jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Apple will become the Apple of the phone market much as it was the Apple of personal computer market.

I understand the sentiment here, but I don't think it's true. There was a recent quote from El Jobso (can't find off hand, sorry) saying that Apple actually sat on the top end of the market with the Mac (in his absence), got greedy, failed to innovate, and suffered.

Instead, look at what they did with the iPod. They didn't just remain as a high-end mp3 player, they developed products which covered nearly the spectrum of the marketplace, while still remaining the high-end brand.

I think past will be prologue, but it should be the iPod, not the Mac, that will be the best example. That said, when you're taking 50% of the profit in the market with just a 4% share, there's not a lot of reason to be particularly unhappy with your current position!
Do you realize that Assange had nonviolent, consensual sex with those two women and it's only a quirk of the Swedish legal system that the word "rape" being used in relation to the charges against him?

Assange's actions would not be a crime under US law, and would by no means be described by anything close to the word rape.
Neetly enables you to create one or many secure networks. You can create them for your family, friends, for a large community or for just yourself. You control invites to the network. You can use neetly to post articles for discussion, you can share files, including photos, within your network. You can also engage in chat with other people from your network.

We found we wanted to discuss some things with certain groups of people - such as work colleagues, or share pictures with different people such as family. We found there was not an effective tool out there to do it so we created Neetly. Now you can share and say what you want and to whom you want.

We are in the early stages and have decided we have a product which we can release but one that needs to be developed based on feedback that we hope we receive. We want to create a tool that you want to use, that you feel safe using and that you recommend to others so please help us achieve these aims by giving us feedback. Thanks in advance for any feedback that you give to us.
Location:Houston, USA
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Hey OP, I'd highly recommend adding info product to your list of ways in which you could earn a few hundred dollars online.

I run both apps and info products. For earning a few hundred, info products are infinitely easier, usually take a one-time upfront effort and have little to no maintenance, bugs etc. to fix.

In your case, an info product could be a short course on a very specific skill that you have, maybe related to coding.

For example, I created this course called Learn Programmatic SEO[1]. Created it in Feb 2021 and after the initial launch high, earnings stabilized to around ~$500/mo. I haven't put any more effort or time into it since launch except reply to 3-4 doubt emails a month.

This year, I'm putting in a little more effort (equivalent of 4-6 hrs/month) in order to double earnings to $1000/mo by end of 2022.

[1] https://www.preetamnath.com/programmatic-seo
> But that's one-sided: people do not have the same requirement to "grapple" with the benefits of government once a year.

Presumably you experience that every day. Moreover, politicians spend tons of time talking about those benefits.
The US just signed two contracts for additional deliveries of 100 million doses each of two vaccines (Pfizer & Moderna, I believe?)

I doubt that these companies can make such deliveries without first fulfilling the contracts they have with the EU. I looked it up at the time, and they have. contracts with hundreds of millions of doses for the EU.

So what I believe will happen is that deliveries will grow extremely fast at some point before July, when new production capacities come online.

Consider what would happen if capacities increased dramatically: any advantage some countries have right now will shrink, when measured in time, from "months" to maybe just a few weeks. The real end of lockdowns may well still coincide.
You're right, the handbook is not the law.

"stop at any distance behind the line" would include stopping 50 yards behind the line, which would not achieve anything useful.
tl;dr

If you have indexes on column A but not B selecting * (a+b) will also need to fetch the row, otherwise it can fetch only the index.

The end.

To be fair, I've been using sql and optimizing it for a decade. The number of times "select *" was the offender was a minority. Typically N+1 is the biggest performance issue in modern frameworks and newer developers. Following that is complex logic that can be simplified to a more efficient sql.

select (star) is so far down the causes of slowdowns it is hardly worth mentioning 95% of the time.

0% of the time was db->server bandwidth the issue. Otherwise you're probably fetching a gig of data instead of filtering it in sql or paging.
Yup. The vast majority of what the cameras capture is safe but technically illegal (although in this case I'm not even sure of that--the law says stop, it doesn't say how long you have to remain stopped) behavior. It's only by statistical fiddling that they show any safety improvement.

1) Red light cameras tend to displace the accidents from the intersection to just before the intersection, but they don't reduce accidents or injuries.

2) Regression to the mean--put a camera in a spot with a high accident rate and see the accident rate drop. But blips tend to average out anyway, unless it's a fundamental problem with the spot you would expect the accident rate to drop back to normal.

Also, we don't have cameras here but I have observed a pattern to traffic enforcement: I have *never* seen traffic enforcement other than DUI checkpoints at a location where there wasn't a mismatch between the law and the reality on the road. Examples:

1) There used to be a *big* speed trap on the highway northeast of town. One day they finally raised the speed limit there--and I haven't seen a cop there since.

