jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This already happened. The industry settled around microUSB, and then later migrated to USB-C. Apple didn't like microUSB so they invented Lightning, and stuck with that while USB-C was developed and started being used by the other manufacturers.
Don't mistake pandemic conditions for forever. There is no reason you need to stay permanently isolated and can't get social needs filled somewhere other than an office.
And, as a matter of fact, we now have the proof that remote work is efficient at large scale in our industry. It shatters all the false ideas about loss of productivity, lack of communication. I never communicated as efficiently as now as opposed to when I was in my open space, always disturbed by subjects that did not concern me.
Can be a combination of management and the technology available. Zoom is great, but I do feel handicapped sometimes during brainstorming sessions.
The budgets for films like that are extensive. The wiki says it was $132 million. It also says it has grossed over $230 million.

If you put that in company terms - if you took a startup company and funded it with $132 million, and put out an extensive product, then made a list of everyone involved - including subcontractors and admin staff - it would be a surprisingly long list as well.

Remember, for an animated film it's more like an software project than a traditional movie - there are no sets and filming, but a lot of design and testing.

While we are on the topic...the movie theatre you went to make every little or no money on the ticket. All their margin is from selling you overpriced junk food - including the highest margin product of them all - popcorn. In some cases, the cardboard container the popcorn comes in costs more than the corn itself.
In what way is marketing julia as a general purpose programming language 'way out of line'?

People use julia to make webservers, write programming languages, create plotting libraries, do scientific analysis, do compiler research, make video games, do HPC, etc.

Julia has a design that's indeed strongly informed by scientific computing, but in order to actually meet the needs of the various people using it for scientific and technical purposes, it ended up needing to become a flexible enough language to be useful for anything.
FYI, two points from the Roadmap from the linked website:

> IMAP IDLE – This is the last big item blocking the release of a new stable version.

> Integrate Autocrypt support
What are you doing in the tidyverse that is not related to dataframes (or tibbles as the subclass of data.frame, that tidyverse uses is called)?
Yes, personally I think he's in for some trouble with MA, but I was speaking to the congressional hearings which, like you said, aren't a prosecution.

I do think he purposefully downplayed his financial history in an aim to drive up hype, and as you stated, violated his professional obligations. At best, he walked a very thin line which will be scrutinized. At worst he broke the law and will face charges, and WSB will add a new chapter to their lore either way.
Anytime now. We’ve been told the revolution was around the corner for years.
Trump is self-interested and lazy. He found no benefit to his objectives of being forever President in bombing a 'NEW' foreign country. This is why he spent so much of his time focused on combating internal enemies. This combat was just as racist as any action of American foreign policy conducted under Obama.
Have you ever heard of free software? ;)
Frankly, my sense of where we are culturally and historically makes me think society needs to spend some serious resources mass educating around those times.

Those times were as bad and worse than the historical accounts indicate. We could inoculate ourselves by voluntarily relearning the lessons from those times or live long enough to see them swing back around with new actors.
Did you watch it? He's not calling music theory itself white supremacist but the current culture that refers to it as "music theory" per se as in "the" music theory opposed to "a" music theory/theory of music. That it is seen as the yard stick and the only thing that taught is the problem, as that's clearly exclusionary, not the existence of the theory which can be no more racist than any other. I see nothing self-loathing about that. It's a useful criticism that might help get music education to broaden its horizons, which it already has started to do it seems.
Cool. But are we fighting the last war?
Oh, I think I see. The argument isn't that remote-work makes it easy to hire foreigners without dealing with visas. It's that you don't need to source workers from abroad if you can just source them from Tulsa. Totally valid point!

Thanks. (We're doing a startup from Chicago, with one very, very remote team member.)
Hey I am just curious as to what you see as the dark corners of Nim?
I think that should be

type refCounted[T] = object
val: T
refs: int

You could try a destructor for the object: http://nim-lang.org/manual.html#destructors
> Whenever you see "terror arrests made during dawn raid" on the news in UK, it's easy to dismiss it. But it happens pretty much every month now, and has been like that for a couple years now.

There are two options here. One is that there really are monthly plots to attack civilians in the UK, and these raids are genuinely saving lives. The other is that bring able to point at terrorists threatening our city centres is a very convenient way to distract people from the real issues.

How many of these raids are against real credible threats, and how many are people with a grudge getting hit for discussing the wrong thing? Unfortunately we're unlikely to know since so many of the trials are held in secret to protect the evidence being given.
One possibility is to block requests coming with a different 'Host:' header than your website. Or just block the URLs like described in dvps.me/ddos-attack-by-torrent
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dUHs2FI_izg/UTC7OQLDy7I/AAAAAAABhJ...

https://richardwiseman.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/161cq.jpg

http://clampd.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/optical-illusio...
A bit OT: what is the connection between the various xnullnguest accounts?
There are certainly more aspects, but my point remains, there is no "true police state" where subjects are allowed to keep and bear arms like our's does. (Well, there's exceptions like NYC and D.C. that perhaps prove the rule.) In fact, we RKBA activists know that the history of police states always includes an early period where guns are systematically confiscated from the people. I know for example the basic stories for Nazi Germany, China, Japan (1588!) and Cuba off the top of my head.

