jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Were you implying that a different kind of everyday notation exists that could be a significant improvement on the traditional system? I understand that various alternative notations can give a clearer presentation of single aspects of music, and I know of some in use for specific instruments and genres/styles, but overall, as a general purpose encoding, standard notation seems to be a well-optimized compromise arrived at by real working musicians over the centuries. Notation has to convey a lot of musical information beyond pitch specifications and relationships. Speaking as someone with good sight reading ability at the piano, and who's heard better pianists sight-reducing orchestral scores even, sheet music doesn't lack clarity, and saving just the right amount of ink also means having a readable format.
Yup, the DMV point especially resonates with me.

When I got my driver's licence, the only thing they verified was that I could put the car in gear and drive it in a straight line a couple of meters.

Was glad to have a thorough driver's test when I moved to the US.
If we kept having a lot of people turn down offers, that'd likely be the case, but even if we assumed all rejected offers was down to pay, it'd mean most people are not "negotiating" that way either.
I would disagree that "it's not a theory in any sense of the word". There is an established sense of the word "theory" in which its meaning is derived from how it contrasts with "practice". Theory vs Practice is a fairly common dichotomy. In music of course, the practice part is just playing. The fact that this sense of the word has less precise boundaries than the notion of theory in math/logic/science doesn't render it totally useless IMO.
That remains to be seen, doesn’t it? Because right now the scoreboard is looking pretty good for companies with lots of office space in the Bay Area.
One could think that, but if I said we could rationally form insights into someones psychological make up by going through their pornHub history, few would disagree, and yet if I imply their choice of lifestyle pornography yields similar tells, it's just me? I'm not sure I'd agree. :)

Like any symbolic luxury good, it's an expression of alignment to what someone perceives to be power. It signals their beliefs about the world. Do they just enjoy it? Sure, but they enjoy it because it reinforces the story they tell themselves about their identity. It's like if they read USA Today or even Slate Star Codex. Today's NYT is written to arouse sentiments I prefer to keep at arms length.
You need to provide an address in a supported state. The fact that they tell you up-front based on your IP before you waste your time signing up is just a convenience they are doing you.
I don't think anyone attributes the bubble, or lack thereof, to the people working hard to make their visions happen. Rather, the "bubble" aspect usually involves purely speculative investing frenzy from financial sources: be it VCs, angels, or banks.

In the case of Internet Bubble 1.0, you had such a huge buildup (and stage set for a huge burst) because you had three forces working in tandem and reinforcing each other:

1) Big banks underwriting IPOs on questionable businesses with unproven models and no revenue expectations.

2) VCs and/or angels rushing to fund pretty much any idea, no matter how sketchy, because of the above.

3) An influx of would-be founders (especially nontechnical founders) and speculators basically gold-rushing out to the Bay Area to try to get something off the ground -- often driven primarily, if not solely, by a lottery ticket mentality, and not by love of their product or business model.

Whether we're currently in a bubble largely depends on your belief in the solidity, or lack thereof, of the companies being funded. Amount of funding, frequency of funding, etc., are only aspects of a bubble -- but they are not sufficient to describe a bubble. It's only a bubble if the investment has reached a point of irrationality, and the only way to determine irrationality is to examine the companies themselves against the investment they've received.
Using Comcast with your own equipment and none owned by any one else outside your home? I'm not a lawyer.

Anything else including what the author describes, using his neighbor's equipment without their permission even if he thinks Comcast has the legal authority to authorize it (and documentation in the links I provided challenges that notion) then it's not for me to say; I'm not a lawyer.
You also can do it in java: http://www.fordevs.com/2008/11/reflection-is-mechanism-by-wh... . As a python programmer who never uses "private" variables (I use a single underscore to indicate fields that shouldn't be used), I'm a bit torn as to which private variable abuse method is uglier :)
All we can be sure of is that the money put into tether is greater or equal to the money taken out.

