jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A third stack is one more thing to keep track of.

The simpler solution to this in many languages is type tagging. E.g. Ruby (MRI at least) uses a few bits to indicate type to avoid creating full-blown objects for small-ish integers, symbols, etc., and you'll find the same approach in many strongly typed dynamic languages.
Sun’s UltraSPARC II CPU modules were claimed to be particularly susceptible to cosmic rays circa 2000.
Background, implementation, further links on life design and time management: http://www.visualmagnetic.com/portfolio/do-you-really-have-t...
If you want to help, post this patent application to askpatents.com and get some feedback on prior art published there that a patent examiner can find.

This wouldn't be the first time Uber has tried to patent something obvious (http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/5900/mobile-taxi-...) and I'm sure that they will keep whacking away at bad patents until one slips through. There's very little cost to them to file, and if they are lucky enough to get a bad patent accepted, I'm sure they'll be delighted to use it to block competition.
I am saying delta weight does not necessarily relate to delta fat. Delta fat contributes to delta weight but to say that other factors mask weight gain or loss makes me wonder if there is a fundamental confusion here...
I couldn't tell either fwiw but that's an interesting point; sounds more like a suicide method than an act of state punishment though
It's a good path for an unusual enough person. I live in Vermont and can get by on a quarter of that $100k a year (seems insanely high to me), and used to sell DSP plugins for $50 each.

I put out a lot of plugins and make the case that if you'd have bought one of them per year at the previous price, to join my Patreon at $50 a year.

I also suggest that if you're using lots of the plugins, to multiply that, but I don't do other things to encourage whales, leave them as un-served as possible: they get nothing free customers don't get, and my energy goes towards supporting those who are too poor to do any of this.

I've got over 600 patrons and the model works. One thing I would note is: since you're no kind of celebrity doing this, you're operating with a strange sort of fanbase. I am just an isolated hacker who's been pursuing audio quality for a quarter century or more, and who's been desperately poor and so I make a point to support the struggling artist. However, this makes the social dynamic between me and these 'true fans' weird.

The 'whales' are predictable and I discourage them by not giving them special things: they want custom plugins and for me to build stuff exactly to their tastes, assuming their tastes are the only thing that matters. The semi-fans are also easy: they don't give anything and don't ask for much, they're just watching. But some of the true fans are throwing money because they've identified things about me that they have trouble contextualizing: they'll say 'genius', they'll call me 'sir' as if I was some knight, and surprisingly often they'll literally call me Jesus Christ as apparently that's their only model for somebody trying to give substantial amounts of stuff without demanding payment.

Gotta be patient with this. "1000 true fans" is real. But ask yourself, how does a true fan, a 'most intense and passionate' fan, act? Are you emotionally ready for making these parasocial connections with a hell of a lot of people (more than can fit in your house) who are not casual, not measured, not calm about their fandom?

If you extrapolate what in yourself or your project would elicit this kind of fandom, you're looking at a sort of private army dedicated to your values. It's worth thinking about what values you embody that you'd like to see multplied 1000 times and set out there in the world. Like I said, I have to be patient with mine: they're not difficult, but it freaks me out sometimes when they get super hyperbolic. If I was all about punishing evildoers, my 600 fans (being hyperbolic) would be a pretty fearsome army.
> Apple should be applauded for this.

Sadly there is some truth to that. In a better world it would be regarded as the absolute, bare minimum.
I'm just wondering, how do you spot these agents? For me, even though I know there's astroturfing going on, I can never spot them.
This is the naivete of a modern human.

> uninhabited

Yes, by humans...
and. There probably were natives there. Until we killed them.

AND. Otherwise...
It's inhabited by billions of organisms.
The amount of support and updates Blender gets makes me extremely happy/confident in the amount of time I've spent with it over the years. New functionality tends to work really well with already implemented stuff and allows for a lot of cool experimentation.

In that regard I'm really looking forward to messing with the geometry node stuff. Based on videos done with beta version it seems like there is a gigantic amount of potential there.
You know it really isn’t that obvious to me at all and I think Facebook is a genuine cancer on society.

But everyone seems to conveniently forget about the absolute moral nightmare that is Apple’s supply chain.

Remember when they had to put up nets to stop people from killing themselves? [1]

What about when they were accused of using literal slave labour? [2]

Or the time they actively lobbied Congress when a vote came up to restrict American companies using slave labour [3]

I don’t say this as a shit post, I mean it, it’s really not at all clear to me that Apple are somehow morally less reprehensible.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-human-cost-of-an-...

[2] https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale

[3] https://www.axios.com/apple-lobbied-congress-uyghur-slave-la...

