jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes you can but it's not a straightforward process. I did it for my chromebox which follows the same procedure as doing it for a chromebook. Basically you have to open the machine and remove a screw to enable write access to the bios. After that you have to replace the coreboot bios that came with the computer with a newer coreboot version and install SeaBios (old bios emulation on top of coreboot) as a payload. You could also have a linux kernel as a payload but this was more complex and I didn't need faster boot times.

Once all this is done, the laptop behaves much like any other laptop except you have an open source bios. You can then install linux on it from a USB key like you would on any other device. I imagine the quality of the drivers depends on which chromebook you use. I hear the chromebook pixel has excellent support and that's no surprise as that's what Linus uses (or used to, I'm not sure if he changed).
ah, sorry for the misunderstanding. Note that I don't pretend to be authoritative on the subject (although I think it is fair to say I am within the scipy community).
Actually, in idiomatic java, it'd be even longer:

You should make bar private, and add a setter. After all, we might want to change the rules on setting bar sometime, and you wouldn't want to have to go back and change everywhere that accesses it...
Thanks for sharing. Have you subscribed to any strategies?
I understand that Facebook is in the title and that somehow makes this relevant, but really, how is this relevant?
Lol, keep kicking the ball to the other side while not seeing the EU's own mistakes. The UK started vaccinating its citizens right after Pfizer Phase 3 was confirmed. The US, UK and Israel are actually overpaying for the Pfizer vaccine, while the EU resorted to haggling on price. Of course, misers always get pushed to last.
Neuroscience is way out of my wheelhouse, but my layman's understanding of this led me to believe that it could be some indication that Randy Gallistel has been on the right track: https://ruccs.rutgers.edu/images/LangilleGallistel.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26688842 - HckrNews, my main way to consume HN (mashup of HackerWeb + hckr news)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26601696 - UltraWeather: the weather forecast just like I want to see it.

Two projects that are in progress:

- A bookmark manager: https://instant.leftium.com/

- A notes manager mashup between TaskPaper and nvAlt:

https://todo-taskpaper.leftium.com/

https://plaintext-press.leftium.com/https://www.dropbox.com/...
My friend uses CBD oil under the tongue, and it does seem to help.
I owe a lot to Django as it was really the thing that got me into backend programming by leading me to learn python in early 1.X days. My first real programming job was backend django programming for a newspaper. Eventually things shifted towards django-rest-framework, flask, and now my go-to Starlette. Haven't used Django in some time but really appreciate the project and happy to see it moving along.
This “minimal” refers to minimalism according to the first line of the README:
“Though xplr strives to be fast and minimalist, its speciality is its hackability.”

Minimalism refers to UI/UX and not LOC.
I often wonder why universities post these press releases for the general public. Epigenetic modifications and memory is still basic research in early investigation, known to play a role in memory extinction and reconsolidation for example, but this is still too early research to make any concrete announcements that would have actionable information, esp. for the general public.
I wish I could work for this guy.
The other responses are good as well. Key thing is that you're right that credit gets used for lots of wasteful things in our traditional consumer economy. Buying a television on credit is not a wise financial decision. However, purchases that improve efficiency or allow new kinds of labor can be good uses of credit.

If you can make $1000 more per month at a job that's inaccessible to you via transit, but you don't have $10,000 to buy a car, it would be worth it to get a loan with a $300/month payment, and say another $300/month worth of car-related expenses to net out $400/month income that can be used for saving up for that TV or what-have-you.

In terms of items that retain their value, like houses, apartment buildings, factories... no one would be wise to invest in those items in a deflationary environment because if you're interested in growing your net worth, you'd be better off keeping your money in the bank.
There's no perfect solution and all of this still requires a fair amount of vigilance to get it right. But I would still argue that if you are proposing a PR, you've done the work to verify your changes work, tests pass, etc. If you later need to rebase your PR, you still should run tests, smoke test, etc.

