jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The proper role of the US Government and Money has been under debate ever since Hamilton was appointed Treasury Secretary under George Washington. (EDIT: actually, even earlier than that, but the country didn't exist yet...)

Jefferson wanted one system, Hamilton wanted another. And the two sides have been arguing for the past 200+ years. Sometimes, the central bank appears, sometimes it disappears. Then silver+gold, then removal of the silver standard (gold-only standard), then etc. etc. etc.

The Revolutionary War required money and bonds. Immediately upon the end of that war came the question of how to organize and pay those loans. Should it be held by the states? Or by the national government? Should a central bank even exist, or is a loose collection of banks good enough? Should there be a national currency, or should the States make their own currency? The Continental Congress's dollar was hit severely by inflation: losing 99% of its value in just a decade or so. Not a big deal: most Americans used Spanish Pesos back then due to their reliable silver weight.

The money issue was front-and-center at the birth of this country. Lots of debate and discussion (and duels!!) occurred over the issue. Arguing about money (literally to death) is a proud American tradition.
The symmetry between reads and writes precludes a lot of options (like logging gone mad). I'm not even sure most SWAP ends up read back in...
Correction: there is one footnote on that page, and it links to a single study performed by a team creating a compression algorithm that found that compression algorithms sound just as good.
A small project I've been working on since start of 2019 (and which has ballooned since 2020)...

As a remote consultant, I've been frustrated by a lack of comfortable visual collaboration options. I'm not a fan of digital whiteboards - I like the feedback of a real board, the ability to use my hand/elbow/shoulder. This app allows me to share my actual whiteboard with remote colleagues.

As a father of seven, I've been highly frustrated by my kids' remote learning experience. Students are often staring at docs/eboards and listening to a VoiceOver. Our app allows teachers to return to their board (without special hardware) and provide a semblance of the familiar, human-rich interaction they're used to.

So, born of frustration but leading to great feedback so far! Hope to hear more suggestions for improvement. Thanks in advance.
Well, Malthus was right in terms of history, he just made one of the worst future predictions ever - he wrote his theory about human population crises right when it stopped being true.

I think we are seeing people having fewer children because they're depressed about the world/future expectations, of course, but that's not quite the same thing.
E.W.M.H. == https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Window_Manager_Hints
My first assumption (which I guess was correct) was that the image was flipped, but then I got confused because I started looking closer and, while I could see some English syntax ("for { ..."), it also looked as if there were Arabic characters mixed in, so I wondered if it was some interesting mix, and also that they were rendering English RTL.

Then I realized that was much less likely than simply having flipped the image.
Ok, make your own report if you're going to reject whats presented to you. Ill wait. Otherwise dont make the counter argument if you have nothing other than your opinion with no merit behind it.
Note that this article has nothing to do with SQL vs non SQL systems. It's about relational vs non relational databases.
The President is sworn to uphold and protect the Constitution (by law, and upon accepting office). He can do this through whatever means are available to him, including executive orders, and rallying public support for legislation.

BTW, the title is "inflammatory" because the situation justifies it. It's an inflammatory situation, as it should be!

Find whatever excuse you want though for not approving this. Whatever helps you sleep.
This is how it went. I thought about how my blog worked, didn't think it was a company, neither an organisation and settled for the .net

Just in case I have bought the other 2.
Another method is to pause for an exponential delay after each failed attempt. This makes it prohibitively slow to brute force.
Recently, there has been some work on removing redundant reference count operations in the Python interpreter. The following paper describes how it can be done: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1869631.1869633.

Regarding the performance impact of reference counting, the following facts are important:

- Switching from immediate reference counting to deferred reference counting (L.P. Deutsch and D.G. Bobrow, 1976 [1]) eliminates about 90pct of all reference count operations in Smalltalk (Berkeley Smalltalk '82, that is) [2]

- A very good account of reference counting can be found in either Dave Ungar's excellent PhD thesis [3] and Dave Ungar and Dave Patterson's in-depth analysis of Smalltalk performance [4].

[1] An efficient, incremental, automatic garbage collector (http://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/classes/cmpsci691s-fall2004/p...)

[2] High performance storage reclamation in an object-based memory system (http://techreports.lib.berkeley.edu/accessPages/CSD-84-167.h...)

[3] The Design and Evaluation of A High Performance Smalltalk System (http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1986/5376.html)

[4] Berkeley Smalltalk: Who knows where the time goes? (Chapter 11 of http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/FreeBooks/BitsOfHistory/)
Ironically enough, I have an... interesting service provider at this location who aggressively throttles peer connections. I've been using torrific as a workaround, which, in turn, uses AWS.

So yes. My torrents are "down".
Actually we've been talking about switching to https.
Bought, just in case...
Rats, on my first submission no less! I knew this was too interesting to be original. I'll search harder next time. Thanks for catching it.
> As the recently declassified FISC opinion shows, most of the NSA program is broadly within well-established law.

