jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it's definitely context-dependent. Buying the wrong kind of tomato may not matter if you're going to eat them for dinner that night. But if your plan is to grow tomatoes using the seeds from the ones you purchased, it suddenly becomes a bigger problem.

You can apply the same reasoning to this UI element. Sometimes - most of the time? - the user doesn't really care about the amount of progress made. They just need to know that something is happening. But at other times, they need to know how much time is actually left on the progress. If that's the case, you need to care about more than just perception.
The whole point of the Singularity is that the technology will progress to a point where AI techniques will advance to produce something that is creative and intelligent enough to advance itself.

Obviously, we haven't hit that point yet - so we don't know what those advances are.

Before penicillin was discovered, doctors couldn't conceive of curing many serious and deadly infections.
Now this is looks pretty nice and I'd like it to take off. It can be the next Lisp Machine but unfortunately it raises a red flag with the licensing terms - MIT.
The author distributed the binary without the source code which is fine with MIT. He might release the code or change his mind and never release it. Again this is his choice.

But at this point, the distributed image is not any different than a proprietary solution. What good is it for me if I can't change it?

No flame-wars please.
Yes just draw Muhammad.
Why the need to focus on the negative: "DESTROY 10M Jobs".

Jobs will be lost, yes. Yet everyone will enjoy the same service as before at a safer level.

In essence nothing is lost. Human beings won free time. I really hope I live to see the day where we stop idealizing the fact that everyone has a job.
You could replace the word "creative" with the word "intelligence" in that statement.
Excuse me, this is headdesk-worthy clickbait material.

wham Cognition! wham Is! wham Lawful!

If you can scientifically characterize human creativity, then you can program an algorithm to behave creatively. If you believe you cannot program an algorithm to behave creatively, then this is because you don't understand creativity as a cognitive function.

Why is it that as soon as someone says "AI" everyone turns off their normal scientific/naturalist worldview and starts going yippity-skip-de-doo in fairyland!?
I'd guess they use it on their hosted platform.
> Q: Could the snake kill me?

> A: That almost never happens. But if you’re worried, just make sure that you write a good thesis.
I'm talking about a whole community, not individuals. If some individuals are burned using centralized service, all others can learn from it and move elsewhere or choose more wisely. Not so with banking system which burns everyone and no one can opt out or compete with it.
The github repo description says "Deprecated!" [1]

Seems like there's not much activity lately either [2]

[1]: https://github.com/appjs/appjs
[2]: https://github.com/appjs/appjs/commits/master
1 person in 50 maybe has what it takes to make it to the level of programming where they can read and understand TAOCP and where doing so makes sense for them.

However almost everybody smart enough to muddle through college has what it takes to learn enough programming where they can use it to solve some simple everyday problems they'll face in whatever job the end up in.
I stopped visiting Lifehacker not just because of the redesign, but also because the noise began to drown out the signal. They post a ridiculous amount a day, and I just wasn't interested in most of it. I'd rather follow something with fewer posts and much better quality than be overwhelmed by their firehose.

Of course, that's just for browsing by RSS. I suppose the "tons o content" model is geared towards people that visit occasionally over the course of a day. But with the hideous design, why would you want to?
Only if you exclude linux servers.
Sorry, I don't quite get this. Why can't I just grab my public IP address from Whatismyip.com, and check the Web Sharing option under System Preferences on my Mac? (For Linux, simply fire up Apache; my guess is that most Linux users know how to do that).
Yes, but the actual being human is the result of a long time of evolution of the physical human body i.e., there are no indications you can recreate a human mind without having a human body attached to it. This is in fact a tough question in philosophy and cognitive neuroscience (see mind-body problem).
Oh but I detect that you care. Well, the difference between this and an obscure open source project buried on git hub is for a starter to at least have a web-site at localtunnel.com!
sorry, I wasn't clear. I wasn't asking WHAT velocity of money is, I was asking someone to explain the author's velocity of money argument. i.e. transfering wealth out of btc accelerates the velocity.

q, m, v, and p remain relatively constant in that transaction unless the liquidity event causes a persistent decrease in the price level (no evidence that the current BTC market could support it, but also c.f. above my comments about immature markets and liquidity).
It may be that the request didn't make it to Lady Gaga until the full song was sent over.

