jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
GTA V (the single player game) is quite well optimized and needs a frame rate limiter on most newer systems because it will run at over ~180 fps, at which point the engine starts to barf all over itself.

GTA Online is a huge, enormously buggy and slow mess that will generally struggle to run at 80 fps on a top-of-the-line 2020 system (think 10900K at over 5 GHz with a 3090) and will almost never cross the 120 fps threshold no matter how fast your system is and how low the settings are.
Privacy is a hot topic right now. Most just turn off the loading of remote assets in HTML emails but there is a certain simplicity to just reading the text. Just today I provided some suggestions to someone on plain text oriented email clients.

As for myself, the issue has never really come up as I have used Mutt since forever. The w3m browser does a great job of converting stuff like HTML tables to well formatted plain text for those times where the text is unreadable or missing. Which raises the question of why that could not work for the newsletter generators. Is the starting HTML really that bad?
Strange that the great beer drinking nation of Australia is excluded.
Using national capitals as a proxy for country is... questionable.
That still remains to be seen. A DMCA is not a court order. Anyone can file one and take a repository offline for two weeks.
Unbelievable.

Such silly mistakes causing such a huge delay for millions of gamers over 6 years.
> But there could be gaps, especially in cases where Rust semantics mismatch with C in ways that LLVM hasn't exposed yet.

Could you elaborate on what potential mismatches there currently are between the semantics of Rust and C? Where particularly do you think there might be issues/dragons hiding in the semantics of a translation?
In that case, go ahead and convert to UTC and save UTC as the relevant zone. In no case is timestamp+zone less flexible than UTC timestamp by itself.
Close. Under this convention, somebody has to do a final test before pushing the merge commit. It can be a simple sanity test, not a full blown integration test. But somewhere somebody at least did a compile check.

If it fails that test, then you push it back to the person doing the work saying so and they need to fix it.
It's working properly in our IE9 VM. Are you getting JS errors? Any other debugging info would be great.
Modern thinking also gives us valves at low volumes, like a Hughes & Kettner Tubemeister, which I ended up getting the 18W model of. Possible to run at 1W and still sound great. (or direct to DI, I.e quiet).
An interesting outcome of the case discussion for this was that many king believed they needed to maintain control to be rich. This leads us to believe it's potentially a set of dependent variables rather than a choice between separate options.
My point isn't that we should "filter" the question. It's that the author, by posing this ideologically loaded question and addressing it in no quantitative way nor addressing why it is a question of import regarding this policy is either being naive or intellectually dishonest.

If I'm writing a piece about the merits of almonds upon your diet and my findings are that almonds are good for you in every way but at the outset of my article pose the question, can we really continue to consume a substance from which deadly cyanide can be derived?

Then my intent is clearly a rhetorical flourish to lend a false counterpoint to my narrative. The science establishing almonds as safe to eat is so overwhelming that raising this false doubt, even temporarily in the minds of my readers is irresponsible.

If you genuinely wish to know the objective factors that contribute to addiction, I'm all for it. Shit, I'll pay taxes to help you get that information because I agree it's important. But if you wish to use worn out cliches in order to make your writing seem more even handed and thus bolster the arguments of those not interested in objective knowledge but interested in advancing their own morals via public policy then I will call you out.
The implied insult is that this region is the only region where people are dumb enough to misspell these words.

All of your examples are examples of words and phrases that people have primarily heard (rather than read), and thus they spell them incorrectly. People who have read these phrases repeatedly are less like to make these mistakes of spelling.
Not sure I like this article. I would have liked to see the Levoit LV-PUR131 which is rated for 1000sqft/hr, 500sqft in 33 mins at $190, instead of the little one which we know will have a really low CFM/CADR.

