jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Focussed study has some effect

This statement requires some elaboration. Cramming for the SAT/ACT in the short time before the test has a small effect on your overall score. But if you go to a preparatory middle and high school where you will essentially spend 6-12th grade studying for the tests because the school designed the curriculum specifically to prepare you for them you will see a big difference.

Over the four years I spent in high school I was assigned as homework every. single. AP Calc I & II problem that had ever been published. Is it really that surprising that our class did well?

Another way of saying this.

* If you read voraciously as a child you will score extremely well on the reading section without really trying. You aren't smarter. You just spent a decade inadvertently studying.

* I was a math nerd as a child. I read math textbooks for fun. I was doing college-level math in 9th grade. And surprise to no one I scored almost perfect on the math section. But crucially, this didn't make me smarter than my peers. Literally anyone who had decided to spend their time at recess reading number theory textbooks would have done just as well.
>That strikes me as rather emotive phrasing for an discussion about SSD upgrades.

I'd say implying that having access to a second Mac for 10 minutes to bless a drive in a $6,000+ computer as a "hardship" is not just emotive but bombastic.

Hell it wasn't too long ago that some computers required other computers in order to boot. Yes, I'm being a bit cheeky but we are talking about a procedure affecting a fraction of an already small pool of users - Mac Pro owners.

This is an overblown and sensationalized "story" purely because Apple is involved.
> It's unfortunate, but it's the way the world is today.

You're saying it as if it's a bad thing.

Email is asynchronous. IM and SMS are disruptive.

And on IM versus SMS, the sender of a SMS usually doesn't know if the recipient received the message, while the default behavior of IM is to notify your contacts list if you're online.

These are different mediums people use for different kinds of communication / contacts.

But I don't expect Facebook to get this, especially considering their total disregard of the way people interact with one another. It's a wonder they are number #1, but I guess the alternatives sucked a lot more.
The language bit really is a problem. I'm in a German speaking country and I just can't make google understand to stop giving me German results.

The frustrating thing is that it's so simple to fix this. I use language preferences. If you see that the language preference is set to something not normal for the area, believe it! And if the user does something to change language offer them a tip on how to make it work automatically.
I'm wondering why only in the italian version of the ad he is called Jimbo Wales... weird.
FTA: "There is no difference between a minuscule overdose — going 0.1 milligram over a recommended dose — and this very large overdose. They all look exactly the same."

That here is the problem, right here. If we can have self-driving cars (which can look ahead and figure out the result of their actions), so can a system like EPIC. Why can't it calculate the probability of a Bad Thing(tm) happening, and suitable tag the alerts?
This makes me very happy to hear that people are steering clear of the NSA. It often surprises me how easy it is to find people to do whatever you want them to do, regardless of the ethics of it.

How come there's so many people willing to work at a cigarette company? What kind of programmers are willing to help their government attack Github? How can so many smart people join the NSA and essentially attack the internet?
if you have hardware that supports both pfsense and openWRT, choose pfsense. it's far more robust a package.
For me, it was because Pebble created a reputation as a hacker-friendly watch, as opposed to Apple and Google's closed gardens.

Then I looked more into the Pebble, and discovered that it's a closed garden every bit as restrictive as Apple and Google, only with more distance between the walls. So, I canceled my order.

In particular, from the Terms of Use[0]:

Section II, paragraph 2, sentence 2: Do not reverse-engineer anything in the Pebble,

Section II, paragraph 2, sentence 3: Do not learn from Pebble to create anything,

Section III, paragraph 2, point 12: Do not say bad things about Pebble,

Section III, paragraph 2, point 13: Do not overload the Pebble servers, even accidentally,

and Section XIV, sentence 8: If the terms of service are illegal, then act like they are legal anyway.

[0]https://auth.getpebble.com/terms_of_use
Once they get to that temperature, which can happen in a matter of minutes if you are doing something cpu intensive, they throttle the cpu, thus slowing everything down, which is counter productive if you are doing something cpu intensive. They can spread that heat over a larger area, thus heating up the whole device, or they can put in active cooling, or they can put in a cpu that doesn't get that hot. The Atom is a cpu that shouldn't get that hot. It's probably not as fast as the i5, but it can certainly run Chrome and other apps though probably games would suffer.

The issues we see with Surface Pro 3 overheating is where it's not expected to overheat, such as using Chrome. Using IE is fine, but when you use Chrome it overheats. Turns out a lot of the time it's related to ABP (adblock plus). Switching to uBlock seems to resolve most of the overheating of Chrome.
I found several of these very useful.
Yes, it is set to true, but without media.mediasource.enabled set to true it doesn't matter, since the later switches MSE on and off generally.
$149 is ridiculously cheap and I don't think Microsoft wants, or should want to operate in that market.

