jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I agree with this, but only to a certain degree.

Very often laws exist in part to create legal fictions, and these laws are effectively broken all the time, but one can pretend that they are followed. These legal fictions can be extremely valuable.

For example in Indonesia abortion is illegal. The primary effect of this is that abortion clinics pay off police a small amount generally, and get prosecuted if something bad happens. Paradoxically, this is important to ensuring the quality of care. Everyone gets to pretend that abortions are banned, but in actuality, they are accessible and regulated by a position of being relatively legally vulnerable.

The problem is that when the fictions are unsustainable, then there is no semblance of respect that can be left. Once this is gone, though it isn't clear it can be salvaged. This is why this is so big. The government has shown that they have massively betrayed our trust and this means that certain tools of law enforcement just won't work in the future.
Gravity is a "well" in space-time itself, it's not a wave you can benchmark?

That is why it can be "faster than light" when it's not faster at all, it's just changing the path of light.
SPOT is based on the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), a method developed by Paul Ekman to read faces (familiar to fans of the show Lie to Me): http://www.denverpost.com/editorials/ci_24533526/face-it-tsa...

While the data behind using FACS to spot emotions (EMFACS) is solid (https://books.google.com/books?id=W_npWdrHGFcC&pg=PA47&lpg=P...), the record on using it to spot lies, terrorists, or otherwise discovering the intentions behind those emotions is not good (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/gao-...).

One huge issue is that a scared terrorist looks the same as a scared person singled out for screening, and there are many times more of the latter. This is a specific issue Ekman brings up in his work when using FACS for lie detection. FACS is much better in finding out how someone is feeling rather than what they're thinking. But you need to know intentions to figure out if someone is a terrorist.
Exactly, the 0 is a placeholder for the address of the format string (first argument for printf).
Not sure about Switch, but recent AMD based consoles should have good video decoding capabilities. You can do fine without Bink there.

So instead of trolling again, analyze where it's heading. I don't see any reason why Bink can't be replaced by free codecs.
For a high-level overview, I found this talk [0] at !!Con 2019 both entertaining and really informative.

[0] Tail Call Optimization: The Musical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PX0BV9hGZY
I seriously doubt the vast majority of his followers are white supremacists, Trump himself isn't one. I don't understand how anyone could believe so.

Some indeed need disclaimers: Not an endorsement of Trump.
Maybe. Real time and production often has special needs general purpose tools don't cover. A lot of delivery codecs focus on things like lossy compression and buffering. I know from video production and computer graphics, delivery codecs are miserable to work with for reasons such as: not allowing arbitrary channels (if you only need 1 channel or maybe you need 5 for an alpha and bump map), playing in reverse, cutting in on arbitrary frames, different compression on each channel (lossy rgb, but lossless alpha), etc. My understanding is that Bink is often used for realtime playback of multiple elements integrated with the 3d environment (triggered explosions, HUD elements, streaming textures) so it needs to be performant, handle many simultaneously, and integrated with the engine since you'd be applying transforms and LUTs.

It'll be nice if there are great, free, off the shelf codecs and tools, but at least right now almost every current AAA game seems to use Bink.
I’m also very happy. I was reflecting about the speedy nature of tech changes. Now no one “remembers” land lines AF of these were from there 50s or before (I guess they are?).
What’s next? Currencies? Over the air tv? Gasoline? What things that we take for granted will disappear, obsolete 20 years from now?
I'm not talking about fooling. Mass produced, these things would be 10k max. We're talking 10+, 15+ years out.

What sort of fear do robot soldiers have? None. How does it make people "upset", if a robot soldier is blown up.

Now think on the converse.

Right now, suicide bombers take out soldiers, but almost always take out innocents around those soldiers. Often, children are killed.

Now, imagine the locals knowing that absolutely no enemy will be killed, just a machine, but dozens or more of their friends, family may be killed.