Blue Pure 211 rated 540sqft,
GermGuardian rated 167sqft,
Honeywell HPA160 rated 170sqft,
Dyson Hot + Cool Air Purifier rated 290sqft.
Levoit LV-H132 rated 68sqft,

Also the Levoit is called out for being $150, as their cheapest, however they are on Amazon or at the local box store for $90.
> the public bathroom air "blades"

That’s interesting, I always found those vastly superior to all other solutions. They dry my hands the quickest, only the copycats come close.
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At least it doesn't give them a legal basis for doing so, while clicking "yes" does.

In practice, the real defense is a good ad blocker which would block both the consent prompt and the associated trackers.
That's weird because the cordless Dyson vacuum we had was utter garbage and my 20 year old Dirt Devil was better in almost every single way except it didn't look as cool and had a cord.
>it's liquidity, which bitcoin has far more of then any other cryptocurrency.

"Far more of than any other cryptocurrency" is kind of a moot point. Does "bitcoin" (the people converting it to cash) have enough reserves in any real currency to cover even 10% of its value? There's no federal government backing it, and as best I can tell nothing to prevent the proverbial "run on the bank".

I still struggle to see how bitcoin has anymore intrinsic value than collecting pokemon cards. It's worth something right up until it isn't without a major government supporting it.
For an introduction to the language try tour.dlang.org

Also, feel free to ask questions about the language (I work for the D foundation).
I use it to keep in some level of contact with a wide group of work contacts as they move around the industry. But it’s not an enjoyable experience. I wrote about how it could be improved in the hope someone would do it... so far still waiting.
https://blog.eutopian.io/building-a-better-linkedin/
>'in my personal experience' could mean you know 5 scientists or 5 thousand so mentioning a rough range would certainly give more credibility to your comment over the asterisk.

Agreed. Providing us with some statistics would help support their argument here.
Source? I have personally seen one operating in Alaska during the winter.
You can generate new curve parameters, but nobody does, and you shouldn't (you will perish in flames). The popular curves, probably in order of popularity, are the NIST P-Curves (like P-256), Curve25519 (and Ed25519 for signing), Bitcoin's secp256k1 (originally from Certicom), and then higher-security-margin curves like E-521.
There are type of people who will put carbon-carbon brakes even on a bicycle just for the sake of it.
His quote, like the whole article, is just feigned insight. I guess if stocks go down 6 months or five years from now he can say: "see I told you so".
Some time ago, I worked for a defunct energy company that provided demand-side relief in exactly this scenario - when total system load outstrips total system capacity, we'd begin taking actions on behalf of end users, not the utility. Lights would turn off, generators would spin up, fridge temperatures would be raised.

ERCOT (Texas) is an interesting case in that it can't import power from other states as easily - it has its "own grid" at 60Hz, but not necessarily in phase with either of the other two major grids in the country (there's eastern US, western US, and "most of Texas"). So to import power, it first has to convert grid-scale amounts of energy from AC to DC, then back to AC, which incurs a pretty significant loss.
It frustrates me how most analysis of wind and solar cost-effectiveness fail to take into account the need to have tons of backup infrastructure that lays fallow most of the time. You need to decide between poor grid reliability or drastically increased capital expenditures. Hopefully storage tech will get better and this will cease to be such a problem.
I guess you could use it against those that know nothing about the process of science, but then they would just ignore you because they really don't understand what you are saying.

However, in my experience, that phrase more often comes from someone who claims to be a scientist, which is why it puts me off.

If you don't claim to be a scientist, then I can respect that.
You might be surprised how many people have underlying conditions putting them at increased risk: obesity, poor sleep habits, immune system disorders. And we've yet to see the long term effects of this flavor of SARS for those who survive. Hindsight will be 20/20, so hopefully we can learn and prepare better next time.

Thankfully it appears the vaccines will be effective if enough people get them for life to return to normal soon.
That was attempted by many companies during the ICO craze a couple years ago. It took quite a while for the FTC to issue guidance on just how they expect such offerings to work and remain on the FTC’s good side. What they eventually came up with was useless. Basically, you could pre-sell coupons for service discounts. Pretty much anything else would get you in trouble. And, so we don’t hear so much about ICOs any more.
Since there's a chance PG will look at this thread and my email has been ignored, if you or a mod could restore my _ck_ account I'd be grateful (and disable this one, I don't care about lost "karma").

