jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Even if you don’t care about cooking, this article hits two themes that repeatedly pop up on HN:

1. how people first acquire and cultivate skills, and the less-clear-than-you-might-think role of “seriousness” in doing so, and

2. the stories of people who enjoy a confluence of interest, skill, resources, and what looks like a fair amount of luck, and (spoiler alert) still don’t achieve neat narrative-friendly success. I’m thinking of those comments that go “yeah, but we don’t get to see all the stories of people who did thing x and failed” (though in the end this story is less about failure and more about eventually deciding other things were more interesting).
Of course, AMD managed, so there’s no technical reason that nVidia cannot.
From the hacking group:

all data was gathered from a public webserver with no password, accessible by anyone on the Internet.

Sounds like an AT&T's-website security breach (big shocker there, their sites are horrendous and half-broken at all times). Further down they describe the attack:

Members of the group used the UCC-ID that is on each iPad 3G and pinged the AT&T login page with it. That page returned an e-mail address associated with that iPad 3G. They then wrote a simple script to ping the page with a series of numbers repeatedly until they had 114,000 e-mail addresses.

So... AT&T is a moron (further shock. Can you feel the shock? It's shocking.). It has nothing to do with the iPad.
Tobacco, the triangle trade, opium, weed, etc. Several of the states actually had laws on the books that made it a criminal offense to not grow marijuana.
I'm thinking anyone who knows about this would interpret it as an easy way to hide what you stole for longer (cameras can't see what you're doing once it's fogged). For a store that size, it'd still be easy to nab enough stuff to make it worthwhile, but you're on camera for less time.

Still, quite interesting. And that's an impressive output, I'd love to have one for halloween :D

("dissapear"? Is this an official vid? If so, that's shameful.)
I know plenty of academics who are highly engaging in writing but utterly useless at speaking -- even in private conversations, never mind public speaking.

I feel sorry for their students, but I'm glad for the books and research they produce.
So which gender gets the most data?
> Lets say I turn this into some kind of guard dog system (bear with me). Imagine someone wanders onto my property. I'd rather get a text/mms than an email which might get lost in my inbox.

You can't have push notifications for certain subjects or email addresses? If you're going to make home security part of this, you might as well set up your email to be accommodating to it as well. If you're gonna use email.
Clearly a first world problem. I especially like the "outrageous" language in the article: "built an lies", as if it was a major drama, ... honestly, who cares? ... But then I again, I do not even care to own a car.
Just because it's hard to put into words doesn't make it not cheating. The fact is society evolves and it takes time to discover the negatives of a lot of business models. People who exploits such models already have the benefit of our non-retroactive judicial system.
It really isn't. If he really did leave for this reason this is exactly how you would expect it to be communicated, and if he didn't not only would the timing be suspicious, but there would probably be an actual reason for leaving given.
> includes the first introduction of the concept of a class, defined using the primitive notions of functions and arguments.

Might he be the inventor of OO programming ?? :)
apropos von Neumann. why is there no Manhatten project for corona?
"auto" in c is a storage class specifier, like "register", "extern" or "static".

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/storage_duration

It was considered pretty useless by most, so c++11 recycled the keyword to mean something different.
While I largely agree, it is also true that running a business requires very different skills than building its product.

MBA or not, technologist or not, you can still be good or bad at what you do. Smart or stupid. I think simply looking at a mismanaged tech company and saying “ah too many MBAs in charge” is missing the point.

My guess is, if you look at the well-ran large companies, these will also have an MBA-rich management core.

I worked at a mid-sized company completely driven by technological people, with no one having a solid business background. It wasn’t good.
They'd just outsource them to a legal firm
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California has one of the stricter shelter-in-place orders and everything connected to food supply, including prepared food, is essential. Restaurants are delivery/takeout only, but still operating.

Now, it's probably true that on average the share of food consumed from restaurants has dropped, but the sector isn't closed down.
Zuck has said as much at all hands meetings.

If the growth knobs were turned off across all it's products and spare capacity became a thing, then it might make sense, but at the rate they are building there is no purpose to being a middle man.

Make a code optimization and save 1-2% of CPU on the web tier and you will be a hero.
I think that was mostly down to IE9 using hardware acceleration, which Chrome doesn't have yet.
For cheapie gizmos, you might want to look into the ARM9 VT8500 & WM8505 based netbooks and tablets. These are <$100, there is an Android port and a Debian port, vendor kernel source is available and there is also OSS kernel support being developed from scratch.

Lots of fun to play with, on a budget. :)
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It's probably more accurate to say charities will make it.

