jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No, not really. As far as I'm aware HVDC links are more efficient than AC links (even with AC/DC/AC conversion).
I just don't think you've tried or been exposed to responsible REPL prototyping and development. Like sure, you could have all sorts of issues if you use REPL irresponsibly and pollute your state with undocumented code and side effects. But if you use it responsibly, it can be really fast and efficient when prototyping things... Even complex subsystems in a larger codebase. I've prototyped entire reimplementations of SOTA object-detection DNN algorithms in Pytorch with no issues and have been far more productive because I can develop functionality in small chunks while intimately understanding the problem at hand and associated data and then immediately graduate it to a working script/module/package as I go along.

For more complex things, I can even have a stub for a function I am developing and breakpoint into it and then I prototype the functionality in the REPL and that is wayyy faster and less bug prone than trying to go at it blindly in your IDE without being able to experiment and verify your code as you develop it.
> The Surgeon General, OTOH, was never a person to be taken seriously. But I don't blame Fauci for that.

Why? I'm not from the USA, so obviously I don't understand the specifics of that position.
USD being the world reserve currency, so printing it with abandon for last few years does not remove the demand?
- We've known about the value of talking to babies since Hart & Risley published their study in 1995: http://www.amazon.com/Meaningful-Differences-Everyday-Experi...

- We've known that there is basically no value in reading to your kids since Scarborough & Dobrich published their report in 1994.
Requires a down payment, finance payments, registration and taxes, dmv lines, insurance, maintenance, traffic tickets, parking tickets, toll roads, parking fees, higher rent to pay for parking, fuel, police surveillance, dealership sales scams, etc.

Now you need a better job and probably stuck in traffic more often in service of the car. No wonder rideshare and rentals are taking over

I have a very old car but rarely use it, am realistic about it, and prefer walking and metro when possible.
Quote 1: "You need to work somewhere that appreciates your insights into the product as well as your ability to build it."

And that's why I love to be a freelancer - clients need solutions to problems, they don't really care about design implementations/programming language/database, and they love every bit of creativity that drives costs down. I have clients that say on daily basis they love me, as they got one or more wrong implementations initially because "my partner/rival/uncle/god from heaven told me this is the way to do it" and when I propose something simpler & cheaper they marvel.

Quote 2: "As ironic as it may sound, a lot of companies hire software engineers and then don’t let them actually code. Instead, their days are filled with useless meetings that inhibit productivity."

Oh boy, I loved my time on big companies, I learned a lot but this 2nd quote hits me in the gut. Requirement meetings, regression test meetings, project status meetings, fill this standard Word document with details, fill that Excel document with metrics etc etc etc - I freaking hated them all. Sure, I learned about importance of this and that but dudes: let. me. code!!

Siemens was the worse of them all, I suspect only 10% of the time I worked there was coding, rest was everything of the above.
I think that's the whole point. It's not about what is interesting and what not, but what truly obsesses you. What OP means is that cooking is not something he feels obsessed about. It's great if you are obsessed about cooking and have 10 hours a day to practice your cooking. But most of us, wish we had more time to explore the topics we are deeply attracted to. If they make a difference, all the better.
I almost agree. This is the more probable explanation of the other ~39 anomalies that are at 2 or 3 sigma. As a rule of thumb, don't get too attached to a 2 or 3 sisma because there is a high chance that it is only a statistical fluke and the apparent result will disappear with more data.

But this cases has too many sigmas, 7!! And the group has a history of dubious discoveries, like the 5 sigma result in 2015 that was never reproduced. So I'm more inclined for a bad measurement method until an independent group can replicate it.
It also sounds like Lenovo (computer company), Denuvo (DRM system), and Pepsi (beverage)
Wait til you find out who gets the most IPv4 addresses!
That doesn’t look relevant to me. I only wanted to discuss that BrianHenryIE’s quote seems an inaccurate generalisation.
Vulkan compute shaders are roughly on the level of OpenGL compute shaders, which never were as flexible and general as CUDA and OpenCL kernels.

