jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Headphones in is a great signal for “I’m trying to get things done, think twice before talking to me”.

To answer your question: always instrumental. Ambient soundscapes for exploratory work, or to take a breather and think laterally. Then some jazzy house to crack down and get some work in.

This week that pair’s looking like Rhubarb[1] and Emotional Intelligence[2].

[1] https://open.spotify.com/track/2Bc4llhjJBW77I552RgA3L
[2] https://open.spotify.com/track/3yMYs3jJdAPxMgqb0CYZUG
For the registers the % prefix avoids needing to add some prefix to every symbol. Otherwise you couldn't have symbols with the same names as registers.

Not sure what you mean with every numeric constant prefixed with #. That's not the case on x86 AT&T assembly. Immediates require $, but that's the same as the Intel syntax.
It is now. There were more esoteric platforms for which it was defined as 2 bytes (eg csr8675 and the Kalimba DSP coprocessor was even 24-bit char, short and ints). Until recently C only defined that char was the smallest unit and had size 1. I think as of C11 that may have changed. It definitely did in C++ because basically any platform that mattered defined char as 1 byte and any platforms that didn’t also didn’t really care about portability of existing software that much as the porting is generally more involved anyway (eg I ported a crypto library to Kalimba and it was challenging to get the bit math correct but eventually I did).
The issue I see with this is that local privilege escalation attacks have a much wider blast radius.

That should be reason alone to get away from relying on it for security.
All this talk of velocity... starting to think we’ve reached terminal velocity for the consumption-based economy. That is, loose money is truly “pushing on a string” for advanced economies.
Yes, I agree about a lot of critical theory too. There’s a lot of Chinese finger traps for the brain around. We fixate on this stuff like raccoons with shiny objects.

One of my litmus tests is usefulness or potential usefulness. I define this broadly to include social and aesthetic stuff as well as utilitarian concerns. Even with a broad definition a lot of this brain wank just strikes me as useless and not really applicable to anything.
Technological advances continue to increase the productivity of agricultural output both in “the first world” and lesser developed countries.

In this way, I expect the prices of consumer goods like foodstuffs to continue to decrease over time.

We are living with economic theory that was posited when the most advanced computer was a slide rule.
The sad part is, despite so many bad takes, ideology pushing, and hatchet jobs The NYT overall still produces comparably some of the best journalistic content out there.
Having the idea of doing arbitrage doesn't matter if you can't build a canal or railroad or pipeline to make it happen. It's only in financial markets where it might be realistic to pretend this is only a matter of being smart enough to come up with an idea. (Because they assume you have the money and that's the only thing you need.)

Also, focusing on cost ignores markets where the marginal cost is nearly zero and price is set in other ways.
Exqctly, get it first hand. Most of the professionals are so detached by nessesity, that their views are skewed, no matter how noble their intentions.
As you've correctly identified, CUDA is the only sane default choice in the GPGPU world. OpenCL 1.2 is a viable distant second if you're sure you don't need any of the major CUDA libraries and value the portability aspect (not the same thing as performance portability, of course, but still). Finally, if you don't need strict accuracy guarantees and your application is mostly about graphics, you can get by with compute shaders. Everything else - POCL, HCC, ROCm, the various SYCL implementations, etc. you can safely ignore if you want something usable today, none of them are production ready or anywhere close to it.
Powered by Google (R). https://venturebeat.com/2018/06/28/tsinghua-university-plans...
Good job, but why would I use this when it takes less code and less time than it takes to read Makesite.py source code, to build my own with Jinja2 [1], PyQuery [2], markdown2 [3]?

Python is so easy and powerful there's no need for a static site generator.

[1]: https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/2.10.x/

[2]: https://pythonhosted.org/pyquery/

[3]: https://pypi.org/project/markdown2/
20+ years ago, we wouldn't discussing the ethics of server/client based tracking with a straight face, because that shit is creepy as fuck.

Now, everyone takes tracking for granted as if the option of not being tracked is some sort of unachievable goal.

That's the issue. It isn't tracking A as opposed to tracking B. It's tracking period.
>The Web’s diversity has granted space for multiple businesses to innovate and thrive, independent hobbyist communities to grow, and personal sites to be hosted on whatever physical servers can host them.

A few months ago I was feeling the same way, especially about personal websites. I tried to find StumbleUpon as that seemed like a good alternative to see random unique websites. However, I was saddened to see it had shut down or transformed itself into a kind of Pinterest like clone.

Given that StumbleUpon was gone, I tried to quickly recreate the core functionality - click button get random website, at https://stumblingon.com - there are still a bunch of small, personal, interesting websites out there. We just need a good way to find them.
This post does a good job of highlighting one of my favorite things about Swift: it's almost always possible to express things exactly how you want. And Swift is getting even better at this with features like property wrappers.