For the record... this posted from an iPhone. I got rid of the MacBook already but it’s a process.
Is this still really relevant? I can understood that it can be a problem 20 years ago, but with current processor with huge L1 cache and memory bandwidth, I am starting to think that 4 bytes (or variable 4/8 bytes) is not a bad tradeoff for density Vs superscalar.
I believe that Julia still uses a lot of C/FORTRAN packages that numpy relies on, like BLAS, so they're not really re-written in Julia (at least yet?).
If you're interested in this problem space you should definitely check out the chip whisperer. They make some great hardware for doing this kind of test.

https://newae.com/tools/chipwhisperer/
This should be a Kickstarter project.
Don't mistake a singular possibility for the general. I gave one possibility; one that's real for me; whether it's the "primary" reason or not remains open to speculation. Many possibilities are possible simultaneously; this all depends on location and individual circumstance, along with the passage of time.

Be part of the problem, or propose part of the solution: that's on you, me, and everyone else who considers the matter. But consider whether you consider, whether you contribute; or whether you merely detract.
" The reality is just that they're taking less money. Bit of a difference."

Can you afford to take a year off from work? It's just taking less money. The fact is that tax cuts aren't free. If they aren't matched by spending cuts, you're just deferring the tax increase until later and incurring deficits in the meantime.

So you have to decide what you're going to cut. Which means weighing, say, decent healthcare for veterans, versus the benefit of the tax cut to people who are probably quite well-off already.

The Republicans in the Bush years were not willing to do that. So they cut taxes. And raised spending. And we could afford neither.
Title should be: Progress in Some Algorithms Beats Moore's law

which is not surprising
Whenever I see an artist furiously drawing lines on a piece of paper, 9 times out of 10 they are writing.
Without endorsement, as a result of reading the recent Virginia decision on the constitutionality of the health care purchase mandate (which I mention without endorsement of either side), it has been ruled by the Supreme Court in Wickard v. Filburn (1942) [1] that the US government can regulate the act of a farmer growing wheat to feed his own chickens on the grounds that had the farmer not grown that wheat, he would have then participated in the national wheat market that Congress could regulate, that his failure to purchase wheat on this market therefore affected the market by his absence, and thereby Congress can regulate his action in accordance with the Commerce Clause.

Again, I mention this without endorsement of either side; I mention this just because I only recently learned about this myself.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
i.e. OOP as originally envisaged, in the olden days of Smalltalk.
Ah, good, I didn't know that the chip could process information. I thought it was just storage. I'm glad to find out it's more secure than I thought, thanks.
These people's "perfect" memories are purely autobiographical. They cannot memorize large lists of numbers quickly, or recite the entirety of The Bible from memory, or excel at any other task that requires rapid, verifiable memorization. Nothing about this is inconsistent with these people simply spending, for whatever reason, a considerable amount of effort to memorize and catalog the minutiae of their lives, but otherwise having normal mental faculties.
Don't forget Kotlin's coroutines.
Viruses are typically rapidly mutating so you should consider them to be a fuzzy statistical ensemble around the "official" sequence, even in one patient. Therefore these viruses can facilely jump over hills in the gradient descent of optimization; but keep in mind optimization is not just a one-factor thing. If you are interested in this the keyword is "viral metagenome"

An E to K mutation converts a surface negative charge to a surface positive charge. So if your antibodies were expecting a negative charge and therefore putting positive charges near that place when they attach to the virus, the polarity on the mutant has now shifted and the antibodies will be repelled from the mutant virus.
Maybe you just haven't been in the right threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24520231
Failed indeed.

A coup takes control of government by force. You become the state.

With respect to those who were injured and died, this merely gave the state a bloody nose.
I thought I heard Apple already bought out a lot of their capacity?
> Mail dumping, interception and modification of ballots, just plain errors in ballots or failure to mail them

Did any of this actually happen?

> ...they do not materially change election results...

So... what’s the problem again?
I wonder if similar rules apply with microfluidics. The idea of solid-states have fascinated me.
This reminds me of a question I think about from time to time, starting with some of the epic threads I used to witness on the USENET political groups:

Are people online actually open to talking?

I get they write messages, and a lot of messages. But it strikes me no one ever actually changes their mind. They just yell at each other till they move on to another hill to yell from.

It's all so tiring, it's like when I used to watch some friends do prep for school debates. They're just practicing arguing, the topic itself is secondary to the argument.

I'm probably too cynical, but I also know every time I try to have a real discussion online, it ends badly.
This appears to be related to things(however questionable) they did off twitter, whereas POTUS used twitter to incite & glorify violence.
I guess it depends on the kind of place in which you work, but I leave mine (screen locked) at my table all the time.

