jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
HN has downvotes if you have over 500 karma. There's always the flag button to report content you consider unfit for HN (this article would match that criterion in your case).
Apologies, I didn’t find this discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6260126 where the article is on vice.com.
The BRDF functions I implemented are supposed to be energy conservative. However, the most important part is the photon importance sampled bouncing, which is by definition energy conservative.
Woo, that's cool man!
All these demos around Web Audio API.. Future is awesome!
Vaterland is "Fatherland". It's the same semantic meaning - although I now note that the NSDAP didn't actually ever use it, and it was allied propaganda that set this in perpetuity in the non-german world. Did not know.
For reference:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-migr...

http://www.aeracode.org/2013/8/23/plan-comes-together/
I think people that would do something for humanity are not blocked by these games. that kind of people will not get satisfaction from building something virtual so they won’t play that much
I've got this old HP-42s calculator here in front of me, which has no viable upgrade path, and adjusted for inflation it was more expensive than an entry level M1.

I have an HP-67 and an HP-97 as well, neither of which has any upgrade path and they each cost half as much as a new economy car when they came out.
There is certainly a marketing power in forcing the users of Windows 10 to interact with your browser. I'm not sure why there isn't more skepticism about the claim that edge is "built into" Windows 10. Not even the superuser stackexchange is willing to engage with the idea of fully removing it from the operating system at this point.
You're being heavily downvoted but this is my experience as well.

Even Lightning cables from "alright" brands like Amazon Basics have lots of issues, whereas the only microUSB cables I've had issues with are the really bargain basement stuff that comes bundled with aliexpress junk. It seems the required tolerances for Lightning are way higher (=more expensive).

I don't have enough experience with cheap USB-C cables to make generalizations there though.
MacOS called them folders from its very start. Windows until 95 was really just a shell on top of DOS. 95 was too but it was much more of a full featured OS in its own right.

I guess they just wanted to use the metaphor that made sense visually too. Since it was always represented by a folder icon. I don't remember what Windows 1-3 called them but they weren't visually represented by a folder but by a window with little icons. Which didn't make a ton of sense.
>Rome: chiefly the lack of racial rationalization for the institution

Interesting thought indeed. If I were to settle into my historian armchair and speculate, I would say that it had to do with the following: In the Roman and many contemporary ethos, ruling based on strength was considered the natural order. Countries might war over competitive interests and by right of victory, gained the possessions of the conquered. Almost an ancient version of realpolitik. That is to say, human rights were not derived from an enlightenment idea of human quality. Roman's generally didn't need to resort to a racial justification because the power to do so was justification enough. That isn't to say Roman's weren't racist, they were. Interestingly, southern philosophy of slavery as a positive good was actually derived from Greek philosophy, and Aristotle specifically. However, Aristotle's argument that inferior humans benefit from slavery did not use race to define the inferior.
Your comment is a great example of what I have noticed for many years now, and may be helpful for anyone with an interest in reading about Iran:

Whenever am article about Iran is written, no matter what the topic (in this case, simply Iranian music), if the article paints something about Iran in a positive light there will be a comment regarding either:

a) terrorism
b) homosexuality
c) tourist hostages

These comments are almost exclusively written by Iranian expats, children of Iranian expats, Israeli's, or people who have never been to Iran. Almost always, the comments are provably wrong, blown out of a proportion, or define Iran by standards that are not applied to other countries.

Iran is the best country on the planet to be a tourist in, like another poster on this thread I have also visited around 80 countries, and returned to Iran countless times.
Even if this was the case it's actually worse if they don't since this would also indicate a lag in technological capability. Something that, say relevant to what we just experienced, makes supply and production vulnerable to shutting down.
Copy from https://github.com/pypa/sampleproject !
Yes but at what diner ? Wikipedia says NJ has about 525.
Thanks for the comment -- yes it is, but all sides also have more apartment buildings on them so it doesnt change the analysis. I probably could have explained that better in the post
That point about toolchain complexity just reminds me of where compilers were 20 years ago. You could get significant speed bumps because one vendor had an optimisation another didn't. That's probably still true for things like the intel compiler, for all I know. I do remember at one point doing computer vision stuff before NVidia ate the world that it wasn't uncommon to come across code that expected to have access to intel-compiled maths libraries to be able to run in real-time.

The point is that the free toolchains got good enough that in general you don't need to care, and I think it's reasonable to expect the same dynamics to apply here.
I dont know about hollow suns and stuff. But what he said in the beginning has some reason.

