jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
May you all find the company you desire most, good food and liquid libation when you need it, indulgence without consequence, and the time to do everything you truly desire - whether snuggling with a loved one or trying to pin down that aggressively elusive bug in your code that keeps stopping up your compiler.

Actually, I ought to just start with "May you finally manage to pin down that bug in your code." Nothing comes close to the elation of victory.

Peace.
What do you guys recommend for learning about how numerical linear algebra works? (not just how to use it, but how the algorithms work)
In other words, avoid spending money, refine your algorithms first. Faster machines may be tempting, but that makes scaling horribly expensive down the road.
I think this is purely a cultural background issue.

People with systems/sysadmin etc. background have been mentored and thus grew up to use vi (it is available from any unix terminal prompt and is not an OS in itself™).

People who grew up in comp/sci/phy used to see emacs as their first editor, and used it mostly graphically.

I think switching is done either as a switch given because of the evolution of one's functional role -- be it involuntary or voluntary (latter just for fun or self improvement).
Just don't let your inertial mass get so great that the force of gravity from the Earth overwhelms the force exerted by your body's muscles.
posixpath.normpath can never leave ./ in front:

>>> import posixpath
>>> posixpath.normpath('./../test')
'../test'
This is why you use a livestream tool like Ustream or JustinTV so your video evidence can't be destroyed.
Please don't kill Tout - I'm a big fan! Good Luck TK.
I don't like the argument that if you don't practice this particular piece at home, then you're not a passionate developer for some particular platform.

Good devs are good devs, and it's difficult to parse time out to learn each individual platform.

The good devs I know can learn stuff really quickly and the ability to engineer things well is fairly platform independent.

If we were talking about different layers (like say a Systems Developer trying to do UI work) that's a completely different story.
Interesting 1985 article about bread in the USSR: When it comes to bread, Russians don't loaf https://www.csmonitor.com/1985/0916/obread.html
Your latter observation is not surprising. The 60s-80s were times of confidence in the future, in progress. We visited the moon, flied in supersonic airliners, and we were confident that we would keep exploring always further, always faster.

Now that spirit has largely faded away, the West seems to have lost faith in progress in exploration and is focused in preserving what we already have - sometimes for good reasons (environmentalism and fight against climate change), sometimes not (disproportionate attention to minor threats like terrorism, fear of immigration, etc.)

Musk clearly still believes in progress and exploration, hence it's not surprising that his designs end up evoking reminiscences from that era.
> Philosophically even truth is an opinion. There is no such thing as truth, just a frame that you are objectively reporting from.

This attitude is, at the bottom, responsible for the situation described in this article.

The truth is an ideal and when we pursue that ideal, things go well. When we stop pursuing it, we get "post-journalism".
on question (1), there have been scientific researches that shows if you identify as "introvert" or "extrovert", it can be explained by your body's "efficiency" in releasing dopamine [1]

[1] https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/07/brain-chemistry-pla...
Did Girddy offer people the option to set a stop-loss order to automatically quit at a trigger price?
Dell sells at least 75" monitors. They do cost 10x as much as a similar size smart TV from Walmart though.
What do you think this device would cost? I’m guessing starting around $7999 for 45”
> What about the license? Is Microsoft going to attack if you dare actually use this in a commercial or hobby project? Maybe.

Although they legally could, I really doubt they are going to start suing hobbyists. The legal expense and negative PR would outweigh any possible benefit.

(Commercial uses are a bigger risk, but even there, unless it gets to a certain scale, they probably won’t bother.)
The Macedonian Tau-Lambda?!
I like this "stock" analogy.

In textbooks I've seen that stock is a "share of a company's future profits" but seeing as many don't pay dividends it really is more like "share of a company's future perception."

This makes sense. However, it's not "perfect".

If I believe in KAWS and Jeff Koons and I'd like to buy some of their "stock" to resell when I retire, what jpg my shares are linked to are irrelevant. So it's a bit of an inconvenience that I need to invest in stock of an artwork rather than stock of an artist. It's like that in real life sure, but artists should just be doing their own ICOs no?
"You could decide that you've already tested the odds one too many times" was the original point. Someone responded that the N previous times don't matter and N + 1 has barely any risk. Another poster countered that that argument as stated applies not just for N + 1 but for (N + 1) + 1 etc and therefore the slippery slope principle applies.

Of course if you add in "you could decide that you've already tested the odds one too many times" then it's a fallacy to invoke slippery slope because an off-ramp is explicitly specified. In this case slippery slope was mentioned only because N was dismissed as irrelevant.
I wonder how much worthless stuff we'll have in the future because a cosmic ray happened to destroy the only copy of a vital key somewhere.
GUI frameworks come and go? Some are still around. Look at Qt, development started in 1991 and and is still around.

