jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In other words, we need an optimizing linear algebra compiler to compile high-level abstractions to efficient BLAS/MKL calls, instead of just interpreting them for a literal translation. For example, in the case of NumPy, when given x = inv(A) @ b it should attempt to optimize it as x = A \ b under safe conditions. So, why not the best of both worlds?
do browser support put at all?
This discussion is somewhat turning into pedantry, but if it depends purely on linux then you can probably run it as a native app. The problem is that you're missing a lot of the system dependencies that are extensively used on Desktop linux.

Many linux deployments are servers, and they won't run a windowing system - that doesn't make them any less of a 'linux' distro. Programs like Apache for example are a fundamental part of the ecosystem and aren't dependent on X.
more on the story of Henrietta Lacks:
http://www.jhu.edu/jhumag/0400web/01.html

and the ethics of taking her cells without her consent:
http://magazine.jhu.edu/2010/06/immortal-cells-enduring-issu...
I always wondered why a box flashes around the ducks whenever I took a shot. Now I know.

Although I certainly perceived it every time, not just when there were multiple targets (which is what the article claims). I don't recall perceiving the black frame, though.
Yep they are. Major faux pas!!! just checked it. And they even provide links to amazon for buying the movies. I never noticed this until I was looking for it today and i spend a lot of time at imdb.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database
Tl;dr; they wouldn't seem independent and unbiased.
Except that Daikatana was never particularly revered as a triple-A game, so far as I can remember! ;-)
Supports DuckDuckGo but not Bing? What sense does that make (no offense to DuckDuckGo but, seriously, it's not in the same league as Bing).
So what? The american public doesn't know much about it. The american public doesn't know enough to comment meaningfully about radio spectrum regulation, either, but clearly that's important and shouldn't be subject to the whims of the politically-motivated Rasmussen polls.

When the american public is automatically redirected from FaceBook to FIOSBook because their last-mile provider is Verizon, they'll care. The FCC should be ahead of the public, do the right thing, and take their lumps from stupid politically-motivated polls like this.
Very handy - worked well for a couple of simple rules; it'd be good to see more feedback when it can't handle something (e.g. feeding it the rules from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/992565/why-isnt-this-rewr... just results in a greyed-out URL field).

Trivial nit: backslashes are doubled when rules are restored from the session.
While there's a bunch of things I wish Apple would fix in OSX...

If Photoshop stopped crashing all the time and Finder stopped freezing because external hdd's were too slow. I would have less issues with OSX.

I can't believe people swear by OSX for graphic design despite the fact that Photoshop crashes all the time.
> Plants or minerals that have helped people for thousands of years are called "homeopathic" or "alternative" by real doctors.

No, homeopathic medicin is called homeopathic by real doctors. Homeopathy is not ancient, it was invented in 1796. It also does not involve plants of any kind.

Plants that do help or seem to help and have been in use for hundreds or thousands of years are only called alternative when there either has not been research to show that they are effective, or there has been research that shows they are not effective.

Alternative does not necessarily mean bad. The word is merely used as a way to distinguish unproven medicine from scientifically proven medicine.
> Rather, it's a byproduct of a seriously messed up world/society/personal relations landscape, that depressed individuals are more sensitive to or have felt more deeply.

You can proclaim whatever you want, that don't make it true.
Jane Jacobs' work is famous, but yet still under-appreciated, and her ideas IMO under-implemented.

For the most part we're still stuck with half-assed bastardized versions of Le Corbusier's shitty ideas about the Radiant City, even though we've already seen terrible results from it across the board.

One thing that disappoints me is that American cities are experiencing a huge resurgence in urbanism, but yet most of this comes in the form of isolated towers attached to parking garages, not any structures that would encourage street life or "eyes on the street" to any substantial degree. Huge apartment buildings are going up in "revitalized" downtowns throughout the country yet the streets are as ghostly and empty as ever.
Glad to hear it's working well. Have you tried storage features like reverting to snapshots/checkpoints (e.g. reset a disk to known state on each reboot), or shrinking of unused space in thin-provisioned disks?
Great perspective on the future, we would need many more similar discussions. I love the main message of the post, i.e. "we need to grow up". I have the impression that while we are all optimistic that the future is owned by software developers we don't realise that not for all. There will certainly be more segmentation in our profession and there will be great demand for high-end developers. This requires a lot of learning, and I personally feel it's a tough challenge.

The post also made me realise how much we still think in terms of disciplines. E.g. we think a developer should learn more mathematics. If we were thinking in terms of problem solving, or "modelling reality" (at least in part with software) we couldn't separate these so easily. E.g. if you are writing a software for vehicle condition monitoring you use a combination of engineering, physics, mathematics, computer science - the less you try to - or need to - separate them the better you do.

