jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Finland & Sweden surprised me in the previous question (country). Both have more than France, Spain, Brazil or Poland.

Argentina also stands out.
"This discovery is being released into the public domain without patent protection in order to encourage additional research. "

Think of the thousands (millions?) of useless patents that are created for no other purpose than to extract monetary gain, at the cost of slowing down economic and technological growth, and read through the details of this detailed process that has been released for all to improve on.
sri was the founder of the Catalyst project, but was later asked to step down from that role by the other Catalyst core developers based on non-resolvable differences of opinion on how the project should develop.
Do you think pro-life atheists like Nat Hentoff are theocrats?
SpaceX retains ownership of the rockets, they sell flights on the rockets rather than the rockets themselves. My understanding is that this is a recent development in the industry. For example, the Shuttles were built by Rockwell but, as I understand it, owned by NASA.
Some of those share/tweet/like buttons can track you without no interaction, just by loading on the page. Removing them might be intentional for this reason.
To get a sense of available band-width, old-style TV was 512 x 480 interlaced, so 30 full frames per second, three colours, with about 6 bit resolution per colour, or about 0.5 MB/s. Wikipedia is about 23 GB (text only, including markup). So about 12 hours to transmit the whole thing. Much larger with images, of course.

[I did the calculation this way because back in about 1990 I had the brilliant idea of a satellite that broadcast the sum total of human knowledge to everyone on Earth, and figured out that a single TV channel could basically handle it on a 24 hour cycle, based on what we knew then. Which just goes to show how stupid brilliant ideas can look a short time later...]
I don't understand how a restaurant employer-employee relationship differs from any other job. From your stand point, what's stopping other industries (for argument sake, airlines telling air hostess) to tell their employees to ask for tips for good service?

If restaurants paid a decent salary to their employees, and made them less dependable on tips, employees would feel safer, face less anxiety ("hey, I can make a good living without begging for money to clients!"), and would allow them to focus on their job.
Can't you just implement that in javascript, then load the entire webpage that way?
Do notice that a MeFite correctly called him on this way upthread. I don't think the mods got involved until Adams outed himself.
http://www.metafilter.com/102472/How-to-Get-a-Real-Education...
I appreciate your feedback. I've been on gmail since 2006 or so with lots of labels, but only ever about 500-1000 messages at any given time.

I was trying various searches today, with the from:, to: operators, as well various keywords and the longest lag I had was a little over 2 seconds. I've heard people complain about it, but never to the tune of 20 seconds. I genuinely thought it was exaggerated for effect in the FA.
After looking into it more, it seems that a lot of the initial complaints about difficulty of repair were due to the lack of spare parts. It seems that Mazda had some manufacturing difficulties with the early versions of the RX7 engines and couldn't manage to meet demand for both whole engines and spare parts.
They do. Most decent password-dictionaries I'm aware of are based off actual password dumps from hacked sites, so they're loaded with low-mental-entropy stuff like that.

They're "dictionary" attacks because they work from a pre-selected set of values, not because they read from Merriam-Webster, cromulent though it may be.
An interesting article about Sunfirst Bank, and a previous brush with money-laundering problems:

http://blogs.reuters.com/financial-regulatory-forum/2011/01/...
What do we have to do to get it? I definitely want to try and get it if possible.

Thanks!

Shane
Someone actually read the privacy policy?
Bntr looks to do to Tumblr what Twitter did to Facebook and OKCupid did to Craigslist: Build a service around a feature of a larger platform that does lots of stuff.
I too dislike how AT&T foisted these prices on us - but I disagree with the author here.

He seems to be advocating that there's something wrong with not consuming 1.5-2GB a month. He's a heavy user - cool, but I see no reason for the majority of the world to be just like him.

> "Why are so many people using so little bandwidth? Or, put another way, you should be ashamed of yourself if you sell a device like the iPhone and then encourage people use it so lightly that they only consume a couple hundred megs of data a month."

Honestly, I don't think anyone has been encouraging people to use less bandwidth. For most users a few hundred megs a month is plenty, and there's nothing wrong with that. Unlike us geeks they're not constantly chained to their gizmotrons, and do not live like cybernetic organisms. That's perfect okay, and in fact I'm jealous of that lifestyle sometimes.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's very short-sighted to cap bandwidth - we may very well be killing the next world-changing app in the crib. The world will find use for all of this bandwidth if we let them, but at this point in time I don't think one can look at the bandwidth usage numbers and proclaim that people aren't using their phones enough.

