jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Tossed this into the submissions hat because I didn't know that "he spent more than a dozen years of his adult life outside the United States", and a few other tidbits in this piece.

(Not that I was an expert on Twain before, but I've been reading him, and about him, for a few years now. I'm a sucker for the "unpopular opinions" strain of famous authors, such as Mark Twain, H.L.Mencken and Gore Vidal ;-)
'Anatomic' dental implants are available now: http://bioimplant.at

Since they're milled from blocks of zirconia (with a consistency similar to hard chalk), they have to be sintered for several hours; typically, overnight. No way to do this in mere minutes!
> All cohorts included patients older than 10 years who had an index event on or after Jan 20, 2020

There were lockdowns on Jan 20, 2020? I thought lockdown measures basically eliminated influenza diagnoses—-were the majority of control cases diagnosed before lockdown measures were implemented?
>small communities with similar interests

I duno man, I've lived in small towns, they're happy to get all tribal among themselves all on their own...
I've heard of a brand called swedx that makes dumb TVs, I don't know if they're expensive or how well they work since I've never bought a new TV in my life, but here's the website (kinda iffy) if someone is interested in checking them out, probably EU only.

https://www.swedx.se/index.php?cPath=133_12800038
Likewise. It it also annoying whenever you go some where people ask oh is it on Spotify or Youtube?
yeah, that bothered me too. If it's a pseudoscience then why should I care. I hate it when such campaigns with very concrete objectives try to drag everything possible into them.
This inevitably muddies the water and leads to semantic overload, where everything is racist.
This is nonsense. There is absolutely no chance in hell this will get past privacy laws, at least in Europe. You would have to specifically opt-in.
Yes, thank you for saying so!

Unicode often gets a lot of online hate, which frustrates me, as I agree with you -- Unicode in general it is a remarkably succesful standard, technically as well as with regard to adoption.

It's adoption success isn't a coincidence, it's a result of choices made in the design -- with UTF-8 being a big part of that. The choices sometimes involve trade-offs, which lead to the things people complain about (say, the two different codepoint arrangements which can be a é -- there's a reason for that, again related to easing the on-ramp to unicode from legacy technologies, as one of the main goals of UTF-8).

There are always trade-offs, nothing is perfect. But Unicode sometimes seems to me to be almost the optimal balance of all the different concerns, I think they could hardly have done better!

The "UCS=>UTF-16" mis-step was unfortunate, and we are still dealing with some of the consequences (Java/Windows)... but the fact that we made it through with Unicode adoption only continuing to grow, is a testament to Unicode's good design again.

It's not until I ran into some of the "backwaters" of Unicode, realizing they had thought out and specified how to do things like "case-insensitive" normalized collation/comparison for a variety of different specifications in a localized and reasonably performant way...

We are so lucky for Unicode.
For someone from the west and specifically LGBTQ any area around any mosque that doesn't allow women would be hard to enjoy long-term.
I think his point was that Postrank needed performance characteristics that are not consistent with Rails' strengths. While the article came off as a rant (probably to help with publicity) it was more of an ad for Postrank and possibly for Goliath.
They include an acknowledgment to Arc90 and Readability on their acknowledgements page.

file:///Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/Acknowledgments.html
Dear Apple, is there a reason why this video is not delivered as HTML5 video?
True.. not sure Rails necessarily needs to be the right tool for every job, though. If I had a workflow like that I would probably not use Rails.
I've had this thought every time I've tried to read The Economist on my iPad -- their homepage features a rolling set of four lead stories which are accessible via hover-and-click. Since hovering doesn't work, I have to wait until they roll around naturally. It's quite irritating.
Does an in-memory scheme hashtable (backed to disk) count as a database?
Does my lowly 2-hits-a-week app count me as a web startup?
What is so special about Verizon other than its practice of charging 200% of what other carriers charge? I would have much preferred an announcement about T-Mobile support.
The carrier straight jacket is the big one. I know plenty of people that won't switch from Verizon or Sprint because ATT's network is horrible or nonexistent for them. Allowing ATT to have a 1/2 decade grip may be the biggest mistake of all.
Thanks for the constructive feedback -- your comments are very helpful. If you ever feel like telling us more about what we can do to make crocodoc a no-brainer to use, drop us an email through our site :)
This reads like a freshman in college read wikipedia and submitted a paper.
It'll be huge assuming that they're reliable, can be manufactured cheaply, and perform well. DRAM is a very advanced technology. It'll be a while before memristor-based RAMs enjoy the benefits of that kind of background.

In the end, like I said above, you show me memristors that blow transistors out of the water and I'll start designing with them tomorrow.