Maybe someone will implement a free software version of atom core which the free software parts of atom can run. Considering that most of atom core seems to be based on free or open source software, it should be possible to reverse engineer it.
The effect might be that eating walnuts fills you up and makes you eat less potato chips. You're right of course, but don't underestimate how bad a place some people are coming from!
Didn't they try to trademark 'saga' at some point too? Complaining that Viking Saga was a copy of their game? This whole trademark of common English terms is going to ruin the industry
Errr... I was more implying that ADD/ADHD medications are in very common usage, making it a notable data point. Perhaps I should have make that explicit.
How do you track which cherry picks have been done?
This is a fun project! I think they might to work a bit on their linearity :-).

Some laser pointer sources allow for gate control (turning them on and off with a logic signal) which might help.

Steve Ciarcia had a project[1] in BYTE for doing a vector display on an oscilloscope which ported well to lasers.

[1] https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1976-11/page/n79/m...
People lived before the Internet existed but it would be a huge setback if we lost it. Similarly, advancements in technology have allowed for our justice systems to be a lot better and it would be a real shame if we lost that because of deepfakes. I'm not saying it will go that far, but it's totally normal to be wary of it.
"a complete break from the roots of the western classical tradition into a wholly new art form informed by the limitations of what they were leaving behind"

Wait, what? A whole lot of the western harmonic tradition went right into jazz. The "standards" are Tin Pan Alley songs from the first half of the 20th century. A lot of the bebop harmony came straight out of Debussy and Ravel. Third Stream music was an explicit synthesis of classical music and jazz. Some of Coltrane's innovations came out of Nicolas Slonimsky's Thesaurus of Scales and Musical Patterns. The walking bass was in Baroque music (Bach). While you cannot neglect the African side of it (rhythm, the blues, improvisation) nor neglect that it was Black people who put together the pieces and created the music, saying that it was a "complete break from the roots of the western classical tradition" is farcical.

And it's a tradition, not a cargo cult. There are still people alive today who played with Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, and so forth. I have played with some of them. They tell stories, give advice, and pass on things that you might not get otherwise. Before the advent of jazz programs in colleges, the music was passed on via an apprenticeship system, which is diminished but still extant.
This is no different from whether a letter was or wasn't faked, or an e-mail, or whether a signature was forged or not.

You just get an expert witness (or opposing ones) to testify as to the likelihood of something being forgery or not and why, as well as take things like motivation, means, etc. into account.

There's literally nothing different about deepfakes. We have a well-established court system for handling this.
It automatically does a binary search, and you can use it completely automatically if you can write a script that determines if the bug was present.

The other day I used it to write a good bug report. I first used it to find the earliest commit I could compile on my machine, then I used it to find the commit where a certain command would fail.
> To be clear, I am not a celebrity. I have decent Twitter following

> my own wikiFeet profile, which included my full name, birthday, and photos of me and my exposed feet

"Presumably"... Presumably, for better or for worse, lots of people use their real names online, not just celebrities, and there's no reason to presume that people that share the images won't also share the name of the person.
Couldn't agree more! That's the exact reason why we're working on our app (sharetheboard.com). If you're willing, I'd love some feedback on the app (or roadmap, for that matter).
I agree, but beyond scroll hijacking the text is so teeny on my Android I can barely read it, which is highly ironic given the subject matter.
Here's a direct link to the mp3:
http://mixergy.com/wp-content/audio/Mixergy-MailFinch-Paul-S...
This is one of the best descriptions I've heard about people who work at startups and MBA's who work inside large organizations. I don't understand why so many people in startups feel the need to rip on MBA's; its comparing apples to oranges.
Or a noindex <meta> tag
Location: Just North of San Francisco, CA
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I'm a Software Engineer, Full Stack Web Engineer, and Game Designer with decades of independent experience using many technologies, with only my most used being listed. I have experience working with teams and I'm looking for a role at either a large company or a start-up.
30% carbon footprint, 0% features
Live and let live is a dead concept. Large cities kinda are the reason for that. Before, small towns had small communities with similar interests.
The broscientist bodybuilders are wrong about almost everything they think they know about performance enhancing drugs. Also, to the degree endocrinologists and doctors in general don't "know" about tren, dbol or what have you, it's because overwhelmingly those drugs aren't used or even approved for use in medicine and never have been.
What he says is that most pundits spit "talking points", implying that he thinks there's a general tendency towards spitting a party line rather than original thought and discourse. If you watch Glenn dismantle some of those pundits in interviews and debates on TV (ex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XInz4i6AV8M ), you'll probably agree regardless of your political leanings that he's a cut above most pundits.
backbone.js, so probably node.js
Great work. A full-screen option would be cool. As well as background/text color options.

