jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I think synthesis of many facts/ideas/etc is the major advantage of the knowledge worker.

When I was getting into programming in the early 00's, most people had stacks of books that they would refer to. I was using Google (and google groups was really useful back then) and just blowing by my co-workers in knowledge and productivity. I became the go-to person simply because I could research a problem and synthesize a solution quickly.

Rainbow's End http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End by Computer Science prof Vernor Vinge tells of a future where synthesis of data is the major skillset. Interesting read.
Pretend you are grinding for gold and experience?
The promise of future profits amounting to more than what they would walk away with today, gained in a somewhat more respectable fashion. If they become the leading wallet in the world, they're sitting on a goose laying golden eggs. Doesn't make sense to slaughter it today for dinner.

These guys are known — like the guys at Mt Gox. They're not anonymous, and they would run a real risk of bodily harm by such a public crime.
FYI, OpenBSD -current wireless works like this:

ifconfig ral0 nwid my_router wpakey my_password

No wpa_supplicant!
Also, from wikipedia:

"The Z1 was a mechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse from 1935 to 1936 and built by him from 1936 to 1938."

and

"The Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC) was...conceived in 1937, the machine was not programmable, being designed only to solve systems of linear equations. It was successfully tested in 1942."
I believe so; see https://dev.bostondynamics.com/docs/concepts/choreography/ch... for the choreography API. You don't even have to buy a Spot to write the code, which is impressive in this industry! Now we just need someone to buy one and set it up in front of a webcam with a public SSH login.

There's more documentation at https://github.com/boston-dynamics/spot-sdk and https://dev.bostondynamics.com/. However, it looks like a lot of the choreography is built-in; you can call twerk() or butt_circle() (documented at https://dev.bostondynamics.com/docs/concepts/choreography/mo...) but you don't have access to the raw kinematics, gyros, and accelerometers to generate your own unique moves. It would be amazing if they'd release the full routine to cause your Atlas or Spot to perform the dances, but I'm not aware of that being public anywhere.

For a more general example, check out this video where Adam Savage used a Spot to pull a rickshaw; his programmer was able to work with the API to change the payload tuning of the robot:

https://youtu.be/zyaocKS3sfg?t=1482

It appears that the API is more about what you'd need to make Spot useful in an industrial or demonstration context than to build your own Spot. They want something that a generalist can make do useful stuff out-of-the-box, which makes sense.
If it's not ad-based what should then be the "new soundcloud-like app" business model?
Garbage in/Garbage out. The problem isn't automation, unless you're suggesting a hueristic in the Comcast ticket system that flags requests for review if the same invalid requests keeps getting submitted every few days with only an increase in the amount of profanity.
"We sold you unlimited. But if you go over the secret threshold, we'll delete your account."
-- Amazon

This is why I hate "unlimited" in general. It's not unlimited, just tell me what the damn limit is.
MzScheme came comparatively late. Here is a post from when it was Scheme48 and after it was Common Lisp:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bstl/arc_lisp_d...

A friend told me he used to track developments in Arc by noticing when pg had switched mailing lists. :)
There's already "use strict" that does some of this to enable optimizations and other stuff. Maybe it should be even stricter or something similar could be used.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Welcome to the community!

I for one would not enjoy a chrome extension because I don't really install browser extensions.
Seems like the way to go ... maybe even 3 layers of memory -- core local memory, memory that provides shared reader and writer consistency, and memory that provides shared reader, single writer consistency (for ownership transfers). Maybe the second form doesn't actually need to exist at all?

Minimizing ownership transfer cost across hardware elements seems like a fundamental concept to me that future architectures will need to specifically optimize in order to maximize the benefits that can be reaped from "task specific" hardware.

The more cores we add the more we have to gain by allowing them to be different from each other I think ...
Exactly the same as my situation. And given Boox is Android makes it really flexible for any kind of reading content.
Yes, and the filesystem is still mostly the same.
You can't even sign up without a phone number. Never got an account or went on just for this reason alone.
The posts are delightful. Feels like Christmas every time.

As a form of advertising, these posts are spectacular. I find myself just buying everything they make. It feels so genuine.

The marketers on this forum can learn from these guys. Frequent, jargon-free technically inspiring posts make me spend money.
> It should be relatively obvious at this point that the outright merits of a language have little or nothing to do with its popularity

I beg to differ. People had 25 years to abandon Java but since then, the usage has only grown. I remember when Groovy and Ruby had their hyped periods sometime in the 00s, but what happened to that wave in the end? Grails and Rails became history, FAANG nowadays runs on Spring, the same for the rest of the world. Every practical feature that a JVM language had at a moment in time was later adopted by Java in some way. (maybe with the exception of Clojure which is the only language that didn't try to be a better Java).
What do you mean by a long analog? SWAN is long the S&P, it just softens the downside.
Sure, but none of that amounts to political manipulation. Nor does it particularly negate the fact that companies like Walmart are enormously profitable while paying a pittance to their workers.
This is a little off-topic, but it makes me proud that HN can have two major IPOs (one coinbase!) on the front page, but the top story is a damn-cool laptop we all want to tinker with.

