jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As a high performing IC, you should be able to identify new work and you think benefits the company. Send an email when an update on some of the cool things you done over the months and what you are planning.

Ask an action forcing question with your default path forward if he doesn’t respond. Send an update a month later on how that turned out.
If someone knows that they want a hard drive with at least 100GB of storage, is it really necessary to construct advertising system infrastructure that can (attempt to) learn the users' requirements and needs (the same way an assistant might do)?

Isn't it simpler, cheaper and more respectful of people's own decision-making faculties to provide them with a way to retrieve a list of hard drives that match their requirements, and make their own choice?

My guess is that in 80%+ of situations, simple measurements and properties of products (with price, reliability, and perhaps other ranking factors to tie-break) are all that consumers want.
That's awesome. Seriously make this a company -see how it goes :-)
Social networks existed before the internet.
> Get a better keyboard.

:)

It is not about the keyboard. If the mind is busy pacing ahead then it slows down the task at hand.
Interesting piece but I'm unsure what the corresponding "Winner's Game" would be in the learning-not-to-program (???) strategy outlined in the piece.
But I can’t lead armies in battles or travel under the sea or challenge a rival to a swords duel. In such cases I’m accepting the reading as substitute.
Without a doubt. They nuked Fortnite from orbit, and had to be stopped by a judge from nuking Epic's developer cert, which would have killed any app using the unreal engine.
I'd add in a third bullet noting that sign languages generally favor omitting unnecessary grammar, structure, etc.

Like "I love you" as [love sign] -> [point at person you love].

Or for example that "very" might exist in a signed language, but isn't often used. Just substituted with a more physically animated/vigorous version of the adjective, or added facial expression.
This is one of my big frustration with Rust and probably the only feature from C++ I rally missed (C++ templates having "non-type parameters"). I'm very happy to soon see it lifted.

There were workarounds for some common scenarios already, but it's just so much more simple and convenient to be able to write `fn foo<const N: u32>()`.

I'll finally be able to simplify a significant portion of my code.
Were all of those 1400 involuntary?
If I were to try to come up with a rationale, I guess it would be if you are able to hear, you have a duty to make your hearing available to increase safety. But, we won't automatically remove the right to drive from someone who can't hear as well or at all.
Previous discussion of the Shannon limit -- specifically the top end of analog lines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4344349
Except ARM CPUs have been vastly outselling x86 CPUs for a very long time, long before the M1 entered the scene. In just Q4 2020, 6.7 billion ARM-based devices shipped, while 275 million PCs shipped in all of 2020. Desktop PCs are only a small fraction of the total computing ecosystem.

The stuck-in-the-'90s "desktop is all there is" mindset is a weird holdover from the early growth of PCs in developed countries. If you look at emerging markets, mobile is completely dominant.
Wow, higher-kinded data. I've never heard of that, but it would absolutely be useful. E.g. for converting JSON inputs, where any field might be missing, into a version of the data which definitely has values for all the fields. Or a version of the struct where the values are actually read from a cache/database.
Hrm . . . I could turn that logic on its side too: if you say people should not be that worried about terrorism, then why are people so worried about the health effects of backscatter radiation. IMO, a logical person cannot have it both ways.
They're not new though, just the next generation. The previous one had places like IBM and AT&T employing researchers in this manner.
It was only a few years ago that Google search was all the rage. :)

There was a lot of turnover in search before Google. There was a lot of turnover in social sites before Facebook. So Facebook sticking around would not be unprecedented. All the failed giants of the past eventually fail, except the last one.

On top of that, I think Facebook has innovated (ok, at least iterated) more frequently and intensely on their basic offering than nearly anybody. Compare with Google, where we went from search results with ads to search results plus 3 thumbnails with ads.
Doh, why did I think the TSA was something the airlines were doing. Hm, I'll have to rethink it, I don't want the government doing it either because just like the cops, they're abusing it.
Even if it did, it would look horrible as soon as you changed the device orientation. It's optimized for horizontal RGB triples, and would probably not be legible at all if they were stacked vertically.
Yeah but the Israeli style behavioural profiling very well might have flushed their intentions out.
In retrospect, my college GPA of 3.1415 doesn't seem so smart. =)

(Note: I didn't hit it exactly; it was a while ago but I think I recall I ended up at 3.139.)
Wow - that post was more than I was expecting - kudos (from a complete layman).

BTW - have you ever done speaking/books on debunking / explaining physics in general? It seems like you'd be a shoe-in for a Brian Cox-type role as a more hip face of physics - though maybe you'd like to avoid that...
I think this has potential, but there are so many usability issues that it's quite difficult to use effectively.

A few examples (only talking about laptops):

-Labels on the sliders are unclear. If I select 4GB of RAM, are the results showing only those laptops with 4GB of RAM? or those that are >= 4GB?