How long will suicide bombing last, when the only human casualties are the local population?
Before USB 4, USB-C spec itself say "see also USB 3.1" for USB hubs and disallow passing through Alternate Modes (e.g. Thunderbolt/DisplayPort) or Accessory Modes (e.g. audio dongle) which vastly limited the usability of USB-C port. USB 4 introduces a new discovery protocol with added support for passing through Alternate Mode in USB-C spec (as long as downstream is also USB 4).
"offline trajectory optimization" this doesn't sound good... I read this as : "we've made those robots do things they won't be able to do autonomously thanks to massive amounts of offline optimization".

Sure it's impressive, but I wonder how it helps the casual viewer to get an idea of what these robots can actually do. One could say that's the whole point of PR but...

It sure helped BD engineer to push their robots forward (as said in the article).
13 Tesla? That sounds a lot. would make it just about one of the most powerful magnets in the world. I would have thought 6T would vaporise a TV set, not just distort the image.

E.g the ATLAS magnet is 4T and requires 21,000 amps to power it.... http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/spotlight/SpotlightATLAS...
Yep, I've done exactly that for the Java 6 docs in Chrome and FF. The general point of how do you keep the latest version of a set of documents the most relevant still applies however. I hope Google can fix this :)
This is just SVG though right?
It's note to note that these seem to be implemented "ergonomically" rather than just by character.

On US keyboards, the opening bracket [ is easily available, while on e.g. Swedish keymaps you also need to press the Alt Gr key to get [ (it's at Alt Gr + 8).

Still, in Visual Studio the same physical key that is [ on US keyboards works as listed in this article, i.e. Control + å matches brackets. Nice!
Probably that the cost per player is higher on EC2, so they want to be able to migrate games that have stopped growing unpredictably to their own infrastructure.
Vectors are great kb savers if they are fairly simple. In this case they are ultra simple.

But if you want to do much more complex vector graphics you should probably consider using .png or .gif instead
I think Helveticons is a popular set. Otherwise, I'm not quite sure.
The assumption was that the solutions were chained and that they would never see the things that failed before that. But I guess I only stipulated that the failures were independent, when the math I wrote meant that the successes should be independent, as well.
Take this from someone who knows. Get rid of him. ASAP. People like him singlehandedly kill businesses.
I agree - they could have definitely handled customer communication much better.

Until we get more information on the exact details of the EBS failure (it may be available, let me go look, nothing yet.), I would guess that some of the following is true:

We know that this was a "network error" that caused "EBS to begin to replicate"

What We don't know is if this was the result of:

Bug in unknown device layer that caused network problems
Bug in Network gear that caused EBS device problems
Network routing problem due to fat-fingered config change
Unforeseen design flaw brought to light via new spiffy routing change.

What does appear obvious, is that it is either still unknown/understood on the part of amazon -- or it is so severe that we are not being given any information because:

Either they have all hands on deck and cant give good updates
They really don't know how to handle communications
They have some serious damage control to figure out (this could be an attack of an exploit on their system and they cant let word get out yet)

There are a lot of reasons for the poor communication from them - but my bet is just that they had some device/firmware build/configuration explode and they don't know how to quite fix it just yet - or their architecture was so dependent on that particular thing that failed that they have to figure out a really big/hard problem really fast.
Article 2 section 2. He's the commander in chief of the military and as such the military has to do what he says. It also offers specific provisions for pardons and reprieves.
Just for reference, here is John C. Dvorak's 2010 article of pretty much the same title: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2372729,00.asp
Yeah, I just had a little difficulty with that. It doesn't fit on my crappy projector.
It can be hard to realize that's the case though. (_IGHT is pretty obvious of course.) And if you can only hit 2 or 3 letters it can be somewhat of a gamble vs. just going for a valid answer. (Of course if there are a ton of options you may be in a tough position anyway.)
Trackpad + 4 finger swipe works wonders for this problem.

I’ll agree it’s not as immediate as a good alt+tab, but it allows you to directly choose a different window from the same application.
I haven't seen an example where that's the case.

