jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
0C was the number given to that temperature specifically because that's where drastic changes occur in water. With most materials, there is no significant difference between 0C, -1C, and 1C.

On the other hand, 0% has no known special relationship with the housing market, so there's not really a good reason to expect substantially different behavior at that value compared to -.125% or +.125%.
Any CI books you can recommend? I have been completely treating it as a linux box with a shell script and have cobbled together all of my shit from google/SO.
I agree, DDG is slow. Not slow enough to make me switch but still quite annoying.
No. He's the totalitarian. No DRM lover is forcing anyone to use DRM. Anyone can release their own work for free. Anyone can put their own work in the public domain. DRM just gives artists the ability to sell their work -- if they so choose. But Doctorow hates it when others make different decisions. He's the totalitarian.
On the other hand, the British intelligence community was riddled with Soviet agents because of their trust in "the right sort of people" like Kim Philby.
When you take an algorithm from a book, or copy and paste from stack overflow, you put a comment in the code with a link to the source, really no different than how you'd cite a quote in a paper.

To me, it just doesn't seem like it's even remotely challenging to figure out how to do this, or when to do this. If it's not yours, say where you got it.

When in doubt, cite it. What exactly would the harm be if you cited something when you weren't sure if it was necessary, anyway?
You might be interested in learning a bit about Wittgenstein. Here is a conversation between a Wittgenstein-denying scientist, and a psychiatrist: https://www.nature.com/articles/351010d0.pdf?platform=hootsu....
A big problem for DuckDuckGo image searching — I can only access the image file, but no option to go to the webpage that links the file. Most of the time, the image is stored on a different hosting site. I find myself often using google image search instead, for this reason.
Start with an electrical and computer engineering course. Some eda tools are literally fancy vector graphics engines. Some are em simulators wrapped up. Others are circuit modeing tools.

It's not really like programming. The tools are deeply integrated into the physics of the system.
counsel-search `C-c s` in Emacs uses duckduckgo by default.
nope. But I can cite expectations for vehicles' parts that should last longer, but don't. It only takes a viewing of Consumer Reports to see that.

Note that many electronics are designed to last 10 years (i.e. electromigration). Obviously, use cases matter (24 hour use, high temp or lots of heat cycles).
It's a website, not a court of law
I'm 50, and it'd be a stretch to say I "saw" that happen.

I was in high school before I realized that the Vietnam war had happened while I was alive.

I think the point is that grassroots activism has been effective once upon a time, but has not been effective for decades.
I like using Org, but without adding too many extensions. More like a Zettelkasten.
Hahahah as someone who just took a course using SML I am with you buddy.
Tardigrade.io
Yeah, this is a good point (more like half a century really). I always sort of rationalized in my head because of O'Brians emphasis in the books of sailors' innate conservatism but you are correct.

Not to mention there's no way a French crew would be in an American heavy frigate in 1805.
> Is there any treaty the entire globe has agreed on?

Charter of the United Nations [1], for one.

At the point one is discussing non-signatories to it one is debating the definition of a country. That seems like a fair line at which to delineate the entire globe, more or less.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_United_...
In the US, people can refuse to sell you groceries, and for many people that's pretty impactful. Presumably Amazon also bans people for abuse, but life without Amazon sounds like a huge loss of access.

Under the US Constitution, Christians can also refuse to bake gay cakes, fire gay employees, or evict gay members from positions of leadership.

At the heart of cancellation is the freedom of association; perhaps we should redraw the boundaries on where that freedom begins and ends, but while keeping in mind the balance of affairs.
> Is Elon Musk a[sic] Bitcoin fan?

Yes. He also is a Twitter shitposter who got in trouble with the SEC for promising to take Tesla private at $420 a share, a number he picked because it was funny, and was also involved in the GME nonsense a few weeks back.

If you’re pointing to men like him as serious figures pushing for bitcoin’s adoption, then it’s time to stop and rethink a lot of things.

