jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The US has a different problem - people showing up sick (or symptomless but infected) at work because they cannot afford to stay home or lose their job.

Germany... let's just say we had to enact strict lockdowns due to utter idiots going to "corona parties" and God I wish I were joking here.
From the friendly article FAQ:

Q: Different countries are testing at different rates. How can you compare the data?

So long as the fraction of actual cases being detected does not change, this does not affect any inference we can make about the growth rate. 35% growth is still 35% growth, whether we measure 100% of the cases or 50%.
Patents are not required to cover implementation details, and in fact, it is not even required to lay out any detail of the mechanism. As an extreme example of this physicist Leo Szilard was granted a patent on nuclear chain reaction in 1936, three years before it was discovered scientifically. It was sufficient for the British patent office that if such a mechanism existed, it could release large amounts of energy.

This may be an extreme example, but it illustrates that implementation details is not a requirement for a patent. This is also the case for a lot of software patents. They are broad enough to cover nearly anything, but not detailed enough to be useful as a description to build useful technology.
You can sort of do this with type (and this probably makes python purists really angry, but I've done similar once or twice):

def make_window(x1, x2):
lo, hi = sorted( (x1, x2) )
window = type('Window', (object,), {
'__call__' : lambda _, x: lo <= x <= hi,
'__repr__' : lambda _: '<%s..%s>' % (lo, hi)
})
return window()

That's actually making a new class called 'Window', inheriting from object, with a call and a repr special method. I still haven't personally decided whether it's gross or not, but I am pretty sure it's not pythonic.
That line means that in some other method than init you will likely need to write into a line that refers to self attributes > 4 times and you will have the same issue but this time it's not avoidable.
Once the previous editor left, Wired dramatically declined. It's unfortunate... I used to look forward to getting it, now I doubt that I will continue to pay any mind to Wired at all.
Video is the best way of showing how strange these can appear -

https://i.imgur.com/g5Ot0rH.gif

Source - https://www.thingiverse.com/Matsemann/collections/matsemanns...
loving the very ugly, but so different design. But are those LED headligths legal?
Mullvad claims to have solved it for their service:

https://mullvad.net/en/help/why-wireguard/
That's not how public/private encryption works, which is what comes to mind when you say keys. Not that I have any clue how this actually works!
Never going to pass, those sharp edges and corners would give negative EuroNCAP ratings.
Trucla was better.
TPU v3 is rated 420 teraflops, while V100 GPU is rated 125 teraflops.
Possibly, but we can't do that either. What we need is some balance of both worlds. OOH, we do actually need to be contactable. OTOH, being too contactable means spam. I doubt there's a perfect balance, but either extreme come with too many problems.

Email has decent spam filtering, and I think that kind of cat-mouse system will persist. That said, there's "room" for more whitelisting.
I haven't wiped down anything shelf-stable in the last year, but Fauci said early on he throws packages in the corner for 3 days before touching them. It costs little for me to follow that rule, so I just buy cereal when I still have at least 3 days worth.
I don't think this is necessarily true. Say you have 100 sensors sampling at 1kHz for a year, you'd have ~3 trillion rows in your database and plenty of potential for scaling issues at a very reasonable price.
The guy hired, Jakub Konka, is living in Warsaw. I'd be surprised if he didn't take a significant pay cut from his previous job at Microsoft.
btw : he has been featured on HN at least twice before

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19011880

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14610110
Insert MEME: Here we go again :D

On a serious note, this is funny to read after the initial reports that this had a small and contained impact. Let's hope no further cascading bankruptcies happen.
Having a spec isn't waterfall at all. A spec is just deciding on what to build before building, it answers the question of "what user visible features are required?" Agile calls specs Design Docs, and generates them from User Stories.
That's misinformed and presumptuous.

Study the working class movements from the mid 19th century to the 1970s. Look at their coalitions and demands.

Study the woke movement of the 2015-2021. One was pushing for collective unity and demanding concrete rights, including healthcare, working hour limits and unionization rights. The other wants to fire racists and change language. Which would you prefer if you were a corporate board member with the interests of your company at heart?

Which is more of a threat, a movement that demands corporate tax pay for a single payer healthcare model, or a movement which demands we make it easier to fire people accused of racism?
My girlfriend's mother works at Rockefeller in NYC and they told all essential employees to be ready to move on campus, indefinitely .

Update: typo
When an egg and sperm fuse, the resulting cell contains more than just the genotype for the new organism. It has all of its inter-cellular contents and organization. I think a more reasonalbe usage would be that nature is this cell and nurture would be what influences this cell and decendents throughout its lifetime.
Google doesn't get caught as often?
I prefer text and voice over video, but for some situations video can be more time efficient. Several people can communicate aspects of their thoughts and opinions with facial expressiond (or head movements) simultaneous with one person talking, without interrupting.
This is "fake news" (I hate this term but it seems very relevant in this case).

