jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily; physical size matters a lot.

Just an example: consider you were to add some extra electrical charge to the gate of a transistor (from an electron or ion beam, I don't know).

A larger transistor has a higher gate capacitance, it is therefore quite immune against a few extra charges. On smaller transistors, though, it could dramatically increase the voltage, leading to a bit error, or destroying the transistor. Capacitance in this case is proportional to the area.

Higher density also has some inherent drawbacks against particles, since a damaged part is proportionately more damaged if it is smaller.

More ancient processes are also higher-voltage, and higher-current, so they can handle a lot more noise on these signals.
ThinkPads are what I reach for on the PC side of things, and those still have a dedicated middle button for the most part. Otherwise I can't think of a single modern example of a laptop with a middle button. They're all click pads these days like Macs.
There were definitely a lot of exceptions! But bayonet charges were still a thing, and massed formations with spears still often defeated groups of riflemen at the time.
I think all this nonsense will continue until the Republicans can get rid of Trump and offer a legitimate conservative response.
Because those kids who are below average will suck up way more state and federal money in the long run if left to their own devices than anyone will benefit because Gifted Greg got to take Linear Algebra in high school.
The notion that citizens have a say over their country's fiscal policy seems pretty unsupportable to me. In the US, the Federal Reserve is specifically designed to avoid political pressure, and the European banking institutions are even more insulated from the consequences of elections. Your vote's impact on currency policy is very small, indirect, and highly delayed in time, so much so that it is for all practical purposes equal to zero.
I don't agree. Have you ever operated a darkroom? It takes skill to develop and print pictures as a manual process on, in particular, old film.
My point was that I usually don't even have 4G connectivity :) Even outdoors.
There was some good discussion and links at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26645253
https://reason.com/2015/06/09/this-map-details-whether-asset...

First result on google for civil forfeiture. Followed up by searching for [law enforcement agency] and union returns zero results for the worst locations.

Police officers are unionized pretty much everywhere. Sheriffs, which carry out the most egregious civil asset forfeitures (usually in small travel-through towns), generally are not unionized outside of the big counties and states.
Couldn't you just "rebalance" the JPEG artifacts as a final pass? Or some sort of slight blur that re-jumbles the least significant bits of every pixel?
Han unification is a bullshit excuse. Is two story 'a' a different letter than one story? Is seven with a slash through it different than seven without? Is Japanese as written in pre-war books a different language than Japanese in post-war books?

Unicode may have dropped a couple of variants, but they basically all got added back. There's no problem with Han unification; there's just a FUD campaign powered by nationalism and ignorance that is used to justify everyday technological inertia.
> If commits were stored as diffs, then Git would have to rebuild a tree of the very first commit, then replay every single diff

Well, it would usually be more efficient to figure out where the current checked out branch differ from the branch that is checked out, and then unapply and apply diffs as needed.
Thank you! Frame-drop is a brilliant analogy.

It wasn’t until I started learning networking concepts from a third-level/college text book that I picked up in a second-hand shop that I realised how much my brain fools me into thinking I’m absorbing information encoded in words and diagrams. The end of each chapter had questions based on the material covered in that chapter and it was only while attempting to answer them that I realised how much I had thought I’d absorbed – but hadn’t.

When buying technical books, I now try to get ones that have questions or exercises at the end of each chapter. If not, I take notes while reading by attempting to summarise each section in my own words. Answering technical questions for other people is also a great way of consolidating knowledge and filling the gaps in my own understanding.
Or maybe Grindr. Do we know?
Go look at how plane orders from China are shifting to Airbus.
Might not be the reason, but six registers make it trivial to write a backend for 32-bit x86 CPUs, since they offer 8 general-purpose registers minus 2 typically used for stack pointer and base (ESP, EBP respectively). That leaves 6 registers usable by compilers: EAX, EDX, ECX, EBX, ESI, EDI.