> yet Bitcoin acceptance keeps growing say by day, how do you explain that?

Bitcoin speculation grows day by day. People want to get rich (in USD I’ll point out) with it. Actual usage of Bitcoin as a currency is not growing.

As always, gimme a call when I can buy a latte and groceries with it. I’ve seen literally one place with a “we take Bitcoin” sticker, and the receptionist had absolutely no idea why it was there or what it meant.

> Is everyone else wrong?

Why couldn’t they be?
No it's not. The adoption rate in 2021 is way faster than in 1990. Most people weren't required to adopt a tech in 1990 to live their normal life, while in 2021 it is a norm to constantly be adapting to new tech.
why don’t you think those are mutually inclusive?

there exists retail [essential worker] jobs that don’t currently expose you to alot of people

and would fit the categorizations created by the state

the same goes for health care professionals or education workers

surprising to see how much the consensus here is grasping. newsflash remote tech workers, you dont have to keep the same job or only one job and your circumstance may not actually be privileged
Yes, this indeed looks like laziness of the developers to me. When the app was developed, JavaFX came pre-packaged with the JDK/JRE, so they still rely on it. Today, it should perhaps just be a regular dependency of your app and be part of your app.

If I were to build a Java desktop application today, I would even bundle the entire JRE, since you cannot assume that it is installed on most desktops anymore.
To your second point, it will throw method errors at compile time
As a Pole, IMO that's because the non-religious side imported the US extreme-left ideology wholesale, complete with talking points irrelevant to our country. So now we have loud fanatics fighting on both sides.
Verizon Wireless outsources literally everything but customer service. Everything.
Can we assume with the acceptance of interracial marriage in the 70's through the 90's, the acceptance of gay marriage between the 90's and now, and the beginnings of the acceptance of drug decriminalization/legalization now are signs the US is tilting "liberal/progressive" (or whatever the opposite of conservative is)?

"Progress occurs one funeral at a time."
What are the specific acts that people of faith were being forced to perform or approve of that contradict their faith?
I'm sure if they do the fallback implementation could just as easily be OpenStreetMap. It's really great to see this open-sourced though. It seems like it would be a common problem.
I thought the examples were very cherry picked. Super Mario has been running as a very popular cartoon for many years. The Zelda comics were highly regarded by many fans. Pokemon has spawned endless cartoons, movies and comics.
None of them needed food stamps because they had rich backgrounds.
In post-soviet countries like Poland it was (less so now, but still popular). At some point we even had "hitchhiker's booklets" with coupons you would leave drivers who took you, and they could then use in lotteries. Hitchhiking was a strong tradition in Central/Eastern Europe, and - in some parts of the continent - still is.
Thank you. That's very clear. Much appreciated!
There aren't a ton of major differences between Verizon and Comcast as companies, but this one is sometimes (as indicated here) key:

Verizon still employs its own unionized workforce of service technicians for cable connections; Comcast outsources that to multiple competing front-line service contractors.

This isn't a system that can't ever work, but Comcast has not yet solved the problem of keeping communications channels clear and coordinated among different competing contractors who have no incentive to cross-communicate with each other (not only are they not rewarded for it, but the incentive system of free markets is actively structured so that if one contractor looks bad, others indirectly benefit). It leads to all sorts of little micro-aggressions; when I had Comcast hooked up at a previous residence, the contractor had to climb the ladder to the pole twice because the junction plugs that should easily wire my house to the main trunk were not only detached, but removed (likely by a previous contractor, because hey, free plugs). He had to go down and get new plugs and splice them in.

In contrast, everyone is on the "same team" at Verizon, structurally and legally. You leave the junction plugs there because the next guy who comes along and needs to connect the service again is your coworker.