As far as I understand Cambridge Analytica used the publicly-available Facebook APIs to create a stupid web app (a personality test or similar) which asked users to log in and hand over a lot of data (both about them and about their friends).

While their end-goal was against Facebook's ToS, I don't think there's anything they could've done about it ahead of time as 1) removing those APIs would hurt legitimate usage (let's say for example I am building an alternative client or similar - I want to be able to see my friends' data on there) and 2) it is still the user that is willingly giving out their and their friends' data when logging into such an app (and Facebook makes it clear what data the third-party service will be able to access when you first log in).

In short it's idiots logging in and delegating their permission level (which allows them to see their friends' data) to a malicious third-party. Facebook isn't really to blame there. It's no different from someone telling me a secret and then I go around and tell it to everyone else.
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Expertise in implementing complex UI, animations, video, and social interaction
10 years of experience as a full-stack JavaScript developer building web and native applications.
or a photo collage of your family photos
I agree, but at the same time, 2008 was not as bad as 1929 to begin with, though.
Is that actually possible? I don't know about other sports or the US, but in Germany or England a football club's season ticket will be some kind of plastic card with your name on it.

They may not necessarily check ID before a match, but you'd still need to trust a stranger with it. However, I know Arsenal runs a ticket exchange to let season ticket holders sell off individual matches (at a fixed price).
We are so busy being busy that we don't have time for interesting things!
I will add my anecdote to the mix. I previously consumed caffeine in the form of soda for many, many years. I quit soda cold turkey two months ago after a mild but particularly meaningful magic mushroom experience, and coupled with the regular mushroom experiences my focus control has been better than ever (but still extremely difficult, just enough less so that I can tell the difference).
> My salary isn't bonkers

> For me, often it's 2 hours on a Monday morning the first day of the sprint, then just being present on Slack for the rest of the two week sprint

You may not think so, but... Your salary is bonkers.
Be a QA engineer! Such a waste of time hehe (in my experience)
These things are a virtuous circle. The more brilliant you are, the more brilliant people want to hang around, and the more brilliant you become. And loop.
I'm having trouble parsing this. I find confusing as it is thoroughly interesting. Is it the outcome of Soviet culture pre-communist rule or a result of the communist ideology?

Say you had 4 decade veterans/experts in a particular field, a couple die from cholera or TB or something. How is that doctrine a net positive for the state?
If you're fairly good at coding interviews, last I checked interviewing.io lets you skip the line to onsite at big names like Uber and Lyft.
Any ideas on incorporating this into IDEA workflow? I feel like, IntelliJ has all the features already minus traversing the graph structure of a code.
With a finite alphabet (which is necessarily the case in complexity theory) the contents of nodes cannot by perfectly disjoint.
Christian from Realm here. Actually there is no technical limitation that prevents Realm running on normal java. Our current focus is just on making the best possible mobile developer experience which means that the current API is tightly coupled to the Android API. We do have plans for a pure Java API down the line though.
It's completely uninteresting because it's an end-run around the FDA's regulations on caffeine. Let's just brainstorm all the ways to ingest caffeine, eliminate the ones the FDA has explicit regulatory power over, then target what remains. Unsurprisingly, the FDA will start to take notice if you're obviously trying to sidestep them, and then they'll legislate you out of existence.

Frankly this is really disappointing to me, it seems like Thiel is supporting people who support his libertarian views more than actual visionaries. There are lots of people who would be well served by this program, and this guy doesn't really fit the bill in my opinion. It may as well be the 'Peter Thiel drop out of school to create trouble for regulatory agencies I don't agree with' scholarship.
They actually do in Sweden and some also include all sorts of things such as social security numbers, criminal sentences etc. Very few things in Sweden that are not public data.
What I dislike: my mouse needs a surface (i.e., table) under it.

I just wanna lay back on my chair, move my fingers/wrist + multitouch to control the cursor on the screen.
Have you considered gitea + drone?
No one said it had to be by force.
Thanks! I toyed with the idea since 2014, after I was stuck managing a Django codebase with a gnarly middleware for a multi-tenanted website that precluded an easy upgrade.

I bookmarked this thread in 2019 where tptacek provided the impetus for the project with a one-liner suggestion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20378409 And I've just noticed you replied then too!

I also assumed someone would get around to it. It took a while to get to a place I could start and then way longer to develop than I assumed. (Not just the backports but the tooling, testing infra, and website)

That's good to hear on pricing since it reflects my experience and is my thinking behind the initial price points.
They can just do KYC for people who withdraw money from the platform.
Now imagine that the org has fought corporate-enforced "norms" for decades and suddenly you've been ousted because of corporate-enforced norms. That's edging closer to what happened to RMS.
https://archive.is/xXBOx
The bulk of the right wing doesn't, either. Your bubble is showing. If the right wing weren't so frequently excised from the public sphere, it might be easier for you to see the saner parts of it — but the private censorship we've been seeing cuts with a blunt scalpel. I think it's better to expose the worst of it to public contempt, rather than isolate them and let them fester together.
The author seems to struggle with the concepts.