Alternatively: get a lighter laptop and set it so you can close it without putting it to sleep; then you can take it with you easily. You don't need to pack everything up; the resale value of an unattended power adapter is quite low.
Is it substantially different from uWink (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UWink), or just better executed (http://lemonodor.com/archives/2008/05/uwink_a_cold_greasy_pl...)?
book shill.

edit: perhaps this is a bit harsh, let me rephrase. This article is a series of paragraphs with one obvious statement, if you want to make something you have to find the time to make it, followed by an advertisement for his book.
Startups that demand relocation to NYC or SF are a total show stopper here. Many of us are held hostage by geography-- maybe you own a home, maybe you have kids in a school they're flourishing in, maybe your parents need help. If you're a family man you won't like spending your wife and children's time in Bay Area or Metro NYC traffic. But here's the thing: the technology most startups use means they can transcend geography to an extent.

I do not underestimate the value of having a team in the same location. It does affect morale and company culture. But with the right people and the right technology those issues are quickly going to wind up in the rearview mirror. When I look at a company, I want to see if they are set up to do remote work, or are they landlocked?
The Holy Roman Empire is a different institution than the Roman Empire; it had an official with the title "emporer" but it also featured rather extreme decentralization of power. And it existed at the same time as the early US. In some respects, it was the direct model for the decentralization in the US system.

Also, "no central bank" wasn't domething that made the US decentralized compared to other contemporary systems. First, because central banks were extremely rare at the time, and second because the central banks of the time, and most modern ones, are a means of transferring power out of the government to private capitalists, so they further decentralize government power.

Neither was retaining the British jury system.
There were some definite red flags in the article:

"Even a win rate of 35% means you lost 65% of your deals. Remaining upbeat in the face of micro-failures is key"

This is a total misconception of sales at its core. What if a sales person closed his 10 largest deals worth multi-millions and the rest got away? Is losing those other smaller deals making up your mythical 65% considered a failure? Hardly. Sales isn't about percentages, it's about generating revenue - period. Thinking like this is dangerous.

"i.e. sales staffs that are looking to jump onto their next rocket ship."

Not sure this is great advice. Why would I want a guy who keeps jumping ship to the next big thing? If anything, you want someone who's been at a larger startup who wants more stability as opposed to the "get in and get out" type of sales person who's more likely to leave you high and dry if things aren't working out the first two months - making you having to start the process all over again.

"Find people who have artifacts of the type of achievement you're looking for: quota attainment, activity metrics, etc. Note that salespeople are used to, well, selling — so don't get spun"

These salespeople tend to come at a cost.

If you have people getting into president's club and consistently performing, they're going to cost you. There's only two types of sales people - the mediocre kind and the high performing kind. As you stated, you don't want mediocre salespeople, you want the chart toppers. These people know they are good at what they do and will demand a higher salary, more benefits and bigger percentage of the company. They also know how to negotiate. Remember, they're sales people so expect a fight on how much they're going to demand if you really want their skills.

"Another good screening tool is a mini homework assignment involving account research and voicemail pitching. At the end of the written screen, I ask candidates to leave me a 30-second voicemail pitching TalentBin as if I were the head of recruiting at Airbnb"

When I was in sales, I was taught specifically to not leave voice mails, for several reasons. If you're asking me to pitch you over voice mail, that's a red flag in my mind. If you want me to do my homework and then come back for an impromptu sales pitch, or do a simulated cold call over the phone that's fine - but leave a voice mail? Not an ideal way to judge someone's sales ability at all.
I never care. I don't comparison shop. I always tick the "Prime only" button, even if it costs me extra. It's one of the nice luxuries of earning enough money that prices for consumables generally does not matter.

I don't know what the things I used in the dinner I just prepared costs. I only know roughly how much my weekly grocery bill comes to (it's all delivered - the order is auto-populated by Ocado's algorithms, so if I don't do anything I get a reasonable default set of products based on what I usually buy). And I like it that way.
There are Windows 8.1 tablets that are not far from that:

http://www.tinydeal.com/windows-tablets-c-997_1002.html?zeni...

These have the Quad Core Intel Atom Bay-Trail processor which is good enough for non compute demanding things and even some older games are running fine on them, also a quick search shows that Minecraft too runs playable on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7dBOaHmW94
Not all things created have to be useful. Some things can be fun. While we humans may not be the most efficient beings imaginable, we do excel in creativity ;)
It is far from a well-known fact.
IT is clearly disproved by looking at weight across countries and throughout time. The average American male weight has gone from 165 in 1960 to 200lbs in 2020. Obesity has gone from 15% to 45% in the same period.