Think about it from the assistant's point of view, who reports to Lady Gaga. He doesn't want to take something to Lady Gaga and have her say, "Mmmm.... I don't know" and have the issue unresolved. Meanwhile, it costs none of his own effort to ask Weird Al to send over the recorded song, which he can then take to Lady Gaga in its entirety.
This really reminds me of the common tale of a hacker working on contract, with the employer constantly promising "Don't worry, you'll be paid later", but never in fact planning to pay.

Has Weird Al learned what every hacker should know? Don't commit yourself to work based on the maybes of someone you have no reason to trust.
Have you tried using screen[1]? Might make things a little easier than have two separate SSH connections.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
If you can't verify your messages are E2EE, you have to trust the vendor. But if you trust the vendor, you don't need E2EE to begin with.
wait.for, waits for fs.readfile to callback, and returns "data" from callback(err,data)

wait.for(fs.readfile,'/etc/passwd') == fs.readfileSync('/etc/passwd')

wait.for allows you to call any async function as if it were a sync function, without blocking node's event loop.
It works inside a fiber. Check the examples.
I would assume just media wise
The title is a bit clickbaity, but ignore that and it's a useful tip you might not know. The author doesn't actually demand you stop using tail -f if you like it better.
Only if the company is really killing it.
Even when you don't want less +F, a good alternative to tail -f is tail -F. It survives log rotation, and the file being temporarily inaccessible:

--retry
keep trying to open a file even if it is inaccessible when tail
starts or if it becomes inaccessible later; useful when follow-
ing by name, i.e., with --follow=name

-F same as --follow=name --retry
Hence why the page explains in detail that a pro will first be sent to your property to determine if the goats are a good fit there.
Annoying detail for DEFLATE + dictionary is that the dictionary has to be provided within every reader (setDictionary in java).

The output from the DEFLATE stream is not standalone, which makes it really hard to use - a more ideal approach would've been to provide training to the Huffman tree & guess best window sizing from a sample.

But SDCH solves that problem by storing an external named dictionary - clients will read it off a common HTTP location if it's missing in the cache.

Within that, there's a pretty neat standard which SDCH uses - RFC 3284.

I ran into it trying to optimize holding a few billion serialized blogs within an in-memory store with transactional updates - the issue was mostly the in-memory sizes of serialized objects.

I ended up using a versioned external dictionary for compression, which was an extension to VCDIFF with 1 additional instruction in its streams - COPY_DICT.

That concept can be pushed further, to get to something more generic like femtozip - https://github.com/gtoubassi/femtozip/wiki/How-femtozip-work...
Any evidence these 2 agents provided would be regarded as unreliable.
The CM brand sort of surprised me. I am a keyboard snob and didn't really consider them as they are marketed as a "gaming" keyboard. Then I saw they had a "Hybrid Capacitive" (read: Topre) keyboard, which is my absolute favorite switch type -- but this had a unique spin, Topre + Cherry Caps...

I was able to get my hands on one, and it felt perfect... tenless, nkey rollover, topre, cherry mx keycaps, removable cable and built like a truck (thing is like 2 pounds).
> Why the obsession of economic growth?

Easy. Essentially unknowable/unpredictable future growth expectations/extrapolations were already baked into present-day voter promises, welfare obligations and many bank/insurance/pension calculations, plus current "financial asset" valuations. Now the big scramble is on to will said growth assumptions into actually happening, lest "all bets will be off", literally.
Yep, it's immediately what I thought of when we saw the Google Glass Field trip app released earlier this week. Google could offer an invaluable service to businesses and consumers alike if they could orchestrate the relationship between the two.
when was the last time an Australian startup
did anything interesting

Just today, like any other day as a matter of fact. The startup culture in Australia is evolving. Checkout http://www.technation.com.au/aussie-startup-index/ for starters.