Confusing storage bit rot with memory corruption.

It gets worse from there....

Author seems unaware all Intel processors at the hardware level support ECC(yet is soft disabled), it's just not enabled for consumer products at the driver or firmware level. Intel used to sell people people "hardware upgrades", which were really software upgrades that merely enabled the functionality of the existing hardware, Hyper threading on lower end i3 and i5 processors. Also enablement of on die cache that was fully functional but just disabled by deliberate out of box configuration.

Author also then glosses over the really sad part that ECC demands a premium not due to better hardware, but because it's simply more stable. It's mediocre RAM with basically just a configuration file that says do ECC(it's otherwise basically identical). It's really nothing that special besides running additional traces in the motherboard. That's where Intel saved "big money" by not supporting ECC on consumer chipsets. Motherboard design is somewhat simplified by a very small margin.

This isn't price targeting as much as it is market segmentation and product differentiation and just being cheap (profit driven).

Server operators would still use server grade equipment for numerous other features(like multi socket boards, fat PCI buses/lanes, massive amounts of RAM potential, to name a few). To simply call ECC that which makes people by Xeons is poorly misguided.

I think the better term would be price discrimination:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
Occupying buildings is, honestly, pretty silly if your goal is to overthrow the government.

A few years(?) ago, Mitch McConnell's dinner at a restaurant was interrupted by protestors yelling at him. And that was after what happened to Gabby Giffords.

Targets with higher ROI are available to people willing to take, ahem, kinetic actions.
Take it with you to the bathroom or turn it off.
Once untrusted, never trusted.

Everthing in that building that plugs into the wall should be discarded and with a known good device. That includes network infrastructure and even cabling.

Between this and the recent SUNBURST fiasco, there are going to be some long discussions about security policy.
When car manufacturers open up after Covid shutdown, they started seeing massive demands. We couldn't keep up with their demands since July. They learned their lesson from Covid and not taking any chances this year.
I dispute this assessment, it’s a drastic simplification and the comparison only starts in 1994, which is after a heavy swing in America to the right throughout the 80s and 90s. If anything, what the article shows is a regression to the long-term political mean, not a move left.

A great example I happen to have favorited on YouTube, check out the healthcare debate in 1971 [0]. It’s essentially Medicare for all (D) vs practically Obamacare (but from an R).

[0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eBFJ7vv8vDU&feature=youtu.be
Does Georgia not have Russian Winters, or Russian Rural Culture?
> On a personal note, me and most of the people I know think more in terms of miles than years.

I think that partly depends on how you drive and where you live. I'm in a snowy climate: my engine might have no problem going 250,000 miles, but there's virtually no chance the body is drivable after 30-40 years of rust.

With that, I tend to buy a car in years, for example: "I'm hoping to have this for the next 6 years".
I think you can go further, this post talked about ideas that are completely unrelated to your company.

In my experience, completely related on topic great ideas can still kill your startup, its an easy thing to bury your head in code and produce feature after feature without looking up and evaluating what that feature gave you apart from more code to manage. Microsoft can afford to make massive bloated software that does everything and the kitchen sink "decently" startups can rarely afford to do anything more than one thing very very well.
I interpreted it as page three, other than that one tiny section, is otherwise a full blank page.
I went through a similar thing. My mom had advanced ovarian cancer ten years ago, and even though she 'had insurance' in the American sense of the phrase then, when you added up the things they didn't pay for, it was thousands of dollars a month, punctuated by five-figure expenses here and there. (Spoiler alert: I spent all my savings, went $100k into debt, and then she died.)

I think there is a misconception about the health care you get in the USA if you are broke and uninsured/underinsured. They will set your broken bones, they will amputate a gangrenous limb, they will do what they need to do in order to prevent you from dying today in their hospital.

But you certainly won't have an easy time scheduling a consultation with the specialist who is treating patients with that new cutting-edge chemotherapy compound with less violent side effects, or obtaining long-term treatment to suppress multiple sclerosis episodes, etc.

The son pays the bills because otherwise his mom will probably have to suffer more and will probably die sooner.
Google and Apple are not going to make a full on scientific ecosystem because they don't have the domain experts or the motive.

Numpy is not the same thing as scipy.

DifferentialEquations.jl in julia is a great example of what it actually takes to make a real, competitive differentiation equation library. The sort of stuff that was built there requires a deep connection to the scientific and mathematics literature. Cash won't cut it.