It commonly factors in loop analysis around unrolling and vectorization, e.g. the loop will run exactly 16*n times OR an integer will overflow and it'll run some other number of times.

Use of signed precludes the overflow and the exact bound enables efficient vectorization.
They can pay for his boots to be licked, no need to provide the service for free.
> Bitcoin doesn't have a dividend, if you're part of the 0.1 percent you can buy a ton of it, but in order to realize any gains you have to sell it and if you can't replenish it you'll have to go back to work to earn more.

You're describing all forms of currency. You can still buy stocks with Bitcoin and receive dividends in Bitcoin. Bitcoin is worse in this regard because you don't even need to invest it for it to grow in value. You can literally get rich from hoarding it.
I am not a fan of making people guess what the point is, but I thought that dantheman's point was actually pretty clear. It becomes reasonable to suppose that government intervention and regulation play at least a role in the unaffordability crises in education, housing, and healthcare.
The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial (https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-l...) was a favourite from Ribbonfarm.
Codification of everything does not lead to more consistent application, since it's impossible to code for every possible scenario, and every decision depends on the interpretation of the particular jurist reading the code. Which means in a "pure" codified legal framework, stare decisis is not a thing.

The US has certainly leaned more towards codification since it's inception, but it is still primarily and very much a common law jurisdiction at heart.
The CPUs used hardly any power so there wasn't much point throttling them. The rest of the computer and the CRT used loads though.
yes, the PE ratio for the SP500 now is low 20s versus 35 at the peak.
It's like the person in the sportscar weaving through traffic on the highway. He can only do it because everyone else drives carefully and predictably. He gets to his destination faster, and thinks he is a much better driver than everyone else, but if everyone drove like him the traffic "system" would fall apart. The master mindset is sacrificing the well working system for personal gain. If you want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far go together. What's not good for the hive is not good for the bee.
absolutely—but I'm also not a fan of exceptions either & don't use them when I write C++. if you write your C++ in a mostly C-style, only taking C++ features here and there as you need them, the complexity of your code is often greatly reduced. again, this may only apply to game development—I haven't used C++ for anything else sizeable, aside from school assignments years ago.
It looks like adding "user-select: none" for the image tag did the trick. Please try it out now.

(I do hope that the touch-interface was not affected by this, I only use mouse / keyboard myself).
Yes it is!

Netlify is easier than HTML files on a server. Basically no effort to host a static site, even one that is generated.

An SSG such as Jekyll, Hugo, Gridsome is potentially easier than HTML files because it uses abstractions to avoid repetitive, error prone HTML such as your lists of posts, previous next, sitemap, etc etc etc. And writing articles in Markdown is so much nicer than HTML.

Git is easier than not using Git, whether or not you use an SSG.

Shell scripts were offered as a poor mans SSG, so lets ignore them.

SSG can be annoying when the templating sucks. I found Hugo annoying in this regard, Jekyll is fine, Gridsome is great, at least on par with PHP when you step outside the box. I think an SSG oriented framework is going to reduce how much templating/scripting you have to write massively.

Hosting on your own server, setting up IPs, SSL, Nginx, some kind of deploy script (sftp or whatever) are not particularly hard but with Netlify it's all handled so easily.

Theres no contest here
Agree to disagree.

These are two obscenely rich companies. I don't believe that it is possible to dominate market(s) and maintain "great culture".

In my view there is an inverse relationship between ethics and profits. I don't see any reason to assume that these companies have "great culture" simply because they are very rich. Quite the contrary.
Very nice! This will make lawmaking in France somewhat more understandable, and not something we hear reported now and then when it's deemed newsworthy.

One thing that is not mentioned though : will it autoupdate? And if yes, at which rate?
It may also refactor distribution. People may not go to the grocery store, the store will come to them, or not. Just like in the old days, you'd get a morning delivery, and weekly/monthly too for different kind of products. Stores, if they stay 'material based' will look like IKEA, where you walk inside scenes and pick what you want, while something is loading an SDCar (npi) from a factory not too far away.