I'd also like to know your thoughts on backbone.js
Breaking big corporations into smaller companies will create numerous jobs.
It may not technically be a Venn Diagram but I still think it is a legitimate way to represent something - and do it better than the author's alternatives.

You have to look at the chart differently but I don't think this makes it a bad graphic.

Each intersection is a way of representing what the two intersecting groups have in common, rather than demonstrating what the groups are.

The question is, "What do doctors and TSA agents have in common?" and the answer goes in the intersecting region.

While not technically a Venn Diagram I think it is still a useful graphic.
The term tweet has become a dictionary term at this point

Technically, the word 'tweet' has been in dictionaries since long before Twitter came along...
oh i thought the blogger was over 20. nm, i guess he is 20 since he states it in his blog.
I'm wondering, what are you using for backend? Rails?
I'm on Chrome and it looks great - but damn if I can see any reasonable clustering that makes any semantic sense to me.
We shouldn't evaluate programming languages critically? How did we end up with all these excellent languages? Are all languages equal in quality, productivity, and economy of expression? Can't we simultaneously debate their merits and solve problems with them?
Very often I see false tradeoffs attempting better latency. When the system is on top of things, sure, go for latency. Once there is any backlog, favoring throughput gets you better latency too.
About as much fun as it is to hang out with extroverts who get upset when they are told the world isn't all about them.
Sure it takes skill. But the photos are not going to show anything the original photographer put in there.

Copyright starts at the moment you press the shutter button.

From: http://www.teachingcopyright.org/handout/copyright-faq

"When does copyright start? Do I have to register the work with the government?

Copyright status is automatic upon creation of your original creative work in a fixed, tangible form. Registration with the U.S. Copyright Office is not necessary for copyright status and protection, though registration is needed in order to pursue an infringement claim in court."
Similar to the plural "pages" often being written as pp.
There are some fluffy problems with the article..

If you look back at cofounder and CEO comments before the release of iphone 1.0 and android 1.0 you will find that not only Did Google Know of the decrease in ads per mobile but that they did plan to offset that via the mobile app store and other efforts..

If you compare the mobile app store revenue to any decrease in ad revenue you get a very different pciture than the article portrays
There are those who understand the implications but didn't get any bitcoins. In their opinion it's too late to buy right now, so they are just waiting for "the next thing" wishing Bitcoin all the worst. So there is quite a bit of negative press. Not much from rational sources though. Rational agents fit your description.
I'm curious how long your screen generally lasts. In my hour-long phone screens there's barely enough time to cover a coding question and a few basic data structures/knowledge questions. I feel like covering everything you laid out would take several hours.
What is the bullshit associated with non-stick pans? The off-gassing when they heat up to much?
Do you consume much media? I ask because I used to be similar to you; I never used to be able to distinguish between 30fps vs 60fps but I find that the more media I consume, the more the difference becomes apparent to me.

Aside from that, one of the clearest videos I've seen the difference in is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-dOuBcxMlk - the commentary isn't very constructive in that video but I see a rather large difference between gameplay clips.
Muscle memory, no middle click on most trackpads. It just feels weird coming from a browser after using Control+C to copy something and then having to use Control+Shift+V to paste. I never got used to the right click to paste paradigm. I expect a context menu.
Lots of 32 bit code still gets run on these machines.
Servers with lots of storage cost plenty of money to rent. It's cheaper to have your own if you plan to store/serve lerge amounts of data. In addition, if you are the only one with access to it, you don't have to worry about the implications of storing sensitive data on someone else's computer.
In the beginning of the pandemic, my living situation changed, and my family was dependent on mobile LTE for our internet connection due to being in a semi-rural area.

A 1 GB security update would find me at the public library parking lot with a pile of devices in my car, updating all of them on their WiFi some weekend morning.

There are still millions and millions of people in this world who need to change their physical behavior to work around issues of internet scarcity on a regular basis.
He is captivating to a certain audience, but so are televangelists. That's the whole crux of the problem. If you recognize it as being entertainment and an aesthetic/subculture, that's fine. But Peterson is presented as a leading thinker to people, which is a problem. Despite what I've written, Peterson isn't even someone I'm specifically interested in, it's more about the underlying issue of which he is a prominent example.

Consider the following: during the Žižek debate, it became clear that not only was the Communist Manifesto the only Marxist text he had read, but he could not accurately recall some of its main points. And it's a really short pamphlet! That means that Peterson had expounded at length on Marxism, made it a central point of his critique and philosophical brand, while having almost no knowledge or understanding of it. Even with the most charitable interpretation, that goes way beyond just occasionally making mistakes due to a discursive style.