If people didn't believe it, they would sell (either for BTC or real dollars), and if enough people did that then tether would collapse.

My suspicion is there are enough dormant tether holders that the above will never occur, even if there have been some substantial fraud losses.
Pretty interesting lists. 9 of 10 busiest domestic routes are in Asia. The other is Middle East. USA's top 3 are ATL to different places in Florida. ATL has 4 of the top 10, Seattle has 3, Dallas 2.
This is problem I have with Python in general; that even if you prefer to use it in a functional style, most libraries are written by real Python programmers, and using them will force you to grapple with the object-oriented inversion of common sense (https://lee-phillips.org/pythonhate/).

My favorite example is: ','.join(['a', 'b'])
if you bury it in the same place you dug the uranium ore from, doesn't that resolve it?
Then all you need is a centralized "depot" where all of the Spots can come back to and have their batteries swapped out by another robot.
(Paris Orly => Pointe-a-Pitre) is listed as an international route surprisingly.
You're likely talking about desktop software and OS, because open-source and free dev platforms are successful. I myself, after being a .NET guru a couple of years now creating more and more stuff in PHP5 and node.js and I'm totally happy with them. But for OS yes, for average user those free ones really suck. I remember trying to setup XBMC on ZBox with Ubuntu - every single feature caused issues. To get proper sound I spent half of a day sitting with command line. After 2 days of fight, I gave up and installed Windows XP where I did not have to do anything - it just started working out f the box. So, for average user or for person that does not want to waste time with command line (like me) free OS is not an option. I need a complete product, not a DIY Lego parts.
I used to work with Andersen Consulting/Accenture. We had this ranking thing as well. Had lots of peers who were of the kiss ass type. Fortunately was very technical and stood out while still at the programmer/analyst level. Would have fared poorly at the managerial level though.

Many other companies probably have this too.
When Android was gaining ground 2 years back, the iOS folks used to draw similar conclusions. "But look at the market share of iOS" which was 80% back then.

Today it's the reverse, Android is 80% while iOS is about 13% (IIRC).

We need to realize that the trends are much more important than the current market share. Also that markets grow (and also shrink sometimes). We also need to realize that all products have a end-of-life, which means existing customers can switch after their vehicles become old after a couple of years.
This is definitely some impressive performance. In Firefox 24 the core.async example is significantly faster than When.js on average (though in repeated trials, the running times vary over wide (and overlapping) ranges).

Some commenters seem to assume David's point is "use core.async because it's faster than promises". I don't think so. My takeaway from this post is that, having been persuaded core.async is awesome and will give me joy as a programmer (and see David's other posts for evidence of that, e.g. [1]), performance concerns should not prevent me from going for it, because it's competitive.

For me personally, Clojure and ClojureScript still have a long way to go to catch up with JavaScript-based development using Node.js and say, Angular. A smaller community, fewer libraries and less mature tools makes it kind of a bummer from a social perspective. I'm also not impressed with the Clojure/ClojureScript code-sharing story, which requires hacks[2] to use the same code on the client and server. Here, Node frameworks like Derby[3], which emphasizes sharing nearly all your code, and Airbnb's Rendr[4], seem light-years ahead.

But when you consider that this is an early release of a language and async lib written by a surprisingly small team, with basically no corporate backing, it's a pretty amazing accomplishment. I love ClojureScript in theory and I'm eager for the day when I can love it in practice too.

[1] http://swannodette.github.io/2013/07/31/extracting-processes...

[2] https://github.com/lynaghk/cljx

[3] http://derbyjs.com/

[4] https://github.com/airbnb/rendr
* SSL login
* Privacy: where/how are messages stored, and who can read them?
* Does the mobile app send the messages unencrypted?
* Does the web “app”?
Authorizations have a limited lifespan, and it's quite a bit shorter than crowdfunding sites would need.
The latter, which is why the figure is so skewed in favor of Tesla.
> I wish devs would take the spirit of GNU and just release some simple free apps

The "spirit of GNU" was a bunch of guys working on an ecosystem of software that the participants were all developing on and sharing together.

