jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So reading all the comments I see that most "against" are because "Because if everyone used SQLite there would be no second implementation, which is something that is necessary for a proposed standard to become an actual standard."
WTF? Do we need to implement MySQL, PGSQL or MSSQL to get a chance of having SQL in our browsers? Does that sound stupid only to me? Is Mozilla trying to follow the "success" of IE? Who pays W3C? Why do they play like the God of Web? And why can't we have both? I certainly don't want to ever use IndexedDB if I have and SQL option.
They can't share any details about the debt or even that there is a debt.

They can until someone takes them to court over it.

Having inherited the phone number of someone who owed money, and dealt with the fallout from that, I can personally testify that collectors do not consider themselves bound by the law unless/until a court fines them some obscene amount of money.
The classic example of where this actually works well is in the PHP docs. Yes, you get idiots, but you also get good, real-world examples of a wider variety than the original documentation authors would have been able to produce. It's about the only thing I missed when I jumped from PHP to Python.

I think the Django Book's approach to this is really good as well, where the moderator overhead is implicitly taken on by the documentation authors. That works for them because they treat the document as a project in itself, rather than as a by-product.
"A Scanner Darkly" is really one of his minor books. You should try "Ubik".
A guy called Giancarlo Pascutto has a super library for this.
The default diet has increased and default levels of activity have fallen.

Put another way: the environment has changed. People have not.

For any given gradient across the population of desire to eat tasty food and desire to not engage in physical activity, the environment is progressively affecting more and more of the population.
I agree about the Times, but what in the story about the student paper constituted an ethical breach? The ads were not influencing copy, just allowing more to be printed.
> If Paul can figure out a way to filter in the great developers while filtering out those that are only coming to make money

Maybe he did. They become founders. They start companies worth 100x - 1000x their annual salary. As you go up the continuum of exceptional performance a great programmer becomes a startup founder.
Just wait long enough until the bug becomes obsolete.

It's the same as the Ubuntu(™) way.

The user (if still alive) can re-submit it for the newer version, if applicable and the cycle goes on.
Wisconsin's Republican governor elect has forgone $900 million in stimulus spending for a high-speed train line from Milwaukee to Madison. Californians are pleased.
The fix is amusing: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/73619/branches/chromium/597
Almost no sys-admining once everything is set up. Maybe just update the server software.
The talk stops at ~19 minutes, but there were many questions asked and answered in the Q&A segment. That doesn't help in the meat department for that video however.

I would love to give that same talk, but extend it to 90 minutes. I suppose it still wouldn't reach the depth that such a talk requires, but it would be more satisfying.
People have tried to make flying cars since the 60's and yet there has never been a successful product in the niche.

What people seem to overlook is that making a flying car is easy. Making it so that the FCC will allow my mom to fly it and land it in her garage is next to impossible.

If only accredited pilots can buy one the production price won't come down, and if you can only land and take off from an airport as a pilot in an expensive flying device, well then you've invented.... a plane... Congratulations you're competing with Boeing, Gulfstream and Learjet on their own turf - a highly political arena where money and conections count more than anything else.

Here's a link to a company that's beeen claiming that their flying car will go into production next year for the last ten years: http://moller.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=arti...
It's only a circular argument if you take property as an arbitrary axiom that can't be investigated further.

People need to use their mind to survive --> people must be able to reap the benefits of their mind/creativity to survive --> people must control the produce of their work/creativity to survive --> people should have property rights protected by the government

Property, including IP, is just a natural extension of freedom and living, it's about as fundamental as it gets. Of course it's hard to protect IP, but that's one of the benefits of having a highly civilized nation. They have the right to benefit from their creativity, and you're obliged to respect that. The law allows them to make a living, yes, just like the law allows most of us to make a living without people ripping us off or stealing, thank goodness. It makes perfect sense to have these laws.

The point of IP is that it's the produce of someone's mind, as direct a product as you can get. If you copy it without permission you know without doubt that you're undermining somebody's ability to benefit from their creativity, ultimately undermining their livelihood. That basically makes you a hypocrite.

The pragmatic argument (that without copyright/patents, innovation and investment would dry up) is secondary.
Only a partial party?

I guess they would be re-using it multiple times, hopefully...
It’s interesting how this is such a useful technique as part of de-identifying datasets but there aren’t many packages for calculating optimal or even simple changes for data to make them k-anonymous.

Wikipedia calls out k-optimize but the paper just has pseudo-code and I expected more reusable packages to exist.

I’ve used sdcmicro in R [0], but it isn’t practical for large datasets with multiple quasi-identifiers.