Swift has a few hurdles to overcome, like better cross-platform support, solutions to the performance cliffs related to ARC, and more parsimonious copy-handling of value types, but I think it has the potential to be one of the most productive and powerful languages for building software in the next few decades.
Yeah, the title is misguided, it is not the whole story :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25671318

(And as much as I hate the Pi's reliability, I'd still take that bet if it was indeed relying on a Pi).
Knowing a bunch of people who are part of this mob, I'd have to say that the "peaceful protest" is not at all what they want. They want violence. They want revolt. To be honest, even now, I'm not sure most of them know what they're fighting for. There's no coherent message. What are they even protesting?

At a certain point, someone has to call it out as it really is - not what they say it is.
I also recently bought a Samsung CRG9. It replaced 2 27" Apple Thunderbolt displays. I bought it because I needed something that had Mac and PC support.

Having a curved ultra wide display is much better than 2 smaller displays. I can put my main windows right in the middle of my field of view, and put my reference windows off to the side.
As the number of tools grow and the number of teams using/developing them grow this becomes more and more untenable. You not only have to maintain the tool itself, but also the build stacks associated with them and it becomes the task of the user to make sure they are running the most recent version. This leads to more complex support situations.

Basically, you need a deployment methodology that allows for:
* Ease of use by "novice" developers
* Only introduces minimal overhead for those developers
* Makes it easy to upgrade or remove a tool you installed 6 months ago
* Doesn't require a tool development team to come up with their own solution

This is a surprisingly tricky to do on a diverse environment with 1000+ internal users.
did you do a bios update or something you forgot about?
As a non-Dutch speaker, I have to know- what was the joke?
On my own website, I have a "What's New?" link with the date of the most recent new stuff. On the page itself I have a list of the new stuff, with the newest at the top. It actually works pretty well.
Is there a way to donate anonymously via monero, zcash, grim, beam, etc...?
The main issue is that this isn't what the Capitol police are optimized for. They are meant to handle the run-of-the-mill protesters, and prepare for an active shooter or bomb threat. A mob of people breaking in is very different. Handguns are much less useful when you've got 20 people breaking through the windows. You can't try to arrest one of them without being swarmed by the others, and if you end up firing a shot the crowd will panic and attack you and you simply don't have enough firepower or distance. To defend against a mob, you need many more officers (enough to stand side by side at relevant choke points) equipped with riot gear and tear gas to disperse the crowd. And then a Quick Reaction Force on standby with guns and nonlethal weapons who can reinforce any area where the mob is threatening to break through.

Without the numbers and the right equipment for the situation, the mob was able to break through and then the priority had to become securing the congresspeople until sufficient force could arrive to help clear.
Can't believe it's taken this long for this exploit.
So the security team thought it was worth such a crazy amount that they made a gif to describe it...and then they sent him $10K? That isn't very much for a major bug like that.
I'm not so sure I like this feature. One of the best parts about getting a new card is having all those things you forgot about that were still charging you $5 a month slip away by getting a fresh number. I think of it as financial spring cleaning. Later, you re-enter the new one for the things you really need.

I realize it costs stripe money to have that happen but from a security standpoint and for purely cleaning up rouge charges every once in a while some people like being able to start over.
They added the third chip, besides CPU and GPU, they call it HPU (holographic processing unit), which could speed things considerably. If they hooked it directly to ccd then they could really grok terabytes of data on battery.
Wait, you know that WebKit is spearheaded by Apple? And that there's two completely unrelated problems here:

1. The frontend only works on Chrome for desktop (it appears only because it uses the non-standards track filesystem API)

2. The backend service and mobile app does not work with iOS (it appears because it uses background networking)

They may seem related, but they aren't.
Can't you integrate webkit with emacs-webkit?

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WebKit
I think great inherent ability coupled with great drive inevitably leads to a-hole qualities. It's a formula for lack of empathy if you start off gifted, drive yourself relentlessly, and can't process failure. If you can't forgive yourself for falling short, how in the world can you hope to develop a measure of such for other people?
The biggest mistake Google made was giving Google Glass to Robert Scobel.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/google-glass-2-0-eight-things-addre...

"7. On that note, don't give one to Robert Scoble"

It's not that Google Glass intrinsically makes you look like a narcissistic douchebag, it's that the first people to show them off were narcissistic douchebags, posing with their smug self important "look at me I want your attention" expressions, who crystallized the image of the "glasshole" in everyone's minds.

http://whitemenwearinggoogleglass.tumblr.com/
That's a very interesting thought. If that hominid was indeed superior, there would be more of those genetic traits still around, but it's fear which is a double edged sword - it makes some wiser, and some not-so-wise.