At the $200-$300 price range there are many Windows choices - most with significantly better hardware and features.

Microsoft: Leave the sub $200 market to others and leverage your online services to sell to those consumers.
It’s less about longevity and more about reducing errors. Interestingly, Ingenuity has some sort of watchdog that can reset the Snapdragon in-flight fast enough to recover if there is an error.
Seriously - my wife is on MacOS - and has never mentioned to me that her wounds have been rubbed until they bleed (??). Where does this type of language come from? If a MacOS update is so bad for you that you need medical treatment I don't know what to tell you.
This article echoes a lot of the reasons why I ultimately ditched MacOS. Apple no longer respects when the user wants to update, it's all just a different flavor of Windows at this point. Thankfully, leaving MacOS has put most of those issues in the rearview. Hopefully someday Apple recognizes that a bloated OS doesn't make anyone happy, I'm kinda surprised that more people don't talk about the 50 gig download that xCode requires. Kinda insane for a glorified text editor.
Here's a crazy idea: What if Nvidia raised the prices to the current scalper prices, but every additional dollar was returned as credit that you could spend on indie games or hardware?

(You would probably have to restrict the hardware to just hardware that's not useful for mining, e.g. monitors)
$DAY_JOB replaced helm with custom tool that does equivalent of kubectl apply by uses Jsonnet as templating engine.

I intend to write an OSS version of it because Jsonnet really is probably the best fit here (though Cue/Dhall are interesting I think Jsonnet is easiest to get others to adopt).
For people in the US though it is also super easy if you don't have investments or deductions. A 1040 is 40 lines of basic math, or if that is too much work there is tonnes of free tax software that does it for you.
I'm surprised that Nomad is gaining traction _now_, five years later. Nomad has always been "container orchestration, the easy HashiCorp way," but finding case studies from others using it has been challenging
I do, but I left out the numbers for foreign-language versions and other data, because I don't want to load the question down with too many caveats. We all know that some people torrent by preference than because they lack any other means to view the film. I'm just trying to figure out how the MPAA is supposed to turn those people into paying customers.
#2 is a very good reason, but isn't the problem there with the country you live in rather than with the MPAA?
I can't downvote replies to my own comment you know.
Can UI/UX be beautiful? Sure. Are things that self-proclaim to be beautiful actually beautiful? Very rarely. The term is wildly overused.
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Looks like it's no longer closed :)
I'm guessing publishing that information would create exposure to federal criminal charges of endangering FBI agents (not sure of the exact name of the charge). Then the FBI really would have leverage to either gain a new informant for as long as the statute of limitations lasts or throw the researcher in prison with a criminal record.
It’s not the point. You can sue for damage if you want, but that is something else. The point of the regulation is to punish bad actors, not give money to users.
This is why five eyes countries try to push for ending end to end encryption and other secure forms of communications. That's why services like Facebook continue to operate and so on. This way everyone can be an informant whether they like it or not, just by interacting with other people on the network. Bots will analyse whether someone you innocently talked to said something that bots found similar to the manner an enemy would sound like. From there they can automate invitations for interrogation or in more distant future, order a special mix of "vaccine" that will make such person infertile, or just simply take them out of the picture.
Today you may think that we have good leaders that would never do something like this, but remember not so long ago supposedly civilised country was shipping people on trains straight into ovens.
If we create means, then at some point someone will misuse them.
Actually, they've supported some gun cases in the recent past.
I don't know enough to comment on those things, I'm discussing the specific example of the ETH fork which was given.
Going as far as using trinary for on the fly data encoding .
To be fair, a billionaire hardly has to worry about social NORMs
Who else would you expect to bear the risk & expense if not the entrepreneur? Isn't that the very description of the word?
For this to work, (a) the young would actually have to be very low risk and (b) they could NEVER contact those in the sheltering groups. Which would be a problem with families with older children or multi-generational households. And schools would have difficulty remaining open due to teachers and staff being isolated in some degree. And the variants that develop in this regime might have been hard on the young - in Canada, much of the current ICU crowd is young, lower-risk individuals.
"The famous programmers aren't really famous for programming anymore, but instead because they created some business or non-profit. Their code can't stand on its own as awesome, it has to be paired with some non-code fame formation and then people can grok their concept."

Anyone read Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age? There is a scene where they are discussing tech innovation and someone says there are always three parts, the money, the tech and the artist.

