jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
to prove a point here, use a browser without adblocking and other extensions like chrome for a week and look at how they are targeting you. That's what they do to anyone without the willingness to fight it with technical knowledge. And that sadly is the majority.
That's very much true. When I first got out of school, I found myself in an industry where I was very much not a good cultural fit. While I did find a job, I had trouble advancing and I was never able to get a job anywhere else in that industry.

I eventually changed to an industry where I was a better cultural fit and it was like night and day. I enjoyed the work more, my career picked up, and I just generally liked my coworkers better. It was still a job, so things weren't and aren't perfect, but everything does improve when you're in a place that's a good fit for you.

Those companies that we rejecting me as "Not a good cultural fit", were right, and I would have been less happy in the long term had they ignored the cultural fit issues and hired me anyway. Like a lot of young people, I didn't know myself well at the time.

Sometimes people aren't a good fit for an industry or a company, and nobody wants to hire someone who they think is ultimately going to be unhappy in the role. That doesn't do anyone any good.
You understand it, they have lots of time on their hands waiting for their code to compile :big_grin:
Your Signal client has all the messages stored unencrypted (this is true because you can read them all, and search all the local messages).

What's preventing the client from dumping all the messages to a single file, encrypt it with a public key of the other running instance of Signal logged in to the same account, and send it, so that your other device can decrypt the file and import all the messages?
Either they are too stupid to know you can't attack people and break into buildings, or they did it on purpose. Either way they can't be effective as CEO after that.

People were indeed arrested and fired for looting in protests earlier in 2020.
Thank you Twitter.

Not for virtue signaling by deleting the President’s Twitter account in his final days in office. (If he is so bad what took so long?)

No, thank you for demonstrating to the American public the value of decentralized and open platforms.

The powers that be would have been better served if this never happened.
How has he dismantled the election process?
Please don't insinuate that I think people should be treated differently based on their religious affiliations.

I think that due process rights of despicable people should be protected precisely because I want them to be available to disfavored affinity groups like religious minorities, labor movements, and pacifists.
For comparison, Nvidia A100 has 2TB/s memory bandwidth. That's 16k Gbps.

Typically when you mention a frame rate in the context of a processor performance, you care about throughput, not input data transfer bandwidth. Max data transfer bandwidth can limit max throughput, but usually not in the first layer. For example, a standard benchmark is Resnet-50 Imagenet frame rate.
We already have tyranny. Are you this active against mass incarceration?
Disagree that presidential power should bleed into private companies. He entered into a contract with Twitter, broke it, and Twitter ended things on their side.
I wholeheartedly agree, I think you've articulated the difficulty of the situation really well. This is a cultural problem not a technology problem.
... a word that historically was used by people who started a lot of wars...

That's us. USA starts lots of wars. We've still got, what, seven going right now? Maybe it's down to six? (Ummm... Iraq Afghanistan Syria Yemen Korea Palestine Iran well that's at least seven but I'm probably missing multiple wars in Africa...)
sorry, but this seems way too dated. CLRS is much better. this book doesn't even have red-black trees, which are pretty much the "gold-standard" data structure used for almost every high performance backing store. nice that it's free and there's some good knowledge in there, but CLRS is "the bible" IMO.
Sorry to hear that; that's a rough situation. I made a similar mistake in my early 20s and didn't get paid on a $20k contract right after it. I couldn't afford a lawyer to get myself paid. Those were hard times.

This seemed to happen a lot to designers but I've seen them start to take a much more ruthless/professional approach to their business.

I know this doesn't help your situation right now, but this video is some fantastic guidance going forward: "F* You, Pay Me!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U
As a middle-schooler I tinkered with QBASIC and Pascal trying to teach myself programming. I never really accomplished much. I tried learning C, but it was way over my head at the time.

Then id Software released Quake and the modding engine used "QuakeC". It was basically just a stripped down, interpreted version of C, but it was enough motivation for me to finally wrap my head around C.

I can't imagine how many kids have taught themselves entry-level programming skills by futzing around creating Minecraft mods.
Not only apps, but every company (especially in e-commerce) is running around to get a mobile sites. Small businesses are beginning to explore possibilities in mobile web - so trends are taking a turn that way.
I guess I'm overindexing on the bootstrapping problem as an American. Once you're there, it could be localized.
You mean n. N is population size.
https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/how-many-bitcoin-users/

>With one study suggesting ~25 million cryptocurrency traders outside the USA & Europe, it seems quite likely there are over 100 million owners of bitcoins.

>If true, it means about 1.3% of the world's population owns bitcoin.