Or maybe it's our turn (the homo sapiens who have fear) turn to die out, letting more fearless ones take place. Although, this sounds more of a fictional novel waiting to be written.
> Things I've lost:

> - ease of iteration

> - concise, readable code

Ouch... then it's a big nope for me.
I love how being contacted by a salesman that is acting accordingly to the terms of the contract he accepted is BAD! but publishing a private message without consent and without obfuscating name and surname is RIGHT!

Some devs have complete disconnect from reality.

(ofc he screams #censorship)
Can also be an age thing: older and younger people are driven around more. Or a combination of factors, most likely.

I don't live in the USA, but here the ratio male-female casualties in traffic accidents is also 70%-30%. The age groups 20 to 29 plus 70 and up make up 55% of all casualties.
You just answered your own question mate
Recently switched from SVGs to PNGs because the toolset the designers are using means every SVG has the same HTML ID attribute value. So when rendering >1 SVG on a page, they all render the same as the last one in the dom.
Doesn't seem like a lot of money. Shame somebody didn't buy it and shutter it. Less guns in the world is better for everyone.
> Many don't have access to jurisdictions that can offer people in their income class that kind of security of property. For them, I think in some situations cryptocurrency can be a very secure form of property comparatively speaking. Cryptocurrency can be thought of as a poor man's offshore bank account, literally speaking.

Actually I didn't mean monopoly on the law and monopoly of violence that way. I meant that billionaires invest a lot of cash into politics and personal security (legal and otherwise) for good reason. It would be very hard for a politician to go head to head against a billionaire donor, since he would just donate to the other guy the next time. Similarly, they get to influence a lot of things including who might head the city's police force or what policies to implement on a regional or national level. It's the same thing everywhere, whether you're in the Indian or Pakistani badlands, the heart of the EU or smack in the middle of NYC or SF.

I agree with crypto being the poor man's offshore, but a poor man wouldn't need an offshore. Not to mention, the barrier to open an offshore account is much less than the cost of BTC right now.
I think there are a few different definitions of "faster" that can all be useful in different situations:

1. faster when written and optimized by an expert, who writes the best blog on how to optimize X

2. faster when written and optimized by a competent-but-not-necessarily-expert programmer, who reads the best blog on how to optimize X

3. faster when written without speed in mind

It seems like C, C++, and Rust are all more or less tied at the head of the pack for #1 and #2. There's obviously a lot of room for debate here, but it seems like many other languages (Go? JavaScript running on V8?) can get pretty close for #1 but struggle for #2.

For #3, it seems like C is the king, because of the very low-level style that it forces on the programmer. Below that things get murky. I'm inclined to believe Rust does well here, because it doesn't usually allocate without being asked to, but I assume the same logic applies to other languages I'm less familiar with (D, Zig). How well C++ does probably depends on how you interpret the question. (Like does the programmer make even the slightest effort to avoid implicitly copying big data structures, to take things by reference, etc?)
I do not know much about how good Colt is doing, but isn't 220mil plus 18mil in stocks a bit cheap?
The article identifies 'those who fight' as knights. Knights often raised, resourced and commanded their own armies.

"As “those who work” (in Latin, laboratores), peasants supported people more privileged—“those who pray” (oratores) and “those who fight” (pugnatores). Each of these three orders ideally helped the other, with clergy contributing prayers and knights providing protection, but the mutuality of the system was more ideal than real. Also, the three groups were not equal. A peasant might have benefited from the prayers of a nun or from the protection offered by a knight, but a peasant was deemed to do work of lesser value and to be a less worthy person. Born into this unexalted state, a peasant’s lot was to labor for the benefit of others."
You might be on a solid team, but AWS is widely regarded as being a complete meat grinder. We've hired so many devs from AWS in the past 18 months (even pre covid) and they all have the same story. 12-14 hour days at a minimum, toxic leadership and managers, incredible pressure, tons of tech debt and mostly doing ops work.

I'd say the trend for AWS is leaning "do not join". Anecdotal? Of course, but with enough stories it becomes a statistic and not an anomaly.
Should I drive my Ferrari or my other Ferrari?
Of equal importance:

- Ask HN: What should I have my chefs prepare for my dinner party with Larry and Sergie?
Yes. I am now signed up.
Ask HN: How do I scale my mansion while minimizing the walking distance from one side to the other?
- Ask HN: When I get invited to Larry and Sergei's xmas party, what should I wear?
Wouldn't even just one be insanely useful for decryption? I've been lost by pretty much every description of what they actually did at Bletchley Park (anyone have recommended links?) but it seems like they could do a lot with some decent computing power.
Based on personal experiences, it appears that any two parties doing business under an "American" contract are at any time probably in violation of several clauses of said contract. When the waters get a little rough, you can expect the party with the most leverage to bail.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but other countries don't interpret contracts so strictly. I remember someone telling me that German business contracts are often written with intentions and principles, rather than rules.

