jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

This was posted to HN and it was quite eye-opening. For those that don’t know, 1971 was when the gold standard was abandoned by Nixon. I don’t know if the graphs are cherry-picked and I hope they were honestly since the US is never going back to the gold standard and it seems to have far-reaching negative effects in every aspect of human life.

To answer your .25 cent milk question it seems to have not been a problem in history and health of the country before 1971. The profits and benefits of the rapidly growing economy have pretty much all gone to the ultra wealthy that are nearest to and in control of the money printer.
> I don't know how you can really turn the tracking off.

Install a good ad blocker like uBlock Origin. You may also want to disable third-party cookies for good measure.
It's a shame the author mixes up UTF-16 and UCS-2 when he says "Because it turns out UTF-16, another very popular encoding scheme, can’t represent codepoints that big." in reference to 0x1FFFFF.
It's subtle, but I think the difference is that in ruby when potentially_falsy_value is false you will get the safeDefault. But with ?: you would get the potentiallyFalsyValue as false. The only time you get safeDefault is when potentiallyFalsyValue is nil/null
Yes, but it links, via a redirect, to the copyright holder's own website. As someone commented upthread, if they want to block it, they can.
EBS is great if it works for requirements, but unfortunately the maximum size of an EBS volume is limited to only 1 TB. With SSD instance storage you can get up to 6.4 TB.
Worked well for me. It looks very very noisy for me though, much more so than the screenshots you have. Does it automatically scale the number of samples to get a playable frame rate?
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A supposedly responsible approach to crime is rehabilitation, isn't it? Or do you think the only proper way to treat criminals is to kill them all, or keep them in jail forever?

This approach may or may not work, however it's nice to see someone suggesting an "alternative treatment".
Late Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd was into LSD when his career went off the tracks. Such a shame, he was amazingly good.

Another British band, Porcupine Tree, explored LSD in their early works, from "Lynton Samuel Dawson" to the amazing "Voyage 34", which includes the following remark:

*They're not drug addicts
Wandering around, not knowing where they are
They're your most creative, most courageous
And like it or not, they're going to build you
A new civilization...*
there are strobe lights?? I missed that. I think you may have me beat, but I'm happy knowing that somewhere out there burglars are being terrified out of buildings by what is effectively a Disaster Area concert.
Actually, you don't need no stinking SMT. The parts are way big enough to solder via the more traditional methods. And even better, you don't need SMT-style casings for the resistors, etc. their wired counterparts are readily available (albeit not as pretty).
The difference between a Nexus and a 3gs is way bigger than between a iphone 4 and a nexus. I remember telling lots of iPhone folks how much difference it made to have such high resolution on the N1 and they all said "meh ... it's good enough, who cares to have more?" Now it seems to be the only thing that matters ...
The problem is that there is more than one idiomatic c++
The phrase "Random numbers need not be uniform" is a really bad title for this. Random numbers are by definition uniformly distributed.

What you are referring to here is Benford's Law. Why not simply say that in the title?
If it's enabled by default as it seems to be for DDG [1] then it's gonna probably share the fate of DNT.

[1]: https://spreadprivacy.com/global-privacy-control-enabled-by-...
Haha, that was the exact class where I used it! Loved that class, though. By far my favorite in their MS program. It awakened a love for operating systems (and the general applicability of the concepts). AOS was also good and made me appreciate the point of cloud computing more.
SBT in the last few years is nothing like SBT of five years ago. I agree it was a convoluted mess at one point, and now I much prefer it to Gradle.
I prefer the Excel XLERATOR hand dryers, and usually spec them over most other models. Hands dry in ~10 seconds, not spashing onto a lower surface, etc.
I don’t feel like that’s required, more like if you make over $72,000 that you’re required to file the forms yourself
I don't think this is true. In emergencies we explicitly do not allow price gouging because it just doesn't work.

If it was a free market then the vaccine would cost 10k and few of those who benefit most would get it. That's not efficient or fair.
Digikey and McMaster-Carr are the kings of this.
At the beginning you should have focused app, that does one thing very well, 10 times better than anyone else. Then (if that sticks) you should gradually add features, but only if that makes user experience that much better. I've seen a lot of great apps do that and win big time. I think Twitter has a lot of problems with fail whale, so maybe they don't have the time (resources?) to expand their core product.
Different versions of WebKit, primarily. The chart seems to include every version that has shipped since '07.
The Evo 3D camera did pretty well when I tried it and the lenses aren't that far:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Evo_3D

This new crop of phones doesn't save 3D images you can view on a 3D screen like the Evo 3D, though. It just uses the depth information for other things like blurring backgrounds and Kinect like computer vision.
Americans are finally accepting the truth around Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Especially now that so many documents around the war on declassified.

