jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In the lower-end circuits nearly all of the cars are modified street cars. They are no longer street-legal, unless competing in a race that requires them to be, but they all started that way.
Of course it can be pure, so long as the shared data is not mutated. Functional languages such as Haskell don't copy values all over the place when calling functions, they pass in pointers.
One of the issues with roundabouts here (France) is that almost nobody is using their turn signals or use the wrong one (they activate the left one entering the roundabout and keep it on, making you think they'll keep on turning around when they're about to exit the roundabout.) When you're waiting to enter a roundabout it makes you wait a bit longer when a car is already turning around.
could you elaborate or be more specific?
1) The constant time claim for deletion is actually completely unrelated to the size of the list. Even if the list grew infinitely (only a fraction of all deletes were realised), the deletion would certainly be constant time since we explicitly bound it. Iteration would incur the cost, and reimpose the true structure as it went.

2) Regardless of the number of competing deletes, we always successfully remove some of the nodes we intended to - the question is only if an older delete in the same interval selected the same terminal node in one direction as a newer delete, and overrides the newer delete's pointer modification to reintroduce some nodes it had removed. Such an interleaving should be rare, especially as the range grows, since the newer delete both started later and had more work to do. The main risk is in situations where a thread is suspended in the middle of making its modification, in which case it could conceivably reintroduce a large range of previously removed nodes.
Running into all sorts of problems with 'Mail app' and now 'Gmail app' using a third-party imap server. Lots of message with an HTML body or attachements are displayed blank.

Google really, really wants you to use GMail, so the development effort they put into supporting other email setups is of the "just enough to make the sale" variety.

My solution to this specific AOSP issue is to use K9 Mail which (in my experience) is far better than the stock Android Mail app. (It was forked from the AOSP Mail app some years ago IIRC & has an active development community & github repo.)

I don't have any solutions to your other (perfectly reasonable) complaints unfortunately.
I've fixed the date now. Actually the date at the top of the article "2013-08-13" is in a font that somehow makes it look like 2018. I had to squint a couple times to make sure I was reading it right! The year in the URL is easier to read.
I think it was their Christmas/end-year promotion. I recall that it explicitly mentioned it was for new and existing customers. When I called, I got directed to another page than what I was looking at.

BTW, I'm in Pittsburgh, with the same Verizon and Comcast choice.
Bitcoin isn't a company, though. It's an asset. Bitcoin itself doesn't do better or worse or grow in value. It's just moving up and down according to supply and demand.
It's not only that thread that is giving Dyson a bad name. They've been selling overhyped, over-marketed products for years. I've heard the same from multiple sources. As multiple commenters have said here, they're like Bose in that aspect. They're not bad as such, but there are much better products out there that are not heavily marketed.
The Nokia N900 got its last official update in November 2010, if I recall correctly. It had only been launched a year and a half before. Yes, there was then a community effort to improve some of the userspace, but the device was eternally stuck on a 2.6 kernel due to blobs. I loved my N900, but let's not pretend Nokia made their hardware future-proof.
I guess I was reading too much into the "in his day" part. My point was that the world hasn't gotten less sensitive to his attitude and speech. It might have even gotten more sensitive.
Didn't realize so much of Canada was mapped. There's some really good imagery of northern Canada and the rockies there.

I also noticed that the images don't distort as much around the edges of the screen when rotating the view as compared to Google Streetview.
The revenge of Pascal integer ranges! :-D
It’s not just the developers. The code gets reviewed and merged as well. I don’t know which projects but those are the highest quality C code based.

Writing in C doesn’t create complexity but lots of traps to fall in. Writing in C doesn’t save overhead over Rust. Your rust code can be very low level and safe and C isn’t that close to hardware as it used to be anyway.
n=2, shit's funny
From my own work:

* NER (name-entity recognition) is becoming insanely good (99+%), this can help with everything from data security to automated form filling, to automated medical billing, etc. Multiple billion dollar industries will be shook up by this.

* My own work on data generation is pointing to reduced surface area of security purposes and improved access to quasi-data for data science and application testing[1]

* Translation from images to text descriptions are also a major thing, which when combined with other systems can do things like make suggested diagnosis.

* Text generation systems are impacting how consumers interact. The chat bots these days are getting to the point where it's very difficult to identify if it's a human or not. I can't go into too many details, but see[2]

* There's also my side business which is a search engine for people who would know an answer to a questions: https://insideropinion.com/

In general, NLP is probably going to have a larger impact that driverless cars on our day-to-day lives. We're seeing insanely good story generation (e.g. GPT-2), chat bots, billing, etc. I also think WAY WAY more is yet to come. The transformer (which is spuring most of this) is only a couple years old. We'll see lots more applications as time goes on.

[1] https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/why-you-dont-necessarily...

