jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So here's a question... why is the older data being revised? The way it's phrased, and it may not have been your intent, is a deliberate conspiracy to make the changes look greater than they actually are.

This touches on the inexplicable assumption driving much of the anti-warming crowd... the idea of a massive conspiracy of scientists worldwide to lie about climate change, fake data, and supress evidence to the contrary. Those making that assumption never really address why such a conspiracy exists.
To think that a resource will suddenly disappear with no replacement is to ignore the entirety of history.

Fossil fuels will not simply run out, and we are already transitioning to alternatives. That transition will speed up as costs increase. The market works.

What the market is NOT doing is pricing in the impact of CO2. Which is why the CO2 emissions are the bigger problem.
I'm very sorry about your friend. While LSD can provide great rewards, it is emphatically NOT for some people, or situations, or moods, or stages of life. It is extremely powerful and requires care and respect.

Of course, the same could be said for driving a car, having children, and a lot of other things that can make life better. Research and education are the proper responses to such risks and dangers, not banning the activity for everyone.
I think this argument could go either way. As a "commodity" WP7 phone maker, Nokia might be able to get 20% of the WP7 market on brand recognition alone. But a crappified version of WP7 might earn them 0% of the market instead.
MIT will receive dividends from the stock. It will never cost them anything to hold it even if it falls in value. Also, if it does fall horribly (unlikely) and is sold off, MIT would receive part of the sale proceeds (I believe). Either way, it's a win win for MIT.
I have a script somewhere laying around which does something similar for Gentoo: You give it a package and it will download and prepare it to some directory, then let you edit it, then compile it (via the Gentoo ebuild) and test it and you can repeat those last steps until you have fixed/changed what you wanted to do. And then it will return a final patch in the end.

I thought this was quite useful. I made quite a few patches this way and was very productive using this script (in some cases, it took me only about 2-5 minutes to prepare a patch if the fix was easy).

Though, the script was very hacky and it still often needed some hand-work to be made. I asked some Gentoo developers if there might want to make a full project out of this (because I thought that this might be a useful and important thing) but nobody really was interested.
Came here to post a similar comment. From the perspective of the user, a Blogger or Wordpress site is far simpler than writing Markdown (in vim, no less!), generating the site, checking it into git, and uploading/pushing to the web server.

Arguing that vim + markdown + static site generator is simpler, and therefore superior to a content management system or blog engine is like arguing that a dirt bike is simpler, and therefore superior to a car. Yes, mechanically, a motorcycle is far simpler than car. But simplicity of implementation leads to complexity of operation, and it's no surprise that most people prefer cars or SUVs for their daily commute, even though the innards of a car are tremendously more complicated than the innards of a dirt bike.
Twitch got competition.
I'm a little frustrated with this article, but not for the reasons in the article. The doctors were angry at their patients' family members for putting them through the suffering; but, ... that form of suffering is just where medicine is right now.

Medicine is evolving, and growing; and, it's that desire to keep living and to keep those around you living, and to improve their well-being that has, in part, grown our medical abilities to the point they are now.

It feels like some of those improvements that, right now only provide a '15% chance of survival, and include pain', will be the stepping stones for 20, 30, 80 or 90% chance of survival, with varying levels of pain, including 0.

The article seemed to suggest that the doctors didn't approve of those intermediate steps, but ... those are the steps medicine takes, aren't they?

I dunno. I respected the rest of the article. That part of it bothered me.
Kinda over the top, dontcha think? I had measles as a child, and it was hardly "devastating". Chart seems to be missing any indication of the percentage of people vaccinated, so that one can at least see a correlation, let alone infer causation, or "impact"! And since Disneyland is a tourist spot, isn't it at least possible that some of the guests could be people from countries which don't vaccinate for measles? That is assuming that the strain of the current measles outbreak is the same one prevented by the vaccine.
Great post. I thought I'd comment just to say about the relative URL ../what-is-special-about-nim not working as intended from the homepage and the link to http://nim-lang/ which should presumably be http://nim-lang.org

Seems a shame to make such a pedantic and insubstantial comment on such an interesting article about a language I'd not come across, but thought the author might like to know.
Or what am I missing?

The linux kernel averages >5 patches per hour. Even with multi-teired maintanership, good luck getting everyone to base their patch sets on the latest upstream head.

I know nobody other than the kernel actually uses git as a distributed system, but there are use cases where your ideal workflow can't actually exist.
It's anti-bot. It doesn't prevent bots targeting that page, but those don't exist.
Great work Vik! Nice to see you getting a lot of great feedback and attention.
Maybe true, but I don't think that's the real reason. I think it has a lot more to do with ego and cowardice. (It perhaps also belies a shoot-the-messenger mentality that exists within many major corporations.)