[0] http://www.ihsn.org/software/disclosure-control-toolbox
I can’t recommend Rachel Thomas and Jeremy Howard’s FastAI course enough! I attended it in person in SF, but the YouTube recordings and online community around it are great! [0]

Beyond that, I would recommend making sure you have a concrete project you pursue. ML is very theoretical otherwise, and to be honest, our shared understanding of what works and what doesn’t is still fairly limited — with major discoveries every other week it feels like. So without a concrete project to anchor your thoughts, it can be hard to learn what “works” and what doesn’t, just because different things work on different projects.

If you have any questions, I highly recommend the FastAI forums [1] or the Machine Learning subreddit [2]!

[0]: http://course.fast.ai/
[1]: http://forums.fast.ai/
[3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/
I've run into this building various analytics systems. The off-by-45-minutes timezones mean that if you want to keep your data in UTC and translate to local time in the UI, you have to maintain 15-minute granularity. (Although 30-minute or 1-hour granularity might be good enough depending on what users you need to initially support.)
Well, there is always http://xkcd.com/605/

When your base is high, adoption trajectories are pretty high, but level off fairly quickly. We still need a few years to tell what is actually going on.
With all due respect, you appear to be confusing "intellectual gravity" with "novelty."
Rad list - I'm going to use your 1.2 automatic browser restarts via SSE trick!

Re: 1.1 automatic server restarts (for crashes etc) there's no need for forever / supervisord / nodemon on current Linux: make a .service file for your app and it will automatically restart if it crashes, on all major distros.

[Unit]
Description=My app

[Service]
ExecStart=/var/www/myapp/app.js
Restart=always
User=nobody
Group=nobody
Environment=PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
Environment=NODE_ENV=production

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

From: http://medium.com/@mikemaccana/how-i-deploy-node-apps-on-lin...
This story is surprisingly hostile to Google. A 90-day window after which the bug is published is about as responsible as responsible disclosure gets. The headline really rubs me the wrong way, as though Google raced to publish this vulnerability to spite Microsoft.

Not talking about the bug doesn't mean it's not there, but talking about it sure makes people aware that they should perhaps take extra precautions until Microsoft patches the bug. The attitude that "you're giving info to the evil hackers and now we're all unsafe!11" is the very essence of the fallacy of security by obscurity - your ignorance of a bug is not guarantee of others' ignorance of it. Pinning blame on Google for putting us all at risk is the exact wrong response; Microsoft is at blame for taking more than three months to fix a critical security bug, which has been there for even longer.

This sentiment is very visible in the comment section - the story's suggestion that Google did something wrong here, and the torrent of clueless commenters raging about how evil Google is being is disheartening, to say the least. I wonder how much of that is a result of the story's tone.
Multimethods and Protocols seem to get better results than what OO is trying to achieve...at least when it comes to polymorphism.
What culture is English tied to anymore, though? India, South Africa, even Asia to some degree have significant unique English vocabularies, having recombined or reapplied existing morphemes to fit local cultural contexts. Consider the Korean "officetel" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officetel). You're not wrong to point to basic xenophobia as shaping what people do, but I think the "ownership" of English is diffuse enough now that it would take much less effort to dilute it further than coin a new language (which doesn't really happen anyway).
So, a personal human touch instead of automated bullshit spewed Operation Earnest Voice? No wonder theyre winning.
This article makes the case strongly http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/on-the-high-seas-of-the-h...

"... order in actual markets depends on threats of violence – whether the penalties embedded in the laws of the state, or the bloody interventions of mob bosses. In the absence of such arrangements, predators move in. The Silk Road’s business model worked only if genuinely ruthless people didn’t notice its critical vulnerabilities."
Main reason is the money. I'm not a programmer, so fixing bugs, update scrappers, server, etc. cost money.
Sorry my intent was to show that some of these events are even orchestrated by the government as was the case with Kristallnacht and while most assume the Reichstag Fire was too it is not as clear cut. I also wanted to show that not all of them are as with the case of the ArchDuke. I could have been more clear in that intent. I also intentionally steered clear of US ones as I did not want to invoke consprinoia discussions.

But the point being that a contingency in government live by the adage never let a good crisis go to waste.
You will enjoy Jad Abumrad's "Embrace the Gut Churn"
https://youtu.be/8OH9p3hnWCY
I also would like to know. Does it even count as intellectual property of the company?
> There seems to be evidence (a lot) of asymptomatic people infecting others.

I've usually seen the opposite in public policy articles (CDC, NIH). Do you have an article I could read?
Piping output of an "rm -v" is an oddball, with all the possible stdio buffering, I agree.

More real-life example fitting your model would be "start this long-running process and show me first 10 lines of output, just to make sure it didn't bail right away", but then, a more common pattern would be to keep a copy of the whole log too:

myfoo >/var/log/foo & tail -f /var/log/foo | head

Counter-example would be "yes", but also unordered sampling. Let's say I want to know if there is file with "foo" in its name somewhere in a very large directory, just a yes/no. Continuing directory traversal after finding one is a waste of time. SIGPIPE is desirable here as well:

find directory/ -name '*foo*' | head -1
> as long the right persons get targeted

If we knew how to do that reliably, we could just hang people from trees.