Buffett has pledged to gradually give 85% of his Berkshire stock to five foundations. A dominant five-sixths of the shares will go to the world's largest philanthropic organization, the $30 billion Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, whose principals are close friends of Buffett's (a connection that began in 1991, when a mutual friend introduced Buffett and Bill Gates).

http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/25/magazines/fortune/charity1.f...
You're too generous. The author knows he caught MS red-handed:

"What sorts of code does the analysis work on, other than the exact function included in SunSpider?" (emphasis mine)
How do you get 4 + 8? But anyway, it's logical cores, not physical ones.

The kernel can multi-task processes, but each process still gets exclusive use of the CPU when it runs. So if it doesn't need an adder, that adder sits idle.

With hyperthreading you can run two processes at once and the CPU merges them at the instruction level making maximum use of the components on the CPU.
I got the links mixed up, 0.3.1 is the unstable branch which was also released.
Exactly - that was the grave allusion error thrown about in the article. I'm sure you're familiar with the term. And as pointed out, it is just a trick; not a sure-shot.

Something interesting to reflect on: Why is this topic always such an incredibly sensitive sore spot to HN commons, taking on the form of stigma everytime it's brought up? It's like commenting on it instantly means stepping on a nerve - or possibly the protruding underbelly of someone lacking self-esteem.
The argument that "HN is not Reddit" is one that should be taken seriously. Yes, there are some political links on HN unrelated to the tech industry or entrepreneurialism that have been interesting and fostered good discussion. The question is, how do we separate the good stuff from the tired propaganda?

First of all, any political link that uses sensationalism should probably be avoided.

Second, rehashing of an old issue everyone knows about already (like global warming, or the federal deficit) isn't particularly useful.
> When it comes to resilience, you just can’t beat static HTML.

We don’t actually need HTML for every case. For even more resilience, we could just push text files with markdown-like formatting characters that people might understand to give the content some hierarchy and emphasis. This would be just content and content alone. Obviously, this wouldn’t be appropriate for all use cases, but if you’re just sharing updates, it could (depending on other factors) be a simpler solution to implement.
This.

It would be nice to fork the project and do something similar with CloudFront. Any static object data can also be fetched from CloudFront as JSON files, and periodically updated by cache invalidation or cache expiry dates (ie. cache for 5 mins).
Looks like he got lucky predicting 80000 cases and that is reported cases. He predicted the actual people that got tested and positive. He also is another one of those that the flu is worse and not understanding the high severity of many of the Covid cases is the thing that is what is worrying a lot of the professionals. The last thing is that the economics involved that may not make things fine in 1-2 year period, you cannot restart an economy like a light switch.
I'm going to get $LVS if it drops under $40 and $DIS below $84 for Apr 17 near the money.
I feel like the headline is somewhat irresponsible. The framing encourages a "don't worry, be happy" attitude. Reading the article, the message is more like "If we keep doing the right things, we will be fine."

The problem with such a headline is it can be misinterpreted to mean you don't need to make any effort whatsoever for things to "be fine." I think this is not a great signal to send.
I hardly know how to tackle the current ordeal, however in order to prevent such disaster we may quit living in highly densely populated areas, and decentralize power in order to let local people react adequately.
I remember writing a script at some point to lock the screensaver in case of high acceleration or if the laptop is tilting by more than a few degrees. The idea was to lock it if was snatched (or just moved around).

However, that would only be effective against a petty thief and not against a forensic team. In that case you'd probable want to additionally flush the filesystems (if you care about data integrity in case of a false positive), overwrite the encryption keys in memory (maybe on disk as well, but then there's no coming back without a backup) and shut down. I wonder if the init scripts prompting for the password, cryptsetup and the LUKS subsystem have been designed to always overwrite copies of the entered password and decrypted keys ASAP.
What about namespaces? If you are not using namespaces you are very likely using XML as the wrong solution for a problem - still your library has use for helping cleaning up old code that did use XML as the wrong solution. Good work!
By itself maybe not. The problem is I live in California, which means I pay about 40% income tax (state and federal combined). Yet I still don’t get health care/coverage.

Also notice how the gap in that graph is getting wider. It gets worse every year.
A lot of people are saying that Trump gallantly led the march in a few unnecessary loops before they arrived at the capitol.

Yeah he had the presidential limo pacing ahead of crowd while he dangled one luscious, bizarrely hairless orange leg out an open door to keep up their spirits.
Sorry for that, but may I ask where you live? Because if the pollution is coming from a coal power plant, there are filters for that. And I shudder to think what the people (mis)managing that coal power plant could do if it was nuclear instead...
I was looking at signal and telegram. Telegram was easier for family crowd and it has all necessary features for easy transition. Literally over a day I persuaded successfully all my active groups to move over to telegram. It was that simple.
Did they botch them or did they make the best predictions possible with the information available at the time?