As for your latter point, you're assuming two things: someone wanting revenge on the police/government for something unforgivable is going to give a damn about that, and that if things got nasty, the citizens would play by the "rules of war" of the police. Not to mention numbers, we would utterly swamp them if it came down to something like that. Look at how batshit insane California police got when one crazy started hunting them (Christopher Dorner).
Very true. Yesterday it was about 38c with a sensation much higher, and at night I slept pretty good with my trusty blanket. I've lived in tropical climates pretty much my whole life, and it's the cold places that bother me.
So what's constructivism useful for anyway?

Not much. The philosophy of math is not noted for being particularly useful. :-)

That said, historically constructivism arose during a period when math was having trouble creating solid foundations. Today we can talk about "the reasonable existing logics". But a century ago you couldn't. Attempts to create such a thing had repeatedly resulted in paradoxes, and an inability to find solid foundations had caused repeated mathematical crises for a century.

In that light, it was reasonable to doubt lines of reasoning that proved the existence of things in infinite sets but provided no way to actually find them. This smelled too much of the kinds of things that had lead to paradox.

Hence the appeal of a philosophy that insisted that things are only known to exist when we have constructions for them. Proofs are only valid when they follow lines of reasoning that can, at least in principle, actually be followed in finite time.

These days this is mostly a historical footnote. But an important one.

There are also cases of interest beyond constructivism: what if a number is non-constructible but can be approximated?

Um, actually a constructivist would say that that number exists.

To understand, you have to ask what a real number is. One definition of a real number is a Cauchy sequence of rational numbers. Which is to say an infinite series of rational numbers that converges. Constructivists make this more precise. Rather than talking about an infinite series of rational numbers, they talk about a algorithm that generates a series of rational numbers. Rather than saying "for every epsilon greater than 0 there exists an N..." they insist that there is an algorithm which can take in epsilon and spit out N. Combining these two, from a valid specification of a real number, you can generate an algorithm that given an epsilon > 0 can generate a rational number within epsilon of the real number. And an algorithm that does that can easily be turned into a Cauchy sequence.

Thus to a constructivist, being able to approximate a number arbitrarily well is perfectly fine as a definition of said number. Things get odd in that you can have two different constructions of real numbers but you don't always know whether they are specifying the same number. But you quickly get used to this.

Saying it doesn't exist doesn't sound particularly useful.

Let me turn that around.

What is the use of asserting the existence of things that you cannot construct? What are you going to do with something that you cannot find in an infinite haystack? A thing that may be impossible to find, even in principle?
I got into hacking/coding by virtual of wanting infinite lives for the games I played on my ZX Spectrum. That taught me all about reverse engineering, the R-register, copy protections and similar.

Most of Fravias work was easily understandable, and pretty obvious, from that background. But he really was an interesting character and I was genuinely saddened to learn of his death.

I wish I could have met him.
Its interesting that its completely absent factual data, all persuasive arguments. Fairly obviously, someone hoping to sell a new rifle is paying him to write, but who?

(Oh and edited to add a computing analogy, his argument is basically Microsoft Bob both sucked and needed debugging a couple decades ago, and there are only minor geeky technical changes between Bob and today's Windows, therefore we need a new OS, because new things never need debugging)
Some comment section feedback:

The horizontal indentation on the comments might be a bit aggressive, and each comment is taking up a great deal of vertical screen real estate. Further, the clickable "more" makes reading long comment threads difficult without a great deal of scrolling.

It seems to be optimized for mobile viewing, which is good. Dobbs knows how I hate clicking tiny links with my fat fingers. But, when behind a desktop client, the CSS could be adjusted such that it takes better advantage of my screen resolution.
Copy protection doesn't help making any money on sales. It only reduces them.

Are you aware that commercial piracy used to be a big thing? You could walk about your local market and see pirated copies of games on sale for a quarter of the price.

These pirate sales absolutely had an impact on "real" sales, e.g. it was pretty common for parents who didn't know any better to buy a game in passing.
He's right though, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is an easy way to make someone disappear for a few days.

http://hpmor.com/
That's my point.

You can't make more bitcoin, but if you extend credit to someone based on the bitcoin they have, that's CREATING NEW MONEY.

In that sense, bitcoin is like gold.

