jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Upvote for the Asimov reference, a remarkable depiction of cosmic scale. But they're different stories.
I went and read The Library of Babel and was a lot less impressed than I'd expected to be. It describes a library world in which all possible n-character strings from a 22-letter alphabet, for large n, are written in books. This has very low information content -- I could write a program to print the library's contents in a few lines of code -- so I don't see what the big deal is. (I'm using the Kolmogorov complexity definition of information content here, which I think is the most useful.)

Any filing system which can precisely specify any given book from the Library must contain within each specification (on average) exactly as much information as a given random sequence of n characters -- the catalog numbers have to be as long as the book itself! Given the Library's preposterously low information content, the characters' fascination with random searching seems kind of ridiculous.

On the other hand, I loved The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover, which has some similar themes but is orders of magnitude more mind-bending:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5389450/1/The_Finale_of_the_Ulti...
I think he advertised it as a 'Personal Dropbox Replacement' which suggests he probably just made it for himself and is releasing it to everyone if they wish to use it.

This project is open-source, has no domain name of it's own, no fancy video explaining how it works, no bullet-points explaining why people should dump Dropbox and start using his project, and the author doesn't seem intent on making money from it by advertising it as a 'personal Dropbox Replacement'. It's quite evident that only programmers are going to use this product, considering the dependencies and relative complexity of install procedure.

I don't see anything wrong with the way he has advertised his project as a 'Personal Dropbox Replacement'
We have a link to our, albeit totally old and crappy, demos right on that page: http://demo.sproutcore.com/

We're working on new demos, and a new website. Demos feature much more heavily in the new design, and you definitely don't (and won't) need to install the build tools to run them!
You don't get a Ph.D. for the money...everyone knows that. You get it so you can be a professional researcher (if that is in fact what you want).
The conclusion about a "general place at a general time" seems entirely true when you're on a highway, moving quickly and hopping infrequently to large distant cell towers. No wifi points anywhere close. Just like the chosen example.

I bet its entirely different when you're in any kind of built-up area. Wifi points every few hundred meters, small cell towers every kilometer or two. I bet in those situations, someone could derive a pretty close record of "your moves". Even if the individual points jump around, you're presumably hopping cells and seeing new Wifi APs every few minutes - even when you're just walking around your house or your office - and that data can be triangulated.

I think the OP is right inasmuch as Apple probably didn't set out to track users as much as keep track of connected wifi & cell APs. That doesn't mean the data won't be enough to track movements in urbanised areas.
Region based market segmentation is a whole different problem. How about just being able to sell digital music in Latmonroviastan in the first place? It was a good two years from the opening of the iTunes music store in the US before the iTunes music store in Canada opened - and that's Canada! We're practically the 51st state! Last I checked, none of the really cool music services like rdio or pandora were available outside US territory.

Update: I was wrong. Rdio made it here. Yay!
I think the big difference between today and 1999 was that back then so many people didn't know what they were doing. Companies spent tons of money to not see results and you had tons of warm bodies filling seats with no real biz plan in sight. Also without broadband being everywhere there was a ton of speculation about what would happen next. So as much as I do feel like we're in a bubble of sorts -- it still doesn't feel as crazy as the first dot.com bust because people do seem to know what they're doing just a bit more.
Why do you equate not caring with giving the thumbs up? Perhaps people have considered the wider social implications and have decided that the cost of caring exceeds the potential damage.

Some number of people will lose their phone and their ex-spouse will find it and blackmail them with their location data (but not any other data on the phone). I have tabulated the total damage to society caused by this problem and arrived at a total of X. I have also tabulated the total cost of fixing this problem and arrived at a total of Y. Which is bigger, X or Y?
I'm considering getting the Xperia x8... do you have any feedback on its hardware? Anything particularly good/bad about it?
Depends on the neighbor.

In any case, filters that happen to be shared don't thereby become the "true nature of reality".
Ruby Mongrel is both GPL or Ruby licensed, mostly to keep Debian happy.

Mongrel2 however is AGPL.
Yes, but Roman and medieval slavery and serfdom gave slaves (and serfs) many rights and freedoms chattel slaves in the American south lacked.
and now please, build a tool which converts all these thinks, like imagemagick for machinereadable documents.
We collected all models in our documentation on https://deep-tech.com/training_documentation.html#text-modul... Extractive PEGASUS is not yet there. What do you exactly mean by highlighting/underline?
The first time I peeked at wp code I was flabbergasted at how cavalier they were with piles of inefficient queries.

At the time I was tasked with evaluating it as a "cheaper" replacement for an expensive, managed CMS. My conclusion was it would end up being more expensive to accommodate all of this inefficiency with caching galore not to mention support and dealing with a loss of dynamic web sites.

