jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Cool article! One thing that might be important to people if you're looking at these languages besides just speed: Go and C will tend to have radically lower memory usage (often like 10x) than most of the other languages there, such as Scala. This can be very important depending on what your application is. For me, using Go for game world servers was my choice because I can do so much more simulation per dollar of server RAM.
Not knowing the specific state - and being incapable of knowing - is the critical bit.

TL;DR: (edit) ignore the rest of this and just go read a lot on Bell's Theorem and the Double Slit Experiment. Both demonstrate concretely the essence of the weirdness.

(I'll leave the rest below just to keep me honest about my ignorance.)
it's a provably special state where randomness allows it to have the needed characteristics for the math to work at all. [1]

Also disclaimer: I'm not a PhD physicist, just a BS in engineering physics. This is merely how I cope with the idea.

Think of it like this: given time, chaotic systems become unpredictable and noisy. An electron whizzing around an atom doesn't need much time before it's state is utterly unpredictable at any measurable level (Heisenberg Uncertainty assures this must happen eventually, and pretty fast it turns out).

So what if we isolate that little electron from the outside world? Then even the universe becomes uncertain, and must assume ANY possible state is valid and happening at once, blurring them together based on how likely each is given the last known observation! Otherwise the next observation could be contradictory to expectations, and seg fault the universe (perhaps just locally). This way though, the universe can always say "well I thought it could have been that" and be correct, even if it only thought it really unlikely.

But until the universe interacts with the state then, once coherence [2] sets in only probability can hint at what state it is in. Thus it is random in the before-the-fact sense like the probability before rolling a die, as opposed to an after-the-fact sense like a coin that is already flipped yet hidden.

And - here's the catch - the math needs to treat it as unknown. To label the parts of an unlabeled system will break the algebra! And if a distribution of states is unknown in a mathematically precise ignorance, this is indistinguishable from true randomness. Such pure conceptual states are rare in our messy universe (at least observationally), but they do exist and can be proven to exist in the same way a one time pad can be proven to be cryptographically secure.

Thanks for being my duck, I needed to think about something interesting today!

[1] Perhaps the most amazing bit is that if it weren't random, then it would act differently, since the distribution of observations would vary from the expected random field after enough observations. And this has been done! Study the double slit experiment deeply, as it really is a fantastic empirical example of why interfering via observation adjusts our interpretation of the results.
[2]This term is jargon here, like quark colors. It's not coherence like a laser's.
The CEO's job is to make the company valuable. That's kind of a sociopathic view, of course (gee, I thought our job was to make heart valve replacements or whatever). But, that is the trade off you make when you go public. And, just in case it isn't clear, stock price + dividends over time should equal the cash flow generated by the company. So, looking at stock price over a ten year period is a decent proxy for evaluating a CEO's performance.

Only decent, and only proxy. Say you worked the first 5 years propping up a dying business, and the next 5 years building a bunch of incredible value. The stock market may not have reacted to that, but your company is set to explode in value. Or you may have started in a bubble, or finished in a bubble, or...

So of course it is not the only measure, but it is certainly an extremely large part of measuring a CEO, since it is his job to maintain and/or grow the value of the company. It will never tell you if the company is bettering humanity, good to its employees, or other very worthwhile measures.
Windows 7 was not a failure. Your wild accusations are baseless.
Why exactly Bulgaria? :>
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you just talking about client-side rendering à la Dust.js? Send raw JSON objects to the browser alongside instructions on how to render them?

LinkedIn uses it to render half serverside half clientside.
To ease your Haskell experience consider using LTS Haskell or Stackage to avoid Cabal hell:

https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2015/01/announcing-lts-haske...
http://www.stackage.org/
My argument isn't that the law is good/bad (I don't know much about it, other than what was in this Ars article), just that I think they wanted the law to make it easier to catch criminals in general and it just so happened the criminals at the top of their list were drugs related, rather than the implication that the war on drugs led to this law.

With a bit more knowledge I could certainly be persuaded (not that it matters) into thinking this additional law is either good or bad for society - and I'm someone who supports the decriminalization (and probably the legalization, but my mind isn't quite made up on that) of all drugs, so purely within the scope of the war on drugs I'm against any law that furthers it.
Neil is one of the world's quietly great people. I had the good fortune of knowing him in high school, and working with him at my first job (Ingenia Communications, running Canada's SchoolNet). He's always been an alloy of incredible intellect, diligent attention to detail, and calm kindness. Every time I come across his work and thinking, I get inspired (and humbled) anew.

I hope my daughter grows up in a world with a few more Neil Frasers.
Or one Katalin Karikó.
Its not exactly procrastination because while creating framework you are deep into topic and amassed knowledge helps you in general, no ? You can't understand anything until you build it.
Is there not similar thing in estonia
That's because they are first and foremost victims.

