jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Second, all the screening areas contain 'bomb boxes'. If a screener spots a suspect bag, he/she is trained to pick it up and place it in the box, which is blast proof. A bomb squad arrives shortly and wheels the box away for further investigation.

Or we can take naked pictures of children and grope people, taking hours to board planes, and evacuating the entire terminal at the first indication of trouble.

I really don't like my own tone of voice -- it sounds like I am ranting. But I'm not. At least I don't think I am. This is just common sense. Small, agile decentralized systems with an emphasis on layers and innovation are going to beat treating people like they were F-15s passing down the assembly line at a defense plant. This factory, top-down mentality has got to go.

I guess I'm just still amazed that we gotten this far out of whack. If you had told me we would be doing this, even right after 9-11, I wouldn't have believed you. Body scans? Invasive searches? Sure thing. Not a problem. Sign me up -- as long as its rare and happens on an ad-hoc basis. But what we have now? It's a total travesty. The lunatics are truly running the asylum.

(Ok, maybe I am ranting)
Sure, but then you have the exact same issue where only a subset of devices can use Netflix.
It should technically be 50,000,030 years old, from our frame of reference.

If you were riding the photon, then basically time would stand completely still for you. But that is theoretically impossible...
How is this any different to Google News? Google is just letting users discover through a better unified interface the TV content that is ALREADY available on the web for free.
They are providing a service for both users and the TV networks. The TV networks, like newspapers and other old-world publishers before them with google search and news, just don't understand it.
Interesting; I didn't know that. The block-based methods are, of course, better, but then you can't support iOS 3.x, which is still a pretty big percent of users.

Thanks!
Same which is why I clicked on the article

I couldn’t process which way an acquisition would make sense and then I read the article and it made more sense.
> but it is enlightening how only one of these events is regularly described as authoritarianism

That's because authoritarianism is:

"a form of government characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of a strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in the rule of law, separation of powers, and democratic voting"

Hong Kong has great police. The problem for Hong Kongers is that they're in service of an authoritarian government. The US has terrible police, but that's not because of authoritarianism.
I happened to watch a short documentary about this yesterday on Plainly Difficult. A lot of great videos on this channel.
https://youtu.be/23kemyXcbXo
Do we let Enron audit its own books?
Its not a martyr complex to ask for a proper independent audit of a closely disputed race. Especially when paper mailed ballots, huge vote spikes and computers are involved.
You are arguing from conclusion.
Whether or not he was told his claims are false, I quoted some of the missing context in my comment above. That context is why the shorter clip and summary of the conversation was misleading and wrong.
More would have died otherwise.
>playing back full-motion video from a CD on a PS2 with its near-zero available CPU resources

Eh, a PS2 with a ~300mhz MIPS CPU is more than able to play VCD with MPEG1 encoded video. You must be young, because the PS2 is on par a Pentium MMX/Pentium 2 and for sure you could play MPEG videos back in the day.
I was asked this question in an interview and the only reason I was able to come up with a solution was that I had taken Spivak's calculus previous semester and the proof was one the exercise questions for a chapter on induction.
The photos though.. If you are reading this remove the server or the rug/carpet!!!! All the fluff from the carpet and the dust from the floor invading your box and will be chocking the fans!!!
When I think of good ux I think of something that is easy to pick up on first use and that gradually guides you to mastering its more advanced features.

Emacs for me has one of the steepest learning curves in any software I’ve ever tried to use. (Maybe even anything in general). There seems to be be a cult culture around editors such as vim and emacs that I can only attribute to leftover elitism from the early ages of computer science. I don’t see why people who are using or building these software wouldn’t have spent some time improving the onboarding of new users all the years these software has been around.
The whole, “they’re faceless greed machines” works both ways, though, doesn’t it? You’ve got to do something pretty universally terrible to have a blood sucking corporation actually turn down your money...
I think people are also assuming that the "market" rate for tech jobs in these "low COL" areas keeps up with the cost of living. I am here to tell you that it does not, in the cases I'm familiar with. Especially in the relatively hot "cheap" areas, outsiders moving in are driving housing prices up dramatically, but the pay rates have not increased the same amount. So if five years ago you could make 2X the profit, now it might only be 1.25X, and getting worse.

Also, people need to remember that "cost of living" is not actually one thing. It's not like I get a "living" bill once a year that I have to pay. Even in relatively cheap areas, there are some things that cost the same as or even more than they do in major metro areas. Don't do math based on some web-based COL calculator or even on housing prices and assume that it will apply across the board.

