jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Even if Texas were fully integrated with the National grids, there was not enough excess capacity to meet the Texas' increased needs in addition to every other affected States' demand. Heck, it would habe magnified the severity of the problem. All the Mexico connections were shut down because they had their own issues. We could very well have ended up with a cascading grid failure on a National scale, which would have helped nobody.

This is not just a Texas problem, and the fact it stayed isolated to Texas and didn't effect other States' adversely was entirely an artifact of Texas' independent grid.
Well to be fair its not Griddy's fault US infrastructure is a joke.
Variable rates work fine when you live in a country where the electrical grid isn't neglected.
Define won.

This is the way I see it. Perl5 is still being actively developed, perl6 is coming along nicely, cpan more awesome than ever, and there's still work for a perl dev.

If everyone was using the same language, then we'd all suffer because no one would be getting the new ideas.

Competition keeps things healthy.
> "bitcoin"

What does using quotes mean? Why not just write Bitcoin?
Thanks! I think I just fixed #2, I am guessing it was a Chrome/Win bug with rounded corners. Though I can't see it myself.. is the problem still there?
because that's what's often offered as default by chart drawing software? people with money love it ("the pie is getting larger!!!"), so it must be default.
A plan for where I would go after and how I would support myself. I wasn’t suicidal.

My mother was annoyed that I was living at home without a job.
Let me just preface this by saying that I think kids are great (and this is not taking into consideration the other benefits of having kids, like happiness and sense of purpose and things like that), but if your goal is not just to get up early for the sake of getting up early but to get up early in order to get things done, it seems like having a kid would not necessarily be a net benefit time-wise as the reason you need to get up early with a kid is to spend time taking care of them. Of course, I don't think having kids ever stopped anyone from taking over the world, so this may be an invalid point.
Germany has been consistently exporting its goods over two decades, independent of the exchange rates. The German export success is not tied to the exchange rate. German companies learned to live with high exchange rates. For example the automotive industry has factories in the US, Mexico, Brasil, ...
I hate when Xkcd makes fun of me...
Who would want to pay to look at blokes wanking? It comes free with chatroulette.

Maybe the blokes themselves are paying to have their privates shown?
No one is paying to see blokes wanking, or at least very few are. The "wankers" represent the most paying customers, they consume the most content, but they also produce the least desirable content...
So... 57 years to go from a world-renowned center of excellence and research to the butt of every outsourcing joke.

It was a good run.
Or you buy an e-bike, and the electric motor does all the heavy lifting. Allowing you to cycle in coat with breaking into a sweat.
Except there was no "mob justice" here; you are overreacting and using terms that should be reserved for violent consequences in situations that do not justify such words.

I understand why you have to exaggerate, though.
An yet in 20 years, no one has presented any proof of actual election fraud. However there are tons and tons of evidence that foreign powers like Russia and China troll and spread millions of fake stories to fool more gullible Americans. I don't recall a single democrat saying "the dominion voting machines are fake data!" And yet here we are with a President seeing election fraud everywhere with not one solid piece of evidence. Only accusations.
I think that a big difference to people is whether or not the event was violent.

Many protests involve civil disobedience; I think very few people here would condemn all illegal protests.

However, violence is where I (and I think many others) draw the line.

As another data point I heard: Wednesday was the first time since 9/11/2001 that the Capitol was evacuated. Clearly, this demonstration was exceptional in a way that disturbe
It is the ensuing "democratic reform" to come that gives me a stomach ache.
Step one would be to stop being so sanctimonious and believing that you are their better. You cannot convince someone of something or find common ground if you start off the conversation spitting in their face and telling them how much smarter you are than them.
People care more about tolerance than they do Facebook and Google creating a human attention farms. But as long as these megacorps have a rainbow logo once a year then they're the good guy, right?
It's important that claims are investigated, but claims have been investigated, courts have made rulings, all the way to the Supreme Court.

The system will never be perfect but nobody is. Holding it to a 100% standard and saying it isn't a good system if it fails in a few points is not acting in good faith.

I have yet to see any real evidence of election fraud. The Trump lawyers have been shutdown by bipartisan courts across the country. Mike Pence and Mitch McConnell, lifelong republicans, agreed.

It's time to move on.
I don't see the contradiction or confusion implied by "funny". You cannot yell "fire" in a crowded building when there is no fire. This is why it is a classic example of reasonable limitations to free speech.
Honest question: Are people who are upset about this upset because they believe that Twitter should never ban anyone, or are they upset because they believe Trump has not violated any of Twitter's policies, or are they upset because they believe that Trump should not be banned even if he violates Twitter's policies?
Not yet... so far he's gotten slapped for using @POTUS and @TeamTrump. Is this the "bargaining" phase of grief?
Woah. Hardcore encryption? Is that even better than military grade encryption?
omnifocus
Yes, have u not been paying attention in 2020? Defi apps on Ethereum have grown a lot and now have tons of usage: https://defipulse.com/
I use Evernote for involved planning and note taking and Things for tasks(including tasks that are already in Jira, PT, Issues...).

