jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
50 cycles per degree is not the same as 50 pixels per degree.

If your eye can resolve 50 cycles per degree, that means it can tell the difference between a uniform grey and something that alternates between black and white 50 times per degree. To display such a pattern, you'd need 100 pixels per degree (black, white, black, white, ..., with 50 pairs).
Sure, phyto- and xeno-estrogens are strong suspects in this case. But here's another data point:

Measure the testosterone level in your bloodstream.

Then for a few weeks start doing heavy squats (weight lifting) every other day, go car racing, skydiving, etc.

Now measure T again. See the difference?

There are all sorts of things like that. The bottom line is, the more secure the environment, the less the need for men to be "men".

Also, I was not implying that the new evolutionary pressures have already made changes, I was just saying the changes are being made now - but how long before they will become visible, I have no idea. Probably not tomorrow.
You misunderstood my comment: I said I actually find the addition of wallpapers interesting. My rant is about linking to the good old page after the fact as if that's noteworthy. I mean, Google was going to remove the wallpaper at the end of the day just like they do with their logo art anyways.
Yep we have about 10 xw8600/8400 with HP P400 SAS controllers. Disks come in and out as they fail but the machines just never seem to die. I have never seen one crash either.
Can anyone post some specific bugs OP here is talking about ? I would love to know them.
Nice. This is also very helpful for people like me who are comfortable with embedded systems but have little or no modern web development skills.
I don't understand the outrage on this-- your wireless carrier probably has an identical file somewhere as well. At least you have a copy of it.

My suggestion: for the next YC application, invent a way for people to sell this data back to marketeers. I'll sell my data for a lot less than what Apple's or AT&T are charging.
You can write CoffeeScript that uses jQuery, so that it compiles down to Javascript that uses jQuery.

You can also use Javascript and jQuery directly.

Or you can write CoffeeScript without using jQuery at all.
I agree; throughout the development of Clojure Atlas (which uses Raphael and arborjs heavily), I've observed this rough ranking:

Chrome > IE >= Safari > Firefox
Who thought this was important enough to go on Download Center?? Seriously?
I thought normal users (who haven't rooted their phones) wouldn't have easy access to the root filesystem. I just looked on my phone (just by plugging it into my computer and putting it in filesystem mode), and looked, and I don't see the folder he's talking about.

Am I wrong? I'm not really sure about this.
Note also that 0.1-0.5% refers to irrecoverable data loss, not temporary unavailability.
Yea I'd be interested to know this too!
This article is kind of disappointing.

> Between 2007 and 2011, pre-tax profits of the five studios controlled by large media conglomerates (Disney, Universal, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros) fell by around 40%, says Benjamin Swinburne of Morgan Stanley.

Mass-market luxury industry takes hit during largest recession since Great Depression. News at 11.

>In 2011 American cinemas sold 1.28 billion tickets, the smallest number since 1995. Last year, ticket sales rose back to 1.36 billion and box-office revenues to a record $10.8 billion

So the year over year volatility is in the single digits and following the economic recovery they're back to making record profits.

It seems like the only point the article makes is that that TV is doing better than film right now. But that isn't "movies are doomed," just "TV is doing really well."

>A move from analogue to digital film enabled perfectionist directors to shoot more takes and touch them up afterward, using up expensive production and editing time. Studios have also started to make more “tent pole” films: big releases that can support the bottom line like a pole holds up a tent. These typically rely on expensive special effects, rather than compelling scripts, to attract a global audience.

Jevon's effect in action. The thing is, that's not actually a problem: If you're making more profit from doing that than it costs to do it, it's sustainable. If you're not, why are you doing it? Stop it and go back to creating a larger number of less expensive films based on compelling scripts rather than special effects. It seems to be what people are asking for anyway. You can't simultaneously expect to be taken seriously in complaining that what you're doing isn't working and refuse to change what you're doing.

They keep talking about John Carter as a failure. I saw it. It wasn't great. And the reason wasn't bad acting or bad special effects, it was that it had a mediocre script. So yeah, try hiring some better writers next time. They apparently cost less than special effects anyway.

>Between 2006 and 2012, the six big studios also cut the number of films they made by 14-54%, according to Nomura.

And then they wonder why they're not doing as well as they want to.

>And they started to pay actors and directors far less.

