jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The Therac was designed to blast dangerous amounts of radiation. It had two modes of operation - "deadly radiation" and "VERY deadly radiation". A software bug caused it to go into "VERY deadly radiation" mode when it should have been only in "deadly radiation" mode.

A smaller radiation source, like that of an x-ray backscattering scanner, does not need to have a "deadly radiation" mode. And it's highly unlikely that a hardware failure can accidentally turn "10x weaker than chest x-ray" mode into "deadly radiation mode". The more likely failure mode will be something along the lines of "6x weaker than chest x-ray mode".

It's just highly unlikely that any device will accidentally emit millions to billions of times more energy than it was designed to.
Bit cleaner air.
If your intention really was to reduce the mention of politics on here this is a poor way to go about it.
Why is it comparing against the linpack performance of supercomputers? The folding@home network wouldn't even come close to Summit on that benchmark. Its internode communication latency is measured in full seconds.
Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/20/poll-majority-of-am...

This is ~13% (absolute) more than his approval rating, so a big chunk of people think his is handling this well.

That said, the GOP thinks this will impact his chance of reelection. Steve Bannon said "he's not running against Joe Biden, he’s running against a virus and the collateral damage from that." So far, the states in lockdown mode where deaths and job losses are likely were going to vote Biden anyway. If more rural states start having problems, expect a lot of swing states to swing left.
I think this software would be useful for a live in maid or nanny. I just can't imagine anyone willing to put in the time to make this work, unless they were paid. I have a friend who's parents are billionaires and have a lot of house help and a very big house with people coming and going frequently. This software would provide a lot of value to them, but not that much to most regular people.
It could be because salmon hasn't traditionally been a fish used for sushi in Japan.

https://medium.com/torodex/salmon-sushi-is-not-a-japanese-in...
The government doesn't do a lot of external redistribution of software that I know of, besides things like VistA[1], which is free software itself. For the vast majority of the software the government uses, the license enforcement costs would be zero. For the rest, the cost would be less than the corresponding proprietary application.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistA
HTML is universal and can be edited with any simple notepad. It can look good if you know how to style it. Also sending them over the wire is easier than zipping/unzipping folders with tons of imgs/resources.

I've got some books and have put them in one html file, they look good enough for reading on my laptop, netbook, ipad, etc. So portability and universality are key.

Here, have a look at some of my private collection, most of Sherlock Holmes from gutenberg project:

http://georgenava.appspot.com/ebooks

And here, a format I've been working on, based on HTML, for ebook publishing (view source)

http://georgenava.appspot.com/myfirstbook

I know purists will burn me at the stake but I don't care, I like simplicity and that drives my life.

Beware only webkit browsers (chrome,safari) understand my format.

* btw, the only thing browsers like firefox and IE must implement to facilitate one single html file is this:

.myimg{content:url("data:image/png;base64,abcdef...")}

A way to embed images and resources as data URIs. That's the only trick.
Sure ... but what does that have to do with dodging FICA taxes, which are not the double taxation in question?

And people absolutely do pay themselves ridiculously low wages and take the rest in profit, and choose S-Corps specifically in order to make it possible. The incentive is too big: Pay yourself 100k in salary out of your 100k total? Or 50k and take the other 50k as a distribution, saving 15% on it along the way?
The headline made me think of this 2002 Cory Doctorow story:

http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/2002/08/28/0wnz0red/...
I was responding to the original statement that "a lot of business transactions are done in the real world based on connections, phone calls and socialising." My comment was basically that these transactions are frequently done with agents and proxies that provide no service on their own, beyond acting as gatekeepers that must be convinced with steak dinners, hired escorts, etc., to "trust" you. They are in a position to do this because they have earned the trust of the people you really want to reach, and now abuse that trust by only putting through those that offer payola.

These people should be avoided; the best thing to do is to find the real customer—the person who makes the decision, not to pass your idea on, but to accept or reject it—and gain their trust (which is frequently much simpler, since they're much closer to the product/service and know what's actually good for it.)

Frequently, this will make the middle-men angry, and they will strike back by trying to ruin your image in the eyes of their contact (who, you recall, trusts them.) This is why most people choose to stick with the steak-dinners-and-strippers route.
http://www.archive.org/details/ird059 is a great archive of numbers station recordings
Yeah. But there are different requirements: Knowing HOW to calculate something does not automatically tell you WHY you are actually doing it.
Indeed, here you[1] are.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0787474/
I thought Square did this, but it must be one of the other systems. There are buttons for 15%, 18%, and 20% and a custom button that allows you to enter an arbitrary amount.
How would you measure such a thing? NPM has more modules than any other language package manager, isn't that evidence that Node is at least somewhat popular?
And then at 9:32 PM:

- Status

- 2/25/2021, 3:15:00 PM - Outage reported

- 2/25/2021, 9:29:20 PM - All clear

- Resolution Pending
“At Framework, we believe the time has come for consumer electronics products that are designed to last.”