What's the alternative, to only act when you have 100% certainty about anything? Would doing absolutely nothing between the beginning of 2020 and now have resulted in better or worse outcomes for Covid?
The iPod Hi-Fi! I still have one of those. Though it’s connected to, also defunct, Chromecast Audio for multi room audio setup. Here’s someone reviewing the speaker: http://www.minimallyminimal.com/blog/apple-ipod-hi-fi
Is there a way to follow up on the mentioned issues?
How are those tokens less complicated to use than a private keypair? How do you ensure that the votes are cast anonymously, without leaking metadata from timing, etc?
Same here, got two EVO's on a family plan both have about than 1/2 charge left at the end of the day after heavy usage throughout the day. As other people have said it's easy to see what drains your battery on android phone, but I guess the author of the article was more interested in sensationalism than chasing after facts.
> This is the only time I've ever heard of a firing pin block failure resulting in an accidental discharge.

The is the only time I heard of a gun encountering an extremely powerful magnetic field.
I just use the US layout, and when I press Right-Alt it switches to my native language's layout (which I can use efficiently because I can touch-type).

Just embrace English as the lingua franca of programming and you'll be better off.
It's interesting to see how many of the things that you used to only be able to do with ReSharper are now standard VS.NET features. Strange though that Microsoft didn't keep the ReSharper keyboard shortcuts when they adopted the features, especially since the R# ones are often a lot more intuitive.

CTRL+/ (and SHIFT+CTRL+/) to comment (and block comment) selections, for instance is so intuitive that you discover it by accident. Same with the variants on SHIFT+CTRL+SPACE for various smart-completion tasks. CTRL+. (VS.NET's shortcut for smart completion) is not something I'd ever think to try unless I already knew it.
Almost all anarchists around the world would not consider those people anarchists. Anarchism is anti-capitalist. Please see the history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism
"Knew or should have known". If you're a C-level exec, and you don't know, it's your fault that you don't know.
So Tesla is like 6 months ahead w/ some modest differentiators and no moat for those differentiators? I think Tesla is doing good things and Elon is some fresh air but still I don't see the competition giving all their customers away (or even a huge portion). Isn't it customers that matter?
Yes, this is a standard UEFI feature. The firmware basically hands off a structure indicating horizontal/vert resolution, pixel depth and a buffer.

Which is fine until you need to change the mode, or start doing heavy BLT/etc operations. At which point your machine will feel like something from the early 1990s.

So yes, you can get a full linux DE running with mesa and CPU GLES emulation, but its not really particularly usable.
The price should begin to reduce itself with a function of rate of signups.
I like that they prototyped and measured. Also: for messaging FB needed consistency; for some applications Cassandra would make more sense.
Wow, nice twist on the last sentence. I have that problem too: the project is no longer a challenge and so its not interesting.
If the regulation from below imposes standards that are actually restricting for the big players in the market, they can simply ignore the consumers' wishes unless the barriers to entry and scaling up in that market are sufficiently low that the interested consumers are able to organize their own supplier to meet their demand. Clearly, this is not going to be a feasible method for regulating internet backbones, because it's far, far too expensive to set up your own tier 2 network with only grassroots funding.
I've never used it, but what is out of place in this screenshot?
More information here: https://www.drumbeat.org/webcraft
There's more Geoffrey West here: http://www.radiolab.org/2010/oct/08/
Exactly. It's extremely unfortunate that the dependency is so circular.
And you want to say that such assessment is actually done during a job interview and not during, you know, actual surgeries? With a more senior doctor on the team evaluating (and likely mentoring) the new hire?

Seriously?
That's a defeatist comparison. We treat native applications differently than web browsers because it is useful to assume a default level of trust when we browse the internet. This applies not only to users, but to institutions, OEMs, system integrators, etc.

> You're not going to get browsers behind the idea of burning the ground they walk on.

Maybe not Google, but Mozilla and Apple seem to consider privacy before they implement new potential holes into their browsers.

> Many of the features that end up used for tracking are things people very much like having. Threading, webgl, webrtc, etc.

The cat is already out of the bag with these already-implemented features. My point is that we 1) shouldn't make it worse, and 2) should work to replace these with better options. Users don't care whether their chat app uses webrtc or not -- they just want their application to work. The bad technologies we use don't have to be the way they are. Once upon a time the internet relied on ActiveX controls, Java Applets, and Flash, but we've all since moved past those bad technologies as well.

> No doubt some sites will create barrages of opt in notifications - don't use these sites.