To my knowledge, any other architecture targeted by GNU lightning offers more registers, so this magic number is effectively the largest number of registers one can offer where register allocation would become trivial for all architectures.
I haven't read it, though I've read some Byron (and Polidori's ripoff).
I actually really don't like that. Reminds me of TV ads pasta barilla had in italy. Matter of taste, I guess.
There are lots of jokes about norwegian-americans in lutheran churches which are spot on. likewise for passive aggressive minnesotans.

And everyone i’ve ever known from wisconsin would at least be considered a mild alcoholic anywhere else.

Stereotypes are what they are, first order approximations.
Can you expand on the "high demand for dollars"? Is this from foreign investors in the form of FDI? Do you mean domestic investors (in which case I'd ask if borrowers and stock issuers are really demanding dollars, as opposed to merely accepting supplied dollars at very cheap rates)?

Edit: According to this link, it would appear the foreign demand for dollars has declined? https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/dxy
You could say the same thing about many companies.

Would you say “Microsoft is just a corporate religion”?

I think a religion is about more than just an entity that tries to avoid negative PR.
Very late, but just want to say this is a fantastic comment.

To me it feels like the old ways (dynamic linking to system vendored libraries with dependency handling using a package manager) are being lost and the newer methods lose something of the simplicity and beauty of those approaches. I realize that's just my own emotional reaction to it, without any logical justification, but I just wanted to say that.
Yeah you can apply for the spring semester.

typically you don't get funded for MS at admission. Some unis might give you a tuition scholarship. You might find an assistantship once you're here.

If money is an issue I would recommend applying for cheaper schools like TAMU, or just working in India for a couple of years and saving up.

I remember SBI had some special education loan scheme for NIT IIT BITS graduates. Might want to check that out.

You have to show you have finances for a year to get an I-20 (you need it for the student visa).
American idpol is at the pretty extreme end) left I'd say, even compared to europe.
I can't find anything in the docs about indentation rules. Are tabs required (as in Make)?
> Normalizing against the M1 is an not very meaningful because ignores the fact that the price of a dollar is subject to demand as well.

I was thinking exactly this. Is there any reasonable measure economists use for the demand for dollars? Other than I suppose inferring it from CPI and M1...
No, you're not understanding me.

Why doesn't apple WANT to do it? Why don't they WANT to do the right thing by their users? Why do they demand the right to lock-in everyone to the app store? Why must everyone who does business "in their neighborhood" have to bribe the local gangs to be allowed to continue to do business?

They want to do the wrong thing, and enforce a tax on everyone who chooses their platform. They need to be forced into doing the absolute bare minimum portion of the right thing. I don't even care if zero users ever take advantage of it. The option to avoid paying the mafia while selling stuff in that neighborhood needs to be there.

Also, the ability to install software on the device exists. There are layers on top of that which enforce how it is done, such as requiring that the software is signed by apple and delivered by the app store. Those additional layers are not required, and can be made optional. It won't require a huge development effort to enable what is being asked. Everyone else managed to do it easily.
> And there's plenty of research dollars available to anyone with a Ph.D and some grant writing abilities

Do tell.

NIH paylines (i.e., the percentage of grants funded) are in the teens, with some institutes at/near single digits. NSF is a bit better, but the awards are much smaller. I don't think DARPA, CDMRP, (etc) have explicit Paylines, but the programs are very competitive as well.
I'm so pleased it doesn't start with stuff like "It was a windy autumn afternoon in Geneva in 1991, and Carlo Broggini had no idea, as he sipped his coffee, that the results he was about to see on his computer would turn the physics world upside down"
Once again proving what Eisenhower said ...
It's interesting, the ISPs argument for capping data generally gives some nod to congestion / traffic control. Covid hit and you would imagine that with distance learning, work from home, increased use of streaming services for entertainment, etc, that the traffic would only increase.