Money finances the tech, and the artist humanizes the tech. You're the tech (drummer/bassist? linebacker?) and you're envious of the artist (lead singer? quarter back?).

Edit: and the reason he's not really famous is because none of his consumer facing products are GREAT. (I wont debate if they are good or very good or whatever, but outside of his technical work he really isn't GREAT).
I've had a similar situation (Canada to South Africa) and at the time the best thing was to go in to the bank to do a wire (swift) transfer.

There are various options; eg what currency you want to send the funds in (ie who bears the currency risk), and on what side the charges are paid.

There are still some overheads this way, so we found it most practical to pay 2 months at a time and do the wire every other month.

You can also try finding out about the cost of you just drawing a banker's draft on your bank directly in the foreign currency.
Oh? How do the non-commercial creative commons licenses work?
As long as China continues producing more rich people, it isn't going down in value any time soon. It has no mortgage, and is completely detached from the American market.
Save any data you need and consider the machine totally compromised.

By that, I mean you need to consider any IPMI processor compromised as well, since these can be attacked (or their secrets stolen). Basically rebuild the machine from as low a level as you can. Depending on the brand of server hardware, you may need physical access.
Had they not been rich they wouldn't have gone to university. Had they not gone to university, I doubt they'd have been able to go anywhere.
From your perspective, is there a difference between "user gives you a temporary email address" and "user gives you their real email address and ignores the email you send"?
It's been about a month since the world even knew React Native existed. You consider that a long time?
Well technicially one woman dies in the storyline, offscreen.
These are channels and groups with thousands of members.

https://t.me/durovschat Has 9500 members

https://t.me/swhkdemocracy Has 6000 members

https://t.me/linux_group Has 6000 members

https://t.me/PublicTestGroup Has 18000 members

There is no limit to joining these chats. These design decisions Telegram has picked has allowed the app to be quasi social media, rather than just IM. You can't index these and maintain chat history locally. You'd need way more bandwidth and energy and computational power than the average cellphone has.
This would be good. But to provide pressure for that to happen, I think we need visibility of currently known exploitable bugs.
Somehow your comment reminded me how Google talks go at GDC and similar game development conferences.

While everyone else is talking about game engines, design and programming techniques, Google's talks are mostly around their cloud offerings, and customer telemetry.
> Once you have some oracle...

> ...single entity that you must trust...

It's not a single oracle. There are currently 6 that independently run and gather the same stats. The wallet compares each of those independent oracle's data to each other and makes sure it matches. There will almost certainly be more oracles in the futures

> Anything that can only be done with some degree of centralization should just use a PostgreSQL database instead, no point in using a blockchain.

You get more resiliency in running it through a blockchain. You would go from oracles having to coordinate in a tricky way to manipulate stuff to now being able to having a database where they could somewhat easily directly change balances, stop things from running, ect.

A blockchain has some degree of centralization. For instance, how the very first peers found in blockchains is fairly centralized and relies on a lot of hardcoded nodes or servers. Now you can also seek out some connection too manually if you really want to, but most* have decided not to do that and accepted the trade off. Everything has a degree of centralization. It's not an all or nothing proposition. It is where you want to move on the balance of completely centralization to decentralized

* Partly because many aren't aware of this, but it still applies to those that are aware too
"Semantic" in the sense he's complaining about means, roughly, "what the thing is" rather than "how the thing looks". So instead of 'class="one-third column left"' you would write 'class="left-navigation"' or, if you want to be more pure 'class="category-navigation"', which acknowledges that being on the left or right is itself a presentation choice that should be controlled in CSS. Behind the scenes, of course, you can use SASS or similar to apply the styles of left, one-third width, etc, to your semantically-named class, without changing the name "category-navigation" or your markup at all.

Markup written this way is, imo, indeed more readable, maintainable, and less likely to change. Whether you agree with that or not, that's the meaning of "semantic" in CSS arguments.

The argument here is similar to the argument for writing declarative code, or, in OO, for ensuring that your objects, and their names, match natural domain concepts. The rates of change of such concepts are generally much slower than the rates of change of their concrete manifestations in views.
Ok, me and Greenpeace cofounder Patrick Moore
It's like a nickname, you refer to a long title with the most descriptive word in it. However, when a book is obscure, this practice does it a disservice.
Employees should start refusing to work anywhere that does it the "standard" evil way.
> Otherwise, what is claimed sounds very impressive, so
> much that I really wonder "what's the catch? There must
> be some."

In the "Limitations" section it says that the IP-stack is non-functional, and that it is much slower than the Linux kernel.
> Exercise and sale can occur in one fell swoop.