I've seen a few other sources make a similar estimate using different methodologies.
People can make excuses all they want - it doesn’t change the fact that it is bad parenting
Money works well to speed things up until your project hits the the grindingly slow beast known as the federal bureaucracy. Then money potentially still works, but in ways that produce many negative externalities.
I’d encourage some HN commenters to do the same, funnily enough

Narratives can be dangerous, pernicious or not. For example, on every article about a big tech company, regardless of the facts at play, people will happily comment why they think it contributes to their narrative of that big company trying to grab power. I’m frustrated more when journalists do it, though, because they have more reach.

For example: the WhatsApp privacy policy change that happened recently was grossly misreported. The actual change to share data between the companies happened years ago.
This is a context sensitive point.

We’ve seen government be far more efficient and successful at “the fundamentals” than privatization.

Postal service, Medicare/caid, Social Security all financially stable, and logistically competent until meddled with politically to benefit a minority closest to the politicians.

I don’t want efficient government when it comes to species stability. I want reliable and resilient.

Let man-children speculate about reality without politically contrived economic uncertainty foisted upon everyone. I wasn’t a party to signing a contract that says I have to believe Musk and the rest are that much more worthwhile to humanity as decided by politically contrived fiscal economics.

If you all want to be kowtowed like teen girls at a Beatles concert, have at it. The majority just want to live their lives.
Certainly, but there's a problem with that. Because an outcome will still happen; an outcome determined by the law, -and its interpretation-. Even an interpretation of "we should (overturn lower court's decision/uphold lower court's decision) because the law is unclear" is an interpretation of the law.

After all, it is as equally fair to say "The wording of this law leads us to a clear understanding of the intent to mean X, and if the legislative body feels that to be in error they should pass new legislation to clarify it" as it is to say "The wording of this law leads us to an unclear understanding, and irrespective of intent we will decide !X until the legislative body passes new legislation to clarify it".

While the non-textualists may be explicit in trying to understand the intent of a law in accordance with their own biases, the textualists are still interpreting the law according to their own biases. There have even been some...really interesting cases of logic to try and do so (i.e., earlier generations' understanding of 'sex' matters when interpreting anti-discrimination statutes, but earlier generations' understanding of 'gun' does not matter when interpreting the 2nd amendment). It's incredibly rare (pretty much unheard of in the case of a few of them) for them to decide against their own predictable biases because a law is ambiguous, or a situation is novel.
My understanding isn't that they're not actually "registering" anything. But rather just putting a piece of cloth they bought on amazon on their animal they and claiming it to be so.

They're abusing a part of the law most people don't understand (and most companies don't want to add to the drama of even if they do). IANAL, but it was explained to me that you cannot ask basically anything about service animals, other than one thing: "What is your service animal trained to do?". Apparently, service animals are supposed to be trained to do one specific task for their owner. Otherwise, they're not actually service animals. Allowing that question allows companies to verify that the animal is actually a service animal... without offending the people who require the animal.

I was talking to a friend of mine who works for a museum of sorts. These not-service animals are causing problems for them. But they are strictly forbidden to say or do anything about any pet being claimed to be a service animal. I suspect it's because they either (a) don't understand the law, and so they're trying to avoid being liable to anything, and/or (b) they don't care enough and just want to avoid the drama the fraudsters will cause.

I've read comments from people with actual service animals saying they wish companies (airports, etc) would crack down on it though. Because these untrained animals are making their own very expensive animals look bad. AND the untrained animals will yip and snap and pester the real service animals.
The ADA applies to workers too. A dog allergy is a disability.
If you're building a new building you should be required to have wheelchair ramps. Allergies and PTSD to ramps isn't really a thing, so it's okay to require them.

If you have an old building it's on the government to provide the ramps OR cut property taxes so that the landlord has the cash to install the ramps. If you want to hit everyone with insane property taxes they can't be expected to maintain buildings to standards at the same time.
The alternative would have been not using Java at all. That would have made attracting programmers more difficult at the beginning of the Android platform, but then, Java would have disappeared on mobiles, at least.
I do not discuss why Oracle thinks is entitled to have of big chunk of the revenues of Android and the work of Google.
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I don't understand this.

If I'm a greedy shareholder, then I want dividends and cap gains, which are both taxable outside of company tax.

How does hoarding cash inside a company, which is out of my personal reach, help me to satisfy my greed? I can't buy a yacht with it until I get the money out.
There is a spectrum of violence the US can perpetrate, it starts with sanctions, continues with coups and invasions and ends with nukes.

Sadly, we’ve seen the entirety of the spectrum already.
But if a problem occurs in-house, I feel like it's under my control!