-No distinction between configuration options & laptop models. On first load, it appears that there are 100+ models to choose from, when in reality it's probably much less with several configuration options.

-Possibly Bad assumptions that will affect data integrity. Amazon is not a reliable source for laptop specs or models because many products are fulfilled by 3rd parties that sloppily input specs and are inconsistent on where details are located. For example, the model number might be in the title, details, technical specifications, or Q&A.

-Odd defaults. Why do I start out looking for laptops with 1GB of RAM & 16GB HDDs ?

I'll check back periodically and keep an eye on this. My first thought is to take the best pieces from newegg.com and emulate those as they got filtering right in many ways.

My $.02 is focus on getting the experience / specs reliable and THEN add pricing. You might be spreading yourself too thin trying to tackle pricing as well.
If you took the words "I & my" out of that article then the author would have had nothing to say;
Yep. That rent you pay is money you'll never get back. At least when buying you have a decent shot of someday recovering the principal (unless you bought at the peak and there's another housing crisis.)
I wonder what the ethical implications would be if we found out for certain that Europa was a barren world with a salty ocean under the ice, and then dumped a few tons of marine life into it.
Not to nitpick!, but by the end of Dark Knight Rises, it is "Bruce Wayne" that enjoys a relationship with Selina Kyle as... Bruce Wayne. Including a send off from Alfred. No? So... at least this can be viewed in different ways as it should I think.
The biggest shock is that Stripe is used by Facebook and Twitter. I had no idea!
I'm seeing them as well.
+1 for shining light on the decade necessary for success
Still, his viewpoint is hands-on. What's your story?
From http://publications.environment-agency.gov.uk/pdf/SCHO0808BO...

>The average 2006 disposable nappy would result in a global warming impact of
approximately 550kg of carbon dioxide equivalents used over the two and a half years
a child is typically in nappies. The global warming impact from disposable nappies use
has decreased since the previous study due to manufacturing changes and a 13.5 per
cent reduction in the weight of nappies.

and then for cloth nappies

>For reusable nappies, the baseline scenario based on average washer and drier use
produced a global warming impact of approximately 570kg of carbon dioxide
equivalents. However, the study showed that the impacts for reusable nappies are
highly dependent on the way they are laundered.
Washing the nappies in fuller loads or line-drying them outdoors all the time (ignoring
UK climatic conditions for the purposes of illustration) was found to reduce this figure
by 16 per cent. Combining three of the beneficial scenarios (washing nappies in a
fuller load, outdoor line drying all of the time, and reusing nappies on a second child)
would lower the global warming impact by 40 per cent from the baseline scenario, or
some 200kg of carbon dioxide equivalents over the two and a half years, equal to
driving a car approximately 1,000 km.

FWIW we buy compostable disposables to limit landfill impact (contrary to another comment landfill area is not infinite) and bought our "real" nappies on ebay and have then reused them. We don't tumble dry nappies (UK) and practice what's considered early potty training which reduces cleaning requirements¹.

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¹Clearly reducing nappy changing as much as possible and reducing the period of nappy wearing has a great impact.
Only if you're trying to rob a pet store
isn't it ironic that someone is being upvoted for warning against aspartame drinks on an article debunking any negative effects of aspartame? If there are no safety concerns from the breakdown and there are no calories in it then could you summarise your reasons for the advice?

The main reasons to avoid sugar from reading I've done in the past are to do with insulin spiking which is indeed a very bad issue, though eating polished rice (white rice), bread etc are all just as bad for that (bread is worse as it also contains sugars). Negative effects on teeth being attributed to sugars are largely false and are more to do with the acidity of the carbonated water used.
My experience in other developing-world places where nearly-free foreign money has allowed a few people to short-circuit the civilized-society-building process (e.g. tourist areas like Bali) is that, culturally, many people will begin to look at foreigners as nothing more than walking money machines. They then develop many of the same tendencies of the nouveau riche in developed countries, namely, having no clue how to wisely build wealth and instead buying things that they think give them status among their peers.

It's not a big jump from there to not feeling bad about just outright tricking foreigners out of their money. They've already been dehumanized, and are incomprehensibly rich anyway. When I was in Tunisia, there were several times when ordinary teenagers, not beggars or thieves, just outright shouted at me across the street, "Hey, American! Give me money! Just one dinar!" Some way to start a conversation.

Often, they simply don't know that there is an alternative -- their lives have never had the expectation that things can, should, and will get markedly better if certain rules and virtues are practiced, as is true for many of us on Hacker News. Anything like this project that can just make people aware of a better way to live is a good project.
Question: how to put chords there? I saw image of this at your blog post, but can't figure it out at the demo.
Short selling works like this:

Party A buys 500 MSFT shares from partner B today, and then immediately sells them at the current market price to C. Depending on the terms of the deal, party A must pay back the same number of shares at a later date to party B. Let's say 30 days later, party A rebuys 500 shares of MSFT at THAT current market rate (hoping it has decreased over the last 30 days), and repays the same number of shares (hoping it's a smaller $ value) to party B.

