jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Rather than throw out this stuff, I list it on a buy/sell site for free and then when someone asks if they can pick it up I stick it out on the curb so I don’t have to put any effort in to meeting them.
This comes up a lot with my work on compiling the Linux kernel with LLVM. So much so I've made a tier list to describe what I picture as a Venn diagram of support: https://clangbuiltlinux.github.io/

Also recently seen on this topic:

https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/librsvg-rust-and-non...

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/lfysy9/pythons_crypto...
Umm... in fact "most people" communicate outside of those groups, as that's how dating works, and it is a big reason why Snapchat dominates "private communication": people don't want to give their "real phone number" to someone until they trust them. Signal needs to realize its big competition is not WhatsApp, but is Snapchat (particularly given that WhatsApp is pretty damned secure, and so should be seen as an ally versus all of the actually-insecure messaging apps of the world).
I've found that objections to space exploration share a fundamental axiom with the more general objections to federal funding of scientific activities of any type. Namely, that the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake is an inherently worthless activity. If that knowledge happens to have some immediate positive impact on a problem affecting presently living people, then it may be worth pursuing if such a pursuit isn't "too expensive".

While it's trivially obvious that the value of unknown knowledge is unknowable, this doesn't often occur to such people, focused as they are on the limitations of the present instead of the possibilities of the future. Even if the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake were a completely useless activity which diverted resources away from more pressing problems, societies everywhere have accepted that their tax dollars inevitably fund certain things which are unnecessary. Clean parks, public support for the arts, city fireworks on holidays, etc. Yet people generally find these latter sinks of funding less objectionable than things like space exploration and federal support for science. Perhaps it's because the enormous scientific illiteracy afflicting the populace as a whole (which can be observed simply by reading any popular journalistic account of scientific developments) places scientific developments and scientific pursuits into some mental category of "abstract, probably useless stuff".
I'm not against altering the presentation of websites at all; I use Ghostery myself (plus Greasemonkey etc.). I just think it's dishonest to pretend that this has anything to do with rights violations.
you told elon musk we should have Space data storage. even charitably taking the premise that this is the same thing as "space internet" (it isn't) is it possible that you are the not the first person to ever think about this rather obvious next-logical-step? I mean it's certainly not possible the Elon Musk was inspired in this case by Vint Cerf, the father of TCP/IP who has been advocating for some time for a latency-tolerant interplanetary Internet. (source: http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/solar.html. Year? 2000.)
human can learn what the ai will think they will do and act differently to maximize the reality dissonance for the other player.

this is not fundamentally different than what we already do in these games though, which is to choose tactics that work to your advantage given how the game deals with lag.

client side hit detection? be the aggressor and do the moving into view and get milliseconds advantage to start shooting.
Consider that to make the majority of the most successful startups of the last twenty years -- Facebook, AirBnB, Uber, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. -- you don't need much more programming ability than you'd get from a six month boot camp. And that's not just to make an MVP, it's to get them into the tens of millions of dollars of profitability. If that doesn't qualify as easy, it's hard to think of what in life would qualify.
The Amlogic S905X3/4 are "jelly bean" chips under this definition - you can buy full computers with those including a motherboard of sorts, RAM and standard USB/HDMI/Ethernet/eMMC/Wifi for under $30 bulk in China. They're branded as "TV boxes". The S905X3 is also the SoC of the $55 Odroid C4 SBC.

Yet those chips are apparently made on either TSMC's or GloFo's 12nm nodes (which one I can't find). Whilst Intel's 14nm is still superior to either TSMC/GloFo 12nm by all accounts, they're definitely the same ballpark. Competition for Intel even looks rough for cheaper high volume chips. You'd need to consider that Intel still needs some time to adapt to being a third party foundry too.
Gambling is as much an addiction as are hard drugs and it has similar effects on the brain circuitry. Im not a fan of this ‘sport’ at all. I witnessed how a friend ruined his life and aged 20 years within the timespan of 6 or 7.
But isn't this the invisible hand of the market?
> Fast feedback

That's what made me choose programming as career over other options available at the time. Good reminder after many years!
I'm not saying this as some sort of matter of moral conviction. I can't speak for Australia, but in the U.S., if you are found in possession of stolen property, you have to give it back. And if a prosecutor thinks they can prove you knew or should have known, they can charge you with a crime. I don't see why businesses should get a pass on this when individuals don't.
You don't have to discourage strangers from programming either. It's just some people, like the otherwise quite intelligent author, feel the need to do so. Such discouragement seems ugly, mean-spirited and kind of despicable.
> Sure, it's probably millions of dollars per year that they're throwing out

The reality of it is probably not, actually. Not when you consider the full cost of running it -- not just the engineers maintaining it, but the extra complexity of perhaps outdated technology (can make it harder for other teams to move forward, to migrate servers, etc.), and especially important the time spent by management in managing its continued existence.