(Of course, I have my reservations that they'll be much help for analog circuit design: with regard to CMOS, the last few generations have been friendly to digital designers but decidedly unfriendly for analog design. (Give me 0.18u or 0.13u CMOS any day.)

Really, almost all analog CMOS chips, even at advanced nodes, still have older, bigger devices integrated as well. Even at 65nm, good old 0.35u or 0.25u devices are used for i/o and a large amount of analog design because the advantage of using smaller devices is between somewhere between negligible and negative for a lot of designs.)
Eh, some pseudo-elements have semantic meaning. My best example of this would be :link, which distinguishes between hyperlinks and bare anchors. I would typically associate :before with styling that happens visually before an element, and :after the opposite, but they have been both used here to provide for an icon before the element.
Microsoft is not a monolithic entity. People in different parts of the company have legitimately different agendas, which is also a source of lots of Microsoft's problems. I have no reason to doubt that that Alex Kipman and Shannon Loftis were being completely genuine, but it also wouldn't surprise me if MS' legal department tried legal action later on anyway. In a company with stronger leadership at the top, you might see a more consistent response (or at least a clear break when policies change), but I wouldn't expect that from MS.
If you are at a restaurant that just opened, you would find that they are extra nice to you. I would expect a startup to do the same, be extra nice to your early customers. I disagree that faking, or lying is the answer.
Same here, I wasted a good bit of time trying to work it out in Chrome before I switched to Firebug.
There are indeed differences. Much greater with SQLite vs (most) other SQL engines.

I still see it as killing something out of some ulterior motive rather than supporting something highly effective. SQLite exists because it has survived against many competitors for a long time. It's not like this is some new, untested thing that cropped up out of nowhere.

edit: just realized there's a much stronger argument here. And a bigger threat.

By not supporting WebDatabase, because the implementers all used SQLite, they've essentially guaranteed that they will never support an SQL-based database. Few are going to want to compete with SQLite on its own turf as an embedded database when it's already so optimized. Especially if they all have to agree on a spec similar to SQLite.

SQLite isn't even all that poor of a match for a JS-interfaced database. JS is nearly as fast and loose with its types as SQLite, and the types that do exist are very close to what JS has.
There's an important distinction between people "modifying the Kinect" and people writing drivers that let other devices USE the Kinect.

Not saying that the first one should still be banned, but I think this new announcement is more of a clarification that they're okay with people writing drivers and using it for puppets/roombas/their own purposes, as long as their not hacking the Kinect itself.
Each word in that address is acceptable, so, pass.. (or is that fail?)

I remember seeing the actor Alan Cumming talking about similar problems: "I'm sorry, your name is a profanity"
I've found having a hyphenated surname and an email address that ends in ".id.au" quite beneficial in determining how much thought a company has put into their computer systems.
You can start here:

http://www.wilmott.com/categories.cfm?catid=38
Personally, I'd say that FreeRTOS is just on the line, but others may draw that line differently. However, I do take your point about changing interpretations.
Another hit from the company who produced the sanitizer:

Suboxone maker Reckitt Benckiser to pay $1.4 billion in largest opioid settlement in US history

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/suboxone-maker-reckitt-benck...

Another product they sell: https://www.reckitt.com/brands/air-wick/
The code contains things that make any modern C++ or Rust developer cringe: naked pointers, unsafe type casts, raw
loops, using malloc/free to manually allocate memory for buffers, and calls to unsafe free functions like strcat. So much slow boilerplate is required to do things like handling memory allocation. The increased source code size for even the simplest things becomes harder to maintain.

Danger is waiting around every corner for you to commit a buffer overflow or type confusion error after a long day of work. Infinite chances are offered for you to leak memory. The alternative is that you could be using a language that uses highly optimized RAII types on the stack which are impossible to leak, and written by some of the best programmers in the world so you don’t have to juggle chainsaws.

C invites disaster through seemingly normal use of the language. Just embrace modernity; your code will be smaller, more expressive, more performant, and you’ll be grateful.
I haven't done leetcode type exercises in years but even then I never found them too difficult, so hard to use that as a gauge, but yeah, most of my work is implementing new products and features via somewhat fairly standard CRUD-y microservices in the cloud.
its actually part of redditquette to _not_ downvote when disagreeing. Granted, lots of people ignore redditquette but the convention is there.
I don't see the actual difference between an individual choosing to drive slowly, eat vegan, and be cold at home, and that same individual choosing to spend extra for sequestration. Assuming that the offsets are honest, admittedly a big if.

One is painful in the lifestyle, one in the wallet, and both are drops in the bucket compared to changes on a civilizational level.