On The Media did a piece a few months ago about how the 1982 Tylenol recall is pretty much the gold standard for corporate disaster PR: identify the problem, apologize, and explain what you're doing to prevent it in the future. It's not hard, but it takes guts. Even J&J itself didn't meet that standard in later recalls. http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/02/12/01
A worse than expected quarter and their product is no longer top dog? I'd hardly call that a death spiral. A march to mediocrity, maybe, if they don't start producing products with wider appeal.

In all the IT World articles I've seen over the last week or so, they seem to make over-the-top statements and exaggerate about everything. Not so much in this particular article, but it seems like they don't have a very good understanding of the technology they're covering.
I can't tell you whether the reviewers downloaded the sample code, but I don't expect they would have posted a review without trying at least some of the examples.

I will ask the author to review his examples ASAP and make any fixes necessary. Do you remember which settings you needed to change in the projects?

Thanks,

Brian
MS didn't drop below Apple, Apple grew above MS. It's a pretty important distinction - drop means they declined, Apple is now making more money than Microsoft, and Microsoft is making more money than they used to too.
For me, it depends on the article. There are some articles where I only care about the article, and ignore the comments. On the other end of the spectrum, there are some articles where the only thing that's interesting is the discussion around it.
To me, I know of Tim Bray because of XML.
Update: Works for me when I log out of Stripe. Nevermind.

The managed account page appears to be down: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/managed-accounts
To me this reads "I can't make up my own opinion, I need others to influence my judgement and opinions."
You've just described "individuals and interactions over processes and procedures".

The agile manifesto isn't the cluster fuck that Agile has become. Agile methodologies directly violate the agile philosophy, but that's no reason to pretend that we're just now discovering that methodologies suck. It's in the manifesto.
"Air-gapped systems are used in classified military networks, the payment networks that process credit and debit card transactions for retailers, "

Payment systems are most definitely not air gapped.
Why do they feel "unheard"? Every election results in close to 50% of the voters not getting the candidate they voted for. It doesn't mean their issues weren't discussed.

Now more than ever, anyone can have a voice. A child can make videos unboxing toys and millions will watch. You can tweet, blog, video, write essays, make podcasts and so on. I'm not aware of any point in history when people could be heard more than now.
Here's an alternative I use all the time (without window functions) that I don't think is widely known! Works on SQL Server and I think is more performant?:

SELECT department, first_name, salary
FROM salary AS s
WHERE s.[salary] = (
SELECT MAX(ex.[salary])
FROM salary AS ex
WHERE s.[department] = ex.[department])
You give these folks way too much credit. If they actually got power they’d have no idea what to do with it.
Signal will by design likely be more stable than Matrix in the short term because it is a centralized dictatorship.

China can move fast for this reason too.

You have to decide if the long term consequences of a fast moving dictatorship are worth giving up the freedom of a sometimes messy democracy.

The internet is too important to herd all our services into control of dictators, no matter how benevolent.

We survived the dialup days for all the UX hell of many providers without giving AOL exclusive control in spite of them having the best UX.

I hope we can do the same with something as critically important as worldwide internet communications, but the marketing of dictators and their ability to move quickly is sometimes too hard to resist until it all backfires spectacularly.
Euro wages are typically after tax, but you are citing a before tax figure. In California for example where a 15$ wage is reasonable for a "shitty job", that's around 34,000$ take home. You can expect to pay 15,000$ in yearly rent, which leaves you with 19,000$. To get to the Amazon warehouse you work at, you'll have to pay around 5000$ a year on a car, because public transport won't get you there, leaving you with 14,000$. Then you have utilities, food costs, healthcare costs, etc..., and you'll be lucky if you manage to spare 2000-3000$ a year of disposable income.

And of course, this is Amazon, so at least you get some form of insurance. Many are less fortunate.

It is preferable to live as middle class in a third-world country (GDP per capita ~4000$/year) than as someone with a shitty job in the USA, having lived the former.
People are absolutely moving because of weather. The PNW has had terrible summers for about the past 5 years. Before there were decades of great mild summer weather, often July, Aug, Sept. These past few years there were smoke concentrations at deadly levels. Not just from one forest fire. Multiple fires every year. This is separate from the danger of a fire burning your house down. My coastal area wasn't right next to a fire, it was hundreds of miles away. The weather patterns were pulling air from the interior to the coast. If you live in Washington, Oregon, or northern California you were endangering your life if went outside. My nextdoor neighbor told me he was moving to get away from that. This was 2 years ago. Since then it has gotten worse. We've thought of selling our mountain cabin. Instead of the summer, people say our 4th season is the smoke season, only half jokingly.

