jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I can assure that you both pets and children work on the waking early bit. The trick is actually getting to be on time the night before and falling asleep quickly. But, if you've walked the dog and entertained the child, you'll be tired and fall asleep quickly.

I used to have a lot of problems going to sleep but since children it's a thing of the past. I still struggle with getting to bed on time (he says, posting at HN when should be going to bed)
The no meals thing/only sleep thing works for 10 hour flights but not for 20+ (Europe/US - Australia). For really long haul flights, do all of what he said, but only at "night time", i.e., when they dim the lights for you to sleep. Eat and drink (water only, and drink a lot of it, you'll need the excuse of going to the bathroom to get off your butt and walk around on the plane and get the circulation going a bit, also it's easy to get dehydrated on long haul flights) whenever it's offered, though you can probably miss snacks if you're sleeping.

I always end up tired when I arrive, but I've usually had close to 10-12 hrs sleep at various points on the plane trip, so I've "had" enough sleep, it's just the exhaustion of the actual travel and jet lag.

Then the biggest thing for jet lag is, keep busy for the rest of the day and go to bed "normally", i.e. when it's the actual time to go to bed in the new place; usually that'll kick the jet lag pretty quickly.
I am sure you software is great, but kicking me out because i am running flash player 9 tells me you don't want me as a customer.
Ken Rockwell is a contrarian, and that's what I like about him. However, I took his advice on buying a camera once and ended up with a fiddly touch screen camera that I found out I did not enjoy once I got home from my vacation. In his writings he prefers ease of use to complexity of control. I have seen some great videos done with the 5D's manual focus, like on Canon's Beyond The Still contest. http://vimeo.com/groups/beyondthestill
Wow, I really enjoyed that. For a totally unexpected reason...

There's lots of discussion here at hn about MBAs and I often comment about how little use I got out of mine. I remember little from marketing, finance, and operations classes. But I remember the case studies. The comprised almost half of the curriculum. And I hadn't thought much about them for years. Until reading this post.

This reads like a Harvard Business Review case study. It's got everything that makes for good business reading: compelling ideas, profit and loss, tradeoffs between profit and growth, economic considerations, competing interests, and most of all, characters. For a minute there, I thought I was reading Lee Iacocca. This could even make a great Hollywood script.

Great post. Thank you dwynings. I gotta get this book!
Banks and investors make money by doing nothing

Marx thought the same thing, and decided that to remedy the situation the lower class should steal the capital from the upper class. Marx was wrong, and so are you.

Cynicism about capitalism is popular in this recession, but that speaks less about the failures of capitalism and more about the fickleness of public opinion. Allocation and management of capital is a bit harder than throwing money at things and expecting it to stick, as millions of American investors have discovered over the past two years. Anyway, it seems ironic to have this pseudo-communist whining on a board run by a venture capitalist.
It wasn't my claim. I responded nonetheless. Whether you wish to accept my answer or not is not something I am interested in.
That's about $75,000. I am sure a lot of people pay that. Its nice to see that it also buys you better insurance, pretty good. That's the way it should be! In the UK all you get is the same kind of health care irrespective of your contribution.
I don't like Microsoft very much, and I'm aware of every technology that MS has stolen or copied, MS-DOS and QDOS, Windows and the Xerox windows interface or C# and Java. But this DaaS concept is an interesting one as it is different from Chrome OS or EyeOS. Kudos to Microsoft!!
Dutch culture has become more clique-oriented, where you have your close friends from a very young age, but casual acquaintances keep each other at arms length much moreso, and it's a bit less trusting of a society than others.

I'm Dutch and have spent all my 34 years here. In the last two years I have found 4 new friends and my last three jobs (8 years in total) have left me with a good friend each.

I'm also an introvert and spend about 80 hours a week behind my laptops.

If you experience the Dutch as clique-oriented, you might be looking in the wrong places. In my experience cities with a university have a more open culture.
Works pretty well on Chrome 7.0.517.44

Unfortunately playing a game on a 16X16 canvas is not so entertaining for those of us who's eyesight is a little bit weak...
None of this really matters. Developing a film does not involve an implied transfer of copyright, no matter how good the person in the darkroom is.
All of which is happening in China plus the wiping out of massive amounts of historically significant buildings with so much as a thought
Oh my! That `||` is gorgeous. I hadn't seen that before.
"And no, that doesn't bum me out."

Yes, I think the difference is for what you're using this picture.

One way would be to get depressed, to suffer from the meaningless of life.
But then you have just used the picture to feed the one, who is
harming you, the ego. He's the one who takes the fun, the freedom
out of your life, because he tells you what you should be and do.
Is there a name for the annoying pop-ups and stay-ups that go on the top and bottom of web pages these days? If not, may I nominate "dickbar"?
Unfortunately for the author's hypothesis, there are two very significant words that don't appear in this article anywhere: "resource" and "lock"
Pie charts are mostly useless...