Damn I feel like a guy in the 60s drawing this http://imgur.com/vmOYZAl
> Comments on a blog do not a community make.

Agreed. Perhaps a better generalizing statement to make would be: community cannot exist where there is no channel for user feedback. You have a forum, I have comments. Both are mediums for reader expression.
Blame BP, blame regulation, blah blah blah. When it comes down to it, the real problem is the american people who sit on their asses feeling they've done good by voting for the next (obvious to those who pay attention) promise-anything-for-power president.

As far as I'm concerned, this has nothing to do with a "private" over-sized company and everything to do with how relaxed americans have become when complaining about their goverment or goverment-assisted companies. Where's your nationalism now?
I see this got into the negative, so let me upvote and point out that this is totally expected.

This is exactly how it was with the Danger handsets 5-7 years ago, simply because they were great for power-texters, had a camera and were way, way cheaper than BlackBerries. And yes, as a result they were great for conducting street business -- don't be all shocked if that's true of Loopt as well.
Would it really be machined? or just cast?
Core i3 has an integrated GPU that benchmarks just a bit faster than the GeForce 9400M in the previous Mini, but much slower than the GeForce 320M in the new Mini/MacBook/MacBook Pro 13-inch.

The MacBook Pro 15" and 17" include Core i5/i7 but have GeForce GT 330M in addition to the intel HD graphics to provide a graphics boost. It would increase the mini cost to have a second GPU.

==== GeForce 330M (MacBook Pro 15/17)

3DMark 05 = 12503

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-330M.22437.0....

http://support.apple.com/kb/SP585

==== GeForce 320M (MacBook/Mac Mini Mid 2010)

3DMark 05 = 7262

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-320M.28701.0.htm...

==== Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD Graphics (Core i3)

3DMark 05 = 3096

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerato...

==== GeForce 9400M (Mac Mini Late 2009)

3DMark 05 = 3002

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-9400M-G.11949.0....

http://support.apple.com/kb/SP577
Even if there is a bubble, what does it mean for the app economy? People making money on facebook, twitter, and the App Store might see sales dip if there's a bust, but people aren't going to use free services less. (Although App Store sales won't dip because the app store was built during the last recession).

edit: perhaps this seems naive, but please keep in mind I'm only asking about this one small segment.
The nice thing about places like labor ready are they can be done one day at a time with no commitment and usually they pay the same day you work.

The bad thing is that they don't pay you very much.
It's ironic that it is IT band syndrome that caused this reaction, since that's by far the easiest running-related "injury" to solve.

There is literally one magic-bullet stretch that will solve it completely - allowing you to go from excruciating "am I destroying my knee?" pain to pain-free in a few days or a week.

Just a note: even if you don't ever return to running, that tightness in your hips and your IT is not getting better - you will need to address that at some point because it will rear its head again. Foam rollers, big rubber bands that you walk sideways in, and sideways leg raises/circles, if you're curious.
> artists that are doing more concerts and appearances

Good, because this has actual value, unlike copies of digital data.
Most Americans probably heard of this via Donald Rumsfeld, 'known unknowns' etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiPe1OiKQuk
I only dabble in formal logic so I haven't come across this before, but it sort of feels like this rests on a circular argument. You know, the "can God make a rock so heavy that he can't lift it" or "does God have the power to make himself even more Good". I wonder if it's possible to prove anything if one of your axioms is actually a hidden circular argument, much like how one can prove anything from setting true to false.
They have none for the producers of the content either. Content producers get screwed from all sides, but they get screwed a lot worse by the record companies if they're musicians. Actors have it a bit better.
You must be new here. Wait until the negativity and condescension kicks in.
The only published reference I can find to that idea is http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4038812/ which was published earlier this year. It doesn't seem to have evidence based on actually measuring H2O2 buildup, only an observation that various aspects of sepsis, when seen elsewhere, are correlated with H2O2.
Technically that is a derived work produced through an automated process. You wouldn't come up with that hash all by your lonesome, you need the content to do it.
Funny, my experience has been that large/ complex python code is actually easier to follow than JavaScript because of the line noise that JS requires. Side by side, the same code will usually be easier to read in Python (or Ruby.)