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.01841.pdf
I think you vastly overestimate the business acumen of drug dealers on the darkweb. You are much more likely to never receive a shipment than to bump into someone worried about repeat customers
My understanding is that Netflix will pretty much subsidize the cost of the CDN box to nearly any ISP above a certain minimum traffic level ingress from Netflix.

Great model to attack the incumbent [transport / transit] carrier costs - end run around the middle-men and drop your CDN boxes directly at the edge (last-mile) ISPs.
Drug dealers have always had holiday specials.

Or so I've heard.
I love historic pieces like this and it's wonderful to see these early experiments.

It's really easy to get this to run! Download VICE Disc Image of this Program, unzip it (to get the .d64 file), then go here: https://virtualconsoles.com/online-emulators/c64/ and drag in the .d64 file to see it run.

Another note, for those not familiar with the brilliant author: "This site is developed and maintained by John Walker, founder of Autodesk, Inc. and co-author of AutoCAD. "
China is the largest trade partner, buying commodities, property, higher-education degrees, etc.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-15/australia-china-two-w...
Interesting. It's also lacking side-view mirrors, but I haven't heard anything about how they managed that.
This is outstanding, thanks Josh! I’ve been getting started with FPGAs and a simple dynamic memory interface with comments and discussion is a huge help.
IndexedDB is all new and "NoSQL".
You get hermetic and cacheable builds, but only if you’re willing to abandon the whole Maven plugin ecosystem and handle a lot of codegen yourself.
The silencing of dissenting voices
Here in the UK some people had mortgages that were "x% below base rate". When the 2008 crash happened, rares fell to 0 or 0.25% and they were paid by their lender for the privilege of having borrowed.
How do you know that these benefits came from quitting caffeine? There are lots of psychoactive compounds in coffee and tea. You need to get addicted to pure caffeine and wean yourself off that as a comparison.
As these 'interpretations' provide no new prediction, I think that Occam's razor apply here..
The criticisms of the Uber driver in the article seems to reflect that of the traditional taxi driver when Uber came onto the scene.
The fault for Hollywood's endless sequels, remakes, and remakes of the remake should probably be laid primarily at the feet of the American viewing public. We won't make the hike to the movies for artsy stuff like Birdman, but Spider-man I (Remake III)? Already got my ticket!
Along similar lines, I've wondered if it's possible to prove "any observing entity (e.g. a human) cannot possibly fully understand the system within which it is contained" .. any complete knowledge of a system should necessitate a larger system.
Dealers don't list their used car prices at attractive prices, but they will come down. From the research of done when buying our past two used cars (in 2013 and earlier this year), the information asymmetry was still plentiful. Dealers get cars from auctions, off-lease, trade-in, etc. You have no idea what their cost actually is, unlike with new cars.
I wonder how much that costs them, must be a fortune.
Re-reading that, I realize it could be read as my thinking that I believe all my ideas are "insanely good." What I meant is that I have many ideas that are compelling to me and seem insanely good... more than I could possibly execute on.
Outstanding talk on the history of venture capital and its possible future. Bill Janeway has a number of take away observation which are significant for anyone considering venture financing.
My problem is typically how to pick between all the insanely good ideas I have floating around.

I would say my number one rule is to pick something that is a deeply personal itch that I can scratch. It is hard to have as much motivation to tackle something because I think there might be a market for it as something that I really just want to have exist so I can use it.
It's not really a secret is it? Considering there is a link to a very readable source file...
Facebook will gladly throw in a copyright notice if it means avoiding a costly lawsuit: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9193538/Oracle_Google...

Oracle are not very nice when it comes to Java licensing. Just ask Apache.
Thanks, that's quite informative.

In a critical situation such as the pandemic, it seems to me, from a project management and engineering perspective, that it might be worth ramping up production of a vaccine (or several) even before it has passed later stage trials, and maybe even pre-distribute it a bit to national storage facilities. So if the trials look great and the side effects are sufficiently minimal, the delay for manufacture and distribution will be reduced after the trials.

But I guess I see all sorts of political problems with that, if the trials are good but the side effects are a problem, or say it causes a horrible desease for 0.1% of people down the line. The pressure to use the product would be immense, despite the trial saying no this is not safe.
1) Despite the headline, this piece is a straight-up advertisement for one particular alternative CMS, Agility. No other headless CMSes are compared or even mentioned.

2) WordPress itself can be used as a headless CMS: https://www.sitepoint.com/wordpress-headless-cms/
I was thinking more along the lines of a virus that is able to reproduce indefinitely in one species, but after a species jump ends up being able to reproduce only a limited number of generations due to the copying mechanism being subtly different in the host cell of the new species. But you're right that from an evolutionary standpoint such a virus would be a dead end if it happened in any species.