2) One mile is full of houses, narrow, legitimately 35 mph. Then there's a mile built to 45 mph standards, but it has *one* house (which I believe is not occupied) and is 35 mph, even on the southbound side which in the area near the house is isolated from it by a barrier no little kid could cross. The next mile is built to the same standards and is correctly 45 mph. One guess as to where the cop sits.

3) We used to have a stupid law prohibiting turning on red when there were multiple turn lanes. I'm thinking of a T intersection where the road widened to 4 lanes just before the T. Just after the right turn there's good shelter for the cops to hide--and they really rack up a score on people making perfectly safe turns from the rightmost lane. I believe the legislature finally fixed that. Life has changed, I haven't been though that intersection since to see if the trap went away.

4) One that used to apply right near our house. The half-main street is built to 35 mph standards, but when we moved in there was a spot 1/2 mile along it that was undeveloped and thus narrower--25 mph. That resulted in the whole mile being 25 mph. The cop sat 1/4 mile along, where it still looked like a 35 mph road even though it was 25 mph. When the narrow spot was fixed the limit was raised to 35 mph and I haven't seen a cop there since.

And the purely abusive: Crosswalk enforcement, I got nailed in a situation where continuing on was completely safe but I'm not sure I could even have made a panic stop before the line, certainly not without asking for being rear-ended. Not only that but the only place served by that crosswalk was closed.

Edit: The only legitimate traffic stops I have ever seen involve a cop driving along and witnessing a problem.
It seems they don't actually consult experts when saying such things. IIRC, they've made claims of novelty like this before and then been wrong because they didn't do their homework. If it truly is a new identity (and not a specialization of something already known), then that's kind of interesting. But given their track record, I find it unlikely.

One much always be very careful when claiming some identity like this is new. Even excellent researchers can get burned – it has happened to Doron Zeilberger, one of the pioneers of algorithmic mathematics, at least one. (I'm looking for the details but unfortunately can't find them at the moment...)

edit: The issue in the latter case may have been a very simple analytic proof existing, not novelty per se. He had posted correspondence between him and another mathematician on his website but apparently deleted it.

Also, the blog post linked above has been updated: https://www.galoisrepresentations.com/2021/02/11/ramanujan-m...
I wonder if the market based solution is for their IP to be bought by someone seeking to make products. And what that would cost.
I don't disagree, I'm simply questioning the benifit of nitpicking the strawmen instead of addressing the argument itself.
There is a very interesting podcast with Matt Ahrens, co-founder of the ZFS project, that covers RAID-Z expansion as well as the history of ZFS etc.
https://changelog.com/podcast/475
>People who've never stood up a "bare-metal" server in their life. Who weren't around to see the kind of traffic one shitty late-90s commodity-parts server with slow memory and maybe two processors if you're very lucky and spinning-rust drives

For example, what ibm.com ran on in 1998 (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_RS6000_AIX_Servers_IB...>)
I gotta have more Walken.
I interpret the linked article different. Can you elaborate?

For example (from the summary):

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"CONCLUSION. Radiation exposure from the use of CT in the evaluation and management of severe traumatic brain injury causes negligible increases in lifetime attributable risk of cancer and cancer-related mortality. Treating physicians should not allow the concern for future risk of radiation-induced cancer to influence decisions regarding radiographic evaluation in the acute treatment of traumatic brain injury."

(edited: formatting)
Why do so many people want to ban FSD Beta from public roads every time it almost causes an accident, when we usually don't take away people's driver's licenses even when they do cause accidents?
> This is fine with me--I think it makes sense to optimize for readability

You cannot read things you can't see. If half a function is scrolled off the bottom of the screen because every function arg is on its own line .... its pretty annoying.
> If 50% of that traffic is during a 10 hour window of time each day, that could be around 70 views per second.

How do you get that? Assuming 4M/month, that works out to 130K/day. Even if all that traffic comes in a 10-hour window, that works out to 130,000/36000 =~ 4/sec, not 70/sec.
There are much better places to accumulate internet brownie points.
Yup that's a good suggestion. I actually don't even need to compile to wasm for much of it (I have it partially ported to GLSL already)
All countries have had challenges like this before, be it world war 1/2, conscription, etc.

It's not an excuse to lose rights outside the confines of the emergency.

It might be true post-Russian dominated states might still have recent memories on how to obey a central authority (mainly on pain of 'disappearing' into something like a gulag or being executed), it's not a lesson we need to learn thanks.

It's still hard for many of us to take the threat seriously, but that'll change.
Both, really. Maybe one driven by the other. I think of what I want to say, try to find a template, no template quite matches, pick one reasonably close, get bogged down by colors of arrows and things not snapping right, wonder if what I'm trying to say is no good or else there would be a good template already, start over in Visio, same process back to powerpoint.
I'll give you that. I haven't been involved with device and process development since around 2009, when I lost hope getting into process engineering.

