jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Lest we don't forget, interacting with SMB file shares has been a constant pain for years now, pretty much in every release.

I will spare the details from before, but in Mavericks, when things looked like were being fixed, one cannot delete an entire folder. It would delete the contents, but not the folder, then one had to delete the folder by itself after it was empty.

In Yosemite some folders are left "locked" without being able to do anything to them from OS X. This was similar and worse before.

And don't get me going on how it leaves .DS_Store, ._.DS_Store, .apdisk and ._.apdisk crapola laying around.

Oh, how about driving everyone to properly support case-sensitiveness? All sorts of things do not work or crash, or simply refuse to install if installed in case-sensitive volumes.

How about fixing random video corruption in Yosemite? https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/364883/Screenshots/video...

How about training the "geniuses" at the stores that there are other standards for video cabling? (And that one should not have to buy thunderbird-enabled monitors to be able to have more than one monitor on a macbook?).

My MacBook Pro froze and rebooted out of the blue this past week. It was pretty much idle. has never done that before.

And on and on ...
These "tuts" are amazingly nostalgic.

Between this and Fravia I probably learned more about how computers worked than any other course or article. I remember running through most of these to build up my own personal GFX library. Silly things like "draw random lines" versus "draw random lines REALLY FAST" kept me interested long beyond any reasonable attention span. Thanks @tdicola for the link to the texts!

I'm only sad that I've forgotten so much, and that it's getting harder and harder to make cool stuff like this - there are still ways to get a 1:1 array:pixel mapping and have at, but they're all more complicated than MOV AX, 13h; INT 10h; and $A000.
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I'd recommend something interactive instead of a book (if you can find it), since you said he learns quickly through application.

Introductory programming books don't have much to do with reading level. They (should) be based on functional programming principles and require solid understanding of mathematical principles.

That's why, for now, I'd recommend something that helps him build many small projects through examples.
I lived in Atrium Village, the mixed income development 2 blocks from Cabrini Green, from 2008-2012. It was designed to be transition housing for people working to get out of Cabrini Green.

The high rises were empty and coming down by the time i moved in, but the low-rises were still mostly inhabited. They were just awful places. Cinder block cells.

Cabrini Green was interesting to me as an armchair urban planner because it was surrounded by affluence. The main drag dumped right into a luxury car garage. And the whole thing was about 100 feet from Groupon's headquarters. When Groupon employees would step outside on smoke breaks, they faced a view directly down into Cabrini Green. Very bizarre to have all that wealth created so near a place without any.
> but Allen Edmonds shoes can be re-crafted once they are worn.

As someone who only wears Allen Edmonds shoes, there is a limit to recrafting. I have a pair of shoes that I absolutely love, and they have been rebuilt once. But I fear that the insoles are quickly approaching the point of no return, such that Allen Edmonds won't/can't rebuild them.

Everything can be rebuilt, but there is a point of depreciating returns with things like car interiors.
Good point, same in JS:

if (2 != false) console.log('yes')
> yes

false goes to 0 and 2 != 0.
What keeps me going is the awareness that my project is worthwhile. It's got science fiction level worthwhileness. Ya, that sums up the motivation source right there.

I do it right. I take my time. Spend much time thinking about the next step. Draw and stuff. Spent like 12 years experimenting with different geometry games. Looking for the one that feels right.

I have this stack of project sketchbooks. Sometimes I look at the stack and think "I'm nuts".

The final climax seems close.

Sometimes I wish a bunch of enthusiastic highschool kids would take my project over, but not quite yet.

Also there's bucks in it. It's got material worth.
and http://getbootstrap.com/ can be your front-end framework.
I just finished with a side project. I knew going in that I would lose motivation for reasons left and right, even though it's the right project for me to work on. In order to keep up my motivation, I started "Side Projects Dinner" - I would make dinner for my friends every other week, and they would give me feedback on my project. It worked great, and we've had quite a lot of fun. And of course, my friends are also getting feedback on their own projects and thinking of new project ideas. Highly recommended!
"Physically Based" has somewhat turned into the CG/gamedev version of "Big Data". I remember reading a paper about physically based facial animation or modelling. Which uses the concepts of facial tissue and muscles to realistically render faces. It went all downhill after that though. We'll probably soon see a re-release of asteroids called "Physically Based Asteroids" because there is a multiplication in there somewhere that reminded the author of Newtons second law.
Just buy a couple good books.

