jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The "everything is a file" philosophy came from the original Unix, but didn't quite stay consistent when things like sockets were added later. Like Linux, BSD keeps its device info in /dev.

/proc doesn't come from Linux, it comes from plan9. The /proc in Linux is a weak knock-off, since Linux doesn't support per-process mount points the way plan9 does. I don't know about FreeBSD, but OpenBSD has a port of /proc roughly on par with Linux's.
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>how do you know if students were successful or not

Well, we'd first have to work out why they're there in the first place. Are we trying to maximize their income when they get jobs (in which case there are better metrics, but they'll take longer before you can use them)?. Are we trying to make them 'well rounded citizens' (define it, and then maybe you can test it)? Is it just tax-payer babysitting (school violence would be the only relevant metric than perhaps)?

You could just evaluate the teacher themselves, and as long as they seem to be competent and honest, you could just rely on their evaluations. A kind of 'web of trust' model for testing.
Amazon is trying to consolidate into just SLU. Right now most people are either there, the Pac Med Building (which used to be the headquarters), or in Union Station.

Welcome :)
Symptoms list - https://roscomps3.securesites.net/www.nvidiasettlement.com/p...
Class notice - https://roscomps3.securesites.net/www.nvidiasettlement.com/p...

Both links from https://roscomps3.securesites.net/www.nvidiasettlement.com/c....
Sorry, didn't mean to offend. My objective was to assess interest in something like a Punnett square of possibilities and include a neutral view. I think the second option accurately addresses you're specific question, though.
"No clear visual distinction between links to glossary terms": yep, fixed a while back. Glossary terms are now green, other links are blue.

Traversal explaining: we're working on it (really). The docs have been rearranged and massaged a good bit, and they're being futher (professionally) edited now.

Flexibility: the best I can do about that without betraying the goals of the project is http://docs.pylonshq.com/pyramid/dev/designdefense.html#pyra... . I'm also working on a cookbook here: https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_cookbook which should provide the tl;dr'ers with a way to perform common tasks without needing to read didactic explanations.
I don't understand how that follows from the data? Even comparing apples to apples, so to speak, the US is at the 25th %ile. With most countries above (and below) being likely countries, once you exclude the poorest 35% from our country.

To put it another way -- stacking the cards in our favor should really put us a lot higher up the stack, considering he didn't control from spending or income.
The routes seem to be in countries that are not locking down as strictly.

Also the Asian routes tend to be routes that are not competitive by HSR for various reasons (Vietnam and Indonesia don't have any, Saudi Arabia's route is not connected via HSR); Bali and Jeju are separated from the other end of their trips by at least one large body of water with no land connection; Beijing, Shanghai, and the PRD are all way too far from each other on HSR to be competitive, as is Tokyo-Sapporo. That leaves Tokyo-Osaka, which is on the list primarily because even with HSR winning the mode share in that market the two metro areas are very large. (34m and 12m respectively, 21m if you count all of Kobe-Osaka-Kyoto)
Er, The third link doesn't even support your argument and the first two links are written by the same author.

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Signal IS much better.

It's a nonprofit, not a commerical company.

There are arguments for and against centralized systems and forks of apps. The lead dev of Signal is concerned about interoperability; but still leaves users the option of doing things the way they would like with the open source code; it's just not 'supported™'
I wish Signal didn't use phone numbers as identifiers. That's the original sin of all these apps and the convenient excuse for uploading contacts
Even without that, all the metadata which is now shared with FB and 𝙲̶𝚊̶𝚖̶𝚋̶𝚛̶𝚒̶𝚍̶𝚐̶𝚎̶ ̶𝙰̶𝚗̶𝚊̶𝚕̶𝚢̶𝚝̶𝚒̶𝚌̶𝚊̶ Friends is as sensitive as the actual transferred data. Contact lists and phone numbers are going to be correlated to Facebook profiles, messaging patterns mined, etc.

It's about time people rise up and oppose this exploitation.
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We're looking for a designer who is able to handle both the UI and UX side of things. This position would involve crafting marketing materials, landing pages, and app flow. The designer will end up dictating a huge portion of our site's look, feel, and branding.

We’ll start the interview process with a phone interview followed by video interviews with other relevant members of the team.
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I know that at face value, things look messy and unpredictable but if you really know js in and out, you'd guess the right answer (1) (Check operator precedence and associativity for reference)

The problem with people coming from more classical programming languages to learn js is that some have this condescending attitude toward the language from the get go and expect that by the virtue of having C/Java experience under the belt, that everything should look similar in js and when they encounter something like "automatic type casting" they freak out and start dissing the language but once they seriously put the effort to understand it, their frustration and bad experience starts to give away to a more positive experience and consequently more positive sentiment toward the language.