It's a shame that none of that matters to this individual because of the way the service local monopolies are structured in the U.S. Living near a major metropolitan area, I'm lucky enough to have my choice of the two vendors around here.
'Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.' - George Carlin
I believe there is nothing that differentiates a French man from an American (a large part of America was colonized by the French, after all!). French entrepreneurs can be just as successful, but IMHO they would flourish better in a lighter government.
I'm pretty surprised to not see Jeff Dean mentioned so far.

Co-Inventor with Sanjay Ghemawat on:

- MapReduce
- Spanner
- BigTable
- Tensorflow

Jeff Dean Facts: https://www.quora.com/What-are-all-the-Jeff-Dean-facts
I'm trying to parse all of this, but my understanding of Scala is shaky. Could anyone explain this statement -- I think it'd help a lot:

sealed trait Option[+A] {
def bind[B](f: A => Option[B]): Option[B]

(My best guess: define a trait named `Option` ... something about an object of type A ... really not sure of the +. Then define a function `bind` that ... something about type `B` ... which takes an argument of type `f`? and returns the argument wrapped in an Option?)
I apologise in advance for sounding harsh.

This is a terrible tutorial, and is in fact harmful to any who reads it expecting to learn how to make a login system. If you are planning to learn PHP I urge you to stay away from this tutorial (or use it as an example of how not to do it).

First off, I am not a PHP expert, but I think the scrips produced by this tutorial might be vulnerable to SQL injection and other attacks [1], due to naive cleaning of user input.

Secondly, and the main reason this tutorial has irked me: Unless I am missing something very simple, you are storing your passwords in plain text. Why are you not hashing the passwords with a per-user salt? Even md5ing them with no salt would be slightly better than storing the passwords in plain text.

Reading through the comments on your post, it appears there are a lot of people who think this is a great tutorial, and who are presumably going to use this in their own projects. Unless they do some additional research they will be implementing an insecure system.

It is great to see people writing tutorials and sharing their knowledge. However, writing a tutorial when (with respect) you do not know enough about the problem area is worse than useless, it is harmful to the people who read it.

As a starting point, the OWASP project has some useful information on handling password authentication and hashing [2].

1: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/guide-to-php-se...
2: http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Guide_to_Authentication
This looks like fun, but you do realize some of these Haiku's could cause serious damage to US national security. Don't you?

(The appropriate answer, I think, is "I can't confirm or deny.")
Regarding diving deeper into Obj-C/OpenGL, you could also consider prototyping your ideas quickly using something like Quartz Composer. I don't know any specifics on whether it'd deal properly with a large data-set, but the learning curve is not steep at all and it might get you going quickly.
He is playing with words.

"Fact 1: Android runs Linux. But it’s not “the Linux.”"
No, It IS "the Linux". A lot of distributions do not use vanilla Linux kernel. You are free to change whatever part you want. It does not change the fact that it is still Linux.

"Android was not developed by Google!"
Does he think current android platform is developed by only the original members of the Android inc? It has been 5 years.
Do you think any of the "facts" mentioned on the page are drawbacks for Android? Let's recap: forked Linux, competing with Java ME within Java eco-system and having a non-JVM virtual machine to run the programs.
It sounds like all of these facts would be covered in the introduction to any android development book. Its version of linux is forked but that doesn't matter because your not developing for a desktop your developing for a phone. It doesn't need java me because even though your not using a non-JVM vm you just need to use whatever is allowed in the java api (same goes for sqlite).
If the guys from Flipagram are reading this - why would you contact Apple about this? Eastern European countries have lawyers and courts too. And not only can hiring a good lawyer in some Eastern European country be much (much!) cheaper than in the US but if you win the lawsuit the other party will probably have to pay reasonable part (if not all) of your legal expenses.

And it might be helpful to try to understand the mentality of post-communist countries. One of the biggest damages that communist regime did to our society is the perception still engrained in minds of many that 'if you don't steal you are stealing from your family'.