We have not been subsumed by The Man yet :-)
All states are open shop or agency shop. Federal law prohibits closed shop.
In our startup, we've taken this a few steps further. Here's our CTO's RubyConf talk about our approach:

http://www.confreaks.com/videos/5076-RubyConf2014-harnessing...

And my PyConZA talk slides:

https://speakerdeck.com/pyconza/pyconza-2014-inspired-by-lis...
> How do you figure?

The last time I checked Lightsail uses similar CPU credits[0] as their t2 ec2 instances.

As long as you're only using a tiny portion of your CPU it's fine but if you start doing work on your instance where your CPU is being used for a sustained amount of time then you run out of CPU credits and performance is drastically degraded.

DigitalOcean has no such mechanism. I've never had a droplet's CPU performance get penalized because I used the allocated resources that I was paying for.

[0]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/burstabl...
Are you really telling me that economical competitors and war enemies are the same thing?
From the hirer side, maybe this is unreasonable given "No matter what, don't give them a number," but my past experiences on the other side of the table lead me to try and press a different dynamic. I try to get us and applicants talking salary during the first interview, before we even know if we fit each other at all.

The rationale is:

A) If how much money you want from us isn't even an option, we don't waste your time. We can be very up-front about that before a lengthy interview process proceeds.

B) We can judge your follow-up interview (generally a full-day paid tryout) against how much you expect to be paid. Which on the negative side lets us weed out expensive mediocrity, or on the positive side, give opportunities to people who aren't quite there yet but wouldn't cost much to take a chance on and try to train up.

A few people definitely look at it with suspicion, but in general I think it's worked out better for everyone.

Also, as an aside, I would take issue with what you said about researching what a company pays. For so many companies (mostly small ones), all you can do is ask around and find a current or former employee who is willing to tell you. And that is so often, for most applicants, not an opportunity you get. I think you're making that research sound much easier than it actually is.
I used this technique as well, it didn't end up in a raise or another job position, or any change at all. They just said no.
I ended up taking that other job offer I had lined up since it was clear the company views its workers as replaceable cogs rather than valued contributors.
As I said in another comment you can argue about anything for an infinite amount of time. You are saying that my statement is not true because ONE dog (out of many that you apparently had) was messier than others, yeah I could also say that maybe you didn't treat that dog the same way you treat the others or just blatantly call you a liar, that's a lie!

You and I could exchange every kind of imaginable counterargument and nothing valuable would come out of it; the important thing is that people should (or learn to) live in a civilized environment and realize that their rights end where another people's start.
A small savings for memory, but much faster. The link has benchmarks.
I'm glad I learned about typography and CSS so I could do my own blog, but if I hadn't this is exactly what I wanted. Is there an example of code formatting anywhere?
So here is like a hypothetical example:

+ Let's say I have a problem with a regex which just isn't working

1) I post the question to help solve and fix this regex

2) I receive answer 1. I test it, and it doesn't work, so I reject it

3) I receive answer 2. I test it, and it does work. I accept the answer as correct, and they get paid accordingly.

My view is when the question is asked, nobody can see the answers except for the asker until the entire thread is marked complete.

People can choose to answer a question based on reputation of the question asker (how many they reject), and they can review their question history to see if the person is doing the right thing.
Why is it fake security?
What do you think the pros/cons are if you're running Linux in VMWare Fusion or VirtualBox?
Can anyone explain why is it designed this way? Why was it necessary to involve DNS into this? Was it unavoidable or is that all in the name of keeping 0-rtt possible?

Tbh, with the current implementation, ECH setup seems rather complicated to me. It benefits CDNs like CloudFlare since they control both DNS and the handshake process, but those who would like to setup ECH on their own are in trouble.
The specific allegations about voter fraud as believed by millions are indisputably fraudulent.

You are trying to equivocate between those specifically and indisputably false allegations and something completely different: a much more generalized and vaguely expressed set of concerns with election security writ large.

These have nothing to do with each other and yet you are equivocating between them.
This is an interesting problem with true E2E solutions. The person sending you the image would need to send it with lower resolution. There is no way for the server to do it for you.

The servers also don't store messages once they been delivered. There is no way to get a low resolution while mobile and getting the higher resolution while on WiFi.