I've spent a lot of time trying different tools... there isn't a magical one size fits all 😔
Intersting, I didn't realize PCRE now has JIT support. http://sljit.sourceforge.net/pcre.html

Also, that page points to Apple's YARR, which I didn't know about either (and Chrome's irregexp, which I did).
> If it couldn't, how does anyone think it'd be at all possible to learn how to get better at anything?

Presumably part of the feedback loop (at least for things like motor skills and rote memorisation) is external to the brain. Our brain causes us to act, which alters our perceptions, which causes the brain to adjust.
If you have time, sit back and read this excellent essay by David Foster Wallace on eating lobster, which examines the issues from a humane, non-dogmatic perspective:

http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_l...

This was the title essay in one of DFW's essay compilations.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" - Mahatma Gandhi
> Meanwhile, as vegans focus on the elimination of
> meat from our diets, they practically ignore the
> industrialized food that wreaks direct reproducible
> havoc on our metabolisms causing epidemic obesity
> and diabetes.

This is a bit of a strawman. You're basically saying that if you can find any fault with someone that is vegan, then their entire message is null and void. Think about it. You've stated that vegans aren't perfect because while eliminating one 'bad' thing from their diet they are forgetting a completely different one. That's your argument.

You're also only commenting on the effects to humans, while ignoring the effects to animals (which is an important factor for some/most vegans).

In general though, if you want to blame something, blame capitalism, and a lack of care for proper nutrition by the general public. Capitalism drives food companies to become ever more industrialized, and do whatever necessary to increase profits (fiddle with the sodium-fat-sugar content of their products to attempt to make people feel the need to eat more, and never feel that they have satisfied their hunger). The consumer can combat this with their pocket book, but the consumer just doesn't seem to care.
If the TSA is disbanded, then how do you suggest handling airport security? Who is in charge of it and who is responsible?
What's "YC Week"? Different YC companies every day?
Personally, I can't wait until we grow meat without having to kill animals who can feel pain, distress, etc, to get it. It won't come one day too soon.
Not a good idea to have one's young son read it either.
Apple's C++ support has got horrible recently. Debugging mode in the C++ standard library doesn't work, gdb often fails to find symbols, Shark crashes, and the compiler has no C++0x support, unlike the current compilers on both Windows and Linux.
Not sure why the parent was down voted - this is a legitimate statement - while they are not compensated, they are given free room and board which is at times more than what low income poverty stricken families can guarantee themselves.

They are incarcerated for a reason (yes there are cases of innocence - but realistically, the majority of offenders are in there for a reason). Whether it was a crime out of necessity, passion or simply because the perpetrator was downright crazy - they committed a crime, and their legal rights should be minimized to a minimum without making it a case of human rights violations.

If a work or education program can be offered to help people possibly correct their lives, excellent - if rehabilitation is possible - great. But they should not have the same rights as regular law abiding citizens.
> My thumb ends up doing work meant for my pinky.

That's purely user preference, I don't think God intended your pinky to open new tabs in Firefox.

The motion required is equivalent -- you don't have to move your hand to get to the Command button, and frankly CAPS+t is a more difficult motion than Command-t (and any Textmate user is pretty accustomed to the latter).
I have to disagree. My own sense is that it has become impossible for the US to complete publicly-beneficial projects anymore.

You see it in many cities that want high-speed rail or simple public transit. These projects have become unaffordable. Why? Not because of the labor or materials cost, but because every piece of land needed for such a project will require a protracted legal battle spanning many years in order to squeeze money from the government and determine a "fair value" that in the end is usually very inflated.

I think the US could find itself in a very sorry situation if we remain paralyzed when it comes to building publicly beneficial infrastructure. Meanwhile China (who I am loathe to imitate) is building itself into the 21st century overnight, while we litigate for years (or decades) over the abandoned lot or corner gas-station that was in the way of something that provides much more value to the public.
I'd go with passwordpasswordpasswordpassword. Just to be safe.
What happens if someone else signs someone up for commercial email? Who gets in trouble? Based on this, it seems like the company would.
Well it was being ignored for the first few days, it only just started to get picked up by NYT etc.
I've been using Linux since 1992 with SLS. I've had several laptops on which I ran Debian. For years I did battle with audio drivers, printers, wireless, and non-functional suspend/resume.