I still have no idea why the _ck_ account was disabled in the first place.
I don't think he did leave that out actually. In step 5, he says, "Explain that you’re very busy working with customers and improving your product, and that you can’t afford to distract the company without having at least a ballpark understanding of the offer."

Did he have to spell it out further? Not to me
just got hibernate to compile and post for the first time, pretty! :)
It's taken me about 5 years to feel comfortable enough to put myself out there to the world as a competent programmer. You have to want it, I can't tell you how many all nighters I have put in researching problems, trying coding patterns, etc. Find a bunch of proverbial nails and start hammering away.

speaking of all nighters.
There is already a "programming" environment used by lots of non-developers: it's called Excel.
36 years isn't the end of the world. Have a day work to pay the mortgage and code!.
Nope, its never too late to try and succeed.

The only requirement is that you do have mindset suitable for programming. I've seen quite a few people struggle with programming who don't have an inherent logical thinking cap on their head!
Not sure if anyone still following this, but the point isn't that the grammar/syntax works, it's that the meaning and spirit of the phrases is retained when swapping "union" for "empire". Swapping in similar-but-different nouns "democracy" or "monarchy" changes the meaning of the phrase and it wouldn't work. Monarchy is obvious. But note that democracy wouldn't work either - because most likely the 1790's understanding of the Constitution was that States could leave the USA by democratic vote, and the Confederacy did precisely that.

So I didn't mean that the syntax/language works - like you said, of course it does. I meant the general spirit and integrity of the phrase and speech aren't changed in the least when swapping union for empire, in a way that swapping in "democracy" or "monarchy" or other similar-but-different noun would not. When Lincoln said "union", he meant "empire" - and again, good on him, I think, the world is a much better place because he kept the American... union... intact.
Clickable: http://www.folderboy.com/index.htm?f=cv

Shiny landing page, doesn't suit me, but I'm regularly referred to as "bizarre" by people who watch me react with computers, so that's no surprise. Are you doing A/B testing on your layout? I'd change the

> FolderBoy allows you to jot down your ideas and find them again with search-as-you-type.

... to say "Jot down anything - find instantly with search-as-you-type."

But as I say, don't trust my judgement on this - do the testing. Tinker, tinker, tinker, tinker, with measurements.

Anyway, for my own personal understanding, I've scaled up the ratios you've given to see what 10,000 page views would produce

10,000 @ 60% gives 6,000 try-outs
6,000 @ 33% gives 2,000 reasonable work-outs
2,000 @ 5% gives 100 users.

So 1% of your views turn into users. I'd've thought that was quite good, but I have no experience, so that's a priori reasoning, not the voice of "Been there, done that."

And good luck!
A free/Open source clone of the most successful virus ever created!</unix zealot>

Basically, these guys decided they legally wanted windows, but they didn't want to pay for it.</snark>

It's a cool idea, but, I'm not exactly sure on a) the legality of it and b) the usefulness of it.
I don't think I understand what you're saying.
This same narrative also played out during the Hans Reiser arrest/trial. Even after his conviction (due in no small part to his own testimony), people were still defending him -- up until he revealed the location of the body in return for a reduced sentence.
This is excellent, basically "go to definition" implemented in HTML. I'd love to see this extended to other languages.
There she goes :) I always feel like a little kid watching rocket launches, only now I want to be a Rocket Engineer instead of an Astronaut (ok, as well as).

(on a side note: am I right in thinking the gas venting from the side is pressure release?)
I liked his pot shot on the iPad:

"I tried to take notes on one in a meeting with me yesterday. That was fun. It didn't go very fast."
Yes, that interpretation is more charitable. I guess I am too afraid of Unix fanboyism, because I tend to fall into that trap myself, when I am not fighting it.
Yay! :) :) :)
Neat. Might be faster and more scalable if you run it as Javascript on the browser. Although the current version seems to be fine also.

