jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's perfectly fine to use an EC system for many use cases. Caches are a perfect example. If one reader happens to get a stale entry from a cache, but that stale entry is sufficient for your task, why pay the price of transactions?

As an example, I build a system with exclusively commutative, restricted operations. What that means is that I can look at an item and know, regardless of when that item was written, that only certain operations will be applied in certain ways.

To serve a query, such as "Find me the item with an element X greater than 100", I don't need to find every item's consistent state of X. If an item's X from cache is, say, 50, and I know that X is restricted to only ever shrink in value, I don't need to hit the database for a consistent view of X.

Application level constraints like this are much more powerful than database transactions and radically more efficient, which is why EC systems can perform so well.
Hi, thanks for the suggestion. Yeah, this definitely is very annoying when the input isn't focused when you click elsewhere.
My friends and I already shifted to Signal. Not sure it will a permanent thing.
I'll speculate. Companies started making these things in the late 90s, when it made sense. In 2020, it might make sense to keep selling drives. But nobody would start making and selling these drives today.

A few things happened around the turn of the century: USB came in, 3.5" floppies went away, and laptops started to replace desktops for more people. 3.5" was clearly not the future, but customers had lots of recent work and data on them, that they needed to access from their new computers.

The likes of Apple and Sony sold 3.5" USB drives with their new laptops (for way more than $10!). At some later point, Apple and Sony's customers had moved on, but the ecosystem of parts vendors, remaining customers, sellers etc would've been enough for the cheap generic vendors to move in.

What happened instead with 5.25"? I'd say: the market was smaller, because 10 years of growth hadn't happened yet. The market was much more fragmented, most computers/OSes couldn't read disks written on another vendor's system. There were fewer pieces of $$$$ equipment (synthesizers, industrial controllers) that embedded them. And finally, the 5.25" -> 3.5" transition was pre-USB and pre-laptop, so desktop users just bought desktops with two non-portable drives using the native disk interface.
Same in Italy. It's really crazy how much control FB has in many different countries.
I recommend you address the arguments and concerns without insulting the person making it and calling them delusional. That's not only against HN policies, it kinda emphases OPs point.
Yes, but the altcoins that are GPU-mineable are easily converted to BTC, and the price trends tend to correlate with BTC's.
Greylisting and DNSRBL always worked sufficiently well for me, in addition to Spamassasin.
> Even if the US election often seems like a coin flip, the fact that it only lasts 4 or 8 years means that a wrong flip doesn't matter so much.

Except on those occasions when the President, Senate Majority, and House majority are all the same party. (That gives them two years before the House might flip.) In today's we're right and they're wrong -- which is how each side sees it -- one-party rule could get interesting.

What people seem to keep forgetting is that only one Presidential candidate has ever gotten more votes than Trump got in this last election and that was Joe Biden. Both the far right and far left wings need to be reigned in.
It's not only that that ideas travel, but also how they evolve and adapt like a virus to be in the most potent and engaging version, not too dissimilar from natural selection. It also is true that they are much easier to spread than to cure (debunk).
> It shows they have passion, drive, dedication and an eagerness to learn from others

No, all it shows is that they wrote some code and put it on a website.

The developer that has just a resume might be just as (or more) skilled that the one that uses github but for whatever reason can't post code up like that. To exclude someone simply because they don't have an active github is foolish.

However did you screen, interview, and hire people before github came along?
This is why I'm incorporating a bio page into the Silvrback blogging platform. There needs to be something better than linkedIn and Github for showing work/accomplishments. Especially if your interests are diverse. My example bio page: https://www.silvrback.com/dsowers/bio
So I suppose in Finland these would be driving on ice x2, and the night driving simulator (at least in my case). Are you sure that tunnels are a part of the standard? I didn't need to do that ~5 years ago.

Is the education split into three seperate parts in all EU countries (first gives a temporary license, and there must be a few months before the others (to get real world driving experience), but all must be done withing 2 years)? When I got my license, the education cost about 2500 euros (I think it's higher now). Is that about the same as elsewhere in the EU?
I would expect that the lower-shelf would be way younger than 25. College students living in apartments probably do not have landlines (I didn't when I was in school).