Signal does already have the method to disable media downloads while not on WiFi, but does not have a method to tell the sender to send lower fidelity content.
Go ahead, that is probably useful.
Take all the company's profits for 2 or 3 years. That's like a prison term. Or 50% of revenues, if they start playing funny games with income.
First of all, thank you for your service!

I am absolutely not taking your comments as an assault, and I suspect we largely agree on specific cases.

And specifically, taking down explicit incitement to violent illegal actions by someone already in a position of power does not seem at all unreasonable to me; I can see very little redeeming value in such. Also reasonable is a basic "cooling off" period of "we're not letting you post anymore for a bit, until people calm down".

And I fully agree that there is a long job of getting people to talk to each other, much less be on the same page ahead of us. I hope we succeed at it. Facebook and the like are not going to be helping much with it, unfortunately, because outrage is just so monetizable..
So we can quantify how many innocent unarmed people the government is allowed to kill each year, and I guess it's more than 30?
Sadly, they aren't the first, and certainly won't be the last.

Silicon Valley isn't immune to the same virus.
>It would mean bankruptcy for most companies out there.

So not much different than when a person is imprisoned. Good luck not getting fired and having debts rack up.

Such an existential threat seems like a very good way of scaring corporations into compliance (well, among other things).
The genius of Trump's tactic of saying everything (continuously contradicting himself) is allowing everyone to cherry pick useful bits to support (or oppose) any given narrative.
But mass-murdering pilots wouldn't necessarily use their planes to mass murder so that rules out pilots as a distinctive group. /armchair-whatever
don't give up!
It's not clear from the article, but I hope you had the chance to spend a bit of time in California, looking around, seeing some of the sites, and so on. It'd be a pity to go all that way and not have a look around!

Also: it looks like you live in a part of the world that is particularly nice and beautiful in its own way. You ought to do something to encourage visiting hackers to stop by so as to have some people to chat with once in a while.
I think putting a cellphone chipset on a camera may be a bit too much, as most people would not want to pay monthly for a data plan for a point and shoot camera. But a cemera could have bluetooth and connect to your phone this way. Thus, after you are done taking pictures you put the camera in your pocket by your phone and the pictures get transferred to the phone and uploaded by the phone to your online photo service while you are doing something else.
how many Twitter services do we need when no one can decide if we even need Twitter

Truer words were never spoken. True, there are many people who find Twitter eminently useful, but there are far more who can't seem to figure out what the hell it's for, and I suspect many at Twitter HQ of belonging to the latter group. There are a glut of startups right now that don't really do anything useful, but have had no problem getting funded. The investment model seems to have moven away from "where's the market going to be in 3-5 years" to "if we invest in a spaghetti website, a sailing-meets-geocaching website, a cake-delivery website, and a social media microblogging iphone app, then surely one of them will hit."
It seems US is trying to make application of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_theory illegal, which would be incredibly silly.

There always has to be some information on a company, which will not be available to general public.

In my book there are two typos of insider trading:

One, where Bud Fox tailgates Sir Larry Wildman and thus allows Gekko to put the pieces together as to which the next takeover target will be. (lets set aside the fact that Gekko had bribed someone on Wildman's payroll)

Assuming the information was gathered using public means, this type of trading should be legal.

Second type,where Bud Fox gathers information from various offices with his cleaning crew obviously should be illegal, perhaps not because of the trading that follows, but just because it is breaking and entering in effect.

Another point could be made that insider trading being made illegal obscures transparency in the markets. If company principals were allowed to trade in a shorter time-frame but with full disclosure, markets could absorb the information better.
Incident searches are not about the safety of officers (this has come up on HN before). If you follow the cites and the doctrines, it turns out that incident searches have always been about collecting and preserving evidence as much as safety. I think incident searches get confused with Terry stops, which are solely meant to be about officer safety.

The unique issue at play in incident phone searches is the notion that a phone is a little like your house; that if you're arrested during (say) a traffic stop, the police don't have the authority to drive to your house and search it too. Similarly, if you're arrested at a traffic stop, getting access to your trunk can be legally iffy too; incident searches are restricted to your immediate vicinity.

This is something SCOTUS is going to resolve next year.
I think that highlights the difference for me: you come to the orchestra to hear the music. People like the sound of a car revving because they associate it with engine power, but the revving itself isn't inherently desirable; can you imagine generations growing up without ever seeing a fuel-burning car, but still associating the loudness and deepness of a car's speaker's rumbling with its power?

People like the revving noise for the same reason a ringing bell makes a dog drool.
It seems like employees are becoming the weakest link in cloud security. If Google will be breached one day, most probably it will happen not because of a technical vulnerability, but due to employee sabotage.