I really don't see any reason for their usage here, except of their resemblance to the shape of the sun (and analog clock).
Pretentious but entertaining article that tells us what's fairly obvious with a little reflection.
Checking the calendar: not yet first april...
But if nobody remembers them, as MCRed says, does it really hurt their brand?
Anyone have any idea how much extra "positional" info one could extract out of the position of the sun + an accurate clock?

Granted, I know you couldn't quite get an exact 3d positional reading from just those. But the way I see it, these are complementary systems, and if possible, this extra "data-point" can add accuracy by further narrowing down possible actual locations. Sort of like overlapping 3d volumes (from different systems, with differing levels of accuracy), that allow you to triangulate your position. Each data-source incrementally removing "definitely-wrong" or "very-innacurate" data points from your end calculation.
I don't understand this perspective of if you're willing to work for the government you're joining the dark side. If you aren't willing to work freely to make your own government better, what good are you as a citizen? He's willingly started a new job to try to improve people's lives. You want to make the government better? You have two major options, voting and joining the government and actually taking responsibility for some tiny piece of it.
I don't believe cloud computing had anything to do with "just a bookstore" either and it turned out pretty well for them.
I dont think that you need so much pages - most of 150B pages will be never ever shown displayed at SERP.
Here is the blog post about it from the author. It goes into the motivations behind building it and the fact that it was fun project over the weekend

http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/02/ninja.h...

I've used ninja only during my experiments with chromium and I found it blazing fast.
In [8]: "ß".upper().lower()
Out[8]: 'ss'
There is a movie from the 80s called Wargames that you might enjoy.
>most users dont think their match/not match choice is affecting that profile’s visibility to others

They don't? Isn't this the fundamental mechanic of tinder?

Something I think is more surprising is that your choices effect your visibility to others. Swiping right too many times is bad.
I don't think you're getting it. It will not work. A fresh start is to delete the account and create a new new one.
As far as I can just looking around my neighborhood and looking at a few known-vacant buildings, there are plenty of houses that are vacant for investment reasons.

And the dynamics of the market sort of reinforce this. Real estate is a great investment but land lording is hard. Renting below market lowers the value your investment and so does leaving your investment open as a rental indefinitely.

Sure, just about anything that opens up will get many applications. But most of those will be from people who technically can't afford the location - because house is unaffordable, people making 3x the rent you are charging are scarce and the most desperate people put in the most applications, so any landlord will find most people applying look like bad renters and not want to deal with the situation.

And for the same reason, some portion of the "between renters" category may be actually off-market too. If the landlord is for the perfect renter, they may look forever.
This is because targets have different binaries. The change in the code is removing one if statement.
Well, one can have kids from other partners, not only within marriage.
Why did it have to be a verbatim copy rather than just a very similar API spec?
1 factor of 2 factor auth is completely useless without any identity to tie it to
Very cool, although I feel like this should have been implemented a long time ago. I mean think about it: do you really want your users to pull data across different regions? Amazon will probably know how to do this replication safely, securely and cheaply.
I've noticed a good positive correlation between income and the level of bullshit people put on their resumes.
Nightly WebKit release !== Safari release
His daily schedule is very similar to my work schedule...

...except I don't outsource my work
Good API design is, like "installability," a critical and often neglected aspect of software engineering. I find that bad APIs are the norm in every area, not just crypto. Audio and video stuff is just hideous.

I used the NaCl crypto for ZeroTier One but basically refactored the code into C++ classes that build like normal modern C++.
I don't know about CEPL but when just using OpenGL you can simply redefine functions that are called in the main thread and they will execute there. You build up a lot of indirection to allow redefining things at run time.

It's also a good idea to write some macros to send the forms to the main thread when working with graphics libs.

This in clojure will eval the form once at the desired point in the program, it just queues up the forms and executes one every time it's called. The stuff below is racey but works.

(def eval-points (atom {}))

(defn eval-package
[package]
(binding [*ns* (:ns package)]
(eval (:form package))))

(defmacro eval-point
[name]
(swap! eval-points assoc name [])
`(do (let [fs# (~name @eval-points)]
(when (peek fs#)
(eval-package (peek fs#))
(swap! eval-points assoc ~name (pop fs#))))))

(defmacro package-form
[& form]
`{:ns ~*ns*
:form '(do ~@form)})

(defmacro eval-at
[name & form]
`(swap! eval-points
assoc
~name
(conj (~name @eval-points)
(package-form ~@form))))

So you would place (eval-point :foo) somewhere in the main loop so things like OpenGL calls are possible, then when evaling forms from the REPL you wrap them like:

(eval-at :foo (blah 0.3 0.3 0.3))

You can easily do the same in common lisp.
That seems reasonable to me. Other figures in the game industry retain their relevance and are known to me, a contemporary. Crawford, instead, is not.

