jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Judge William Alsup learned to code for this case, and was therefore able to avoid a lot of the BS being peddled around the significance of some of the code:

> The argument centered on a function called rangeCheck. ... It was in Oracle’s interest to play up the significance of rangeCheck as much as possible, and David Boies, Oracle’s lawyer, began to argue that Google had copied rangeCheck so that it could take Android to market more quickly. Judge Alsup was not buying it.

> “I couldn't have told you the first thing about Java before this trial,” said the judge. “But, I have done and still do a lot of programming myself in other languages. I have written blocks of code like rangeCheck a hundred times or more. I could do it. You could do it. It is so simple.”

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/19/16503076/oracle-vs-googl...
I do live in a suburban / rural area without a car for the last 2 years. To shop I jog or bike to the store, or order from Amazon or the grocery store...and it's been fine. Sometimes I use Uber or ride with a friend. Yeah, I'd love to have a Toyota Tacoma, but insurance/maintenance/depreciation/gas is tens of thousands of dollars I can dedicate to other things instead.
A noble goal.
Or, you know, one can increase the voice activation level so that that's not the case?
ICUs are always full. Literally. ICUs and ERs are on divert more often than not. At least in the USA, hospitals have a fiduciary responsibility to keep beds filled. We will just take the sicker ones now.
Sorry, but I have another experience of living in Russia for 26 years. I doubt that those four years of difference would make your opinion much more credible than mine.

Moreover, I work at one of largest Internet firms (no any management, but still) and your assertions just don't "click" with my experience.

I imagine that you could show that Internet companies working in Russia indeed have government relations teams and those tend to be mostly-male; but that's not only thing I can imagine. The problem is that you supplied none.

Another thing is that I assume you've never been to China and India, which doesn't prevent you from spreading spontaneous knowledge AKA stereotypes about those countries.
Both of those countries (as I can tell) are huge and extremelly diverse, so, for example, one's stereotypes of Chinese village would hardly apply to Chinese megapolis.

And to be fair, I find unbacked stereotypes being repeated over and over to be a bad thing - a kind of background noise that can drown actual signal (input from people who've been there and done that).
gandi.net is awesome
Taking a random stab: the fact that native apps—i.e. non-webapps—that embed the MSHTML web view control to render some of themselves, will now be capable of using HTML5 features in the pages they display within those controls, might get called "native support": as in "installing IE10 provides native HTML5 support to Windows."
It's not good, it's very bad. Haskell researchers spent years, in fact, attempting to make sure that it was both decidable and ran in less than exponential time.

The fact that some people actually think an undecidable type system is an advantage is simply an astounding disconnect from reality.
There are many, many variables. Too many to consider.

If you really want to know how you stack up with devs in SV, come out here for a hackathon or SF Startup Weekend.

Decide for yourself who's smarter and ask them what they think is a fair offer for your skills. If you've figured out they're smart, they will probably already have an idea.
You can implement your own OO system in Python with metaclasses. Perl makes it easy to roll your own, while Python discourages doing so. Compare Perl's TMTOWTDI vs. Python's "There should be one—and preferably only one—obvious way to do it."
Good point. That, with some Googling, landed me at the original source:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/how-to-get-up-right...
... they had to wipe the PC off the MRI? Or wipe the IT staff off the MRI/PC?
I hope the MRI's don't run Windows. Then they'd have two problems.
More appropriate for those who know what is the best option in terms of information share freedom. Maybe notepad++ does not know these countries are the best choices, currently, to host what they want.

Regardless, it does not look they went to the best possible option, but instead they went for something that is at least better than their current options. French hosting, in their terms, is better than Sourceforge. It's a step into something direction...

This direction is what is really important. If, they ever become aware of France limitations (and it would be easy to make them aware) they can improve their offerings.
"Reader mode seems to only be available on pages that the browser thinks are articles"

Someone will write a javascript workaround that stops "reader mode" from triggering. If it's just a simple heuristic, it should be easy to defeat.
I could see some potential confusion here. "Our URL is somecoolapp.co" -might- sound like "Our URL is somecoolapp.com" if the person isn't listening closely enough.

On a side note, I wonder who's going to register co.co first ;) It would be funny to see an "im.with.co.co" site. hehe.
You're new to the Internetz, right? :)
Single port as in a single GPIO port?
For reference a 64-bit Pentium 4 core was (drum roll) 125Million transistors. And it was 100x bigger (112mm^2)
In many places it is literally illegal to build anything but the most expensive type of housing, due to single family zoning.
> What’s the software equivalent to “Churnalism”?