It is totally plausible that the fraudulent developer is just 'trying their luck' and all it would take to stop them would be threatening them with the lawsuit. One letter written by your Enghlish speaking lawyer hired over the internet - $500 and you will be done with it.
The irony of the policy is the company will then ask you loyalty questions in the interview.
Haha, as I was reading this my dad came in and read the first sentence of your post. "Hacking has always had elements of criminality." He pointed to the word criminality and I asked, "What?" His response was that it meant that you were a freaking criminal if you hack.
Right, that would be what I meant by the poker-specific extensions. Most chess algorithms use minimax to search the game tree. The UoA team has extended the basic minimax algorithm to other variants like miximax which can handle partial information and stochastic outcomes.
This seems to ignore the fact that absolutely nothing about using Signal requires that one use this additional feature. It's not required if you don't like it.

Yet it insists on it being a pump and dump scam, without evidence. :(
Maybe the leaks of facebook phone numbers?
This imo is the most sane position to have.

There are plenty of people who have left Twitter for the same reasons (ideological persecution) and never looked back. But the author is committing the exact crime he's accusing the platform of: the platform is creating an echo-chamber while simultaneously leaving the platform to have his own echo chamber.

I don't think anyone cares what platform he's on as long as he has something interesting or compelling to say. Maybe the real story is that his newfound popularity has dried up and needs a scapegoat?
I believe that's a recent development but vcpkg has decent binary caching now: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/blob/master/docs/users/bi....

Edit: they also have an experimental support for registries since February of this year: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/blob/master/docs/specific...
Not necessarily. Not everyone are willing to pay for on-call.
These convos are super interesting to me as a guy building his own poor-man's render farm, and validate some of what I'd heard elsewhere. You do need a huge amount of memory for some scenes, and while the raytracing GPU in my notebook is great for modeling, it doesn't take many 4k/8k textures to run out/crash. I'm not savy enough to work only in GPU and like you say we don't know where a light bounce is headed anyway right. Even with sufficiently small scenes, GPUs and systems to run them are expensive when you can buy 10 year old rackmount servers with 12 cores @ 3GHz and loaded with cheap old memory for less than $200 a pop total. At this point the shipping might cost more than the shipped. I just bought a lot of old servers from a local university for a better deal than that, half junkyard bound they are so ancient.
According to this:
https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/volkswagen-us-sales-figures/

they've never broken 500k (at least going back to 2005).

edit: Volkswagen Group sell in the 500k-650k cars range
Thanks! That seems very well suited for my stated goals. (Which after conversation here I realized weren’t exactly my real goals :P)
My apologies for the banality. The completely obvious truth that internet is a necessity in 2021 somehow escaped me... Or maybe it didn't and that was the whole point.

Given that these people are here, they are obviously engaging in internet usage that IS NOT part of their job (I've yet to see a job posting where reading HN is a requirement). Nobody is pushing anybody to use certain parts of the internet. Don't like some parts? Don't use them. Don't like any parts of it? Then yeah, yank the cable out and enjoy... or endure, whatever the case may be. Be it career or anything else that's stopping you from yanking the cable, well then... it might be that the internet isn't that bad. Not as bad as losing your job, anyway, so WHY COMPLAIN?

Using the internet strictly for utilitarian purposes is possible. Do that and then use the rest of your time to go out with your buddies. Don't have any? That might just be because (and this was my second point) you're a negative and possibly toxic person. The kind people don't want to be around and that MAKE THE INTERNET A LESS APPEALING PLACE.

Did I adequately rephrase my take to be less banal?
IIRC netmap was a cool concept born on freebsd but also available for linux.

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/
Well, at least they could rename them!!!! House of Lords really sounds like they are supposed to be above everyone else.