Even though compute in Vulkan appears as a first class citizen instead of the weird tacked on feature it is in OpenGL, the design is still focused very much on embedding compute steps in a process that is designed to deliver images to a screen. And that uses a lot more opaque object representations like textures and samplers. GLSL has also always been a very restrictive language and that carried over into SPIR-V.
Agreed. Them and Virgin Galactic seem like they're the next logical step. I'm especially excited because they have the opportunity to succeed where the supersonic jetliners failed: Imagine if any spot on the globe was within 2 hrs travel time...
I was interested in the "accelerationIncludingGravity" property. It seems needlessly verbose. I thought - why isn't there just isn't a separate "gravity" property to complement the "acceleration" property?

After a bit of digging around I found this:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-geolocation/2010A...

> We can't use
> acceleration & gravity in place of acceleration &
> accelerationIncludingGravity as some devices are unable to determine
> the acceleration without the effects of gravity - that's the
> motivation for the property.
Generalization ahead

Java is mostly snubbed in web startup land and associated with boring corporate work.

More discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1378815
As an aside on Mugabe, he makes one of those observations that are so precisely to the point that you wonder why so few other commentators ever get round to coming to it. "Darfur, Zimbabwe, Burma, North Korea, anywhere that the concept of human rights doesn't exist, it's always the Chinese at backstop. And always for reasons that you could write down in three words: blood for oil."

-- http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/nov/14/christopher-hitc...

It would be tragic if China were to actually become the dominant power in the world. But that's a long long way from where we are now. And I personally can't see any path from here to there.
No, because humans are capable of reciprocating moral obligations.

Veganism is really difficult to avoid if you're a utilitarian, and really easy to avoid if you're not.
Would you think that one of the most economically valuable things universities do is kicking out cheats? Because they are the ones who will (most likely) back-stab their way to a CEO position, then run down the company while still paying themselves out-sized bonuses.
How does the US military justify the draft excluding women?
Agreed. It seems like many people add a "perfectly" to adapted, and that gets them into trouble.
I went to a 10 day meditation retreat a few years ago. As you can imagine I met a lot of interesting people there.

One guy actually was a body builder and vegetarian. He told me that he had problems with being anemic as well. So his doctor told him to have a steak once a month, which helped him a lot.

There is a reason why we can chew and digest both plants and animal products and meat.

While personally I lean towards a vegetarian diet (for reasons of health, morality, and sustainability) any such bias has to be paired with "wisdom".

Generally if we know how to listen our bodies will let us know what they need. I mostly eat whatever I want, whenever I want it. It somehow naturally ends up being mostly vegetarian, with diary product, and occasionally meats and (yes) some candy.

Edit: I do avoid all low fat products and products with sugar replacements.
$100 to the first person to calculate the expected probability of a checkmate
No, my manager is awesome, though non-technical, so it's hard to explain some things (and yes, right now I'm the only strictly dev person in the company). He's a very reasonable person, and the recent ability to do a project totally my way was a way of accommodating my needs. I'm hoping we'll be able to build on that.

BTW. call me lucky, but throughout all my jobs, I never had a bad boss/manager. While their technical skills varied, they were all very honest, thoughtful and nice people.
I don't think the health reference makes much sense when you consider that gum is illegal in Singapore, but cigarettes are not.

I'm skeptical it would have gone over well had Lee Kuan Yew tried to outlaw soda and cigarettes as well (with the understanding that Bloomberg was not trying to outlaw soda). There's a point where people will push back on authoritarianism.
It's not served up via a blog for one, I guess.
That hasn't happened and operators are already having trouble even getting 40% throughput on that 7 transactions per second.

http://hashingit.com/analysis/33-7-transactions-per-second
Very nice to see this genre is alive and well! Looking good, and I look forward to seeing the progress on Cytopia :D
I believe the stress would come from the uncertainty of whether or not they have cancer, not from going into the MRI machine.

