jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Note that properly implemented quicksort has expected O(n log n) time independent of the data (dependent only on the random choices of pivots), whereas interpolation sort's performance is data dependent. That's a pretty important distinction.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here: Who gives a shit?

Everyone treats Google like this super police agent who's job is to keep our minds free from digital pollution. Yet 97% of Google's income comes from their ad network, which thrives on having publishers and SERP pages to serve up their advertising customer's creatives. Ultimately, I'm sure Google is fine with this Mahalo stuff, because it means they have more ad space to publish on.

What Mahalo has going on is not much different than the major article directory sites like EZine and Associated Content. Search on one of those sites for corn on the cob and I bet you'll find a bunch of similar articles, all plastered with adsense. In fact, I have tools right now that can rewrite an article and allow me submit more corn on the cob articles in under a minute. But you never hear anyone bitch about those sites, because it's User Generated Content. Ultimately, how are they any different?

Honestly, knowing what I know about Black Hat SEO Tactics (I know a good amount), I'd rather see someone building out massive crappy content sites than spamming their backlinks everywhere. At least they aren't polluting everyone else's sites by getting XRumer blasts and Blog Comment Spamming.
very true.

I've been studying mandarin for a year and I still can't read newspapers.
Am I the only one who felt the intended audience was surveillers rather than surveillees?
Hackaday is not a site that was created in the last year.
Doesn't work in Canada. "Not available in your geographical region."
I used to work as a quantitative analyst, and this would've been great for "Knowledge Transfer." Most of what analysts do (at least at my old employer) is create and manage reports. Teaching another analyst the various Excel/Matlab/Python processes that need to be run and what steps need to be performed is time consuming but really important. The bosses like people to document their tasks, but that usually involves making a quickly outdated Word doc w/ screenshots & text.

If I'd been able to record what I was doing as I did it, and add a little annotation, that would've saved a lot of time and effort.
I wonder if we're simply in violent agreement - it certainly seems to me that you just aren't getting my point, and while much of what you say is true, it just doesn't seem relevant to me.

Yes, Interpolation Search has better average complexity in those circumstances when it works. However, for almost all cases of Binary Search that I use, Interpolation Search won't work, and isn't applicable. I was trying to make that point.

If your vector is sorted then it's reasonable to assume you have a comparison function between the objects in your vector. Binary Search then requires nothing more than this absolute minimum - just a comparison function. In this case Interpolation Search doesn't work at all.

As Colin pointed out above, it actually gets worse for our author. In cases where the volumes are sufficient to make much of a difference, you are almost certainly going to want to take caching and access speeds into account. Now you need to move out of the realm of Binary or Interpolation Search and into other data structures anyway.

Yes, Interpolation Search is cool and works in a small niche of cases. But mostly, it's irrelevant.

And that's my summary. Cool, but mostly either inapplicable or irrelevant.
Right, so instead of having a solvable problem with today's tools, let's throw in a new problem that needs new tools to be solved.
> if they can prove that the site operator knew about the contractual term and incited people to breach it.

Notably, the contract didn't yet exist at the time of involvement of the site operator.

At the point of ticket purchase / contractual agreement, the site operator is not involved, and in fact the operator has no knowledge of whether a contract was entered at all.
5.17 merge window is closed.
I know OS X has had a feature for compressing data in RAM on the fly—the processor is much faster than RAM, so compressing & uncompressing & loading a smaller amount of data was faster than just loading the larger amount of uncompressed data. That might be what you're seeing.
Nothing you value can be obtained without your brain, although you might use words other than "smart" to describe the abilities involved.
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most people don't care either

There's the slight problem of having no practial way of knowing which set of headphones will work properly; even most reviews skip these crucial details and just talk about the "warm sound" etc.

If the headsets were marked with things like "kinda works as long as you hold it right", "works ok as long as you have a Samsung phone", "works flawlessly when paired with both your phone and your computer at the same time" at the time of purchase, I'm pretty sure people would let it affect their choice.

That's one of the benefits of staying within your ecosystem of choice; if it doesn't work properly Samsung or Apple can't blame it on someone else - it's their problem to fix.
To be fair i have adhd (as child and adult now) but my doctors always agreed that stimulants arent necessary.

I think this is the main cultural difference, not that its underdiagnosed
I have made a similar site, but just for Lithuanian numbers:

https://fbhack.lekevicius.com

All the numbers that I know for sure to be in the leak return "not found in the leak" on this site.
> Your potential is an utterly subjective objective

Good one.

> but feeling "fully self-actualized" is equally accomplished by achieving your goals or lowering your goals until they're easily achievable.