Which isn't to say you or anyone shouldn't pursue your own sense of moral behavior, quite the opposite in fact.

I would even say that using a normal amount of, say, electricity, but offsetting it with carbon capture, has one advantage: using a subnormal amount makes power fractionally cheaper for others.

But by how much? Well... by about the amount of difference any one set of human actions makes.
There’s always an excuse, but there’s never any data backing your claims.

Provide even a single shred of evidence that masks affect the R0 of the virus in the real world.

Modeling studies and correlations observed in April don’t count: most of the papers published this year looked at areas where case counts subsequently skyrocketed in the fall. My personal favorite is the mask study from Jena, Germany in the spring, which only made it into a journal right as cases were reaching an all-time high in the same area:

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/12/02/2015954117

https://gesundheit.jena.de/en/coronavirus
Family of five, $2000/month on ACA for a high deductible plan with a lot worse coverage than I used to get at my previous four employers. No vision insurance, and pretty weak dental too.

ACA is not a great alternative and I lament the fact that I pay more for health care (even if I don't use it at all) than I do for my mortgage, utilities, internet, and phone bill every month. (Midwest, LCOL).
I’ll add it to the list of grievances. The list is long.
That's super cool! I can see myself using this to add dynamic content more easily on server side rendered websites.
Thanks for the details Tyler.

Exporting - From my understanding the CSV format matches the QB specification. Are you saying that it matching the filters is an issue or that the format is incorrect.

Treasury for nonprofits - We only just launched Treasury (in December) and nonprofits are a relatively small part of our business so this hadn't come up during our alpha. I am going to investigate why our clearing house does not support nonpfotis, and make sure the restrictions is clearly stated.

Tea Room Deals/Perks - We recently launched this https://mercury.com/perks. Did you see this already and it doesn't match what you want or did you miss it?

Tea - We were revamping the tea packaging so it might be on pause right now. But we do really ship some pretty nice tea normally :).

The other thing that you get with tea room is free domestic + international wires.

Anyway, I can see why your experience was disappointing. I really appreciate the feedback and hopefully we can improve to deliver something better in the future.
Yeah, I'm not saying there aren't some people who think that way. I'm specifically taking issue with the generalization.

It seems fairly common these days to throw shade on people we disagree with, and it bothers me.
I'm actually trying to unpack what I meant. I had one of those rare, sober bursts of the kind of trippy insight that usually occurs to people when stoned. :)

I'm guessing what I mean here is that chalkboards serve as a shared resource, on which multiple humans can perform operations together, or with larger problems addressed in smaller chunks in tandem. It's not "parallel computing" per se, but it's an analog analogue.
I think what the author is missing is the possibility that many academics are simply bad writers. Academic writing in many fields is extremely formulaic just so that the relevant information can be communicated regardless of the writing skill of the author. Add to that the fact that many academics are writing in a language that is not their first, so even if they had considerable skill in their mother tongue, there is no guarantee that will translate to long-form, casual English prose.

That said, I do agree with the article that it is an interesting time to be an academic, or at least to be observing the progress and development of academia. I highly doubt that populist writing in the vein of "Bad Astronomy" or (heaven forfend) the works of Dawkins will ever replace the dry, staid prose of the academic journal. What is happening is that new means of communicating information are forcing academics into media where the traditional formulae leave them in the lurch.
FYI, you are stronger than the average grad. People get pretty defensive when it comes to skills; nobody wants to believe they're below average if they're frequenting this site.

My one piece of advice: keep studying and practicing making beautiful software, in and out. Be careful who you take technical advice from; the industry right now is flush with cash, and thus there is a huge incentive to talk more than produce. Projects are often killed as quickly as they're started, causing people not to practice program design.
I agree with not using drugs except if necessary (i.e. not a simple cold).

Also, I hate when an article has the word "scientists" with the quoted work "linked". Looks too much like click baiting.
Seconded. Scientology is pretty good at corrupting people, and has quite a few prominent people in their ranks. John Travolta, Chick Corea, Tom Cruise, Isaac Hayes. Pretty sad in a way.
If they don’t care why are they paying billions to be the default search engine on iOS? Obviously they value data from iOS.
A shareholder can also reinvest dividends. Doesn't that accomplish the same thing as not participating in a buyback?
"architectural wank" -- that's one for the dictionary!
On GCP I do something similar with regional disks:

- Disks are replicated to another zone on every write.

- Incremental disk snapshots can run once per hour and are stored in Cloud Storage.