Here are some ideas on creating a business model around it.

(1) Let people order t-shirts with fractal patterns through Cafe Press. Set up the API calls so this use case happens seamlessly. Use Cafe Press or a similar fulfillment service. You make a percentage on each sale.

(2) Similarly, let people buy mugs, hats, visors, posters, playing cards, business cards, etc. with their favorite fractal graphics on them. Again use the same model as above.

(3) Produce images that are exactly the right size and format for screen backgrounds. Sell them or give them away. as wallpaper images.
I don’t think that’s actually the point of the exercise, from Apple’s perspective. (Even though they use “openness” and so on as buzzwords.)

Instead, as far as I can tell, the primary point is to promote Safari and prove that Flash is unneeded to make pretty neat graphics/interactive thingums.

Opera is maybe justified in being miffed if Apple can get traction off the back of using “open” and “HTML5” as buzzwords, but I really don’t think the primary audience for this showcase knows or cares much one way or the other what HTML5 really means.
http://thenextweb.com/me/2010/06/04/woopra-gets-a-shiny-new-...

Looks like Woopra heard you
Kin?

( /tongue-in-cheek )
As a human being he wasn't perfect, but I come back to images from his film in my head time and time again and they help me look up from my work and consider bigger things on an ongoing basis. His films create space in my head which I go to for help when I need it most.
How is shipping different than truck or train.
Modern day slave ships. I’m sure the sheep are insured and it’s more profitable to leave them to drown.
Google, I’m also not sure, from the outside things seem pretty good for employees. We can see the union end game and how it would work for the minimum wage Amazon warehouse workers who had to fight about not being paid for the 30 minute security screening so these are entirely different.
Yeah Kushner hasn't exactly fixed that situation like he thought he would.
You know what they say: If you want to steal a million dollars rob a bank. If you want to steal a billion dollars make a bank.
No, Jobs didn't "found Apple as the antithesis of IBM". Woz and Jobs started Apple because Woz wouldn't/couldn't be bothered with all the sales/admin etc involved in running a company. All the rest is Jobs BS.
Some confuse Initiative Q with a pyramid scheme. Pyramid schemes collect money from new members and distribute it to earlier members. Since no one pays for joining Q, it is not a pyramid scheme.Some people are concerned about privacy - you'll only need to provide your name and email address, and your information cannot be used for marketing. You can even provide an email address you don’t use often, as long as you’re sure you can access it in the future. Initiative Q in the press: https://www.bitrates.com/news/p/initiative-q-is-not-a-scam-n... https://theconversation.com/initiative-q-is-not-the-new-bitc... https://twitter.com/InitiativeQ
Without knowing the in's and out's of supply and demand this really raises the question as to why 14,000 sheep needed to be transported. Our reliance on global markets for our produce is out of hand (probably preaching to the converted here).
I love this kind of thinking -- I've dreamt of the exact same things myself.

Right now I have _three_ cars -- one I use for commuting, one my wife uses all day. and one (an old van) that I use for all my dirty projects.
I would love to replace my commuter and project van with _more affordable_ versions of the same that also have the same flexibility.
The last part is the limiting factor now -- but won't be for long (and I'm not even talking autonomous cars yet :) )
Clarion West grad here.

You're half right -- the immersion is important, and it's critical to have other people on the same quest. Many of us go from being okay to hyper-productive in that environment. The hard thing is translating that to the real world. It's like having scurvy, then getting enough vitamin C for a while, then going back to having scurvy. You realize what a huge, huge thing it is to have all the infrastructure in place. Through skill or accident, some people are better at putting themselves in the right circumstances to thrive.