It's more correlated with finishing what you set out to do. But there's definitely a useful component of comparing yourself with others - if your bar is too low you'll know it even if you don't have the courage to raise it.

> Those with healthy self-esteem feel self-actualized, those with poor self-esteem will feel as though they're never at their best.

Why with the worst way to interpret this? Those who feel accomplished build self-esteem. Yes, it is circular, but it needs to start with something real. You can't just wait to feel good without doing anything to cause it.
tell me more! Struggling to finish, get out what you want, don’t like what you make, overly judgemental of your work?
I am musician/ADHDer for the love of it.
They are in the EU, which means that you are protected by the GDPR. And the websites clearly states that no data is being harvested. I believe that two italian teenagers would not want to get sued to bankruptcy :)
I don’t know if this is related to their app SDK, but many apps use that (including e.g. Google’s own Waze) and that SDK collects analytics in its common Config (and lets you register your own events IIRC).
touché ;)
Not really a crypto warrior but I think it makes a lot of sense for mass payments. I used to lead one of the payment team at Uber ... turns out sending money to people all over the world is a pretty hard problem in the traditional finance space.
KenM, perhaps? https://www.reddit.com/r/KenM/

And then people also post stuff in the same vein: https://www.reddit.com/r/NotKenM/
Not good work at all.

Tabrizi's approach is to tackle a bunch of different subjects with the same attention span of a child on Xmas morning. Each new subject is treated as 'the' most important one, but he drops it unceremoniously after ten minutes.

Then there's the cherry picking of interviewees and their arguments, which is a disservice to the cause – and completely unethical. Even environmentalists interviewed as 'the good guys' complained about this[0].

If Tabrizi is genuinely a fan of the likes of Cousteau and Attenborough, he should watch and listen a lot more before making another documentary.

[0] https://twitter.com/christinachicks/status/13753901779133726...
They are quick to assign generational guilt because they still have to live with the consequences of what happened those generations ago.
Very nice! It's a fun game, and looks really nicely implemented.

Congratulations especially on finding the energy to push through and finish this. It must have been a bit disheartening to see Wordle's massive success, and it could have been an easy excuse not to bother finishing your own game (or at least to radically re-think and simplify it into yet another me-too Wordle clone).
Would you actually buy their services or are you just baiting them / trying to figure out how it work and would never actually buy? I think salespeople at these sorts of companies are probably really good at filtering out the second.
> Electric power steering / steer by wire systems still have a backup mechanical link.

Electric power steering and steer by wire are two different things. A steer by wire system does not have a "mechanical link" backing up the function of the electronics.
Wish I could be there guys but won't be moving down to DC until January, see you then though!
Had never heard of 1000memories. Interesting idea, but how can they really promise to be around "forever?" Does anyone know how they plan to make money on their "free" service?
Which is the part that I was supposed to have misunderstood exactly?
I emailed Dick Durbin and he told me that this legislation was "vitally important to America", and that he would be voting for it. I told him that I wouldn't be voting for him.
He did say:

> Eventually, he thinks that Android quality, consistency, and user satisfaction will match iOS.

Did he deny that part? It's not really clear. I see no reason why this couldn't happen though.
No, not really. Unlike China, our government is too dumb to even do it correctly.

I run my own DNS resolver. Guess what the config will be when this law passes? Step 1, try real DNS. Step 2, try open DNS. Anyone behind my firewall will have no idea that this law even exists.

Also, how does DNS affect bittorrent? I'll tell you how -- not at all.

You can't censor the Internet. Any attempt to try is just hilarious. (Remember when drugs were illegal and nobody could use them? Oh wait...)
OTOH doesn't it make it easier for some of the Myspace holdouts to remain there? Myspace still has a large base in some niches, e.g. musicians, from what I'm told.

I don't use either service, so I really don't know or care beyond that.
I really like Haskell, I do enjoy Rust as well. I really am not a fan of OOP languages, largely because the data flow can be anything you want it to be. When the data flow is linear I find code far more easier to understand.

One thing I dont like about Haskell:
GHC doesn't seem to be aware of some of its escape hatches (allowing for imperative code) and performs incorrect optimizations. I had some trouble working with IORef recently and had to write some hacky code to get it to work properly.
re Alibaba: We're aware of the Alibaba CPU and are following it. It is indeed very interesting. But we also visited one of the factories where their servers are produced. Everything is secret and there seems to be no open-source culture, so we don't have much hope. We tried working with OpenPower servers, but when testing with real workloads, they were ~4x slower than x86 or ARM.

re Secure Boot: We use secure boot / TPM only in Capri servers and it causes of lot of work with suppliers. We are working on a drakut uefi boot with secure boot and are slowly sloving BIOS issues. Linuxboot bios is used on some servers, but it's not maintained and no secure boot, plus the information from Intel to maintain linuxboot is secret with NDA. In general, securing the boot process requires hopping piggyback on larger companies with the same issues and the bargaining power to speak with AMD or Intel, because NDAs are a dead end and without bargaining power, your mileage is short.