Small issues can slip through, but on teams I've worked on, submitting a PR that is truly broken is really bad form. Sometimes that does mean submitting PRs is tedious, but that's just how it goes sometimes. Thankfully, it's not that often in my experience.
My guess:

Not in a law-of-physics point of view, but I suppose, it is from the perspective of the entity that pays for the server.

If you can push the computation to the end point, and simply spend fewer resources (let's say, 1000x fewer resources) to coordinate the task, then, behold 1000x cost reduction!
To me, I find it more limiting that child comments are not nested within their parents. For example, implementing a show/hide children feature is annoyingly difficult to do, as is showing trails leading to the parent. IIRC, all HN comments are DOM siblings of each other.

I couldn't care less about divs vs tables or spacer images. However, I really feel tree structured data should be encoded as such, especially when the document itself is tree structured. It seems more difficult to do it otherwise.

Not that it really matters that much. I have bookmarklets that add nesting and trails, but it was just annoying to make them. I realize I'm an edge case, and overall HN is hardly as impacted by it's markup as it is by the community.
If white on your monitor is brighter than a "bright white" sheet of paper viewed under the same lighting - or normal lighting if, for some reason, you've decided to work in the dark - you're doing it wrong.
[Netburst] tried to compensate with high clock frequency, , but that didn't always work.

In part because they grossly misjudged what speeds they could achieve. It was sold on the premise it could be driven to 10 GHz (maybe 5 GHz in some accounts; it was viewed as a "mar(keting)architecture that could boast high raw speeds), but they had extreme difficultly achieving 3.8 GHz, and as I recall the systems of the day weren't really geared to dissipating the heat produced.
Would you care to elaborate on this?

I think Pavlina is an odd guy, but I've found some of his advice to be quite helpful over the years.

I don't agree with everything he says, but I don't think he's a "crank" either.
"We needed all the help we could get since it often took hours of searching under shrubs on hands and knees to find just one underground orchid!"

It's probably just my unrealistic view of what Australia is like, but that doesn't seem very enjoyable, safe, or even sane.
> To demonstrate quantum supremacy, we compare our
quantum processor against state-of-the-art classical com-
puters in the task of sampling the output of a pseudo-
random quantum circuit[24{26]. Random circuits are a
suitable choice for benchmarking since they do not pos-
sess structure and therefore allow for limited guarantees
of computational hardness[24, 25, 27, 28]. We design the
circuits to entangle a set of quantum bits (qubits) by re-
peated application of single-qubit and two-qubit logical
operations. Sampling the quantum circuit’s output pro-
duces a set of bitstrings, e.g. f0000101, 1011100, ...g.
Due to quantum interference, the probability distribution
of the bitstrings resembles a speckled intensity pattern
produced by light interference in laser scatter, such that
some bitstrings are much more likely to occur than oth-
ers. Classically computing this probability distribution
becomes exponentially more di cult as the number of
qubits (width) and number of gate cycles (depth) grows.
>But what if the business requirement changes...

Are you kidding? This is FizzBuzz! It is just a quick check to verify that an applicant is even a programmer at all. That's all it is. There is nothing else there.
Your main site seems to be down.
I agree, he's a bit too specific on many fields. For example his 'common fields' of the signets include 'currency' and 'cryptocurrency' that has a list of common cryptocurrencies and their three-letter acronyms.

I guess it's nice that you can advertise a cryptocoin address in your signet, but locking down the format like that makes it really fragile. Why use the awkward binary format for the full signet?

Excuse my language, but wouldn't a XML type extensible human readable format be highly preferable and more future-proof than colon/semi-colon delimited UTF-8 strings? Not saying it literally has to be XML.
This speaks to the patent system being so far perverted from its original purpose that I feel it's time to seriously begin considering if we want to support it in any form. Are patents in 2015 being used more for "promoting the useful arts"[1] or more as a weapon for large enterprises to use against their large and small competition?