Unfortunately, we don't.
Is it though? I don't know about stats in the US, but I'd be surprised if the majority of the people earned enough money to choose what to do with it after basic human expenses. Unless you count surviving as a choice, but at that point anything is.
Mass testing seems to have worked. From the article:

“Nonetheless, asymptomatic or quasi-symptomatic subjects represent a good 70% of all virus-infected people and, still worse, an unknown, yet impossible to ignore portion of them can transmit the virus to others. Full testing would give us a clearer picture of how many people actually have the virus, and how many pass it on.“
> I do wish US politicians would tell people to go back to work, but wear operation masks.

Surgical masks, as well as N95 respirators, are already in short supply for medical use. Encourage further non-medical use would exacerbate the supply shortage and hasten the rapidly-approaching catastrophic collapse of the healthcare system.

The current recommendation (and, increasingly frequently, mandatory order) that non-essential work that cannot be done remotely should be suspended is correct.
Experiences may vary, but I've always thought of skimming as something that could be done to various degrees. Some examples:

1. going through pages looking for interesting textual structure, for example dialog, numbers, capitalized words, etc.

2. scanning vertically or in a zig-zag fashion, using peripheral vision to look for interesting words

3. reading the first few words of a paragraph before deciding if it's interesting or not.

I normally use 2, then try 3 on a paragraph that passes 2's test. Only when a paragraph passes test 2 and 3, do I decide to read it with my (temporary) full attention. 1's more for when I'm searching for something in particular or when what I'm reading follows a specific format and I'm interested in a particular section with distinctive structure.
> now doing more economic harm than public health good

I measure harm in units other than economies, and so this equation is meaningless to me. It may be strictly true in some sense but I don't understand it as demanding any particular response.

Stockholm syndrome probably isn't real either btw.
I don't think this is a good philosophy to follow. Javascript for example was a terrible language. It's better now because they modified it and most people use typescript... but it was shit starting out and it's initially popularity had nothing to do with how well it worked.

I will say that haskell does solve many of the problems we face in software engineering today including coding ourselves into a corner. The problem is the paradigm is extremely hard and that's what hampers its success.
Why does a PDE need an analytical solution?

Are you arguing that e.g. Navier-Stokes isn't useful?

edit: Just noticed that Navier-Stokes isn't even on here. This is frankly a weird list.
Ready to take on Windows' PC market
This is already done by Trezor: https://trezor.io/shamir/
I've called police for ongoing violence twice, and in both cases the response time was shorter than this. This is one thing the police really knows how to do.

See also https://leb.fbi.gov/image-repository/police-response-time-to... which has the median response time to active shooter situations at 3 minutes
Indentation is not the reason why it's hard to autoformat Python code, or any other language for that matter.
Ilya is a Russian national? (Sorry, I hadn't sees that mentioned yet.)
I would imagine there would be a javascript transpiler so the browser can request .js or .swift file depending on its own capabilities.

As a web dev myself, I'd love this solution.
The hardest part about Python it's not Python itself but rather the server environment / deployment things. PHP is just save files and visit apache server, Python had a much steeper curve to learn all those things around.

And then of course it's the spacing issues which is hard to understand at first glance
Teaching has nothing to do with it (see Brian Harvey at the bottom of the ranks).

Papers have nothing to do with it. Really few papers are read these days. I would guess, that an average IEEE author _writes_ the same number or more papers than reads (write-only memory doesn't make sense).

Even less papers have an actual academic impact in CS in the age of the internet, where bits come at the price of caffeine and inspirations of ideas of somebody from a blog/news site (peer review comes in the comments). Not much old-school papers, journals or libraries. As always, there are few exceptions, but you are certainly better off playing the lottery.

Non-virtualizable science is a different matter (wet lab, electronics, physical experiments etc.) But bureaucrats prefer in silico, because it is cheaper.
I think the thought should just be rephrased as "household appliances should be better designed, see Apple for examples of good design"

The microwave example is spot on however, I don't think I've ever used the "food specific" buttons, who does? When I use a microwave I pop the food in, set the heating level (high/medium/defrost) and the time. That's it.

I suspect most people do the same
I mean they're an autocratic country that co-opted our tech and cleverly used the greed of our corporations and investors to try to sling shot past us.

Then they want to use that new economic power and convert it to military power. Then use the military power to restart a civil war and take over peaceful countries like Taiwan.

Sounds kinda dumb to not try to stop that, lol. I don't think you want to live in a purely might makes right world.
Sure. Strongly agree.