Check some of this guys papers:
https://file.scirp.org/Html/8-2180368_91083.htm
seems to me - what's described here probably is this :

here is evidence that localisation applies well even at the level of small neural groups
So, the part below is new, or not new? And what is "user content" exactly? All messages, images and audio?

_______

>WhatsApp, according to the App Store, reserves the right to collect:

Purchases

Financial information

Location

Contacts

User content

Identifiers

Usage data and

Diagnostics
I think these three books offer a solid framework for providing an answer to your question:

1) The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It by Robert Reich [0]

- Reich drops the buzzword neoliberalism in favor of the word power. I like that as neoliberalism is a terrible phrase for the concept it describes, but make no mistake, it's the insidious, invisible nature of neoliberalism that put our country in a position where neither party served the people well. That is what Reich describes here.

2) The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News-and Divided a Country by Gabriel Sherman [1]

- There is also a Showtime miniseries based on the book you could watch. Pair with the movie Bombshell

3) Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer [2]

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52118381-the-system

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15981705-the-loudest-voi...

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833494-dark-money
I personally moved to Element/Matrix with a large community. It works quite well.
> How many of Gore’s supporting court cases were tossed for lack of standing etc?

Fewer (and similarly with Bush’s — both filed a number of lawsuits in the 2000 election), but then, the legal basis of the cases was different.

Its not really anyone outside of the Trump campaign’s (and their legal team’s) fault that the Trump campaign filed an unusually large number of lawsuits making claims that were not justiciable, independently of whether the claimed facts were true.
The much more likely scenario is that they just let people through because an overwhelming majority of law enforcement are Trump voters.
CNN Business and CNN World are different than the main CNN Politics tv channel, right?

I was mainly talking about political news, I do occasionally browse some mainstream business news.
Homework at the age of 6? Wow, I'm glad I did not have real homework until I was 8ish
> I was talking to some recent CS grads about Turing completeness and they had no idea what I was talking about. How can you have a CS degree and not know Turing completeness?

Having studied CS, I agree that you should know about the concept, but does it really give the normal Software Engineer an advantage in their day to day? Most likely not. It always depends on what you are working on, but the body of CS knowledge is huge and it requires a lot of work to keep all the concepts fresh in your mind if you are not applying them.
I'd rather have people with a strong grasp of software architecture, algorithmic complexity, system design and networking protocols. On the other hand a game developer should be strong in other theory areas that they need for the job. Machine Learning engineers have again different focus areas etc.
For the average user whose password is 0000, maybe face unlocking IS more secure for them.
I meant that I strive to write simply and directly. Using short sentences.

More recently, though, I owe a lot to Abercrombie and Stover. Who also write like that.
There hasn't been any high profile smart contract hacks for a while now. Early days are always fraught with disasters.
The field is evolving with "best practices", formal verification and lessons learned from past mistakes, so you'll find that these days things are more stable.

One example is MakerDAO which has around $300 million in value locked, and has been running without incident for a while now.
Not too impressive, considering that the deposit to reserve one is only $100, as opposed to Model 3's $1,000.
They may not have failed ethically yet.

It’s virtually impossible for a company the size of Facebook to be free of controversies.
I agree that it's a good thing they weren't more organized. All riots would be more dangerous if they were more organized.

Not sure what to make of the "luck" comment. I suppose we're always lucky that bad things aren't worse than they end up being.
I think the banks could make plenty of money without forcing me to deal with paper checks.

My point is, there are lots of other reasons to use bitcoin.
I'd write high level tests, integration ones for sure, from the get go.

These don't take too much time to write and speed up your development significantly because you can make significant changes and be sure that certain flows still work without doing all the manual testing over and over.
> I am unable to make out what Pika does from the landing page

This seemed fairly succinct:

> Pika is a new kind of package registry for the modern web

Not sure what "Universal JavaScript" means though, and I don't understand why a registry would need an IDE.
You might find 'nmtui' (Network Manager Text User Interface) more helpful if you prefer an ncurses based interface similar to the GUI nm-applet (but it doesn't work for GUI-only configuration extensions for some VPNs, etc.)

'nmcli' is good for basics, eg:

nmcli == connection summary inc. addresses, routes, DNS

nmcli dev wifi == wifi networks found (inc. specs)

nmcli dev wifi rescan

nmcli con == list configured connections

nmcli con up Connection-Name

nmcli con down Connection-Name

most of the above support intelligent tab-completion including of (space containing) connection names.
On this last point, I recall reading an in-depth article (whose title I've forgotten..) about the importance of highly divisible numbers in music.