This same broken-ness applies to another system of legal monopolies too: copyrights. Are those used more to "promote the useful arts" in 2015, or are they used more by rightsholders to stamp out that which they don't like?

I wonder what our economic, artistic, and technological landscape would look like if we decided, as a society, that these legal monopolies are causing more harm than good, and that they should be severely curtailed, if not outright abolished? I wonder if it would really be as bad as the people who have a financial interest in these things say it would be?

[1]: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=00...

(interestingly, the copyright laws use the same "useful arts" wording almost verbatim)
Oh man, if only it was a perfect world right? If I had the content I could complete so many of my to-dos. But no, I'm sitting here waiting for the boss to get me the content.

I'd love to have the content first, but it's just never going to happen.
> Meanwhile the population continues to grow

Population is very much expected and planned to grow up until 10 billions and then stagnate and decrease progressively. Not everyone on earth has tons of kids anymore, it's very much linked to the level of life. See Rosling's speech on the matter for a more detailed explanation.

The Earth does not get hotter by the way, we have like virtually no long term data on the temperature of the Earth and we should actually be VERY humble as to our ability to predict long term climate trends.
Those chairs in the first picture (city on left, chairs on right) look like pumpkins.
In Norway, we have an un-waverable right by law to reverse engineer computer systems for learning purposes.

They are described in Åndsverkloven §§ 39h and 39i.

Roughly translated excerpts:

§ 39h Whoever has the right to use a computer program, can copy, change and work on the program to the extent necessary in order to utilize the program in accordance with its purpose, including in order to correct errors in the program.

Whoever has the right to use a copy of a computer program can, during such reading, screen display, running, transfer or storage of the program that the user has the right to do, monitor, examine or probe the working of the program in order to determine the ideas and principles on which the individual parts of the program is based. [This right is un-waverable]

§ 39i You are allowed to produce a copy of a computer program's code and translate the form of the code, when this is a prerequisite in order to produce the information necessary to achieve functional interaction between a self-developed program and other programs, if

a) the actions are performed by a person who has the right to use a copy of a computer program, or acting on behalf of someone who do,

b) the information is not already easily accessible, and

c) the actions are limited to the parts of the original program necessary to achieve functional interaction.

[A few limitations on utilization of the information]

These rights are un-waverable.
> I don't think anyone happily using Go is expecting generics anytime soon, if at all.

I certainly do. Go replaced Ruby as my language of choice some three years ago but the lack of generics have often prevented me from properly reusing existing code. I would totally love to see (ideally Haskell-like) generics introduced, the sooner the better.
I was there for the entire birth of Twitter and in the management meetings. This whole "evil Ev" meme doesn't jive with the reality I saw.

Charitably, I think the people who are complaining now have spent five years wondering what could have been and have forgotten most of what was. (Uncharitably, a lot of this is being driven by an explicitly cynical media that's trying to create a Winklevossian story line).

Here's what I saw:

- Ev went out of his way to be charitable with the investors. They knew about Twitter, had used Twitter, and could see by Ev's actions that it was worthwhile enough to him to buy. The price he offered was universally right for them. No investors put up a fight and several said that it was an unnecessarily generous gesture. Plus many of them whiffed on a second chance to invest after Twitter was spun out.

- Ev was pretty generous with the Odeo employees as well. Everyone who didn't stay got nice severance packages and support for their next thing. Ev immediately invested in @Adam's travel startup (now Trazzler), for example.

- The Odeo employees who stayed on at Twitter got way-above-market options. There was a period where Twitter was 100% privately owned by Ev. So he had the opportunity to replace that team or just pay them with salary.

- Nobody knew this was going to be big. Look at the TechCrunch and Hacker News archives for the first two years. It was touch and go. It seemed like a worthwhile project, but nobody working on it had any indication that it could become a pivotal internet company. Remember, Ev thought he was launching an incubator (Obvious) and Twitter was just one of the projects.