And the management aspect is less about their salaries and more about what more profitable things they're not focusing on instead. You might say "well just hire another manager" but that manager has to be managed. Ultimately the CEO and board only have a finite amount of time to review projects and monitor performance, and otherwise even mildly profitable projects no longer become worth it when the cost of them being a distraction to management is taken into account.
Genuinely, I want to know what is the future for Oracle now. Java has been only 3 billion devices since the mid 2000s. A lot of companies use either postgres or nosql. What is going to happen to them? Are they doomed?
That's thanks to Bugs Bunny. Nimrod is traditionally the name of a mighty hunter so it made sense for Bugs to call Elmer that to show how far from a mighty hunter he was. But nowadays in the English speaking world we're more likely to think of the Bugs Bunny meaning than the biblical meaning.

It's always hard naming things in a language that isn't your first.
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l...
For a fun anecdote, I once heard a very cool Red Hat employee talk at the LUG in Washington, DC.

This was years ago, when Iraq was even worse than now (ironically "the first second time" I would call it). He said there were a handful of techs, ironically maybe reservists stateside who were sysadmins, who became very high demand individuals. They would, for instance, go to a base with very poor network connectivity, and would set point-to-point wifi systems so duty soldiers could communicate with each other on the far ends of the base about shifts and operational intel. The other story he had was they used Red Hat or Fedora, I forget which to make a homebrew PVR system for a base on the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border because this inspection station had a FLIR thermal imaging system, and thousands of trucks were coming through this point. Two soldiers on shifts would sit all day and watch footage, making sure all of them were free of what might be contraban or explosives. Prior to these Linux rockstars, these dudes would hold the whole line of trucks to take a leak, answer the phone, anything that involved taking their eyes off screen. After they set up a PVR using a Linux box, they could pause, and the line could keep going, as the base was miles wide in the middle and the flow of traffic meant with a PVR they could flag it on exit with more than enough time with bathroom breaks and everything thanks to this. This RedHat guy gave these and other examples, IIRC, and said they were being flown in C130s a few times because their solutions, as simple COTS ideas, always worked and cost almost nothing.

God, do I want to meet want of these dudes. They are perhaps, despite the layer of filth their services' collective activities abroad have done to tarnish their rep as org and reps of the US, the only dudes in the military I respect, the FOSS Special Forces.

Now that is a TV series, no matter how bad, I would watch.

EDIT: I wanna say, after some difficult archive searching, the Red Hat guy was Greg Dekoenigsberg. Was anyone there? Maybe he frequents here and he could chime in.

http://dclug.tux.org/200907/

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Gdk?rd=GregDeKoenigsberg
Interesting. I'd say you're definitely in the minority :) Clothes I can understand, but removing branding from something like a bottle of bleach that spends most of it's life out of sight seems like wasted effort. That could just be me though.
The use of this by parents immediately had me thinking about how one could child proof this.

Imagine how much it would suck if your kid got hold of one of these buttons thinking it is a toy and accidentally ordered 200+ bottles of detergent (at a cost of $1000)? I foresee this being a hilarious potential problem of the future: accidentally buying too many things due to user error or a malfunctioning button.
> Though, I'm still not totally convinced that this isn't an April Fool's joke that's a day early

Spoken like someone who thinks there's a single timezone on the planet.
That's exactly how I keep in shape. Choosing what to eat is already too much effort, let alone making it.
Uh, no. There's some dispute about the best place to draw the line between atheist and agnostic, but no one draws it there.

"Agnostic" means either "doesn't claim to know whether a god or gods exist" or "claims that whether a god or gods exist is unknowable". Or, occasionally and when it's clear from context, "doesn't claim to know whether some particular other thing is true or not". ("I'm agnostic about whether there will be human-level AI within fifty years", for instance.)

Someone who believes in a god or gods is not agnostic in any usual sense. (They might be agnostic on particular questions: "I believe there's some sort of god, but I'm agnostic as to whether it's the one believed in by Christians" or whatever.)
I mean, I get the concern, there's definitely ways this could go wrong, just like there are ways that many things can go wrong under the law in this country. But as long as there is rule of law (and that's questionable in some places but singapore is relatively good) then any such uses are subject to real judicial review.

That said, remember when two company stole people's identities and sent fake comments to the FCC, and now we don't have net neutrality?

https://boingboing.net/2019/02/22/notice-and-comment-and-lie...