Maybe one contributing factor to it starting at 25 and not say, 21, is that in this economy many college grads are moving back in with their parents who have land lines. College students who have stable jobs and are out on their own two feet (a little bit older on average?) choose not to buy into the landline like their parents continue to do.
One could even argue that AT&T violated their end of the contract by throttling NetFlix (they no longer provide you with the same service they did the month before) and you should be able to get out ETF free (IANAL)
Should make a law to completely forbid subsidiary of mobile phones from carriers. The current situation is so harmful to the long term development of mobile Internet and mobile devices.
I surely was, but surely am no longer :) He resides in PA too, just like me, where our gun control laws favor freedom over oppression (all you Cali/NJ/NYers out there). But I digress.
My researcher just completed the complete list of incubators, and have contacted all of them.

We've only been able to get 12 application deadlines from the various accelerators, but all of them say they are still going to operate in 2011.

Most said they will have dates in the new year/over the holiday break.
Australian advertising spend on Google and FB is also way way more than Metro Manila.
I feel like an ad like this is a setup for a twitter roast storm.

Things you can do on an Intel that you can't do an M1...

Oh, look, there it is.

https://twitter.com/intel/status/1356633480776531968
Simple, it's Friday :)
This recent essay by Cory Doctorow talks about how owning lots of small author monopolies can be converted into a market monopoly [0], is very similar to the following argument.

The contents of the <url> tag of a page are metadata, and I think we can agree that authors don't have copyright derived monopoly over them. Anyone can share a list of titles without violating any copyright laws, and no revenue is lost because that intellectual property does not really belong to the author.

But if I start sending everyone small but different snippets of the article, as per their search term so they don't have to visit the website, I am no longer within the ambit of fair use of copyright. The intent behind the fair use clause is the same snippet is shown to everyone, so in a vast majority of cases there is no loss of revenue and we can ignore the edge cases. Here google has used the edge cases ignored by the law and turned them into a multi-billion dollar business (with at least some part of it lost by the owners of the copyright).

[0] https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/
random typically works by storing/modifying some state, so every call with the same argument results in different numbers.

In shaders, the same code is executed in parallel for potentially every pixel. Storing state would mean pixels could only be calculated serially, slowing things down.

Hence you need a random-ish function that depends only on its input. Very low RNG quality is not a blocker, as long as things look good.

So in shaders you see a lot of random generators which simply take the pixel coordinate or something else that distinguishes 2 pixels and do some nonsense operations on them.
For historical and cultural reasons; you could also ask why North and South America are considered separate continents and why the Arctic is considered a continent at all. The tradional seven-continents model predates modern geology and is a mix of geological, cultural, and linguistic categorization. We might also divide them by continental plates, in which case Eurasia and Africa are distininct continents. Another approach is contiguous landmasses, which leads to a four-continents model which has Afro-Eurasia, the Americas, Antarctica, and Australia along with their associated islands. There are various other models; which you prefer depends on your definition of continent and your reasons for dividing them.
Sorry if it's off-topic, but if anyone's interested, I'm launching volt.fm next week.

It connects to your Spotify account and generates a nice public page with your stats (top artists, top tracks), playlists and etc.

You can reserve your username now: https://volt.fm
Just because it could be worse and can't be perfect doesn't mean it can't or shouldn't be better.
Considering what is spent on roads, like for instance, an overpass, is that even very much?
Busiprone is an atypical antianxiety medication. They can help some people with alcohol issues, it really depends on the person though. That's great it worked for you, it never did much more than make me sleepy
Everyone was using horses in 1945. Only the US, who got into the war late, and who had a massive industrial base, showed up heavily motorized.

The Brits ended up motorized mostly because of 1) the US supplying them, and 2) they left many of their horses on the continent when they pulled back from Dunkirk. The US sent tons of jeeps to the USSR too.
All this does is result in further leveraging for the next cycle, when even unlimited QE cannot save the bond markets.
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Many doctors are already actively prescrbign this. I heard that it is basically de facto standard of care in France. Doctors recognize that when eveidence based medicine doesn't provide an adequate treatment, they need to improvise. Off-label prescribing is very common

The point of these studies is to help the evidence catch up to improvised clinical practice. If the studies are poorly designed, that goal is not achieved
Yes, I heard a "market analyst" on the radio this morning talking about how the market is probably near the bottom now that COVID19 has been priced in, and it's time to start thinking about economic recovery. Meanwhile, a reasonable analysis of the medical situation in the US leads one to expect there's a lot more downside to be exposed. What will happen to the market when people who thought they had good health coverage are turned away from hospitals, not in Brooklyn but in Kansas City and Peoria? Some forecasts put us 2-4 weeks from that.
Except stocks and bonds are correlated now. So that strategy just, doesn't work any more
We're hiring a ton at Coinbase (https://coinbase.com) right now for pretty much every team: backend, frontend, data, ML, infra, sre, dev exp, em's etc.