I can't quite put it simple, but in my mind I can see the future "developer", how got a BSc in Physics, went on to work as a software developer for a couple of years and then continued to learn every day maths, physics, biochemistry, worked in various projects where she could use all these. She is neither a physicist, nor a software developer or mathematician.
I think the author claims more like "it works", not that "it is solved".
I typically store the env _name_ in the environment, and then use that in my apps to build a path to the file containing secrets (e.g. /etc/{mycompany}/{environment}/myapp.conf). The file is locked down by ACLs or permissions.
Duppity dupe.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1416747
I read "Ayn Rand and the World She Made." I found it fascinating. I don't like her philosophy, but she's a fascinating person. She was extraordinarily driven, worked damned hard, and eventually succeeded by even her own standards.

Part of the fascination for me is finding out: what were her motivations? What drives a person to work like this? And, since I personally don't like her philosophy and find her self-described followers unsettling, what lead to that? I don't disagree with some of her basic premises (the importance of rationality), but I disagree with where she often ends up. Why is that? I got an answer from the book.

I think this is different from wanting to read People magazine, but maybe you disagree.
Points of note:

1. The most useful content goes on top.
2. A fantastic way to add great content is to simply allow moderated comments.
3. We love our fancy image headers but text is better.
4. When location matters, be specific (country, state, zip, city)
5. Keep in mind what people actually search for
You're missing the point. She glorified the "productive people", the people who, if absent, would lead to the collapse of society. John Galt, Rand's superhero, was nothing like Rand. Let's face it, Rand never did Science, nor Technology, she invented nothing, she did not start businesses that generated jobs. All she did was write and have tea and cookies with her fellow Manhattan socialites who believed that the world owned them something. Rand wrote book for teenagers and emotionally retarded individuals who believed they were special and unique snowflakes and that the evil world failed to recognize their extraordinary talents.

It could be worse. At least Rand valued hard work and self-reliance. It would have been worse if her books glorified being a social parasite.
if someone gives you a better offer, can i have your defense job? sounds pretty cushy to me
It shows that China cares more about image than function. That suggests, to me, that they have more money to invest than time to vet applicants.
Holy cow, if you go into street view on Edna Dr. under the plane you can see contrails, probably not the same plane but still kinda neat.
These companies are really set up to prevent people from doing this.
How's Israel this time of year?
That threat is always there, these changes would only put more power into student's hands.
What could be a good description of the Gateway orbit and the rationale for choosing that?
This link goes to YouTube's main page.
This is all too often true for many things. Take asbestos for instance, the timescale with it wasn't just a century but about two millennia! The ancient Romans knew about its dangers, as those in asbestos mines were well known to suffer from what was then called wasting disease.

Move on about 1900 years to the late 19th Century and early 20th Century when the British Admiralty and others commissioned
multiple reports into ships' boilermakers, etc. who were commonly found to suffer asbestosis or mesothelioma from the dust from the lagging on steam pipes and boiler insulation.

Despite these damning reports citing clearcut evidence of asbestos causing life-threatening disease, they were all but ignored as asbestos was considered too useful - it outweighed human health considerations.

Keep in mind that most of these reports were commissioned by governments - and unlike commercial interests with a
vested interest in making money - governments are supposed to act in the interests of their citizenry but they didn't.

If governments don't give a damn then there's precious little hope until public pressure eventually forces them to act, which, all too often, is long after considerable harm has ourred to many individuals.

It's quite tragic really that those supposedly in charge of our governance can be so callous so often.
Typing in his first and middle name suggested his last name. However, the search he was concerned about was his first and last name leading to his first and middle. That was not in auto suggest.

Put another way, online readers knowing his IRL name, fine. But people he worked with IRL, he preferred not to point to the online persona.
I'm not sure on the specifics of what you mean, but zig comes bundled with and wraps gcc. `zig cc` command directly forwards to gcc (try `zig cc --version`) and zig's build system can be used to build C programs.

Zig currently is able to target quite a bit. There's a good chance you could open an issue and it would get added, or find an existing issue and see where it is on the roadmap.
I grew up in the south, though not a southerner. When I moved to Boston (25 years ago), I found my people. The honesty in how people react to you is something else. The "townies" have turned it into an art form, and I love/roll-my-eyes-at them for it.

For those of you who recognize the internal curmudgeon in yourself, move to Boston. Remember: "I LOVE HUMANITY, IT'S PEOPLE I CAN'T STAND"
TBH the CPI index has had an air of funkiness for the last 2 decades. In the run-up to the subprime crises the measure was altered to use "rental equivalent" to avoid factoring in the increase in real real estate prices.

There were interesting arguments for this change of course, and pages of economic research. But the whole thing reeked of finding a justification for a foregone conclusion.