Adioso, an Australian Startup, is a YC alumni (2008) - http://www.crunchbase.com/company/adioso

My startup is proudly Australian (and profitable) - http://feedity.com

Edit: What's missing though is investment in technology startups, apart from the plethora of financial systems, the much touted National Broadband Network and a handful of research projects.
"Until we have equal rights for {x} then America will never be safe."

I'm quite certain you can't argue that "the terrorists" would stop attacking us if only we had equal rights for LGBT in this country.

And the fact that 1 guy may or may not have have leaked the documents because he may or may not have felt discriminated against isn't much of a reason to argue FOR equal rights.

I'd prefer to argue FOR equal rights on the basis of the that being the morally right position, rather than do what you did and threaten those that are against equal rights with consequences. THat is just fear mongering.
Have you found the relevant cables somewhere online? I've been looking and am unable to locate the actual cables involved in this particular story.
It's just down to naming and the fact that TrebuchetMS != Trebuchet MS.
I just used said stacktrace to find the problem. So... it has its advantages and disadvantages :)
campaignmonitor.com?
wearehunted.com
sitepoint.com
What are good alternatives for data crunching? Incanter suitable yet?
That's pretty darn clever! That's the only time I've seen a language that looked seriously type-able on such a small keyboard.
I would guess that the OP means realpolitik. Where there is power, there is corruption. Smuggling currency is a very (very) common hobby. Horse-trading (influence for money, trade deals for extradition, taking in inconvenient "no longer enemy combatants" in exchange for influence or money), etc, is a daily thing. To survive and thrive you need to think about practical considerations more than ideals or principles.

Take this point about Pakistan's nuclear fuel. First, it's a bit odd that we countenance a nuclear program in Pakistan, a muslim country that has been involved in several border wars, but a nuclear program in Iran or Iraq is grounds for invasion. The reasons for that, what looks like gross hypocrisy, are many.

The Pakistani diplomat wasn't objecting to the removal of the fuel per se, but how it will play in the local media and politics. That may or may not be bullshit, and perhaps beside the point. Or maybe its not. No one, not even the diplomats know everything. There are always plans within plans and forces at cross-purposes and idiots who value expedience over long-term planning.

Western folk tend not to have internalized this point of view. Taken too far it leads to paranoia, but I wouldn't mind a slightly larger dose of "reality" in the thinking of the average US voter.
Interesting: Use my blog platform! Here is the code!

https://github.com/brislink/specter
Just the engineers?

Did you ever work on a project where you said to your boss, "We need to do X or this won't work," and your boss said, "X is too [expensive | time consuming | difficult], we won't do that."

Or a project where your boss hired a bunch of incompetents at the last minute because the project was running late, and the new hires made endless mistakes that you then had to fix?

Do you want to seppuku because your nuclear plant blew up because your boss was an idiot and wouldn't listen to the engineers?

And don't suggest that the engineers become whistleblowers. We all know how that turns out.
Compared to WordPress, you definitely do; but think about it, there's lots of stuff in WordPress that a blogger doesn't need. WordPress is not just a blogging platform [anymore]. However, on the other hand, by using static sites you're entering a whole new level of security. But don't fear, for commenting, there's Disqus which is pretty good, and I think it's built into specter as well! Even if not so, adding it is just copying and pasting a couple of lines of code :)
First of all, I must say that I love Ubuntu on my desktop, being my main and only desktop OS, however I think Shuttleworth is deluding himself ...

So, I'm having problems seeing Ubuntu compete with Android. He claims that Android is too fragmented, but regular users aren't complaining about fragmentation, mobile makers and careers aren't complaining about it either. How can they, when they are responsible for it? If anything, the only reason they'd like an alternative is precisely because Google is imposing their will on them. The only people complaining and caring about fragmentation are the developers. And for good reason, fragmentation is a serious problem, however this hasn't stopped Android from dominating the landscape. And Google, with all of their muscles, still hasn't solved it and it isn't for a lack of trying - I'm really curious about how Canonical plans to solve it, because I'm not seeing it as being something solvable, at least not by Canonical.