The recently declassified FISC opinion shows that the NSA had a pattern of lying to the FISC about what the NSA program actually did to get it approved as within the law by the FISC, but that most of the parts the FISC had managed to find out about at the time of the opinion were still within (in the FISC's view) existing law.

Of course, if the NSA was repeatedly caught misrepresenting material facts in non-adversarial proceedings where there is no opposing party to independently seek evidence, challenge evidence, etc., how much of what remains is also misrepresentation? We don't know, and even the FISC can't know, because they can't know what they haven't yet caught the NSA lying about, but they certainly know that the NSA is willing to lie -- including to FISC -- as long as they can get away with it.

And because of that, neither we nor FISC have any idea -- from the opinion or after it -- how much of the actual NSA program is even remotely justifiable under the law.
2 months later: "Gary can do his mockups just fine in MS Paint. We're gonna have to deny that request for a Balsamiq license... mmmkay?"
Excellent! The conspiracy is dead--I was too lazy to go looking for this myself.
Reminder: The conspiracy theory involved double counting.
Only practical -- if that! -- during dry days. I wouldn't want to see the state of my pants after using this on a wet pavement or street.
Bitcoin has all of the problems listed in the article and is, arguably, not yet providing the social value that blockchain could.

Not sure how a high market cap is a counter argument to that.
Smart contracts were supposed to make that easier, but this got blocked by the scalability issues. The current hope is for MPC which might get consumer-usable products without a SPOF: you have private keys on personal hardware, but if you lose them, there's a recovery procedure with multiple independent authentication channels — e.g. 3 out of 5 notaries from separate jurisdictions must recognize you and sign their parts. Plus a lot of friendly logic like time-outs etc.
You'd be surprised from what is considered history. Nowadays, insights into the lives and emotions of ordinary people are considered invaluable tool in recreating the past: the context in which political, economical, and cultural developments happened. In fact, the spontaneous nature of certain artifacts makes them more valuable, because what we would call "official history" is always editorialized and subject to the influence of only few people and not produced by the entire society it originates from.

It is something that I've thought about - the contradiction between privacy and the need to communicate yourself to the generations to come and the broadcast into the void it requires. If your friend is okay with his privacy in the archives, he might be glad to know that in hundred years, there will be an AI whose PHD will be on the emotional significance of new technologies in the lives of early adopters of the Internet, the case of user John Smith 1988.
But then, why call it ‘mov’, and not ‘let’, ‘set’, or ‘copy’ (“copy what is in A to B” translates nicely to “copy A,B”)
> but multiple times I ate 10 chicken wings then ate an order of French fries after the wings with zero increase in my blood glucose levels.

I would assume the chicken slows down your stomach's digestion/emptying (resulting in slower intake of the carbohydrates/sugars of the fries). Whether it's healthy to eat 10 chicken wings on an empty stomach is another question.

> Basically just distract your liver and you won’t get a massive spike in blood glucose levels.

I'm not sure if that is the best/correct advise. I would advise: eat more fiber.
The only intermediate step is the fact that the amount of currency in circulation needs to raise. As that isn't possible with bitcoin, the price has to rise. And that increases the incentive for throwing more recourses into mining.
Edit: Another one being used in Political News recently is "Inciting" and while generally defined as a negative term it simply means "To induce activity, of whatever kind", you can incite violence or a riot but also incite good behavior through "Encouraging" it.
Does anyone want to summarise for those of us who don't want to invest two hours to see whether some old crank's trolltastic headline is backed up by anything interesting?
Wikileaks edits its releases to avoid harming human sources of intel, sir. Put away your strawman.
"Flicking down on any letter renders it in uppercase. Flicking downward with two or more fingers anywhere on the keyboard toggles Caps Lock, which is identified by swapping the uppercase and lowercase labels on the flickeys."

It seems that the Caps Lock idea should not be limited to the upper and lower cases. I would propose that a two finger swipe in any direction could shift the keyboard and replace the primary key faces.

Flick a single key with one finger to type from the alternate characters in that direction.

Double flick up, right, down or left to shift-lock in the chosen direction. Shift-locking consecutively in the same direction would cycle in order.

A two finger tap could return to default.
not a declared war hence not prisoners of war

besides prisoners of war have other rights (such as not being interrogated) under the Geneva Conventions - this all gets in the way of what we wanted from our prisoners at Gitmo
it isn't legal in Afghanistan
What is "facebook live", anyway? One presumes it's not an "everybody asks questions at once" sort of chat?