But from the American perspective: it's easy to buy into the false narrative that the nuclear bombs "saved lives." We've all been raised with this notion that American is Inherently Good and that anything Bad America did was for the Greater Good.

The Post-911 world has made it more socially acceptable to say that the country isn't inherently good (well, maybe the Post-GFC world). We are allowed to acknowledge the atrocities perpetrated in the past and have more open and honest discussions about it.
This is 10000% bullshit. Everyone on here says "oh yeah, it's easy to send a wire anywhere in the world", but as someone who's actually spent decades living abroad as a US citizen, this couldn't be further from the truth. International banking never works the way it's supposed to. Shit always inexplicably gets delayed, or canceled, or fails for some obscure reason that requires spending 9 hours on the phone with clueless customer support monkeys.

There have actually been a few times where non of my bank cards (chase, bofa, credit union) work for cash withdrawal and I've used a Bitcoin ATM to get cash until I could get something figured out.
I consider the point of view that only using bleeding edge browsers is valid as outdated.

I also think that saying "several design choices" but not actually listing them is disingenuous.
Funny you should mention that. If the money is sent, and there is a clear record of it having been sent ( especially via wire ), I am not sure how easy would it be to claim it under FDIC umbrella if the bank collapsed. FDIC is for the money in the account.. although I am sure that is a fascinating question for a lawyer.

edit: The reason wire fraud is so popular is basically, because once the money leaves the account, the recipient has to agree to return it. You can imagine fraudster likely will not.
Today the issue is not the existence of Israel- right or wrong, it's the birthplace and homeland of millions. The issue is its recent and ongoing expansion in territories outside its legally recognized borders, and the violence and oppression that accompanies it. The situation in the occupied territories is one of actual apartheid, with Jews allowed to retain Israeli citizenship and subject to Israeli laws, and Palestinians basically stateless and subject to military laws.
Yes. This is a problem, and folks in Canada are working to hold our government to task for it, in the same way we are working to hold our government to task for other bad acts.

I am not sure what point you are trying to make?
> they keyboard wasn't held down with 60+ screws, it was held down with rivets which is arguably worse. They could painstakingly be drilled, tapped, and replaced with screws if you were really masochistic.

I just replaced a keyboard in a Macbook Air. It is screws around the outside, then the dozens of rivets on the inside. If you're okay with the old keyboard being destroyed, you just rip it out: the rivets just pop out, and the replacement keyboard gets put back in with screws. So it was a pain, but the drilling/tapping isn't required.

Total cost $35, plus some quality time with my kid.
On Fedora Chrome disables Ctrl+Q and Chrome can only be closed by going through the menu. Maybe Chromium implements it too, then you could find out the trick in the source.
This sounds very much like a distinction without a difference.

The purpose of Firefox doesn't exist without Gecko, they both are to serve as an "independent" alternative force in the browser space.
Don't recent Apple computers have hardware encryption by default through the T2 chip? Just throw away the key and all data on disk should be irretrievable. Replacing the disk in this case would add no security, so it would be the wasteful course of action.
The article gave several problems with that theory. If Japan's curve was where it is "supposed to be" weeks ago when people were making the same argument you are now, where are the piles of bodies and overwhelmed ICU's? They may eventually get there of course, since anything besides lockdown seems very risky these days. But the passage of time has proved your argument wrong time and again. More consideration is needed to understand what has happened there.

Though I certainly think they should just ramp up the testing and make it easier.
Saw this post kind of late, but I'm working on an event system for Unity 2020 that can handle multiple serialized parameters and use reflection to figure out the parameter types to use for each event. The idea being to slot in an event in the inspector and have the editor script update the fields to only show valid types.
I imagine oxygen masks in airplanes aren't as sterile as needed.

Planes are horribly cramped and if you filled every seat you would be violating social distancing while filling them with sick people.

I can think of a few other criticisms, but those are probably the most defensible concerns.
I don't think we should let them collapse, just negotiate with them: Sign off xx%-90% of the company to US taxpayers or no money.
When I read your description I immediately thought of the Minto Pyramid principle. Your tool is like a technical way of solving the same problem :)
sounds similar to mira board (well known player in online collab whiteboard)
Sp you typed all that, but what exactly are you actually saying? It feels like you wrote a message in code.
This leads me to the thought that we need to define KJPL and implement a front-end for LLVM. OK, maybe not need ...
The next big guy (let's not make the poor guy/girl follow someone else's legacy) can be anybody who is great in either of Design, Programming or Business and practically capable (if not 10X) in the other two.