In the gold standard, the supply of gold was fixes, but the supply of dollars was not. Because bank's create money when they allow you to borrow.

For bitcoin to be truly deflationary, you would have to prevent all financial institutions from extending credit
I disagree. First, because there's some evidence that most people will give a fixed amount to charity (I'm too lazy to find a source), so they're playing a zero-sum game and any fundraising overhead just takes away from money being given to people who need it.

Second, because that money doesn't come from a vaccuum. People who spent it on charitable causes could have spent it on other things; some of these things might be a new smartphone or fancy food; but some of them might have been an electric car or a college fund or whatever.

So super-expensive fundraising takes money away from other parts of society, some of which might be productive, to sink it into the giant resource-wasting game that it advertising.

Personally speaking, I donate to the Global Fund. They do relatively little advertising, but they get shit done.
You're forgetting a big one.

It's a cognitive stimulant that increases worker productivity.

So not only does the coffee industry have an obvious, direct incentive to promote the benefits and downplay any long term negatives, but EVERY corporate entity and even our government has an indirect incentive to downplay any negatives.

A company or society that hypes up it's young worker population on caffeine will likely out-compete organizations of humans that don't, even if major health problems show up later in life.
> The lies [...] The only defense seems [...] strong analytical skills [...] skepticism

Those skills seem unaffordable to many. Suggesting this defense unpacks as belief in conspiracies. Which does seem a widespread strategy in low-trust societies, but doesn't seem helpful.

But I'm reminded of recycling's misdirection, encouraging people to act as an individuals to mitigate damage, rather than collectively through representative government to prevent it.

Perhaps the most impactful recent measure to increase truthfulness in US society, was making corporate officers personally liable for misleading statements? How might that be improved upon?

And there seem divergences between self image and actions, with respect to honesty, in many US subcultures. Potentially providing leverage for change?
Clearly we're not important, otherwise you guys would follow the rules. Actually blocking the access is against the law.
Interesting. Thanks for the correction!
Thanks to this standing against facebook, my next phone is going to be an iPhone
Yes, and while I love that this happened, I'm also curious if they're actually working to integrate it into Maps, or simply make Weather more accurate of an app.
Yes, you can retrieve items that aren’t on the top.
or https://archive.vn/vZzdd if you would rather not give them the visit.
Here in Austria, the Austrian border patrol are actively recruiting RC-rotor pilots (helicopters) to patrol the terrain around the borders with the eastern European countries.. I know of 2 guys who started the RC helicopter hobby and are now doing regular patrol duty with government-sanctioned rotorwings.

The drone era is well and truly upon us. I can't wait until it scales up enough to be able to really have an impact on the transportation industry...
> There's always fair use, which should cover things like education, citation, etc. That's a different topic.

This is the weird part. If aliens showed up and started viewing the site in question, they'd probably mistake it for reference material, some kind of critical encyclopedia.
I'd never seen or heard of it being used for payments before, which is why I asked - I'd heard of phone numbers being used as account names (effectively) in some payment systems, but being involved in the workflow of making payments is entirely novel to me.

I'm aware it's not your login, but it feels the same as asking someone for publicly searchable information to "verify your identity" - an additional "security" step that doesn't actually slow down any attacker more dedicated than a passing whim, but makes people feel good about whoever is using it, when there are better options that don't have the problems of SMS.

Yes, it doesn't scale well to bulk attacking, but most of my interactions are with people who take reasonable precautions like keeping their machines patched, not installing random crap from the internet, and generally avoiding other fun ways people get swept up in low-hanging fruit campaigns.

SMS 2FA is better than no 2FA at all, it's just frustrating to watch many companies deploy it and go home when there are better options, some of which solely also require a phone.

edited to correct my statement: I originally said "SMS 2FA is better than no 2FA at all in a number of cases", but no, I'm pretty confident it's strictly better, even with all my laments about it.
I think you may have this mistaken for another meal kit company.

Platejoy just gives recipes. You buy your own groceries(or at least that’s how we use it)

It’s mainly about meal planning.
> with a real deletion

Lol.
A few years ago people thought Netflix was going t be the Spotify of Video. That turned out quite different though.

Especially now that Disney has multiple streaming services a lot of the biggest movies won't ever come to competing platforms (Lucasfilm, Marvel, 21st Century Fox). In 2019 7 of the 10 highest grossing films were from Disney studios and they're all still exclusive to Disney+.
.NET Core did quite a bit of work on introducing "hardware intrinsics". They updated their standard libraries to use those intrinsics and let the JIT optimize userland code. .NET Core performance is pretty good, if not the best [1].

I have myself seen 2-3x improvements in older .NET applications migrating to the .NET Core (called just .NET from version 5 onwards). I think JITed code have a unique advantage here that any hardware-specific optimizations are automatically applied by the JIT, with newer versions of JITs bringing even more performance improvements when the ISAs change.