Just looking at myself, I feel a great level of distress over other, less serious, variations of uncertainty.
Having been told I might have cancer, and then not getting to know for certain this very instant would be nothing short of nerve-wracking...
That's a frankly ridiculous way of dismissing the entire content of the article without actually addressing it in any way.

If tech companies can map out your behavior for the rest of your life with >95% accuracy, what does that do to the world?
Any employee? Part time job for a teenager?
At its core, the reality is that all Burger King restaurants are franchises, and with that comes spotty coverage of some of the more punishing details for any canned preparation of their menu items.

I think the Impossible Whopper will stick around, but the sacrosanct vegan preparation was just a promotional gimmick to stimulate sales, with no intention of adherence to strict practices. My suspicion was always that the vegan options would be promoted for the initial release, but then it would be quietly walked back to typical preparation steps after the hype died down, and the rate of sandwich sales peaked and leveled off.

With that, you get shift managers of individual locations, hamfistedly claiming whatever they think passes for customer service, whether that be keeping the customer lines and drive through windows moving at a brisk pace during lunch and evening rushes, or bending over backwards for the squeakiest wheels in search of grease.

Meanwhile, dog meat analogies aside, the cult of the complainiest customers will only win so many victories. The patty might be vegan, and the last mile falls upon the 16 year-old kid behind the counter. Disgust, revulsion, and so on, at the thought of giving any money to a meat selling business that moves titanic quantities of animal carcass should give a vegan pause, before even stepping through the front door, if they're that serious about their belief system.

It's fine to level the argument that the tiniest drop of raw sewage is unacceptable in any glass of water, but the reality is that the consumer's physiological fragility remains unharmed and unthreatened in a scenario such as this. The comingled vegan and animal byproducts are a reality, evident by virtue of the very nature establishment itself.

You get what you pay for. It's fast food. They won't stop selling the burger, but they might annotate Vegan* with an asterisk.

* at participating locations
LOL. Do you know how goddamn strict Google is, internally, regarding a11y/i18n/l10n?

The idea that your precious text browser == blind people is wildly presumptuous. Don’t use people with disabilities as your human shield.
Yahoo pipes was really fun and great, and I was happy that someone besides Google was still innovating in an exciting way. I remember being very sad when Yahoo Pipes was finally unplugged. That day I realised that the web is not about users, not about building fun and useful things, not about building lego-like structures, it's just filter bubbles, echo chambers and troll farms.
What can be done?

You know one should push but either the job as now is left behind jobs of robots or go to chinazi. It is a fight of our era. What is the role of human in job market?

I guess IT we are working is fine by and large. But others?
Hey Dan, Feedity's founder here. Thank you for using our feeds service! Just so you know, besides HTML webpages you can also create feeds for dynamic webpages with client-scripts, as well as social media profiles.
ctags -R . $VIRTUAL_ENV

(while in the virtualenv) works fine for me. I am able to jump to definitions for packaged modules. ymmv.
Frankly, as someone who has dealt with the DMV since the age of 16, I have a hard time believing that their treatment of a citizen could ever jeopardize their job.
Thanks for this I didn't know this existed. Interesting for sure to see the evidence presented on each side and how little actual data came through in the course of the debate.
> A bitcoin's value is 100% based on what the public values it at.

So just like any other currency and commodity then? Intrinsic value doesn't exist. Everything is relative to where you are and what you're trying to achieve.
Just to be clear, is there any form of this conversation where you admit to being anything except absolutely correct on all points you're attempting to make?

I get the feeling you're one of those folks who won't accept anything except what you've already concluded.
The author of this is missing the point of DNSSEC.

They seem to be confusing DNSSEC and functionality that is possible with DNSSEC (DANE/TLSA). Not only that, they don't seem to fully understand DANE (there are modes that complement the traditional CA model, not replace it).