Another great example that'll resonate with physicists at least is things like ITensors.jl https://github.com/ITensor/ITensors.jl. Apple and Google are not going to make something like that.
...and for humans to read and write them, because what could be a single symbol in an HLL ('+') turns into several latters ('ADD') in Asm.

Some companies experimented with "symbolic Asm" which was even terser, and made it look more like an HLL.
Finally, the plain truth.
Here is how a gtk app looked in 2014 on macOS: https://i.imgur.com/1e669Tp.png
I feel like JSON is a fair choice these days. More people would dislike some YAML IMHO.
Right. Because protobuf parsing is not built into the browser, you have to add the time it takes to transfer protobuf code as well.
Thats not a fallacy. Thats exactly my point. It's not worth decimating human rights over 1 year of 2x the human death rate. If it were 4x, 5x sure, but 2x is not worthy of banning nearly all physical human interaction for many months or more.
Folding at home is running out of work because of the overwhelming response. I've found that sometimes restarting the FAH client/container will trigger a new job even after being stuck in a loop for hours
After thinking about it more, maybe I am wrong and there is a use case for these animations:

Small children like to look at moving things.

So it depends on the target audience. Toys or educational Apps are different from the business / financial context implied in your demo.
No, it isn't. It's 100 feet, or 30 meters. See:

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/us-states-with-the-lowes...

https://vacationidea.com/florida/highest-elevation-in-florid...

https://johnenglander.net/florida-is-not-going-underwater-an...

The house I grew up in nearly flooded during Hurricane Frances and the surveyor lists the elevation as eight feet. If Florida's mean elevation was six feet, huge swathes of the state would be underwater every hurricane. Wikipedia lists the average elevation of Miami as 6 feet, which might be where that guy got confused.
Sharing this as I thought other HN'ers may find this type of command line utility useful.

Although I sometimes get around tedious file renaming tasks using Total Commander, I've found myself more and more often missing a scriptable/flexible tool that's reasonably easy to use and available on the platforms I work with (most of these, anyway.) So, I've put everything on hold for a couple of days and built this: https://github.com/citizenTwice/srnames

Ended up adding a few extra features like counter variables & regex. It's BETA, but I've used it quite a few times already without eh adverse effects.

The Sunday programmer code is not pretty (understatement of the year), mostly avoiding 'modern' features, with the exception of std::regex. I'm planning to refactor and clean it up, at some point.
It's interesting to see how many mass extinctions we might go through in the coming millions of years: a few super novae, asteroid strikes, etc.

This reminds me of the earlier thread on the Fermi Paradox. Does anyone know if the paradox discussions take into account the seemingly relative frequency of mass extinctions?

As far as I understand, the Drake Equation does not. Maybe it's the case that intelligent life on Earth forms against all odds due to a relatively (and improbably) quiet ~75M years?
Nice. There are lots of ways to speed that up, though. Use tries, or hash both your user's passwords and the list. (So that they're all the same length, and you never care about substring matches.)
Why should words you've never heard of reek of anything to you? You've never heard of them; you have no idea what they mean!
Android does not drive baseband, it runs on application processor.

Baseband processor is separate core that runs its own, realtime OS, that handles radio communication. These OS are not opensource.

The application processor talks to baseband via RIL (rild in Android), which is basically a form of IPC via shared memory.

To recapitulate: In your phone, there is another CPU, with closed-source OS full of bugs, connected via air to network and it has full access to RAM of your application processor.

I hope that it's obvious, that it does not matter, what OS runs on the application CPU.
If those few things do not break redability, maintaince, consistence, or correctness, why not?

So, first you get good enough on the language to know you are not breaking those. Then you don't adopt micro-optimizations because you are already good enough on it to know what they'll break.
I would spend a proportionate amount of time looking into the firm and talk to past customers (where possible) before putting money anywhere, regardless of where they are located. Plenty of legal loopholes for domestic firms to deliver a less than desirable product and run away with the fees.

I too will say that all of the Eastern Block developers I have worked with, both on site and remotely have been excellent.
I don't think this problem involves programmers at all except in their initial decision to use JavaScript. And those decisions would need to be examined on a case-by-case basis, not as a generational critique.

Companies need to team up to put resources behind projects they like and organize their efforts in a sustainable way. One effort that's proven effective has been Apache: http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html

Their foundation ensures projects have a good mix of contributors and aren't driven by the whim of a sole corporation or a few hobbyists who would never be replaced when they leave a project.
Interesting..What is Tasker? Do I need to download and configure it on the phone device?
Germany as well, so no.
What about electric trucks? I set the veh/hr to max and then when I changed truck percentage to 14% I almost immediately stopped traffic at the onramp as the trucks inevitably don't have enough space to accelerate from the meter point. Especially if one of the cars cuts the truck off.