Today these guys are running a special, pretty good ebooks at 40% off.

https://www.pragprog.com

I recomend to get

1) Java
2) Mobile (Any)
3) .Net

You don't need to be an expert, just walk the walk and talk the talk

;-)

Wish you sucess!!

if need any tips:

jimmy@inodesoft.com
I map it to F12 (and dashboard to cmd+F12, as I rarely use it). Physical similarity with the spotlight icon's location, and lets me map cmd+space to changing input methods (ie, switching to 日本語).
Yes, I detest applications that decide to do their own "cross-platform" thing instead of integrating smoothly with the environment's native behaviour.
is there really any benefit to users by paginating long articles? it seems like just a ploy to generate more ad views.
I'd like it to be more of an informal poll than a discussion thread, as I don't want people's philosophies to be rejected or argued against. It's fine if people want to contribute to or add on to other's beliefs as long as they're respectful, but it's best that you stick to sharing your own ideas.
Hacker News. Not political-views-of-some-hackers news.
> I “cherry picked“ no other studies for this thread.

Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25680698

> You may not like it or what it says, but its much higher quality than any of these uncontrolled, correlative, pro-mask “papers” that have been rushed out since March.

I showed you why it is not.

> Because you can’t.

And here you admit as much — that this study is useless to measure the effect of a mask mandate.

> Short of locking a group of people in a room with infected people and seeing who gets it, thats an unfalsifiable hypothesis.

And here you admit that it is impossible to do a study that proves the effectiveness of masks to the degree that would satisfy you. In the absence of such studies, we have to rely on our priors, which are based on laboratory-proven effectiveness of masks in reducing the distance and the mass of virus particle spread from the wearer combined with what we know about germ theory.

> if they don’t work in one direction....

You somehow ignored that your study does not show that it does not work in either direction. It was not designed to measure effectiveness in one direction, and it was not powered to measure effectiveness in the other direction.
This is incredibly cute. Super satisfying to see all of that antique gear in such good shape. It's interesting to think about the progression of various computing interfaces, and compare it to some of the cutting-edge AI-based interactions that we are seeing emerge today like GPT-3.
GPS time is like this. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Time...
Sorry, I can see how that wasn't clear. I wasn't talking about the content of the article. I'm sure the German Foreign Minister is a model of sobriety.

The issue is that the root topic is so sensational–probably the most sensational of all topics right now—and that quality transfers directly to all related submissions and, especially, threads.
> normal people can setup a full node

This argument was really silly too because people can afford higher capacity drives, and better internet connection according to Moore's Law
The interior quality is the main thing in my mind that Tesla it's missing. My model 3 performance drives like nothing else and requires no maintenance. But I still miss how much nicer inside my previous Audi was. At that price point I'd like to get a lot more.
I'm curious how these compare to "ordinary" times. Like I would be interested in the delta.
I think that the TOS is just terribly written and opaque, and that in the next weeks we will receive clarifications about the fact messages are protected. Otherwise if it will be the case that FB can read messages, the matter will be very different and I will agree on the switch. But so far to imply this looks far fetched.
Frustrating to see people going to another centralized service. The issue with WhatsApp is not that they don't respect privacy. It's that they are structured in a way that they can make changes and no one can stop it.
This always reminds me of people snickering about how much snow is in their backyard whenever the topic of climate change comes up.

If you subtract the 15% unoccupied rate from your link from the 6.6 gigatons of concrete, it's still a lot more than the U.S. used in 100 years.
I've been an Apple user since the IIe days, and I remember the tiny, vulnerable niche company it was very well. But as you say:

"Apple now twice as big as world's second-largest company, ExxonMobil"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnol...
> First, The only thing most companies have they could use against facebook, if facebook were to sue them, are patents.

Facebook sues me for stealing proprietary information after hiring one of their engineers. I have no patents. How do patents help me?

> This is false. Such a claim is a claim that facebook's patent claim is unenforceable against you. This falls directly into the "unenforceable" language.

It is not false. Claiming a patent is unenforceable is not the same as claiming something you are doing in a specific case is not covered by a patent. "Unenforceable" has a specific legal definition.[1] The list of common actions that argue unenforceability: patent is invalid; inequitable conduct by patentee; delay in braining suit for infringement; patent misuse. Please explain how "our product doesn't infringe this patent" meets this definition.

> Also note that you claim it requires lawsuits. Actually, as worded, it does not.

I did not state that it requires lawsuits. You claimed the clause grants Facebook the ability to sue with impunity, and I was using the clauses to refute that statement in that context. I am well aware that the clause, as written, does not require lawsuits.

[1] http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/patent-infring...
The overlapped images: are these simply because the film didn't wind a fill frame?

Also: "Copyright of All Images On This Website is Owned By The Rescued Film Project."

I have doubts about this statement. Can someone with more expertise in this matter explain? It seems to me that the photographer holds the copyright unless the copyright was properly transferred. Simple discovering the film and processing it does not a copyright holder make.

EDIT: there form for donating unprocessed film contains the following: "By donating your rescued film to The Rescued Film Project […] you agree to release full print and publish copyright of all images recovered from the film to The Rescued Film Project and it’s proprietor(s)."