We have a great culture and it's a fantastic place to work. I'm learning more than I ever have in my career and it's fun to be working in the blockchain/crypto industry.

Incredible benefits and comp.

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Additionally, time pressure constraints often prevent refactoring and other code-minimizing opportunities. Usually, there isn't enough time given to paying down tech debt or refactoring swaths of code to allow for the overall reduction in line count while delivering new features.

That reality, though, isn't always possible, and software will always trend towards larger line counts and more complexity.
> So any AI products designed to supposedly recognize emotions are necessarily snake oil.

Please consult the current state of AI before giving an a priori rebuttal. Emotions can also be detected in text, voice and video, not just in static images. Sentiment detection in text is widely used.

The premise of the article is valid, whenever AI systems are being deployed they need to be ethically vetted, but the writing is superficial and 'too emotional'.
Many modern cars have traffic sign recognition systems that extract the speed limit. The BMW system is fairly amazing to watch work as the speed limit display changes juuuust as you pass the sign and are surprisingly good at reading signs that are even partially obscured. Although I can't remember exactly which cars feed the detected speed limit into their adaptive cruise control systems, I think some of the Range Rover models do. Some even allow you to set a percentage or absolute speed value above or below the speed limit that you want the car to travel.

Others use a speed limit database and GPS/accelerometer system to establish the speed limit.
yes. the value you offer as a junior with real experience from delivering a project or two is a _lot_ higher than a junior who has no real world experience. many companies will not offer a pay rise that reflects the increase in value.

also, if working in a consultancy, it is useful to understand how the game is played and how the org is structured: https://commoncog.com/blog/the-consulting-business-model/

as a junior developer in a consultancy you have the option of defecting from the consultant trajectory and getting another developer / engineering job somewhere, for better or worse.
There are multiple plans for multiple contingencies. A couple of different examples are here:

https://github.com/davidteter/OPEN-RISOP

The fallout thing is kinda a unlikely thing. Fallout from typical ground-bursts is something that denies area for weeks at most.

There are weapons systems that can do area denial for much longer by using weapons salted with materials that will remain radioactive for many years (essentially the plot of Dr. Strangelove -- that "doomsday" system is based on realistic weapons possibilities, and the Russians in the past decade intimated that they have developed a submersible drone system designed to cross the ocean and detonate huge salted weapons to poison the U.S. coasts for decades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_Oceanic_Multipurpose_... ) -- but as far as anyone in the open source info world knows, these kinds of weapons are not deployed.
I think it just takes longer for .NET developers to get to that point with fairly new technologies.

Most of them, incl. me, are too busy working as contractors and raking per-hour rates. We're not going home coding until the sun rise.

I did find .NET contractors to have normal social lives, that might have something to do with the lacking community?
I don't think it's FUD.
Of course you don't; you're here promoting Nano.

If the Chinese government wanted to destroy BTC (because it violated their currency control laws), they could do it by coercing the owners of the mining pools located in China and those pools do do currently have over 51% of hash power.

Again, this is FUD. It's not a good look to market Nano by trying to scare people into believing something like a 51% attack could happen tomorrow, when it's extremely unlikely to happen. Nano should be able to stand on its own without these scare tactics.

You're assuming a double-spend attack on a block mined by Chinese miners would destroy Bitcoin when everyone knows such an attach is a theoretical possibility. As mentioned in the article I posted and you conveniently didn't respond to, there are many safeguards that would alert other miners.

Bitcoin is about to pass $700 billion market cap—that's a lot of incentive to stop bitcoin from being destroyed. Even China knows it's better for them to have a non-sovereign store of value that's not the dollar.

It would be pretty easy for the rest of bitcoin to see that the block is not legitimate and ignore it. Don't believe me? Bitcoin expert Andreas Antonopoulos said the same thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncPyMUfNyVM.

It would take a lot of coercing to convince these miners to destroy their lucrative businesses for what would essentially be a one-time stunt that only effected a block these particular miners cared about. I suspect many of them would choose to shutdown their mining rather than destroy their businesses… and since it's not possible to do the attack without all of them onboard, it wouldn't happen.