Upon encountering OS X I went out and bought a 12" PowerBook. I thought it would be a nice machine to run Debian/PPC on. Instead, I so enjoyed having a functional laptop, that I never left OS X. Being firmly in the open source world, I described it as a crisis of faith. I'm on my second MacBook Pro now.

Having instantaneous suspend/resume is the biggest deal for me. Having wireless just work and being able to plug into a random printer and print a boarding pass is really nice. Plugging into a random projector or monitor and being able to do a demo or presentation without debugging the latest configuration mechanism to X is nice.

I still use Debian for servers and some workstations. Basically, if I only have to configure it once, it is worth the hassle. But with a laptop, I am essentially reconfiguring multiple times per day moving between locations, networks, and peripherals. OS X makes this so much less painful.

People like to talk about Apple as a software company or a hardware company. They are a systems company. Because they control the OS and the hardware, there isn't the enormous problems getting suspend/resume to work like there is in the Windows and Linux world where you have to get multiple vendors to cooperate to get something done.
Probably a substantial fraction of the public delicious data was collected for this:

http://ilpubs.stanford.edu/858/1/2008-2.pdf

The primary issue is that it does not seem terribly clear what the legal status of redistributing such data would be, and/or whether this is changed in any way by Y! shutting down delicious.
Quora isn't run by an investment firm.
...on his industry...
There are claims that Google indexes 150B pages today. Even if you settle with 1/3rd of this and take in to account that average page size for HTML alone is 200KB, it would be evident that you need 10s of millions of dollars to pay towards hardware. Remember fetching pages costs, storing them, processing them etc costs lots of money and building even semi-scalable index which have in-memory, SSD based layers is super expensive. And we haven't even started the major cost factor i.e. human employees.

Today's search engines are not just indexes of web pages. They give direct answers for "when did Lincoln died", they show detailed street and satellite maps with StreetViews in search results, they act as business directory, they act as people finder, they have elaborate image search (again super expensive to do), they recognize objects in images, they have freshest news search for thousands of sources, they can do video search, they have scans of 100s of thousands of books, they catalog millions of products and so on. Even getting some of this high quality data such as satellite maps, books, business listings, product catalogues etc would cost ~100 million dollars in licensing deals.

Even if you decided to get world's most productive programmers you will need at least 300 people in my most minimal estimation and more than 2-4 years before you can build anything that has non-negligible chance of competing. That's about $75M of cost per year right there at the ultra-minimal end. Of course, this is assuming you already had bigger breakthrough than that of PageRank and that you can beat state of the art machine learning and natural language processing techniques. Hopefully you can now see, for all intent and purposes, search business is closed to attack via startups. I can imagine Facebook and Apple would sooner or later get in to this business but it would be uphill battle for them primarily because of lack of talent that search engine business requires and more importantly lack of data that only Google has for billions of queries and users doing them. You can build AirBnB with smart college hires but building search engines needs truly the cream of the crop who are perfect rare blend of Computer Scientists and part time mathematicians while also being an exceptionally productive applied programmers. Google has been working for years to sweep away pretty much all talent in this area and it would take most competitors significant effort to build this kind of army.

PS: DuckDuckGo is not a "real" search engine. It has a very little of its own index and for most queries they just rearrange results fetched mostly from Bing while inserting links from their own little index. If Bing shuts them out for leaching off of them, they would be toast.
Here's a hefty legal analysis of Religious Freedom laws. There's some interesting history here that bears reading.

http://volokh.com/2013/12/02/hobby-lobby-employer-mandate-re...

(Note that I'm not a lawyer and can't vouch for this interpretation, but there are a lot of plain facts in the analysis that I hadn't known before.)
Merely being a citizen makes someone qualified to comment.

Being the CEO of one of the world's largest and most influential companies has nothing to do with having correct, interesting or developed legal background or politics.

The Washington Post is using his status as CEO as an appeal from authority - to imply his politics are somehow interesting or informed or correct.
"This is bizarre. In what way does a 21st-century economy depend on inter-racial marriage?

Am I too cynical for thinking this probably has more to do with PR and/or company morale?"

I fixed it for you.
sigh go look up the definition
The billion dollar valuations of silicon valley startups may cloud your judgement a bit.

220 mil is a lot. Most companies won't be worth this much.

Except for the US, guns are mostly sold to governments (policy, military) so the gun market isn't that large, and there is lots of competition.
In my experience, it takes an incredible amount of effort and experience to solve a complex problem with simplicity and efficiency. It's well worth it, but there's definitely a cost, and not everyone is capable of it.
If you have a doctorate than your primary source of employment is the education system.

Really? Isn't academia notorious for its low salaries? And yet, according to statistics cited, PhD command the highest salaries on average. What could possibly account for this puzzling discrepancy? Could it be that in many fields in fact it's the industry that is the primary source of employment for PhDs?

