jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
One more thought on the "one currency" issue. At least in the US, legal tender (monopoly) laws punish anything used that isn't dollar based. You are required to accurately report capital gains you acquired from currency value fluctuations. This is an IRS/accounting nightmare for most people, hence multiple currencies are avoided by most people.
Try this https://github.com/facebook/react-native/tree/master/Example...
Check out Alive

http://web.ist.utl.pt/nuno.lopes/pubs.php?id=alive-pldi15

https://github.com/nunoplopes/alive

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1170
Pretty much so. It is one of the easiest to learn, almost everybody gets at least the basics, the codebase is huge, and it works on all platforms, err.. continents, modulo tiny accent issues.
Most of the language additions are aimed at library designers and writers, where they can give significant performance and ease-of-use improvements, rather than at C++ application developers.
Is it just me, or is a proper headset with a quality directional boom microphone a superior solution to majority of software noise cancelling?

I hate to sound like a luddite, but I'm on conference calls all day every day; zoom, webex, MS teams, skype, you name it; and the more laptop-microphones there are, the mushier and laggier everything and everybody sounds due to all the noise cancelling (and crappy microphones / noise environments to start with). :-/
This would be relevant for civilizations like ours, using waves to purposedly contact with others, but not for signals used to communicate with spaceships or colonies of the same alien civilization.
Several of these seem to be "a clever thing about my field" rather than a Reboot Keyphrase such as the one Feynman provided.

I particularly enjoyed Steven Strogatz's phrase which attempts to encapsulate calculus and thus impart the mathematical underpinnings that Newton did--thus providing for the first time that leap in predictive powers of human-created models that spurred the belief in our ability to truly understand the world around us.

That is, it's one of the few phrases that I think would generate the impetus for further study, rather than relying on that drive to be there.
"As a realtor, you get a huge, immediate payoff when the house sells."

"immediate", except for the fact that you might have been working to find or sell the house for a year, and months to put the deal together.

This is assuming the house ever does sell at all, and you haven't worked for months or years to get absolutely nothing.

And it assumes that if the house sells you don't get cheated by your client and actually do get paid.

"You don't care about the price."

Except that usually real estate agents get a percentage of the sale price as commission.

Real estate agents also want to make their client happy so that they'll get recommendations and referrals from them in the future, and want to work with that agent again when they look to buy or sell another home.
I believe Yipit started this way.
Thanks for putting this together. A few questions come to mind:

1) Did you try bigger instance types, i.e. large? I've heard at that level and above you get better networking performance, which theoretically might improve EBS performance?

2) Related to #1, I wonder if you've tried doing RAID0 on the ephemeral drives? You get two with the large instance, and four with xlarge.

3) Did you ever measure non-IO network EBS performance during the tests? I've always wondered whether using EBS heavily would slow down other network traffic to the device given there is only one interface.

4) How often have you yourself experienced EBS volume failure in your RAID volumes?

5) When that happens, what happens to your volumes and instance? That is, what do you use to monitor when the RAID volume degrades? Does it usually take down the instance immediately or only after some time? If it just becomes really slow does that throw alarms or does the application just become really slow?

6) Finally, what is your current procedure for dealing with a volume failure?

Well that ended up being a lot of questions. I'd really appreciate any answers/insights your or anyone else could shed on these questions. I've been reading all these posts but it feels a bit like reading tea leaves.
:-). You should also have an rss feed generated, without that a blog is not that useful IMO.
Boil water prior to drinking it.
Can I ask how do you find those kind of contracts?
The cost function just looks like difference squared, but I'm not sure how that yields results like this:

Hglmo, wosmd! (8)
Gflln* wosle! (9)
Hello, wosld! (9999)
Hello, world (9999)

The bottom two seem to be much closer to the desired result, but the top two score lower cost? Seems weird to me. :-/
I do some work in the static analysis industry, and it's common to see analyses based on various coding standards, including this one.
>If violence against virtual women is all you do in it and that concerns you, I would highly recommend seeing a psychologist to find help.

Do people really think it's tactful and/or polite to suggest psychiatic treatment to others in a discussion?

Especially after mis-reading their whole point?

I don't do anything in GTA, have never played the game.

The parent comment presented it as a something to be proud about as compared to being a parent/friend/etc.

I just wanted to point out it's not some great achievement humanity wise.
Working as a software developer in radio astronomy, I frequently get asked the same question. Where's the value in spending half a billion euros on a massive telescope array? I struggle to understand how people cannot simply accept the answer: to know more!