If fragmentation + being an alternative are Ubuntu's sole raison d'être on mobile, then it has no way to win anything. And also ...

> [Shuttleworth] says that Firefox OS has the weakness that "everything it does is in the browser, and that isn't necessarily going to be recognised by websites as a mobile browser - so you get the desktop site on your mobile screen. Ubuntu uses a WebKit-based browser [like Apple's MobileSafari and Google Chrome] so you get the mobile one."

I've been using Firefox on my Android(s) for about 1 year. I think it is the best mobile browser right now and I never noticed the above problem.

I'm not saying that it doesn't happen sometimes (maybe it does), however the mobile web landscape is in a funny state right now. Companies and individuals that care about the mobile web (e.g. Twitter, Google) do realize that WebKit is not the only game in town. Companies that don't are those that provide a miserable web experience, so I end up requesting the desktop version anyway.

Plus, Google forked WebKit and Internet Explorer 11 is presenting itself as WebKit although it isn't. I've also spotted plenty of differences between desktop Safari, iOS Safari, Chrome and Android's stock browser, while working with HTML5. Also Google advises tablet makers to differentiate tablets from phones by identifying the browser as "Safari" versus "Mobile Safari". Add to that the dozens and dozens of different Androids on the markets, some of which respect these guidelines, some of which don't, with their slow upgrade cycle and by relying on "WebKit" (whatever that means) you've got yourself a recipe for mediocrity.

On Firefox OS, I think it is in a much better position to cater to those 25% of users that Shuttleworth is targeting, as Firefox OS does bring something new to the table - (a) it is created to run on low end phones from the get-go, (b) it is a platform based on open web standards designed to be extremely developer friendly and for breeding new web standards and (c) the web browser is the ultimate sandbox.

If Firefox OS wins 3% of the market, everybody wins. If Ubuntu wins 3% of the market, nobody will notice anything.
That's an interesting little fact, I'd have assumed (naively) it'd be closer to 1 in 10 for phone ownership in prison populations due to the risk in things coming over the walls.
This is an insightful point that those who push for austerity measures and privatisation always seem to miss.

A government saves money if it pays €x to employ local taxpayers instead of sending that same amount abroad. It will still break even on the decision if it employs locals for €x+n, where n is the amount they recoup in tax from those locals. Even more if those locals would otherwise be unemployed.
I always feel like I get stuck way more than I make progress. :(
Sarah's pretty sharp. IIRC, she single handedly built Linux's USB 3 support.
My opinion of the NYT has dwindled in the past year. WSJ has been much more accurate and moderate.
Paper and pencil, PowerPoint, balsamiq (but I stopped using it because it's overpriced), and Adobe XD.
I can handle more heat than you can perhaps? I also have MBP 16" 2019 version and it gets no where close to any uncomfortable region for me on full throttle. I also drink my coffee scaldingly hot :)
whatever happened to the mentality, that "nobody ever got fired buying IBM" - seems to me that 175k for a corporation paying an exceptional engineer would see that as a steal.

I think a lot of the discussion is assuming FAANG rates, and realistically, exceptional engineers at those companies should be getting paid absurd, outrageous amounts of money. However what you're talking about is a smaller company, and sure, you can hire two average engineers for only 2/7th more money than one exceptional person.
Who knows? Some actions carry consequences that can easily outlast a lifetime
2021 is my personal year of the Linux desktop. I haven’t found an office suite I particularly like. For documents, I’d love something as lightweight and focused as IA Writer. Right now, I’ve settled on VS Code + markdown combined with the markdown PDF plugin. It’s not bad, actually. And Zen mode gets me most of the way to what I liked about IA Writer.
I will say that almost every national or state level decision so far (other than San Francisco) has a very tangible tardiness to it. Washington state started with 6 cases, in 2-3 weeks NY has over 4K. Is Texas on lockdown yet? They sure will be in exactly two weeks (tangibly tardy).