If people stop paying those fees then the salaries collapse.

So what self-supporting feedback system is responsible for high salaries of workers with professional degrees?

EDIT: table of salaries at industrial research labs: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~azuma/IRsalary02.jpg
Do you have a source for this? I'd love to read more about it; I knew they had python in use in some places, but this is the first I've heard that it was used in their search engine.
From my vague memories of an intro economics class I took two years ago, inflation devalues the inflated currency relative to others. It would cost someone in the US more, but a yen or a euro would buy more.
I've found that the successful design of large, complicated systems requires extensive use of intuition and abstraction, which can only be gained through lots of experience. (Continually reflecting on how new knowledge impacts on on relates to your existing knowledge is a good way to embed it at an instinctive level.)

Unfortunately, not everyone seems to be equal when it comes to the ability to use intuition and abstraction, or even the motivation to think about the work they do. This tends to lead to people who can only write code if they're given a detailed specification. (Hopefully they've got analytical smarts, because otherwise even that may not be enough for them to contribute at a high level.)
Alternatives?

Edit: Real alternatives I mean; something OSS (free is not so important, but no lock-in), able to manage huge amounts of data, actively developed, active projects built on top.
Don't flatter yourself... There is a lot that goes into building an advanced economy beyond startups...Not to mention start-ups need educated workers to become successful. This whole meme about education not being necessary is utter nonsense. Only someone who has the narrowest understanding of how our world works would subscribe to such a notion... do you want "half-assed"/"Sam teach yourself aerodynamics in 21 days" engineers building your aircrafts? I don't think so.
Was the article edited? It now reads "They were "astonished" to find it almost completely wiped out methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, otherwise known as MRSA."
chmod :)
Excellent point. That's there I just forgot to list it.

I did that once. Once. Then it went on the list. Over 20 years ago.

22. for a company with an employee handbook that is all about protecting and absolving the company while imposing an undue burden of petty rules on the employees, including interfering with things that are none of the companies business such as alcohol consumption outside of work.
[retracted due to a misleading argument from analogy]
The issue here is that wealth inequality is so massive that it ends up being a net negative even if the economy as a whole is growing.

What we are seeing nowadays is stagnant income for the middle class and skyrocketing wealth (and power) for the fortunate 0.1%
How about where you need some data that is available to all processes running under the same UID, but not to other processes? How do people handle that nowadays, especially on a generic server with no special cryptographic or security hardware?

To make it more interesting, assume that (1) the processes do not have a common ancestor running as that UID, and (2) if all processes with that UID exit, the secret should still be available if any new processes are started with that UID, and (3) the secret must be forgotten when the machine shuts down or loses power.

Assume that the secret should be safe from attackers who can run arbitrary code as other non-root users, who can force the machine to reboot, and who can steal the machine itself. (Stealing the machine causes it to lose power--no need to worry about a George Costanza/"Frogger" scenario).

For example, imagine a service implemented as a CGI that needs the keys for an encrypted database it uses, or needs the password for a service that it needs to access, using Apache using suEXEC to run this service's CGI under a dedicated UID.

It would seem that you need some kind of persistent storage. The first thing that comes to mind is a file. It can be owned by the UID of the CGI, and mode 0400. This doesn't meet the requirement of the secret being forgotten on shut down, though.

Would good old fashioned System V shared memory work for this? It has ownership and access control similar to files, so a shared memory segment owned by UID and mode 0600 should only be accessible to processes with the right UID (and root). It goes away when the machine shuts down. Linux's System V shared memory implementation adds a flag you can set via shmctl to keep it from swapping it.
Not really. A little messiness to the human eye is equal to an error for a compiler, which isn't tolerable at all.
Why, do you think? We're talking about computer people, not exactly Luddites. We all upgrade to new tech all the time, but IPv6 is more than 20 years old and adoption is still shit.
I did something similar, but with an end-to-end ML approach: https://towardsdatascience.com/transcribe-live-chess-with-ma...
You might be right -- I don't use either of them, so my interest in precisely who's worse is limited. Your argument leads me to think that they both should be avoided. In any case, regardless of whether or not Telegram is OK, nobody should be using Facebook products.
Million transistors per mm^2 has been proposed as a comparison metric:

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/mtr-mm%C2%B2

There are lots of different transistor sizes on a chip, so it also specifies what kind of transistors to measure.
Coupon code doesn’t work
> This can't possibly work well.

Not that I disagree, but could you elaborate your reasoning here?
sounds expensive $$$
If the sounds are too different from existing mental models, they won't be associated with oncoming traffic?
The cars were just misdirection...They needed them to disguise what was in the luggage compartment :-)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/kim-jong-un-north-...