jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Theoretically any signal can be jammed, the question is if its practical to do so on the necessary scale. Radar guns are notable because a directional beam can be much stronger for the same power then the omnidirectional jamming needed to defeat it. Moreover, most schemes to jam it can do funny things like indicate a higher speed or produce a good enough source the radar just tracks that instead.

So 'jamming' is an uncompelling argument unless someone can show a practical, situation relevant jammer. Such a thing may exist for a smartgun - but its ridiculuous to let people throw out jamming as an objection to a specific technology, as it would be to throw out 'hacking' over some type of computer technology.
More information https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Building_PXE-ready_ReactOS
I'll be honest, it's an MVC JS framework centred around jQuery or Zepto. If I'm familiar with Backbone, what is going to drag me over to this - the size/number of lines of code isn't, thats for sure.

Javascript frameworks are making all of the mistakes that PHP frameworks did, no differentiation and promoting fragmentation. Backbone is up on Github so would it not have been more constructive to fork it and create one great product, not two less great products?
You can simulate atoms and you can simulate the brain. The outcome of CERN's experiments has nothing to do with brain emulation (other than the fact it's pushing hardware innovation forward).

The reason CERN has built a 27km, 14TeV, super-cooled, superconducting magnetic particle collider is because we know so much about fundamental Physics that it takes something really crazy, like the LHC, running billions of collisions, in order to find something which we might find surprising. So far, it's not surprised us; although it has confirmed the ideas Peter Higgs developed 50 years ago.

Of course, there is still debate and surprise to be had in other, non-fundamental areas; yet these are studying the consequences of the fundamental laws (they're debating the output of a simulation, not its code).
Personally it doesn't bother me a bit. But I would be less likely to tweet it or share it publicly for fear of offending certain people who may be overly sensitive, but I have respect for.

This is one reason I don't use swear words in my blog posts. Also I don't my site blocked by any filters. My personal policy, but I really don't care if other people do it.
"People often do" usually means "some people do", which implies "some people don't".

If it's a biz, you want to look at the size of each group and what their members are willing to pay to "get it their way".

If you're doing something to satisfy your itch, you're a customer. How much are you paying to get your way?
You pull the plug on a product when you start losing
money on it, not because you can see marginal net going
to zero several years in the future. I would very much
like to know the inside scoop on this one.

While this seems logical, it's not true. Many companies have margin targets that their executives are heavily incentivized to meet.

I've personally seen situations where lucrative (50+% margin) sales opportunities were given a no-bid because despite being extremely profitable, it would hurt the executives' bonuses. I've also seen entire product lines dismantled despite substantial revenue (and profit) contributions because they were "hurting the company's operating margin."

Executive compensation is a strange and often stupid beast. It's not at all surprising to me that something like this could happen.
Well, we could argue that about many of the posts on here. But as it is, this links to the VentureBeat article which links to the video, So I think the title is okay.
But the title of the video is "F*ck you. Pay me.". If you ask me this submission should point directly to the video and the title should be that of the video.
Yes, The New Hacker's Dictionary is a distillation of the Jargon File. Both are maintained by Eric S. Raymond.
Interesting. Does it do anything else than entertain for a few seconds? Just curious.
UTF-16 only makes sense if you were sure UCS-2 would be fine, and then oops, Unicode is going to be more than 16-bits and so UCS-2 won't work and you need to somehow cope anyway. It makes zero sense to adopt this in greenfield projects today, whereas Java and Windows, which had bought into UCS-2 back in the early-mid 1990s, needed UTF-16 or else they would need to throw all their 16-bit text APIs away and start over.

UTF-32 / UCS-4 is fine but feels very bloated especially if a lot of your text data is more or less ASCII, which if it's not literally human text it usually will be, and feels a bit bloated even on a good day (it's always wasting 11-bits per character!)