God forbid a state pre-emptively goes on lockdown to shorten the overall downtime vs waiting too long, having to lockdown anyway, and dragging the whole mess out.
> things that have a chance to be quantum leaps for a software project get shot down

Just genuinely cuorius, what examples do you have in mind ?

Personally i have hope that in 50years homotopy type theory (ane generally formal methods) will find real applications in the industry
It's possible that Mechner did go into further detail and it was cut for this video. Keep an eye on this channel; recent videos in this series (Rand Miller and Lorne Lanning) had the full un-cut interviews posted, which go on for hours and are well worth it if you're into this stuff.
What do you think about a language like Rust that is trying to bring some of these ideas into a C++-like language from the get-go, without the necessity of interacting with code written more than two decades (or one decade, or one year, or sometimes even one month) ago?

I'm curious because you seem to have made two different points: 1) it doesn't make sense because adding new features to such an old and widely used language is hard, and 2) it doesn't make sense because of the kind of language C++ is. (1) isn't true for Rust, but (2) is.
If she had stopped at "Your invite to connect is inappropriate, beneficial only to you, and tacky" we wouldn't have even known about it.

Do you actually use LinkedIn? You seem to be assigning a connection with some sort of profound meaning that it simply doesn't have. Indeed, if you follow LinkedIn's standard user flow, it will generate connection invites for anyone who you've ever corresponded with and saved as a contact on your email platform. If you get invites that you don't want to reciprocate, you ignore them.

And isn't it glorious irony that someone in the business of networking complains about someone trying to network?

Add that LinkedIn allows you to restrict who can even send you invites (which this woman didn't use), and who can see your connections (which is apparently the grave concern here).

Sorry, this woman was obviously having a very bad day, with a strange hint that they may feel threatened by youth, and decided to explode on a stranger -- in a very inappropriate and tacky way. There is nothing "right" about their action.
I don't really see us getting many more IT/CS engineers anytime soon. The amount of businesses that actually need a programmer / tech person on staff keeps increasing while the amount of engineers out there stays relatively the same. That's why we can charge so much for our hours. It's a seller's market. Even if the country decided to make programming part of the elementary school curriculum it wouldn't necessarily translate into more engineers because computer science & IT people tend to be nerds/geeks who like to tinker in their free time and as a percentage of the population they stay relatively the same from year to year. If anything the kind of programming curriculum that most programmers dream of might actually create more of a demand for them because finally everyone who's not a programmer will realize the potential value of having a good programmer on staff.

The amount of office drones I see messing around with giant Excel sheets for hours doing the same task day in day out that could easily be automated by a simple application is astounding.
Weak ptr/reference.

Also I would say that it's very uncommon to do/need something like this so it shouldn't be cited as an reason for cycles to be generally handled.
It made a huge impression on many children in the 50s still - there were still tens of thousands dying and being paralyzed each year until the late 50s, and by this point they were predominantly small children being affected. My parents are in their early 60s and they remember it well - when she was five her friend was partially paralyzed for life by it. https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/us-polio-cases-195... had friends who died. They were given behavior restrictions.
Other than their morals?

Well, I suppose there are legal implications: that's known as "theft". Also there are the morals of every other employee... I believe Coinbase is set up with standard controls so no one person can steal funds without it being obvious to (and preferably requiring the cooperation of) other employees.

I would ask a similar question: What's preventing Nationwide Insurance, Chase Bank, and e-Trade from shutting down operations tomorrow and walking away with everyone's money? The biggest difference between these institutions and MtGox is that these institutions all have regulators who have the power to (in extremis) take over the operations of the institution if it begins to show the same kinds of trouble that MtGox showed for quite some time before its collapse. Coinbase is not currently subject to any such regulation.