your situation, take meaningful action to address the problem.
Not necessarily. Most systems within the medical context does not have any realtime requirements, after all. A watchdog restart may be only a nuisance.

It would be nice of embedded systems engineers thought about things such as memory overcommit, but in real life they are as most of us: Stuck with old code bases that someone built right before leaving.
It's more like "Wow, this place with all of the policies that I supported and voted for has turned into a dump! I need to get out of here, but I need to make sure that I can get all of my policies implemented in the new place as well!"
'Speaking' has my vote over 'Writing'. If something is not clear then people turn to 'talking'
Most of these groups were probably your ancestors. Some may have contributed more to your genetic makeup than others, this is irrelevant. Choosing to call some human but not others is a poor categorization decision that should be rectified.
> Do you think Google has any strong competition?

I think that link taxes are not a good substitute for antitrust law.

My take on this thread is that a lot of people want to break up Google, and they're picking one of the worst possible ways to do it. Australia is codifying into law an idea that will fundamentally change the way it looks at how the Internet works. Other countries have figured out ways to target Google without breaking the Internet.

I'm also (mostly because of the general wild arguments I've seen under the main article about what is and isn't fair about links) mildly skeptical about what people actually mean when they say that they want to "drive better behaviors."

Indexing information is a better behavior. People having the freedom to build and share indexes of information without anybody else's permission, including news organizations, is a better behavior. There are criticisms I have Google, including of Google's algorithms. I would like to see antitrust brought up. But I'm not honestly sure the criticisms I have of Google are the same ones that Australia has. I'm seeing people argue that summarizing an article is stealing. It's not, that's not what copyright is.

> In a sense, with enough kludgy regulation, eventually there may be enough daylight for a competitor to pop up

This is the worst possible way to make a competitor pop up. Why doesn't Australia just pass a law banning Google search if that's what it wants to do? I'm completely serious, a law banning Google would have less harmful effects on the Internet than the rules they're proposing.

My very cynical take on this that I am tempted to slip into is that for a lot people proposing this kind of legislation, it's not about banning Google or increasing competition, it's about "Google has money and what if established media sources had some of it." I'm pulling back from that take and assuming that most of the people on this thread actually believe this will increase competition. But even with that more charitable viewpoint, this is such a pointlessly clumsy, harmful way to accomplish that goal. If you want Google to pull out of Australia, just be honest about it. Don't this song and dance about how repressing fair use is somehow good for small businesses and the general public.

This is a law that says that Google has to pay to do something it's required to do. There's no consistent thread of logic running through the legislation. It's stealing for Google to link to websites, but it's abuse for them not to link to websites. Snippets provide no value to websites, but removing snippets is playing unfair. Facts aren't copyrightable unless you have a bunch of them from a bunch of different sources in one place. It's just a nonsensically bad law. And the alternative isn't "let Google own the entire world"; there are other pieces of legislation that Australia could pass that wouldn't be so toxic.
So what? It costs half of Windows rents and guess what .net can now run on Linux.
Even those places with a "Reject" button have the "special interests" enabled, and you need to explicitly opt-out - even from them building a targeted profile.

Yes, it's likely that those opt-out checks, hidden under a folded option and requiring literally hundreds of clicks to remove all third-party ad providers, are illegal. [1] That doesn't seem to deter popup developers from designing them that way.

[1] https://dma.org.uk/uploads/misc/5b0523a0d1a2b-5ae1fbf5c60fd-...
Microsoft Research developed TrueSkill [1], where they frame the problem as a Bayesian inference one.

Incidentally, TrueSkill is implemented in Infer.NET, which IMHO doesn't get the attention it deserves. An open-source state-of-the-art factor graph engine with amazing performance. When dealing with many kinds of problems, including those involving discrete variables, I haven't found anything that compares in terms of speed and covergence.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/0...
The idea is that with mining you can generate BTC for less than it would cost to buy them.
Just enable click-to-play in chrome, on media plugins. Sound only ever really auto-plays from flash ads and such (though these days its possible with HTML5 and this likely won't stop such audio/video). Its an extra click and can make some sites a bit more difficult (e.g. beatport, tries to hide its flash so you cant click it to enable it), but it works for me.
Optimizer?
> I don't have a problem with valuing human life over pretty much anything

OK, but then you still have to decide whether you value quantity over quality. Is it better to have N people living comfortable fulfilled lives, or 10N people living in poverty and misery?