UTF-8 is a little more complicated to handle than UTF-16 and certainly than UTF-32 but it's nice and compact, it's pretty ASCII compatible (lots of tools that work with ASCII also work fine with UTF-8 unless you insist on adding a spurious UTF-8 "byte order mark" to the front of text) and so it was a huge success once it was designed.
I just think you’re applying the word anti-trust incorrectly.

There are plenty of other non-Google ad networks, they just aren’t as good. Facebook obviously stands out as an example. Amazon another. Same for email clients.

A regulator may see Google’s share in any of those markets and use that as evidence of monopoly power, but google bans plenty of people from using their services every day. I don’t think that’s the mechanism through which anyone can regulate them on anti-trust grounds.
> There's a big difference between photographic reference and copying a photograph

But of course. I didn't mean to suggest otherwise. As I mentioned, my primary issue is with how heavy reliance on photo reference can result in a photo-like final painting.

As I mentioned in another comment, I have a secondary issue with how photo reference affects the process, but that's another discussion.
new companies needs to be built somewhere, not all companies are virtual server instance in the "cloud". Having infrasture in place makes it much easier to build (both because you can actually deliver something, and also because you can hire local people)

Like with everything, there must be a balance (we need scientific research,) but having suburbia and infrasture is not automatically bad in my opinion.
@vacri, can't reply directly to you... but here goes.

If China was loading missiles into cargo ships that fire at northern california, we wouldn't continue to let ships enter/leave China. As to the debt that China owns, they're already in a position of playing games with currency and resources to assert a dominant position.

Eventually you have to stand up for yourself. As to the do-dad manufacture costs, well I think we'd be okay if we had to go a couple years without any new do-dads.
It would seem to me that using a single cutoff like this versus a continuous graded scale incentivizes people just above the cutoff to lie about their income.

Even if the expected contribution for a family with $130k is very small, it would be tempting to fudge the number and put that tuition money towards other expenses.
No, it is not wait-free. The operation of writer two does not even succeed. Some bytes get written to the buffer but the message is never really added to the log because to call a write a success it should at least become visible to the reader. Writer two returns from the write operation without noticing that the operation failed. To make sure that the write succeeded writer two would have to wait and verify that its message actually becomes visible to the reader.

You can even go a step further and make writer two block. Just assume that the next thing it does is waiting for a response from the receiver of its message. Now because writer one failed the message never reaches the receiver, the receiver never sends a response and the writer waits indefinitely for the response, i.e. is blocked. Now the failed writer one is really and the only reason writer two is blocked, even though only indirectly.

And you can not really call it a corruption of the data structure because it is the exact same stated that occurs during normal operation. If writer one would resume execution after two weeks suddenly the corruption would be gone.
Yep, and we think ZFS on Linux is ready real production use https://clusterhq.com/blog/state-zfs-on-linux/
... usually because they have no choice in the matter.

This particular story is about surburban sprawl, which means that anything happening in SF, NYC, DC, or Boston is completely irrelevant.
So because the Chinese government are being hostile, all the chinese companies innocently doing their own business should have their comms cut off as well? Chinese families should not be able to contact their travelling members? This is definitively the exact same issue - the Chinese government is not the only entity to use the Chinese intertubes.
The sewing machine changed the world. I took a sewing class a few months ago, and the instructor was very clear that before that machine was invented, women would spend a significant portion of their time making clothing and other textile items by hand, needle, and thimble. The sewing machine is a classic example of how technology can fundamentally disrupt society by removing manual tedium. All of us here on Hacker News can be inspired by this seemingly minor piece of history. It's what we should strive for in our work.
As the history of fraud-detecting "algos" has proven, such pseudo-organisms would quickly be compromised by earth's apex predator: creative human attackers.
> When you're using std::vector, all of your projectiles are stored contiguously in memory

The OP's point is that we're not talking about

std::vector<projectile>

but about

std::vector<projectile*>

The latter thrashes the cache, but it's necessary of an object needs to belong to several lists at the same time.