This means when the OS fsync's it is actually copying those bytes to another zone.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks#repds
I'm not really an Emacs user, but I'm lisp-curious. I just assumed viper-mode was the best Vim plugin for Emacs. Now it looks like that's not the case.
And here's some reporting that aggregates questionable practices and student complaints: "The High Cost of a Free Coding Bootcamp"[1]

And here's some paywalled reporting from The Information with even more student complaints: "Lambda School's Growing Pains: Big Buzz, Student Complaints"[2]

Please, tell me more about the view from the inside.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/11/21131848/lambda-school-co...

[2] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/lambda-schools-growi...
That should be U74 (dual-issue roughly Cortex A55) not the older single-issue U54. The U74 should be roughly 1.6x faster at the same clock speed.
A Farewell to Alms & Capital in the 21st Century give a lot of insight into this as well.

More importantly - the _low_ inequality was really only in the US. Ever since the beginning of agriculture, the world has grown steadily more unequal. It peaked in the Belle Epoch in France (leading up to WW1), and we've recently sky-rocketed past that level.
> Please recommend any books, articles, etc advocating reforms.

Ilya Somin is a law professor who writes a lot on ED-reform.

As far as action, the Institute for Justice looks for cases they think they can make with, and lobby for legal reform.

https://ij.org/issues/private-property/eminent-domain/

You'll find they both come at things from a libertarian direction, but neither are rabid.
Isn't https://www.reddit.com/r/ForeverAloneDating/ for dating misfits?

Also, was that "service" basically a clone of GreaterExpectations (the one SNL made fun-of as LoweredExpectations)? One where they have "binders" that are basically collections of random photos and charge ridiculous sums for doing nothing useful?
Out of curiosity, are you avoiding a filter with the emoji thing ? It took me a while to get it...
Great article! Love to see one of the best living American writers show up on HN.
never claimed superiority, just vast difference. laid out in a subsequent comment.

but perfectly fine with strong language in internet forum posts, it is a consequence free area.
the point of technical interviews is to see how you think about problems, getting it correct isn't even that important. i can understand why people really hate this stuff if they did not come from a cs background, but it is a knowledge gap that they should look to bridge eventually...
A great title would have been: The Guts of Git.
it would be good if you also describe

what kind of architexture you are using for the app and why - what frameworks , languages ( django, jquery )

also what other tools you are using for development/testing and why ( github, eclipse, firebug etc.)
While they make the obvious point that communication has been bad, the analysis loses site of reality at some point. With an outage of this size and duration, clearly the outage is the problem. Better communication might smooth some feathers, but at the end of the day if a lot of your big customers are down it won't matter a ton.

I've heard one of the arguments several times: that good early communication would have allowed many customers to move off of the East region early and avoid bulk of the problem. Given the size of the East region, it's hard for me to imagine they would have had the ready capacity to accept some sort of mass migration. Worst case you could imagine load/peak use problems significantly degrading service in other regions as customers moved.
Wouldn't you want to have a good contact who knew something about homesteading for this?
Non-dev here going through the ropes with PHP and Javascript
The main reason they don't want to do that is because their target market won't have any idea what X GB or Y TB means. Unlimited is their whole draw. I agree with the various sibling replies saying that it's not reasonable to expect them to allow truly unlimited storage. If you're storing petabytes, it's too much. But what they could easily do is simply include a clause in their TOS saying, "'Unlimited' in this context means up to 10TB" or whatever. Large enough that it would be effectively unlimited for any reasonable personal use, but still there's a cap to prevent true abuse. Much better than this, "There's actually a limit, but we won't tell you what it is," nonsense.
For me, buying a Nexus 4 when it was first released meant there were multiple tradeoffs in comparison to other smart phones on the market. The largest was lack of support if anything went wrong with it in return for pure android experience with frequent updates. There were certainly plenty of hardware and software issues as the new device was naturally buggy and acted up upon app or software updates. At the end of the day, tradeoffs are part of the android experience I bought into and I wouldn't go back in time and buy any other phone. Live with the nexus consequences or don't buy it, with technology progressing so quickly in the mobile space every two years you should probably be buying a new device if you are android advocate.
The last time I checked, if I buy a hamburger and decide not to eat it, that is entirely up to me. This simply sheds light on how the airline industry perceives its customers, which is to say that it doesn't perceive them at all, but rather sees an empty seat, whether or not it was paid for, as being lost revenue.
Depends on which side will be hurt more. Chinese companies have limited direct sales in US. As the congress/ Huawei affair a couple of years ago showed that they are just not welcome.

While a lot of stuff is made in china, it is OEM-ed for american companies.
If the account isn't clearly linked to you and you own to content, send them a DCMA takedown notice?
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