This suggests to me that someone else may have obtained and donated the film to TRFP.
By that argument, we would have to boycott everything anyone with a disease ever touches - hard surfaces (virus is known to survive for up to a week) such as train rails would be tricky one - since we would have to send it back to the manufacturers with every suspicious contact?

I think cash has been known as dirty for a while now. There are ways to manage infection, without boycotting i think - with things such as washing hands frequently being sufficient in many cases.

"No evidence of that" is a valid argument.
> I ordered cotton masks from Etsy.

“Cotton masks” from Etsy are almost certainly not the same thing as the medical/operation/surgical masks being suggested, which typically have a melt-blown polymer filter layer between non-woven fabric exterior layers.

It's true that even medical providers are turning to these type of masks as emergency supplies (and calling on hobbyists to make them for medical use!) because actual proper surgical masks are in short supply, but that doesn't mean that they are as effective and, moreover, it means that mass public use would lead to supply shortage into what has become the necessary fallback for actual medical use.
it's a good book, but the earlier chapters regarding tribal economics and the valued currency being tribal women themselves is questionable from a truth standpoint.

Tribes traded people for goods and services, sometimes temporarily. It was mostly a sex and politics thing, but the book views it as a form of currency bartering and trade; I think there is more nuance there.
Does anyone want to split this project with me? I figure we both take home $10,000 for only a few minutes worth of work!
And most people are asking for generics to write libraries which don't rely on unblocking interfaces.

Even in the process of writing a single program, there are a number of times where you reuse certain bits of logic, and having generics makes it easier to refactor those into a single function, instead of duplicate code with multiple types (or overly generic types).
Same. Can't seem to find many flights from a major hub city (ORD). I've just been flipping in new airport codes into the custom URL[1], but haven't gotten anything yet.

[1] https://skiplagged.com/?src=ORD&dst=JFK&when=2015-01-31&when...
They probably just picked a random return address, it's not as if they are going to put their own address on the packet.
We plan to keep adding non graph based diagrams. DOT definitely is an inspiration for the current graph. Engine was built from zero and its general purpose, not only tree or graph based.
The US is not run by majority rule, the most obvious evidence for that is that the person who got to most votes in the last presidential election is not the president. If you want more evidence, look at the shape of some of the Congressional districts to see how politicians can pick their voters so that their election is a foregone conclusion.

The US has a representative government which the voters have influence on, but they don't get the final say.
2-5 interviews a year feels like a lot, but I _do_ recommend interviewing at least once a year. I'm now ~10 years into my career (I have a CS degree as well), and interviews scare the hell out of me and keep me sharp if I ever need to get a job ASAP. Software interviews are largely bullshit, but if this is what you want to do for a career, you have to play the game (or be so overwhelmingly smart that it doesn't apply, but that's rare).
I double check the same news on different websites, by using Google News. I do this when the title or the content of the news expresses a sort of sensationalism.
Its extremely frustrating that all the browsers removed the escape key trick.
Bandwidth isn't really the problem. Vimeo exists, and they serve considerably higher bitrates than YouTube. The problem is that YouTube is entrenched, and has network effects on its side.

A fresh new competitor to YouTube would face a combination of a lack of advertisers, and a lack of content seeking ad-funding.

On the other hand, when it comes to pay-to-watch content, there's space in the market for new competitors to arise, as the network effects are less significant there.

https://rakuten.tv/ and https://chili.com/ for instance, are far smaller than Amazon and Google.

I guess bandwidth costs are, in a sense, the problem. If if were easy to run a very-large-scale video-hosting site, that would help, sure. Ads wouldn't have to be worth much to make the business work.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-sided_market
What was the power output that was generated by all those mirrors, and what was the area of the footprint for the facility?
This has been the dream of people around the world for a good part of the last century. It’s a lot harder to achieve than to write hypotheticals about. In practice, the US economy is very good at taking its cut.
That makes sense, it is on my list of features to add.
My hope is that various forms of artificial meat become viable and generally affordable.

I think this is realistic, in spite of the opposition we can expect from both Big Ag and Big Fake Yoga.
By mentioning "Java," the poster probably was referring to the JVM. As jwz says, "Java" refers to numerous things:

there are four completely different things that go by the name ``Java'':

A language;

An enormous class library;

A virtual machine;

A security model.

http://www.jwz.org/doc/java.html
Easier? There have only been about 8000 PhDs done on register allocation, it's very well understood and the differences are pretty small. If you are reinventing it one might be incrementally easier
How about C# vs F#? Both have great support. You'd think if people were 2x-3x more productive in a functional language, you'd get a lot of developers moving from C# to F# because both have excellent support from Microsoft.
It's sort of the problem I'm facing here. Research in machine learning is weak in my country, so I'd probably have to apply elsewhere. Medical research here is very good though, so I would have no problem just staying here as there are multiple good advisors. This is what makes A PhD in machine learning so much more difficult.
I'd be more inclined to believe that has more to do with ScreenFlow's (a popular screencasting program) defaults rather than people's inherent narcissism.
So don't use Apple kit! Simple, really. But, if you espouse freedom of speech and freedom of choice, you must logically accept that people will want this choice. That's the problem with the OSS Stasi; the choice they mean is their choice or no choice...
Not common at all.
>Most of the rocket was left behind, but some of the debris was recovered and returned along with the ship

I don't get how this is ok. Why is it acceptable to leave thousands of pounds of scrap and chemicals in the ocean?
>> Women just aren't attracted to comic books.