Ultimately there are many factors the CPI simply cannot include, or due to the lack of ground truth can be argued away. If tomorrow real estate prices 10x'd but this price change never made it to residential rents then CPI wouldn't budge. If every farm in the US shuttered due to commercial real estate shooting up 10x but consumers could still import food the CPI wouldn't budge.

Which ultimately goes to say that the use of CPI as the GDP deflator in monetary theory is arbitrary. Treating it as a gold standard measure of inflation risks ignoring inflation in other prices (and in turn systematically miss-estimating GDP).
I thought that too as have been exposed by my neice.

Turne out this article is from 2010, hence not mentioning "let it go".
List of plugins is useful to detect the presence of Adobe Flash.
find (or maybe just GNU find) has the equivalent of stat built in so you can even do:

find -printf "%u %g\n"|sort|uniq -c
I hope people don't study this. The answer to this question doesn't matter.

The whole point of this question is to (1) gauge the clarity of the candidate's communication when explaining complex systems and (2) have them get to a place where they simply doesn't know and must start making assumptions of how things work and weigh the various tradeoffs. That's where things get interesting.
If they're running separate VMs then your threads aren't really threaded in any meaningful sense; you could equally well run those VMs in separate processes (shared-memory communication between distinct processes is not completely trivial but it's very much doable).
"Problematic?" Why is that? Straight women and gay men enjoying beefcake aren't hurting anyone.
>But you may have to like debugging to like programming, considering the degree to which programming consists of it.

Odd. I barely do any debugging at all. If it compiles, it's usually right, and when it's not, I just kick back and think. Thinking takes a lot more of my time than writing or debugging. Perhaps that's because I work largely by myself on those components - there is no one else's intent to grasp.
Non paywall

http://pastebin.com/XVF6RseQ
It requires a network-effect for it to work, if more and more vendors accept crypto then how is that fundamentally different that fiat currency to buy raw materials and pay employees with?
Study finding no correlation between stablecoin issuance and BTC price - https://voxeu.org/article/stable-coins-dont-inflate-crypto-m...
I'm like this, and other successful programmers I know are like this. But I wonder how applicable this is to people in other industries. Does everyone have something they like to do for which the market will reward them?
4K on a 28" monitor is only 150 DPI. It is a step up, but not as nice to look at as a rMBP 220 DPI screen (you can see the pixels everywhere!). The retina iMac has to go to 5K to look as nice as an rMBP.

After we go to 5K, why not 8K on a 27" screen?
Public sector unions are fine. Police unions are a problem.
>>> timeit(a, number=1000000)
... 0.102125167847

Measurements shouldn't be quoted without some kind of range, confidence interval, error bar, etc.

I've not come across timeit before, but maybe they could learn a thing or two from systems like Criterion http://www.serpentine.com/criterion/
I wouldn't stay it stuffed up my life, but I wish I hadn't listened to it:

"Music is a hobby."

I'm catching up though.
Excellent. Thanks for that.

This is good thread also

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/csharplanguage/th...
"You must go to college" by everyone. What a waste of perfectly good 3 years (I finally dropped out then).
If they're not about saving money, why do people get concerned about their effective miles-per-gallon?

Reducing dependence on foreign oil?
Yes and let's call JSON, XML 2.0?
Oh I don't know, I enjoy tracking down obscure bugs from badly formatted data sent by a client system using a JSON API that I changed 6 months ago.

</sarcasm>

I wholeheartedly agree; introducing schemas is obviously a benefit to JSON. Schemas make things more predictable and plus, nobody's forcing you to use one.
slight offtopic: that's one of my favorite error messages that is actually relatively common.
I'm confused and disappointed by this comment. I can't decide if what I wrote was that unclear or if you're just flaming me, as I didn't say anything about sovereignty, anything about law not having foundation in force, or anything about desiring to declare the independence of my garden. I thought we were talking about individual property rights and have had the rug pulled out from under my feet.

Though it feels like I'm bringing a pen to a flamethrower fight, I'll attempt to clarify.

In describing property as a "polite fiction" I am acknowledging that it is not real. Brute force is as real as it ever was, but in practice the abstraction of property means it is usually the option of last resort. We've all benefited from that. To wit, I consider the present notion by contrast a few degrees beyond (more advanced than) brute force, though you are right to say that it is not beyond (free of) brute force.