If you're interested to discuss in more detail, send me an email and I'll connect you with my boss who knows a lot more.
You can, but it's... a bit messy unless you're using Nix as the build platform. Hopefully there will be a WASM backend for GHC... I mean, it's bound to happen right? :)

If you want statically checked types, I'd probably say that Scala is better at the server+client game (i.e. when you want to have both). Of course, Scala has its own drawbacks wrt. Haskell: lack of typed effects is a big one for me.

(Just for context: I work on a website+SPA written entirely in Scala which has been around for years and years. I also have quite a lot of experience in Haskell.)
Also found this interesting use of push-based communications tech:

Republican AGs group sent robocalls urging march to the Capitol

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/republican-ags-group-se...
I feel like this might have been, at-least in part, caused by Musk's tweet about signal being picked up by shitty trading bots...
> Serious question: Do you include those working at Google and Facebook under this group? Or equivalently ad-driven services? Those two companies (and their siblings) are certainly the most fruitful of trees for surveillance organizations (government or otherwise) to pluck information from.

That's like saying that you oppose a sales tax, and you consider a retail store equivalent to the tax collectors because the retail store provides a fruitful tree for the collection of sales tax.
In defense of the OP, it technically IS the original source. Technology review is a product of MIT and they were merely reposting, word for word, their press release.
There are several electric motorcycles that look pretty good. Google around. I forget which I thought were best (and I'm not knowledgable enough about "normal" bikes to be a great resource anyway).
This has nothing to do with what is being discussed in this subthread.
Ironically, Rails is now in the category of "boring technology" but each major version introduces enough breaking API changes that many apps never get updated. So all the pain of spending a token and little of the pleasure.

With smaller, more loosely-coupled modules, one can spend a fraction of a token here or there and still revert back to the boring way when necessary.
If I thought house prices were falling I certainly wouldn't buy a house, the same goes for any other major purchase.
The article weaves a story out of some incremental light rail in areas where it makes sense. But that's a long way from transforming what suburbs (and even sprawling cities) look like on a broad scale. IMO autonomous vehicles that can really replace car ownership are a long way away but mass transit planning is a long time horizon as well. And if/when they do arrive it's almost inevitable that they'll make driving more attractive, not less.
Enjoy your parsing text files. I'll work with objects instead.
I pretty much agree with him. Although I am a smartphone user I don't think they are as practical as usually portrait. I'd rather press a single button on my washing machine to get more detergent than go through the hassle of pulling my phone, unlocking it, trying to type into an on-screen keyboard (where I'll get it wrong 4 times) etc etc. Actually, I HATE pulling my phone to look stuff up on it, it's usually a huge hassle caused by the combination of shitty wait times til things happen (not just connecting to stuff - why do I have to watch a 0.5s animation of stuff sliding or fading for everything I want to do on it?) + clumsy fingers.
(Edit: I interpreted your comment as asking why we'd allow this post to stay on HN's front page. The answer to that is below. If that wasn't your point, please ignore.)

On HN, we generally go by article quality, not site quality: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so..., and generally try to avoid guilt by association. These points both follow from the principle of intellectual curiosity that we're trying to optimize for: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....

The real world is messier than any simple heuristics, of course, but I think the current article is a good test case. Can one be interested in Kahneman's views on adversarial collaboration and have a curious conversation about them while in no way endorsing or being connected to the heinous Epstein? Clearly one can.
The US's disastrous and inhumane foreign policy started long before 2001 (though 9/11 did make it worse). The Vietnam War (where the US routinely engaged in chemical warfare -- a war crime) immediately springs to mind but there are many other examples.
Oh, I almost always forget how fucked up American healthcare system is. However with this much money, even a 1M stacked, one can live a happy life in anywhere in the world.

I have a friend living in Berlin working 10h / week for a SF startup remotely and meanwhile he enjoys playing music and building stuff for fun.
Note that :

- sony did a project like this : power at prompt (https://code.google.com/p/pyp/).

- an alternative exists to both : pyped (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pyped/1.4) I like it better because it packs many utilities, but that's a matter of taste.

- other projects like that existed prior this one doing the same thing. The author choose to reinvent the wheel instead of contributing. I tend to dislike this behavior.