Same goes for Java, although in a slightly different sense. I've seen non-trivial Java projects balloon quickly where you have dozens or hundreds of classes & interfaces with no clear sense of structure. High line noise, lots of boilerplate. Sure it compiles but at the end of the day it's just as likely to hit a NPE so you have to rely on functional and unit tests regardless of static/dynamic/compiled/interpreted.

Obviously a lot of it comes down to who's writing the code. For me, a language that lets me succinctly express my intentions with minimal cruft is what wins.
Thanks for the clarification; corrected.
middle class is all relative to salary and location. if you're making $50K a year and living somewhere in North Dakota, then yes, you're probably well above middle class. But making $50K and living in LA, well, you're in poverty.
What if I want to learn more about iterative approaches?
I shut down my facebook account about two years ago.

I did it because I can't figure out why I should spend time reading something that no one cares whether I read or not.

Since I left, I noticed something. I think the word 'poser' has been overused and turned into a bizarre cliche, but surely there is a lot of posturing on facebook. I think the I-know-you-knows are a lot of the appeal, and that element is certainly lost with IM/Email. Personal tastes vary, and spending a lot of time on cheap social signals seems to be a pretty human passtime, but I just don't enjoy it.
I don't recommend using the pitcher. I got bored with that process after a couple days. I usually make shakes with a blender. If I'm on the go heading to the gym, I will toss it in my Blender Bottle and just mix it with protein powder in there.
Exactly. You can't beat the second law of thermodynamics. I'm really disappointed in the level of fatlogic in the comments here, and the downvotes for pointing out simple facts.
I feel somewhat uneasy about allowing products I bought to automatically order consumables made by their manufacturer...
If Great Firewall of China could modify the javascript, is it possible for U.S. to change it to a non-harmful script?
Here's why people do it... If you have something you like, it's frequently easier not to have to rethink the purchase decision every time. We have finite attention spans. We can spend it on price shopping staples, or programming, or being with our families. For many people, the $10/order of rethinking prices isn't worth the hassle of 15 minutes and uncertainty in a less important decision. They'd rather invest the time picking software, clothes, cars, schools, or whatever. It's the same reason people won't drive an extra 15 minutes to Walmart.
Likewise. I left academia for industry, but would consider going back after a good long while as a transition to retirement.

Oh well...in the meantime, I'll enjoy having more than double the pay I had when I left my tenure track position.
I'll buy one when Linux is a first-class OS on it, and not a moment before. I'd love to have sexy hardware from Microsoft, running Linux. I don't know why thats so hard for the marketing-peeps to comprehend .. make it first-class, and you've got something that might have a chance against the rMBP-using 'elite' ..
Agreed, this is irresponsible.
Don't worry, only someone purposefully attempting to misunderstand you would take their interpretation as the context.

As a previous overperfomer(who got burned for it) I find overperforming is often a product of misunderstanding what the company wants you to do, and in the end it doesn't help you, your peers, or anyone except your personal idea of what you think is right, without regard to reality.
Great write up. I can understand the pain of accelerators being in India. I feel like there is no serious need of accelerators for any startup. You just need a good mentor and a good investor for your startup who can give their costly time with you.
Every language deserves LÖVE-like package. It is so good.

Programming a LÖVE-like lib is an excellent way of learning a language. I did a javascript one some time ago, and it worked very well. You can find it at https://github.com/kikito/luv.js
Happy to see this! We use PhantomJS in our CLI tool Pageres, but the fact that the bundled WebKit engine in PhantomJS 1.x is ancient has caused a lot of headake for us and our users.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/pageres