It's about time. Hard to find sympathy for "we're not making enough money" when you're still paying eight figure compensation to individuals.
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For me a better tech world is one without social media. I quitted them 2 years ago and i feel happier than ever. Whenever i have to go through opening a link to someone’s tweet and read the toxicity in the comments, or a random tiktok video with people doing nonsense, or a fake instagram post with a random quote, i feel more happy for my decision. But it’s my personal anecdote and i am member of the typical hn social media hater crowd (:-)) so feel free to ignore.
The idea behind nuclear wars, asteroid strikes, or super volcanoes isn't that the events would directly kill every human being, but that their associated effects would. In all three cases, throwing large amounts of dust into the atmosphere would rapidly cool the Earth, making it more difficult for farmers to grow crops, and creating large-scale starvation.

I do not disagree with you that any location on Earth is more amenable to human habitation than outer space, but I do not think that there are facts to support your claims that an event that would drastic change the Earth's climate for the worse would not affect humanity.
I felt like it was humorous and fun, a tounge in the cheek style not meant to be taken seriously.
> Simple != Easy

> For some, simple would be more like Haskell, while for others bash (until they need to understand old code). Each eye of the beholder can argue either way.

Certainly simple != easy, but I think in the second part there "simple" should be replaced with "easy". Simple is objective, while easy is subjective [1]. Haskell may be easier for some as they've spent more time with it, similarly bash for others. However, their simplicity, i.e. how many concerns are intertwined, how much global context is required to reason about a program, can be more objectively analyzed.

> The article talks about simplifying, though is more about discipline, something many find hard to find motivation and incentives for in this age of instant gratification!

Indeed, it takes discipline to maintain simplicity. Simplicity is hard. Complexity is easy. "If I had more time to write, this letter would be shorter."

[1] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/
This comment doesn't make sense. You're getting more cores than previous generation of HEDT, and the equivalent Intel processors aren't cheaper at all.

This is a new market segment. If you want a fast cpu, the Ryzen 7 and 9 series are completely fine if you want that price range!

The exact same price range as you're used to still exist.

On the other hand, people have been used to paying exorbitantly for Xeon processors, like 2000-5000 per cpu, so this is a breath of fresh air.
A service provider terminating Wikileaks for AUP violations after they began publishing classified diplomatic cables; one of the oldest educational institutions on Earth standing up for a student's MPhil thesis.

Totally the same thing. How did I miss this?
In the vast majority of situations where I have seen unauthorized use of data in this fashion it was customer support people. All the encryption in the world doesn't help if you build tools that allow relatively low paid and under-trained employees to access the data at will.

Effective things you can do to reduce risk:

- Deploy honeypot accounts that email multiple people if they are accessed
- Create a two-man system that requires a second person to approve "risky" things
- Require a 2FA token for your internal tools
- Email the user when they log in from a new IP address
- Have support staff use two different browsers - one to access the ticket system and another to access internal tools
Just thinking out loud, but if this codec becomes dominant, and is only released by Microsoft on the Windows platform, perhaps it's another reason to prefer Windows over OSX?
Specifically regarding learning Ruby/Rails, I would recommend taking a look at http://railstutorial.org/ - this is the best rails tutorial I have come across.

Also, you might try learning Sinatra before Rails. Sinatra is very simple and streamlined (but still incredibly flexible and powerful since it is on Rack). Rails does a lot of things that may seem like magic, but with Sinatra it is always very easy to understand what is going on with your app. http://www.sinatrarb.com/
Adobe's recent $1B quarter (and all the renewed confidence that comes with a milestone like that) will fuel their continued spree.
We got featured on TC :)
I'd make one, but the results might be embarrasing.

Seriously, I need to set up a personal blog just so I can add stuff like this.
I moved to Chicago three years ago, and it was around even then. The feature enabled me to quickly learn all of the routes.
I miss college.
I'm just going on chrono numbers I've seen in the past, e.g. http://www.hipointfirearmsforums.com/Forum/index.php?topic=3...

The only stuff that's consistently making supersonic out of the list is the high velocity stuff. Even Remington Golden Bullet (which Remington advertises as "high velocity" according to the box I have sitting on my desk) falls short of supersonic from pistol length barrels.

I guess the fairer thing to say would be that .22LR is borderline but it drops below supersonic pretty quickly once you start shaving barrel length.
Certainly true. Though higher price with lower rates, assuming monthly payment is the same, can be beneficial as a larger percentage of your payment goes towards principal. That only holds as a positive if price doesn't drop due to interest rate increases.

But I'd definitely rather be buying a house in a high interest rate environment... don't like the tail risk given how low rates are.
You can't just not use that functionality. But getting the GPU to work is essentially required.
As far as I can tell, we do not know that "our disrespect for complex ecosystems we barely understand" is likely to make big changes to the global ecosystem...Some of the things we've done have had great positive effects. Some have been catastrophic. Most have been relatively inconsequential.