These people aren't interested in working and contributing to this field. They are interested in benefiting from it. Any successful endeavour will attract freeloaders like moths to a flame and that's exactly what we are seeing here.
I don't think your analogy holds good here. Combat sports is between highly trained professionals, with very strict rules. You don't see a 125 pound man fighting a 250 pound man in UFC, do you? There are no such rules in a casino. Everything in a casino is rigged against its patrons. It is not a level playing field. You can gamble away all your life's earnings in one evening if you wanted to. If there are rules like one cannot gamble more than 5% of their net worth, one cannot continue gambling if they lost x amount of dollars in x amount of time... or something along those lines, then maybe we can compare casinos with combat sports.

Don't forget that gambling is also highly addictive.

We may not like American football, beauty pageants etc. But at least those are level playing fields and not addictive
I totally see your point and you are right, we were just so excited that I posted too early.

We already started writing a page with technical details.
We have a prototype that is running for months, and we are making a video to demonstrate the hardware and the app.
I know.

Perhaps they should re-domicile in a nice equatorial country, say, Guyana.
I'll address some points here.

1. Safety: drones - multirotors, specifically - are very safe devices, inherently. They are incredibly simple (4-8 motors and no other moving parts). If they are dangerous, it's only because of lack of investment by the manufacturers to make mission critical hardware/software.
That's the next step in the drone ecosystem though, as commercial use is gaining traction (multirotors are barely 6 years old now, IIRC. Mission critical flight systems haven't had time to develop).
Furthermore, octocopters (8 motors, and there are variants with more) have built in redundancy (assuming a reasonably intelligent flight controller) against the loss of each motor.

2. Cost: An Amazon drone could be manufactured for few thousand dollars - $3k is the RETAIL COST of a DJI drone that can fly 10kg overall weight (drone, payload, batteries). That means at scale, and without retail margins, Amazon could make them for less than $10k, even if they are much larger and more sophisticated.
The only wearable is the battery, and these can do many cycles (500+) before needing replacement, when properly managed. Other than that, the cost of maintenance are simply nonexistent.

3. Flight time: Simply irrelevant on an urban delivery service. An off the shelf commercial drone today can fly 10kg AUW for 20 minutes easily, lets say 12 minutes if flying at 40km/h - that means it has a range of 8km (and that's basing on simple off the shelf stuff, not purpose built and optimized systems). Manhattan is 3.7km wide and 21km long, meaning that with a handful of automated battery replacement hubs you can cover the its entire span.

4. Fleets and carrying weight: These drones will fly non stop, carrying up to 10kg at each payload. That covers 95% of the typical Amazon order and probably 99.5% of the things that you need just this second. The drones will fly non stop - I can't imagine needing more than a few dozens to cover a large city.

Bottom line: the technology is definitely within reach; I'd argue it's there, just needing some rich commercial entity to tie all parts together, test and certify.
Nothing here awaits a scientific breakthrough to be made possible, and I'd say that technologically, it's easier (and probably safer) than self driving cars (which no one doubts).
Scientific reporting sucks, even in quality media that take it seriously. If I had money I'd pay a select group of bloggers to write about how a popular bit of science has been misreported and then colate links to those on some central site.

A bit like Behind the Headlines, but about any science and by a wide range of science bloggers.

http://www.nhs.uk/news/Pages/NewsIndex.aspx
It's great to have an out. But are those synchronized? Because I find the increasing number of tweaks difficult to remember. Tyranny of the default is real.
I said the same below but it applies here too: Google already drives around a fleet of vehicles to collect this data. Wouldn't it be better for them to give all that money to the postal service to subsidize mail delivery while also getting cars off the road?

And I'm talking about truly hyperlocal data. When I load up Weather Underground or Purple Air, there are a bunch of sensors near me, but the closest is one mile away. I know the route of my postal carrier. He starts his day less than one mile and stays within one mile of my house his entire day. I'd love to have daily temp and air pollution readings from sensors that are near my house all day.
That's a silly way to think about speculation. I'm not speculating on where the ball is going to land on some arbitrary roulette table at an arbitrary casino in Vegas; I'm just not playing the game.

The people who spend it are users, but the people who hold and trade it are just speculators. I'm not a user of the target retirement fund in my 401k, I'm just speculating that it's a well balanced way to grow retirement funds.
Well, the age of enlightenment was well over a century and people seem to like moral indignation and outrage more, so I'd guess we're gonna stick with it for a while.
> Or you can process memory dumps of a machine larger than yours.

You should be able to that in software anyways - instead of loading to memory entirely, all it has to do is memory map the file dump.