At the same time, people keep moving here because we have so many jobs. There aren't that many people moving away, but lots more talk about it. I think about another 5 years will really accelerate the trend. We all know there have been historical times when there was some smoky air. Even Mark Twain wrote about it when he visited Seattle more than 100 years ago. Now it's happening every year, with severe impact. All my friends bought air conditions for the first time including me, and we also have air cleaners and air quality gauges for our inside air.
Some of us learned this approach to imperative programming from The Science of Programming by David Gries:

https://www.amazon.com/Science-Programming-Monographs-Comput...
Prejudice isn't a one way street- you could be described as prejudiced in favor of the Psychology/Psychiatry establishment.

Furthermore, there is a long history of criticism of Psychology, none of which you addressed. Clinical Psychology has very little data in its favor, and while biology-based approaches have had some success in certain areas, they aren't the same field, and I'm not sure that validates Clinical Pyschology.

The canonical references for this general strand of argument are Feynman's 'Cargo Cult Science' and Paul Lutus' 'Is Psychology Science?'.
"Libertarians in the United States have often claimed that the public school system (which has more than 90% of the students) is a disaster."

The Libertarian argument isn't that public schools are a disaster. Their argument is that the federal government shouldn't be involved in education and it should instead remain a local or state issue where people have more direct control over the system.
They could switch from a blacklist to a whitelist and then you would only be able to connect to other nodes if they were run surreptitiously on pre-approved networks.
Nah. They'll just go to SomethingAweful.
That's confusing to me, 6 hours is more than enough time to implement a small but significant feature. I think it's possible you're assuming the request would be a particularly large one.
I simply want to accentuate the fact that Apple doesn't need a big part of the overall phone market to grab most of the margin available to this market. It simply needs to stay at the top. When LG sells an android phone, LG makes a couple of bucks of margin at best; google gets pennies from advertising; in contrast when Apple sells an iPhone, they get quite a hefty global hardware and software profit.
I think this kind of service in more popular in some cities than others, but I've also noticed that the "bread and butter" for a lot of these companies is commercial contracts with apartment complexes and HOAs that 'offer this service' to members (e.g. make it mandatory but also negotiate bulk pricing out of dues). I've never done it but I see there's a company doing it in my city now, maybe I'll give it a try when summer heat really amps up the smells.
You are correct. Most of the time the SEC seems unconcerned with aggregate public trades that manipulate stock prices.
The only reason it's using systemd at all is because on Fedora /etc/resolv.conf is a soft link to /run/systemd/resolve/resolv.conf. As it states in the file ...

# This file is managed by man:systemd-resolved(8). Do not edit.
#
# This is a dynamic resolv.conf file for connecting local clients directly to
# all known uplink DNS servers. This file lists all configured search domains.
#
# Third party programs should typically not access this file directly, but only
# through the symlink at /etc/resolv.conf. To manage man:resolv.conf(5) in a
# different way, replace this symlink by a static file or a different symlink.
#
# See man:systemd-resolved.service(8) for details about the supported modes of
# operation for /etc/resolv.conf.

So if you don't want to use systemd for DNS then just replace the soft link with your own file. For static servers that makes sense; you're going to want to configure resolv.conf to use your own company/data center nameservers. But for not laptops where systemd is managing the DHCP service and the details (and nameservers) will change depending on your location.
See also the fuckup with the exams in the UK last year

"It was the computer, honest, the algorithm blah blah blah"
The tweet links to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1493602, which is a Mozilla source
Without some serious way to draw in players, you're never going to acquire, and more importantly, keep them.

Google should have kept leaning into the idea that Stadia could support the highest settings on any game at any resolution the user wants (bandwidth notwithstanding), and made it work reliably for any game on the platform. It's really the only thing I can find attractive about this or any other game streaming service. We definitely shouldn't be seeing a class-action lawsuit because you don't know how to communicate resolution limitations to your customers: https://9to5google.com/2021/02/18/stadia-4k-lawsuit-class-ac...

They should also have performed some customer goodwill beforehand. Maybe support a product or two for longer. I remember as soon as Stadia came out, nearly every mention included the phrase "but how long until Google cancels it?" Why would you think launching a product everybody is sure is going to be killed simply because that's what you always do is a good idea? I was a daily user of many of the products they killed, and I definitely don't want my game purchases to evaporate the same way.