I'd rather have a 1% chance of losing my valuable data if I feel in control than a 0.1% chance of losing it while feeling like there is nothing I can do about it.
I do not recall seeing any field besides programming that tries so hard to make analogies of itself to other fields.

It's an art! It's a science! It's engineering! It's craftsmanship! It's architecture! It's culinary arts where FOR loops are part of an NP-complete breakfast!

Not to say that such analogies aren't fair or sensible, but I feel like we try much too hard to defend what we do by putting in terms that other people (or maybe even we ourselves) can understand. I reckon part of this stems from the fact that we aren't even agreed on what to call ourselves: I'm a software engineer! I'm a computer scientist! I'm a programmer! I'm a developer! I'm a chef of the digital cuisine!...

But then, maybe it's not even a bad thing. The fact that we have such mixed feelings about what we do is all about suggests that people with different backgrounds can come to our field, bringing their own perspectives to the table. People who are well-versed in art can come to the field and develop software from the perspective of an artist. People who understand engineering concepts can develop software from the perspective of an engineer.

Perhaps there's a spectrum of different styles of software projects, each of which can make use of different perspectives and different styles of development. I've worked on avionics software; this is not very creative development, but it's very strict, and, in my opinion, perhaps some of the most true software "engineering". I've worked on web applications, where you can push out a quick version 1 and then iterate even while the user is using it. A totally different development style. I've worked on mobile applications where I can't just push a new version, but it's also nowhere near as serious as avionics; this might fall somewhere in between avionics development and web development.

Maybe we need software engineers. And maybe we need programmers. And maybe we need computer scientists. And maybe we need software architects. And maybe we need software artists. And maybe these all describe someone who builds software, but with a different style and approach.

Or maybe it's time for breakfast; I wish I had a box of FOR loops.
@wavesplash. Thanks for your insights. We incorporated your suggestions into our sales & invoicing processes. Happy Spring!
Is it common in India to work on Saturdays?
C and some prototyping on JavaScript for the DB. C++, C, and JavaScript/V8 for the server-side application.
I think it's just grammatical incorrectness, I mean, shouldn't the title of an article be offset in some way?
Sounds like 'better', being built around a set of libraries first, with the ability to write plugins/extension in a reasonable language like Python.

Most software written originally 20 years ago is going to seem crusty, and have issues in a field as young as computer science -- there are just better ideas and practices these days compared to when GDB was first started, not even considering licensing issues.

Compare the architecture of Airplanes between WWI and WWII to the modern Jet age -- and real software development is still young compared to Airplanes, so yeah, its competition, but as long as it develops into a successful project, I'd expect it to be quite a bit better than GDB in the long run.
My question would be why would you use different sites if it's only the presentation layer and not the content layer that needs adjusting? UA targeted CSS or XSLT transforms should do this sort of work surely.
A couple months ago (among others):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1274655
Society is changing too Fast!
We're all doomed!
Technology = Bad , but book sales = Very good!

This kind of intellectual conservatism is tantamount to asking the whole world to stick their fingers in their ears and pretend that we would be better off as tribal hunter gathers.

It's a bunch of unsupportable nonsense designed to sell this guy's book.
Well, maybe they should be. The rest of us need to step up ;)
Very cool. I love seeing people cobble together high tech/complex equipment in their garage.

This could come in handy for the insane overclocking crowd and the arguably insaner DIYBio crowd. The advantages of being able to store cell/other cultures in LN should not be underestimated. Countdown to Homeland Security/FBI overreaction in 3, 2...
I have written a brief summary of issues, as a tweetstorm: https://twitter.com/bitinn/status/581350026217013248
Yes the link is incorrect. I am working on getting that fixed.
In natural language OR means exclusive or, not inclusive or.
We’re doing a split schedule, with playing alone time at the transitions. Starting with just 15 minutes at a time, but hoping that we can increase that to something that doesn’t burn us out before we get burnt out.
It was just a mater of time until that group decided stock values exceeded the value of life and epidemic mitigation.

Note also the assumption in "unemployment = death": there will be no social safety net to prevent it.
Entrepreneurs aren't going to buy up these companies. Other companies will. Amazon will buy out the entire market and now we're even more dependent on them
At this point I see it as the mental equivalent of "exercise". There's so many different kinds of exercise, for many different goals. The same thing goes for mediation
Some people had to practice social distancing, for others it came naturally.
I have an almost three year old I have been watching by myself while working full time as an auto insurance claims adjuster for the past week. It’s not as hard as I imagined but would be much more difficult if I had to spend a lot of time on the phone because there is no chance of getting quiet for more than a few minutes at a time. I bribe him with fruit snacks and go play with him every couple hours and so far so good.
Since you obviously know about this, it would be good to share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn. Dismissive comments without information lower discussion quality, not to mention frustrate curious users.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As a former mobile computing nerd and sometimes super capacitor investor, I learned a few things:

The rule of thumb in batteries is about 6% a year, so doubling every 12. This hasn’t changed much if at all, and may actually be worse, since the very best AA rechargeable I could find 20 years ago was 1600mAh and that would mean I should have 5Ah AA’s now and are we even in the ballpark?