Basically anything consumer-facing from the past 15 years, especially if it's "mobile"
Myabe your anxiety is because you're focusing on the "make some slides" vs. "deliver content in a presentation format". If you adhere to guidance for the later the slides are actually pretty easy. You quickly release they are just a prop that supplements the entire production.

I found the video "How To Speak by Patrick Winston" delivered to new MIT students to be very helpful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY

Careful - once you become attuned to pp failures you will have little tolerance for them from both other people and yourself, and good presentations are a lot of work!
Even more fun is to think that we are a class project of some sophomore at some university in "outer outside". That would explain a lot of things. Instead of a super advanced entity just some junior students creating their first universes.
>I mean actual free speech would just be an endless collection of penis videos. Nobody is actually advocating for free speech.

I disagree.

*chans are some of the best places for discussion, especially regarding unpopular topics, as the posters reputation isn't on the line when expressing an opinion, and (I think more importantly) every post is weighted the same - there's no upvotes to tell you what you're supposed to think.

There is a downside of sifting through pornography, but it's not a big issue to not click links you don't like. Minimal moderation on SFW boards also works pretty well.
Keep it as is but have it owned by the fed.
Here in British Columbia we just raised the cost of a can deposit from 5 cents to 10 cents. I already whined about the size of the can decreasing and now you pay twice as much deposit for even less pop. Overall I only ever drink pop rarely but with the added deposit I have been reconsidering if such a small pop size is worth my money at all.
TFL Rail is the name for TFL's temporary services either side of what will be Crossrail. Once Crossrail opens to the public it will all become Crossrail / The Elizabeth Line even those services that don't actually go under London.

So TFL do operate trains, even ignoring London Overground which is in effect also TFL.
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It definitely needs to change. There are very few other industries that have 'tipping' as a core part, and food service is (I think) rather unique in that the server's tips are dependent on loads of other folks who aren't subject to tipping "below min wage" pay, yet typically still get a cut of the tips.

I'm thinking of the rest of the staff - managers, busboys, cooks, cleaners, etc. All of those other roles have an impact on the service, yet, AFAIK, only the server has to deal with $2/hr-please-i'm-begging-for-a-tip situation.

Tipping has generally no effect on the quality of the rest of the service - food quality, cleanliness, speed, etc. Those are all outside the control of the server, but they're going to bear the brunt of the bad output from those other workers.
I agree, and I don't think you should focus only on the "gaining weight" part, since most people want to lose weight.

That said, I assume that the diet produced is balanced and thus good for people who train for strength/lifters, not just people who want to fill out a bit? If so, it will be indispensable to me, as I am doing SS and need something like it. Right now I just sort of eat all the meat, eggs and almonds I can find.

EDIT: Is the site down? I can't access it.
Very poor reporting - Nvidia is not licensing SLI to AMD. AMD has its own technology (Crossfire) which is similar to SLI. All Nvidia is doing is enable Motherboard that make AMD based motherboards to include SLI support on their motherboards. AMD graphics card will not be using SLI technology to get multicard support.
I have to say, I once came fairly close to bricking my router. However after I realized the router was complete and utter garbage I put the brick to it, so now it is officially bricked, office space style.
I totally get Marco's decision to go with a paid version of his app. Of course, he doesn't provide an option for publishers to opt out of providing free versions of their content, which is what they're doing when Instapaper strips all the ads off of them.
Again, he seems happy with his revenue generation and he cuts down significantly on annoying chatter in his ear. Seems like a good decision. Some folks would talk about his "lifestyle business" and how he needs to change x and y, I'd say just keep on trucking.
I bet it's more than that, just because of Find My iPhone, which requires a free MobileMe account. However, I would bet far less than 1% actually has any real education about what it is.
Aha, DLP projection... ingenious! Thanks for the link.
I see people playing this on the sidewalks all over Vietnam. Sometimes the board is the back of a pizza box. Groups of four or more men seem happy to huddle around a game for hours. I've never been much of a chess player so I haven't had the courage to try a game myself yet.
So I don't know why but for some reason even if you're only changing flights in the US you need a full transit visa(if you're from a country that's not part of the visa waiver programme obvs). Was a big pain when travelling to Costa Rica from Europe, because 90% of flights there change in US, which means having to book a visit at the Embassy, pay $150 and pray the consul actually gives you a visa so you can spend 2 hours on US soil to change flights. In comparison when changing flights in Amsterdam you don't need a Schengen visa, the airport is designed to accommodate people changing flights without leaving the airport.
If you're discussing a type of object that has such a wide range of magnitudes, describing it as orders of magnitude difference is a good descriptor. For example, the size of stars. One star may be ten times the size of another. Another may be 100 times the size. The next may be 1000 or 10,000 times the size. You wouldn't simply say that stars have a wide range of sizes, you would say that they have orders of magnitude difference. Likewise, you could say that one star may be several orders of magnitude larger than another.
There are many examples of Venezuelans doing just this.
>> Up until the year 1990 or so, the whole world would have said exactly this sentence when asked about the possibility of civil war,

You don't know what you're talking about. The Balkans have been unstable for a very long time.
I think you're skirting a truly fascinating question: can "higher consciousness" violate complexity bounds?
I regularly try DDG because I desperately want to quit Google for good. But everytime, it's just a huge time waster.

Let's take an example, here is the result of the last actual query I made in DDG: "dig show all": https://i.imgur.com/AccN8WJ.png

Now, in Google: https://i.imgur.com/KLjKfYu.png

This is just ridiculous. I end up using !g or !s (StartPage) for almost all my queries...
Somewhat related quote:

Linus Torvalds:
"Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships."

IMO proper database design is extremely important. Code is fluid. You can replace it. Data is not that fluid, it's much harder to change it. Database should contain checks to ensure that bad data won't be saved.

I don't think that complete business logic should be in database. Keep data in database, keep your code in your application. Database is responsible for data storage and some data validation to prevent misbehaved apps storing obviously bad data. Application is responsible for everything else.
I try to adapt my checklist to the problem at hand. Sometimes I'm making something as a hobby project, or to solve a problem right now. Sometimes I want to write code that will outlive me, and sometimes I'll just throw some code at the wall and call it done.

Each situation necessarily results in different priorities and tools. I wouldn't TDD a gamejam project, and I wouldn't start a multi-year project in zig - at least, not yet.

For infrastructure projects I want well written deps which are simple, easy to use and have good documentation. When I'm evaluating something I often read bits of its source code (eg to figure out how to do something not listed in the examples). You get a sense of where to put things that way - actix (the actor library, not the web library) is very carefully designed, but seems to go a bit overboard inventing new concepts (+ associated traits). Tide feels pragmatic - its a bit sloppy with allocations, but it doesn't seem to really care. It wants to be fast enough and good enough while being simple to use.

For hobby projects I like to follow my nose and pick whatever seems shiny. Over the last few years I've learned svelte, typescript, snowpack, rust (and some rust libraries), zig, wasm and other stuff. I like to make some risky bets and then just play the hand out and see what happens. And I use that as fuel for when I make longer term projects. I'm making a little database at the moment and I'm using rust - which is much slower for me to write (compared to nodejs) but it matches the values of the project I'm working on to a tee.
You may be an atypical case. Are you working in anything microkernel related?
This is likely a dumb outsider viewpoint but: is just burying plastics all that bad? The fact that they stay intact over geologic timescales would seem to make them an ideal carbon sink, which is something we could actually use more of - provided that feedstocks can come out of the carbon cycle (e.g. agricultural) rather than relying on petrochemicals.
> For $2000 and $300 a month Comcast will give you 2.5 gigabit connection with SFP+ and a 1 gig failover.

Time to make some friends with your neighbours.
> I mean, they tried that approach with Roko's Basilisk... Let's just say it didn't work very well.

Roko's Basilisk is just Pascal's Wager restated for AI.

It falls to the same counterarguments, e.g. what if a superintelligent AI already exists somewhere in the universe and currently doesn't care about you but deigns to punish you for any attempt to create a competitor?
Cryptography is rare, but generating other data that needs to be unpredictable (e.g. session IDs, password reset tokens, random passwords getting generated, gift card codes, real-money gambling numbers) is quite common, I think.

And the default implementation of random() doesn't seem to be any faster than AES-CTR (which is the core of one form of secure PRNG).
I got tinnitus after using Sony WH1000 noise cancelling headphones in 2018. Damn...
Well, I worked with COBOL developer team in Canadian bank a few years ago. It is absolutely alive and well in this industry.
I would highly recommend watching this video about exactly that topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU
Monero isn't fast enough and doesn't support transaction recovery (it also has probabilistic linkage which MobileCoin doesn't due to our use of secure enclaves). We spent almost 18 months building MobileCoin Fog to solve the second problem (https://github.com/mobilecoinfoundation/fog). It's a non-trivial stack of code to allow users to recover strings from servers they don't control without the operators of those servers being able to learn what strings are being recovered.

Don't get me wrong, we stand on the shoulders of giants, but there's a lot of new tech here.
That makes sense to me. Why does a pointer imply mutation? I thought that was what const is meant to signal.
As always,it depends. I guess by mentioning midwest,you go with a notion that it's not a hcol area. The unlimited vacation & sick time probably also means a pretty decent white collar job.

It's difficult to compare with Europe,as one unit, as it's as varied as the US is. There are quite a few countries in Europe, where I'd happily take whatever your the associates are making at your firm and I'd have amazing,high quality life with very little to worry about. Alternatively, if I go to London,or Zurich, most salaries would feel like pocket change.

The other aspect,what in my opinion keeps tab on salaries in Europe, is the sheer volume of available quality candidates for jobs. There are tons of people with exceptional education. Not so long time ago, we used to have a running joke back home that why would anyone hire a cleaner without a masters degree?It also used to be a default option to only hire secretaries that only had double masters.
You're getting into Ken Thompson's "Trusting Trust" territory here.

When you lose trust you end up with your crazy uncle leaving Fox News for Alex Jones and YouTube. You have people becoming QAnon followers.

I say this not to make a political point, but that the problem is fundamentally hopeless and I see no way out. You end up landing on one side of the fence or the other. You either just don't think about it and continue to use Google and Facebook and remain ignorant of the problem, or you spiral down the never-ending hole of despair.

We have seen articles recently that tell us not even Signal can be fully trusted. Whether or not it's true is beside the point. The point is, not even the HN crowd is safe from the cliff of paranoia. The seed of doubt has been planted.

Is someone going to trust a small tech startup in 2021? No, not like they would have in 1997. The market for trust has effectively been sealed off today. Because, paradoxically, the Googles and Facebooks ruined it all. They stripped us (all of us, not just HN) of our innocence and naivety. We know not to trust Google, but they are also a known known. A small tech company is a total unknown. We're familiar with how Google is going to bend us over. So if someone is going to do us dirty, it may as well be a known entity. Or... you go and build a cabin in the woods and start writing manifestos.
My guess is where it's been going for a while, in line with the signals sent by hiring their new CFO - juicing shareholder value by cost-cutting now that the easy gains have been had and "natural growth" is slowing.
You are webmd. You take in symptoms from people with mild discomfort. You give a wide range of causes and diseases based on the symptoms. You include both spectrum of extreme events. You are worthless as a medical advice provider.

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You are a talking head in CNBC. You have seen only two global financial crisis in your life time. You talk about a global recession that is about to happen every week. You try your best to keep everyone in the edge of their sit. You never talk about the how market is booming. You are on doomsday patrol.

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Why does modern contrarian black swan enthusiast always talk about catastrophic events that has incredibly low likelihood of happening? You know what are the other things that have low likelihood of happening, winnings from gambling and lottery. The sentiment is that being conscious about risk is smart unless you are talking about exploiting tail events for profits.
One way is to see if they are doing any new context specific work to make their assessment.

Did the doctor run any tests, perform any investigation, or just tell you the most likely cause for your symptoms. That is to say, did they preform any expert analysis on you specifically or simply tell you a statistic for people like you?
"Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. But the third guy thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and the tiger had him for dinner. And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations - and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there weren’t any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do. And from those humble beginnings we learn to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favours the paranoid. Even here in the 21st century we can make people more honest just by scribbling a pair of eyes on the wall with a Sharpie. Even now we are wired to believe that unseen things are watching us."

―Peter Watts, Echopraxia (2015)
Google's data collection lets me afford better tech than I otherwise would, so I really don't mind that much.

It's not like these are random hackers that can steal credit cards, that's not what they do.

There should be a lot more private tech available for those that need it, but for everyone else Apple is just too expensive for a protest unless privacy is on your shortlist of causes you really care about and prioritize.
Reading this, what is very striking is how very different the two tribes are on a fundamental level.

One tribe has a list of things they are demanding the other tribe do.

The other tribe just wants to be left alone.
For some context, Scott Siskind (of SlateStarCodex fame) has been a favorite blogger of this site for years, though admittedly this isn't one of his stronger pieces. Some of Scott's observations are super profound and enlightening, some of them are a bit more obvious. I enjoy his prose, so I tend to at least skim nearly everything he posts.
Ummm, I don't understand all the dislike. For someone with my background, this was absolutely perfect. It's one of the very first things I read when I decided I wanted to learn Python. Fast forward several years, and now writing Python code is what I do for a living. I could not be happier.

I was a violinist, and Zed Shaw's way of teaching the basics completely resonated with me.

Thank you, Zed.
Revision was always emphasized to me, but I never understood why. I always thought I was above it. After I became a programmer and had to look at old code I’d written, I finally understood why revision is so important.

Couldn’t my teachers have told me that revision is so important because we’re not qualified to evaluate our creations until they’re no longer fresh in our heads? It’s not an obvious concept, and I wish others didn’t have to learn it the hard way.
That's exactly the point that irked me. Would she find it ok, if it was done to her in say Europe.