So, to venture back to the original context from which we've so far strayed: although you try to cast the concept of intellectual property in an absurd light by putting it into an era of development in which it did not and could not exist, it remains true that the more fundamental concept of property was crucial to the same development beyond that era you claim intellectual property would have prevented. We grew by adopting a fiction, and now have an abundance of recorded history indicating that being a "figment of our collective imagination" is not a bad thing when it reflects the human perception of value better than reality. I trust you can see the parallel in the three centuries that ownership of a book has been distinct from the ownership of a copy of the book, or that at the very least you would not regard our intellectual development in that time as having languished.
The way I have usually seen this expressed is that you take funding that would otherwise go to support/welfare programs, and use it to fund this. The problem becomes one of who is responsible if the particular investment fund/vehicle doesn't perform well enough to even pay back the original $10K? If it's going to be Government directed, then what the US buys and sells becomes a bit of a market mover, and you have to invest "against" that to have any hedge if the person running the US fund guesses wrong.

This has also been proposed as a way to get out of the Social Security "mess" that is heading our way.

Not saying it couldn't be done, but haven't seen the idea ever get much traction.
Who doesn't? But I'm with you. I personally don't share photos of sunsets, or food, or anything that someone can experience themselves.
My friend had some eggs from his chickens in his backyard and I was surprised I didn’t like them as much as the Happy Egg Co. Heritage Breed eggs I buy at Sprouts. The eggs are $8 a dozen and the only eggs I’ll eat now. Everything else tastes off. Maybe the flavor is from the breed of chicken? The eggs are brown and blue.

They definitely have the same hard boiling issue with a strong membrane.

I want it to be placebo as these eggs are expensive and I spend a few hundred a month on them. But I’ve bought every expensive brand of egg I can (Vital Farms, among others, which _used_ to taste amazing then became popular maybe and tasted like any other egg?) and _only_ this brand tastes different than a bog standard cheap egg.

The same thing happened with Kerrygold butter. Regular cheap butter tastes like I’m eating Crisco now.
> He’s not interested in “free speech” either, just more Musk speech.

That’s really quite demented. Obviously, the real concern is that he would unban Trump.
Come to New Mexico. There's "natives", "locals" and everyone else.
In the US there is a brand called Happy Egg with a dark orange yolk. They are my preferred brand now, because who wants to buy unhappy eggs? They are the only one I can find with dark orange yolk.
I've found Lightweight Architecture Decision Records (as markdown docs in a repo with the code, or wherever makes sense) to explain the current landscape, options, decision, and foreseeable consequences. Keeping it really light makes it tolerable for people who don't like to write docs, though does need the team to insist on the doc for anything non trivial.

I also like using the Draw.io vscode extension to draw diagrams without having to export into a separate file or copy into the repo.
I do like the human species, quite a bit, actually. Sounds like we're starting from fundamentally different points of view, so I'll leave it at that.
Agreed; but certainly the red line is sites which some people believe are scum and others believe are holy (thepiratebay, fox news, RT, DDGs direct competitors).

If anything this story/non-story has taught us is, there still exists potential cursed product changes which can sink large internet phenomena, like Digg was sunk.
Wh-what? Opium mixed with Tylenol?

Is this GPT3 or a weird troll or what.
> The SF police budget ... now stands at $5000 per household per year, which is absurd.

It is absurd. Its so absurd that I have a hard time believing it.

Statistics in this article suggest the SF law enforcement budget is close to 10% of the city's general fund, about 700 $/citizen. Its neighbors spend a much, much larger share of their muni budget on policing.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/editorspicks/slideshow/Defund-th...

Policing efforts scale with the size of the populace. As a fraction of the city budget, it has decreased from 13% to 10% between 2010 and 2019. If anything, that is the absurdity.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/After-years-of-spe...
The optimization got moved to unicode objects during the great Python 3 upheaval and AFAIK still remains unimplemented for what are now bytes objects. The paramiko SSH library relied on it heavily, as a result its runtime is (AFAIK still) horrific on Python 3
From what I remember (and this was a while back), wifi calling establishes an IPsec tunnel to the cellular provider (using your SIM for auth) and tunnels GSM frames over it. It's intended to let you handoff between "real" towers and wifi networks the same way that you move between one tower and another, which I assume means that it has to implement some functionality that is normally hidden in the baseband processor.
...and the fact that we deal with it and get to decide who we want to be is what separates from other animals.
There are wind turbines in Antarctica that don't freeze up. So what's happened with those Texan wind turbines? Someone forget to lube them or something?
that's cables? or the 3D printed mount?
Fair enough, but I think we can agree that the techniques behind building a geopolitical strategy game that sells well is understood. The past three Civilization games have surpassed 5 million units each.

Paradox games has several games in the million+ club, and their games are insanely complicated niche games which take longer to learn than most AAA titles take to complete.

On the other end of the spectrum is Off World Trading Company. That game is the essence of great strategy distilled down into little more than the fundamentals.
If curious see also

Related from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21484321
"If you ignore all the cities people want to live in, the remaining don't have a housing crisis."
The UNIX shell is not just nice, for people like me it's crucial. And mind you we are talking about Windows vs. macOS here, not macOS vs. everything else.