Like any politician he'll only answer whatever questions he feels like answering. But I will say this for him: retired politicians are much more interesting than current ones.
Pure capitalism is a rent-seeking company-town dystopian nightmare. It encourages exclusive ownership of strategic resources, even when they're openly used to destroy the competitive free market by preventing rivals from existing. Similarly, lack of access to capital is a self-perpetuating social stratification problem which has led to violent revolution.

IMHO these are reasons to regulate it carefully, not to eliminate it.
Those are good points. I'd probably respond by saying:

Government secrecy has always been weakened by potential leakers, etc., so I think the main difference here is that Wikileaks' technology has provided a buffer to allow journalists to write about things they had previously been afraid to write about.

As a corollary, an organization of a particular size can only obtain a finite amount of secrecy. When the organization's size is > 5 people, the amount of secrecy is quite low and has always been so.
"The only way to combat this and return trust and quality to search is by taking an editorial stand and having humans identify the best sites for every category."

There are billions of webpages. Who is going to do this review?

Is someone honestly going to review http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4300234/how-might-union-f... and put it in the category of "How Union/Find data structures can be applied to Kruskal's algorithm?"?

No.

The closest thing to a editorialized web is www.dmoz.org, and that hasn't been properly updated in years (and never will be) because it failed.

Search has to be done with algorithms - there are just too many search queries to do it any other way. Udi Manber, Google’s VP of Engineering stated that 20-25% of all queries made each day have never been seen before: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/udi_manber_search_is_a_....
Anyone know a site like this for pants?
> negligible (4mm) trailing

As you tilt a bike, the effect of trailing on steering increases (i.e. rotational force). This effect is cumulative over time (the velocity of the handlebars turning changes their position in each successive instant; plus the force causes acceleration, increasing the velocity).
Small effects become big effects: I would expect that any trailing would induce sufficient steering effects, and so even 4mm trailing is not "negligible".

Hmmm.... you could test this with a "skate bike" - no wheels, just blades on ice, but with a curved front-blade, free to steer, to facilitate "trailing".

But this seems obvious, and it looks like they have been very thorough, so I'm probably missing something (I haven't read their full paper).

* Stabilization occurs because when the front wheel steers that way, it guides the whole bike in a curve, which creates force tilting the bike in the other direction - therefore righting it.
The first of the packbot pictures from today also has a small number of blown pictures.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/news/110311/images/110417_1f_1_1.j...

taken at 1138 on 4/17.

In thinking a bit more, I guess without knowing how that Sony camera clears its registers, we don't know how long it took for the wells to collect those gamma rays (eg: are the registered "cleansed" just before each shot? And then cleared again after the information is transferred off the sensor?). However, the "ISO" setting probably doesn't matter. The aperture will matter essentially as much as the lens matters, and considering the lens is gathering in light from that entire area, that may be significant, I just don't know.
Somewhat amusingly, it's neither brid nor bridge, but rather bridg. :)
The name is excellent.
...it is if the requestor is paraplegic, as would befit the analogy to a non-programmer reporting a bug.
There goes another traditional physics text-book explanation for why things work the way they do.

Somewhat related, Jef Raskin on how the Bernoulli effect is not really what helps create the lift on a plane's wings (as taught by most physics text-books): http://karmak.org/archive/2003/02/coanda_effect.html
Maybe for speed readers that's the case. IMO though, life is too short to read mediocre books if there are better ones you could be reading (same is true of mediocre music and movies).
The concept is great. Kudos to that. Just a minor quirk - there is no timezone information in the create new call page. Even if timezones are not supported, indicating the current timezone would have helped.
Your anecdote reminds me of this quote about Dupont's safety program.

"My company has had a safety program for 150 years. The program was instituted as a result of a French law requiring an explosives manufacturer to live on the premises with his family." - Crawford Greenewalt
Can you imagine what they (Amazon) are trying to achieve with the "can't transfer if you're in the bottom 50%" policy? I can understand your frustration but at its core there has to be some sort of quasi-reasonable objective for the policy.
This is such a common problem there's a stackoverflow article on it.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17908555/printing-with-se...

(Actually, there's probably more than one despite their really good duplication grooming, but this was the first hit.)
The leak contains 105 countries, so there's quite a bit more than 2 that are missing - more like a hundred.
Decided to do a flash sale given all the visibility the engine has gotten recently. You can get the Standard License free for the next 24 hours: https://itch.io/s/48411/dragonruby-game-toolkit-hacker-news-...
I don’t know why you were downvoted. Maybe because of the second sentence?

Mutation is a very real problem. After all flu goes through it all the time. That is the main reason why we get flu regularly.
Second reason is that the immunity may be temporary.
For the record, faux is pronounced the same as foe.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=faux+pronounced&t=ffab&ia=definiti...

Also, while I agree, I'm pretty sure I agree in the other direction.
It's seems like there is an ongoing battle in Python to adopt... or not... Aysnc. It's complicated to implement, causing slow and low adoption.
My view of Apple year:

1.M1 is a revolutionary technology with big potential in hardware stagnated market dominated too long by Intel.