Inconsequential? Then you haven't been paying attention to history. We've had freakin huge impacts on our ecosystem throughout our history, even predating recorded history. The disappearance of huge tracts of North American forest. The same for British and European forests. The Colorado River dwindling into nothing. Virtual eradication of Bison. Eradication of the Passenger pigeon. Aborigines causing the unintentional desertification of much of Australia. The current desertification of Africa. Virtual disappearance of Salmon from the North American west coast. None of these have been inconsequential. Some have caused tremendous benefits to people, but all have had significant negative impact.

The result is never clear beforehand — that's the whole idea behind experimentation and the scientific method. Otherwise you're left with fearmongering and superstition.

Many scientists refrain from experimenting on their own bodies. This has nothing to do with "fearmongering and superstition." When scientists do experiment on themselves, they are generally certain that it won't have permanent consequences. Again, nothing to do with "fearmongering and superstition." You categorically state that we won't know what happens.
From the data you provide, this doesn't sound like it backfired at all.

In a difficult situation, you're the only one who did the right thing and it led to nothing. This says more about others than it says about you.

You boss got mad, yelled at you, and got fired. That's his problem, not yours. Others suffered or got fired and work wasn't finished. Again, their problem, not yours.

I think you should hold your head high and be proud. You pushed the envelope and challenged others, knowing full well that they might resist. The resulting negativity had nothing to do with your efforts and everything to do things being fucked up long before you got there. Don't let the illogical actions of others upset you, don't be depressed, and most of all, don't hesitate to continue to be proactive. The rewards may seem elusive, but believe me, you will find them.
Design: I would look at sortfolio and contact them directly
Development: I would look at design shops with development (one company is better) again, they can be found on sortfolio.

If you are looking intl, then you have odesk, elance, guru and rentacoder.

You definitely should make sure that it is scoped out, with business rules, wireframes, use cases, etc. All of these will help the contractors come up with a realistic price and timeframe.
the article talks about the posibility of outsourcing factory work out of China, but I wonder if the chinese government will allow that. They have been pretty ruthless when it comes to defending their own economy
"Ask forgiveness rather than permission" is not equivalent to "forge ahead without thought for the consequences". Completely rewriting a codebase by yourself to show up a team that has been working on it for a long time might mean better code, but it's also a direct demonstration of the ineffectiveness of that team. Of course some kind of major shake-up is going to happen after something like that. Firing people might be a little extreme, but you certainly have to expect that it's a possibility.

If you don't have the stomach for directly causing people to get fired, or for conflict, then don't go out of your way to demonstrate how poorly they're doing their job. Find your way out to something else, and let them do themselves in.
Stack Overflow is another application patterned on a gaming badge/reward system. On the Stack Overflow podcasts, Jeff talked about how he was deliberately copying the XBox idea of badges for rewarding specific achievements and unlocking additional functionality.
There must be loads surely, lots of people are talking about the hiring frenzy!
"Sorry, Internal Server Error."

Sadly, that's probably what's next for Delicious.
Their Strategy Department is found to the right of the Office of Public Relations which is down the hall from their Search Engine HQ and their Research Lab for Unicorn Care.
When I last used Fink (years ago), it was "apt for OS X" in roughly the same way that an off-brand Android tablet is an iPad: It looks more or less like the same thing, but you just don't get the same experience.

Does anyone use Fink these days?
It doesn't matter what goes into a PHD process. In the real world you get respect for what you can do not the process by which you obtained skills. As I said the woman I was referring to admitted her students test scores were poor (though she blamed it on external factors)

So I'm absolutely condescending of people who think because they went through a process of any kind they are automatically entitled to respect and high pay. I respect people who prove their worth to society.
I don't deny that. He has been a terrible president, one of the worst we've seen and certainly the worst on domestic policy in my lifetime. His ambitions -- addled and confused though they are -- reflect the worst impulses of this country.
As if that hasn't been tried like dozens of times since 2016.
Because making a cellphone call to an overseas cellphone number costs way too much vs free?

Edit: sometimes I also start with an audio call, but midway there's something I want to show them, so we switch to video by just pressing 1 button.
That array is indexed by an array of random numbers and there are only 3M of them. That should be enough assuming even 4 bytes per index it will just fit in the 12MB cache, but then there are accesses to the big array as well.
How so? Let's take it to the extreme, suppose he called on his followers to murder group XYZ. Should Twitter allow that? If the answer is no, then it's not 'scary' at all that such a message could be censored.

If you're saying that this particular message shouldn't have been cancelled, different discussion.