Now that billionaires are all-in on bitcoin, it'll become in everyone's best interest to increase mining in the United States by partnering will the oil and gas industry, which has already started.

"Oil Companies Will Dominate BTC Mining in Five Years: Marty Bent"—https://cointelegraph.com/news/oil-companies-will-dominate-b...
It’s this one: https://www.ted.com/talks/linus_torvalds_the_mind_behind_lin.... The code he referred is here: https://github.com/mkirchner/linked-list-good-taste
It's a pretty straight-forward explanation, just one that people don't like to think about:

Pigs can't be trusted. They like to pretend they're protecting people and doing the right thing. But they're just bullies in uniform. Never trust any of them. Ever. "My dad is a cop though and..." no. If there was a single good cop, they would have stopped this. Fucking pigs. Your dad is a pig. Get over it.

Maybe if cops had better training, they would stop something like this and focus on protecting us. But they don't, and they didn't. They're pigs. Don't be another person who buys into the pigs' lies.
What is this? Eritrea?
> to either comply (share their data) or delete their account

Isn't WhatsApp still purportedly end-to-end encrypted? What data is "on the table" when it comes to sharing - just contact lists and phone numbers?
> They are able to discern and avoid work that does not provide value (this is often their greatest skill)

junior dev here...could elaborate a little on what this means? Generally speaking the PM is the one creating a roadmap and informing what is the highest value item to work on. I must be misunderstanding what you're referring too.
>Republicans could win elections by appealing to voters instead of jerrymandering.

Republicans are very popular. Maybe not quite as popular as the Democrats. Does that give the Democrats a license to take over the federal government? I don't think so. And it wouldn't matter how many votes the democrats get, all people have a right to self determination first and foremost. Living as a permanent political minority is tyranny.
I read it as: defending against known vulnerabilities is well defined, defending against future exploits in the same vein is unknown. Pretty reasonable analysis unless there’s some doubt about the known part?
People also feel threatened and silenced when someone else who publicly expresses their point of view is deplatformed for it. Do you really think people don't or shouldn't respond to the deplatforming of other people?
> you're attacking elements of the post which aren't the core of the argument

This is also trivially disproved, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31008817

> they're attempts to make the argument cogent to you (which obviously failed)

I'm really uninterested in the justifications for introducing ad-hominem argumentation -- which, to be clear, rapidly devolved into attacks.
I thought it was odd how it seemed like the majority of the people were walking as if they were going on a tour of the capitol and not like they were a violent mob.

It'll be interesting to see what more comes out of the wtf bad capitol security.
> Perhaps they have a strategic reason for going about this how they did

One advantage may be that once the context is forgotten it will appear that Twitter has set a low bar for banning a powerful world leader from the platform.
I can understand the viewpoint you have, though I don't agree with it.

Radical ideas have always looked for ways to spread around and influence people. As in with any idea, there are good ones (Why should a worker not have paid holidays, or days off, or have work life balance, education rights, voting rights, etc) and bad ones (the ones we see espoused by many radical right wingers like the claimed inferiority of the black race and the superiority of the white race)

Now, 74 million Americans voted for a vision of trump, that mixes a lot of good ideas with some very terrible ones. And out of the 74 million voters for him, I am sure many of them voted for the promise of jobs, stability, incomes, etc. Unfortunately, a significant & vocal minority of his supporters have shown hard right and often immoral ideas.

In the past, messaging and reach was a carefully cultivated art practiced by seasoned politicians and ideologists.

Today, the situation is different. It is very very easy to gather people into a group, isolate them and radicalize them. You see it happening everyday on the social media.

What, then, is the solution to this? It is a problem because a society must be coherent and move forward together, otherwise it fractures and implodes from within.

For a society, there are many aspects that affect it's prosperity. Jobs, distribution of wealth, prevalence of opportunities, justice, etc.

If you have allow one small section of ideologues hijack the conversation and demand for continuation of radicalization, that society will collapse. Just think about Nazism, Stalinism, etc. All those societies had one thing in common, the ability to radicalize and brainwash population.

So what about Parler? Banning is the right thing to do.

Out of those 74 million who voted, they have avenues like FB, Twitter, IG, etc to engage and communicate.

That small group who wants to radicalize the society, have their voices cut off, and that is how it should be.