A few languages have succeeded, for example C# and Java are arguably C++ successors although they do not cover all the same domains.
Agreed. That said, a huge portion of metropolitan California cities are stricken with inflation. If you drive down the cost of every home that's $3M to $800 across a majority of the city, where most people have loans for $3M then your good faith action may actually bankrupt your city and it's citizens over night. That's what we're discussing here.
Fabs are multi-year projects, and take quite a while to run a profit (since you first have to invest 10s of billions into building one). So "will be able to sell whatever" right now could still mean that the overall thing ends not very profitable once the competition recovers from their outages and finishes their expansion plans. And similarly, the supply chains for the equipment you need to actually build a fab don't magically scale, and are wary of doing so - because again, just because everyone wants their high-end fab equipment now doesn't mean they will in a few years, and they've been bitten by market contractions in the past, so they have little motivation to scale extremely and then struggle because they've satisfied demand. Their order books are basically full already, so you can't just go and equip your shiny new fab quickly. Even if they now wanted to expand more than they expected, them tooling up for faster production would take a while.

In the end, making chips just isn't that high on the overall list of things to be able to opt.out of normal market forces. If it looks like customers will pay enough to make rapid expansion and the changes necessary to enable such rapid expansion worth it, it'll happen.

But demand is not actually that much higher than normal, and thus the investment has limits. You can be sure that everyone is working to finish their expansions as fast as possible (hundreds of billions of investment over the next few years) and get their broken-down fabs back online ASAP, but its not like they suddenly can spend massively more resources on it. Compared to big challenges like fighting COVID its overall a minor concern, and as you point out even that did not go as all-out as it could have.
One of the best purchases I ever made was a two-volume collection of jazz standards published in Japan with the English subtitle “All of the Jazz Standard [sic]” [1, 2, 3]. It includes the melody, chords, and lyrics for over 400 well-selected songs. A bit pricey, but all of the songs seem to have been properly licensed for publication in Japan.

I bought my copy twenty years ago and I’ve been using it ever since. (I play piano.)

[1] https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/%E9%AB%98%E5%B3%B6-%E6%85%B6%E...

[2] https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/%E9%AB%98%E5%B3%B6-%E6%85%B6%E...

[3] https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g271937333
Once learned the GUI actions are impossible to forget.

Being away from the computer for two weeks will make you forget 80% of the CLI commands from the author's list.

The reason is simple: the brain can associate the GUI actions to many concepts from the real world. CLI concepts exist on computers and nowhere else. That knowledge is too abstract and too expensive to be kept unused in our brain's cache non-stop.
Almost exactly at the same time as The Real Book's publication, appeared the Lions' Commentary on Unix v6 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions%27_Commentary_on_UNIX_6t... ). Also disseminated via surreptitious copies at first, also ultimately legally published.
You're definitely right about being blinded during a startup delay. It's not every site but it does happen.

I agree that all websites should give users a dark mode. They don't, so we have to make our own.
30+(a number smaller than, say, a hundred or two) is totally brute forcable.

I have a python script that plans walking routes between attractions at a large-ish festival that pre-calculates shortest paths by brute forcing dijkstra's algorithm between every pair of ~200 "intersections" in a minute or two on my laptop. (The app can then just look up the route by start/end location and draw it on a map)

Travelling salesman is hard, but even O(n!) is trivial on machines today where n is small. And there are simplifications and approximations that get something like within 1% of the theoretical shortest path in something like O(n log(n)) time (with significant startup/preprocessing time, but where N is between a few thousand and a few million these work).
A tech employer in Vancouver once told me that if an engineer tries to negotiate for a higher salary that is a signal that they care only about money and that they wouldn't be good hire, regardless of their experience and skillset. This is one of the "big" tech companies in Vancouver, BC. Never mind the hundreds of small sweatshops here.
I went through the top results of that search, and most of them make no claims at all about the performance differences of diverse vs non-diverse groups (since they instead adress some quite different questions), and those in the top results of this search who do look into performance comparisons do not find such an advantage, they find that there is no significant difference. Furthermore, a large part of the studies are focused on artificial short-term cooperations e.g. study groups or team projects at a university course (which actually eliminates a key part of diversity by ensuring that all the team members are of a similar age group and of similar specialization, they essentially only measure the effect of ethnic variation) which aren't really representative of what the success criteria are in a business environment.

Perhaps there are studies that would justify a claim that "diverse teams are more successful", however, this particular search does not immediately lead to them and should not be used as evidence of some scientific consensus on the matter - quite the contrary.
I want to hire the least diverse team as possible, here are the traits that they are selected on:

- highly intelligent

- professional work attitude

- nice people to work with

If you want to hire a more diverse group where there are some jerks in there, and idiots that screw up all the time, that's fine. But I like my team uniformly aligned like this.

;)
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