The people lending the short are expecting the stock to go up, the people buying are expecting it to go down.

Hope that helps
Here's another fog cannon security video that proved effective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK083niNAmY
If you cut down a 50 foot tall tree with a swiss army knife, I'd like to see how you did it. I think it's clear the author isn't stupid and did this to see what was possible with a limited tool.
> Once I actually turned in my solutions and my math teacher was quite upset because she didn't know what I'd do for the rest of the year in her class.

Obvious answer: move to the next class. Repeat as desired.
Unless the tool includes a server that can do this all on an alternative port.
I owe my career to not doing math homeworks. School math wasn't something I cared about, but I wanted to make games so I learned programming instead of doing math problems. Ended up catching up with the math through gamedev anyway - it was very easy to learn once I cared about it.

In the end I had mediocre math grades throughout school, but learned a ton of skills I now use to create stuff.
It's a messy solution to a messy problem. I do think eventually sexism will go the way of eugenics. Replaced with another social struggle. There will always be some people aware of how things could be better that have the motivation to raise awareness.
Ah the hot spot fallacy. I don't mean that Ruby / Python don't have their place, I'm using a lot of Python myself. However, the notion that you could always just reimplement a few places here and there in C is mostly false IMO. In these cases where the interpreter itself is the bottleneck (as opposed to I/O), you'll often find that the performance is spread out over dozens or hundreds of sections in your code - for non trivial projects. When that happens and you really need an order of magnitude or more speedup, you basically have to reimplement.

What I want to say is: In many cases starting with a scripting language makes sense, just to get a working prototype quickly, but when you know beforehand that performance is critical, don't overestimate the ability to just patch it up later. The whole 'premature optimization' viewpoint should (if at all) only be applied up to a certain experience level, after which it's rather damaging than doing any good.
I have a feeling that no matter how many times I'm going to answer your 'but this is impossible' with showing you how in fact it is possible you're not going to concede that in fact it probably is possible nor are you going to stop so in the interest of conserving bandwidth I'll bow out of the conversation here with this final bit.

The solution for the above is that you need to take into account the radius of curvature and you're clearly not doing that. The inside of that tube needs to be relatively smooth in the direction of travel, not perpendicular to it. You could also interleave to two segments if you wanted it to be even smoother.

So no, this is not a hard problem in spite of your continued insistence that it is because you can't solve it.

http://jacquesmattheij.com/you+can+not+do+that
It has always been this way. Two decades ago ASM was fast but limited; BASIC was expressive but slow. Today, JavaScript is fast but limited; Ruby is expressive but slow. What a wonderful transition; it means our fast language du jour is growing more and more expressive. Another two decades of compiler and optimization research and we may yet have fast languages that are so expressive they negate the need for anything more powerful.
Here is an interesting article posted a few days ago on Motherboard as well: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/cirrus-bitcoin-bucks

It mentions how an undercover agent was able to correlate the the times DPR was logged in to times that Ross Ulbricht was on his laptop in public places immediately prior to his arrest.

Its certainly not 100% conclusive or anything but is it corroborating evidence that the prosecution is using to suggest he is guilty. Personally, I'm waiting to make up my mind on the matter of his innocence until the trial brings forward more evidence.
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Rated standard tournament chess involves a tedious process of annotating moves on a carbon copy as you play. One to give to the tournament director to enter the game into the database and one to review the game after. So there is a niche market for this.
/r/smyths is what your looking for, and it's way better than original mythbusters
I don't have to.

But I wouldn't do the courtesy of calling it a "civilisation".
I think you may be reading too much into what I said; I was working on a DAW-like toy, not a full DAW that uses VST plugins, and because I chose to write DSP code, I had to understand it. I don’t know what a real DAW looks like because I am not a subject expert.

That said, Rust seemed pretty promising for writing the audio engine of a DAW due to the memory ownership model. It was relatively easy to come up with a way to architect a very basic lock-free audio thread and feel sure that it was at least memory correct. I have no idea how a real DAW avoids certain pitfalls in the audio thread; lock-free isn’t too hard, but avoiding allocations in all circumstances seems tricky.
There’s some predictability in terms of people trying to buy all the things they wanted as a kid when they finally have the adult income to afford it. Some examples include muscle cars, BMX bikes, LEGO sets, and other things that a large population of children were aware of and wanted. If you just stock-pile the big sellers or scoop up the used stuff when it bottoms out in value then you might be able to profit.

The big issue is carrying costs. If I could have parked a bunch of 70s/80s Porsches in a climate controller garage for 30+ years I’d be cashing in right now.
I'm saying that Apple was going to get shafted on payments and making money from Epic anyways if they left it up because Epic was charging $2 less when paying directly via a card and bypassing in-app purchases.

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/the-fortnite-m...
Most developers can't actually code, once the motor skills has been assumed it is nothing but brute intelligence.. and then you can become a lead/architect... It takes 10 years to become good enough. I feel pretty safe ;)
That is a poor reference. Basically a lesson in how to not analyze data.

What it is doing is taking murders per capita of small areas (10,000 people) and comparing them to big cities with over a million people, thus it is dominated by random noise in the small areas. Do that over the whole nation and you create a noise collector rather than a "reference". This is why the list is led by small populations that have experienced an anomalous number of murders in the last year, rather than larger cities that tend to have more stable murders per capita.

A second weakness is the inconsistency in city boundaries. Although many of these neighborhoods are indeed violent, it's not really fair to compare E St. Louis with LA or Chicago. An apples to apples comparison would be to compare E St. Louis with the worst neighborhoods of LA or Chicago, because E St. Louis is a small (and particularly blighted) portion of the overall St Louis MSA.

To fix this, what the author should do is normalize the data before performing the division to get a per capita rate. There are two options:

* fix the geography and collect data over several years, say a decade for the town with 10,000 people to at least get 100,000 as a minimum sample size.

* look at the MSA rather than what are effectively neighborhoods in a given MSA.

The second approach is much better because it gives you recency of data which also solves the problem of changing populations, and gives you more of an apple to apple comparison. But that means that rural areas will simply drop out. That's OK, if you want a general rural vs urban comparsion, you can do that by bucketing lots of rural locales into larger ones and then comparing.
I agree and disagree, and disagree because in the world we live in, we read more words than ever, but reading books -- things that people craft over time, sometimes with facts and references, and that are stable enough elements in the world that we can have long, thoughtful, referenced reviews and discussions about -- probably less so than in the past.

We don't "review" and discuss blog posts for years on end, the way you can read and discuss books, and books from other countries, in other languages, from previous centuries.

I joke that most parties devolve into a discussion about "what have you watched lately?" and where that discussion used to include movies and films, people at parties mostly talk about TV shows.

So books, for those who are still fitting them into their lifestyle, even after work and family and internet, are slightly more rarefied than they used to be. Moreso than we probably need.
eBay is one that comes to mind right away (unless they changed it recently).

Google Pay is another one. They have a dedicate app in Singapore.

It seems like a lot of them went to single apps when they realized they could download data packs within the app. Stuff like Rick Steves guided tour apps used to be separate per city, but now it's a single app where you download the data for a certain city.

But I think you're right that all the major FAANG apps are single-binary.
It does mention it though, FTA:
...and a calendar where the year is separated not by months but by weeks, which is used in finances, but here we’re only interested in the basics.
> Those two items are probably 80% of the reason anyone I know goes to a doctor.

This role seems to be increasingly filled by Physicians Assistants and Nurse Practitioners.
My daughter uses Messenger Kids to interact with her friends, now that COVID means she can’t see any of them in real life. (It wouldn’t have been my first choice, but it’s what all the other kids are on, so we have no real choice.)

If she adds a friend, it’ll send me a messenger message telling me I have to approve it, with a link. If I try to follow that link, it will tell me that my desktop browser can’t be used to manage Messenger Kids and that I have to install the app on my phone. Although it seems like in most cases you can open up Messenger Kids in the panel on the left, and then there will be an approve/deny button, so it’s mostly lies that you can’t do this on desktop.
There's carbon, particulate and road wear (and noise and traffic). You can prioritize whatever you want in whatever order you want to make whatever state you want seem like the best.

If the road has to be built to handle X% semi trucks for 10yr and mother nature will destroy it in 20yr no matter what you do you lose nothing by driving a bunch of medium duty trucks on it.
I agree with you. But that's because the state-of-the-art in clients are cloud hungry applications, giving their parent companies have much to profit from this behavior.

Local-first is a technological sophistication from the current tech status-quo, so it requires more labor to get at a point where it can stand against the current cloud-first applications.

We will only be able to see how far it can go, once the next-gen applications reach the same level.

It will be a harsh competition, but if we can just ship the platform along with it, and at least Android make it possible, users wont even notice, because it was the dev's that made that decision for them. And the dev's will do it because it might make their apps a little better, more responsive and fail proof.

Of course this all must happen before 5G or part of the leverage is gone unfortunately..

But we need at least try anyway, because a world where all the information is centralized on the FAANG titans is a world where freedom, civil and human rights are constantly endangered(especially in the age of AI automation).