It wasn't some guy who said "I want this thing for free, go forth and do it for me now kthx"
In the quest for zero emissions - we are creating the Electric Cars - I want to compare the environmental footprint of Electric car building vs Normal cars, there are interesting articles pointing to the fact the electric cars have bigger carbon footprint for manufacturing etc. I would love to have Cradle to Grave Carbon footprint of Cars not just during the operational phase.
yeah. nice try. won't happen.

the entirety of domestic and foreign politics of the national security state, that is the United States today, is based on the policies introduced or made possible by this very act. you, the people, and your electorate won't just undo 15 years of tyranny without spilling blood.

hard words, i know. but that's how i, as a foreigner, see it, see your country. you won't take anything back by making a check on a piece of paper or signing online petitions. that's gone, now.
For some years now I have been using a quite funny mnemonic in order to remember how to extract a gzipped tar. It reads "eXtract Ze File" with German accent ;)
I have no idea! I was simply re-posting the Reddit comment referenced by @dm3 and requested by @Patient0.

In case its not abundantly clear from the first line: the Reddit comment was not written by me.
Not quite. Basic income lowers the barriers to entry for small businesses. As "runway" goes, it isn't paved and lighted, but it is firm, flat, and reasonably free from debris. Every person who hangs a shingle on a new small business, and can keep it up indefinitely, is just more lean competition to incumbent businesses. That competition might otherwise represent employees or acquisition fodder.

You can't hire cheap labor if the laborers can always get a better deal by self-incorporating and contracting themselves out to you.

If your choice is between contracting your building janitorial services to one large firm who no longer has any employees and splitting the work among 10 owner-employees, only one selection will actually result in clean toilets.

That is a huge hit to the existing business-owner class. It is no longer possible to skim off the top as a middleman without providing actual value as a manager.
I think it's tremendous confusion on their part about what "obsolete" means.

If people upgrade software every few years it's because the new software is much better (or at the very least perceived as such). Even most consumer software keeps on working almost forever (although this is starting to change now that so many things depend on external services).

Imagine if the giant metal press had a new version come out a few years later than was twice as efficient. You could keep operating the old one as long as you wanted, but paying for a new one would be well worth it. The old one is "obsolete." But the value of the old one, in terms of what it does for your business, is unchanged! If you wanted to sell it, the price on the secondary market will take a big hit, but that's less important.

Rather than demonstrating that return from capital is declining, the rapid obsolescence of software demonstrates that return from capital is increasing! If businesses were buying new giant metal presses every few years even though the old ones worked fine, would you say "oh, the return must be decreasing," or would you say, "wow, those new presses must be a huge improvement to be worth such a quick turnaround"?
The Dragon capsule is a bit less capable than one would like in that it can't actually dock. That's what makes the Soyuz necessary and NASA's whatever-they're-calling-it-this-week capsule necessary.

Technically the Dragon is "berthing", in that the space station's arm is what's actually bringing the two craft together, and any failure in that arm would render Dragon unable to connect or disconnect from the station.
Nice effort, my main question is why not the "standard" go lua wrapper, golua[1]? More specifically, why implement a lua interpreter in go, when there is a perfectly useable c-api wrapper for go?

[1] https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/aarzilli/golua/lua
> The compiler is a dead simple translator who doesn't play funny tricks behind my back.

When did you last look at the assembly your compiler produces at O2 or higher? Because decades of C compiler development would very much like to disagree with that statement.

> As others have mentioned on this thread, together with "cppcheck", "valgrind", "electric-fence" and friends it is also as secure as any other.