DNSSEC is just another tool. It isn't a panacea.

I definitely urge readers to objectively research the technical aspects of DNSSEC and draw conclusions for themselves.
Exactly.

This is also broken down on slide 40 - local static and file static variables.
Perhaps one of one of my best learning experiences in university student government was getting to see how wrongly the campus paper covered us. These were people who tried, for sure, but because they were always outsiders looking in, they missed context. And sure, we were only 3 floors up from the paper’s office, but deadlines always loomed. Things are not magically better after graduation either — not quite getting it seems to be a human condition.

I’m a regular reader of SSC, but also an SJW. It’s not mutually exclusive. I liked HPMoR and it taught me a lot about losing... but it also marginalized the female characters.
The JRE no longer exists. Some OpenJDK vendors ship a runtime that they call a JRE, but isn't.
You are absolutely right on every point.

There was a time, when I was.

And I've been blindingly lucky to crawl, bit by bit, out of that.

But I still identify with that, because precisely the same societal decisions that fuck me, are the ones that fuck them too.

I owe them something. They're still struggling.

I don't owe the rest of society anything at all.
As you had alluded references (and professional reputation) is the single biggest predictor of success. This is why resumes tossed over the transom to companies is such an inefficient process.

2nd to references is looking at real work products. You're in advertising? Show me your ads. You build websites, show me your websites.

Your method of short term contracts is a good way to get to both at the same point.

Any thoughts on recruiting college hires? They don't have work products, and in many cases don't know enough to be useful on a project with low guidance.
The first part doesn't intrigue me at all, because I can easily import an objective C-class into an AppleScriptObjectC app.

I guess something like that works for Swift as well.

AppleScript in itself, can't do that, but I can call everything that is in Say Foundation, and the other frameworks (AppleScript version 2.3), and AppleScript is quite SmallTalkish. ;)
Are they asking you to choose between salary and equity?

I wouldn't consider myself a co-founder with < 5% equity, and I wouldn't join a team like this unless my cash comp were 75% of my market rate. If you feel super strongly about the TAM and product idea, or need less cash - take a risk! But, for me (at FAANG comp), I would need something like $175-200k + 10-20%.
I dropped out of college in 1998 to work in tech. The common knowledge at the time was that you got a job at a startup, and then in four years you retired, because they would IPO while you worked there and you'd coast your last two years while you vested in millions in stock options.

That obviously didn't happen for me, or most anyone else that started working in 1998.

But today doesn't feel like that. I don't see college kids being encouraged to drop out and make a fortune in tech. In fact what I do see are people being encouraged to graduate at the top of their class so they can get jobs at highly profitable FAANG companies.

It does feel a little frothy, especially with all of the non-profitable tech companies that are doing IPOs this year and next, but it feels more reserved this time.

Also, it feels like the VCs are the one taking the majority of the damage this time, not retail investors.
Meet Juergen, actually the world's worst market timer. He invested in the German Stock exchange in 1914. In 2014 he finally broke even.

Over the last 100 years, the US has had a great run and stock market returns have reflected that. By only looking at American returns you're cherry-picking the best results so your model is flawed.
> The closest thing I can think of is the gaggle of Libertarians-nee-anarchists who hold a bunch of sessions largely for the purpose of soliciting donations from their elderly followers. They don't seem to be accomplishing anything, unless you count funding the likes of Michelle Bachmann as accomplishing something.

Wow, way to slander the one organised group that actually saw this coming from a million miles away. These people have claimed very strongly and very consistently over many years that governments (any government, no matter what party is in charge) simply cannot be trusted with power, and have been met with very little but ridicule in return. They have not accomplished anything because the majority opinion (by a wide margin) is that government power is benign and for our own good.
I listen to Mixergy as a podcast (not live) and usually end up deleting 19 out of 20 after I listen to them. This interview with Kevin Hale is one of the very first ones I decided to keep.
I'd get one just to play Donkey Kong Country,Zelda,and Metroid in Xbox like graphics.