Even if you decide to cast your lot with quantity over quality, you have to decide whether the quantity you're going to value is head-count of person-years: is it better to have N people with a life expectancy of 100 years, or 10N people with a life expectancy of 20 years?
Not precisely. File systems are case-insensitive by default on macOS, but this can be changed on a FS-by-FS basis. Unicode normalization is -- as far as I'm aware -- mandatory.
Unlikely, but possible, so fair. Again though, not really comparable (for us) to human loss. And I'm fine sacrificing "you never know" if we end up using that time and effort for something more pressing, as alluded to by BurningFrog below.
“Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.” – Peter Lynch
in the article they said the self driving robot fry making cars would use air fryers
I was involved in the Agile movement early on, and it killed me to see this happen to friend after friend after friend. What began as a bottom-up, respectful approach to finding better ways to work was co-opted by management (and the consultants they hired) and turned into just another stick to beat people with.
8000 years ago there weren't large cities with dozens of millions of people living in each one, many of them right on the coast. Humanity didn't need to grow enough food to feed billions of people. There was no potential for large-scale modern warfare that can kill hundreds of million of people. We didn't depend on a wide array of advanced technologies and infrastructure -- which can be damaged, uprooted, or destroyed -- to support a relatively comfortable lifestyle for most people in developed countries.

Incredibly rapid climate change has a much different impact now that it would have 8000 years ago. By the way, the science is pretty clear that then climate change happening today is far more rapid than anything that has happened in recent geologic history.

I agree that spending 100% of our resources doesn't look to be necessary. But 5% or 10%? If this is what the science and engineering analysis tells us we should probably l do, then that seems like a rather responsible and beneficial course of action, given the known risks and the potential unknown unknowns.
FOSS NT Kernel... It would only be successful when it is really FOSS and not company backed single main contributor FOSS like Chrome or .NET Core. As a kernel contributor I want to shape my kernel, not being overruled by a decision done in a meeting somewhere on a campus I never visited.

You would need extensive partnership agreements like what Google has with Microsoft regards Chrome or Samsung has with Microsoft regards .NET Core. Challenging for smaller vendors.

Linux has a more pure (not owned) FOSS style making it successful.
> "feel morally justified in denying revenue to authors and other content creators"

I do think that only a very small portion of adblocking users wants to "justify" anything in this regard. Most just don't want to see ads and skip the faulty and economically biased moral debate around it.

edit:
While I agree that the blacklisting solution shouldn't be too much work, the charming "setup and forget" experience most adblockers provide will probably win through.
> Someone with 30 years of experience does not need a "boot camp" to learn a new language.

No, but they could very likely need a "boot camp" to get their resume past braindead gatekeepers or to make contacts that allow them to bypass said gatekeepers.
On a mechanical typewriter you'd have a button that would "revert" the position you'll write to by one character - also known as backspace.

So if you pressed backspace followed by "`", you'd give the last character a grave accent.

That's my theory for it being called backtick anyways.

Nowadays you could configure your input method to make that key give the next character a grave accent
CP/M https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M

In longer words: Windows was originally a GUI system on top of DOS which was influenced by CP/M. The NT kernel did away with DOS, but the influence still lives to this day. For a simple one: not being able to name a file "con" (or any capitalized variation) comes all the way from CP/M.

For the uninitiated: OSes from that era didn't have "directories"; Everything lived in the root of the drive, including device files. So, to print a file, you could literally do something like:

A> type FILE.TXT > PRN

When DOS added directories, they retained this "feature" so programs unaware of what directories were could still print by writing to the `PRN` "file". Because of "backwards compatibility", NT still has this "feature" as well.
I wrote something like this a while back:

https://github.com/aosmith/go-proxy
I like the idea of a "luck surface area" which suggests that the more you put yourself out there the more likely you are to be that one in a million.

If you Google it you'll probably get a better explanation than I gave.
I took part in the Tech Wildcatters' first class this past Summer. Happy to chat with anyone that has questions, hit me up at jeff@collegejobconnect.com
A lot is discussed about cops using racial profiling and targeting certain neighborhoods. I have a theory that there's another form of profiling that targets more affluent areas for traffic citations to bring in revenue. Is this a concern for anybody?
If you want a software only solution, I have been using the GentleAlarm App on my Android.

It rings very, very softly (user configurable for how long), and gradually ramps up it's volume.

This achieves the exact same objective of optimal wake time. If I'm sleeping soundly, then I don't wake up until it ramps up quite a lot, but if I'm already awake or just starting to wake up, I hear it quickly.
"I generally enjoy John Gruber’s writings, but today he’s dishing out SEO advice about HTML title tags. Some of it is bad advice."

Here's a piece of good advice. When you post in response to someone else's posting, have the courtesy to link to them, rather than simply calling them out.

http://daringfireball.net/2010/12/title_junk

FTFY
You could start by turning off indexing. Not sure what your use case is here, so that may or may not be reasonable.