I'm pretty sure that at exactly this moment somewhere someone criminal is already analyzing organization structures, employee profiles, internal security policies and tools of the cloud giants.
Isn't this the reverse of a self-fulfilling prophecy? A self-fulfilling prophecy attracts reality to the state it describes. The stock market, being anti-inductive, attracts reality away from whatever predictions being made - that is, for example, if I found a pattern that proves $GME reaches the Moon on Tuesday, enough other people would find that pattern too and start buying early, and $GME would reach the Moon on Monday, and probably crash on Tuesday.
(11:38 GMT) I'm filing a guess of a tourist copy of the stories of Amir Hamzah, in early 20th century handwritten Javanese. I believe the image needs to be rotated/flipped so the hole in the paper is in the top left quadrant. Will post a reference when I settle on one.
What about “ethical” investing?

A company can perform good long term without regards to the negative externalities of its business
But, but, but they're restricting their freedom to be assholes and their personal liberties to do asshole things to people!
I like the general idea very much. unfortunately in Germany where I like it is almost impossible to achieve. outside of city limits it is forbidden to build a house, even if the property is yours and inside city limits and a permit and that one you can not get with off grid concepts. connection to the road, electricity, water and waste water is mandatory. even people who produce zero waste MUST pay for waste collection. saw an article once where a family planted a tree in the waste bin. Still had to pay for having it not collected.
Thank you. I’m not doubting it happened. I thank you for updating the post with the extent of the harassment. It’s something I think people don’t realize how bad it is. Or has become. I’m sorry you experienced that.
What is an EEE? I am having trouble determining the meaning from context and I am having trouble searching for it.
> doesn't really dive into what nationalism means in this context

Because, when you get into the heart of the matter, it boils down to racist anti-immigration sentiment, and nobody really wants to talk about that.
I believe Strike is upfront about the fact they are using the stable coin USDC at the exchange for that part of the transaction. USDC is backed by Circle and Coinbase and is probably regarded as the most trusted centralized stable coin.
The downvotes are probably because of the “intrinsic value” and Ponzi scheme arguments which people that have been in this space for a decade have grown tired of.
The Fed only has a certain set of levers it can pull and boosting wages isn't one of them. During the 2007 recession and now the Fed chairs have begged Congress to take the necessary actions that they can't. Now that Yellen runs Treasury we'll see how things work out.
Entire team is hard to hire all at once. People hire individuals generally, not teams. Teams are formed with individuals. Instead of thinking about the whole team (in my opinion), focus on the individuals and try to get everyone's Resume out. The goal is for individuals to find a job, not the whole team together.
>"We have found that achieving good outcomes for full-time wheelchair user clients can be quite challenging."

Dating in general is hard, dating as one with a disability is a whole new level of hard. I think the service's response is well-intentioned even if woefully ignorant. Surely the UK has laws similar to ADA and protected classes?
This is a bad submission. Please ignore.
The problem you have is that flight data is incredibly fast-changing and computationally expensive to get. So in order to get enough data for this you need to do a lot of long queries very often. Companies that provide pricing information (like ITA, who Kayak uses) charge a lot for these resources, so it's not like the usual internet where your incremental cost per user or search is minimal: there's a real cost here. The entire architecture was build on one-off "price from X to Y on this day", building a layer of generality to that is fairly difficult.

Full disclosure: I used to work at TripAdvisor on flights.
The "context-free"dom you reference here is purely syntactic. Linus here is certainly discussing the semantics of the language, since he is discussing reading and understanding the code. For that you need at least a (perhaps mental) syntax tree, of which there may be many for a given program, and which requires semantic context to disambiguate.
He was probably going for the word "wary", instead of "weary".
What 'near'/'far' means depends on the space you're talking about. If we're talking about the space of memory locations, then two modules are near each other if they both have access to the same storage location. You can fix this, for instance, by making things asymmetric; allow one module to have only read access and one module to only have write access. In that case, what you've done is make it so that the triangle inequality no longer obtains on the space of memory locations (at least with respect to those two modules).

Edit:spelling.
You may have a different perspective than the author, but I think his explanation is clear.

Well, not being someone from the functional programming world, I don't think the explanation is clear at all.

Edit, To add a concrete example: I am currently working on a concurrent Haskell program that simulates a system of communicating nodes. However I am running it on my single core netbook. So we have indeterminacy and concurrent semantics without parallelism.

So you're saying that concurrency is an issue of semantics used in programming, while parallelism is talking about the underlying problem?

I might be able to agree with that, but if that's the argument, that is what the author of the blog post should have stated.

Anyway, please let me know if I'm understanding your point.
No worries, because the special obligation bonds are administered by the Dept. of Treasury it is easy to confuse them with Treasury bills or bonds. But they are very different beasts!