Is this another way of saying Moore’s law is dead?
I'm sorry but why are competitors not allowed throw money away beating out the other imitators ?

> Operating at a substantial loss as a strategy to expand your market footprint is pretty textbook anticompetitive.

No it's not actually.

That would entice people with a better twist on the idea to do things differently.

Regardless of both our ignorance of market philosophy.

The riders will get screwed here. I'm not gonna applaud the debt of companies like Deliveroo, Ubereats, JustEat etc etc being shafted to riders long term.

Bravo
Those are called 'portrait rights' or 'personality rights' and hinge on a whole pile of circumstances.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights

Mix them with copyright by photographers (and now apparently by developers if we're to believe some in this thread) and you can feed a pack of lawyers for years.
It's not that hard a problem. It's a problem that looks hard because we were looking in the wrong directions based on "philosophy of mind" equating intelligence with consciousness.
It is so much more fun! If you use discord for gaming, then the experience would be similar. However, if you use it with crowds, it'll be much easier to have multiple, spontaneous conversations within the crowd without getting into multiple threads/rooms. It is also a lot more visual. So, you can customize the space and really set the mood with this.
I had a cold last fall and the day before I really felt it, my Apple watch threw up a notice that my resting heart rate was unusually high.
Huh? Starlink satellites are supposed to be capable of something like 20Gbps (per satellite) as of a few years ago. A 4k livestream uses something like 15Mbps, 20Gbps / 0.015Gbps = 1333 livestreams per satellite.

This seems like it should be capable of supporting business jets just fine.
Reasonably chosen metrics, and explanatory context too. Thank you.
I doubt the shutdown will be long enough to have significant long term impact.

But maybe it will give people an appreciation for how nice the world can be with less pollution. A shift in attitude could cause long term changes in our tolerance for pollution.
Sadly many phone functions have no physical equivalent. Things like navigating on gps and SMS have just enough voice functionality to get you to try and use them, but not enough to not be distracting from driving.
This is why I disabled siri!
"we designed the largest open floor plan in the world — a single room that fits thousands of people"

Sounds very unappealing to me.
Nobody credible believes NSAKEY to have been a backdoor. Schneier debunked it back in the '90s. Microsoft already held a key that had the same authority that "NSAKEY" had, so the conspiracy theory here requires you to believe that NSA subverted Windows NT to add a key labeled "NSA KEY" despite having access to another key that did the same thing.
Yes, it could be implemented in C.

implementing it in C would be better as fine grained control would be available.

Not sure why you think this would be the case, every language feature available in C is available in C++. If the C features were the best tool for the job they would have been used in preference to C++ features.
What I love about price discrimination is that sometimes you have to think through a few steps to figure out who the target demographics are, which makes it a sort of game for me. Sometimes it's obvious (senior discounts), but often it's a little more indirect. One of my favorites: I drive a diesel, and every Monday Shell sells their diesel at a discount of $0.10/gal. I figure that they're trying to discriminate between businesses (the overwhelming majority of diesel drivers in the U.S.) and individuals: a long-haul trucker has to buy gas right when he needs it, and probably can't just put it off until Monday; I typically use slightly more than half a tank of gas each week, so I rarely need gas so badly that I can't put it off until Monday.
Yes, but in 2010 Facebook had a movie. No doubt Assange will be Man of the Year in 2012, when they make a movie about him.
I tried this on my wife last week when we were testing the idea. She definitely fell for it, so she's not too happy with me at the moment. Had to beta test it on someone...
There is an official "Who is hiring?"/"Freelancer?"/"want to be hired" monthly post the first day of each month. You should post there. It was only 2 days ago, so you may get some response:

Who is hiring? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822808 (211 points, 2 days ago, 238 comments)

Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822810 (33 points, 2 days ago, 56 comments)

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822817 (52 points, 2 days ago, 103 comments)
That's my contender for both biggest pro, and biggest con, of Java. Because where it breaks down is where the implementations are not clear, the tradeoffs are not clear, and the interfaces are not abstract enough to switch between (for instance, this useful library gives you a Future, and this other one requires a CompletableFuture).
> Are non-base 10 orders of magnitude actually used anywhere? I haven't encountered neither in either physics, CS or any other field (and I'm reading whatever I can get my hands on).

In computer science, using a base of 2 (or a power thereof) for magnitudes is not uncommon.
So many people have said to me "you're into computers" how do they get into this Bitcoin thing. I said there's a lot too it and explain any of it their eyes glaze over. They just want to put down $100 and make millions in a week with no effort.