This is the same kind of thinking when men says "Women just aren't attracted to science or computers". Ignoring all the social cues that discourage women from those activities.
The deepmind paper NFNet-F4+ you were talking about also has external training data.

The number one in accuracy (Meta pseudo labels) is also faster for inference (390M vs 570M parameters) vs the deepmind one.
So what are you disagreeing with?
If they acted unlawfully send them to jail...

Maybe even pull some of their own possession BS grab some restitution on the way in.
Can't wait to use `player!.0.<>->move^([]->^t, Box<&loc, g*>)` to move player characters!
Headline would more appropriately say, Archeologists discover surprising consistency in size/weight of common trade goods, advanced as the first indication of a standardized currency. The find here is the consistency or standardization in size/weight of such goods. They were about 97% consistent and humans can detect about 2% changes in weight pretty easily, but beneath that it’s more difficult to discern.
You are completely right that FP is lacking in guides that go beyond the basics. There's a great abundance of introductory material, but very little about how functional programmers structure large programs or deal with complex I/O.

That is way too much for me to put into a single comment, but the most common approach is to split your program into "pure" and "impure" parts and then model all of your interactions with the real world in a way where the "pure" part of your program becomes an "interpreter" that deals with the pure representations of real-world events.

A common pattern for doing this (but by no means the only one) is using Free Monads.
> It's fair to say he sexually harassed women, even if you think he should be forgiven after apologizing for it.

Sexual harassment is a broad label that doesn't discriminate between coercing sex and an inappropriate joke. However given that he also brought Twitter into the world, the lack of nuance here seems ironic.
> I suspect the important thing is that the NYT has no practice of using pseudonyms

NYT was happy to write about Virgil Texas of Chapo Trap House without revealing his real name [0].

Implying that their actual rule is: yes to pseudonymity for people with whom we politically sympathise, no to pseudonymity for people with whom we don't.

That kind of inconsistency isn't worthy of respect.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/us/politics/bernie-sander...
> You can literally run a pub-sub equivalent of BTC for 1/1,000,000,000 of the cost involved in crypto and a million times more performant while preserving all the benefits touted in cryptos

Explain how pubsub is impervious to the operator of the pubsub shutting down, due to governmental pressure or otherwise.
Here's the tweet:
https://twitter.com/bioinformer/status/1252813532850081792

"Mislabeled SRA entry is one thing but - it’s clear that it’s impossible (in my hands at least with a -very good- pipeline) to assemble the reference that is in GenBank from the data in SRA"
>Here was their plan:

It occurs to me now (after the edit deadline has passed) that this might have implied I have some sort of inside knowledge. That's not the case. The above is conjecture.
Thanks, Nick! That 1,000 deployment limit is daily, AFAICT. Our quota dashboard shows 9/1000 deployments, which matches up with the number of builds we've pushed live today.
SL4A (formerly known as ASE)[1] and Groovy both come to mind, although a 30 second Google couldn't find me a good resource on how/whether you can use Groovy to build Android apps.

I know SL4A has some GUI support, but I don't think it's as rich as the full Android UI framework. However, it seems like it could be a good base to build a UI layer on top of.

[1]http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/
It was the missile. However, he did know where to point it well ahead of time before firing. As the article mentions, he used visual cueing and short-range shots to minimize the time his radars were transmitting.

One thing this article didn't mention: when it came to predictability, NATO aircraft were the polar opposite of Zoltan--they often flew the same routes, at the same times, using the same radio callsigns, day in and day out. This made it very easy for him to predict where an airplane would be. In the case of the F-117, I have heard that the pilot made back-to-back passes over the same target and was shot down on the second pass.

I also heard an apocryphal story about Zoltan:
After the war he was "debriefed" (not really an interrogation, since the war was over and he hadn't committed any war crimes, but not exactly a friendly chat, either) in order to learn his tactics. After a while, his interviewers realized that he believed that the NATO forces were so arrogant that they had deliberately tipped their hand to him: he couldn't understand any other plausible reason why they had been so bad at keeping secrets, especially in regards to the movements of their aircraft. When they tried to explain that they had thought they were practicing good security, he refused to believe them and accused them of lying--nobody could be THAT bad at keeping secrets!