So if you saw new battery research that doubled battery density, either you would see it in about ten years or not at all. Goodenough is 94 which means one way or another, Braga (his collaborator) will have to finish this.

Also, important rule for mobile power: if someone mentions power density as one number instead of two, they have a horrible secret they don’t want you to know. Power density is measured per unit volume and per unit mass. There are very heavy small batteries and very voluminous light batteries and either one creates design issues for a portable device. You want a small light battery and not all breakthroughs improve this, and so may be limited to stationary applications.
The common complications, of those initially hospitalized(note this limits our extrapolation for population), that were observed in Wuhan were ARDS, acute cardiac injury 7.2%, acute kidney injury 3.6% [1]. This is most likely analogous to having a mild heart attack(we need to read the EKG and labs here to elucidate the actual prognosis), which is still concerning because long term prognosis is usually poor. Acute kidney injury usually progresses to chronic kidney injury.

On top of both of these you're more than correct that lung function will likely decrease. This virus kills lung tissues and although we have cells that are there to heal lungs, SARS-CoV-2 tissue tropism is highest for these cells (ACE2 receptors on type II pneumocytes).

Dr. Facui is one of the most respected scientists in the medical field. He's either in the top ten or right around the top ten of the most referenced. He is the reason why HIV has killed only ~50 million people. I'm building his credibility because he has stated that he hopes we're over reacting to this [2-3].

1)https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32031570/

2) https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/487639-fauci-...

3) https://www.axios.com/fauci-coronavirus-overreaction-decc88f...
So what's the link to undivided attention?
But one of the examples of adding maps would be for it to mean "upsert", rather than "use the monoid for the value types". I think that's still a perfectly good monoid over maps (it's not commutative, but that's not a requirement).

And yes, you can argue that using "+" implies commutative, and I can see that, but I think it's still a plausible meaning in this context.

(I'm probably rabbit-holing here, but it's interesting.)
The government can, and should, guarantee they'll purchase as many as you can make right now.

They could, in fact, order that production. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950

Trump's been hemming and hawing on invoking it for several days now.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/medical-orgs-urge-trump-t...

> Health care professionals from the American Hospital Association (AHA), the American Medical Association (AMA), and the American Nurses Association (ANA) sent a joint letter to President Donald Trump on Saturday pleading for more medical supplies amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

> In the letter, the three organizations implored Trump to utilize the Defense Production Act (DPA) to help with the “dwindling supplies” of respirators, surgical masks, and other necessary tools.
Yeah my cousin has been dong this for years. He started as a way to feed homeless people at scale but downsized the pizzas and started doing it at home too.
Could you send some links to the community you found who were hacking away on the partial refresh drivers? I have a 7.5" that I started with and would love to work off of whatever has already been accomplished.
Accumulator.
One the other hand there aren't many opinions on it on hacker news that are more clueless than those of elected officials and various powerful lawyers. But I think the one where you just trust those caught out being grossly incompetent (even if you have zero ethics) really has been one of them.
PR seriously. Link had far less chances to get on the fromt page without PR keywords like "written in Go".

Still interesting tho.
Woah, and suddenly its gone. Not even dead, not even on page 3, just gone. Guess this is really a forbidden topic.

Shoutouts to the void.
I confirm.
Absolutely right - Perl 4 had a clear niche (text processing, UNIX system scripting etc) and did this very well. Perl 5 added so much cruft and ugly syntax on top of this in an attempt to try to become more 'general purpose' that it lost its focus. At this point it became easier to switch to Python for 'real' programming.

There are still a lot of problems in the Perl 4 space and to be honest I wish that distributions shipped with a supported version of 4.036.
What I am trying to say is that everyone makes mistakes. At 26 he only had 5 years to learn how to run a multi billion dollar company. And he is learning on the fly. Like Farb Nivi says, "jump of the cliff and build a plane on the way down".

When you are dealing with this size of companies you are going to make mistakes. You are going to make great decisions. Your best hope is to make more smart decisions than bad ones.

Now if you are a 20 year industry veteran, than I can get it. And let's be honest, social networking, social graph, friending, following, the stream etc... are all new and we should not expect any of the contenders to get it right the first time.
This article is nothing short of hilarious.

Bad headphones? Dealbreaker.