If you are just a great hacker, you CANNOT be the next thing.
If you are just a designer, you CANNOT be the next big thing.
And likewise.

Assumption: You do not have a team/cofounder that/who compliments your skills totally and share the same vision.
That's a good point. Aside from continuing education requirements (a class every year or two, or whatever, I don't know specifics), an anesthesiologist has learned all they're going to use in their job when they pass their board exams.

Plus, I heard/read/apocryphalized once that anesthesiologists have the highest incidence of drug addiction of any profession. Apparently it's an occupational hazard to dip into the stash.
I was just approved for an H1B for next October, and received a bit more 25% raise after the immigration lawyers had already finished all the paperwork. I highly doubt they refactored it. It's likely that some of these are just estimates, and do not include bonus figures either.
It does sound familiar maybe because I'm from Portugal. One day at school, at some physics class about Newton's laws of motion, my colleagues weren't understanding it so I tried to explain them how that would be helpful by using a very stupid example: let's pretend you are at the window of your room, say on the 5th floor, and you want to spit on someone who is walking towards the direction of the window. If you drop some saliva it will reach the floor in x seconds. So how many seconds before should you spit to hit that person on the head if he's y meters away from the position of your window at the ground level? Oh, remeber it's a sunny day with no wind at all.

So there I was with the most stupid example I could think of and what was their reaction? They were absolutely amazed by it and some minutes later I had a correct answer.
> Before Google Map Maker—a product that enables people to add to and update the map for locations around the world—only 15 percent of the world’s population had detailed online maps of their neighborhoods.

It's like OpenStreetMap doesn't even exist. This is sad, coming from an official Google blog, I don't think it's the good way forward.
I think it treats it as a legal instruction.

What I don't get is the replicator strategy. How does replicating yourself help not die? Even if you replicate yourself to all the memory except one address -- but that one address is where your IP is you're screwed. It seems like repairing yourself and attacking the opponent are the only feasible strategies -- at least if I understand correctly.
Look at his growth rate. Won't be a "hobby income" for long. And I still don't concede that $2500/month is not real money.

Plus, he's got plenty of products that he can make more money on without more work (i.e., intellectual property).

I like his odds.
Perhaps it's because I'm introverted, but I have always had the exact opposite reaction. Before I could afford to have Internet at my house, I had to use coffee shops to get work done online, and it was almost unbearable. The noise was a constant distraction, the smell of roasted coffee quickly became something I couldn't stand, and most of all, I hated being bunched up against everyone else. I suppose each experience will be different, but now that I've had the pleasure of working at home, I wouldn't want to go back if I had a choice.
The movement of a fluid according to Newton's laws is described by the Navier-Stokes Equations, which have no closed-form solution[1]. So, if your intuition gives you a picture of air moving downward from a wing, that's great. But if it feels like a complete explanation, that is a fact about your mind; not a fact about the world.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier-Stokes_equations
Yes, it's one click back to "north-up."
They may be the next big thing since the old guard databases although are optimized for disk in memory eliminate that due to decreased latency. The caveat is that the in memory databases aren't as mature as databases that persist to disk.
So basically.. cloud based caching?
OK I totally thought this was going to be an article about how "little musicians" earn money :-)

Awesome graphics btw!
Often, you are only interested in a "view" of this object. A subset of the total methods and data of the real world object. For example, an inventory app may only car about the MSRP, dealer's cost, etc and not necessarily implementing the functions of a real car ( horn.honk() door.IsOpened).

Now, software inside the car may well want to abstract the horn.honk() function for use. (maybe, i'm doubting it's that clean in implementation).

Anyway, not ever app cares about ever aspect of every real world object. Hence lack of re-usability. Even 2 LOB (line of business) app may have different views to the same object. For instance, a telecom circuit. One app is concerned with the physical layout/design, where it runs, what equipment, what locations, what size (bandwidth) etc, etc. While another app may account for this circuit, figuring cost and revenue. Both may share data, but much more likely at a database level than actually pulling objects out of one, straight into another. I've just not seen that level of re-use in biz apps. String is used all over the place, but a highly specialized class for telecom accounting? Probably not. However, these apps probably share customer information because customer contact info is useful for billing and trouble shooting connectivity issues.

So object re-use works great as a software vendor like Sun(oracle) or Microsoft. Java and .Net have some objects that see major re-use. Network, strings, web, drawing, etc. Very common, very easy to re-use. But LOB apps just don't have that re-usability. If they did, why would they need to hire you to work on them? They could just pull it out of the box.
I learned using Elisp, it didn't make a better programmer, but I am much more pragmatic now.