I wouldn't mind AT ALL if those companies got hit with a ~730k dollar file per each one of those fake posts (It's a million singapore dollars).
And for something a little older doing something similar, there's the Anderton Boat Lift built in 1875 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderton_Boat_Lift
>This taboo against sex, one of the most natural acts of almost all lifeforms

We're not talking about just 'sex', we are talking about the creation of entertainment media were a person is paid to have sex with another person/persons. I wouldn't call it a 'natural act'.

I used to be totally fine with porn, and to some extent I still am, however I do see it as a problem as well.

First off I think that the ease with which really hardcore porn is increasingly accessable today means very young kids are able to get their first views of sex being extremely warped. This creates expectations of what sex is that many are likely uncomfortable with, but will perform because porn has made it 'the norm'. Add to this how most porn turns sex into something borderline mechanical and/or centered around a fetish, which makes perfect sense from a 'product standpoint', but it also means that practically all porn sells the whole idea of sex as merely people using eachother to 'get off'.

The second problem I have is with the industry and its employees, I can't recall any ex-porn worker having anything good to say about their previous profession, instead what I've seen described comes across as a really shitty situation, where many turn to drugs in order to make it through 'shoots' and then again to forget.
Or even simpler

or_combinator = liftM2 (||)

but that requires Haskell knowledge to understand. So you might see it in production code, but your version is the right one for the blog. And the original author's version may be even better for comprehension by C++ programmers.
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D'oh, you're absolutely right, the solutions aren't even close to unique. Good catch.
You can ... sort of. Amazon offer dedicated instances: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/03/amazon-ec2-dedicated-inst...

Just rather than supplying the hardware you have to rent it from Amazon.

Would be interesting to know how these instances were affected by the outage. Since the problem was with the EBS infrastructure not the actual compute hosts I'm guessing this wouldn't have helped any
Not exactly what your talking about... But I believe RackSpace has an offer for mixed cloud and physical machines...
This is another component of the emerging "economic/currency wars," which is being discussed in this thread:	"Warren Buffett is now betting against the US dollar" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2476584).

"Oil Not Priced in Dollars by 2018?: Some oil producing countries and big buyers are hatching a plan to move away from pricing oil in dollars—a potential blow to the greenback's prestige"

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/oct2009/gb2009...
How is it meaningless? There is an active trading market where people are trading BTC and USD back and forth.

It doesn't seem different than comparing one "dollar" to one "euro."
If you enjoy puzzle games and programming I would strongly urge you to look into learning to crack. I'm not very good at it (it usually takes me a couple days to break into lightly-protected Mac software) but it's way more fun and challenging than any other puzzle I know.

Just don't release what you crack. I either delete the cracked one or pay for it after I'm done; cracking things is more fun than using them to me.
I see from your profile you're based in Canada - here in the UK, I've found it's the regional redirects that are breaking things (because the regional sites aren't on the new setup yet). Assuming the same thing is affecting Canadian users, if you delete either the "ca." from the hostname or the #! from the path string, the link should work.
He did have chronic hand pain for a while: http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch09.html#15416
For $7.50 you can get a dummy phone which looks a lot more realistic. A quick search on Aliexpress shows this for the iPhone X, and there are plenty of other options. (I had a bunch of the iPhone 8 models for a work project. The only downside is the glass is most definitely NOT Gorilla Glass).

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001708486523.html
You’re not alone - I worked with COBOL a decade or five ago.
Both "social media" and "traditional media" are called "media", but it's not really the same thing. I assume by traditional media you mean something like newspapers or whatever, but social media is more akin to a telephone company, as it's a mean of communication between people. If a telephone company was just censoring anything they don't like then my answer would be yes. But to take your question literally, no, I don't think it's necessary.
As an academic, it's really surprising to see people describe the C++ language cabal as academia. Like, no one is getting tenure for dumping more language features into that witch's brew.
Basically my current contract at a startup funded by a bank. Though I started off doing fast work only to realize that the CEO/PM has a fetish for feature bloat, and entire sections of the app get changed by the designers within 2-3 weeks of the previous changes. So the code base is naturally a complicated mess.

I learned quite quickly that to maintain sanity the key was to do the work as quickly as possible, and then sit on the commit for a few days while I work on my own projects.

I'm still delivering at an expected speed but probably average 2 hours/day of real work with the occasional full days leading up to prod release. I keep Slack open throughout the day to give the illusion of 9-5, but then there's the context switching issue if you get pinged at 3pm.

Capitalism is such a joke. This system no longer functions for human life.
The establishment is sometimes right. One should base decisions on their merits, not which "side" they appear to support.
With all due respect, for those people to construe taxation that suggests to actually improve neighbourhoods as "theft" is not good-faith either. It is clearly not theft but rather another means by which societies can invest in themselves.