I remember when Bitcoin was cheap as hell I think it was $1 bought you 1,000 Bitcoins so I am no Bitcoin expert or I would be a billionaire. Yes I dream of having some on an old hard drive (I'm sure we all do).
Out of curiosity clicked on a page (the scars of XSLT and XPath are almost healed), but complete lack of any kind syntax highlighting in code examples (even books 20 years ago had bold/italic/etc) immediately made me close it
You don't need EV.
Great stuff. It would be awesome if you could select a brick type for a rectangle. You could make a 6x6 square and choose to fill it with 2x6 or 1x6 bricks.
Posted 10x already.
"The core problem is that this rhetorical device precludes discussion of issues (ex: civil rights) by one country (ex: the United States) if that state lacks a perfect record." as a journalist wrote when Trump weaseled out of a discussion in a different context.
Sorry! I couldn't resist.

Snark omitted, here's an alternate idea of "genius":

The word refers to a kind of spirit or daemon (same root as Genii). Consider the 'daimonion (literally, a "divine something")' of Socrates:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(classical_mythology)#S...

> In ancient Rome, the genius (plural in Latin genii) was the guiding spirit or tutelary deity of a person, family (gens), or place (genius loci).

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

> Jinn, also Romanized as djinn or Anglicized as genies (with the more broad meaning of spirits or demons, depending on source), are supernatural creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabian and later Islamic mythology and theology.

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

To be a genius is to be favored or assisted by one of more of these invisible people.

I don't know if they can solve any problem in NP in polynomial time but they can apparently predict winning lottery numbers which suggests to me that there must be something interesting going on from a computational complexity POV.
Let’s use the Gulag administration’s own numbers. One and a half million.

How’s the death rate in the US prison system, then?
Are they really saying that it's intellectual property theft? Not copyright infringement? If so, they're probably bullshitting you. Anyways, keep the domain and talk to a lawyer of your own.

Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer.
How does this play out in the USA?
I've often had this thought. I am not a morning person at all. But if I could just sleep 1 hour less M-F I'd have a lot more time on my hands. 5 AM might be extreme but what if you just made it 6:30 instead of 7:30 or whatever. You'd probably feel pretty equally rested and have a better start to every day.
That critical mass was likely there from Instapaper the web app. I went straight to paid since I was a fan of the service. I suspect there were many others
Thanks! This is cool. I didn't know socket.io was that simple.
Didn't say it was moral, but it's the only way Facebook listens to complaints
I have this setup, and what I did was symlink various things on the SSD to the HDD. /Users/me/{Downloads,Movies,Music}, /usr/local/var for frequently deleted development databases, and VirtualMachine images. Some of these are large directories, but I also try to keep files that are frequently deleted on the HDD, too.
The Next Chapter button is not working for me in Firefox after completing the Hello World section
Plus you can get a knowledge migrant status which means you get first 30% of your salary tax free for a few years and various other perks (free transfer of driver's license for example)
My second favourite conspiracy theory is that a lot of the transgender flame wars are fanned by secret agencies to distract the activist populace from topics that are more important and less convenient for the powerful elite (economic justice comes to mind).
> I would call this kind of process very convoluted and similar to early 2000s style development

The 2000s style you are referring to was centered around "features" or "business cases". One unit of work = one feature. The bureaucracy is orthogonal.

Modern "agile" style is centered around "sprints". One unit of work = one sprint duration.

The bureaucracy inevitably involves synchronization points and enforces more or less linear process, which usually implies longer "real world" feedback loops. Lack of bureaucracy allows for concurrency and possibly shortens the feedback loop, which may be nice at first, but then you slowly informally incorporate the bureaucracy back - code owners, design sessions, etc..

The bureaucratic process is not inherently bad, the agile process is not inherently good. In some cases quick turnaround of basic features is more profitable, in other cases correctness may be most important. I can agree that quick feedback is more fun to work in, but it is not necessarily the best way.
I did not defend academia, but pointed out that the author never understood it. I never said that these academic qualities (conciseness or not being naive) were actually good. The author said they are not learned in academia and I said that’s not true.

Conciseness is a good thing; it’s a minimum requirement in academia while you can get by elsewhere without it. The lack of naïveté is actually not a good thing necessarily. People in academia learn to play the game and not actually do proper science. A quick perusal of my comment history would reveal I am no friend of academia, I too ran away from it with just a PhD!
Makes me want to re create that code today, the esthetic is very nice!
With the native app we don't have the image uploading step and you can preview your screenshot in all available templates immediately. Browsing through the images is also much faster. Also, you're not uploading your unreleased private work to 3rd party servers.
Just because XML isn't perfect for everything, doesn't mean it's a garbage fire. XML is great for trees -- specifically document trees. So XML is used to manage the document-like properties of an SVG (elements/position, nested groups, etc). XML is not great for representing potentially gargantuan lists of drawing instructions. So the SVG folks smartly decided to use a more compact DSL to handle that use case. In the same way CSS was created, or JS. Could you instead have used XML for styling? Of course (XAML does this if you want an example). You could even force JS to be written in XML. The fact that in those forced applications XML is very verbose, doesn't mean XML is verbose in general.