Honestly, this is not a solution. We shouldn't ignore momentum, because when designing global standards, the problem is more than just about you or me, it's about the architecture and expectations that are being created. To use my ActiveX example above -- in some places, for a period of time, it was impossible to do online banking without using IE because every bank used ActiveX controls.
How to fund a studio (or any high risk startup for that matter) is an interesting question. I've been thinking about alternatives to VC/angel funding or taking on consulting projects as mentioned in the article. The issue with consulting work is it takes away the one precious resource you need to grow your high risk thing: time.

I am thinking about funding my own startup using a model where I lend my startup personal capital with no interest and the startup uses that as an investment/trading vehicle to earn income and trading profits. My theory is that if a person is a capable visionary founder (sees the future, understands consumer trends, whats missing, etc) and has a solid plan for how to enter the market with a new product in the next 6-12 months, they probably understand the product tech market in that time frame as well. The "thinking time" could be shared between investing and building product. The actual work time goes completely to the startup, since buying and selling securities just takes clicks. this could fund a payroll for a founder for years while they build, without having to give time to an employer or consulting client. Of course, this requires lots of upfront capital (~100k-1M). But you could give that capital back in 2-3 years. the startup just borrows it.

A scaled up version of this model could be an endowment fund at a university. However this is a much more aggressive and smaller version of that.

Curious what people think of this before I dive in :)
First of all, I'm not sure where this "10 years" is coming from. I know many/most "senior" developers who reached that level long before 10 years out of university.

Secondly, programming doesn't have a standard licensure process like medicine. If it did, I think a lot of these kinds of interviews that companies do would not be necessary. But as it stands I've interviewed many engineers with years of experience who couldn't competently program, and I'm talking about maybe a tad above FizzBuzz level proficiency.
Not to sound lazy, but I'd like to make a humble request for a TL;DR? I can skim long papers, but you can't do that for long videos!
There is sometimes nothing more permanent than something needed temporarily.
I guess I can chime in on the "by hand" front, since that's how I ended up going about the first non-trivial parser I wrote[1]: https://github.com/otpcl/otpcl/blob/master/src/otpcl_parse.e...

I'd say the difficulty was moderately high, but that was with no real prior experience with parsers. With that water under the bridge, I'd now rate it at around moderate effort. And the result was gaining a clear and precise understanding of the implicit state machine transitions, and being able to control exactly where and how those transitions happen, such that I didn't really need much of a lexer (the "lexer" just tags each character with its position, so that I didn't have to track that separately in the actual parser code itself).

That said, the result is a bit of a tangled mess; it didn't start that way, but eventually the parsing logic got complex enough that I needed to resort to Erlang's preprocessor macros, and while the end result is manageable through some judicious organization, in hindsight I probably could've done the same with functions, and in a more reusable and maintainable way. If I ever get around to another parser rewrite, I might try using parser combinators or some approximation thereof instead.

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[1]: Technically the second or third, since I rewrote it a couple times as one can see from the commit history - although said history is a bit hard to pin down across all the renames of the relevant file.
But Linux does not need Java either... The kernel/OS is orthogonal to the app layer.
On one hand: Good for him. I hear he also does a lot of charity work.

On the other hand: Wait wasn't it Amazon who cheated on taxes like no other company (compared in size)?

After the union shenanigans, his biasedness in the elections or well deserved PR desasters such as the contest for a new headquarter (what a surprise it went where it can influence policy most), I'm a bit allergic to being nudged to see his moves as all too altruistic.

Increasing corporate taxes raises the burden across the board, for competitors and possible future ones. Meanwhile Amazon can afford to have its accounting adjusted to mitigate the impact more efficiently than any competitor could.

It cements his position.
It's not a casino, it is a community club.

Patrons have to apply for membership.

The club could deduce just from this woman's address that she didn't have $XX million available to her for gambling - if it were even trying 1% to spot problem gamblers.

In the case of St Mary's,

> The not-for-profit community club has over $85 million in net assets.

That's crazy! It is a suburban football club!

Well, clearly, it isn't. Clearly, it is an entirely different form of enterprise, disguised as something it isn't.

Clubs that do this are protected from consequences by governments that won't introduce legislation because of reasons that I can't write without having the resources to defend against a spurious defamation action that would bankrupt me.
Judt start doing it in your current role. Be the person who sees the end to end, knows how to deliver it, and show others how to do it. The person writing tickets probably is tired of doing that. Help him out. Make connections with business side. Explain to them the technical nuance in human terms. Work the role. Next time when recruiting, tell your story. The title doesnt matter - principal engineer, tech lead, requirements ninja, all the same