Use the 3 schemer books The little schemer, the seasoned schemer and the The Reasoned Schemer, and read Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. You can work through the books using clojure or other more appealing languages.
Hi! This is my work and I just saw that somebody posted my performance here so I created an account to answer your question.

You are right that some parts are completely pre-composed. The bass lines and sections where all the robots and me play in sync are composed. Most everything else is generated algorithmically. The robots have a computational knowledge of jazz and improvisation so they fill in the spaces between the pre-composed sections with their own music. The smaller Shimi robots also analyze the music and figure out how best to move so that their movements (or dances) correlate with the music.

Unlike Pat Metheny's Orchestrion and other musical robots (honda) I focus on the artificial intelligence and getting machines to generate their own music instead of just being controlled by a person.

The other thing about my improvisation algorithms is that they require the robot to have a self-awareness of its physical self meaning that it understands its physical abilities and limitations. This allows it to make musical decisions that are directly influenced by its physical function and design. If another robot with different physical constraints were to use the exact same note generating algorithms the outcome would be different.
You are taking the slippery slope argument. The fact that the NSA would like the access to data mine phone records does not mean we have slipped into a totalitarian state. We have given up civil liberties for the sake of avoiding crimes in the future. I would state that innovation has been at an all time high in this condition within the past decade.
In fairness, they do have a more detailed report which considers some of the downsides (they acknowledge putting VAT up puts some jobs at risk) as well as makes it clear their proposals are quite moderate (there's an income tax cut, but still a substantial income tax) and that they haven't done any macroeconomic modelling. It's also relatively easy to pick loopholes in, but at least it actually gives some of the specifics the pretty graphics and "tax some metals" of the rest of the website sorely lacks.

http://ex-tax.com/files/4314/1693/7138/The_Extax_Project_New...
That assumes no other source of revenue - the endowment generates about $5b a year.
mmm, weird, I think is a side effect of "permissions": ["tabs"]

https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/permissions
I assume Apple collects this data to pass back to skyhook so they can update their database of wifi-to-geolocation data. Must be nice to have millions of sensors roaming around collecting data for you.
Likely its some hack eyed windowing strategy that someone thought of. Just like with the last REM record (which was the last I worked on), they did 3 different singles in different territories.

It could be because:
- Retail exclusive partnership
- Something to do with local radio promotion
- Tour scheduling

Any number of things. Somewhere, in someones brain, this idea made sense because it made someone more money in the long run, even if it hurts fans, etc in the short.

Trust me, any time I heard the term "geoblocked" with a video exclusive I wanted to scream. Still do!
Are they trying to re-purpose the Haskell logo?
This is really awesome. I realize there will be limitations with the borrowing (despite the fact that they are digital books, there will be a limited number of "copies" available to be distributed at a given time), but that's totally understandable.
I do hope, however, that you don't have to actually be at the library to download the books, that it can be done remotely.

If they throw a full functioning OS, like Android, on the next Kindle, keeping it at it's current size, I'm all there.
I've been working five years on an English dialog system to acquire knowledge and skills via conversation. The minimum viable product has been determined to be a robust parser from English text to RDF. I base my ontology on OpenCyc and the lexicon comes from WordNet and Wiktionary. I use Sesame as my RDF store, and wrote my own ORM from Java objects to RDF triples, modeled after Hibernate.

Each English word translates into about four RDF statements. Currently I'm working on scaling the vocabulary coverage from tiny development size to something that can parse a typical news article.

http://texai.org
I agree. The wildcard syntax from Scala breaks down just as quickly (and in fact allows fewer possible expressions since it doesn't appreciate nesting).

I see these restrictions and simplifications as a feature.
Ah, interesting. Thanks for the feedback!
People need to remember that as late as the early 1900s, the foreign policy of world powers was described as "The Great Game". (Look it up, I kid you not). Thousands of soldiers would march forward and die in unknown foreign soil in the name of Imperialism and conquest.

It was under these politics of world conquest that WW1 and WW2 were fought upon. All countries... US included, fell into the trap of imperialism. Expanding during the Spanish American war, gaining the Philippines, Guam and other territories.

The current world has no apatite for imperialism, although I guess this can change quickly. But... knock on wood... lets hope the great powers of the world continue to refuse a direct fight with each other. The worst we have between great powers today are some economic rivalries.
My favorite portmanteau for this was "errorgance": "errorgant means to be twice as certain as someone who is merely arrogant while possessing only one-tenth the requisite facts."
It's banned in China too
Except that it is still used to refer to people with developmental disabilities. Typically as a pejorative term.

Edit: Thinking on your 2nd point, I suspect that you've got your arrow of causality backwards.