Where do all the memory safety problems in any nontrivial C or C++ codebase come from then? Do you think that for example the Chrome team is just incompetent? It is certainly possible to write safe C, but that involves _a lot_ more effort than using valgrind. You could for example write MISRA-C. Together with extensive manual checking those rules lead to fairly save C, but the effort needed is really big.
The larger risk - in my opinion - is that many of these communities (as much as they are) rely on communication channels that they cannot control (whether privately or publicly owned). Fracturing those communities is far easier and nearly cost free compared to interrupting in person communities (even as persistent surveillance makes in person communities easier to suppress).
My mother was on a softball team in medical school named Ms. Diagnosis.
What I mean is that it's hard for 3rd parties to legally contact people affected by the breach. And in this case 3rd parties includes the government.
Yeah, it’s not magic.

That’s why it’s cut down nutrient supplements and totally remove processed hormones — not totally remove both.

The soil ecology is good at:

- turning raw ingredients into slightly more complex ones

- accessing things in the soil

- having the fungi exchange hormones for sugars

So you need to deal with adding back trace elements as part of their plant food, especially if you use the same growth medium repeatedly (eg, indoor growing).

But you can usually get away with less of those supplements because the soil ecology boosts uptake.
Surely the real root cause here is that their systems are overloading the title field with age assumptions at all, rather than their heuristic being wrong? Given that the age information is safety-critical, it should be passed through as a separate field directly. Doing anything else is error prone, as demonstrated in this case.

I'm disappointed that the AAIB did not identify this.
You said that since they solved it by changing miss to ms, that means that miss was actually wrong. This is not true. Besides the fact that miss does NOT mean child, what they did was a workaround. They solved it that was because it was simpler. It doesn't indicate that they think miss = child is correct. Most likely they didn't even have access to the code.
Or don't raise taxes, if you subscribe to the idea that lowering taxes pay for themselves (to the budget).
A zip code is too small, because mobility between zip codes is too high. It could cause housing inflation, say, but if you only give UBI to one zip code, they're trying to inflation the whole metro area's housing prices. Say the metro area is 20 zip codes. Then you only see 1/20th the effect, which means it's going to be much easier to miss.
Hmm, this is strange... The Colab notebook should load even if you are not logged in with your Google account (you will need to log in if you want to run it, though).
1. What could I buy at a grocery store that would make me look bad? If I'm rich enough to be around people who will look down on me for what I buy at the grocery store I'm also rich enough to simply not care. Are there really rich or well-to-do people that actually care what cackling Karens think of them while shopping? This is a social issue not a surveillance-advertising issue.

2. Grocery stores are retail. They spend money on bulk product, mark it up, then sell it. Why would a grocery store simply not stock things it doesn't want people to buy?

3. If there is some master plan behind the scenes, who's paying the grocery store to keep product it's trying to shame people into not buying with loyalty cards?
i like the sun rays!!

I do love the mix of css vars into SVG. it makes a lot of sense to me too.
My doctor said the same thing. Only use braces while sleeping.
I concur.

I've lived in homesteading environments where numerous people go months bathing sparingly using just water, while still actually getting things done involving significant labor, sweating and generally getting dirty.

Everyone reeks in these conditions. They don't realize it, and their intimate partners who are in constant contact also don't quite appreciate the degree of odor, because it's shared.

But from an outsider perspective, it's ripe.

There's probably an evolutionary reason for this, members of a tribe will smell similarly when eating the same food and sharing space/objects in close quarters. I can easily imagine how that would be advantageous. Foreigners will stink.
I guess, but I'm reminded of the promises made for UML, where in the end it just introduced some standard conventions for whiteboard diagrams.

Abstract, domain-independent formalisms can make ideas harder to understand than domain-specific, concrete examples. With category theory, I'm not seeing examples of the formalism paying off that would justify the endeavor.
>This means if you made your site in 2000 and you died today, the copyright would still be good until 2050.