So for me it's just a question of attitude and story of prejudice and perceived supremacy of one's own language background at play here.
Russia only has 144 million people. Phones haven't been commoditized like they have in China with WeChat. They only have 15% market share. Why doesn't Apple tell Russia to shove it where the sun doesn't shine?
You are reading this wrong.

Never said he couldn't change the oil on his car, just that he never bothered to.
Didn't say he couldn't do his taxes, just that his wife takes care of it.
This happens pretty much everywhere with every online map. Kashmir, Taiwan, Western Sahara, etc. etc. Apple doing it for one country is not particularly news.

The only major-league mapping site I know that doesn't do local alterations is OpenStreetMap, and that's because OSM's attitude is "you want the map to show something else? sure, download the raw data and host your own instance".
TIL:

> brew cat sets bat as pager if HOMEBREW_BAT is set

And bat is really a nice alternative to cat.
Got to compliment you for not having any external dependencies on the site. I really wish this were more commonplace.
Does anyone believe in "change from the inside" any more?

From a "change from the inside" perspective, Apple can make more of a positive difference in pushing forward their agenda for countries like Russia, by staying in the Russian market, complying with a few government demands, and thus offering a sub-optimal form of their products/services—but still a form that has nonzero privacy/democracy/etc.-enhancing effects, relative to the alternatives that would fill the market in their absence.

For example, iOS devices at least have a universal base image where Apple knowingly makes these changes, and as few of them as possible; whereas Android devices get their firmware tampered with in each country by that country's OEMs, and so can be made arbitrarily compromised, including making those same changes to the maps on the client side.

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Or, to put a finer point on it: a company like Apple that offers privacy/security-enhancing products, opting out of a market because that market's government sees them as a threat and wants to neuter their abilities, would be like a peacekeeping organization opting out of a country because of the very things that make countries need peacekeeping (e.g. a failed state.)

Would you pressure KFOR to leave Kosovo because the Kosovo government doesn't let them do their jobs? No, that'd be reason for them to stay.

What's suddenly different if it's a profit-motivated corporation? They're still helping citizens evade state surveillance, even if entirely for selfish reasons.
And if you live in React-land, here’s a wrapper: https://github.com/Chris927/react-roughviz
Idk, I feel like we have far better software on our computers, and mirrorless/dslr's will always beat our phones in terms of raw specs.

This is more of a "Now anyone can capture decent astrophotography with just their phone!" then some revolutionary new thing if that makes sense? Basically they have to push their phone's sensor as far as it'll go and use software to remove the noise, instead of using a better lens/sensor setup (which is space and cost prohibitive for a phone).

You're still welcome to do extensive post-processing on your computer (I don't want my camera doing any processing), and indeed that's what any astro-photographer will do if they wanted.

That said I've captured some amazing night/moon photos with my A6000 that I have never been able to achieve before, and that's without any extra processing.
This book sounds very good. I'll order it.

Have you read the book "Scarcity"? It had a life-altering effect on me. The authors first illustrate the ways in which poor people make terrible economic decisions (spending it all in the first few days of getting a pay check, for example). Then they show how people who are always short of time -- poverty of time -- make similar irrational decisions with their scarce resource, time.

Once you are assured of a certain financial level, one needs to optimise for time.
Oh wow... "Jedem das Seine", right? /s
No, that would be "fin muerto"; "muerto fin" is gibberish.
I wasn't referring to spoken language. I meant when people try to literally "write like they speak" and end up sounding ridiculous because, as you said, written English could almost be another language.
A few pieces of paper that contain classes, some UI screens, some other bits and pieces, stuck to the wall above my monitor.

Alternatively, a big whiteboard with all that stuff next to my monitor.

Purpose is to have all the reference material available for glancing at during coding.
The key for me is accessibility through my (Android) phone. It is my personal portable computer - I carry it everywhere except the shower (hmmm, maybe a Ziplock[tm] bag would work there ;-).

Google docs (finally!) got their mobile editing working for the "writer" app. I've been keeping notes in the spreadsheet app because I could edit it on my Android phone (crude, and deleting rows is a problem, but worked). Now that docs works, I'll be keeping more notes on that.

GDocs can synchronize docs with Google Docs for offline editing. It has had some bumps in its operations, but has mostly worked when I needed an offline editor that could synchronize with Google docs.