His writings are difficult from my perspective. He claims to be a genius in quite a few areas, including AI. However, in each of these areas, history has passed him by. None of his ideas seem substantial or important from today’s perspective.

And this is not, how he claims, only our fault for missing his genius.
Instead, this person seems to be what we academics call "not well read".

His musings about AI do not predate the science. What he writes about, his work in the mid to late 70s, was already known in the 50s and 60s, as far as I can tell.

Similar to his insistence that game designers somehow do not know about systems, I think this is in part because he does not read or engage with work that is not his own.

It’s one thing to fail to communicate one’s work. It is another thing to ignore the work of other’s and use this to fuel one’s own impression of the state of the world.

Let me put it differently:
To be a successful researcher or, I'd argue, developer, you have to learn to deeply respect the contributions of other people. This includes being honest about them. One needs to see deficiencies, yes, but also allow for the possibility that there are many geniuses that share discoveries - as frustrating as that may be.
The second element of this respect is then how you engage with others. If one dismisses the approaches outright, one is not only usually unfair or wrong, one also quickly becomes disliked in any community. Internally, we all develop ideas, and we always like our own ideas. However, the process of science or progress is also fueled by interaction, and interaction requires respect. People with an overt superiority complex will always find it difficult to frame their contributions in a way that is accessible. And, with very eminent exceptions, will not really contribute to human progress.

Case in point, Crawford is obviously a deep thinker with important contributions to game development. I do believe you there!

However, from today's perspective, it is hard to find anything at all that one could consider important. Even if some inventions predate the state of the art at the time, our progress was guided by other people - people that were able to cooperate. From my perspective, his ideas were worked out either by people that predate him (or in parallel), or done better by other researchers in what followed.
So while I lack context, and recognize that my opinion does not reflect the truth, the simple fact that Crawford shows close to zero respect for other thinkers ultimately leads to a state of the world where I find almost nothing notable, revolutionary or important in his writing - be it wrong today's or yesterday's perspective. Instead, I find that his website does not lend itself to a very charitable impression of this person. Most of all, because he implicitly insults other researchers that have at least his level of genius, and which I deeply respect.

Instead, I need someone like you telling me that yes, this man is or was important.
> I think it’s a good demonstration that this kind of architecture can work well over an extended period.

I think for me the figure is about 8 years of development of 1 GUI software, with MVVM and .NET.

> implicit assumptions about the platform here with the reference to styling

It's 2021, pretty much all of them support styling now.

> I was saying that web-based GUIs might have moved from rendering graphical content using one of the plugins a few years ago to rendering it using one of the native technologies today, without necessarily changing the content itself.

None of them were able to reuse much code while switching just the renderer: ActiveX written in C++, Flash in ActionScript.

> the GUI framework you are describing does not exist

WPF and UWP definitely exist. I think modern HTML+CSS can do that too, but I ain't a web nor electron developer and not sure.

> ultimately you still need code to define the way the layout should animate according to whatever rules your system uses

It's the matter how you define them. When you offload playing animations to a framework, you tell the framework which properties to animate and how: define function of time (typically supported ones include step functions, polylines, and Bezier), pass metadata about timing and repeats, etc. That's for the hard case when animations depend on the data, when they do not they're made offline by art people.

> Can you clarify?

When you do them manually, i.e. computing functions of time and changing visuals, following happens.

1. Your code runs at refresh rate of the monitor, typically 60Hz, but for high-end gaming monitors can be 240Hz. Even if you aren't animating anything, this alone prevents certain power saving modes from engaging.

2. If you manually change positions of things not just color, your updates gonna invalidate layout.

3. There're multiple ways of measuring time with different tradeoffs about precision and when it's running versus paused.

A framework is in a better position because it drives the main loop. It knows how many nanoseconds passed since the last frame. It knows when to render at 240Hz and when to sleep on GetMessage() because there's nothing to update. If it knows which properties are animated, it can integrate animations with layout for reasonable performance cost.
I admire you taking a stance for The Room but when a movie is generally lauded as one of the worst movies ever made, you are kind of on the losing side. Maybe there's good parts in there and sure, what is bad depends on the viewer. Yet sometimes you just have to admit that even with all the subjective bias removed something is just bad.
Before tax but after retirement savings (or most of them, e.g. in Italy it's about 4:1 with the employer paying the larger part). Depending on the country after healthcare costs too, since often healthcare is simply financed from taxes (if not, anyway it will be lower and also come with hardly any deductibles).
Derek Sivers has published an interesting book about this, called "Hell Yeah or No" [0].

[0]: https://sive.rs/n
You're welcome! I'm happy to see people enjoy it :)
Argh - I kept on reading because I didn't get the memo that activex isn't a thing
anymore... HN should have a mandatory date-field for submissions. Not
the first time I fell for that.
> Do you have any idea what HUD actually spends on vouchers, section 8, etc?