At what point does the phone stop working for us, and instead we for them?
Google uses only four languages in their codebase: C++, Java, Python and Javascript. Yegge has covered this pretty extensively in the past. Go Google him.
I wouldn't. I'd just take all of the open source projects like notepad++ and host them outside the US giving non-US hosting companies business, and leave all of the text editors using super-secret hi-tech military encryption on US hosting servers.
Could you talk about some of the limitations that led you away from AppEngine?
I think you are comparing things which are not the same.

Ads on websites vs. ads in apps, iOS vs. Windows, Safari vs. Internet Explorer, Mobile Safari vs. Desktop Safari. All those kinds of details regulatory bodies tend to care about.

To give you just one example, Safari (the non-mobile variant, the one with the Reader feature) has at the moment a market share of around five percent, Internet Explorer has twelve times that.

Details like that matter in antitrust cases. Just because something looks superficially similar doesn’t mean it’s actually the same.
If I had to guess, I'd say that they almost automatically take things down if they get a takedown request, which is unfortunately the policy of many hosting companies like YouTube, etc. After they reviewed the problem, they probably saw how absurd it was (especially considering they like the app themselves and featured it at WWDC) and put the app back up.
That was great, the only thing missing was why. I am sure there are some interesting applications of the principles they explored and I would have loved to have heard a few at the end. Feel free to fill me in.
I feel like many of the baby boomers with their LP's but . . . They'll have to pry dead tree books out of my cold dead hands.
One would presume that 1x is the baseline for 'competence', which is fine, but being able to do something competently vs. making it worse is really an infinite difference.
By chance, I had a sequence of professors that didn't care about category at all. As consequence, I went through the entirety of my Applied Mathematics Msc without ever, not even once using the bits of category theory I learned as undergrad.

And I'm pretty sure that if I cherry-picked my credits right, the same would have happened in the Phd.
You don't think that coding a prototype in a few hours before talking to people would let them better answer your questions and help reduce that time to a few days instead of weeks? Coding is a very versatile tool and can be used to greatly improve communication.
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

-George Orwell, Animal Farm
No, that wouldn't work too well. It's for YouTubers who stream their desktop screens and I need to extract some information to automatically process it. The desktop streams always look very similar so I don't need advanced AI/neural nets to extract that.
Looking at their illustrations reminds me of Tetris. I guess it is just like in Tetris - we need the right mix of vertical, horizontal, and T shaped pieces or we are screwed!
At least at learning the lesson "did my teacher have anything at all to do with this? If they did, I'm not getting anywhere near it because that person is a fucking psycho."
Clean and beautiful code has nothing to do with it being easy to understand or maintain. Those things are the result of proper abstractions, tests, documentation, etc. No language is going to teach amateurs that.
Thanks. Yeah, I just saw the computer history interview with him for the book. I gotta check this out.
Learning Perl is excellent for a beginner
> gurus

It doesn't take a guru. Only anyone who actually cares about readability or learned from recent books like Ovid's Beginning Perl or chromatic's Modern Perl.

The main problem Perl has is not anything to do with its language. It's all the old books from the 90s (that some diehard still recommend), but which teach outright shit when it comes to readable or reliable code.
Running a shell in a GUI doesn't make it lose its "I am a CLI" property. That is a CLI.
This is already on the front page.
One of my favorite pieces of research in this space is DeMarco & Lister's "Programmer Performance and the Effects of the Workplace." Basically (go read it! it's short!), they show that the difference between private offices and tiny cube/open floor plans is strongly correlated with being in the top 25% vs. the bottom 25% of developers, which is a difference of around 2.6x.

Not 10x, but also non-trivial for those of us who don't have Facebook-like dollars to throw at filling desks in an ever-larger open floor plans.
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So you're mailing a bunch of flyers to people you know don't recycle? The project is cool but that struck me as particularly ironic, assuming your intention is to help minimize waste.
As a software developer who has the ability to create things people want, that alone makes me happier than some of my non-programmer friends in their jobs.

> Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job. Those who stare at the TV for hours might as well be sitting on a stone under a tree in a primeval village; indeed, that might offer more interest and variety. I can't remember the last time I felt bored. I can't eat, drink or talk, and yet I have so many other resources to keep myself entertained. I think I must be a case study.
Is that much different in the end from Tiktok or Instagram?
> privately operated for-profit organisations with so much power and influence

They are simply a middle man between foreign agencies and domestic users. Foreign countries really do exploit all those platforms for their own interests.
What hassle would that be? They could send you SMS or call you.