I looked again last year, assuming it had greatly improved, had replaced all that with GRPC or graphql and nope, still horrendously designed.

I wonder if it's intentional or just a case of support for backwards compatibly.
I love casinos. I went to Vegas all the time when I lived on the west coast. Sadly, not so much since I moved east and had a kid, but what are you gonna do?

I'm a grown man with my own money who has always been responsible with it. Spending a few hours playing cards isn't merely impulsive behavior, it's something I find entertaining. I know more about my own money and my own desires then you do.
Oblivious marketing ppl bullying tech guys into doing stupid things. Such a classic.

Unfortunately I have a hunch aswell that not adding GA does indeed negatively affects SEO.

How would it be possible to prove/disprove this?
The article states that node.js has seen high-profile adoption at Google and Yahoo. I know of some Yahoo people in the community, but does anyone know what Google is using it for?
Entrepreurship is simply engineering at a different level. The jump from building stuff to building businesses is significant, but if you enjoy building and enjoy challenge, then you may do very well.
Flattr is "failing" (failing as in, failing to gain substantial traction) because of lack of users. Notch (of Minecraft fame) used Flattr for a long time on his blog and he removed it because he made so very little off it, even though he has a very high traffic blog.

They shot themselves in the foot when they launched the service: a "private beta". It was the most ridiculous idea ever, here is a service that NEEDS every user they can get vaguely interested to sign up and use it, and then when they have users interested (the initial launch "buzz") they say "nope sorry, it's a private beta, we'll send you an invite some time".

I used Flattr for a while and so little sites used it I just ended my subscription. I was lucky to get an invite too... they should have been trying to take everyone who WANTED to use the service, instead they pushed them away.
A really good password with a really good hash takes more time for values of time exceeding far exceeding any human's lifespan.

Assuming a 10-character random alphanumeric, that'd be 62¹⁰ possibilities (26 uppercase + 26 lowercase + 10 numbers = 62). Even given an insanely fast brcypt of 1µs, that's over thirteen thousand years to get to a 50% chance.

Now, if your hash is a bad one, say MD5, then you're in trouble. GPUs could brute force that ten-character password within a year.
You should adjust your belief to fit the available data, don't adjust the data to fit your belief.

I would normally agree, but in my opinion, surveys fall into the "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" category. They hold the same value as apache-bench numbers that are posted every time a new webstack appears.
Wouldn't they want thebrexitparty.co.uk? .com doesn't seem too sovereign.
I generally agree with Cox but "no one remembers
all the letters, so the only way to use it is with documentation in hand."

Huh?

Who can remember the numbers? The only way to use this format is with the documentation.

It is an easier to read and verify format. However if you think a casual user will remember that "02" is hour and "03" is... wait, is 02 hour? Let me check the documentation.
I instrumented the code and using conditionals resulted in 2x the generation time per loop. These loops are executed only once so the VM doesn't have a chance to optimise them.
Paywalls are annoying
You're all discussing this on a local scale. This is clearly about global upper-wealth distributions. That countries were used to group 1%ers was an arbitrary decision.
> You don't object to innocent people being tortured to death?

Yes, I do object to that. Every single point I made against torture, I obviously support.

But hinging the entire anti-torture argument on innocents isn't going to be enough, sadly. Because of ambiguities about who exactly is innocent, and because of the relative ethics of torturing one possibly innocent victim in order to save potentially huge numbers of other innocents, a more profound argument is needed - one that covers the entire spectrum where torture is used.

In my opinion, this argument has to be about what torture turns us into.

Your interpretation of my comment is both very uncharitable and factually wrong.
True, but imho an ad blocker should just block ads by default. I'm not sure if I'm representative of most users, but I don't really care as much about tracking, just about ads cluttering the page.
> difference between .call and .apply

Well, at least it would give a hint whether the candidate ever touched meta-programming. All the other question are mostly about writing correct code, this was the only one about writing less code.
You mean like this:
https://www.cleveland19.com/story/32814897/men-chant-black-l...
In other words, actual enlightenment era style DIY science.

But then how do I decide whether to recycle or not, vis-à-vis global warming?
Make your own alternative that private companies can decide to stop promoting.
If you read the other DE respond in the tweets, it was DEC/Compaq Alphas. I think it's kind of insane to have gone from 64b back to 32b (and the DE claims it caused big issues). Seems like API alphas running Linux would have been a better play until Opteron made it clear amd64 had a lot of runway.
No, the Capitol Police work for Congress, not the Executive Branch. They are not under Trump at all. The Park Police, the FBI, Homeland Security cops, and the military all ultimately report to the President. The District of Columbia has a strange arrangement with its own elected officials and police, but not as much independence as a US state.