But you literally have a mob which stormed and broke into the capitol of the US, with armed guns, and explosives being found, all of which directly linked to the president lying for weeks, instigating things and calling on his followers to rise up, now obviously resulting in risk of violence and at least one person getting shot in the neck. The notion that such lies should continue to be freely posted on a platform that has basic rules in place just because it's the president, is insane. If the president is insane and it's causing violence, you can't just sit back. (insert obligatory WWII/Hitler reference if you will)

Lastly, he has plenty of communication channels. What's scary is if a private company like Twitter or any other news outlet got forced to publish whatever the current person in power wanted to say on their platform.
Was she lawfully there? She was climbing through a hole in a door where she and her fellow agressors just smashed a glass pane. Did she have a bomb in her backpack? (Probably not, but hey, others have been killed for less...)
> A person is on the street and talking about killing unbelievers. Should it matter if the speaker believes are from a system that the government has on a list of protected class, or is the single critical fact from a legal perspective that the speaker is encouraging violence?

No of course not, and both American and European law handle this case in my understanding. Inciting violence isn’t “cancel culture”.

> Let take a second example. A store employee is insulting a customer by calling them a penniless rat. Should such insult be treated different from the employer then if they used a racial insult?

Yes, absolutely. Again, it isn’t the demographic that makes the difference, it’s the attribute used to define the demographic. There are a few attributes that the American government has decided are worth intervening by force to stop.

In this case, The shop keep can condescend to the potential customer, and that customer is free to tell everyone not to shop at their store as a result, which causes the damages and gives you a right to fire them. Sure. I mean, maybe as an American used to almost no labor protections I don’t understand the question :D

But in the case where the employee denied service on the base of race, a protected class, then you have a criminal issue in addition to the civil issue.

> Can you think of an example where in a religious context some action should be legal but in a political context should not?

I don’t understand the question to be honest.
> as the income inequality progresses, how long will it take before your close family will start asking you (the hypothetical rich developer) for help?

and how much help will you be able to offer, given your prior lack of optimization for this very scenario?

> Will you turn them away, to enjoy your six figures in peace?

"I gave already, it was taken out of my income before I had a chance to spend it, go away now"
Everything you wrote is pathetically false. Why not be honest because shitty propaganda harms your cause more than it helps.
Can you ELI5 it's value proposition?
> I knew before reading the article this would be a defence of views which hold other lives to be worth less than the author (racism), because they felt the need to be so abstract.

Wait, which part of the article is doing this? The excerpt where Alexander argues that it's better to spend energy accumulating resources to donate to malaria prevention efforts than to spend energy going to BLM protests? That doesn't strike me as a view that "hold[s] other lives to be worth less than the author"?
Cool game, but I don't think it is actually a good idea to see this as "learning functional programming".

After all, this shows some very convoluted ways of getting a simple end result ;-)

Also, I've only played the first few easy levels, so I guess there will be more than "map" later on? Otherwise I would just leave the "map" word out of it.
The underlying point of the article is that a large number of tech leaders are rationalists, what is rationalism, what are they reading (the blog), and what does that mean for society.
You should be able to batch CPU-side drawcalls by packing multiple meshes into bigger vertex buffer, then generating draw parameters for every object into SSBO/UBO, and then utilizing ARB_multi_draw_indirect to draw everything at once. To change textures inside these batched drawcalls you might need ARB_bindless_texture. This talk is helpful: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020791/Approaching-Zero-Drive...

I don't know if these extensions are available on Pi driver, though.
Good to know. This has me thinking it'd be cool to have a babel plugin or something that extracts out svgs like this. I currently have a website that heavily uses svgs and for the bulk of them I resorted to img elements because embedding the svg so many times increased the size of the html significantly. This use approach seems like it might be better.
I did not say whitelisted, I said popular.
> Once the boomers have died off hopefully so will their insane need to resort to censorship instead of accepting personal and societal responsibility.

that may not do the trick, considering how many in the Millennial and Gen Z cohorts embrace censorship.
Everything has changed though, no longer do you have your beige-box 486 connected to a totally different brand mouse over a serial connection. You have your ARM SOC on a phone or tablet talking to the touchscreen physically glued to the front of said-device. The device manufacturers know exactly what hardware is on and connected to the SOC, and can optimize accordingly. There is very little physical device-interop anymore, and anything still left is talking over higher-level busses (USB) or wireless (BLE). Nothing an end-user has is directly driving interrupt pins to a CPU anymore.
Is there also a drm-free version available?

EDIT: Nevermind its in the post and I was confused: https://gumroad.com/l/everydaydata