And while you are at it, remove commons as well, as it sounds really degrading.
Suggestions for new names anyone?
I doubt that very much. Masses don't care about privacy, the dominating view is still that of "I have nothing to hide" and "let police do their job -- think of a children/terrorism" or any other mantra that's popular at the time. Look at Snowden story, only tech sector and human right activists care, there were no widespread protest, no political action, and since then surveillance only broadens. Especially in UK, which is has CCTVs on every corner (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/10172298/One-surveilla...).
it might not be interesting to you as a researcher, but to me as a participant in in a world increasingly filled with face recognition products it's worth knowing that different products will have different capabilities based on their "speed" requirements.
I know...which is why I added the editor's note. I, believe, that the industry has to evolve more towards other sustainable business models than just advertising focussed.

The problem I am addressing is that many people, when they think about creating a web app/site, the first biz model they think of is advertising.

What I would love to see is a complete evolution of this mindset.

It is the equivalent of wanting to start a restaurant or any business in the 'real world' with the model of getting a great location and charging advertising from the foot traffic. That's kinda ridiculous.

If we start treating web businesses like real businesses, I think we will see some more very interesting companies develop.
There will always be market participants with vested interest in specific shares, and by definition they are following an active strategy by associating with that company. It follows that they will have a vested interest in hedging against dangers that might adversely affect that company.
Back in the 90's there was a song called "Parklife" by "Blur", and in it you can hear actor Phil Daniels reference this expression. I was always puzzled where that came from (had to look up the lyrics though - it's difficult to understand the phrase as pronounced by an Englishman).
Sony's modifications would be available for incorporation into GNUStep (as the ones already released already are).
If the website derives most of its revenue from the ad's posted on it, then Uniques and pageviews really matter.
Base looks dangerously narrow to keep this mug near the keyboard.
Forging an email is so trivial that I think that there isn't an acceptable solution for this kind of problems. Anyway I have already pointed out in the FAQs that Pepbot cannot send mails.
AFAIK, hooks are only for git events, not filesystem events. He's probably looking for something like inotify, it sounds like.
> So, the question is are you an idiot or a troll?

Please don't do this here.
Actually, they are. Just grab headphones with microphone and use scissors and keep the jack in.
Uber is great for getting a lift right away on a friday night. If cab companies weren't run so dirt cheaply they would have a quality dispatch system like uber has.

However uber fails for the early am scheduled ride for things like plane rides. I can't depend that uber is possibly going to get me a lift. Taxis DO show up on time super early am.

Last two times I've flow early I've tried to get a uber, and both times failed to see a single one on the app. Told uber about it, they said "we dunno we had plenty of cars"
Yes, they've been doing this for years.
Slashdot was great before user accounts.

The comment scoring put the final nails in. It took a while to die after that but the screaming and thumping were pretty good indicators of where it was headed.
What a horrible pop up ad infested website.

Feels like something from 1998
So long, DDG. Censorship before they even gained enough momentum to get users to stick will undoubtedly be the beginning of the end for them. Looking forward to the next Google competitor. Eventually, someone will get it right.
I did it for awhile before before returning to tech. It's a fun field in many respects, but it's an absolutely terrible career. Much less puzzle solving than you might imagine though. Most evidence is far too underdetermined for that.
Sorry to hear this.

To clarify, do you mean they used music as a way to cope with or to channel their difficult experiences? Or you mean they used music as a sort of escape?

Hope things have gotten better.

Much love.
The CEO (at a small or medium sized company) should push back on these “demand” features. Sales will always ask for the moon, but they should sell what is not what the customer thinks they want. Have them send that info to marketing,
I consider them one of the most on-point organizations in the fight for actual net neutrality.
Stallman seems like the kinda of guy who would tell you that you need to starve in the streets as long as you fit his version of ethics. All while he lives comfortably off the income of his own celebrity.
I have done politics long enough to understand that centrism never pays, in the long run. People are thirsty of ideals and coherence, and the FSF has plenty of those. They are in for the long run. And I would even say: despite having 0 budget, they were immensely successful over time. Modern computing wouldn't be the same without Stallman & co.