In either case, enlarging the vector also has a significant cost.
Aaaactually, if you read the code, you'd see that he XORs the bytes from rand() with bytes from /dev/random. This project is horrible, but that's not one of the completely wrong parts.
"How to solve it" is a good book in this direction, by Polya.
That probably only works for local telco's. With Apple's info, US agencies can track anyone with an iPhone in the world, even if the telco's there don't want to cooperate.
Sure. Ever gotten a call from a delivery person with food? A doctor’s office with test results? A hair salon confirming an appointment? A teammate with an emergency at work? A taxi driver with the wallet you forgot? A distant relative that needs help? A potential customer referred by a friend?
How come it's known as "von Neumann" architecture?
>And expecting everyone to see every article about every app they use is unrealistic.

The article was posted here with significant discussion, so no, I feel fine assuming that readers of this forum (and certainly with respect to this topic) have a likelihood of having seen it.
IMO: the output of machine learning is correlated garbage. This is confusing to most people who are used to programs that implement an algorithm (reminder that "correctness" is part of the definition of an algorithm.)
R-Studio is a wonderful IDE - kudos to their team. also, if we do this, it'll be free+oss like PTVS. VS itself isnt oss, but at least the pro/community edition is free now.
Link to signup is here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PpEMVa0Eby2X0K_P-PfhShO2g25...
Hi there, thanks for this, I've been looking for something self-contained-ish to point friends to when asking about node.

One thing, the site is really messed up in browsers that aren't super wide. My browser is ~1100px wide and the size/positioning of the main content puts it off the right side of the window forcing me to scroll horizontally. I'm not sure why you have stuff like `margin-left: 160px;` in there. It would be a lot better to use `margin: 0 auto;` so people with small screens or unmaximized browsers wont be assaulted :)

Thanks again!

edit: To be clear, I'm suggesting:

#book, #disqus_thread, #footer {
/* your styles */
margin: 0 auto;
margin-top: 24px;
}
> Do you have some kind of way to verify that your makefile dependencies conform to your source dependencies?

Nope. I explicitly use a conservative approximation—this guarantees correctness, over speed. Building everything every time with a clean tree is where I begin; I start optimizing after that.

> Is clang/gcc tracking sufficient for your use case? What about upgrading the compiler itself, does your makefile depend on that? If so, how?

Self-rewriting Makefiles (to consume the .d files), combined with the cleaning necessary for them, become a large technical debt—especially given the complexity of the Makefile needed to generate them. Modern CCen just aren't capable of this. Perhap Doug Gregor's module system will land in C21/C++21, and we'll see some good, then.

> Have you considered tup[0]? Or djb-redo[1]?

Yes. They are both don't provide significantly better correctness guarantees combined with sufficiently better performance to justify the cost to porting to older Unixen. (This is a consensus opinion at my shop; I, personally, enjoy tup.)

> Why do you care about ar determinism? Shouldn't it be ld determinism you are worried about?

Determinism let's me cache *.o/a/so/dylib/exe/whatnot without getting false-positives due to time-stamp changes and owner/group permissions in the obj/ar files (see ar(1)). ld is deterministic under all the CCen I use by setting the moral-equivalent of -frandom-seed.
IOW don't tell them at all? As an employee I don't think everything is my manager's business. I've chatted with my manager about my side projects but if he started demanding to know everything, I would find it very rude and intrusive, and it would greatly lower my opinion of him. What I do off-hours and unrelated to the business is not something a manager has a right to know. Doesn't matter if that is programming or watching reality TV or attending a gorram orgy.
The description language is oddly bulky and can't decide what order it's in.

The api to open a connection is, again, needlessly bulky: I make a socket, I wrap it in a buffer, I wrap it in a protocol, I create a client using it, then I connect? There's the same level of complexity offered in grpc, but it's offered through an options object with sane defaults.