12 has a wonderful property of being variously composable by 2, 3, 4, 6 - and one reason why it's so commonly used in music is that it's not a prime number.
Violence is changing by getting a more peaceful face in order to be "legalized" and "digested". Violence is always here and it gets stronger.
Except when the developer is also the builder, which is becoming more and more commonplace.

And fixed fee contracts? What planet? I don't know of anyone who has built anything in the last decade or two that hasn't gone over budget. If you're buying materials through the developer they're taking a margin.
Hang on. Is this hyperbole or are you saying you've actually had not one, but multiple summers ruined just because you could get a particular spot? Seems like too rigid a definition of a summer to enjoy the very nature of summer.
This is the best video I know about riso:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rfwKuXIhcE

Olivia from Pindot press makes regular videos on their channel about risos. The one where they make a zine from scratch is really good.
This taboo against sex, one of the most natural acts of almost all lifeforms, is THE single most bizarre facet of human society.

Porn stars and sex workers should be celebrated instead of being ostracized.

There aren't many other professions who contribute as much to reducing stress and fulfilling the fantasies of so many people across the world. Most sex workers do it without any thanks and barely make enough from it to survive. Not only they have to brave a constant risk of disease and violence, they have to carry this outdated stigma throughout their lives, not only for themselves but also their families, even after they quit.
PGP has always included provisions for revocation.

The RFC [1] isn't exactly light reading, but this overview [2] is helpful.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880

[2] http://www.openpgp.org/technical/whybetter.shtml
If the cost is attributable to the use of capacity that would otherwise be left unused (idle workers), then the marginal cost is effectively zero, even if it shows up as nonzero in the books.
I don't care so much about the bugs: the big problem with these HN+ sites seems to be that they get an initial boost and then sort of fade away because people forget about them and new people don't find them.
Does anyone still use "mc" ?

I like vifm (vi-like file manager), although i can't say i fire it up too often.

microemacs (jasspa's) has a nice inbuilt file manager (F10).
Alternative hypothesis to your alternative hypothesis: if you have a class of finite time, increasing the engagement of one group by means of removing obstacles to engagement means that the rest of the class will have comparatively less class time and attention devoted to them, and thus see decreased performance.

Or maybe you're right, and male physics students are typically such pricks that having to think about feelings for fifteen minutes causes a semester-long depressive spiral. Could go either way.
Wow, okay, I already use it every day but now I know it does arithmetic as well... thanks!
It was chrome 9.0.something
CouchApp really is excellent marketing, folks, and I congratulate you. As I'm sure you know, any database with an HTTP interface will do exactly the same thing. Riak, for example. I leave you to your normal round of thoughtful, reasoned NoSQL vs RDBMS debate.
If I say, “EXERCISE is a physical activity” in the context of a discussion about physical exercise, and you say “No, EXERCISE can also be a mental exercise” you are being 100% asinine.
I think you're looking at this with the 'innovators dilemma' problem of expecting cars not to be designed with the idea of upgradability in mind. Maybe Tesla has been thinking this way all along.

Upgrading an interior probably has too much diverse meaning to meaning (does it mean dashboard? seats, console? etc), so let's leave that one for now, but I think the rest of the issues you mention have possibly already been addressed.

Older parts don't have to be more expensive, because we'll be able to 3-d print metals, or assuming we're talking about an electric car, there are less mechanical parts anyway and a company could decide on a modular design that they stick to for efficiency purposes. For instance, Toyota could decide on a shape and size of their batter pack. Then as battery technology inproves, they don't have to create a bunch of stock to upgrade old cars, as the old cars would use the same design as the new.

I agree with you regarding smaller spaces and closer quarters, but technology is also constantly shrinking too, so I think it might be possible that replacement/upgrade parts could be smaller than the one they are replacing, so as long as they share a mounting structure, it won't cause a problem.

You are right about entertainment systems, previously there was a standard (I think it was called DIN) size and there was only one size. Then they added 1.5x and I think 2x sizing. But upgrading your entertainment system used to mean getting an aftermarket system, not a system from the same manufacturer. Now, it seems to me, that manufacturers use the same or a very similar system across their brands. They aren't stocking 100s of different systems, they are stocking 5 or 6 and those are used across all of their designs.