Would they really find that too difficult? The mind boggles.
People use whatsapp groups a lot. Also sharing images doesn't work well with SMS.
Where I live, everything is based around WhatsApp. If you want to receive a package from Amazon/FedEx/DHL/UPS, etc. The shipment will only be delivered to the location you share with the courier on WhatsApp, if you're not on WhatsApp you can't even receive packages. There are so many other things like this that are happening only on WhatsApp, and if you're not on it you won't even be able to use basic services.
I would say religious fundamentalism is an "original sin" in that once somebody decides that one book is infallable (e.g. the bible) there is nothing that stops somebody else from deciding some other book is infallable. (e.g. Dianetics)
Lmao, you're not wrong. I'm sure some people would be content with an 80's micro computer if all they do is word processing and printing, for example.
At that point, I believe the strategy for Whatsapp was never to snoop into private conversations with other people, but to get all the transactions and interactions made with businesses.
Trump has been a gift for Twitter as far as platform usage goes. In a sense, banning him is biting that hand that feeds it. They can say that they're really upset with Trump, but as a for-profit company, the sad reality is that they need people like him.
Well, getting a sense of accomplishment tends to make me happy, or at least happier.

If I'm down, and motivation is lacking, but can force myself to do something, it usually bootstraps into getting more things down and feeling better. So, yes, I can get a sense of accomplishment when I'm not happy, if I can make the effort to get moving.
A diploma/degree is just a piece of paper. It's what went into it that will give it meaning. Make sure your diploma is meaningful.
It sure is a lot of money for their spin machines. Making it even easier to drown out the independents who, if I understood it when I looked into it earlier, aren't getting a cent [in Australia at least].

I hope I am wrong about that last part at least.
They are technical indicators: Simple moving average, Relative strength index, Moving Average Convergence-Divergence, Average Directional Index, Bollinger Bands.

You can google each one, there is usually a decent explanatory article
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If I threaten to kick you off a committee and you change your vote as a consequence I just forced you to vote a certain way.
It usually takes a while for an acquisition to be labeled a success, right?
Because no sane grid operator would allow that without permitting and appropriate controls. There are constraints to what can be pushed out in a residential area. Plus the pollution would be horrific at scale.

Also, these types of generators are not the best for sustained use.
I have to dig up the TNG Technical Manual, that was amazing.
Oshkosh is/has a large civilian truck frame and chassis manufacturer.
As someone who have assisted with acquisitions, the tech part is often the most straight forward (unless you're dealing with multi-cloud solutions). The most challenging part is the re-alignment the culture and value of the acquired firm.

There's a delicate art in comforting the new members of the family that we're all in this together while systemically replacing their middle management with more suitable candidates.
My suggestions are:
For visual astronomy on a budget - a Dobsonian, at least 8 inch. (this is not really expensive)

For visual astronomy with tracking a good CAT for small field, planetary, or a good Newtonian or for more money a Refractor. Each type of telescope has its pros/cons.

Visually you won't see much color, maybe on planets or some stars. Normally you will see everything grey. Deep Space Objects like clusters, nebula, etc...look like blobs of smoke (well the ring nebula does look like a small ring and others are unique). The Orion Nebula in winter is incredible (but it is cold outside)

For astrophotography a really good mount (Expensive). Mount is the most important, then depending on what you want to do: for large objects/DLSR, for smaller dimmer objects, 70mm APO refractor plus dedicated CMOS imager plus star tracker (even a good mount has tracking errors).

Ultimately the issue with Astrophotography is that it is quite expensive and even after you have all of the dedicated hardware you need software and image processing/stacking to get any good images...after all Deep Space Objects are really faint.
This. There are groups like Rose City Antifa in Portland or EDM (Every Day March) in Seattle that regularly engage in widespread violence, disruption, and illegal behavior. They organize and advertise and evangelize their events on all the typical social media platforms. They haven’t been given even a warning, let alone a ban. And yes, people have died due to these groups’ actions.
His point about "simplicity may be a requirement of rapid and broad diffusion" goes a long way in explaining why the SW was so slow to take off. We are fortunate that search is encouraging many people to adopt some SW protocol (via json-ld or similar).

We are also fortunate that we can do real inference, entity detection & disambiguation these days. Perhaps one day we will have intelligent tools that all web publishers will have at their fingertips allowing them to press a button to confirm detected entities and relationships they present in their webpages (kind of like photos apps these days allow you to confirm known peoples faces). There will likely be an incentive for making their content easier to find. That would be awesome.

However, I do take his point that world views differ for a good reason. I hope we won't be constrained by some limited ontology that these tools might present.
I understand that the people involved with advocacy organizations like the FSF, ACLU, and NRA are going to be unusually passionate about the respective issues. But articles like this make me hesitant to support the organization.

Paraphrased: "This individual/company/group is the root of all evil and is against every thing this organization fights for. You should boycott everything they do and cover your personal space with warnings about them. Tell all your friends."