I have absolutely seen offers within the last six months where the candidate would be worse off financially despite living in a "cheap" place because the pay reduction was more than the all-in cost of living a similar lifestyle (yes, if you're willing to downgrade lifestyle you can offset this, but you can do the same thing in SF. Most people I've seen actually want to UPGRADE lifestyle with larger houses, more land, nicer neighborhoods, etc.).
Depends how much, and how well they disperse it. The oceans are actually fairly radioactive as is; there’s an estimated 4 billion tonnes of uranium dissolved into the oceans naturally. If you disperse the waste thoroughly, it wouldn’t realistically move the needle one iota, at least as a one time expedient.

Concentrated in one spot, or as a regular disposal mechanism is not recommended, obviously.
I wonder how long it is before Google is fighting the precedent they set in this case.
Yeah, but the language is largely irrelevant here right (assuming the intent in posting this was "look a free open source cobol"). The difficulty in cobol systems is that IBM Mainframes are really cool, but insanely expensive and locked down. I can put GNUCobol on my laptop and learn hello world, but I won't have access to the mainframe transactions, which is probably 99% of the problem in learning a Cobol system.
Contrived, but I always liked the idea that a rearrangement of the syllables could be voiced as "tea for two".
Yes, too many people can't bear making anything they sense to be a sacrifice on their part. The solution is definitely to shift the car ownership economic burden more towards car owners instead of everyone. Giant empty parking lots and huge roads are an insane cost with a terrible maintenance story.

I like to think of it as moving away from a datacenter to cloud based solutions. You don't need to buy all that capacity ahead of time anymore just for those short bursts.
Stealing photos to repost them on a fetish website without consent or license definitely is "the guy' fault".
It is not default configuration and it's marked as "experimental" in UI. I would never enable it for my PC, that's just absurd.
> The difference is that software compilation is a fairly local optimization process - allowing you to change/inline one bit of generated code without significantly affecting the performance of the rest of the generated code

Not really.

The uop cache, and L1 code cache, of modern chips is rather small. You can often grossly increase performance locally by loop-unrolling, but if that causes the "hot path" to no longer fit in uop-cache (or L1 cache), then you've lost a chunk of global performance vs a small local-gain in performance.

Global vs local optimization is just a tough subject in general. Even on CPUs (which is probably easier than FPGAs)
I apologize for missing the point. You're right; that is annoying and no, they should not do that by default.

Side-note: I just re-read my comment and I sounded like a jerk. I would also like to apologize for that. The sarcasm didn't age well (to my ear anyway).
css causes immediate renders but does occasionally batch changes (I think opera was the best at that)

Its inconsistent implementation meant you really are best doing any style modifications off the dom and then reattaching when complete
Like Linux, git is taking a while to "mature" from a user's perspective. It's ludicrously powerful -- it's as much as file system as a distributed VCS -- and its 1,001 options need to be distilled for the masses into the handful and a half of essentials.

It's worth contemplating that Linus doesn't hang around defending git. He put it out there -- bless him -- and let it take on its own life. And its destiny is up to us.

git doesn't need to be taken out of the command line. That's where its true power lies, as with all *nix tools. The fact that github can do so much with it is because of this feature, not because they are changing it. That's a powerful thing, and a testament to Linus' design of git.

I bet Linus never envisioned github when building git. And that something so revolutionary -- and I do think github is revolutionary, albeit for a niche of geeks -- should come out of such a development is testament of git's design.

Sure it's a hard package to master -- I haven't -- but whatever you want, and a lot more, is there if you need it. And no-one yet, to my knowledge, has complained that git killed their project.
of course man. when people get so up in arms about something like this, it's because you've built something people love.

it's crappy to be on the receiving end, but the silver lining is that you've done something people truly care about.
... which translates to 3ms of downtime in 10 years with their current data, which makes no sense.

I'm guessing it's closer to the way that telecom guys work: 1 bit error in 10^12 bits is common for fiber comm.
My guess is that Dropbox cares about its image and wants everything piracy related to be kept at arms length. It’s not their business model. They want to be a trustworthy service everyone – from nerds to their moms and dads – wants to use.

I would argue that the prevalence of piracy harms, for example, Rapidshare’s image as a serious filesharing service. That’s not an issue for Rapidshare because piracy is their business, but it isn’t the business of Dropbox.

This is consequently not so much about the nature of piracy and much more about the image of Dropbox.

Whether or not Dropship would actually be a good tool for piracy is very much an open question (and one you can certainly argue about), Dropbox seems to think it is.

(I also want to note that even if only one percent of all torrent traffic is piracy related, it’s still wrong to compare it to knives. There are so many knives in the world, the fraction of knives which are used to harm people must be infinitesimal. And, to clarify something else: I would be vigorously against any legislative attempts at banning torrents. Legislatively, that’s just not the right way to go. But that’s the law and Dropbox is no government.)
For some pursuits, yes. For a corporate job, which is the default next step from a university education, no: a company would rather hire someone who knows their limits than someone who tests them, especially since the former has a more established market price.
Depends what you want done. I know good folks so prices might be in the mid to high range of the typical outsourcing menu. I am not taking a cut, FYI. Put up the project (high level) somewhere and share the link.
It's certainly possible to learn to "think recursively," and thus be able to work out recursive solutions to new problems in the same way that other people work out iterative solutions to new problems.