This article will definitely help me to explain the value of radio astronomy and science in general in a more succinct and 'useful' way.
But the developed nations didn't become developed simply by throwing food at them. In fact, one could argue that space programs were a significant factor in their development, and therefore prevented more starvation than food aid ever did.
That's too harsh. traceroute66 is (presumably) offering a genuinely held opinion, and it's valuable to know that this opinion exists even if one disagrees with it. I actually thought about his point of view quite a lot today while talking a snowy walk in the woods with my dog. It's foreign to me, but I wouldn't be surprised if his approach has served him well for making progress in his career. At the least, he sounds better paid than I am.

The question I had was how far he'd suggest taking this approach. Should one avoid learning to cook because it's (currently) cheaper to pay someone for food? How does one justify hobbies? What about volunteer work? I'm sort of on the opposite end. I struggle to justify paying for anything that I can do myself. It may be that I've never felt I was in a situation where I could easily choose to make more money without suffering debilitating moral conflict.
Yeah I appreciated the feedback. I love feedback, it's all good information to chew through and think about. :)

> It's often people in the grey area, falling between the cracks, that get the worst deal - too well to seek help, too messed up to function properly.

Couldn't have described it better!
Guided presentation of knowledge. Not access to knowledge.

Admittedly a lot of uni teaching is just a data dump. But the data dump at least tells which topics to investigate, and regular reviews tell you when you're not getting it.

Without that you may never know why - say - compiler design is important in CS, and not just to compiler writers.
Given the difference in views depending on use cases, what about offering users options? That doesn't entirely eliminate the question of what should be the default option but does give you the ability to test whether significant proportions of users have an alternate preference and what effect that has on their participation, within the context of your app.

Personally I quite like Facebook's hybrid reverse chronological order and box at the top for discrete updates with responses to those updates ordered chronologically and updated inline.
Varnish is good unless you need SSL. IIRC Varnish still doesn't support SSL, and the author never intends it to. I'm not suggesting that's a bad thing, just saying.
I haven't used them yet, but this is what I found sometime ago when I was looking for something similar: http://www.wordy.com/
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Best marketing Sprint has ever done.

Granted this position probably helps them against the bigger competitors, that is why competition is good.

Already we are seeing network providers start to jockey for competitive positions just at the hint of change. Imagine the competition when this actually happens.

This position stands in stark contrast to what other carriers, including Verizon and AT&T, have espoused. In particular, the carriers have warned that Title II would provide a major disincentive to invest in upgrades to their internet offerings.

They are arguing that our current market setup is encouraging investment in upgrades? Where are they? The current system hasn't spawned investment and new upgrades, but competition will surely do this. Here in Phoenix (Tempe/Scottsdale), the moment Google announced Phoenix would be a possible Fiber market, Cox Gigablast initiative was launched, before that crickets.
maybe less than the US but the average for devs in London UK is less tan a tube driver gets.

An it is statistics 101 that if you change the skewness and kurtosis of a distribution if effects not just those at the top.
I think something like Alfred Hitchcock Presents is very watchable today and I often do. You get a little mystery and murder and all within an hour. There were other watchable programs, like Perry Mason or something. It depends on your taste.

There's an incredible amount of bad programming on today, in my opinion of course. See any Kardashian-esque reality TV program.

I can't watch very popular programs like Big Bang Theory. I find the laugh tracks and lousy one liners unbearable. If something is funny I'll know it and laugh. I don't need a cue.
I am happy about this, but note that besides the (fairly narrow) "public safety" exception mentioned in the article the order also exempts joint task forces and joint federal-state investigations [1]. I don't know how those work, but my cynical expectation is for those activities to increase to make up for some of the lost revenue.

[1] http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/AGassetforfetureorder.p...
Here's a video of the desired behavior, more or less:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoxiK7K28PU

The video's a few years old, so the hardware's changed a bit since then, but I think you'll get the idea. :)
> Everyone is criticizing Google for ending many of their services lately. However, are we being biased?

I dunno; I don't really care about any of it; I've never trusted them enough to use any of their products I wasn't actually giving them money for.

>Considering all the data and technologies they possess, Google has the power to destroy any companies or competitors if they really wanted to.

Lolwut? No, actually, they don't. They didn't beat Yelp in the early days because they weren't in the game. They may eventually do so, as Yelp degenerates into a stupid protection racket, but hopefully this entire idea goes away, as until they solve the sibyl problem, its a horse shit idea.

And if they started doing crap like this (for no reason, mind you: google is an ad company), they'd very likely end up lots of little baby googles the way ATT did. They probably will anyway. And good riddance to bad rubbish.