Comcast (and others) realized the PR nightmare that it would cause to keep the caps in this situation, but it seriously undermines their congestion argument.
The next-gen bomber program (B-21) as far as I'm aware is also going well. Fast purchase of an a platform intentionally only incrementally more advanced than the current model.
But isn’t “regulation destroys progress” a common argument?
I am not certain that the cost of incarceration is higher than the cost of the property theft and damage by drug addicts. Cost of incarceration seems to vary between 15 and 40 k$/yr in countries like Canada, USA, and England. Property theft and damage costs vary widely depending on the individual addict, and can be between 0 and 1000000 $/yr. In my city, there are many drug addict thieves who have been convicted of hundreds of car thefts each, and that is probably only a small fraction of the number they have committed. It is also common for these criminals to break a car window (costing hundreds of dollars) to get a few dollars that were sitting in the car; this can add up to a lot of damage very quickly if one needs to make as little as 50 $/day to feed an addiction. Another common income source for these people is to steal items like computers, cameras, and bicycles, which they sell for as little as 5% of their purchase cost; this can cost 1000 $/day for a 50 $/day habit, adding up to >350 k$/yr (roughly 10 times the cost of incarceration).

I should add that I am in favor of full legalization of all substances (including the elimination of the requirement for a prescription to obtain pharmaceutical drugs), but I do not pretend that this will reduce the harms which inhere to drug users, or the rest of the citizenry.
> Then you get your Doctorate, and you find out that nobody knows anything.

Took me about 3 months to figure out why the java class I was taking was so screwed up. The professor had never seen Object Oriented Programming (or Java) before. He was staying one chapter ahead of the class and picking assignments that required his domain expertise to complete.

As annoying as it was to find out, I still learned a useful bit of Java. Took me years (and learning ruby) to actually grok objects correctly.
Oui--heartwarming, and not a post-apocalyptic nightmare scenario. I'd like a low-powered computing device that (a) observes my habits and emulates their neighboring variations in a sandbox and (b) I can unplug if I choose, so as to carry the quantitative overload of life, but help ONLY ME, recurse for all others.
From the comments:

Why for heaven's sake are you writing "FaceBook" instead of "Facebook." I will assume you are not an avid user of this so-called "Book."

[Ha! Busted. Indeed it is not practical for me to be on Facebook. I have corrected the spelling. -- Scott]
They demoed it quite prominently onstage when they introduced it, and the screen says "Hi-Speed Scrubbing" when you start scrubbing (and changes as you move down). It's not the most discoverable feature ever, but it's not a hidden Easter egg.
Google wave idea is good, but nobody really know what it is best for. For everything it does, there is something else that does it better and more focus. And I think part of the failure is mass adoption. They do not know what it is good for, but the launch only limits to a small amount of people. If they started day one for everyone to use it, someone some how might figure out what it is and how people should use it. By the time, I finally got an invite, after begging and begging, most people already moved on to something else.
They do award AWS in Education research grants. We got one related to cancer research in fact.
That's what Newton said.

If you want to nitpick, the only thing we can say is that the black hole's birth is in our past light cone.
If capitalism causes censorship, that doesn't mean it's necessarily the worst at causing censorship.

Additionally, we don't live in a stationary society, so, whatever capitalism did or did not cause in the past might not apply as-is today.
There is an important lesson in it. People should be able to vote bastards, but this must always be reversible. If the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were part of the Czechoslovakian constitution at that time, this development would not be legal.

However, at that time, it was not existing and, if it existed, it would be probably quite hard to put it into the legal system because of the fresh edicts against Germans. In the end, the third Czechoslovak Republic failed because of its rooted nature and kind of deserved its fate. You cannot displace 1.2M of people and try to look as a democratic state (no matter how necessary it was).
To be fair, I think there's a million or so iPad customers who would dispute that tablet computing is merely a "gimmick" (though even as an iPad owner, I'll admit that's not a done deal yet).