So, were strained channels used with FinFETs on anything mainstream? I heard the news of number of foundries dropping straining at around the time of first finfets.
They don't look quite native, but I feel the trend is moving away from native-looking apps anyway (like via electron, or forgoing an UI at all and just doing a web UI).
Let me tell work that I can't collaborate remotely anymore on video because I am using my agency to refuse to use Zoom even though everyone else at the whole company does. Then they can use their agency to put me on a PIP because my choice hindered my ability to do my job.

I'm sure you realize it's not as easy as you say, but I suppose it's easier to assert that situations don't have nuance because then you can make blanket statements like you did.
As much as it may sometimes seem like it is, the H1-B isn't a programming or IT visa. It's applicable to a wide range of specialty occupations, across the entire nation. The suggested change would block out virtually all applicants from many other professions.
What's shameful is disregarding "this kind of stuff" on certain forums, making it acceptable in public discourse. It's like asking the civil rights movement or SA's AAM to shut up in certain places. Anyway, this is not the place to have such a discussion. Just wanted to call them out for that.
Great work, Tom! And timely. Django-rest-framework is #1 on my list of the best Django packages out there. I was about to start an API project in Flask, but was thinking that I'd really really miss DRF and its great architecture adn features (powerful out of the box, everything easily overridable, great separation of concerns, and browsable API).
Are there enough details about the machines available to reimplement them?
Yes, I have. It wasn`t a pleasant experience, but I always think that anything that happens is a natural part of the growth process. And that experience helped me during my second startup (going steady currently).
But I rate myself above average in every category! Just like everyone else!
My starting market is definitely local businesses, though I do think there might be hope for online companies too (one idea for subsequent versions would be to have the ability to turn Twitter/FB/forum posts and linkable web comments into testimonials with just a couple of steps, rather than going through the whole copy post->go to your CMS->reformat it stuff. There will also be an embeddable testimonial board.)

I'm pretty far along with the initial version to demo it to them, so I should have it front of them fairly soon. Dealing with sub-par testimonials is something I thought about early - that's part of the reason everything requires approval by default. I'm hoping these businesses will post the great ones, appreciate, but maybe not post the so-so ones, and take seriously and act on the negative ones.

Ultimately, I'd like it to cohere from three things: a central place to aggregate reviews/testimonials from many sources, a customer feedback system, and a "reminder to review elsewhere" (to nudge the marginal reviewer to actually leave that Yelp review) service rather than just a feedback system like TalkBin or Talk To the Manager.
Germany has this rule with carp.
If someone wants to go as far as to claim that any computation is just curve-fitting then your statement is equivalent to Church–Turing thesis. There are no formal arguments against Church–Turing thesis.

From that perspective intelligence is indeed just a curve fitting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis

I really enjoyed the "The Measure of Intelligence" by François Chollet. https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547

"We note that in practice, the contemporary AI community still gravitates towards benchmarking intelligence by comparing the skill exhibited by AIs and humans at specific tasks such as board games and video games. We argue that solely measuring skill at any given task falls short of measuring intelligence, because skill is heavily modulated by prior knowledge and experience: unlimited priors or unlimited training data allow experimenters to "buy" arbitrary levels of skills for a system, in a way that masks the system's own generalization power."

He argues that we should move towards evaluating "Intelligence as skill-acquisition efficiency".

I agree with him. We should move away from benchmarks that involve training and evaluating algorithms on the same datasets. This is indeed more or less "curve fitting". Instead we should focus on benchmarking how efficient algorithms are at solving tasks involving completely new datasets, preferably even unknown to the developers. For example, language model GPT-2 was trained to predict next word given some previous words. After that training GPT-2 was able to do things that were unrelated like question answering, translating etc. GPT-2 is of course doing that very badly, and requires GB of training data, but it is a step towards skill-acquisition efficiency and away from what everyone sees as curve-fitting.

We should benchmark models so that we select for these that are able to do solve tasks they were not build to solve.
Which highly competitive endeavours, that millions of young people spend many hours per week on, aren't?
Then why not short sell stocks and become rich?
Can wholeheartedly recommend https://ipredator.se

There are real privacy enthusiaists behind ipredator.
At least Apple A10 onwards have an hardware VP8 decoder, so...
Those are actually somewhat rare. US in the late 70s with Paul Volker and the famous British Pound short by Soros which interrupted the government chocking off the economy with high interest rates, broke the pound and saved the UK from a recession.

Do you have more prominent examples?

It's usually policy error in the other direction - keeping easy money for too long. I.e. you don't handle a catastrophe by fixing the down leg (that's emergency measures with bad side effects), you prevent the up leg. Alan Greenspan will be forever remembered and hated by some after his efforts to create the dotcom and the housing bubble.
This a very heterogeneous business, aka "we do whatever the customer pays for".