Of course they've long since jumped the shark, and even removed the "don't be evil" part of their corporate motto.
This is a really good point. Hard for others to make fun of your fancy tree hugging electric truck when it looks like that.
He is the finest satirist of our times. I think if you review any of his works beyond the surface you'll agree as well.
Goodhart's Corollary to Hanlon's Razor: When an exculpatory heuristic becomes well known, it ceases to be a good heuristic.
I think it is misleading to have a big picture of an iPhone at the top, and talk extensively about selling outside the app store, when that isn't a realistic option for iOS smartphone developers. You are forced to use the App Store for iPhone since the number of jail broken devices that can install other apps is too low. The author must be talking about Mac laptop/desktop apps.
TBH I have no idea; I've heard of Fuchsia, but know nothing about it. It seems pretty far removed from the majority of work I've done in Google3 (the monorepo).
The large reddish regions in this stitch do not seem to correlate with the concentrations of hematite that researchers detected.

> The maps show the hematite occurrences at latitudes greater than 75 degrees but in fact, almost all the hematite detections occur at latitudes greater than 60 degrees. Furthermore, an asymmetry exists in the distribution of hematite: In both polar regions, most of the hematite detections are on the Earth-facing hemisphere (the Earth direction is 0 degrees on each map). Finally, the floors of craters (visible as shaded relief beneath the colors on the maps) rarely contain hematite signals; flat places do not have much hematite. So, hematite is associated with the Earth-facing directions of the lunar polar regions.
The journey can end if you want it to but it doesn’t have to. I’ve built stuff and didn’t have the immediate viral adoption I wanted it to have, but it’s not over.

I takes time to refine and market your product, a long fucking time. If you’re not in it for the long haul (not really committed to the idea) that’s fine, but it doesn’t have to end if you don’t want it to.
Single-dash long options are not started in Bioinformatics, but they are more often used in this field than elsewhere. Perhaps that is partly because some of the most popular tools (e.g. blast, muscle, bedtools and gatk) followed this unfortunate convention.
I can offer a contrary anecdote. I grew up in a Canadian city, but my family never had a car. I spent my entire childhood bussing everywhere. It sucked. It really fucking sucked and I hated it the entire time. Most journeys across the city required waiting for transfers in temperatures ranging from -30C to +30C. Any kind of irregular or lengthy trip was always an exercise in planning and frustration when scheduled busses arrived early/late or never showed up.

I can safely say that I genuinely didn't enjoy public transit. I wasn't "tricked" or "fooled" or "indoctrinated" by western society into envying the "holy automobile". The mere fact that you used the phrase "My body was used to it" indicates an implicit aspect of unpleasantness that one needs to trick themselves into accepting.

As an adult, I am now fortunate enough to own a vehicle, and the comfort, convenience and empowerment of owning a car is almost incomparably higher to public transit or cycling.

It seems like you are either 1) rejecting the possibility that technological innovation will allow for responsible and scalable use of automobiles and/or 2) rejecting human comfort as a valid argument for doing anything

We should be putting resources into public transit and cycling infrastructure for all the individuals like yourself who want (or need) to commute in that manner. And as long as we can do so responsibly (which I totally see humanity being able to do in the medium-term future), there's no reason not to also appease people who enjoy traveling comfortably.
So don't use unofficial ones. :)

Plenty of primary sources package their software for Docker these days.
Not really. In many places there are huge influences from political parties and heavy stakeholders. For example, in California a well-known financial mogul got a few DAs appointed - it was an election but one could call it "buy a DA".
> You keep moving the goalposts [...] What's a better alternative?

> Actually Bitcoin keeps moving the goalposts.

Okay.
This is pretty much wrong, the evidence is against you, you are paying for in-location developers.

There are plenty of developers who speak great English in the EU, many natively in the UK and Australia and Canada.

Why are these not all getting heavily poached by SV?

Because SV value in-person developers, so have driven up the pay for developers in SV, but in Europe a mid-level developer is still on something like €40-50k.
Until we break new military developments away from the political process of congress people funneling projects to big companies in their districts regardless of competence we will continue to see failure after failure in every area.

We saw many advances during world War I and world War II because instead of rewarding companies with contracts that voted for politicians, all everyone cared about was defeating the enemy.

My suggestion is that the military should put out specs for what it wants and then put out big cash prizes for getting it done similar to what was done with the Covid vaccine. Say a $1 billion prize for a modern tank design. And then a fixed price for each one delivered thereafter.
Work in reconstructing both Indo-European myth and Eastern Mediterranean myth has made great strides in the last 20–25 years. As I said, Greek myth has a handful of things that go back to the Proto-Indo-Europeans in the Urheimat, but most of Greek myth must be derived locally from Greece, Anatolia and the Levant instead. The standard modern reference for all this is M.L. West’s Indo-European Poetry and Myth (Oxford University Press, 2007), and then you can mine its bibliography for more reading material.