2. Mac Os "Big Sur" has failed to be a motivational upgrade. Lots of professional users have rolled back to Catalina.

3. Removal of personal control over network processes provided by Little Snitch and excluding Apple telemetry from VPN services are the reason not to buy Apple products for many professionals, including myself.

4. Inability of Apple to communicate openly and quickly about problems in implementation, a trend of reduced repairability, and lowered production quality are an insult to longtime loyal customers of the brand.
Having been employed at Google for about nearly two years, your take doesn't seem accurate at all.

> And that reward / grading structure may not at all correspond to either the monetary or cultural success of a corporation.

The key feedback/suggestions I see for my own performance review is to define my impact on both the monetary and cultural success of my org. Exactly the opposite of what you are saying.

> being asked to 'level up' and told that this is your mission can lead to an unpleasurable career

I don't see this happening either. I commonly hear others say the opposite and make it known they are no longer trying to level up and that they are happy where they are.

> technical team lead to management or architect

This does not jive at all with the various career ladders I see. There is no ceiling that requires me to move to management in my tech ladder.

> find that you don't enjoy the new responsibilities

To some extent, the promo process levels up employees already working at that n+1. Sure, some may not want to maintain that, but that is ultimately up to the individual.

Disclaimer: I work at Google, opinions are my own.
Agree.

One of the most important skills is the one he describes like this:

>> The more specialized your work, the greater the risk that you will communicate in ways that are incomprehensible to the uninitiated.

In my experience (35 years), this isn't just about knowing the right way to describe things, it's also understanding what things to concentrate on when communicating, and what to ignore. If you are a tech person communicating with a decision maker, they are typically looking to understand options and their implications and risks, not the details of how the options work. They can then decide, based on their (presumably) better knowledge of the wider context, which options to select. If the decision makers are genuinely intelligent and motivated, but their eyes glaze over when you describe something, chances are you have chosen the wrong things to communicate to them.
I wonder if team size has anything to do with that. Football teams are much larger than those in other sports.
> If a doctor posted a plan for passing the medical boards would your first thought be "Wow, look at that massive medical monoculture problem!" That seems like a ridiculous stretch in my opinion.

This analogy doesn't work. It's basically the final part of your education in that field (and others). If every hospital / medical center made you quit for a few months to study for their interviews when you switch jobs it would be an analogy. Oh we only hire people who can find a vein in 15 seconds under a suboptimal lighting situation.
Yes:

Asahi Linux was founded by Hector Martin “marcan” after the launch of the first M1 devices.

https://asahilinux.org/about/
I find it incredibly hard to believe that China has stopped community spread within the country - I hope I’m wrong, but I think we’re getting PRC propaganda when we hear about “all new cases we’re imported”.
You're comparing the number of deaths this year only to the number last year in the exact same time. What were the numbers in the years before? Comparing it to only one previous year doesn't allow to say that this is significant. With only one year we don't know the variance of this number.
If less than 30% of the additional deaths this year were attributed to corona virus and 30% lies within a reasonable variance of this number over the years, then we wouldn't have noticed, or not?

Same for the remaining info: we don't know how many times it happened before (for example in the previous 20 years or so) that the morgues couldn't cope with more people dying from more people dying from pneumonia (for example during a particularly bad influenza season). That the corpses have been transported away by military trucks also doesn't tell us anything from a statistical point of view.
For what it's worth: Trader Joe's is owned by German Aldi. They are the king of store brands.
I find this really exciting, since DO has one of the only managed PGSQL + K8S combos that seems like it could compete with Google and AWS. Always nice to have more competition in this space. With IPO funding they can probably really compete. They'll probably have their own data centers soon.
No, that was the original claim. That you need the miners to agree. They are the ones that hold the computing power.

The claim I responded to says that in addition to this, you also need the majority of the "nodes", which are just computers that do no work and just forward transactions. This is incorrect, you do not need their help. It is easier if you have it, but you do not need it.
Oh, that's really sad. If i may, why would you consider developing software that's not free software? Also, why would you develop software to provide services for other users, that they can't selfhost if/when you're not longer hosting the service? That sounds like serious footguns/antipatterns to me, so i'm curious what's your rationale :)
Yes, I'm very mindful how companies and politicians have accidents like this - so may well be what I class as "tactile marketing" If we see some share or funding for that company soon, then that would be handy PR then.

[EDIT ADD] Seems they had funding just over a year ago, so be due another round soon I'd expect, that with staggered PR press releases with a slant of European super computer and with that, this leak probably do them more good than harm PR wise - more so if they are in position to be seeking new investment, which it does look like they will - at least how it feels too me.
I guess one of the reason is fixing issues won’t get anyone promoted beyond L5