Imagine a charismatic professor with a large audience and who has talked at length about the worth of various programming concepts. Now imagine that it turns out the professor can't pass Fizz Buzz. Following that, his fans defend him by saying that he's a captivating explainer who is only sometimes wrong, and that the size of his audience and fantastic delivery is proof of his worth as a leading expert on computer science and programming. Wouldn't that set off alarm bells in your mind?
> All the liability is on the contract worker. All the profit goes to Uber...

That is exactly the same risk as franchises. You put up all the capital, take on all the risk. They give you marketing and operational support, and take a cut of profits in addition to fees. They already have a solid business model and will do fine whether you succeed or fail.

That is also likely why franchises aren't mentioned much here. If people on HN are going to jump into a high-risk venture that is going to cost anywhere from 100K up to multi-millions, they want it to be their own product, not replicating an existing franchise and having to follow their rules and strategy.

Franchises do have their place in the business world, and they are the right answer for some people. It just isn't the risk/reward model that the startup crowd tends to aim for.
Except not in the case of India, where the government wiped out the value of 500INR notes practically overnight
A consumer chip is a lot more likely to be permanently damaged by a "silver bullet" cosmic ray, though. Rad-hard chips don't just have shielding, they can also have redundant circuits and modifications to the foundry process. That said, I'm sure Ingenuity's processor is fit to purpose.
I agree with the idea that it is entitled. Hell, Python itself is only directly supported on a couple of architectures and operating systems. It has even fewer "tier 1" targets than Rust does! It is made available in source format only for other packagers to use as they see fit, but it is not python's responsibility to support it. Why should a library maintainer feel any obligation to support platforms that the language doesn't provide first class support for?
Formula -> Trace Dependencies/Precedents is also super handy! I have a short VBA loop that applies it to all selected cells. It makes it very easy to visually spot one cell reference that's wrong, because 20 cells connect to corresponding cells with parallel lines, then one isn't parallel.

Ctrl+Tilda toggles show/hide formulas, which helps identify input cells when you inherit a messy spreadsheet.
Pasteurizing happens at like 160F. Vegetable oils oxidize at 350F or above.
No, a single centralized bowl carries massive risk. What happens when it goes down? Do you even trust the SLA? What about privacy?

What we need is Peerbowl: a network of millions of bowls interconnected via an interdimensional wormhole.

We're in the last stages of ironing out all the kinks. Race conditions have resulted in a few lost fingers but also some extra tentacles which users report are surprisingly handy! Stay tuned for our IPO*.

* Interplanetary Public Offering
Gates has still not done the full 1 percent of what he would have been capable of if he was really dedicated and started philanthropy as soon as it was within reach.

And if he could have held Microsoft to making money through engineering more so than anti-recycling it would have been massively better for the environment rather than relatively destructive too.
> Thinking and speaking is fundamental right. Therefore if person A research public sources to find person B's name, then it is fully within rights of person A to express that. If person B has some advantages from that not being expressed (like in this case), then is up to person B to negotiate with person A for that.

Who said anything about rights? I'm not arguing that spreading someone's name far and wide against their wishes is illegal. I'm saying it is a dick move, if someone has specifically asked you not to.
If you believe that's the case, perhaps you could provide an example of Scott's writing that shouldn't be allowed, and what you think the consequences should be?
Yep - they are very dense, heavy and brittle.
Indexing is a read heavy workload. It shouldn't be causing TBs of writes a day.
The standard definition of inflation is the general increase of prices. If only a subset of items increase in price, it's not really inflation.

It is tempting to say that you can have asset inflation while other assets deflate, but it's not consistent with the general topic of inflation that implies the currency gets devalued.

If the government said that it would collect a special tax to all goods but stocks of 1$, it will increase prices of many goods but it will not be inflation. It's a change in the relative price of goods.
You are quoting an article that's very first sentence is:

"There's no doubt that the novel coronavirus ... originated in China."

As a response to the statement: "COVID-19 did come from China" in the previous post, the article you linked directly confirmed that statement.
I guess the point would be that they've already made that investment by building their various platforms.
Do you mean a sim setup? VR sucks compared to a sim.
> poll(), select() et al don't define "readable" as meaning "a byte of data is available". They define it as "read() will not block".

If that were true, poll() wouldn't return read-ready on a file-based fd until the data was actually sitting in buffers. After all, that's the only way to guarantee it won't block. That would actually be a useful semantic.

But what actually happens is that poll() on a file-based fd is basically a no-op that always returns true immediately, AFAIK. Someone could pull the disk drive cable before you actually call read(), in which case read() will indeed block, forever.

The existing semantic is useless. What argument is there in favor of a useless semantic?

This semantic wouldn't solve the "tail -f" problem, but at least it would be useful: http://cr.yp.to/unix/asyncdisk.html
No, I wasn't referring to myself. I was answering his question. I myself went on to discuss what he said. I even quoted him verbatim. I didn't have to speculate or "think".