The actual amount varies by region and income, but e.g. the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (which is financed by HUD) says[0]:

> For CY2020, HACLA paid more than $582 Million to private Landlords on behalf of more than 44,000 participant families.

That works out to an average (mean) of $13.2k per year per family—and they're only covering a portion of the rent. A couple living on UBI and no longer receiving Section 8 vouchers would spend about half of two UBI payments making up for the loss of Section 8, while the other $16.8k/year needs to cover the rest of their rent, food, clothing, transportation, medicine, and any other necessary expenses for both of them.

[0] http://home.hacla.org/abouts8
Why is the headline blaming the news reporting? That is idiotic and evil.
I appreciated this insight, thanks.
On my current team, we use code reviews as more of an RFC mechanism. There’s a lot of trust in placed in PR authors to decide, based on delivery constraints, whether comments raised on a review are blocking or not. For large diffs that aren’t practical to review line by line, we tend to use narrative-based architecture/design reviews instead.
Tell that to the academics whose full time job is to whitewash India's colonizers (Hoover institution comes to mind).
Can someone help and dumb this down a little bit for me so that I can then explain to some of my friends who couldn't care too much about this change in policy?

For example: What should be my response to questions like:
. "What kind of data can now be shared with FB versus what was shared earlier (if any)?"

. "Whatsapp chats are end to end encrypted so how can my data be shared with FB?"

. "As an individual, how different is Whatsapp sharing my data with FB for ad/tracking purposes versus what other networks such as Google do to serve ads? Let's say I'm interested in ice-cream and I chat with someone about it and a couple of days later, I get ads about ice-cream, but I choose to ignore those ads, then how am I impacted/affected?"
> There were exactly 2 (unarmed) "security guards" present who told my friend they obviously stood no chance if these people decided to charge.

No government stands a chance if an any much significant part of population raises against it. I'm not even saying a majority.

What we saw today in DC was not a big rally.

A big rally would look like this: https://i.tribune.com.pk/media/images/Khadim-Rizvi-funeral-2... and like that for a few more city blocks.

Or like this: https://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/moscow1991/AP9103...

Or this: https://static.toiimg.com/img/67604038/Master.jpg

Learning living along with the radicals is a good alternative to having a war with them.
One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter
An interesting related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2282875
I have a Dell XPS 13 with a Tiger Lake CPU.
Out of curiosity, running the script:

> ./two_or_three
N = 1000000000, 953.7 MB
starting experiments.
two : 30.6 ns
two+ : 39.6 ns
three: 45.1 ns
bogus 1422321000

This is much slower than the times Lemire reported for the M1. `two+` is 62% of the way between `two` and and `three`, vs 88% for the M1.

EDIT: Adding `-march=native` didn't really change the results, which makes sense given that it's a memory benchmark.
It doesn't matter if video "evidence" is archived. The reality is after the BLM/ANTIFA riots, penalties for 1A activates are basically a slap on the hand. In the vast majority of situations, there is no penalty at all. You need to be doing extremely serious stuff to get bagged. The vast majority of stuff being done would not even warrant a charge. It is just the reality and the stuff that was serious was most likely not even recorded or did not get enough evidence to justify a successful prosecution. The feds only go after people when they have a slam dunk case on them.
-Scandinavians did try to find a few small bits of empire, though - mostly to find that the only places left over were the ones none of the major powers cared about.

The US Virgin Islands used to be The Danish West Indies until 1917, also there were colonies in present-day Ghana and in India - at least part of the Andaman and Nicobar islands, as well as a couple of places on the mainland whose names escape me. Iceland was Danish until WW2.

Today? Greenland and the Faroes remain (sort of) in the Danish Empire.

Norway, being in union with Denmark when the empire building took place, bided its time until the nineteen thirties, when a group of whalers occupied parts of Eastern Greenland, an occupation which was backed by Norwegian authorities after the fact until the League of Nations told us to snuff it.

The Swedes, too, dabbled in colonialism but never really putting their heart in it; the only overseas colony lasting more than a few years was Saint Barthelemy in the Caribbean, which was Swedish from the latter part of the eighteenth century until the late nineteenth century.
more land and less people
You should check out http://tryruby.org, http://tryhaskell.org, and http://tryerlang.org.

If you'd like to see the source, http://github.com/Sophrinix/TryRuby
What is a browser? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ
I didn't know about the hack day, but I found this page through Matthew's twitter:

http://twitter.com/dracos
It is, indeed, very difficult. I co-founded a niche service that offered hosting and support for about a year -- until we succumbed to scaling problems. Just be VERY sure of your business model and cost of doing business beforehand.
It just so happens to be the day as far away from my birthday as possible.