It would very much depend on how - and if - the different ribosomes and other cell mechanisms responsible for copying the viruses RNA (or DNA in some cases) would deal with the virus.

The effect you'd see would be a species jump, followed by a very virulent episode fizzling out when the copy errors accumulated to the point that the copies would no longer be viable.
Maybe, but I feel there's a great chance it inspired Shadow Mario, the main antagonist in Super Mario Sunshine.
It's definitely pretty leaky (just prompting the user for a filename already breaks it; you either leak the rules for machine strings to the user or you pray to god they don't enter something too weird).

However the problem with interaction is really only one-way, since machine strings can be safely promoted to human strings. Unfortunately even concatenating unicode strings is not necessarily straightforward; for example A+B where A has a right-to-left embedding in it but you want B to display left-to-right you need to surround it with left-to-right embedding and pop direction (this actually solves any issues I can think of off the top of my head but no one does this).

The really bad problems involve parsing user-provided non-programmer-oriented text (e.g. markdown). I really don't know if there's a robust way to do that.
/r/wallstreetbets would like to have a word with you.
You can already see this playing out on this site which tracks the rate of new cases along with the total cases:
https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en

I think the bigger issue that we'll need to address after we handle the case influx is how we'll go about achieving herd immunity.

I'm starting to think it might be wise to consider letting small, not-at-risk populations out with the intention of allowing the virus to spread in a fashion that wouldn't overwhelm the health systems. A controlled burn, if you will. I'd definitely join in to something like this.
https://solutions.synearth.net/a-community-dwelling-machine/
That's true, but nobody's going to move now with all the hazard and uncertainty, and when the world boots up again, the distribution of jobs is rather going to stay similar.
Western commenters often see the strengths of Asian countries as stemming from their governments, but much of what goes well in Asia has to do with civil society.
> A good taxi drive will get you someplace faster than a bad one, will know shortcuts and longcuts, and understands patterns of traffic to avoid them. A plumber, on the other hand, typically performs a pretty objective job, short of outright incompetence.

I find the opposite is true. There taxi drivers are barely different, but the quality of plumbers varies greatly.
The root of all this were the lies he has been spreading to undermine election security and this confidence in the results since long before election day.
How many monuments are there in the US? How are they visited? How is a monument to the pilgrims visited a hundred times more than a museum to the genocide of Native Americans?

History is not what is teached in school but how a society sees itself.

German society at large has accepted the Holocaust, because it was useful, but hasn't accepted the history E.g. of the Deutschritterorden or the genocide of the Herero and Nama - it hasn't been useful to do so. There is no monument to the genocide of the Herero in Germany. History is a tool how society sees itself.
I can’t stand guy, but can’t fault him here. His personal usage of alcohol is the same as that of the current president - zero.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/us/trump-biden-alcohol.ht...
Stallman has basically served his purpose at this point. The path forward is not further awareness-building of Free Software, because everyone is in the orbit of GPL-licensed software now. It is a problem of creating economic incentives for a commons in computing technologies.

Recall that the thing that kicked off the need for Free Software in the first place was the 1970's move to an enclosure of software under IP law to enable the existence of a "software industry" built on shrink-wrapped products. This move often comes in tandem with hostility towards users and non-repairability, but the underlying key point is that of ownership vs stewardship.

What has made the OSS/free world work historically is a dependency on a few key organizations like the FSF or Red Hat that finagled some marginal and often self-interested incentives for the creation and maintenance of the software. Much of it had huge gaps in function or documentation that gave open source an elitist image, of the "we use it internally but we can't tell you how to set it up" sort.

But more recently, we've see the rise of the Patreon developer, who can command some pretty big bucks by being a visible leader in a popular open project. You don't actually need a huge number of those to substantially propel projects forward, since if they do the job well, the drive-by contributors are much more effective, and more user issues get addressed. That is an example of how stewardship is starting to take over software. It is not an evenly distributed phenomenon, and brings certain inequities of its own, but there's some potential to devise better standard arrangements of this sort.
If the federal legislature is not elected on a platform having to do with quality-of-life issues then obviously they will not work on that or be held accountable to it.
>Uber plans to do away with human cab drivers.

>It would be easy for a non-plutocratic government to prohibit this, and that's what every country ought to do, unless/until every person gets an adequate basic income so people don't need to be employed.

So what? This is the way of technology: obsolete work becomes automated. Extending RMS' argument to its logical conclusion means reinstating many forms of manual labor (that are now done by machines) in effort to reduce unemployment. Do you want to plow your land with your bare hands? No! Do you want to drive taxis? No!

There's a special point regarding driving taxis: it's one of the most dangerous jobs currently available. Moreover, the taxi industry is infamously exploitative of drivers, such that the competition from Uber/Lyft is actually raising taxi drivers' wages in the interim.[0]

I did not expect the logical conclusion of RMS' argument to be ludditism. I find this surprising.