- Jack is the true founder of Twitter. He had hand drawn wireframes from years before Odeo. He chose Ev and Biz as co-founders. Why didn't he ask for Noah to stay or give him more credit in the story? That's a good question. A lot of that team formulation just came down to who worked well together and who could fill in for necessary job functions.

- A lot of Ev's success has come from people who are loyal to him and respect him. A big chunk of Odeo/Twitter people were people that worked with him at Google. I'm sure he has made serious mistakes, but it also seems like the lesson he learned from those was to try not to make those mistakes again.
Same here for the most part. External interruptions still ruin it for me though.

With the internet, you're still deciding when to up to you when to take a quick break. When others who are unaware decide for you, it can be a pretty big setback, like he describes.
Don't forget "Fire and Motion" - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html
Some other important look-and-feel clones:

Windows (copying MacOS)

Lotus 1-2-3 (copying VisiCalc)

GNU/Linux (copying Unix)

Gosling Emacs (copying ITS and Multics Emacs), which eventually became GNU Emacs

Excel (copying Lotus 1-2-3, to the point that VisiCalc slash commands still work in Excel last time I tried them about five years ago)

OpenOffice (copying Microsoft Office)

C compilers everywhere (copying the original Unix C compiler)

Compaq's clone PC (copying the IBM PC, and giving rise to the entire IBM-compatible market)

Friendster (copying Sixdegrees)

Facebook (copying Friendster, somewhat less faithfully)

Every modern IDE (copying Turbo Pascal)

Every modern search engine (copying Google)

MS-DOS (copying CP/M and a little bit of Unix)

MercadoLibre (copying eBay)

Intel's current x64 CPU line (copying AMD)

Netscape (copying Mosaic)

Internet Explorer (copying Netscape)

Wordpress (copying Movable Type) (I'm not sure who to credit with the modern blog, with its comment threads, "after the jump", and permalinks. Pyra?)

Being able to copy the look and feel of competing products is crucially important to allowing innovation to continue. If Personal Software Inc. still had a monopoly on spreadsheets, it's a good bet that the spreadsheets we use today wouldn't have progressed much from where we were in 1984. The interface designs that seem innovative and unique today are either faddish crap or the baseline from which tomorrow's innovation begins.
In high school, my maths teachers all insist ( ) are `parentheses`.

The sibling post's author thinks that ( ) are brackets.

Clearly there are two different populations here. That's why the need to explicitly specify which "brackets".
May i ask what the "dark side" was like? No agenda, just genuinely curious.
Wrapped works so well because it panders to you. Everyone likes to be acknowledged for listening to the weird indie band they discovered earlier this year.

I enjoy it anyways, and Spotify is still a great service for now - I wonder if it'll meet the same fate as Netflix at some point, with publishing houses going for their own streaming services instead.
The "cost" of a house is not the sticker price! Due to mortgages and resale market and inflation and such the actual cost of a house is two things; 1) taxes, 2) upkeep. Better materials will continously reduce upkeep over time so it's really just taxes and utilities.

You really don't need to hustle 8 hours a day to own a house. You need to pick one and live in it for 60 years or whatever and then give it to your kids and then they give it to theirs, etc.

It doesn't jive with modern western culture, but if the first things you did after high school wasn't to pile on x-million of consumption for college, housing, wedding/honeymoon, a whole new set of 'stuff', etc. then there would be little need to work at all.
Sorry, that's not the future for most people. Even apps like Evernote and Spotify and what not are really, really hard to cram into a teeny tiny screen. It's not a great experience. Then if you consider internationally how many people use their phone as their primary, if not exclusive, computer and yeah. That's just how it adds up.

