jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
While not the perfect situation, I think companies like Greplin, that use multiple APIs across multiple third parties, are at least able to offer a service should one (or a few) of those APIs become inaccessible for any reason.

Much better than your business relying on a single third Party (as in the featured article), where should you cease to have access you are completely screwed.
In general I've found that Javascript suddenly becomes a very awesome and even understandable language once you start using it as functional.
As for the moment, the iPhone is still the main mobile gaming platform out there.

That said, Android market share might tip the scales at some point.
I'm getting increasingly skeptical about these conversion rates. Where's the science behind this? What is the quality of these tests? Where's the follow up to check if this resulted in increase in actual sales?
The leaders are the only part of the magazine I skip these days.
SAP will turn out to be equally bad. I don't think anyone in Google is deluded enough to think differently.

The main issue is probably just that SAP is not as litigious as Oracle.
i mean bcrypt so ppl can download the dataset and test locally
"For one, China has been able to deal with the pandemic much better than the average Western government"

Ah, a shift of goalposts from "many problems we aren't able to solve" to "better than the average". Meanwhile, Western and heavily Western-influenced countries like New Zealand, South Korea, and Japan have done much better than China regarding COVID, without all the authoritarianism.

"as well as the issue of staying away from major wars"

Give or take at least eleven million war deaths in WW2 and the Korean war. (And, pointedly, excluding the larger Chinese government democides of its own people.) If we take that to a round century, we get another three million dead or so. You really are cribbing from the same bizarre talking points as the other guy in this thread, aren't you?

"I don't think the Western massacre of around 150 million minorities for it's development"

Ah, but there's the problem. You're comparing centuries of history of the West--which would be comparable to the wars and imperial abuses inflicted on its neighbors by China over centuries of its history--to what China is doing right now with a system of concentration camps. That's not just tu quoque, it's downright sleazy, especially when you cite "millions in penal labour" as a defense of the PRC.

(It's also telling that you keep referring to "the West" when you clearly mean "the US".)
There is no separate Bixby button either on Samsung phones. It is a side button that locks unlocks the phone and activates Bixby when held. It is identical to how it works on iPhones.
Thanks. I already did so via the feedback form at the end.
What is the more high brow alternative?
> the city has failed to deliver on the necessary new housing to economically support the demand.

Less passively, current property owners have successfully lobbied the local government to increase the value of their properties.

This is especially potent in California where Prop 13 heavily favors long-time owners. If you stand to make a fortune when you retire and are going to pay very little until then, you’re probably going to be in frequent contact with your elected officials.
Very simple - the landlord may have a commercial mortgage that requires re-negotiation if leased under a certain price. Beyond that, avoiding rent control that might durably keep the price low and limit its rise.
Looks interesting. Demos at http://www.qlikview.com/us/explore/experience
Not advertising 3rd party inks: fair enough. Putting stern warnings about how they may not be as high quality as your own: getting dodgy. Installing DRM chips into your ink so that you can't use 3rd party supplies at all, nor refill your own 1st party inks and sue anyone who succesfully works around this under the DMCA: definitely a dick move.

Have you not noticed the widespread uproar about the price gouging on ink supplies? Your example of what's an appropriate business move is a textbook case illustrating the opposite.

The fact that you're more pro-Apple than Gruber on this should be a sign that you're out in the left-field. You'll need better arguments than inkjet manufactures do it too and the iPhone isn't public domain if you want to be convincing. Unless your argument is that not only can corporations do whatever they want but we have to like it too.
Blurry flat. The author has no idea what he's talking about.

The brain isn't integrating anything, all that happening is by moving you are telling the brain this part of the picture goes in front of this one.

A totally ordinary movie will do EXACTLY the same thing.
I don't think it's just you. I came off a java gig about couple years back - typical enterprise... stuff. Lots of legacy stuff from 10-15 years ago that few people knew anything about, mixed docs, some tests, but not useful to learn from. Even pre-covid, far too few people for the size of the codebase and where they were trying to go. I started in October, I was given a ticket in November that someone else - who had left months earlier - estimated at '40 hours' in May of that year. This was my first 'task' at the company, and ... it took way more than 40 hours. It took 40 calendar hours to get a meeting with the PM to actually walk me through how to set up the bug the ticket was about. Some bigwig threw up to my manager that I was 'over budget' and 'threatened their client relationship' because I was taking so long (on a ticket that had been sitting around 5 months before it was estimated, then another 6 months before someone started working on it). They routinely rejected requests for info on the issue, or access to servers/data/etc. So... I went part time then, and moved in to something else pretty quickly. I know not all Java shops are like that, but it was like living in an enterprise cliché.
Voting as a simulated war where the armies show up, get counted, but don't actually fight makes sense to me as an analogy, but doesn't this break down when you add the notion of universal suffrage to the equation? That is, if you have large fraction of the voting population who would be worse than useless in an actual battle, doesn't the output of the simulation start to drift from reality?
This, 100% this this this this this.
Exactly right. The working class has power because we are the ones who make society run. In the case of teachers, a strike creates a complete crisis in the city. For private sector workers, they can completely halt profit-making by their employer. Unfortunately we are largely unorganized and taking this kind of action requires a lot of organization. We also do not have a political party made up of workers and representing workers genuine interests. So I see how journalists with no real understanding of the labor movement can get confused.
Healthcare expenditures only makes up 6.3% of the average income of an American household. Education only makes up 1.8%.

Vehicles and apparel alone, without even breaking out any other tradable sector, make up the same percent of household expenditures as healthcare and education.

Housing makes up 25%. But the cost of housing, as measured by the median inflation-adjusted cost per square foot of a new house has actually fallen by 8% since 1992.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cesan.nr0.htm
[2] https://www.census.gov/construction/chars/
Some people may view it as a matter of right and wrong; that forcing a public accommodation onto a private citizen is unjust, even if they would benefit from it.

I say, forget what the previous owners thought. If the public needs a way to access some public land (the beach), build a public road. If the way is blocked by private land, that's what eminent domain is for. Seize some land and compensate Khosla. That's what would happen to regular people.
Right. I'm never going to get arrested or be on trial (statistically), so why defend the civil rights of those accused? I'm much more likely to be a victim, so why vote against my own interests?
This is a guess.

Python and artificial intelligence. Python is growing each year.

Functional languages might increase in popularity due to that will will have plenty of cores and they tend to make better use of many cores. In 10-20 years from now servers will have 256-1024 cores. Multi core programming will be very common.

Opensource since it will be cheaper to assemble software from open pieces than do everything from scratch.

I think that there will be a shift from making software from scratch to assembling pre-built parts. Ie market places might be integrated into IDEs. AI could match desired test functions with pre-built code/market places. I am thinking that some software is still created manually like cars was in the beginning, but in the car industry everything is mostly automated with prebuilt parts, software will make the same journey.

We will also have more power efficient chips that has replaced GPUs for deep learning. Coding these helper CPUs will most likely be required skill set.

Kubernetes and server less functions will be beyond the peak of its hype curve and at the plateau of productivity. Some found Kubernetes too complex to manage and and a new more distilled subset exists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle

D, Groovy, Rust and Nim is also popular.
This is kind of my point, too. Free market will incentivize getting money both ways so without regulation, this is what we get. And I hate it.
> Good soft skills will not compensate lack of smartness

Ish. So for instance you can't be a complete fool, but if you hire people that are smarter than you are, and get them to work together as a team then soft skills can compensate for lack of smartness.

Obviously, to do this you need to have a realistic view of your own limitations. Dunning-Kruger sufferers need not apply.
There is no indication we are actually doing this. The US Air Force is spending ever more per airframe. My point is that his reasoning is flawed as per my prior comment. Military equipment integrates technology and moves on, playing an eternal game of leapfrog with the opponents. Stealth isn't going anywhere.
Is there a ticket in the docker project? I would like to follow the progress on this one.

Everything I could find was this ticket:
https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/5305
One word: caching.

The more resources you can cache fully (like the template) the fewer round trips you need to make and/or the shorter those round trips become. It's always the latency that slows us down (by definition), which is why even modern processors have sophisticated cache layers and branch prediction. The further from the CPU the resource is, the slower the interaction will be.

This debate is interesting and a bit funny to me because it's very similar to the old dumb terminal vs personal computer debate. We've swung back to the mainframe, except now it's distributed and we call it the cloud.

My prediction (take it or leave it) is that we'll soon be swung all the way back to dynamic client-side sites. And then eventually back to the quantum cloud (heh, "Electron Cloud"). Or something new and more powerful than whatever sits in our pocket or on our desk.
Actually Elon might do that. He really launches stuff he believes in rather quickly.
Knowing what it's like to write an HTML rendering engine in Rust is especially useful since the purpose of this language in the first place is to write the next generation Mozilla engine.
Yeah, that will be too costly because it would have to make a server call pretty quickly to confirm that the code is complete. (The Roslyn desktop C# Interactive can do this because it's right on the desktop)

You can press Ctrl-Enter to send complete code, if you wish to send submissions faster.
I wonder if there'll be blowback against ms pao as a result of this verdict. She did much to harm successful womens' reputations in the tech industry with her behavior and innapropriate lawsuit.

They're already having to bury/censor threads concerning this case at reddit, her new company.
I am in, nice iniciative.
I've just released https://metacpan.org/pod/Task::BeLike::FIBO and I'm quite glad of my minimal style.
Perl is for servers like JavaScript for the web, it is obiquitous.
I like other languages too, but, Perl is really fun specially for the community, a great one!
http://e-maxx.ru/algo
I used to study competitive programming algorithms from there with Google translate

Edit: It seems somebody translated it to English https://cp-algorithms.com/
> There is a large body of knowledge that schools completely ignore

More along these lines: https://genius.com/Boyinaband-dont-stay-in-school-lyrics
I was gonna say you're nuts, but it seems there's a some kind of pattern, so sorry about that :D. These are the filenames for three different Calvin & Hobbes cartoons from Feb 8 to Feb 10. 24 hex similarity, so... you need to reverse 32 bits?

145afe502d7601393f0c005056a9545d.jpg

126fdbc02d7601393f0c005056a9545d.jpg

163e6fa02d7601393f0c005056a9545d.jpg

It could be some kind of combined hash for date + comic + service.
Oh, to clarify: I did not mean that it would lose you any energy, it is just something that is different.
Also lets not forget that this was specifically targeting the UK, not the rest of the world.
That's an interesting thought but I'm not sure if it can be applied to software. Part of what makes security hard seems that it only takes a single point of failure in a chain of dependencies to go bad. If there is a loophole on one server OS, then it's everywhere deeply ingrained in software. Even if you split the data, wouldn't the underlying platforms all have that flaw? Ironically the greatest advantage of software - easy distribution is also the cause of its greatest weakness.

What I think might be a good idea for big organizations with sensitive data is to download a portion of the web and run their own intranet and isolate the network. Maybe Google can license their search engine and deliver some of the indexed web on prem as a service. If there is nothing coming in and going out, that might be a good foundation for good defense.
That's quite irrelevant to the point. And in fact the UK are also doing very well with vaccine rollout (and the army is involved).

In Israel, where everyone has received a military training and is ready to organise, the IDF is of course very involved in the vaccine rollout though the Home Front Command. The supply of the vaccine is also controlled by the government, not private healthcare providers.

But my point was not even this. It was about how to consider the pandemic and its potential consequences as part of the internal government's discussions on how to respond and then the capacity to act quickly. I have no doubt that Israel has deemed Covid a very serious threat to national security and has thus mobilised accordingly using their experience of the de facto continuous state of war or at least high alert to organise and act quickly and effectively.
Are they not eligible for a .edu? That would open up many more possibilities.
>The complexity of developing hardware is driven by the number of discrete components used.

No its not. Most components are practically free #1, placing them is also very cheap #2. Hardware is not expensive because of _hardware_ costs. Its expensive because of engineering, prototyping, and latency of development.

/1 single/two digit cents. Except for specialized parts. For example hiend precision resistors, supercaps, weird connectors, non commodity microcontrollers, fpgas, fast ADCs, or precision opamps/voltage references. Nevertheless you will largely use jelly bean components with only few expensive parts on the board.

/2 again except for the very hiend small footprint ones. Super small components targeting lightweight products (cellphones, ultra light laptops) require professional millions of dollars machines and experience. Here is a story of one company almost tanking because CEO is a Jobs wannabe and decided to make his product "sexy" using same components and techniques as Macbooks:

http://www.theamphour.com/237-an-interview-with-joe-and-mark...
I've never understood how one could be so sure about this. It seems to me all we need to program a human in a box is:

1. An atomic-level scan of a single human being.

2. A computer with program powerful enough to simulate all the atoms in a single human being and their interactions.

If you can get this, you have a computer as smart as a human (modulo quantum effects, if those do indeed play any part in cognition.

This would be a horribly inefficient way of doing it but I'd be very surprised if it were not possible to get a computer this fast in real life, or to conduct an approximated atomic level scan of a human being. It may not happen soon, but it would be truly shocking to me if it doesn't happen eventually, provided we do not destroy ourselves before reaching that technological level.
> I don't believe humans aren't limited by the same issues that machines have. Halting problem comes to mind, nothing shows that humans aren't bound by it too.

Math has started, quite a while ago, to show that we are already probing some sort of inherent limits of knowledge for the human mind.

> theoretically machines can be as intelligent as human

Intelligence is the easy problem. It's just a function of complexity after all. It's consciousness / awareness that's harder, more important and more interesting.
> so it is not clear this bill is being passed in good faith

It's not. The problem was caused by the natural gas plants freezing. Full disclosure: I work in the utility industry and I'm very familiar with ERCOT. Here's the reality: any power bid into the market coming from an "unreliable" source such as wind and solar must be covered by power coming from a natural gas or coal powered plant. Those are ERCOT's rules. By "covered" I mean you must have allocated the reserve off of the capacity market. This bill is based on lies, misconceptions, and deceit.
Psychology isn't mathematically formulated either. Is it science? Perhaps an Austrian economist would argue that economics is more closely related to psychology than physics.

I have seen several mathematical "proofs" that not only god exists but that he is catholic. Is that science?

What does the artifact of being mathematically formulated have to do with something being science?
That I like?!?!? I hated the TARP bailout. The problems were caused by insanely lax government oversight, poor institutional risk assessment and a healthy dose of outright fraud. IMO people need to go to jail.

That said, the government had no real choice. I'm no financial system expert, but used to work in finance and even I can see that something was needed or else the system would collapse. Is it possible that you're letting your distaste of the financial system and players involved color your judgment?

The choice we faced was either cut off the leg or the patient dies when the gangrene spreads. No one likes cutting off the leg, but if the alternative is that you die, I think the choice is obvious.
From the article, it sounds like Kayak already uses ITA.

Everyone in this space is scared of Google though, if they manage to buy ITA.
The website earlier said "phrack will be at ruxcon", which is this weekend (starts the 20th). I imagine it will be released then.
"Software engineering, of course, presents itself as another worthy cause, but that is eyewash: if you carefully read its literature and analyse what its devotees actually do, you will discover that software engineering has accepted as its charter "How to program if you cannot."."

-- Edsger W. Dijkstra

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EW...
From my own experience in trying to set it up, the hardest part for me was setting it up to correctly generate all the static HTML pages and get them to correctly post to Perl CGI forms for things like comments that would then trigger a regeneration of the static HTML. It always struck me as an extremely fragile setup.

Oh, and the theming ecosystem was non-existent compared to Wordpress.
Actually, I don't think this has to do with dynamic vs static typing. It is more about strong vs weak typing, i.e. implicit type casting.

In many dynamically but strongly typed languages (like Ruby), you would still get a type mismatch when you try to add a string to a number at runtime. It's just that with static typing, you would have realized your error much earlier at compile time.
Its not going to look radically different from these screenshots: http://dev.chromium.org/user-experience

You can also download and install recent ISO of Chrome (not official, but its for people who doesn't want to build it themselves) http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/
I love this app!
I’ve read the lawsuit and it’s absolutely nuts. The student is being punished for asking reasonable questions that made the recipient “uncomfortable.” UVA needs to lose this case badly because their reaction has gone far beyond normal discourse and into suppression of reasonable speech. Just because you don’t like a question does not mean you can kill the messenger.
I totally agree. Id be great to have a peer review of his papers[1][2] and either confirm something interesting or just shut him up.

Seems like all he was initially doing in the 80’s was dig into the 2 out of 10 experiments from Landolt that failed to confirm a conservation of mass

[1] http://klaus-volkamer.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1994-Vol...

[2] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1....
Ouch. I like gingerbread men over plain gingerbread, but then I'm a designer, and I spend many of days polishing turds to make them saleable.
> lol you need more then a dictionary

Says the guy who confuses "then" with "than".
Most Chinese give a f. if something is illegal or not.
Look at he xray machines that you are supposed to put your luggage in before you enter the subway. Many Chinese just walk by and ignore the complaining security girls.

VPNs? Well, companies need internet and EVERY company in China used them. It is so stupid and insane at the same time.
If you base admission only on test scores, welcome to the world with 50% Asian, 50% White (with 40% of them Jewish), ~0% of black and ~0% latino student body at elite universities. I am not sure this is what you want when you talk about more fair system.
You can be placed in lock-up until you cough up the keys. Sucks to be you if you don't have them and you're not believable.
The machine (software program) lacks sufficient awareness beyond mechanical execution of the programmer's own will; therefore, it holds infinitesimal responsibility for its actions. In order to prevent further violations of law, it should be decommissioned. The programmer should be fined equivalent to the amount of illegal purchases the bot made in addition to $1K for each offending purchase.

As for other machines in the future (androids), it seems obvious enough to me that - insofar as they are intelligent and thus responsible (IQ testing is commonly used in US judicial system, with the cutoff being an IQ of 70 or above) - they can be tried like any human being.
No prob - I'm also a huge fan. Should've mentioned it is an interview with Brendan Hampton who is the one playing in the space.