About the need to freeze a process (group). I don't quite see how that's useful on a server. On a desktop machine I have never run into such a case where closing the application would not suffice. Is there an example?

Last - using the swap pretty much means no disk cache.
Ridiculous.

Here's a clear example of why lacking this is Bad For Bitcoin: https://www.google.com/search?q=hacked+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fr...
> The point was that the parent poster was talking about a full ban on games and posted an example which did not support the assertion.

It was basically a full ban on video games for anyone under 18. IIRC even games like Super Mario Bros. and PAC-MAN could have been banned for violence under the proposed standard.
just make sure the diameter is as large as you can afford. Watching Saturn with its ring and moons is something i still remember 20 years later. Definitely a good investment
take a minute to look up the various "I was inside Valve and it had a hidden structure" war stories. that led to a lot of people reading "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" back in the day.

TLDR: "Welcome To Flatland" is Valve marketing and it doesn't hurt to take it with a grain of salt.

https://www.pcgamer.com/valves-flat-structure-contains-hidde...

https://medium.com/dunia-media/the-nightmare-of-valves-self-...

https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
Perhaps you should compare Pascal with BASIC than C, I do think Pascal comes out better in that comparison.
Bouncing between non-MS technologies including Node, Django, Dropwizard, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, etc. I've done this in the past and came out with a decent understanding of Rails and Play! with Scala, but I just haven't found love yet.
You don't have to have a job, you have to earn money. Those are two different things. Begging is a form of income. I think your view of "luxury" is somewhat different than most people. Most people in poverty live in cities with high cost of living. Relying on them to make the most of that money by moving out of cities isn't likely to happen. They could already do that today and don't.
I'm trying to finally give Erlang, Scheme / Racket, and JavaScript the attention they deserve in my life.
No, it's something that Perforce allows (because it scales sufficiently). It has nothing to do with C++.

You can impose order within the monolithic repo by partitioning projects into their own branches or directories and only pulling down the necessary pieces.

Whether this is better than a bunch of small repos is debateable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7233730

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7231012
There's a bunch of options.

One of the most obvious, as an investor, is to hoard cash now. When the bubble bursts, your dollar will go further; you'll get better valuations, companies will be more desperate, etc.

As an entrepreneur, time to make hay while the sun is shining; raise cash now.

Looking for hedge? Consider SF real estate. A big part of what's keeping it sky high is the proliferation of startups in SoMa, making living in the city an attractive option. If those jobs all disappear, I doubt there will be more than enough Tech shuttles to bring all those people back down to the valley - and the depressed labor market should lead to lower wages.

I do think there's tremendous opportunity in the hiring space for a good startup, but I have no idea what that is. The "Bad Hire" risk is magnified for small companies... so if anything, that's something that does better in this phase of the business cycle, when hiring is high.
Actually they are already on the road.
It' computer science actually , i forgot to mention it
Anecdotally I wonder about this sometimes too. I took Accutane mostly because I had a parent that really drove me to take it (I think projecting some of their own issues with acne onto my completely normal amount of teenage acne) and I definitely feel like it changed my mood during and after taking it. I didn't drink at all on it either. It's a drug that you shouldn't be able to have a teenager take unless it's approved by a panel of dermatologists or something. I had no idea of the severity of the side effects from it when I took it.
Wrong.

This market can stay irrational longer than most of us will be alive. Let that sink in, this is the new normal. You can either sit on the sidelines waiting for things to become "rational" and then invest feeling safe making rational 4% gains a year, or you can get in now and make real money.

One thing is clear, when things rationalize and become "normal", many people who were investing now are still going to be sitting on their irrationally made gains while you dust off your cash and prepare to jump in.
Something to note is that most physical things that are banned are one-time-use (drugs, organs, etc), whereas the shelf life and resale value of the gun are much longer. Also the classification of "gun" is much wider than classifications of most other illegal things
That's a shame. I was interested in seeing how different browser engines handled it.
I lost my house in a fire recently, and the insurance claims process goes something like this:

* Insurance agent gives you a check for $XXX,XXX, payable to you AND your mortgage holder.
* You endorse it.
* You MAIL the check to the mortgage holder.
* They endorse it.
* They take their cut and mail the remainder back to you as another check.

Scared me to death, putting an endorsed check for $hundreds of $thousands in the mail. But the process is evidently enshrined in law... probably not much changed from a century ago.
I personally find it much easier to change how much I eat than what I eat. So I started with that and only changed what I ate after I already lost some weight.
The thing that seems missing from this explanation is that without the physical goods the virtual goods are worthless.
The parts of wall street that lost were part of the 1%. The part of wall street that won were the funds that managed teachers' retirement accounts.