It shouldn't be underestimated, though, how important the instructors are. It felt like I imagine an old-timey apprenticeship might have felt, where a respected craftsman of watches shows you things about watchmaking that it would take decades to learn on your own.
>Surely all that would really change is when buying a new car, you are purely insuring the vehicle and not the person!

Thats how insurance works in the state that I live in.

One minor problem is I'm not sure exactly what the average driver experience age is, but I know new teen drivers are incredibly expensive to insure and after 10-20 years of primary driver experience cars start getting pretty cheap to insure (until your kids are teens, of course).

Changing a cars primary driver without informing the insurance company will get you cancelled. I can't basically gift my old car to my teen cousin while paying "safe old man rates". They'd be more than happy to insure my old car, at "crazy teen boy rates". So I suspect a software upgrade of the driving system would require insurance company contact.

Observationally, today's github release will be insured at a small integer multiple of "crazy teen boy" insurance rates.

This develops into other problem areas. At some crossover point its going to be cheaper to hire a human driver... My gut level engineering guess is it'll never be cheaper to run an autonomous car on shared roads than to run an autonomous train on dedicated (elevated?) rails, so throwing capital at the problem is a losing strategy, you'd come out way ahead financially building elevated monorails or just going with modern intermodal trains.
> Thankfully we have enlightened people among us to guide the sheep, right?

Please don't do this here. If another comment takes a wrong turn, going further that way doesn't help. Instead, please help the thread self-correct by posting more substantively.
Interesting; I've been eyeing the Xiaomi devices for a while. The github issues are saying that some drivers are missing though.
You mean groups are selected for because the group benefits the individual? Sure - but that seems to me to just be a point of view, not a refutation of group selection.

For example (to clarify), would you say religions are subject to evolution?
Hygienic macros for Go (i.e. an equivalent of sweet.js http://sweetjs.org/) would be very interesting.
What cracked me up is if you watch the video advertising the home on the website (http://1181hillcrest.com/video.html) the guy's contact email address is a Gmail address.

If you're offering a home at $85,000,000 (the original list price) and you even create a website for the property, at least spring the extra $12/year for your own domain name.
(Disclosure: IAAPL, but this is my view and isn't reflective of any former clients or my current employer.)

The key problem with the patent system is the problem of disclosure. We always say that the patent system is a bargain between the inventor and the public. The public gets new knowledge and the inventor gets a period of exclusivity for the using/making etc that knowledge.

Where the system falls down is in the "disclosure to the public" part of that bargain. Patent language has become so abstracted that most of the time it fails to inform someone of skill in the art how to actually make the promised item. This has some corollary effects:

- The patent system becomes less useful as a source for knowledge (as argued by the article)
- Novelty and obviousness (and later, infringement) all become less certain. This results in poor quality patents coming out of the patent office and high costs to litigate for infringement.

In the end, though, the result is that the patent system is (for most of the computer arts where I spend my time) not very useful as a store of knowledge. If there is a choice, I will almost always seek out a paper (or source code) rather than an accompanying patent to get an understanding of new technology.

This is due to the incentives associated with each type of publication. The source code is designed to convey certain algorithms to the computer in an unambiguous way. Papers are designed to get read and cited - and they don't do that unless they communicate what is new and meaningful to an audience of peers.

In contrast, patents are designed to cover a range of possible solution spaces, with as much room for reinterpretation later as is possible without being insoluably ambiguous.

This problem is hard to undo because the push to abstract the descriptions in patents was done with the best of intentions.
- Congress wanted to allow new things to be described without constricting the form of the language used.
- Prosecuting lawyers (and their clients) wanted to get the maximum coverage for their new ideas.
- Courts want to reward inventors and disallow trivial workarounds (nail->screw) not addressing the core inventive concept.

All of these points are valid ones - but in combination, the result is that patents have become too vague, particularly in anything computer-related.

As an aside, the mechanical arts (and some others, such as many bio/chem arts) don't suffer from this problem to nearly the same extent, and so you usually don't see the same problems.