- both alternatives uses the "pyp" command, instead of the "py" command. The reason is that the "py" command is now an official command in Python on Windows. Installing pythonpy will cause a conflict.
Galway Kinnell
Nice but can you adjust the contrast? All the text on the front page fails WCAG. And the links on the cleaned pages fail as well.
brendangregg is one of The People in performance analysis. Netflix would be foolish to pass on him. So the experience is most likely not representative of the average hire.
The description sounds like it's still the honeymoon phase. Or was Joyent THAT bad? (-;
I'd just like to point out that I'm well aware of the reference you were attempting to make in the original post.
People are what they are, in business or private, there is no such thing as 'another person'. Unless you're suffering from some form of multiple personality disorder.
What part of it exactly makes it illegal? Is it some missing permits or code violations that make it unsafe that would be cost prohibitive to correct?
I'm a hiring manager at Netflix and spend a bunch of time talking to other hiring managers at Netflix.

I don't know anyone who does trick questions (most people I know find them anathema, and even Google -- famous for them -- acknowledges they're useless). I definitely do know some people ask the 'cycle in a linked list' question (or others like it); honestly, I don't see a problem with that set of questions.
> It's not the kind of company where managers or departments hate each other, and use their roles to conduct political warfare.

Political warfare isn't always obvious to a newcomer with several months on the job.
How long have you been using them?
On a related note, anyone got a good bank recommendation?
Congratulations! I see you have a couple of other games. One with 100k-500k installs, one with 50k-100k installs, and one with 10k-50k installs. All of them have in-app purchases. Could you share with us how much you are making with each game?
I would highly recommend just applying. It really puts your thoughts in order for your startup. Also, if you have a ton of ideas, I would try to apply with the one that has the potential to scale quickly and is the simplest to explain to end users.
Thank you very much, it works. The image quality is not so good but the audio is well-audible, so it's good enough. Thanks :-) !
I tried it with the WordPress rewrites ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks ) and I couldn't get it to work. I think the problem is that I didn't know what to put in REQUEST_FILENAME. I tried the following:

REQUEST_FILENAME: I tried blank, "year/month/day/post-name" and "/year/month/day/post-name".

URL: year/month/day/post-name (to give hostname/year/month/day/post-name).

Rewrite rules copied from the WP link above:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

I got one no match and two rules skipped.

EDIT: You have an XSS vulnerability in the URL field. Use the first test from this list: http://ha.ckers.org/xss.html .
That sounds awesome, do you have source code available?
Command + . after it is mostly loaded before the popup comes ujp.
That's incredibly insightful, thank you!

The idea of RPA-as-glue-for-legacy-systems is something that a friend who's building a company in the RPA space had mentioned once. It made sense to me at the time in theory, but this example really helps to drive home how that plays out in practice.
Arguing with Bitcoin shills is fruitless. Luckily there aren't actually that many of them out in the world. Leave them to sell their worthless bytes to each other for $40k while governments slowly regulate it out of existence
Blekko was the only search engine I knew of that provided a no BS unlimited search api. You just had to add '/json' to any request, and you had it their results in json.
Do we not all have a professional alter ego?
I'm a completely different guy when I'm at work, I don't give myself a different name, and it's not the same pressure as a rock star but still, it seems natural.
Then it would be not an hard real time system.
Incitement isn't permitted by any interpretation of the 1st amendment.

The current state of affairs offers nothing more granular than shutting down all of Parler in response to their failure to moderate this speech effectively.
Until they get booted from their ISP or can’t get DDOS protection.
You can leave Twitter with a few clicks. It's a lot harder to leave your country.
Trump has been warning us since the beginning that he wouldn't accept a loss, and instead take the country down with him.

I think most of us didn't fully realize until this week the consequences of not conceding would be this bad.
That's funny because AWS definitely feels like the IBM or Sun of this current era. I wonder what comes along next or if AWS is the "end of history".
Distribution of SciHub content over IPFS.
Yes! The police are overrun with right wingers. With competent policing, this would have been just an ordinary protest.

Everyone needs to ignore the mob and look at the cops. That's where the story is.
Scrutiny only happens when evidence is contested as forged. You have to be willing to lie under oath that the evidence is forged before anyone would even care to look into it. And if it's determined not a fake through other evidence, for example, corroborating witnesses and footage, then you'll have impeached yourself and nobody will really believe you from then on.

Eg, evidence is kind of like a witness. If all the evidence is stacked against you, you're screwed. If one video shows you and you claim it's fake and everything else points to it being fake, there's a shadow of a doubt.

I wouldn't worry too much about forged evidence.