App developers no longer have to worry about 320x480 resolutions. They effectively don't worry about small from 3:2 aspect ratio displays. Soon they won't have to deal with it at all. For the vast majority of users this is a good thing. For a slim minority it's a bad thing. =[
The spam filter works because only you can see the scores of the emails. If the rules of Google search and Youtube were more transparent, spammers would always be one step ahead of spam detection, so everyone would lose in the end.
I kept reading this as “water specific cheat” and was really confused.
> By modularizing our front and back ends in such a way, no one person is responsible for keeping an entire app in their head all the time. As developers, it’s important to have a strong sense of our broader architectural ecosystems

Maybe I’m misinterpreting this, but those two sentences contradict themselves in my opinion.

Now either developers need to fully understand all the different micro-services, and understand how they all work together. Or developers will lose sight of the bigger architecture and end up specialising in only a few services.

But more importantly, I doubt micro-services will solve their problem of their monolith not being modular. That seems like an architectural problem that can also be solved in a monolith.

But in general, I have never seen a company that switched to micro-services, and didn’t end up regretting it a few years later.
That's a bullshit cheap shot. The protests this past summer were characterized by non violence, not by showing up at Best Buy to loot.

There was violence and property destruction. But if you count the number of people that protested peacefully and the number of people that engaged in violence and destruction of property, there's one that is obviously vastly larger than the other, and it's the peaceful protesters.
Honestly, I disagree.

The strategy of not provoking the bear didn't work. The bear is provoked and attacked. Now is not the time to play dead and hope it gets bored. This bear will not get bored. This bear will happily feast, satisfied that the prey didn't put up a fight.
> Honestly it's shocking how many on HN try to defend it.

Noticing a tendency among many in the tech community to take apolitical & "centrist" positions on many of these issues, which usually ends up with the blaming of "both sides".

Being in the center when one side is so intent on going to the extreme right is not a virtue.
faNTASYLAND
Doesn't matter for the purposes of what the parent mentioned.

It's enough that enough of them are.

Plus, even if most aren't, the "short tail" people use these days probably are.
There were very few riots - and part of the problem is that all BLM protests, whether resulting in riots or not, have been dubbed under this label.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/magazine/free-speech.html
AWS is not the end of history. The hardware arch is still completely insane PC lineage too much, and now that electricity not hardware costs predominate, the calculus is has shifted tons.
> That doesn't mean they didn't happen, or that people should not believe they happened.

Sure. But in this case, a known liar with a lot of motivation to lie is alleging the crime. And there's no evidence, even though you'd need thousands of mostly ordinary people to coordinate the crime and subsequent coverup. If even one of them breaks ranks, everyone else is going to jail. Look at it completely objectively: taking out the names, parties, policies and so on, if you were a betting man/woman, who would your money be on?

> I know many on the political right are certain, for excellent reasons, that the Democrats were motivated to bias the election against Trump,

Here's the problem though. The only way, the only way, they'd be 100% convinced the election was fair is if had Trump won. They simply won't entertain the idea that maybe, just maybe, most voters aren't so enamored of their guy as they are. If you refuse to accept, without violence, the result of an election as fair unless your candidate won then it's not a democracy.

> Can you point out something I've said that relies on taking Trump's word for something?

This whole election fraud this is a Trump invention. He knew he was going to lose and sowed the seeds well in advance. He's sued dozens of times and lost nearly every single case.

> Is cheating in elections really a complex story from your point of view?

Across multiple states, parties, officials, and judges? With no leaks, no whistleblowers, no emails or texts? I'm not saying it's impossible in theory. But in this particular case, when it's a known liar making the allegations, color me skeptical. If Trump had a history of probity and honesty in his past conduct, I might be more inclined to listen.
I will say the real challenge with true free speech is the people who abuse the meaning of it compound that with people who make money on viewership. They have no incentive to tell the truth since they make money on getting the most attention. It really leads down a disheartening future where truth doesn't matter but viewership volume does.

I'd like to think most people take the quality of their content (i.e. truth and thought) as important to how they consume. All data currently points to the latter in terms of quality of content. I am concerned for the world my children and my children's children will be raised in if this trajectory keeps going.
https://voice.com is blockchain based