There's no security protocol; or, if there is, nobody seems to use it. Is there an async call structure? If there is, nobody's ever heard of it. All the code I can find seems to be written at a preschool level. This may be due to working at a company that was an early adopter, or simply because the company is staffed by preschoolers.
I don't see any "ghost city" here. That's hard working people building a new prosperous city from scratch. IMO a "ghost city" would be cities that is not as popular as before, not some place that had never become a city.
Thanks for the tip, will make sure to fix this
For me, switching to IPv6 would mean taking a lot of time away from paying work to do something none of our clients have asked for and then dealing with the additional troubleshooting complexity of dual stack.

While I'd like to switch to IPv6 it just doesn't make sense for us to do so at the moment, even with APNICs IPv4 exhaustion issues.
"they have a huge volume of positive feedback"

Is that a pun or something?
So what? If you're a value investor, it's not your problem. The price is not going to stay wrong for very long.

The only people that will have problems are people who are heavily-leveraged and have no hedge.
Abobe Acrobat 10.0.1.434

Google Update 1.2.183.39

Java Deployment Toolkit 6.0.240.7

Java(TM) Platform SE 6 U24 6.0.240.7

Microsoft Office 2010 14.0.4730.1010

Microsoft Office 2010 14.0.4761.1000

Shockwave Flash 10.2.153.1

Silverlight Plug-In 4.0.60310.0

Windows Live Photo Gallery 15.4.3508.1109

Wolfram Mathematica 8.0.27.33471 (DISABLED)

mm... Should I disable all "Microsoft" related extensions to try? :)
The original price candidate, derived from the logarithm, that is second closest to integer cents is 62.91998, with 162.85966 coming in 6th and the other positions filled by implausibly large numbers.

Neither number has integer cents, since the actual series rounded or truncated values between iterations. For that reason, a simple logarithm won't tell us what the original price was - you'd need a simulation of the rounding.
You will probably start to. The intel 320 series is getting some attention now [1] with a combination of competitive ( for SSD ) price and enough capacitors on board to flush the write cache on a power failure.

You'd likely use SSDs first for indexes, then data. Transaction logs are usually a sequential workload and 7200 rpm drives often suffice.

[1] http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2011-03/msg...
The former is the correct way to pronounce it :-)
I love ff but hate ff4 for
1.removing the rss button from the address bar
2.my installation crashes several times a day due to: EXC_BAD_ACCESS / KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE
3.certain flash ads play out of order or appear in the wrong ad spot! I've never seen anything like this on another browser except ff4

im on mac osx snowleopard btw.
It's true, if Intel could make a single processor core that went eight times as fast on single-threaded code, they would do that instead of making eight-core chips, unless the cost difference was horrific. But they can't, so if you want your code to go faster, you have to find a way to parallelize it.

This started happening in earnest about 20 years ago in the supercomputer market, which is where the Tera was sold. About 10 years ago, it started happening in desktop CPUs (check out Herb Sutter's article about "the end of the free lunch") and now it's starting to happen in embedded microcontrollers, with the Parallax Propeller and the GreenArrays chips.

As it happens, the Tera didn't lose to faster single-threaded supercomputer CPUs. By the time the MTA came out, even the most stalwart defenders of the fast-single-threaded-performance approach, like the Cray SV1 and the NEC SX-5, had succumbed to the necessity of CPU parallelism. But the approach that was taking over the supercomputer market at the time was actually far more parallel, and far more difficult to program efficiently --- NUMA machines and then Beowulfs.

So that's why I don't think it was single-threaded programs that made the Tera fail in the supercomputer market.

The question of how to meaningfully parallelize XML and HTML parsing, compilation, text processing in general, and web browsers are very interesting indeed. It's not obvious how to do it, but it might turn out to be tractable. A group at Berkeley was doing some research on it in 2007 and 2008: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~lmeyerov/projects/pbrowser/
You can find extremely overpriced food in every major city.
I think that's Musk realizing that the announcement that Tesla bought Bitcoin will boost Bitcoin's value. And therefore cashing out that reality by making the trade.

It's not technically illegal afaik, but it certainly is making a trade because of realities inherent in the trading, rather than the underlying.
The unstated implication here is that ethicists either don't comment comment on such things (and are therefore hypocrites) or that their critique is so broad as to subsume all utility (and is therefore excessive).