The book The Little Schemer is a great way to learn to think recursively. It has been 5 years since I read it, and I haven't kept the skill fresh, so I've probably lost most of it.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Little-Schemer-4th-Edition/dp/0262...
I think that would make it be more prone to accidental damage
The amount of abuse she got on Twitter after the FF Android launch was hard to believe. I don't understand how somebody thinks that disliking an update to a piece of free software justifies shouting abuse at an engineer who worked on it.
That's what I wanted to know. Was there targeted harassment like this from users? Was it just twitter flame? Did she get angry emails? I understand it has no bearing on the OP but I feel like it would add gravity to her experience if we had some context to empathize with.
KubeFed - https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubefed
For how long are the traders going to be in London though?
If I was running a business and wanted maximum filtration for cheap, the box fan is rad. I want something which sits in my office and quietly sucks little bits of crud from the air. The Dyson absolutely does that job. Probably not as much as a loud ass box fan, but that’s not the point.

There are other solutions which might do what the Dyson does in terms of noise/ air circulation, but the box fan rig isn’t it.
idk if you're a millenial but I often think that this will be millenials' legacy - a 32 hour work week would be amazing
It's completely off topic, because the existing financial system is an emergent property of the state. It's a free-loader. Very limited energy is expended specifically to maintain the financial system. The bulk of it is to maintain the state which you have to do whether the financial system is shells, legos, gold or bitcoin. It's an irrelevant point, a red herring, nothing more.

After all far be it from replacing Visa and Mastercard, Visa and Mastercard have simply added crypto so you actually have to remove them from your energy savings estimates.

Further I disproved the energy utilization point in the original conjecture as impossible. If you have something to add add it and show you work.

Sorry man, you're just not right on this one. Number go up, we get it. That doesn't make it a fundamentally good, useful or interesting technology. All this flailing/pointing at everything that moves with no calculation, no evidence, is just to distract from the fundamental fact that it's a wasteful, borderline useless casino.

Show. Your. Work.
I think you're assuming the laughter is at the child, not with the child. It's laughing about a mistake because that's what makes us human.
> Welcome to agile?

Agile is not essential to software development. IMO Agile should be thrown in the trash heap of technology history ASAP. Does Firefox even need a "release schedule"? Why? There's rarely a good reason for fixed software schedules.

It's funny, Google had a pretty tight software schedule... until it came time to publish their App Store privacy details, and then they decided they didn't need a release schedule after all. Except it backfired because their software just assumed there would be frequent updates, and now the apps are showing warnings because they haven't been updated.

Death to schedules. Yes, there's always work to be done, but it doesn't have to be done by an arbitrary deadline.
Same. But I’ll continue to use Firefox until someone turns out the lights...
I actually much prefer an in-office setting.

But my desire for a short commute and the ability to not live in the Bay Area is much stronger.
Tried the same some time ago. While setup is fun, maintenance etc. is mostly underestimated. Following Murphy's law, things mostly break in uncomfortable times (deadlines, etc.).

My (current) strategy: Do without the "last functionality" and stick with boring, local software/approaches. Not everything needs to be synced to / accessible from any device -- at least for me... One well backed-up machine, a few online services (e-mail, github for collaboration, ...) and long-proven applications like Photos.app. Something close to the situation 15 yrs before?
> feel no threat if I had to suddenly start writing C, C#, Java, Python, Rust, F#, Scala

It isn't necessarily a threat. I'm pretty comfortable in a bunch of different languages but just enjoy C++ more than the others. To use a car analogy, I have no problem driving automatic but I really like driving stick.
Here's an informing podcast episode with one of the Streamlit authors, https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/260/from-basic-script-to....
> TK, contrary to the popular narrative, was an extremely progressive person

Travis Kalanick illegally obtained and read the private medical records of an Indian worman who was raped by her Uber driver. He publicly claimed she was lying to frivolously sue the company, despite absolutely no evidence to support those allegations.

> Uber, post-shenanigans and pre-Susan Fowler memo

The "shenanigans"--I think you mean systemic discrimination against women via a culture of sexual harassment by high-ranking men with the complicity of HR--continued until Susan Fowler published her memo and the board belatedly fired TK.

> The Susan Fowler memo was an inflection point that lead to its culture being essentially destroyed.