I've also used Note Everything which can export to Google docs, etc., but I really like the universal accessibility and lack of synchronizing issues (assuming a network connection) of using Google docs directly.
I think that non-technical gadget-owners are a good (first) approximation of those people, since they (might) have a clear need - they want to watch something on their gadget and it doesn't work. They may not know the tool they need is called "video converter", but that's about what they need.

So, one of my marketing plans is to contact blogs/sites/people that have content / reviews / howtos / tips for gadget-owners and see whether they'd like to cover Encode.
http://michaux.ca/

http://www.cinsoft.net/mylib.html

Both are experts on JavaScript and while David Mark is controversial, Peter Michaux is not. If he is hating jQuery (and he is not the only one, about 75% of that JSMentors list considers jQuery bad), that must be for a reason. Google for "browser sniffing" vs. "feature detection" to make your own opinion.
the unofficial "below this line you are
stealing are jobs" mark is three million
yen a year.

Still a bit below the mark here (~2.4-2.5k euros/month for Austria, which is ~3.2-3.3m yen/year).

Kind of annoying when you have enough money to not need a job but not enough to not lose your work/residency permit.
From a linguistics standpoint, all paired written and spoken versions of languages are considered separate languages.
> But there's something to be said for a degree as employability insurance.

There's something to be said for going out and learning how to get things done and build a business as well. A college degree is hardly insurance for anything.

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I grew up with the idea that you went to college to make sure you could be "successful", careerwise. I was inspired to drop out of college by two individuals I knew who had bachelor's degrees, had gone on to pursue yet more college, in one case had a mountain of student loans, and both were delivering newspapers. One was still living with mom in his thirties. The other was kind of pimping out his wife (not as a prostitute, I just mean he was "supportive" of her career so she would pay his student loans and support him while he remained a total effin loser). I felt like I could deliver newspapers without a degree and would be money ahead for not having the student loans. I went back to college when I had some idea of what I wanted to do with my life.
> There's nothing wrong with nesting algorithms

This is really vague. What kind of algorithm? With itself, or just anything inside anything else? Passing the raw output of any common cryptographic hash (SHA-x) to bcrypt, for example, completely destroys its security, as bcrypt input is null-terminated.

(What happens when you nest DES in A*, anyway?)
One million dollars is a drop in the bucket for Google. Still if you want to hit 250 easily just open 5~6 chrome browsers and click ctrl+t every second. Just by opening a new tab your counter goes up. If you want to donate over 250 tabs, just create a new user on your computer and download chrome for a cause there and repeat. 500 tabs donated.
I wish I'd read this before going inside. It's very detailed, insightful and in some places poignant.
> Given the popularity of scifi/fantasy TV shows lately would be interesting to see someone attempt to adapt BoTN, but maybe that would be just too difficult

Yeah... I mean I think it could be done, the actual events of the story are straightforward enough, but it'd be impossible to produce something that wouldn't make fans of the novel pull their hair out. What I'd love to see is Severian's play adapted to a screenplay, like a one-off HBO special.
Sounds like you like the MAOIs in coffee more than the caffeine.
Linux hardware acceleration for Intel GMA 500 (Poulsbo) never materialized.

Ironically there is a bit of an underground effort on Chinese forums for getting acceleration on Windows 9x using the leaked SGX code and docs. I came across that a while ago when I was looking for something else, when it was still in its early stages. If you do not care about EULAs and other Imaginary Property laws, there is a whole new world to explore...
Big bad wolf cannot blow concrete down.
Sin preocupaciones. You're not wrong! But I was not praising things like Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, WPBakery, etc. I hate them all equally for various reasons. I meant that those third-party plugins filled a market need, and Automattic brought Gutenberg into the market many, many years later after they had established themselves. This caused detriment to users because they weren't able to convert off of third-party editors easily or cheaply.
I taught in a coderdojo for a while.

As a mentor; unless the kid wants to go, please don't come :)

So many uninterested kids from helicopter parents. Kids as young as 6 just absolutely clueless and learning nothing.

If you want your kid to program, just buy them an actual computer system with files and a terminal, not some ipad shit, and let them at it. If they code they code. If they don't, you can try teaching them when they're like 13-14 and actually have a bit of brain wattage to back up what you're throwing at them.
I learned to program in middle school and I loved it, you couldn't tear me away from the school Commodore Pet.

My kid we played with scratch for a bit and she had fun making some games but it fizzled out after a few weeks. No real love. I gave up. Maybe I'll try again in a few years.

There are coding classes and they're all very popular but to me it seems pushy parents signing up their children, none of them seem to enjoy it.
> When I decide to buy a $25k car because that's as much as I'm willing to spend I still need to determine what my "monthly" is.