This matters during a coup attempt. Note that when the Capitol Police did get backup, it was from the DC police and the Virginia State Troopers. Neither was under Trump's control.
I wont fall for this nonsense and I encourage anyone reaching this depth to recognize this as the problem we all have to learn to combat.

These people are far to accustom to being rewarded for this rhetoric and double speak.

As I said before, we must learn to call a spade a spade without being guilt tripped into pretending we can't notice the non-spades.

I say it again sir. This argument is bad faith.

As evidence, I encourage you to re-read your argument. Do you not see the difference of the events that YOU are describing?
You’re missing a big key concept: Trump wasn’t on Twitter because he couldn’t afford a website. He was there because it gave him a much larger audience than would otherwise seek him out. The right-wingers who complain about the terms of service being enforced are doing so because they know they aren’t going to build anywhere near the audience without considerably more work and time.
They were all but dead (AFAIK) by the time I was was born, so the old Unixes and RISCs all have a ghostly feel to them to me at least. It's quite strange reading many now-ageing compiler texts talking about 386 as a wacky ISA soon to die out.

I really want an Alpha box to play with, partly out of curiosity but partly to feel like a real man programming with next to no memory consistency.

Although they didn't help themselves it does seem like the probably-ending dominance of X86 has hurt the industry up til now.

edit: It's a pretty crap ISA, controversial?
With all this talk about telecommuting, I wonder if you could do the same thing with your job. You get a telecommuting job and hire someone to do your work (at a lower rate, of course ;-)
They tried a MOOC for remedial classes? That's really baffling to me.
Interesting analysis. It would be interesting to track this after we give some time for web-based Office 2010 to catch up.
Every language has its quirks and pluses; otherwise, it won' survive.

For Chinese vs English (or other alphabet-based languages) in term of semantic representation, the main distinction is semantic GRANULARITY of a base term. English has 26 alphabets as base term, which have no meaning. The 26 alphabets are combined to form words, which have meaning. When a new thing comes along, a brand new word has to be invented.

On the other hand, Chinese has couple thousands (or more) root words as base term that have meaning, which can be used by themselves alone or they can be combined as two-word or three-word phrase as new terms for things. The mixing of root words into new words happen in both Chinese and English. E.g. Firetruck comes from fire and truck, and provides some semantic description of what the term is. It's just that in Chinese, the word combination is the 95% of the language because of large root word set, while only a very small percentage in English due to the inconvenience of combining long words.

In Chinese is very easy and cheap to build new term (2-word or N-word phrase) to describe new thing and got accepted by other people since the semantic of the new term has strong relationship to its composing root words. As in English, firetruck is probably related to fire and truck. You won't call a firetruck as waterboat.
This positively reeks of sample bias. Interesting and misleading is a deadly combination.
So you have this huge, powerful, not particularly sturdy hose sticking out of the middle of your yard.

You decide that you need to stop it up, so you place the top of a bird-bath over it, upside down. How well do you think that will work?

The sea floor is not made of bedrock.
I think we should just replace humans with computers. Then you can program exactly who they talk to. And ban firewalls!
For the record, and yes I'm repeating myself:

Their actual customers are service practices (designers, copywriters, event planners, marketing organizations, business consultants) whose workflow consists of "1. discuss some kind of file, 2. create some kind of file, 3. upload file, 4. discuss file, 5. goto 1". For that workflow, it's great.

It does not work for projects with multiple independently timeboxed steps, or for projects that have complex dependencies. The dependencies need to work like "step 2 depends on file from step 1; step 3 depends on files from step 2".
I'm always using this style because of much better readability.

If I need some shared cleanup code when the function returns, I'm using some of the C++ scope-exit trick. Or in most cases, some of the predefined scope-exit handlers do just what I want. Like:

std::auto_ptr or boost::scoped_ptr
boost::shared_ptr
boost::interprocess::scoped_lock (or I have my own mutex scopedlock class)
No, they make like $95,000 which is only five figures.
that's because normal readers care about founder stories, not features.
3) Education
2) Groupon for live video education. Teacher offers to teach x at a certain time at a certain price per student, with a minimum number of students required. Interesting speakers could offer guest lectures to teachers at the classroom level.
It is amazing how much of an IDE a web browser can be. I use typescript these days to prototype stuff and it is going pretty well. Reload and changes are up. Nothing else even comes close.
> A month later, more questions: "How can I give this game I made to my friend? Even better, is there a way can I put this on my phone so I can show it to kids at school without them having to install it?"

Giving a Pygame game to your friend is pretty easy. It has usually very few dependencies and should be trivial to package. And it's multiplatform (Mac, Windows, Linux including even exotic devices like the Raspberry Pi).