Also just in general, SVG's d-path syntax is a fantastic example of smart meeting of and understanding of requirements and users. If they used something more verbose (like `move-to` instead of `M` or whatever), then the file becomes WAY less human readable (too much noise at the XML-level), but more novice friendly. But... will novices need to edit d-paths manually? Of course not! Will they need to edit the XML structure manually? Way more likely. So you can use a more compact expert syntax for paths, because the people who will want to use it will likely be experts. It also means that SVG files are smaller, require less memory to parse, and more human-readable. Seriously great choice on their part.
Because there's no upside and guaranteed downside.

People are accusing them of building the virus in a lab with literally zero evidence. Give the US a bunch of raw data to spin and it just makes that easier.
Dunno. History matters and historians would probably strongly disagree. Some things are more important than you think.

Too much gets lost too easily.
@saberdancer: "When I saw this, I was blown away."

I've seen something like that, that took a whole weekend to produce a report. I suppose it does the job, as long as the accountant doesn't mistake 30 for 0.03 (30%) in a formula.
It disingenuous and lazy to make broad statements of equivalence like this. There are very obvious differences in how the world’s governments operate.
From what I can see, Alpine is an SPA framework.
I'm curious, what stacks did you trade?
This is a great comment.

> 4. Force companies to color their containers according to plastic type. I.e no more clear Pepsi or Coke bottles - all PE products are color, say green. All PP colors are red, etc.

Humans don't have to sort the plastics, machines could. Is there a machine-readable but human-invisible marking we could give them? Like coloring them in a way that would be distinctive under a UV camera or UV light?
We don't have these companies going nationwide because it's one of those things that's inherently a small to medium business. It doesn't work places with high population density. It doesn't work places with very low population density. It requires compliance with local codes and a relatively high amount of real estate work per subscriber. They don't benefit from legal frameworks intended to make things better for cellular carriers.

Satellite is great for very low to low population density, and fill-in coverage in medium population densities.

Fixed wireless is good for low to medium population density in most geographies, and fill-in coverage in high population densities.

Wired internet access is good for places with medium to high population density.

Cellular can provide fill-in coverage for medium to high population densities.
I use Pragmata 11pt. Yes, it costs money, but given the years I've looked at this font, I think it works out to be pretty cheap :-)

http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragma.htm
I did not post the article above, and I did not use the words 'that's how it is being spun now', those were yours and they are what prompted this, you chose the forum.

The email you refer to which explained the whole thing in some detail was sent to the one person whose reputation might have been harmed but if I had not I would not have been able to tell if he had fallen for it or not (highly unlikely anyway) because identifying information is hashed to make sure that even I can't accidentally leak who fell for it.

My email is in my profile, feel free.
No, not at all. I certainly agree that piracy is open to debate. I meant to say that everyone agrees hypocrisy is wrong.

If that's the most obvious reading of my comment, the downvotes make a little more sense...
My impression is that most CS profs teach Java because they've been forced to and that they're not very happy about it. Which makes sense, because Java is a terrible language for teaching fundamentals.

And yes, I do think Java is much better than Scheme for the kind of software a bank wants. The rigid syntax, static type system, and built-in OO, and lack of macros make it easily to build very powerful tools, which you need when you're wading through a huge, unfamiliar codebase. These same features make it pretty easy to jump into an arbitrary codeblock and understand what it's doing. Scheme, for example, is so flexible that you can design your own exception-handling and iteration constructs, which nobody but you can read.

As far as elegance goes, it counts mostly in the small. Quicksort in Haskell is a thing of beauty but most production code looks nothing like this. The vast majority of real production code is just API glue and simple iterations and elegance just doesn't enter into the discussion.
I totally agree that there's nothing inherently wrong with working in Zeeland, MI. It's beautiful country.

But, working dev at Herman Miller is genuinely not a great role for a dev career. It's a textbook dead-end job. It's not "exceptionalism" to point that out.

Yes, he should have gotten in his car and headed to Chicago, instead of hopping a plane for SF. He'd even be able to keep his car. But he was right to leave.
> “Books are priced too high”

I don't think he (the "pirat") has an idea of how much time has to be invested in the production of good books. I personally think that books are drastically undervalued and that people are not willing to pay enough for good books which has the consequence that they are either served well targeted bestsellers, which can be produced at that price, or junk. Big publishing companies and bestseller authors don't have that much of a problem selling their books at a lower price so that people are less inclined to download a pirated book.
http://swombat.com :-)
Among other things, Beej has been a leader in putting together events and connecting software people here in Bend, Oregon. Well, when getting together was a thing, at least.