> I don’t discount anything Susan Fowler wrote in her memo

This reads like you're trying to blame the fall of Uber's engineering culture on Susan Fowler without saying so. And sure, there's room for people to disagree: I personally think the board fired Travis Kalanick because he didn't IPO as quickly as they wanted. But this honestly reads like "Everything at Uber was great until this one woman complained and ruined it for all of us." And I don't think that's what you actually want to communicate.

https://www.vox.com/2017/6/7/15754316/uber-executive-india-a...
> The JCL is the harder part.

Even its creators say JCL is the worst language ever invented.
Why are so many people in this thread equating news with celebrity or outrage culture? News is about learning and understanding current events. If you don't understand current events, you can't be an educated voter. If you have a societal obligation to vote, you have a societal obligation to follow the news at the very least whenever there is an election in your area and those occur much more frequently than once every 2 or 4 years.
> There is the underlying idea that if you aren't being rejected, then you aren't asking for enough.

I don't think that's the underlying idea at all.

Rejection therapy is targeted at people who take rejection too personally. The idea is that if rejection is your goal, you can experience it in a way that isn't so debilitating, and stop being afraid to express what you really want.

> Every person doing this is putting at least 30 people into the somewhat awkward situation of having to reject someone. I know I don't particularly like having to tell people "no, you can't do/have that".

This is exactly the same problem, but from the other side! Just as a person shouldn't be so deathly afraid of rejection, a person shouldn't have such a problem saying "no" if the answer is no. If that didn't feel so awkward, then the self-centered people you mention would stop being obliged by weak people who are afraid to say no.
It feels like he's got the minimum number of steps required to invoice a Fortune 500 company, to get a 7-figure insurance policy, and to deliver buggy code to that company without worrying about losing his house in a subsequent lawsuit.

Is there any advantage to waiting to get to that step until after speaking to an attorney, or should people just go ahead and at least get minimally covered?

Might it depend on whether equity distribution is a major concern (you want your company to survive the first dispute among its principals) versus actually transacting business?
if that irks you, imagine dealing with non technical users on a day to day basis ..
I think stats where not the strong point of the article...

A top 1% (US) athlete might make it to college, but would still have little chance of becoming a professional. A top %1 musician would probably make a lot closer to $0 than $1M.
Good article. But it's hard to find a good designer with all those skills.
My take on efficiency of serialisation is more concerned with resulting data size, not actual coding/decoding processing overhead. ASN.1 encodings are mostly concerned about size and not about direct usability of encodings (both PER and BER actually use UTF-8 like encodings for various values, PER even does not align fields to byte boundaries).

And as for compression: dfsch's binary serialization format does some de-facto dictionary compression on some fields and it actually speeds up decoding itself (decoder caches various high-level metadata in decompressor's dictionaries), not only reduces I/O size.
Short answer: No, but many search engines are increasingly aware of the microformat data you may wish to supply. (http://www.google.com/help/features.html of some examples)

This info shows up when you search for things like movies and Google shows "3 1/2 stars" or "starts 7:30pm." I forget the format's exact name but there's a lot you can provide.
Some are kinda NSFW.
Correct, and the push for accountability in police work isn't about punishing hapless officers. It's about creating some mechanism by which offenders like Chauvin can effectively be sanctioned in civil courts.
The successor of Deepthought is Gaia/Terra/Tellus, so maybe one of those :)
Nice read. I haven't seen any references to Ansible or similar tools. For the ones who know: given the architecture described in the article, does Ansible fit in the picture? I don't know a lot of k8s but I wonder how VMs are provisioned (e.g., how docker is installed?)
I heard that crossed wires theory and I just don’t believe it. For me the simplest explanation is that there’s an entire industry built around selling sexy women’s footwear (heels) that draws attention to the foot, so it really shouldn’t be a surprise.
Yeah - I'm amazed this is the first comment that has brought it up.

If you need to identify the passenger as child/adult (especially for something as safety critical as this) then it should be its own field.
Back then you could ask the phone company to unlist your number... and they actually did it.
Agreed, would have gone with their managed app platform if I was using one of the supported techs. For search I use a $5/mo meilisearch DO droplet that took almost no time to set up and I never have to pay attention to.
They’re advocating the removing perverse incentives, so that data leaks and privacy breaches are not “just the cost of doing business.”
In certain cases, this level of optimization makes perfect sense. In other cases, arguably more common when writing C++, it makes more sense to invest that time in understanding the object model, i.e. what actually happens when you pass a struct by value, return an object (NRV), where invisible object copying occurs (STL, I'm looking at you) or similar issues. Lippman's "C++ Object Model" is a good reference for that.
You're missing half of the equation - It's not just the act of performing the reservation, it allows customers to search for to see if which restaurants have availability (and at what time). You can't do that unless you have access to all of their seating data, including walk-ins.