Putting a python game on a phone is definitely more of a problem, but at the same time something that is NOT made for a Phone touch controls will anyway perform poorly if you intend to do a demonstration with it.
This shouldn't be downvoted.

If your boss says "Before you quit, stay and do X at the usual pay rate", this is probably a boss that doesn't respect your decision to quit in the first place. (Probably you quit because you don't want to continue doing Xs at the usual pay rate). The correct answer is either "No" or "Sure, but it will cost you $TEXAS".
Yeah, but even within Peloton's own sphere competition is fierce and IMO some of the biggest "pros" of Peloton are liabilities.

The customer base also includes me - I ended up getting an exercise bike during the pandemic, was in the price range for a Peloton (expensive as it may be), but ended up not choosing the Peloton.

The biggest factor for me is that I didn't want to tie an expensive bike (which will last for many years) to the upgrade cycle of a consumer electronics device. Which is to say, I wanted to bring-my-own-tablet, knowing that I'd want to upgrade the screen far more often than I'd ever want to upgrade the bike. The tight integration here is actually - at least for me - a downside.

There are also a plethora of subscription services now that do on-demand/livestreamed classes that aren't Peloton, and bringing your own tablet allows you freedom to choose any of them. Oddly enough - subscribing to Peloton's own content on an iPad is cheaper than doing so via their own bike, which further compromises the appeal of their hardware.

I ultimately got a Bluetooth-enabled bike that didn't have any screen at all, but instead has a large tablet holder. Throwing my iPad on it and putting in my AirPods has been very usable.
Agreed. I don't mean to vilify the technology itself, but rather the ways in which many artists employ it. What bothers me is when that gap-filling you describe is either not being done or is being done in such a way that retains the character and forms of the reference medium. I similarly dislike it when photographers try to make their photos look like paintings.

I do have misgivings about how reference photography affects the process of certain forms of art-making, but that's another issue entirely. In this case, I'm just talking about effects on the product, not the process.
I've been enjoying this one too -- https://nytimes-spellingbee.com/
Dark theme is left as an exercise for the reader.
George Floyd, for taking fentanyl and overdosing.
It’s been awhile since I was doing psychology, but following is a list of the top of my head (note that I’m likely to misremember or misrepresent some of these):

* One good study demonstrated that a common drug used to treat Parkinson deices has an unfortunate side-effect of limiting dopamine levels in your frontal cortex. People who used that drug are way more likely to engage in anti-social behavior after they start treatment then before. It seems like dopamine levels in your pre-frontal cortex can severely affect your personality.

* Social scientists often create amazing studies where they are easily able to manipulate the environment in such a way that they get participants to e.g. lie, cheat, etc. Off course there is variability within these studies and you can argue that personality trades explains this variability, however I don’t know if that has been done, and if it has, I wouldn’t be surprised if you would find that other factors such as religiousness, socio-economic status, gender, age etc. explains a bigger part of the variability in those social science studies.

* If you are looking for a better general theory of behavior then cognitive science has a number of constructs which don’t have this problem of operational definition. For example research has shown that you can prime people with a stimuli to increase the chances the participants will respond to similar stimuli in a short timespan afterwards.

* Behavioralism is more like a philosophy then science and posits that you can explain behavior by looking at the reinforcement history of an individual. That theory has been somewhat debunked by cognitive science, however behavioralists are still doing some impressive research which shows how you can modify behavior by offering some reinforcement contingencies. The same variability applies though as with social the social science studies.

I tried to sway away from specific studies because it has been a minute since I was studying psychology. But I hope this list is still relevant and accurate, and that it inspires you to go look for the individual studies which backs these claims.

Do note that what I’m doing here is a bit unfair. I’m making grand claims backed by evidence I think exists, but pushing the responsibility of looking for these evidence onto the reader. This is not how science communication is supposed to work, and my only excuse is that I’m lazy.
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We don't know whether the sample bias is on the part of comScore or on the individual webmasters replying to that thread, though.
You wouldn't want to be compiling on an old machine.
There are also editors that do far more, for free. That's not to belittle TextMate users. I'm just saying that when it comes time to making decisions about spending money, it may be difficult to convince some managers to want to fork over the cash for something like this.
Incidentally, as a webdev who targets big businesses, they in fact usually have -slow- computers. Javascript in IE 6 is pokey, and typical use-cases of Outlook and Excel don't need much firepower.

A joe-blow at home on the other hand is either at least at the "corporate" level, or even higher for gaming or media-centering.
Oops, I wanted to submit this, but realized that you did already.

Yeah, wonder why this post did not get on the front page. I find it more useful and interesting than all the posts that contain merely opinions.
even more when disagreeing.
1984 is here and we all look the other way.
1984 is today.