I probably won't be using mine to send faxes though :-)
I get a nice 200 OK. Maybe someone has installed a ninja-filter in your firewall?
So the email I sent from an iPad that had an attachment that was faxed to someone... that doesn't count? ;)
One ad in particular that later struck me as prescient was the ~1999 Quest ad of the guy asking what movies a hotel had: "All rooms have every movie in every language, anytime, day or night."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ9qcp6Lcno
or the stuff they claimed they would do, which they now actively oppose (skype like stuff).

Remember that AT&T isn't actually the same company it was in the 90's. Depending on whether you're talking about hard lines or mobile, it's either SBC or Cingular.
There's probably significant value in building something that works like a DELL build your own PC tool, but pulls in components from all the sites over the net, then puts together the shopping cart for you:

1) Takes you through each component choice: memory, case, cd/dvd, hd,etc.

2) As you choose the size for each one. 1tb hd? 8gb of ram?, it pulls together the lowest price, and sets up the shopping cart for you.

Problem I see- getting orders from multiple vendors.
Startups are usually short "establishment beta," i.e. if there is a profitable cash-cow company serving a particular set of customers, the typical startup wants those customers to be paying less money--to somebody else. Human needs are limited, and meeting almost all of them can be facilitated through a financial transaction.

The "beta" of finding funding or an acquirer is a funny kind of beta--it's highly unlikely that a great company will not get their first $1mm in funding because the VC world has just been deprived of $1b in assets allocated.

The cheapest way to short a startup is to bet on whatever establishment they're taking on. You could have shorted MSFT before they were public by buying IBM; if Big Iron kept on winning, you'd keep on getting your dividend checks. But startups are more akin to, e.g., long-shot CDS trades: the people betting against them get a predictable, incremental profit, or a massive, sudden loss.
I don't like to see such colloquialisms in job postings, but as someone who has done a fair amount of hiring in my career, I also don't want to see them on resumes or CVs unless you've worked for Rockstar Games or real Rockstars.
Google might be retrieving more information other than IP address to determine your location. Try to clear cache, disable GPS and wifi geolocation.
Too bad IE gets unhappy after 2K (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/417142/what-is-the-maximu...)
Why abuse?
Because it could cost them even more. Apple is problematic for Samsung for two reasons: (1) This lawsuit and (2) Apple selling product that Samsung makes much higher margins on than displays and fabbing.

Samsung ends up being in a MUCH better place if Apple becomes a niche player and Android and/or Windows Phone become the dominant platforms.

If Samsung was able to get out of all contracts to Apple it could probably stall Apple's growth a bit. Not an enormous hit, but enough to help Android get some tablet strength and WP7 to get Mango out the door.

Given that Samsung is the premiere vendor of non-Apple phones and tablets, and given this market is much more lucrative than components, they may be willing to give up 4% of revenue in a powerplay.

With that said they probably have contracts through 2011. Although if they were late on delivering the product, they could probably deal with the penalties, since they're probably small in comparison.
PHP's docs are good and bad in the same way that PHP itself is good and bad. For PHP the language reference is quick, easy, simple. Offers the syntax with required and optional parameters followed by a quick and typical use case. When that isn't sufficient, the comments may or may not have the exact use case you're looking for, many times they do. So it's all very convenient for drive-by-programming, like PHP. Good at quick'n'dirty, not so great for more involved, or for more carefully thought out solutions.
Think of it like ipv6, but harder :)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=leroy
> To compile Cello requires a C99 compatible C compiler.

In fact, it fails to compile with -std=c99, it seems to require GNU extenstions, that's why they have -std=gnu99 in their Makefile. They use ##__VA_ARGS__, which is not in the C99 and AFAIK there is no portable way to make a workaround.
How many of these hundreds of PoW altcoins are used for making payments for real products and services? Let's say single transaction a day over reasonable period?
If anyone in the Los Angeles area wants to stop being a shutin, I'm open to take people on hikes. There's everything from short nature walks with nice waterfalls, to epic mountain death marches in the area and I'd be happy to guide anyone: nodus3@gmail.com
Late reply: we don't know the details but it's entirely possible that part of their knowledge from their experience at Apple is allowed to be used so long as they do not compete with Apple products using that knowledge; and the server / enterprise target is clearly the one space where Apple is de facto absent in tech.

If I were to bet, I'd say it's actually a mutual understanding of 'taking A-chips' to their full potential for these use-cases. It's also smart to make it a startup, because why spend the full power of a corporation when a small tight band is actually better. Sort of a separation of concerns; friendly relationship, possibly deals between the two entities — I'm sure Apple's datacenters could use some A-chip mojo in their blades.
To me it is obvious that self-control depends significantly on your genes. I have ADD, but lived a long time without medication. I could barely do get anything done at all before I got medication, and then when I'm on medication I become one of the most dedicated workers you've ever seen. If something as simple as dopamine can have such a profound effect on my self-control then I have a hard time seeing how the myriad of other effects genes have on our brain can't also significantly alter our self-control.
Spain is the same. There are some loopholes, like limiting land access with an "eco tax", but that's useless against boats. I watched recently on tv a program attacking "party boats" that took a lot of young people, many of them Brits on holydays, to a closed beach frequented by Hollywood celebs, with all-you-can-drink included.
Is there a ferry service?
> Technicalities are part have having a rule of law. The legislature (or at the formation of a governmental system) is where the issues get debated and the law determined.

I think there are valid philosophical differences that significantly affect how the system interprets technicalities. I understand the US takes an approach that's much like code: specify everything precisely in great detail, and technicalities and loopholes can be exploited to subvert the original intent of the law. I may be mistaken on this, but understand the EU tends to laws that specify broader principles, so technicalities and loopholes aren't as useful.

The US approach leads to more precise and consistent application, at the expense of flexibility and achieving the original purpose of the law easier to subvert or avoid. The EU approach leads to less consistent application in corner cases, but is more flexible and harder to subvert the original purpose.

Apologies if I got the EU case wrong, please correct me if I did.

Personally I wish the US tended more towards the EU approach: so in this case if California law mandates public beach access, Khosla needs to provide it somehow, and can't weasel out of it on a technicality.
I hope you like this biography on Paul Erdos. Great read. If you like it recommend it to others. I have gifted it to many friends and even to those who are not mathematicians, STEMmy or mathematically inclined. Hope you get a chance to read it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Loved_Only_Numbers
Specifically, stay away from the tech industry.

1. Look for a smaller antiquated company or department that doesn't understand IT, and has few if any in-house IT professionals. Make sure the role doesn't include user support. Look for "Operations" jobs.

2. Look for positions that have a TON of manual work. Search for "prepare daily/weekly/etc... reports." and similar job functions.

3. Automate as much of it as possible.

4. DO NOT TELL ANYONE that you have automated those functions.

(optional - ethical constraints)

5. Insist on working from home so you can work for multiple companies simultaneously.
It’s called projection
> 1) Use ECC memory

Not exactly. When I was in telco, where I had this problem was in FPGA's, we had all ECC memory and I never linked any problems to bit flips in RAM. But as I remember, the FPGA's we had were using a type of SRAM cell, but because it's not a memory module the FPGA programming could bit flip. So the product had a checksum function, that read back the program on a cycle and reset itself if the program no longer matched the checksum. So we would see 1-2 crashes / restarts per week in our FPGAs that we believe were bit flips.

We then ran an anlysis on any of these that higher than expected error rates to try and identify actually bad hardware and replace them.

I think the vendor eventually came up with a way to reprogram the FPGA without just crashing and rebooting the entire board.
SGX enclaves can attest to the code they are running, so you don't exactly need to take Signal's word on faith.
That's basically the same problem as DRM, so no, you can't verify that someone is running only code you want them to run against data you gave them, on hardware they own.