> Uber is an unregulated near-monopoly, so it can cut rates for drivers arbitrarily.

I think this is an unrealistic long-term view. The rideshare market has low barriers to entry and a high potential for competition, such that I expect to eventually see this market fragmented among many isomorphic companies (Lyft, Uber, SideCar, etc.), perhaps more so on a local than on a global level. I've laid out my thoughts on the issue in an essay.[1]

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/12/12/how-lyft-...

[1] http://johnloeber.com/w/uber.pdf
I find Taxis to be very stressful when traveling for two main reasons:

* I'd guess about 10% of the time they don't show up, so I have to bake in extra travel time for that. With uber I can see on my phone that they are actually coming.

* With uber I know payment is all set, Taxi's will often say that their credit card machine is broken.

I imagine these problems could start to get solved with a good open source software suite (with client mobile apps) and an organization to bring this technology to cab companies. Of course, creating something is hard, raising complaints is not. The cognitive dissonance for me is that a creator like RMS would write something like this instead of trying to lead people towards creating a solution.
The OWI arm takes a couple hours to assemble. A bunch of injection molded parts you have to pop out and snap together, along with a few screws in some places. The motors are just plain DC motors, no feedback or anything like that. My kids love playing with it.

I created a very simple Node API for working with the OWI Robot Arm + USB kit, you can get it from npm or from github.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/owi-robot-arm

https://github.com/bigbang/owi-robot-arm

I also had some fun with a project this summer turning LEGO Mindstorms EV3 kits into connected devices. They can send realtime telemetry to your mobile device, browser or other robots. We have done a couple pilots with them in classrooms as well as taking them to places like Maker Faire and Mozilla Hive events.

http://thegigabots.com/

The Mirobots look really interesting, I definitely will check those out. I can also confirm the Snap Circuits kits are tons of fun, and my kids love playing with them as well.
I see the value in his principles but I feel like it could use a more marketable steward.
First off, that's not what he said. Secondly, lots of smart people have been talking about the need for basic income when robots take over large portions of the labor force. I'm personally unconvinced that it will create mass unemployment, but I don't call it crazy.
The ACL is Dead is the best video from Zed I've seen so far. It's also a must watch for every young programmer/student, Zed provides insight how things in most of the big companies work.
I agree. To me, "Can do" does not mean I am a$$licking. I maybe desperate to get a job but I definitely am more keen to find out how the hell it is done. "Can do" to me means, I am ready to learn because I want to.
Err, no. Methamphetamine is significantly different from methylphenidate. Methylphenidate (Concerta, Ritalin, etc) is more closely related to amphetamine, but still not a derivative. It's like saying that thebaine is a derivative of codeine due to them being similar in structure.
What use does knowing bitcoin was mentioned on CNN do HN except for the repetitive promotion angle? The story doesn't come close to covering any new ground, and if you're truly interested in every press hit about bitcoin it seems like visiting www.bitcoin.org/smf/ would be your best bet.
So, he made a 'salary' of three hundred thousand, then they gave him 100 million four seconds after he quit. No, the number in the photo does not provide an accurate or complete picture of anything.
Just like any browser could run on the Mac or Linux, and ignore Windows if they preferred. Or Dell could sell Linux machines, and not Windows if they didn't want to.

The point is that Apple and MS both used the fact that vendors need them to make money (and while competitors for both exist, competitors yielded less likely return), and leveraged that position.
Is this really a matter of discovering new patterns? Aren't those patterns just mutations and combinations of already-known patterns?

In that case, wouldn't a better process be to expose yourself to new experiences, especially those that challenge you or take you out of your comfort zones? How about reading books and watching movies you have not viewed before? That would have a similar effect, right?
Yes, certainly. I'm also very glad to pay money for this type of thing because, for whatever human reason, screencasts click with me and I retain a lot from them compared to reading.
MSFT is down 4.4% now: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/microsoft-offers-more-muted...
Node.js is MIT licensed, so no, that won't happen.
Go hiking for a week.
You can run out of space on the stack, which has a smaller size than the heap, where new'd objects are placed. This can easily happen with large objects that own other large objects and it is difficult to debug without knowledge of the implementation of all of the child objects.
It's scary that companies feel the obligation to do the government favors without any actual legal mandate.

(Because if they don't... who knows; their printer shipment could be delayed at customs, their accounting practices could receive extra scrutiny, there could be a witness that says the CEO was seen at the scene of that murder. Who says the US is not a police state?)

Also, why not get one of these yellow-dot printers and just have your printer driver add additional yellow dots to it? Then when you counterfeit money, the Secret Service will go after someone else. BRILLANT.