Though the leak says no 3D now, looks like a classic Nintendo move where in 2 years an upgraded 3D screen controller will be out at ~80 bucks each.
I'm not convinced military power is actually that useful in the modern world. The US spends more on its military than the rest of the world combined, and yet it has trouble maintaining control in the poorest countries on Earth.

I'd personally be more concerned about China's economic power, but I suspect that there's a limit to how efficient China's economy can be whilst maintaining its totalitarian state.
Have they taken the next step and made the library door theft detectors* "smart" and able to read the RFID codes and tell whether a book is checked out or not? That would make so much of a difference for Circulation/Stacks grunts at a library who spend much of their time sensitizing and desensitizing books (most of the rest of the time is spent re-shelving).

* Of course those detectors are just intended to be deterrents, but few actually stop people from walking out of a library with a non-checked book (that's what security [sometimes "information"] is for) ... and that's why we need to keep Reserve Book Rooms.
Yes, I've tried Papa Sangre. Unfortunately, it uses a general purpose HRTF, which limits the immersion potential.
The real meat of this awesome link is in the comments deconstructing, critiquing, and musing on the article. Some gems include thoughts on if she's really testing girls' willingness to alienate a senior mentor by stealing from them, a lengthy discussion on societal / collaborative decision making... There's more. read it!
Only problem is that a large number of people didn't work together in keeping a secret.

Very few knew what it even meant and it was all documented and known by parts of the government. A government in war btw. A secret weapon that was not used against it's own people.

So it's pure brute forcing unrelated events in a attempt to make something completely unrelated look like it's the same.

But I have no doubt that the next time around hitler will be used as part of the argument to show that a leader can blind his people to believe in anything using the news outlets as his propaganda machine.

Only problem is that we don't live in 1948 or 1984 for that matter.
Thanks! Fixing that now.
2.067 also implements Sealed References which enables one to safely pass references to stack variables to called functions.
Still, important to be occasionally reminded of your own assumptions and corner-cutting.
> “It’s nothing more than collecting and utilizing data. We may not like to admit it, but the truth of the matter is that those that own and operate motorcycles are 67% more likely to be involved in illegal or criminal activity than those that do not own or operate a motorcycle.”

and…

> It’s the same as firearms, if local P.D or Highway Patrol were to pull someone over that is a registered firearm owner, that officer has the right to know this information going into the interaction, the same could be said about a local P.D or Highway Patrol Officer that pulled over a registered motorcycle owner, the situations are honestly interchangeable in the eyes of National and Homeland Security.

Disturbing.
Harry's is so much better at razors & blades. Tried them both. Hated Dollar's hardware. Love Harry's razor... and their blades are superior as well.
Closed my account a while ago. Now using Diaspora* and quite happy with the result.
I did not write the original reddit post, just sharing the link to the discussion
Imagine having to wait in line to use it.
> "Tesla is a real example that passed this test. Their marketing language brands AP as "fully self driving, some features unavailable due to local laws"."

This isn't true, FSD has always been a 'coming soon' feature you can prepay for distinct from autopilot. Autopilot has always been advanced lane assist. "Autopilot" in planes just holds the same flight pattern and doesn't really do anything sophisticated, autopilot in Tesla is similar.
It sounds like they primarily don't want their phone to connect to Google without asking the user, not that they don't want it to connect to anything. Google has not become the whole internet yet.
I guess I'm saying that it doesn't seem so straightforward to me.

I think that "depending on the specialization of the technology for the purpose of doing something evil" merely shifts the question to multiple questions:

1. What does "specialization of the technology" mean?

2. Can technologies have multiple specializations?

3. What does evil mean?

4. Even if we had a perfect translation between "specialization" and "evil," if a technology has multiple specializations, which controls? The most evil? Does this require us to predict which specializations are most likely to be used?