[1]. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/hardware-intrinsics-in...

Edit: Added reference link.
> The government and media don't give a stuff about anyone under the age of 50, certainly not under 40.

I find this blend of comments disheartening and disappointing, mainly because they appear to come from a place of willful ignorance.

Please try not to forget that the reason all covid-19 vaccination programmes have been rolled out progressively from the older to younger segments of the population is due to the fact that:

a) vaccines are in short supply, thus mass vaccination programs demand a rational approach to maximize it's effectiveness in lowering covid-19 deaths,

b) all covid-19 vaccination programmes prioritize vaccinating at-risk groups within their population,

c) covid-19 is patently known to have a considerably high fatality rate on older segments of the population, while on younger segments of the population it's negligible.

Let's not feign ignorance here. Covid-19 kills old people in spades while young people just brush it off. If you care about loved ones and aren't happy with he idea of seeing your elders die from covid-19 then it's obvious why said elders are moved to the front of the queue to get vaccinated.

This should be so obvious that should require no explanation. Then again basic steps to safeguard the health and well-being of others, such as the ridiculous anti-mask militancy, is sadly a thing. So it's clear that many among us simply care nothing about any issue that does not involve them directly and are so self-centered that interpret basic care for others as an affront to their personal privileges.
Plan 9 always had great archival utilities. I do not know what they used at those early days, but I guess that at the point rsc recovered it, it was stored in the venti server: https://p9f.org/sys/doc/venti/venti.html
My university is known to offer the option payment of tuition through a popular online system.
This option is done by sending each student, at the start of the year, an SMS with a link to a payment option.

Suppose you can get a list of people studying there, their names, and their phone-numbers. Faking this SMS and putting a payment that goes to you instead of uni would be a nice way to earn about 2000 euros per student who falls for it.
We Iranians do not have 8000 years of Iranian history. That is rather too generous.

Those bits of artifacts and archeological sites that do date to 8000 years ago are pre-Elamite and Elam and Susiana were themselves not not an Iranian people. Iran is not a geographic construct: it is (and remains in the current diaspora), true to its nomadic Aryan roots, a portable civilization of mind, heart, and spirit.

Proto-Iranians date to 2nd millenium B.C. The Medes were the first Iranian urban civilization in the Iranian Plateau and they date to 3000 years ago. The Pars ("Persians") - a related Iranian tribe (Achaemenid Shahanshah Cyrus's grandfather was the king of the Medes) - followed. Subsequent to Alexander, there was a period of Greek occupation, followed by 2 lesser known, but actually culturally more influential than Achaemenids, Iranian empires: the Parthians and the hugely influential Sassanian.

Elam:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elam

Mede:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medes

Pars:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire

Seleucids (Greek occupation):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seleucid_Empire

Parthian (of the Parthian 'shot' fame):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthian_Empire

Sasanians:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasanian_Empire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Iran
> we’re born screaming, demanding others’ attention;

I wouldn't say "demanding". During the first weeks you actually have to wake up the newborn for feeding, otherwise you're running the risk of malnourishment.

They're so utterly helpless, confused and tired that they can fall asleep even when hungry.
I find myself uncertain about the thesis. Code that is clear and expressive to a human should not be assumed to also be efficient and optimal for a computer.

As writers say, know your audience.
"brick of concentrated sun-dried pre-milked opium poppy seed latex. organic, vegan, fair trade, 100% natural. NOT for intravenous consumption"
My feeling the "All the causes" are a mix of deaths where there were multiple causes or the data was not recorded correctly.
agentzh has certainly helped CloudFlare a lot by delivering an amazing Lua framework, which CloudFlare's WAF rule are written in.
He has also been instrumental in the development of CloudFlare's Core CDN v2, aka cloudflare-nginx [1].

(I wrote a good chunk of said Core CDN v1 and v2, sometime ago).

[1] http://blog.cloudflare.com/2013-refactoring-2014-stepping-on...
doing that is one of my first memories. i realized i could just let myself be cold.
The Winklevosses are most famous for claiming their 'tech guy' ran off with their billion-dollar secrets.

Have they become better at managing secrets and 'tech guys'? Because that's what's necessary to safely hold a lot of Bitcoin.
https://steamloader.com

I sell Steam Wallet Codes (gift cards) for Bitcoin. I've done over 1500 BTC in sales in the last year and make about 5% profit, depending on the current BTC/USD exchange rate.

I started the site as an experiment to build my own payment processing system and got lucky with the right product.

I spend about 5 minutes 3 times a day restocking inventory when I get an alert on my phone that stocks are low.

I've been experimenting with 0-confirmation transactions and hope to relaunch in the coming weeks with a service that emails codes in under 60 seconds.