If upgradability is thought important from the design stage, I think all of this is possible, and more.
Does VP8 have any advantages over H264 other than claiming to be patent-free?
Yeah, check out http://www.101domain.com/ (I am not affiliated). I used them to get a .sk domain where an registered agent was needed.
Not sure why the downvotes but average all-in costs of startup employees in the Bay Area startups is less than $150k.
Actually, it's quite simple: off-topic, unconstructive, borderline rude comments were removed from a meta post on a SE, Inc initiative to support the math community. It'd be like you asking a hacker news question about how to send HN regulars to a conference, and I replied "well, Hacker News isn't worth supporting because Paul Graham has gone on record saying he's a bad programmer, and has expressed exasperation with programmers".

I wish I was kidding. I really do.
Tests are generally biased. Unless you're going to run each engine against a weighted distribution of operating systems (as relevant to your existing client base), on a weighted distribution of hardware architectures (ditto), using your application's library (weighted for real world use, like your clients do) - you're not going to see anything actually applicable. They're still going to be using the browser they use. The only applicable take away is 'module/class/function $x is performing badly in case $y on $environment/configuration $z and we should fix it'.

I'm assuming the use case of desktop, browser usage here, and not server usage. Regardless, there is no ultimate $engineA > $engineB that applies globally.
Is this the primary problem you see with my service? you think this is a bigger problem, for instance, than my provisioning delays? (e.g. it usually takes a day or so for a new customer to get set up.)

I'm actually working on a cheap low-performance storage service designed for backups (webdav and zfs snapshot accessible. I'm targeting 1/10th the price of s3 before bulk discounts, but I also am also targeting a lower level of redundancy and performance.) but I thought the primary demand would be people on other services or on their own servers wanting a backup, so it's interesting to hear if other people place a much higher priority on ease of setting up backups.
"The percentage will vary for every business / every campaign even for the same business."

Obviously, but for the same business, controlling for external factors (season, ...) and with sufficiently large sample sizes of customers, there must be an indicative spread?
Because road cycling enthusiasts are just as susceptible as enthusiasts with other hobbies to take the obsession with gear to silly levels.

Grill/barbecue backyard dads obsessing about charcoal vs. briquettes vs. gas, BTUs and so on.

Motorcyclists and their endless discussions about motor oil and chain lubrication.

Amateur DIYers with tool collections that be excessive even for hardcore professional craftsmen.

PC gamers with their obsession over performance tests of the latest CPUs and GPUs, mechanical keyboards and ultra-high CPI mouses.

In the end, it's all just a dick measuring contest. If you have fancier gear or you have fancier-looking graphs than your neighbor, you are better at your shared hobby, because the numbers say so.

At least the cyclists are finally realizing that super skinny ultra high-pressure tires are actually counterproductive, and that a wider tire with lower pressure performs better on the uneven surfaces of the real world. But because the super skinny rock hard tires performed best in tests on perfectly smooth rollers, everyone had convinced themselves for decades that more flexible tires were bad, because the numbers said so.
Regardless, current estimates that I've seen point to the population of the Earth stabilizing at around 10 billion. People always say that we can't move from industrial to more sustainable types of farming because our current population levels couldn't be sustained. Where is that cut-off point? 1 billion? Less? I think that point is what all "enlightened" nations should be aiming for in terms of policy — the point where we could all survive comfortably without having to depend on oil-based products just to feed us. (Otherwise, it'll eventually have to happen naturally, and it won't be pretty.)
Currently, the humble CGI script is the market leader in loosely-coupled pipe-driven graphical interfaces.
Scala, for sure!

I've been procrastinating learning Scala for a long time and have a project this year on Spark, so, yay! :)
Docker is great, I'll admit that. But is there anything it can do that you can't already do with LXCs?
I mean, the scripting can be a bit more complex, but it is a full-blown OS running incredibly lightly!
I figure it can't hurt to also mention the Coq/software foundations style separation logic book. In it you build a sequential separation logic, and prove some properties such as soundness (rather than a concurrent separation logic like e.g. Iris above).

The related work section of the summary paper also has a rather extensive list of projects using separation logic, though i'll note I didn't see Infer [1], listed.

[1]: https://www.chargueraud.org/teach/verif/
Yep. I know Tesla has manufacturing people who get it, but some of Tesla fans are just lost in the wilderness. "Tesla's plant has so many robots!" -- that's every car plant these days! Nobody wants to pay for labor or deal with recalls for inconsistent welds.

Here's a random video of a GM SUV production process -- just filled to the brim with robots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ow7gmZTIpo

They're obviously aiming to cut cost and build time as much as possible, so they automate where they can without sacrificing quality for things like spacing gaps. Over time, that'll be automated too. GM as an example spends like $30 billion/year in CapEx -- that'll buy a lot of robots!
I'm confused. What does this comment have to do with the article?