You lose the reduced taxes of long term capital gains if you wait, for whatever reason, to exercise and sell the same day. You have to hold the shares for 1 year + 1 day from the day you exercise for the subsequent sale to be taxed as long term capital gains. For even the top tax bracket, the difference is 20% in taxes.
https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-08/1983_08_BYT...

An ad for the Apple III. Perhaps a warning of the overheating MacBook Pro logic board woes to come!
>Given that the City will lose its preeminent spot in the world of finance

It wont really lose anything. UK can now start new "tax haven" initiatives (discouraged under EU) and companies will flock there better than before...

London didn't get its "preeminent spot in the world of finance" by entering the EU/EEC etc or because of it. It earned that spot by itself 100+ years before...

Not to mention EU is barely doing well itself...
With all the exciting changes coming to Rust soon, I think this release would be appropriately called "the calm before the storm".
> In comparison, we already know that Google can’t take out Facebook.

That's funny because in the late 2000s, people said that FB was doomed as soon as Google would decide to compete.
Are there consumer tier air monitors for home use worth using?

Also great startup idea. This will have long term demand. IDK if targeting (public) schools and their gov acquisition processes is wise but definitely a need there and probably plenty of new budgets for this stuff.

Btw your mobile marketing site could use some work. The spacing is off in a WebKit browser.
1) No.

Stock prices only directly impact companies when they actually sell stock. So, propping up the market has zero long term impact as the value of future cash flows is unchanged. It’s simple a handoff of money from the government to people selling stocks over a short period.

It’s popular because it keeps highly leveraged investments viable.
If I offered internships I think I'd be lucky to get a few applicants, but I thought internships at top tech companies like Mozilla were very competitive.
I think the point was that saas data is easily sharded as it's all just a bucket of data per user/customer so you have a lot of freedom in distributing customers across different database instances. The most specialized version of that architecture would be an entire DB per customer, but that's likely a lot of potentially unnecessary file overhead (and a giant pain for upgrades and migrations). IMHO you'd probably be fine to just start scaling horizontally distributing users across more DB instances (but really... don't miss the main point that you might not even need more than one DB instance in the first place).

Reports are nice because they can generally be done in an async job that's effectively a big map-reduce run across your DBs. If you need faster real-time reports you're going to want some kind of pipeline for events and stream processing that's outside the scope of this anyways.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/08/tesla-to-raise-up-to-5-billi...

https://www.ft.com/content/a59c2a9d-5e0b-4cbc-b69e-a138de76a...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-21/u-s-stock...

Stock and bond issuances are at all time highs.

Housing is an investment in the CPI because most people don’t buy houses as consumption. The CPI aims to create a basket of consumption for normal people. Rich people do consume houses, and their consumption leads to money circulating.

Should rich people be rich enough to buy houses willy-nilly? That’s a different question. Maybe they shouldn’t, to the current degree.
But what's the endgame of this approach regarding scaling? If I ever need horizontal scaling, am I screwed? Genuinely curious :)
Get (or make) a headset and download a game engine and make something:

http://www.unity3d.com

https://developers.google.com/cardboard/unity/

http://www.unrealengine.com

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Platforms/VR/index....
You might want to keep an eye on the Samsung Galaxy S that's just been released in the UK. There's a rumour (and a fan-made mockup) of a "Pro" version with a hardware keyboard.
The Sony Vaio series laptops are generally pretty slick.
I love Judy, I have used it for years, its really the only dynamic array a C programmer needs .. ;) Well, okay Judy + list.h (from the linux kernel) == all you need!
Cheaper to use drones / cruise missiles / HE carried by a flock of small robot helicoptors; many simpler schemes that are less traceable, unless developing a reputation is your intent. There are uncountable ways to kill people without needing to invoke Hollywood class exotica.

[NB: I thought about not posting this, because people who are paid to not have a sense of humor about these things almost certainly read HN, but fuck that, screw "chilling of speech"]
I am very excited to have the amazing YC partners to help us bring the best care possible to pets.
I think that is overestimating their efforts. To build such profile and to monitor each and every activity would be very costly.

I think what happens is that when they detect too many requests from an ip address in a short interval amount of time they throw a captcha.
I'd argue that Firefox OS is an even better proposition if you care about freedom. Android is slowly becoming the shadow of its former self with more and more core functionality (from the point of view of a developer) slowly moving to Google Play Services (which is proprietary).
I'm considering the same thing but I don't know if ISTQB has any value in the real world ?
I do have practical experience with Python programming and nosetest framework. I'd suggest trying that too.