One customer has one or two whole /8 blocks of public IPs that they use even for internal systems in our data centers. Others are IPv6 on the inside and IPv4 public facing. Some are big layer 2 setups (which we internally route through IPv6).
I should clarify, if your title was "How we minimized the impact of the cloud-pocalypse", then the content of the article is fine. I think most SaaS operators would define "surviving" as no downtime e.g. Netflix.
That's not (EDIT:) space-constant.
I think this article was my first introduction to functional programming.

Yea, don't look at me like that. My university mostly taught us Java/C++; we only did functional programming in one course.
Re: #2 - I wonder if a red transparent film could be produced that doesn't interfere with the touch controls but preserves night vision.
Could this concept of assigning rights that don't exist apply to major media splitting hairs regarding distribution rights, e.g. allowing streaming to PCs, but not tablets, even though the data goes through the same wifi connection?
I think there's something wrong with the logic if the opposite is false.

If you have a product people want, but no one is willing to pay for it. I can't call that a business.
You are right on the date. Off by some months that year... in any case, just to make sure I'm not off again, we can just go back to an early iPaq, such as the 3100.

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2001pmc/pr2001012902...

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/10680_div/1068...

Announced in 2001. A mere six years before the iPhone was announced. Sure, doesn't look exactly like the iPhone, but if one can't see that the evolutionary footprint wasn't established, they aren't looking very hard.

Put it another way, if you show me an iPaq in 2001 and say in 10 years phones will look like the Samsung Galaxy my response would probably be, "disappointingly little will change over 10 years".
Worth noting that while Kaboom.js is aimed at novices, it turned out to be super fun for developers too. Our team is having a lot of fun with it -- you can have an idea write a game in 30 minutes to an hour in typically less than 100 LoC. Some examples from our team and community:

- ReplJewled https://replit.com/@ConnorBrewster/ReplJeweled

- Flappy Mark https://replit.com/@slmjkdbtl/flappymark

- Bamboo Ninja https://replit.com/@RoBlockHead/KaboomJam

- Cookie Vs Oreo https://replit.com/@Coder100/COOKIE-VS-OREOS-KABOOMJS-BOOMOM...
Until they had to bike in Canadian winter? Or on SF hills? Or 30 Km to work with 2 kids to drop of 8 Km in the other direction?

The Netherlands is nearly a perfect place for biking, which is why they bike.
Maybe, but when the original docker image is no longer available on docker hub, chances are there will be something better and even easier to setup. And with docker you don't care about installing / uninstalling apps and figuring out where that obscure setting was hidden - all you need is just a stock distro and a bunch of docker-compose.yml files, plus some mounted directories with the actual data.
Wordpress is a clunky nightmare but Wix is garbage as well. Support a YC funded startup and join the Webflow master race.
First ask yourself how quickly you could build a self-sustaining society deep in the Sahara, or at the south pole. Then realize that both of those places are waaay more habitable than the surface of Mars, since they both have a breathable atmosphere and a notable lack of perchlorates in the soil.
It's a mistake to think the only way to understand something complex is with an MBA.

A good example is Toyota versus the US Big 3 automakers. GM basically invented the modern American management the MBA came out of. Toyota was run by engineers. Toyota came out of the post WWII decimation of Japan to become the world's largest automaker, kicking the asses of US automakers in terms of cost and quality.

Toyota was happy to teach how they did it, and even set up a joint venture with GM, the NUMMI plant. The plant worked fine, but GM was unable to adopt the lessons. This American Life tells the tail well: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015

I think this is directly related to the MBA ideology, an important part of which is that you can take privileged people, give them a short general education covering a number of disciplines, and then make them part of the managerial caste that controls everybody else. A core notion of the MBA is that management is a universal skill. This is both historically novel and distinct from elements of the Toyota Way, which strongly honor the people doing the actual work and their accumulated knowledge.
No, that's a terrible analogy. Mildly elevated arsenic would imply a small amount of health issues to everyone near the water, when it's a 0% danger to most people, and death to a small percentage.

It's more like: There's a militia terrorizing a town square. The police are using machine guns to fight back, and a few stray bullets are hitting innocent bystanders.
From my read of it, it's completely independent. The same passwords frequently show up in other breaches.
And that looks trivial to work with. I'm from Europe where most towns have grown very organically over centuries, there are fewer multi-lane streets (and it's essentially unheard of in residential areas) and it's crowded. Quite a few people would welcome better bike infrastructure over here, but it's hard to do. The opposite seems to be true in the US.
It is almost ironic that you spread FUD[1] to discredit a Microsoft Product. Your statement is plain and simple wrong.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt