jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It depends what you bought when. If you held both Apple and Microsoft from the beginning, you made far more money on Microsoft stock. If you bought in the bubble then you probably lost a bundle on whatever you bought, whether it was Microsoft stock or somebody else's.

If you bought Apple at $700, you're still in a big hole.

However, if you bought Apple stock instead of Apple computers, then over the years, you probably did pretty well ;-)
Not really. You're thinking of blueprints. They're quite different as there is no typing involved (beyond power user shortcuts)

http://i.imgur.com/T2p18c5.png
Does this not do what you want? https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl/blob/master/...
It was Bitcoin/ICOs/etc. that really felt like Bubble 1.0 to me with (literally) a Lyft driver I had thinking about getting into it.

And lots of people pretty sure the whole thing was a bubble but almost feeling compelled to jump in anyway.

I'm not saying there won't be a correction at some point but you're mostly not seeing the wild price increases in the absence of any fundamentals and, in fact, the market seems to have mostly said "meh" to the Blue Aprons, WeWorks, and Ubers of the world.
I have two high school age sons. They attend the same school. I bought graphing calculators for both. One told me Casio was ok. The other said the school requires TI. Go figure..

Software emulations on smart phone are not permitted due to school rules about mobile device use in class. Also they aren't allowed for tests due to the potential for cheating. Of course you can cheat by storing extra info in a graphing calculator but they don't seem to have thought of that..
Unless I'm missing some strange definition of local files then yes it does, it has both local js and css files and two of them were listed on the report for me.

http://imgur.com/HxOPr
I think this can actually be a good tactic. If someone thinks of something like games as entirely good or bad, they will never understand the argument. Many people love alcohol but know it’s bad for them. Many people love games but know that digital restrictions work against them. It’s probably the easiest example to onboard people to the FSF’s ideas because the restrictions on games are so apparent.

I use plenty of proprietary software, but I also know it’s bad for me. Like someone who enjoys alcohol, I think the benefits are worth the negative effects, but whenever I can get the same benefits from free software, I prefer them. I keep one computer around that runs only free software, and it’s great. It’s a decade old, but gains on desktop software performance in the last decade have been slow.

Even Stallman gives one reason to use proprietary software: to make a free version of it. I’ll offer a liberal interpretation of that rule: most people work in technology need to use a wide variety of proprietary software to understand trends and developments in software paradigms, even if they are not directly copying it while using it.

And my prediction: one day, all software will become free. All proprietary software is only temporarily restricted. Future computers will be able to reverse-engineer any existing program and create code that is functionally identical. That still makes it harmful, but that harm will eventually end. We just have the responsibility to make better laws in the future. Most important is preserving political freedom, and software freedom will eventually follow.
Almost certainly, imo.

Were I a VC, part of my model to identify industries ripe for tech disruption would be to find those that get legislative sweetheart deals that don't benefit the taxpayer.
Sounds like Comcast for sure. That’s their go to move to punish people for canceling.
The gyms could still offer online cancellation and continue to make bank from this behavior if they sold you a contract with a minimum term, and heavy cancellation fees if you try to cancel early.
In addition, gyms in particular often make you give them your bank account instead of a credit card.
That is not guaranteed to terminate your obligation to pay a vendor.
I don’t see the justification for the end user to do their programming in C++ versus Python+Numpy or Julia.

Python is already the de facto replacement for Matlab in academia and engineering.

And Julia is up and coming, offering many of the benefits of Python+Numpy but designed with performance in mind.

Why should I bother with compilers and make files and deal locating memory and all the rest of C++?

Because that’s what I’ll have to deal with as soon as I take one step outside of Castor’s (admittedly friendly syntax) and with to do other things in the same language.
Verse isn't entirely a new language, it's actually them acquiring the team behind SkookumScript, as well as some external hires such as Haskell/Microsoft Research's SPJ.

Excited to give it a try when it releases, will be interesting. The syntax previewed was... different.
Unfortunately your option 4 is the wishful thinking the starry-eyed idealists in our foreign service and media have been whispering among themselves for 20 years. The Chinese coms like the regime in the North very much, thank you. It keeps regional rivals Japan and South Korea off guard, and keeps the U.S. tied-up. The Kim dynasty could not even exist without the backing of the PRC. We let slip the window of opportunity to exert pressure to change the situation in the early 90s. Instead we sent nuclear technology, oil, and food, which Kim tells his people is tribute from the U.S.
If you'd like to start drinking tea, I heartily recommend the Adagio IngenuiTEA and sample kit to get started. It's dead simple to use and clean, and their teas are really reasonably priced: http://www.adagio.com/gifts/holiday_ingenuiTEA.html?SID=094a...

I'm a giant fan of their Spiced Green and Gunpowder green varieties.

Incidentally, if you're anywhere near Chicago they have a retail store in Naperville where they'll brew up any of their teas for you to try. It's fun.
This is quite interesting. I wonder how capable the platform will be. The article doesn't have many details, unfortunately.

Several years ago I was looking for a chip we could use in a set-top box design. We wanted low-power high-performance H.264 decoding. We talked to a very interesting company — Stretch Inc. (http://stretchinc.com/), they've been developing something similar for many years now. They basically have a CPU with a tightly-integrated FPGA within.

Problem is, the devil is in the details. While FPGAs can theoretically provide impressive acceleration, what ends up mattering is whether you can get them data to process fast enough, what the latencies are, what the interfaces are, and how much easily-accessible memory you have on the FPGA die. That's for the easier algorithms which are mostly CPU-bound.

For memory-bound algorithms what really matters is the DMA engine. That is something Intel never got right, which is why you see Texas Instruments DSPs in most embedded applications. If you want to have predictable high-throughput data processing, you need to be in control of your caches. That means a multichannel DMA engine that lets you schedule reads ahead of time and precisely control what is in your L1/L2 at any given time. The ubiquitous n-way set associative caches are great for general-purpose code, but end up being wildly unpredictable for DSP-type stuff.

Another factor with FPGAs is how quickly they can be reconfigured — how quickly can you switch the code inside? Can you use the FPGA for several parts of your data pipeline, or does the reconfiguration take so long that it becomes impractical to switch?

So, I will be very interested in what the details are — but for the moment color me skeptical. It took Stretch many years to get to a well-designed architecture and even that wasn't right for all purposes. And Intel isn't known for experience with DSPs, which really matters here.

Note I didn't even mention compiler support, OS support and how the FPGA is actually to be programmed. I consider those to be secondary to actual hardware performance.
I don't know. It seems easy to find counterexamples where the expiration of core patents was the catalyst for a boom of new low-end competitors, for example in 3D printers a couple of years ago.

Isn't that how the patent system is supposed to work?
That being said, some people appear to be better at recognising their (or other people's) past mistakes and learn from them than others. Some people just never learn.
> the web tier is rarely the bottleneck

Wikimedia had a lot of success migrating to HHVM. They reported a nice speedup when editing a wikipedia page.
Do we really know what the average programmer actually produces? We are all biased when deciding what is average as we use those around us to decide what is average - if we are surrounded by great programmers then our average is much higher than if we are surrounded by poor programmers.

The other complication is the intellectual energy hurdle that each problem brings. Some problems can only be solved by a small percentage of programmers, while others can be solved by anyone who can fog a mirror. How do we measure difference between programmers when the complexity of problems vary so much?
> very few politicians are willing to take the time to explain to other voters how immigration is in the collective interest of all.

Some immigration is in the collective interest but all isn't and suggesting otherwise is counterproductive.

What? You want to argue all? Okay - what's the collective benefit in importing folks convicted of genocide? There are lots of groups whose collective cost is higher than their collective benefit. (Yes, we grow some of the locally, but that's not a reason to increase the supply.)

The "let's import all the smart people" advocates have been played for saps by the open borders folk.
the gruber sounds like a teacher showing you what is _really_ good. i hope he gets paid for this.
When I posted this, the pricing & signup page did list the soft limits on the page. Looks like you've changed the page to try to de-emphasize that. I'm not going to give negative or positive feedback because I'm not in a position of knowledge to do that.
He didn't actually use the word "Engadget"
here is the source of that code: http://gist.github.com/432615
Are you aware of the fact that if we had 1992's productivity, there would be full employment in the US right now? You know when your boss lays off 1/3 the team, then expects you to do the same work: That's productivity!

Productivity is not god. Productivity does not trump the health of the people who work there. Programming jobs currently do horrible things to the health of IT's practitioners, especially ones with stupidly long hours, including game programming.

Saner hours would employ more people (or the games would do less). No one can say "games are essential enough to damage people's health over" but guess what: their development largely damages their health of their programmers.
I am surprised nobody mentioned the disappearance of usable LCD panels from the laptop market. As far as I know there aren't any true 16 million color IPS models out there and nobody sells normal aspect ratio laptops either: they're all chopped off at the top, hence only 900 vertical pixels instead of 1024, including all Macbooks.

Yesterday I bumped into a person in the office with an oldie 15" IBM Thinkpad with 1440x1024 resolution true-color IPS panel with 174/174 degree viewing angle: it was gorgeous. That's the machine I want. And IBM used to market them simply too: TXY where X and Y were used to represent panel size and the generation.

My $900 TV beats the hell out of my laptops as far as picture quality is concerned (I own a matte screen MBP and a latest Thinkpad). And that's just a TV! When I get to work and stare at a proper IPS-equipped Dell I wonder if I ever see a picture that good on any laptop again.

I also don't get those "98% color gamut" 6-bit laptop panel ads: they're using 18 bits per pixel, who are they kidding?
I find his anecdotes interesting, because I treat them as such. I think the conclusion and original thought that Gladwell wraps around these anecdotes and stories is often off-base or outright wrong.

If you are not familiar with it, here is the original critical review of Gladwell from the NYTimes that caused an ongoing stir (Gladwell responded on his blog):

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/review/Pinker-t.html...
I could jog on my way home, but since I sweat a lot, running to work is probably not a good idea. I've thought about biking, but it'd be a hassle because of the narrow staircases in my building. The subway is just slightly faster than walking (when it's on time anyways)

In any case, I do ~6 hrs of martial arts per week, and I find that walking is a nice low-impact type of activity to complement it.
If you must do windows, do Sony Vaio + Windows 7 ... Might have to de-crapify depending on how you buy, but when done you'll have powerful, stylish machine that pretty much "just works".
to my mind, it's less about the language and much more about the server architecture. Squid caching proxies, memcache, which db to use (mySQL, noSQL etc), etc. The actual dev framework is just a matter of taste and experience. It's the server architecture that's going to be responsible for performance/uptime issues.
I always get a kick out of how Linus talks to people. It's so direct and he never coats his arguments to make them easier to swallow. You could learn a lot about not bullshitting from that guy.
Nice! I was thinking an HN with a chatroom attached to each story instead of a comments page would be a lot of fun.
Hi Colin,

I found two bugs.

tar/multitape/multitape_internal.h:124: * missing files. Return 0 on success, 1 if the metadata file does not

tar/multitape/multitape_metadata.c:406: * missing files. Return 0 on success, 1 if the metadata file does not

Throughout the rest of your source code, you adhere to the standard of French spacing, two spaces after a period. In these instances you deviate.
Programming by coincidence as the PragProg says (someone has already posted the link).It's extremely common here in most Indian companies, especially with freshers.
Riddle me this: what value does the power series Σn=0∞xn/n! have, in terms of x? Of course, the answer is ex

From my (fuzzy) math memories, I thought that:

exp(x)= 1 + (x^1/1!) + (x^2/2!) + ... + (x^n/n!) + o(x^n) _near_ x=0
Forgive me if I'm about to mis-characterize you, but it sounds to me a lot like you've seen one question and decided on that basis that the person in question must be racist. Then it looks like you've cherry-picked what he said in explanation to confirm your own beliefs.

It looks to me like you are more guilty of the charge you are levelling than is the target of your accusations.

I might be wrong, but I'd appreciate a clarification.
Are people doing this just for fun or are there advantages in switching to Spidermonkey?
If you make statements about the "vast majority" and "most" situations, I expect more than anecdotes.

All you're doing is exhibiting confirmation bias. You're presenting an argument based on biased assimilation of evidence -- accepting only the evidence which supports your positive opinion of yourself and your prior understanding of racism.

You just dislike some claims of racism, and you've decided to generalize from there, apparently making no allowance for the possibility that you could be wrong. This isn't some thoughtful or carefully measure approach you're advocating here, it's an emotional reaction.
Try replacing "easy" with "easier" and it might make more sense.
I have absolutely zero confidence that a browser based environment can run >90 FPS with very low latency and zero dropped frames. I'd say I'd love to be proven wrong but I'm not sure I care. Why exactly should I prefer a 3d VR environment running in a browser rather than natively?
I was surprised, but the original poster followed up to say that that person has left the company. Would be helpful if people can note when the bad experiences happened.

I got some blunt answers (reinforcing what was in the culture deck), which felt different than the happy-talk you can get with other companies, but I appreciated the honesty. I didn't get anything tactless.
We can have good, rigorous semantics and simple syntax in the same language. Python is, indeed, a good example. Ruby as well. I would even start to say Scheme is a very rigorous language that is quite easy to learn--if you first haven't been tainted by curly-bracket languages and second lived in a world in which there were a Scheme implementation with as many and as complete of a selection of libraries as Python.

A flawed, quirky language is a problem when learning, because it increases the number of things that have to be learned.

But yes, your other points are correct. Tooling is far more important.
There’s a kind of person who just likes having power over others
Anyone else here from the Knockoff Prusa channel?
This is wrong, even deceitful, for a couple reasons:
1) No country (officially, or afaik in reality) has a bio weapons lab, and certainly not "all over the world". Nobody (well, nobody official) ever said the Wuhan virus lab was a bioweapon lab; it's a virology lab.

2) The Wuhan virus lab has been experimenting with corona viruses for a long time, including gain of function, and it had a history of problems.

3) There's no indication--as in zero--that any other country had covid-19 cases before China. And in this case, lack of evidence IS evidence for lack, because case records are open (except in China, it seems).

Now if you want to debate this point further, I suggest that you establish with us that you are not a CCP hack. So repeat after me: Premier Xi looks like Winnie the Pooh.
"The trouble with the NYT piece is not that it makes any false statements, but just that it constantly insinuates nefarious beliefs and motives, via strategic word choices and omission of relevant facts that change the emotional coloration of the facts that it does present."

My very limited personal interaction with the press boiled down to this and it leaves a bad taste in your mouth, kind of a deep rooted cynicism.

Growing up in this world, we tend to accept what's in print as 'truthy' at least, it's an incredible form of power. Their job is to keep an eye on more institutional power, so it's kind of a paradox we are stuck in.
Tinnitus sounds different to other people? Or I wonder if it is a similar sound but difficult to describe in a unison way. Given the source of what causes the tinnitus, is it expected people hear high pitched sound?
Why the OS doesn't allow you to select some text and perform system-wide actions on it is a mystery. Calculate, Upper/Lower/Sentence case, Search, Dictionary, etc etc
Since quitting caffeine if I have a cup of coffee I have an incredibly hard time falling asleep.
This feels related to a recent Glenn Greenwald post: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-journalistic-tattletale...
I especially liked how he would give examples of similar techniques being used outside of chipmusic where similar constraints would come up, such as the bass player adding percussive slaps to the gaps in his melody.
For me the feature that makes Rust stand out is memory safety without garbage collection. It's got all the goodness you'd expect from a modern programming language while giving me basically all the flexibility I could get from writing C or C++. That's a very strong differencing trait, at least for me.

I've never used Nim and I should probably give it a try but it seems that the "garbage collected, parallel oriented" niche is somewhat more cluttered with the likes of Go, the various languages built on top of .Net or the JVM, the lisps, the haskells... Not all target exactly the same use cases but there's a lot of overlap here and it's harder to stand out.
It’s easy, IMHO, to mistake Zig as a GC’ed language or more broadly as a memory safe systems language. It’s neither but it is a nicer C.
I'm not sure where you came from, but the US system offers more or less the same deductions as other systems. On $60K, the tax rate in Canada for example would be about 15-17%, before credits.

Add your health care costs to that 12% and I think you'll find Canada has the cheaper rate, and you still get to take advantage of many (not all) of the same credits a typical American can.
I'm running ubuntu on it :)
Not true. Most comments were positive, and even the ones that showed reservations, hardly "hated".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
The (binary) lambda calculus interpreter at http://www.ioccc.org/2012/tromp/tromp.c, documented in http://www.ioccc.org/2012/tromp/hint.html
is as tiny (and incomprehensible) as it gets,
but does all of input, recursive descent parsing, translation to bytecode, lazy evaluation (call-by-need to be precise), garbage collection, and output.
Sorry you didn't like the article :) We posted another one this past weekend called "How Tailscale works" that this crowd seems to enjoy more, at least based on upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22644357

And yes, we do think of ourselves as a "modern Hamachi." Hamachi was great! (I'm from Tailscale)
At the current rate of melt, how long is it until Greenland is out of ice and we don't have to worry about it contributing 1.1mm of sea level rise a month?
I think if there was proper planning in place, you could have money sent out to people in a day, especially the demographic that would most likely be investing the extra cash. People already electronically pay their tax returns. Payments are taken up by the next day if you so specify; there is no reason to believe the same thing can't be done in the reverse direction. You don't need to physically cut checks for everyone, only those who specify or can't be reached with other means. Betting against investors to be able to quickly find investments is almost like betting against capitalism itself. If you're slow to invest, then you'll lose out on making money. Additionally most people while thinking of something more specific to invest in will probably be depositing this money into a generic savings accounts at first: while this happens, banks will be able to reallocate this capital to fit their needs.

If I knew that the policy was going to be that every time there is a liquidity crisis people will be getting checks (or electronic payments), then I wouldn't be scared of any runs in the same way. Again, is the argument that the Fed is better than private households in being a distressed investor?

Helicopter money can be taxed back. I know that is unlikely but so is the probability that the Fed's balance sheet going to zero: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL.
Yes, but there's no provision in the browser to do these kinds of integrity checks. If the browser isn't verifying it there's no point in adding any of this info, because it can be substituted covertly. In principle such 'version-pinning' could be added to the browser, but no-one has done so yet.
He didn't forget perfectly forwarding references.
You know your comment would've been very reasonable if you stopped after the first sentence, omitting the personal attack.

Ending with an incendiary sentence while simultaneously claiming to be above internet flame wars is also likely not what you intended.
That would be about as effective as banning money.
I remember the attacks on their electric power systems towards the end was also effective. Was the Serbian population ready to spend months or years without electricity?
Agreed, but $5 million a day is a lot for you and your family to take a vacation. It is NOTHING when the POTUS is on an international trip. Anyone who thinks that is a big number relative to what it's for is completely out of touch with reality, and you'll have a hard time arguing about ANYTHING with them when they don't even have a basic understanding of the way the world works.
In capitalist societies this is less of a problem. Wealthy families generally dissipate their wealth in a few generations, not through taxes or charity, but through consumption, error and incompetence.

Trust babies destroy family fortunes more efficiently than estate taxes.