jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> The 0.7 to 1.0 was a planned move that was communicated for over a year.

That sounds as if the communication was of the “1.0 will be released at this date one year in the future” kind. But it was more like saying for a year “it will be finished and released someday” and then, according to the wikipedia, “the release candidate for Julia 1.0 was released on 7 August 2018, and the final version a day later”.
Easily solved by having every team member mount a whiteboard behind their work area. I do that and often whiteboard solutions on video chat.
There don't even have to be scripts being served -- as long as HTML is being served over HTTP they can inject their own scripts.
Bringing politics and profanities into technical discussion != classy
This addresses the duration question: http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/hearing-problems/Pages/tips-to-pr...
It's not baidu.com that serves that malicious code, it gets inserted on its way through the Great Fire Wall.
Tell us more, I may be wrong ;)
This is similar to an idea that I've been kicking around.

It is basically a arbitrary precision beta-reducer for untyped lambda calculus. I think I theoretically would need a machine that only needs four instructions on a theoretical machine (presumably some sort of FPGA), those being write, load, flip, and meld.

I bring this up, because instead of compiling to C, you could simply use a general purpose beta-reducer, and this would allow for arbitrary precision computation instead of being limited to 32 bits or 64 bits or whatever.

It is written in Agda, meaning that it could be a compiler for any arbitrary calculus that could be translated into an untyped lambda calculus.

Unfortunately, my adviser told me that it is a side-project due to lack of theoretical grounding.

You can check it out here: https://github.com/jbodeen/-ava
Furthermore he’s making the point that you cannot tell in advance which managers, if any, will outperform the market over a given period.

Buffet himself has a couple factors that help him outperform which you and I likely don’t. For one thing, he often buys private companies (not a liquid market with constant price discovery like the public stock market). That’s not uncommon, even if it’s out of reach of most retail investors. More unattainable for the rest of us, he has the “Buffett Halo” effect: stocks often go up just because he bought them! This effect also induces companies to give him a discount on equity, because the existing shareholders benefit from the halo. Obviously Buffett must still work hard to choose stocks wisely, or the halo would evaporate over time.
Another thing to consider in addition to the other comments is your position within the company. Individual contributor software engineers seem relatively safe compared to, say, a sales executive who could take a significant portion of their clients with them. Basically the more damage you could do to the company if you join a competitor, the more likely they are to come after you.
That's only true now since the 30 series cards are relatively new. Once the process node improves soon, the yields are going to go up, and they're going to use fully functioning parts to create mining cards. It happens everytime where they first use parts with defects to create lower end GPUs or CPUs, and then yields improve so they disable the extra cores, memory and restrict frequency in firmware and drivers.

There were many hacks in the past to revert these nerfs and get more functionality of higher end products for free. On one graphics card in the past, all you had to do was just flash the higher end card's bios, and it had a success rate of 75%
That was awesome..
Ok, but they probably won't find out, and won't do anything about it.
This looks awesome! Seems like a great idea - I'm curious - do you download the full calendar first into a SQLite DB file and then let a user execute queries? SQLite has a "virtual table" feature: https://www3.sqlite.org/vtab.html that could allow "live" queries against the calendar APIs, though my guess is that would be too slow to make sense.
Or how much of their returns are just massive leverage being deployed and hidden from the rest of us? They constantly return investor money and cap the sizes of the private fund.
Reminds me of Microsoft Research's work with software isolated processes[0] (SIPs).

[0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

Edit: Fine, I'll put the link in a footnote.
Maybe they should have thought faster.
An example of the law of unintended consequences. In the process of "terror proofing" airliners, we made them more vulnerable to a malicious/insane crewmember.
Didn't Snowden release something?

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...

Way more professional.

Also Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has been around for ages.
And my point is that if they can't simply answer the question as given (even if it takes work) then the company as a whole is completely and utterly incompetent. If you're saying that they must put in a service order to get an answer to the question, you're merely describing specifics of the incompetence.
I've worked with those bitches. They were sharp, worked crazy hard. But ya, big fat dirty autistic bitches.

I retaliated by calling them rainman behind their backs. It worked surprisingly well to make me feel better.

I think that engineering gives people braindamage, or chars their soul, or something like that. I'm serious.

Yes, I left at end of contract.
> Well, there are several reports from HN users in this thread that describe situations in which it could allegedly occur

Which makes the detectors useless as an interrogation tool.

If the alarm sounds, then check the person for explosives. That makes perfect sense, it's a useful tool for finding explosives on people.

But if you cannot find explosives on the person, what do you do then?

Any even slightly training terrorist is going to know what other products would produce the same detection result as the bomb they just built. So they'll pretend to think for a while, and then say "I work in a supermarket, and a customer dropped hand lotion on the floor this morning, and I had to wipe it up... can that set off your machine?"