Rather than doing this, I wish advocacy organizations like the FSF would take (and project) a measured response. ("Facebook in useful to a huge number of people, but we are very concerned that they are using their market clout to seriously infringe on the privacy of their users. To improve, Facebook should...")
If FSF is right and Mark really "set a terrible precedent for our future", then something like that is exactly what makes a candidate for a "Time's Person of the Year". They basically admit that the choice was reasonable.

If we are talking about disliking something, what I dislike about FSF is their arrogance showed by criticizing various software creations, without being able to create worthwhile alternative.
Nothing is fun when it goes beyond a certain level. User support is interesting, but it gets a bit repetitive if you need to do it all day long. Scaling is really interesting, but getting no sleep because the database is on fire is not fun. Fixing bugs is not fun if they happen on other people's weird configurations that you can't reproduce. And raising capital... sure, it's glamorous, but in the end it's pretty tedious.

The amazing thing about a startup is that you can quickly translate your intuitions about a product you think that people want into an actual product. Making a good product and making people happy is what I care about. The other things are enablers.

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If nothing else the FSF is persistent. I think it's hard with social, social to be useful generally has to be all inclusive, so for a more complicated free version of social to take off everyone would have to be a lot more into programming and tech.

I think there will always be a small set of companies at the center of social, is Facebook a good gatekeeper? Questionable, we could have a lot worse though.
Seems like enforcement appears to be fair and the million-dollar fines that were supposed to bankrupt individuals & small businesses didn't actually happen.
Why do those two 5% have to be in the same class?
But its not the privacy itself that people care about.

The reason is people care is because this information can be used to harm them.

The reason I care about my credit card number being public is because it can be used to stole my money but If my credit card number can be public while still keeping my money belong to me then I would much prefer that.

The better way would be to make everything as public as much as possible then fixes the issue that arise due to that information being public.
I didn't see where jakub is living in Colombia, where did you find that?
Iterating through passwords is not slower. And in practice there's no need to iterate, you just download the leak and see phone numbers there.
Lotta high-income people in this thread bemoaning taxes and threatening to leave. Tiny violins will play your way out.
A billion dollars a mile is because corruption.
$100k is £72k, in the UK you'd be paying 30% (£22k). 36% if you're still paying off your student loan (which would be about 6 years to repay the fees and another 7 to repay the cost of living loans)

UK has nukes too
> contributing time and resources to awesome open source

do you or do you just give grumpy advice how others should spend their own time?
For how many hours billable? If you were comfortably billing 40 hours a week for 48 weeks a year that would amount to €134.400 / year. Assuming that Germany isn’t _that_ different from the Netherlands, good luck earning that while employed as an average sw dev. Insurance and retirement isn’t that expensive.
It was never a thing in India or China. That's about 40% of the world's population. Fair to say that it wasn't a massive thing outside America.

Compare the overseas gross of the recent Star Wars releases against a globally popular franchise like the MCU or Fast and the Furious. Despite the massive press and marketing push, Episode VIII was outgrossed by Fate of the Furious internationally by nearly $300M. Endgame outgrossed Episode VIII internationally by $1.2B.

If a crappy Vin Diesel starring franchise that's barely two decades old can outsell a cultural touchstone like Star Wars, it's not wrong to say that Star Wars isn't a big thing outside America
That truck you link looks horrible. I cannot fathom how some designer thought that looked good. It’s like they worked halfway on the design and then pushed straight to production.

Then again some people feel the same way about the Tesla truck. Personally I think the Cybertruck looks incredible.
The Chinese statement reads more like it is being renamed.
Your not Crazy... I would buy a Rivian over this every day
At my current job everybody in the engineering org hates this change. I wonder if we can convince the company to switch!
No they aren’t. Model 3 doesn’t score perfect in the all the IIHS injury categories which Mercedes, Lexus, and Volvo do for the vehicle class. It got the top pick but so did 15+ other models.
If my test were designed for failures, my test results expect it to fail, and it did, then I call it a success. Science is about testing what we think we know, measuring it and confirming it.

In a Chemistry Lab, I put two elements together to show off a little explosion to my students, if it did. It was a successful demonstration, if it didn't go according to plan, it was a failure. And we will be wondering why this didn't work.

The OP said it from his perspective of pathfinder. And I assume these results were expected. And if it didn't blew up and they did not understand why it didn't, it create more uncertainty and variables during real launch. And I am sure everyone would want to minimise of that happening.

I am not sure how hard this is to see thing from his perspective, I would agree if Elon calling it a success would be hyperbole, but the OP stated he is a pathfinder, and finding out failure is exactly his job.
The idea that this kind of equality is going to be a thing in China is putting the cart about 200 miles ahead of the horse.
Is it legal to put it on your neighbor's car?

After all, you're not spying on him.