This is the narrative. It doesn't matter which narrative makes the most sense or is the most correct, it only matters which narrative spreads the most and the quickest. The narrative that wins will always be the victory narrative.
I think crypto is unpopular in Silicon Valley precisely because of how much power the investor class has in that setting. Those angel investors understand crypto just enough to know they don't want to get disintermediated.
the hardest part of UBI for me to understand is how much of it will be eaten by inflation and how much will actually help people.

I’d like to see a lot of research on that part of the topic. Maybe take a zip code and give everyone UBI in that zip and see how things like housing prices change within that zip.
The one on the right has poor spacing. The one on the left is a mess, but at least it's legible and shaped like a good page. The one on the right has too tight of a left margin in the right column.
Are the developmental delays long term, or just focused in primary/ else tardy grades? I've been envious of my peers who grew up bilingual; none appeared delayed when I knew them in late middle school and beyond. In fact, they seemed more academically capable than my monolingual peers.
London isn't dense at all.
One of the left-overs from print that I often find myself forgetting is that "interaction" is available as a design tool—not everything has to be visible at all times, as long as it's available in an intuitive way when needed.
As someone who has worked in startups, web shops, and now in games, I definitely feel like I fit in better here. A lot of my peers are talented but socially awkward. I don't even feel like there's any political maneuvering going on around me. That is partially due to the company at which I work, but having worked many events over the years, I would definitely say that game developers tend to be a very particular type of geek.
Nukes or nurse?

http://500daysasunder.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/screen-sho...
Thanks, I think I'm more like your cousin. I just can't take the stress of working at a hospital and with patients, heavy night sifts sleep deprivation just drives me nuts.

Well since I get the education at medical school for free I don't have any debt to pay. I think I've made the wrong decision in entering medical school in the first place, here getting in to a med school for free is like a once in a life time opportunity at they young age I couldn't resist it but now older I feel I made the wrong decision.

None of my friends who are outside of med school believes in the stress and depression as they only see the high salaries and good life doctors are living but doesn't see the stress until you enter the field,
I've received warnings from Apple just for using other products names in the keywords for My app. The person who filed the request for me to remove their app name said that having my app named caused "confusion." I think that in this case, they could move swiftly to warn the clone especially if they are using the same name.
You are assuming that monetary compensation is the only motivator for employees. And that's simply not true. Once people have enough that they can feed their family and put their kids through college, money isn't as important a motivator. So while you do want to reward your superstars, it follows that (a) the fact that lower performing employees get paid less may not be so much of a problem, so long as they are adequately paid (i.e., not "peanuts"), and (b) money may not necessarily be the best way to do this --- you need to make sure that their good work is recognized, and you need to take into account what they want to work on.

At the end of the day, it's going to be the other things; a fun/pleasant workplace, development tools that don't suck, a collegial environment, which are going to be more important for most employees once their basic needs are met.

Perhaps in a startup environment, where hours are long and the pressure to ship trumps everything else, people forget about these things and think only about the compensation which will hopefully be coming over the horizen in case the startup makes a successful exit. But in a more mature company, I'll suggest that an attitude like that is extremely short-sighted.
It's a research project. There are no product plans at this time.
Theoretically true... maybe I'm being too harsh. I just really dislike fantasy hype being sold as just-around-the-corner tech by the likes of Drexler and Kurzweil, so I enjoy bashing it upside the head every now and then.

As far as I can see, there is absolutely nothing on the tech horizon that looks like Drexler-esque nanotech. Everything I am aware of is either biology, bio-derived, or is simply an advance in materials science rebadged as nanotech for hype purposes. (e.g. nanomaterials, which are just better materials with "nano" stuck on them because they incorporate microscopic structural motifs... which is of course something materials research was doing before the nano-hype craze came along.)
Linus was quite specific about his problems with GCs. Just saying that "garbage collectors have improved" without specifics, and calling his arguments "old" doesn't add much information.

Can you tell us how they have improved in ways that address Linus's specific concerns? And explain how a generational garbage collector can effectively re-use freshly freed objects before they leave the cache? Which 2011 generational GCs take advantage of that idea?
Do you think that we need companies like IBM? I mean, by the income metric Apple is obviously better than IBM. But, if there was no IBM, would the space be filled with multiple smaller and more profitable companies, or would there just be a void until some other company emerged as a "big, stable, uninnovative" behemoth?

I thought IBM was still doing some great stuff. Maybe not as profitable and cool as some more modern companies, but still very important things which actually do make the world a better place, albeit not making a huge profit. I might be wrong, ofc.
Last I heard they had one full-time developer working on it, and if that is the case, I wouldn't be surprised if yesterday was their first day off in a awhile. Also, Quora was having the same difficulties and it mostly points to not doing what Twilio and a host of other architecture-aware teams did. Single points of failure will fail.