It seems like there's a magic answer you can give that will let you go free, you just need to know the right thing to say. If the investigator likes you (i.e. thinks you're probably not a terrorist) they'll give you hints about what you should say. If they don't then you're on your own.

Someone who can give the right answer is either:

* Good at analysis, so they can make a good guess of what
might be setting of the machine.

* Someone who's been through this before

* Someone who got a friendly hint from the investigator

* A not-so-dumb terrorist

Someone who can't give the answer is either:

* A normal person

* A dumb terrorist

Given the low prevalence of terrorists, that would be the least likely explanation in either scenario, so the whole line of questioning is pretty much useless, except as a way of applying pressure to someone who you've decided is worth applying pressure to. When that decision is based on some genuine piece of evidence, then it might be a legitimate law enforcement technique. When it's based on the gut-feel of the officers in question, it becomes a front for racial profiling.
Azure probably will get credited to Ray Ozzie.
Rest of them are from Gates era.
There are some monumental fuck-ups that happened under his guard though - Vista, Windows Phone are enough proof.
The hard part would be to prove that you "just happened" to lose your wallet before you got raided, rather than disposed of it in expectation of the raid. Or that the whole story of that being where the key was is true, in the first place.
A second's quite a long time. Depending on the weight of the bows he's using, a quick, explosive release might be the only way he can actually put enough energy into the bow to get a shot off at all.
ah, thanks, I was confusing "push" and "pull".

I usually use subversion.
>Why is this so exceptional? What would we do if twitter folded tomorrow? things like this happen all the time.

obviously you're not an actuary but lay some odds that twitter folds tomorrow. (literally; overnight.)
This article explains the thing that has bothered me most about all the bubble talk - that the bubble is not in technology at all. The bubble is in marketing companies that just so happen to use websites to sell ads and consumer data.
Replace all the decrepit almost dead 2 story apartments in SF with 10 story apartments and there would be no crisis whatsoever.

Well, you'd get a different sort of crisis, where plunging rents would make landlords unable to cover the cost of the new construction. I agree that we need more housing, though.
That is completely unrelated to this.
2D vector graphics look easy at the beginning. There are some shapes, some paths, some affince transforms. But if you start to caclulate the length of a cubic bezier or try to find intersections between two cubic bezier curves, things start to get interesting. Then try to implement a solid and fast algorithm for boolean path operations. Next level of difficulty is to offset an arbitrary path, maybe with parametric offset for extra challenge. I have done all of these, and boy, I did not expect the rabbit hole to be that deep.
Try the lock down e.g. a user to only allow reads. Not easy, when testing if it‘s working you will see so many „strange“ behaviours e.g. you can still create tables in public namespace, databases created before/after (dont remember which one) your user are accessible etc...

Postgresql is following a blacklist access model which is really hard to get right, a whitelist approach like mysql would be much easier.
This is so bizarre to me.

What possible future are you trying to ward off here? Swift is an open-source project, it's self-evidently in Apple's interest for as many people as possible to use it.

Be concrete, please. What scares you about using an open-source language which is mostly developed by Apple? Do you have the same paranoia about clang? If not, why not, what's the difference?
Ok, interpretations differ, but I don't think the median reader would find sudden, random questioning of another commenter's personal sexuality "perfectly reasonable". I think they'd find it egregious and aggressive.

Also, when we we ban an account, it's usually because of a repeated pattern of behavior, not just one comment. Had it just been one comment, I'd have warned rather than banned.
> Also, your example is rather strawman-ish: there is no point in using separate elements for individual coordinates, and anyone designing the format would know this.

You say that - but here's some real world XML from the widely used 'GPX' file format[1]

<trkpt lat="47.644548" lon="-122.326897">
<ele>4.46</ele>
<time>2009-10-17T18:37:26Z</time>
</trkpt>

The truth is I could have put the X coordinate as an attribute and the Y coordinate as a child element and it would still have been a fair representation of real-world XML documents.

And GPX is one of the better XML formats! You want to see nightmare XML? Go look at SAML.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Exchange_Format#Sample_GPX...
Wow... this is actually a really cool idea. Just gave it a shot: https://provetheywantit.com/project?public_token=pub_eNTRarZ...
Also I regret the phrasing “fix their lives” here. A better description of what I’m wondering is if that amount of money could get the folks in question housed and afford them the time to do what it takes to stay housed.
And there is a Windows version

https://youtu.be/4AZB64VBJfA

Related, the Windows waltz:

https://youtu.be/dGKwx-BFO0E
In Sweden, the implied social pressure also helps. In this US, that might have also fared better because a lot of people resent the government telling them to do something. It seems leadership learned that lesson with the vaccine rollout.
There is a `git mv` command that means "rename". Git could (even with its current data model) explicitly annotate commits with this intent, but doesn't. I don't know how useful that would be compared to the current heuristics, but it does mean that git commit "snapshots" are not (quite) isomorphic to a diff format (like posix diff's) that can explicitly encode renames.
That's not what HN is optimized for. I can tell you that for sure because it's my job to (attempt to) optimize it and I've posted about this many times over many years:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
I've always hated the idea of gyms or solitary exercize because of the social/fun factor. Why do a boring workout when you could play basketball or tennis or a hundred other active social activities. Admittedly it was easier to find sports partners when I was in college but it's still not that hard to find as an adult with a bit of effort.
I knew I recognized that name. Glad EFF is sticking up for them, they're not a huge channel.
For simplicity sake, my ideal[1] is:

1. Give all the help possible to these people to get them back into being productive members of society. Those that stay, see next step.

2. Offer a relocation program to live, free, out in the woods. This assumes there are some people who don't want to "work", they don't see value in modern society. I think that's valid, but they can't leech off of society either.

3. Finally those that refuse to live "free", and yet still stay in crime and disease filled pools.. well, i don't trust that they are healthy, capable individuals. They need forced mental health treatment and hopeful rehabilitation, because not only is that not a healthy state of being but it's also not a cost society deserves to pay, imo.

Step 3 scares the hell out of me. So i don't like it, to be clear, because it's not really that different than incarceration. However, keep in mind this is my "ideal", and before forced rehabilitation there is very very significant help and options. #1 includes job programs, housing, food, etcetc - very heavy government program. #2 includes alternate lifestyles, allowing people to break free from the confines of modern society if that is what they're trying to achieve.

[1]: Ideal as in, is not be realistic for a variety of reasons. Getting budgets passed alone for Step1 would be a nightmare of political bikeshedding.

edit: To the downvote, please explain? It feels reactionary to be honest, because i don't think i've said anything controversial when you really think about it. Well, i suppose it's controversial to pro-homeless, if anyone is that..?
Yes, exactly, this is a very good post on the nature of Git.

> Branches are pointers

Yes. I would say they are named pointers. Commit hashes are weak, unnamed pointers.
You can start balance bikes at a younger age.
An existential crisis, small and portable, just don't do it too frequently. A little bit like spinning up a big flywheel.
Sorry, no.

Journalists from all over the political and social spectrums freely criticize Black Lives Matter:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/black-lives-matter-f...

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/who-controls-black-live...

https://www.bet.com/article/n9amip/black-lives-matter-founda...
I just came across http://tryruby.org and it seems pretty useful.
Aha! Thanks for pointing that out. I can definitely fix that.
The OKTrends blog has some pretty great articles regarding trends taken from OK Cupid's dataset: http://blog.okcupid.com/
Most porn is quite distasteful, and streaming sites' tags are generally a mess (if they are even implemented).
Clickable: http://localstrange.com/

I question using a search box for this - wouldn't categories be much much easier for everyone?
The minute I type in "blonde" or whatever, the first thing Chrome does is say "The browser would like to know your physical location" before it even begins loading the map.
I feel like if I was trying to be discrete about my erotic actions, I'd be inclined to click "no".

More concerningly, the entire page stops loading before you make up your mind (since the whole page is a google map, I'm guessing?) - this makes it look like you have to say "yes" in order to use the website at all. You may want to look into trying to get parts of the site to load first that make it clearer that getting your location is an optional part of the experience.
Most other countries went from aristocracy to democracy. I'm sad that America is maybe the only one to go the other way -- to have been founded on the principles of The Enlightenment and to slip into plutocracy.

I point my finger of blame at the same thing that gave us the American Dream: a vast amount of land and the automobile. It meant everyone could own a home and land of their own, but it also meant that by not living in closer proximity to each other we forgot that we're family members and we turned into competitors. It only became important that you get your share (large, please!) and not making sure that we're all, as a nation, able to live well.

Now we are engaged in a great power war, testing whether this nation, or any nation so misguided and so derailed, can long endure.
Maybe you’re happy with thumbs. I type with both hands on a keyboard at something upwards of 120wpm and my hands are still the bottleneck.
I think it's probably hard to just pick it up from the ocean.

These people are developing tech for it: https://theoceancleanup.com/
Windows Explorer is terrible. I used Norton Commander>windows commander>total commander>double commander my whole life. It's as fast as your keyboard gets. I cringe when I see people navigating files I'm Explorer.
> This new stage of American moralism is pretty tiring

This exists in Canada too, in case anyone is wondering. You cannot escape the toxic teenagers of the internet by moving to a different country.
I do see your point and,.. sort of yes. It's not like there where no effort made against serious crime before. All new funding is directed at serious crime, and away from the petty stuff.

If you're goal is to make people feel safer, then you need to target the petty stuff that people actually experience. Also, much of the petty stuff is only petty because the police view it in isolation. Yeah, so what if my bike is stolen, insurance will deal with that. It's just that when they do catch a bike thief, then it often turns out that the same person stole 200 other bikes. Stealing a 3000DKK bike isn't worth the effort, but it's 50.000 bikes a year, that's an insane amount of money, given that almost no bike is ever returned.

I don't care if people on Christiania smokes or sell weed, and nor does most other people. Sure people should not experience gun violence, even in ghetto areas, but you can't direct all policing towards a few specific types of crime. It won't make people feel any safer.
I don't think I do, I'm a fairly recent convert to macOS. I'm running Big Sur and I can interact with any window the mouse cursor is over. I can scroll any window I'm hovering over, and with a single click can perform an action.
Loss of cooling water to the condencer is bad news for any thermal power plant. It can lead to damage to the LP turbine through poor steam quality.

I was perhaps a bit too hasty in my initial statement, clearly this reactor tripped because of the cold. I'm not an expert but given a nuclear power plant produces literally gigawatts of low grade waste heat it feels like that should have been possible to work around i.e. for example by bleeding cooling water back at the intake.
I agree with you that it would seem unsuitable to rely solely on your phone to serve as a passport or other ID, but it seems like a useful addition for convenience.

You could keep your passport securely in your bag or pocket, and then use the phone to save time.

It's similar to using a phone to pay for things using Apple Pay or Google Pay - you can still get your credit card out of your wallet to pay, but grabbing your phone might be more convenient.
Speaker here, hope you enjoy the talk.

I also gave an updated version of the talk at embo++ with some small updates and fixes to some code examples, not sure if that will be on youtube but you can see the slides here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tHdUBWSf8oVbX8Oe4V15...
Dolphin from KDE is also excellent.
Not exactly. We would normally be about to go into an ice age - sometime in the next few thousand years - and actually nothing about the gulf stream slowing is particularly human derived from that perspective.

Conceivably global warming could stop it, accelerate it, just be a nuisance term. We simply don't know.
Let's say you're buying two-three treatments per person to try and make sure you end up with one that works, at 2021 Q1 delivery prices of around $40 per treatment ... $100 per capita. And let's say you're Malaysia, so that's $3.2bn in total which is 10% GDP.

If you wait until Q3, you can get a proven vaccine for $3 per person, so $90m instead, so going early is going to cost you ... $3.1bn? So that's still 10% of GDP ish. Not sure that's an easy sell.
The US also has 4-way stop signs, where each driver has to remember the arrival of the other vehicles, then move off in the correct sequence.

I once also saw a 3-way stop, meaning a 4-road junction, where one road had right-of-way and the others had to do the precedence order. Obviously, this was insanely dangerous - if anyone on the stopping approaches thought it was a 4-way stop, and assumed that all other vehicles would stop, then it would pull out in front of a vehicle that actually had the right-of-way.

Then there's right-turn-on-red, which is scary for pedestrians...
I feel like I'm effectively writing a "no code" tool at the moment; it's a GUI whose user inputs will eventually be output as a configuration file that is fed into our core system (mobile network signal processing, in the broadest sense of the word).

In theory, end-users and operators could work in the configuration files directly themselves (it's a combination of XML templates and files, and .ini-like config files). The GUI is there to prevent footguns and add convenience.

Anyway it's not very visual, it's a lot of forms and pop-up segments with more forms, but still, one could argue it's a no-code environment. I should look into the area.

Mind you, I'm working on a rebuild and at the current rate it'll take me years to even start thinking of doing anything more advanced than replacing the existing forms.

[personal rant[ I'm not sure if I want to spend the next years at this company either; they're doing well enough financially but it's a slow burner. They're hiring, but the wages are stagnant and dare I say below market rate. I'll have to review in 6 months or end of year.
> in one factory

This is not true;

Not sure if i can find the source i read (at spiegel.de) but i will have a look and post it if i find it.)
Look at the projected capacity graph on the main page - they expect to be 10 GIGAWATTS short by 9 AM!
"While I honestly doubt anyone can really feel the difference, there are plenty of people who swear they can."

Problem here is that most people will have one bicycle, which makes it hard to compare. When I started cycling again, I bought 2 bicycles, in 2 slightly different sizes to get a feel for the right size. One was made of classic steel, one was made of oversized aluminium. I really could tell the difference over rougher roads. To my surprise, wheelsets made just as much difference. When switching different wheelsets, I could double the comfort of the steel bike by matching it with really nice wheels. With the aluminium bike I could double the harshness. Using the steel bike with the hard wheelset and the aluminium bike with the nice wheelset, made it somewhat even for me.

If you need advise for a nice wheelset, I can heartily recommend a Campagnolo Scirocco wheelset :)