Genetics have not rapidly changed in this time period.

https://images.app.goo.gl/YKogsucsMD1DUMKf6
I am confused. There are a host of different methods in creating a forest depending on the end goal. If the goal is to generate more board-feet of lumber you do A. If the goal is to sequester carbon you do B. If you want to promote animal life you do C. If you want to promote particular plants/trees you do D. Of course you can balance these interests, but you cannot maximize all at once. What exactly is the end goal of the Miyawaki Method? What does the finished forest look like?
For context: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Differences-between...
I would have expected that as well but found in general the process to be pretty seamless.

I should probably mention I just stumbled on to this approach rather than having forged it through clever thinking -- it was originally due to a faulty motherboard burning out internal HDDs consitently. So I HAD to opt for an external drive and once I did the going back made little sense as it just imposed restrictions I didn't want anymore.
You need to know more than high school math to write software in an engineering firm though. It's not about the mechanical act of making a computer do something, it's about knowing what to make the computer do and how to do it most efficiently.
I use pop3 to download all my email from Gmail (and Google Apps) to my local disk. Then I tar it, gpg it, and send off to S3.
Not only that, but you have to also account for the time that the locksmith spent learning the craft. And the opportunity cost of that learning/practicing time.
60 countries, ~237,000,000 people and the United Nations ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_languages_of_the_Unit... ) ... that sure is a lot of people to call "suspicious"...
http://wordpress.com/

Really, what's the matter with blogs and feed readers for keeping in touch?

You know what would be great? A blogging platform that's light (picture / link attachment painless) and that also has a feed reader built in.

Oh wait ... http://www.tumblr.com/
You comment assume that the hardliners are wrong, and that the negotiators should talk behind their backs. Without knowing what they talk about, how can you know that?
Hey, you said FRP and macros on Reddit! ;) IDE and plugin system would be new ground for me, but I know you've done quite a bit with them.
I suppose there's nothing too special abot the code. I have never seen a very good explanation of closures in javascript, so I thought I'd share it for anyone else who might benefit from it. You are more than welcome to not be impressed. In which case you are not likely the intended audience.
FYI: Its possible to get a FB account without a "real" email address. ie Use a one-time address like 10 minute mail. I've had an account for about 2 years with this method, never been a problem
If you wanted to build a new foundation, you'd do it in client-side JavaScript. You communicate with the server through a REST API.
Oz is an interesting language. I only learned it because I was reading Peter Van Roys excellent Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming, but I'm glad I did.

Having said that, I've never actually used it for anything substantial.
Calling it "Racket" is just appealing to the cognizanti. Put "PLT Scheme" in the title and more might be interested.
If you have large profits you should share more with your employees [1]" could also be a reality encoded into law woth harsh penalties for doing otherwise

Hollywood is already one step ahead of you [1]. No reason game studios wouldn’t follow suit, given a law like that to incentivize them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
Agreed. We're excited to improve this part of the product
> I know apple probably has deals with malicious governments regarding data access

Would love to see some evidence of that. That's quite an accusation and it should be taken seriously.
It took me a while to slog through that whole long list of references at the end of the end of the article, but correlational study designs don't impress more by being numerous, especially when most of them are published in middling-to-lousy journals. That's what isn't fun about reading about medical issues here on Hacker News: too many of the articles kindly submitted here are of much too low quality to be worthy of our attention. There are some intriguing ideas in this opinion piece, but basically hardly anything there is backed up by experimental studies, not in a human study and not even in an animal study. The title of the article reflects an attempt to come up with a One True Cause of depression that surely is not the one true cause (most doctors who are experts in depression, or in inflammation, do NOT characterize depression as an "inflammatory disease") and then the article goes off the rails from there.

Check back when there is better established evidence about treatment. A better read about depression by a more informed physician would be a book review submitted recently to HN[1] that was hardly noticed when it was submitted.

[1] http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/depression-re-examined-a...
Perceptions. Just like US did not fail in Vietnam but failed in the public opinion, ORM are doing a good (well, at least passable) job of doing what they are intended to do, but are generally hated.
The ISS is definitely expensive and doesn't produce much tangible return. But they are up there doing research 24/7, and have been for more than ten years.

I still like it a lot better than the alternative, which is to have nothing. Wikipedia says we have spent $150 billion on the ISS. That's very expensive but it's cheaper than a war and only slightly more expensive than the TSA. At least the ISS has a net positive impact.
I'm guessing it is "rust" as in "rusty," like "my skills are rusty, so I will use coderust to improve them." I did click the link expecting to see something about rust, though, so I guess it's unfortunately a little confusing.
Yeah, I imagine most good doctors know full well it's emotional/stress, but avoid telling the patients because it's not what patients like to hear, or they don't think it'll be helpful.

Pharmaceutical treatments for stress have some harmful side effects, whereas just sending them away with "don't worry about it" and a lollipop might go a good way to alleviating some of it.