Exactly, Aryan is self-descriptive in Old Persian and Sanskrit, so only the Indo-Iranian branch and nowhere else in the Indo-European family. It is inappropriate to even mention this term if you are talking about the Proto-Indo-European-speaking community, not only because it is wrong, but also because it will only turn laypeople off because of the racist associations.
no headquarters doesn't mean no hierarchy
> What is most unfair about prop 13 is that the lower tax rate can be transferred to your descendants

That’s mostly gone now with Prop 19. It used to be that children could inherit apartment buildings, multiple houses, commercial buildings, with no new tax assessment. Now, children can only inherit a parent’s primary residence without a new tax assessment. Even then, they can only avoid a tax increase up to the first $1m in value and only if the children live in the property. If they keep it as a rental, they lose the benefit.

The change should result in more properties being sold after inheritance, which will increase market supply and lower prices.
A non-video version:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/cpac-cancels-speaker...
They're planning to retire it after 95 years of service.
I thought about this immediately. Uncanny how similar the situation is
wherever they pay less, as all of tech does
Does the Internet Archive project collect emails or cross any privacy lines? Will future Archive members be as benevolent?

(Should I go read the Archive's website and find out for myself? Probably yes.)
Please also take a look at ToffeeScript which is a brilliant and amazingly relatively unknown solution. https://github.com/jiangmiao/toffee-script
Even though I lived years drinking coffee brewed with a moka nowadays I think that If the coffee is not ristretto it is not coffee.

It's not hard to get nor to operate a small espresso coffee maker, and as a bonus you get to make not only perfect coffee but wonderful cappuccios. They go for about €120 on amazon, and for €20 more you can get a reasonably good electric grinder.

That's it for the hardware, now the coffee beans. As others mentioned, it's very important you get the good stuff. My taste is 100% arabica medium roast, yours may differ. BTW, what's your favorite coffee beans?

Anyway, no matter what beans you choose you have to grind them thin otherwise you won't get out of it those incredible flavors you're expecting due to lack of pressure.

After all this talk I'm having the need for a ristretto... So it's coffee time! :)
It looks like Uber does not scale well. We see this all the time when employees are involved. The culture loses it's magic as the biz gets larger and most are just there for the paycheck.

With a premium business like Uber that will be a big problem. Plus those cabs aren't gonna stay shiny and new forever.
Nobody is claiming that this changes are more than astronomically possible to be produced by random processes, the title in such case should have read "... raises robustness concerns" instead of security concerns.

In every security system, it is assumed that if there is an attack surface, sooner or later an intelligent adversary will come and exploit it. And there is a long precedent saying that if you see the word "linear" anywhere in the attack surface description, the adversary is bond to come sooner rather than later.
"like paying out a caterer for your office lunch"

Pretty much. But it's a little hard to envision at that scale.

Think instead about a large company with a set of approved vendors. Execs submit purchase orders to the vendors. The vendors get paid out by check.

Instead, you can payout the vendors through Stripe.

Edit: As I think about this more, I don't think it should be free from my own account, but it's hard to reason what ACH pricing should be. I can send an automated check for $1.50 with Lob today.
Philipp Antoni made the gravity header - https://twitter.com/phlntn
you can for legal purposes, and you can get pretty close physically as well.
Finally, something good comes out of the CADT model. With a bit of luck, we'd get rid of the X Windows System in our own lifetime!
Yes you are right. I was a big Friendfeed fan and proposed ideas which we implemented: humans could modify the search index on the fly with ratings, comments and tagging of the search results. Eg. people were able to search documents based on people's comment or rating for instance.
So I take it you don't believe in natural monopolies?
I got banned from theverge.com for suggesting that celebrities' Apple ID passwords may have been cracked by a brute force vulnerability with iCloud.

Permanent ban, no explanation, no e-mail. The fishiest part, someone (not verge staff) replied to my comment saying "enjoy your ban".

I've been weirded out by the power and bias of Apple employees and/or fans ever since.
Well keeping dependencies in source means no third party dependency at build time, right?
I am curious, what concerns are not being separated? You have presentation markup with presentation logic. Actually it seems to me the concerns are being brought closer together.

Or are you making artificial boundaries between declarative and imperative code?
How does the bank make money when it's zero interest loan?
Serious question, the article didn't mention anything about it. I'm sure it still costs a few bucks in fees to get the loan but isn't the interest where the real profit is?
> how many non-academic taxpayers are trying to read articles that don't have institutional access through their employer or local public library?

A different question to ask. Why should taxpayers not have access to the articles which they funded for? It doesn't matter whether they read it or not. They pay, they have access.
Just to be explicit about it, 20/20 vision corresponds to visual acuity that can distinguish features subtending 1 minute of arc. The angle subtended by a pixel at 326 ppi is arcsine( (1 inch /326) / 12 inches) = 0.87 minutes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snellen_chart#.2220.2F20.22_.28...

But I think the psychophysics get more complicated when you throw in time and movement.