Based on the logic of the previous sentence, wouldn't it be good until 2064?
Measure your progress in an objective way.
I've wrote down some thoughts on possible economics of "bullshit jobs" here: http://250bpm.com/blog:44

Here's the relevant part of it:

"Can we do the same trick here and stop thinking about competing firms and rather start thinking about competing individuals?

After all, firm isn't a person and can't really strive to maximise profits. Only people can.

And when you look at the problem from the point of view of a rational individual, the situation is pretty clear: I need to work to feed myself and my family. If only 50% of population is needed to do all the necessary work, I have to cope with that. I have to accept a meaningless work if that's all I can get. If it's necessary to keep the work, I have to pretend and lie and cheat and support the whole edifice of bullshit work. Damn, I even have to beg, bribe and blackmail others to create a new bullshit position for me, if I can't get an existing one.

So, in the end, large portion of the population, from CEOs to the lowliest interns, are trapped in bullshit jobs and none of them can really speak against it as they are all complicit and the only alternative they have is having no job and starving."
You are correct, my mistake, 50 years beyond death.

Corporations get 75 and will most certainly keep getting extensions, can you imagine Disney ever becoming public domain?
> Who said it has to be a grueling slog? I said do your best, not wear a crown of thorns.

> I don't think it necessarily has to be hard

That's not necessarily coming through in your message, for what it's worth.
Really? For me it sucked when they added it to iPhone - scroll down, read something interesting, and while your finger pauses before you can scroll down, there's a stupid dialog bothering you. Android cut and paste has never taken a pause in scrolling to mean cut and paste for me, and I;m glad I upgraded.
I think that Apple is following Android here instead of the other way around. Still, I like the idea of having more pixels at my disposal. We will see what the app store will make of that.
sorry but this site is either down.. or terrible. If its down restart your servers.

1. anything I type in the search comes up blank.

2. Just to ask a question I need to give you my facebook info, thanks but no thanks.

3. To do anything it appears I need to give you my facebook info.

4. Not quite sure what the public stream is
How does banning Flash stop DoubleClick from releasing an Objective-C library which loads small ads from their servers for in-app display, and gives developers a cut of the revenue?
There are dicey and unpleasant issues involved in sharing information about your hiring process.

... especially if you're going to be talking to people who are presently employed...
A company that employs dozes of data scientists and has petabytes of data is now supposedly unable to compare and match two datasets? Come on, this is beyond ridiculous.
This seems to be the study:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...

Edit: Not sure maybe this should be the link ? But Reuters has nice synopsis
Nothing like bringing down the entire production cluster and all services with it on a Friday afternoon due to a seemingly innocent "hotfix". Big learnings at the time, but now these make for good stories.

I learned most of these tools at my day job through some catastrophic failures. From my experience, failure has always been the best teacher.

Kubernetes just happens to be a great sandbox for failing hard :) Lots of stories here: https://k8s.af/

However, I wouldn't reach for tools that didn't solve a problem I truly have, be it cost-effective scaling (my day job), or reusing what I already know best even if unconventional (my SaaS).

I guess what I'm trying to say is: focus on solving your immediate problems first with the tools you already know. Your toolbelt will expand without you realizing it.
Or, up until recently, block based on referrer; or block based on IP address (eg limit it to one ISP that all their family use).
It seems like if the disease is circulating among a population in which they don't often get severely sick (non-vaccinated children), there is still a some, possibly high, chance that it will evolve a mutation that enables infection of the vaccinated adults, if it is allowed to circulate unchecked among children.
I'm pretty sure Italy requires a company to register to an official list before being able to put a personalized sender ID in your SMS communications. I'm not sure about the inner workings but seems far from "whatever you want".

I kinda assumed this was a widespread modus operandi, apparently it's not?
WRT vaccination specifically, Britain may have been the biggest benefactor of the EU's penny-pinching tardiness, though that is hardly a vindication of Brexit in the wider context.
> If you're working at a functional organization that rewards growth

So that excludes about 95% of them.