And often, these people wouldn't say the same about taxation that goes into funding the justice system - which is another means for society to improve stability and foster prosperity. But the justice they reach for is punitive, rather than rehabilitative, because again, it's their crab mentality that guides their policies.

All in all, I don't attribute the crab mentality as malice but insecurity.
well focus on the identity of the innocent person trying to go to their job without being harassed by people on the streets.
It has literally nothing to do with K8s. An equally suitable title would have been "Debugging network stalls on the Intel Xeon processor" or "Debugging network stalls on planet Earth".
Thanks for linking this. Will implement.

Also like the "tags" within the dockerfile for dev and prod - much cleaner than the multi-file solution currently in the repo.
A friend of mine is trying to build the databricks of dask for exactly that reason.
> I agree with his theory, but what I find particularly interesting is that I think most people do not have an obsessive interest in anything at all.

I am not convinced that this is true. I think a lot more people are really interested or passionate about something than you may realize, but not all of them talk about those things to everyone. Alternatively, their passion might be what they do for a living.

So for instance a case of the former might be someone that has a very niche interest, so they have learned that in most cases talking about that thing does not lead to any interesting conversations.

Another possibility is that they might not view themselves as being particularly good at their area of interest (which may or may not be the case), so they don’t like to talk about it.

So for whatever reason, including the above or other reasons, you end up not learning about these interests that those people have when you just talk casually with them.

And as for the people that do it for a living, it could be that they have no interests outside of work, because work fulfills their passion. For example someone who is a really passionate salesperson, if they already truly derive meaning and joy from doing what they do at work, maybe they don’t need anything outside of work other than to relax and recover.

Lastly, another group of people I can think of are those that have interests that are very costly and they don’t have a high paying job. So most of the year they spend a lot of time at work and on the spare time they sit in front of the TV, or the computer and it sounds like they have no passion for anything but really they are spending a lot of time dreaming about the next trip they can afford to go on in the Himalayas or whatever, and when they sit at home they watch programs about skiing, and they read about skiing online and discuss it with others online, and maybe read magazines about it as well.

I’m not saying that everyone has something that they are deeply interested in, but I believe that more people do than one might realize.
What you call "anger" is probably just common sense that people express when proponents of basic income try to present such studies as a proof that basic income is the way.

Of course a rich entity giving money to a limited number of poor people for a limited time will generate great results. Sure, a study is good but I would have guessed the correct outcome anyway.
Now, compare this to a money transfer not from some rich external entity but from fellow citizens, countrywide, for generations. That's what basic income is. And it has very little to do with the study.
You cite all of this as though it has been haded down by a supreme authority and I implicitly have to agree with what is written. I do not and Adam Smith had many contemporaries who did not as well.

Liberty itself is in opposition to flourishing and collective good. Is it right to murder a man to save 1000 innocent children? What about 5? What about one? If it is right, please do explain why.

All of this treats "the people" as entities without agency, some formless mass that the enlightened politicians have a duty to care for, whether they like it or not. In absence of divine authority, there is simply no basis for this sort sense of superiority. You decide what's right for you, and leave others to do the same. Then we can all get along.
This sort of thing is so frustrating. Scientists aren't afraid of Murray's work. It is just poor science. The defense that people who resist a piece of writing are simply too frightened of what is inside is a cheat. It assumes that the work is worthwhile in the first place.

Murray's ideas aren't "new". Not even a little. And they aren't "truth".
> Why would people buy that?

I don't think they will.

Apple dominates the smartwatch category because they are the only ones willing to invest in CPUs and components to make them really work well. Well that plus iPhone integration.

> What would their killer app be?

My theory would be perhaps the "Killer" feature would be communications. If they could come up with a killer cellular watch that just goes around the smartphone entirely, they might make something appealing.

But Facebook has shown zero capability to actually come up with good ideas on their own so I doubt this will go far. If Samsung with all their hardware chops can't really come up with a decent Apple Watch competitor, is Facebook with no hardware experience going to come in and hit a home run? Or even a single?

Seems unlikely
Thx, I should have known. For a minute there I thought that it was short for a special type of fuel for machines.
No reason to finish so soon . . .
It's nuanced. There are good and bad fats (saturated vs unsaturated) and good and bad sugars (processed added vs natural). Any diet that says I can't eat fruit or salmon is full of shit.

I'm tired of the all or nothing attitude that most people seem so eager to embrace.

Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.
People also don't live or structure their lives to satisfy those who had a written conversation and want the copies burned.
So, pastebin.ca reborn?