Rather than throw up hypotheticals which this ethicist is probably not around to refute, I think it's be better to look at the person's body of work in this area and if you think they have some sort of intellectual blindspot or bias, point out how you think that might detract from their analysis.

https://alex-hanna.com/?p=publications
This has been my point many times -- people actually have trouble distinguishing eInk from el-cheapo non-backlighted LCD displays.
This. I could understand an early access game "it can shut down any time" but this is kind of my/family/friends lives on the line.
It's not python I'm worried about here.
I really don't get it. Nobody at an AI conference is alarmed at what they see in terms of AI research progress. Most well-educated people are alarmed about societal issues that _are also relevant to the application of automated decision-making and machine learning_. It's an applied research opportunity to investigate the issues (and as such, it is hyped because it is easy to "sell" to get funding); but it's not that AI research brings "bias" that didn't exist in society before. It's the same as for a rule-based system, or let's say, even a programming language: for sure, it can automate and hence exacerbate "unfair" decisions, but the problem is not in the specification, but in the specifying person/human. However, having a clear specification makes it easier to test/audit/verify and hence we (as a society) should do so. We don't need to burn down academic prototypes just because they make some naive assumptions about the application domain, though.
Both. And another aspect you missed: Doing things by hand stimulates regions of the brain which are directly tied to regions of creativity and to improve the ability to relate a new concept to existing concepts.
>they should withdraw
barricades and forces from Palestine. The oslo accords, gaza withdrawl. They were attempts to give palestinians autonomy. They were disasters. Israel need to continue occupation purely to ensure their own survival.
Look up fasting effect on HGH
"Major VCs switch to YC-like application process"
I've just finished co-writing my first book too, but with a publisher who hasn't helped out as much with the editing phase.
This part sucks, and would be the main detractor for the go-it-yourself route (imho). If you're self-publishing you'll have to deal with indexing, editing, and proofing yourself.
The article says 50 millon tons, this is realy realy big. It is like 10Kg (~20 pounds) per human being alive.

But according to wikipedia and [1] there are "only" 20 tons. (I think that the exact number is difficult to calculate, so 50 tons is perhaps a razonable number too.)

Still 20 tons (~ 40000 pounds) is much bigger than 50 or 100 Kg (~100 or200 pound) that is the weight of a person.

[1] http://hamptonroads.com/2010/05/cancer-cells-killed-her-then...
Microsoft Announces Windows 8 Will be Based on Unix

Windows Phone 8 to be a Custom Version of Android

Microsoft Announces All Future Versions of IE Will Use WebKit
What makes you think academia is not part of the list you just outlined? Part of the academic program is to shape the big lie too. It just happens that along the way, some are able to develop critical thinking and reasoning in greater depth to make the important questions, but "history is written by victors"... Academia is primarely shaping corporate slaves.
Yah. IMO-- only the most directly dangerous stuff -- incitements to violence-- should be removed. If you chase them out of Twitter, they'll make an even worse echo-chamber.

> Their legal cases are rejected. The mainstream media refuses to take them seriously.

> If you deny them the usual channels, is it surprising that they take the other route?

On the other hand, if what they're asserting is crazy and unsupported by fact, what's the alternative? Report it uncritically as part of "both sides"? Listen to them in court and give them relief anyways?
There are still lawsuits ongoing in the courts. You keep saying 60 of them, it's 54. You're so quick to question someone else's accounting skills earlier...

There are ten lawsuits ongoing, not zero, ten. That process hasn't happened, it is still happening. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_related...
If he had Covid and died like this, his death would be registered as a Coronavirus death without investigation
A reasonable but not too fancy two bedroom apartment might run you high hundred thousands or low million.

If you are coming from SF it doesn’t sound crazy but at least got tech, salaries are far lower.
On that theme, the best description of love and the feelings it creates that I ever read is "A Lover's Discourse: Fragments" by Roland Barthes. By a long shot.