The biggest problem I see now is that Stadia is still Google. Andrew Spinks' (Terraria developer) experience with being locked out of his personal Gmail, YouTube, Docs, and Play Purchases (which include movies, books, and games) should demonstrate why this should be a frightening prospect for someone using any of these services. If you're reported by some players online, you could lose access to all Google services. Or, in Spinks' case, simply doing nothing at all to warrant a platform-wide ban and never being able to appeal the process. No thanks; that sounds like a nightmare waiting to happen.

As for other platforms, Microsoft knows how to keep players, and they already have hardware in lots of homes. They can leverage a lot of existing goodwill. Amazon might have a chance since they seem to be playing the long game, but they also have their own platform that hasn't quite pissed everyone off yet. Certainly, killing off their own internal development team doesn't really do them any favors if they're trying to fool people into thinking this is an actual long-term strategy.
I've been on that part of the trail at Jim Thorpe, so beautiful. We need all abandoned rail lines turned into public trails.
I’m personally sympathetic to your concerns, but to play devil’s advocate: Who’s to say that typical high-paying “real jobs” are a net good for society, (even) assuming that their occupants donate half of their earnings to worthy causes?

I’d imagine that plenty of “talented and capable” people working in (what might be considered) “low impact non profit jobs at low pay” are aware of effective altruism, or similar movements that seem to reflect your perspective, but would consider working in high finance/Big Tech/management consulting/etc counterproductive to their ultimate goals.
I just never delete messages. Chat histories are an integral part of my past, and my past is what makes me, me.

That said, I deleted my WhatsApp account today just because some organizations assumed that this was an acceptable and convenient way of reaching me if I gave them my phone number. Didn't use it much anyway.
Software is the implementation, but this is a large an nuanced program. I find the most interesting aspect is that this is software specifically ignores the pilot. If the g-locked/unconscious pilot is slumped over the controls the computer will ignore his stick inputs and substitute its own best judgment of the situation. (Pilot's stick says down, computer decides to ignore and pull up instead.) That is a really powerful change in pilot culture. It conflicts with the 737-Max fiasco where we all screamed that pilots should have final authority over computers. Getting this into f-16 cockpits must have involved many very heated discussions.
You can play it here:

http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=1537
I'd argue that romanticizing children's free time is more weird and more western than anything else. My free time as a kid usually just involved being bored and lonely while watching TV or playing video games.
why not just use snowflake though if they aren't on gcp already?
Just because something was done historically doesn't make it right or correct.
Monolith vs Microservices is a false choice. You can easily use both, as we do. Monolith for what makes sense (a user application) and microservices where they are helpful (scalable email services, auth services and stuff in a cluster).

Microservices solve many problems and cause others.

People pointing out that they aren't a silver bullet are preaching to the converted. Anyone who honestly believes that anything in engineering is always better than something else haven't been listening in class!
It says that she chose Google instead of Repl.it because they'll also send her to Europe for a summer internship, which may open up quite a lot of possibilities for her (regardless of if she likes/dislikes FAANG). When you're in a relatively obscure country outside of the US, every networking opportunity counts, regardless of what you want to achieve with your expertise.
Appreciate the additional insight. I really wanted to like GCP - they have good people and good tech.

This whole onboarding felt like some caricature of what I thought were exaggerated stories of how bad the support was.
Maybe the author of the article missed the simple fact that game designers want to come up with their own rules and mathematical models, because they enjoy the process more than reading 500 pages of explanations from a genius.

We all like to start from scratch, don't we?
So is go and people told us "computers will never be good at this, cause the brute forcing used for chess won't work." -- AlphaGo showed that to be wrong.
Does this CPU time accounting have any noticeable performance impact?

I know in some embedded usecases, there are hundreds of thousands or millions of interrupts per second, and an interrupt routine might be only tens of clock cycles long. If that's the case, an extra bunch of instructions to time how long every single interrupt takes is a substantial overhead.
I looked at a few pages on the site. I kept expecting some reference to Whitehead's process philosophy from the 1920s but it never came.

"Whitehead argued that reality consists of processes rather than material objects, and that processes are best defined by their relations with other processes, thus rejecting the theory that reality is fundamentally constructed by bits of matter that exist independently of one another."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_philosophy
I'm a big fan of werstreamt.es (German), which is a simple search engine for all streaming services.
In the central european grid, there is actually a market where companies can offer frequency stabilization service to the grid, which exists in both directions. It doesn't matter if the combat a lack of power in the grid with shedding loads or spinning up another generator.

This exists on a few different timescales, and the faster-responding contracts trigger at higher frequency deviations.

Primary operating reserve triggers at +-200 mHz and needs to be fully available within 30 s and for up to 15 min, secondary operating reserve has to take over (and be fully available within 5 min), and the tertiary operating reserve has to be fully available within 15 min.

The entso-e map: https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/