I haven't owned a car and i'm almost 30, and have always enjoyed public transport so far.

When I'll decide to buy a car, I'll just f-ing pay it in full and be done with it.
> when there are editors like VSCode that can treat ordinary python files as notebooks

was doing this in emacs before there was a jupyter notebook..

as the name implies, notebooks aren't for development, they are for interactive, shareable presentation, and presentation that also works over HTTP without needing local tooling
Thanks to javascript and async callback bloat, I find most of the internet unacceptably slow, particularly on mobile. HN isn't flawless, but its rendering speed is fantastic.

It feels like clicking a link from HN is a roll of the dice, especially since many smaller servers are in the midst of a hug-of-death.
I've been lurking for a lot longer than my account has been active (probably a good 5 years now); have never seen what the criteria are for being able to downvote. Could you please enlighten me?
You're sort of proving my point. "We aren't using the force of law to silence you... yet" is not the same sentiment as "We defend to the death your right to express your opinion." Meanwhile, on the real free-speech issues of the day, liberals are furious about Citizens United and are jubilant about Net Neutrality.
May be I'm completely missing something here but my understanding is this: FP = (good hires you made) / (all hires you made). Your likelyhood of making bad hire is 1-FP. If you hired 100 people and your FP was 10% then on average you would have 10 bad hires on your team. So FP determines the number of bad hires you would eventually have. FN has nothing to do with it - it only determines how long before you make a good hire, it doesn't influence actual number of bad hires you will make.

I'm using standard terminologies here. There are plenty of textbooks and articles on confusion matrix, precision, recall, RoC etc. Not sure what definitions you are using to arrive at conclusion that FN increases the number of good hires (it only increases effort).
Comments before content, always.
Wait - they didn't use knowledge of the neural network internal state to calculate these patterns? Does that mean they could create equivalent images for human beings? What would those look like!
Thanks falcolas, yeah, I definitely meant "window snapping" in the way that almost every other desktop environment, including LXDE and Windows, means it. Keyboard shortcuts to resize and reposition windows without changing display mode. Windows has the drag to edge which I like too (although I don't use Windows much anymore).

The fact that OSX would have a feature called "window snapping" that isn't really the same is similarly mind boggling.
To some extent this is just the Futumura Projections writ large, eh?

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_evaluation#Futamura_pr... )

Anyway, I don't see the problem. I don't see how e.g. better GPUs cannibalize the performance of general-purpose CPUs, and I doubt that the market for general purpose computing isn't already saturated. You can buy CPUs for a couple of bucks (little ones), you have a supercomputer in your pocket (phone), and people only buy fancy chips to play video games.
> the scientist is agreeing to work pay free for the university by attending it

This statement makes me think you significantly misunderstand how scientists / universities function. The scientists (graduate students, postdocs, professors, staff) are all salaried employees of the university. The university does take some of the grant money given to lead professors (e.g. to pay the aforementioned salaries).
> Fractional reserve banking works because bank deposits are fungible legal tender

Actually bank deposits at commercial banks are not legal tender. Only banknotes, coins and deposits at the central bank are. In most (all?) countries, individuals are not able to open accounts with the central bank. Interestingly this is not a rule set in stone. Some central banks like the Swedish Riksbank [1] are investigating the possibility to issue virtual currency to individuals which would be a legal tender and an alternative to bank deposits.

[1] https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/payments--cash/e-krona/
I think Facebook gets the blame because they are at the end of the chain. They don't sell your data but they do sell the access to your data (from themselves through the website or tracking and what they bought from said other companies). Being that major player in the service it makes sense that they get the heat, but at the same time most people are still tech illiterate. I mean look at how people think Amazon is only a retail company.
Most APs do this once at startup.

Gives you good benchmarks when you start it but over time fails in a noisy environment.
This is something i need. I just can't bring myself into purchasing a laptop of any brand due to the black boxing and lack of upgrades. Sticking to desktop until this stagnated market exist the cave.

In terms of design i value optimal decisions without going into extremities such as thinnest possible at all costs. Logo on the CRT-level of thickness bezels - nonsense.

Bookmarking this and waiting for the reviews.
"This is not the same as Napster" - It's the same thing. Knowledge, when left to it's own nature, wants to be free and spread. The digital music revolution is just another aspect of this same concept, I never ever paid for any string of bits in my life, and never will. As an app developer, I implement all the tricks I know to stop people from pirating my work, but if they KNOW how to do it, and ARE WILLING to do it, good for them.
Would be better if it leveraged open source serverless project like Fn Project than proprietary cloud technology that locks one in https://fnproject.io