That way, people are encouraged to do "good business" and not resort to the algorithm. Legalese is just a way to cover your ass in a bad scenario; it's not designed to build better businesses.

Full disclosure: I work for blip.tv. I am biased.
I would knock off some points for the "web 2.0" style logos that incorporate elements that don't translate well to black/white print form or cannot be easily recognizable when constrained such as on embroidery.
Star Trek TNG is the best Star Trek ever.
Cuil (ha!) donated most of their crawled data to the Internet Archive - so with that plus Common Crawl, it's pretty easy for anyone to have a sizeable index.

What those neither of those give you is an up to date index, which is why small search engines still need Yahoo and Yandex's APIs. I'm not sure any free resource can match the speed at which big companies can index the web.
I like no instructions design as well. What I meant was change the first level so you can win it within one or two clicks without even trying to make it more obvious what the goal is.
Saying that the chances are 1 in a 100,000 doesn't imply that life happens once per 100,000 stars, just that that's what'll happen on average. You can roll a dice 20 times and not have a six come up.

But yes, it's difficult to figure out the probability of life occuring if we only have a sample size of one. On the other hand, nobody's found anything particularly special about the Earth's placement or chemical makeup, other than it's rocky and has liquid water.

This is why exploring the other planets in our solar system is important. If we explore Titan and find weird, hydrocarbon-based fish which evolved independently to life on earth, or under the ice on Europa, then it tells us that the probability of life evolving is not that small, and we can up the estimate of the probability of other civilisations in the galaxy.
Flagged -- cchr.org is a scientology front organization.

The fact that they're trying to infiltrate here is something we should be concerned about.
Easy to say when you're not the one at risk of dying.
Berkshire Hathaway. Almost all of the business units are run by hungry entrepreneurs that live and breathe the business. They sold to Berkshire as a means of cashing out but most of the managers love to compete and stay on. As a result, they get to operate with an unusually high level of autonomy, I believe some of the managers only communicate with the home office once a year.

I think though the only reason that works is because Berkshire is buying great businesses with great managers at the helm. When you get into turnarounds/distressed businesses you end up having to roll up your sleeves and get involved much more frequently.
The systems we think are simple are only so because we already possess the knowledge necessary to think abstractly.

If by that you mean that science proceeds by first understanding systems in their entirety and then abstracting away the essential elements from that complexity then I can't agree. (Science education may do that but that's an entirely different matter).

Historically we've gained understanding of systems by creating simple models which capture their essential behavior and only later adding more complex effects. One good example is the dynamics of the solar system. The basic phenomenology of central force motion (ie. elliptical orbits) was understood long before N-body interactions were accounted for. I think you would find similar examples in biology. For instance the "rule" that DNA is transcribed to RNA was established long before exceptions like retroviruses were understood.

The challenge is and always has been to somehow "see" or intuit the fundamental behavior in a mass of confusing data then build testable models based on that intuition.
This site can be a good place for such a thing... however, unless you're willing to give a high-level overview of what you're doing (at a minimum), you probably shouldn't expect very many people to make serious inquiries.
The US has been spying on communications since it's inception. It may not have been called the "NSA", but the activities have always happened.
I'll make no strong apology for JavaScript besides saying that compared to other "popular" languages I have had the opportunity to use professionally -- a list that includes perl, php, and vbscript -- JavaScript annoys me considerably less than many.
> as long as you're not disguising employment in the host country

Indeed, and they may well ask you if your trip is personal or related to your work. And deny you entry if it is work related and you don't have the appropriate paperwork.
I believe the main advantage is that wayland enables better access to hardware acceleration, at least once Nvidia and AMD implement support for egl.
This would be the perfect response. Then all he needs to do is get the entire network to adopt the new chain, but that's on him not the developers.
In 2015 I worked at a start-up and was in charge of applying for various cloud start-up benefits at AWS, GCP, etc. At the time getting GCP credits was the hardest and required meeting with a program coordinator after getting a referral from an industry recognized VC. It may have changed since then, bottom line YMMV.
Yeah Chrome's "hold to quit" feature is genius. I wish VSCode had it too.
Searches peter out around 2017/2018 for people trying to do what you want to do. the qanta screen was interesting but it didn't become ubiquitous, so its down to the scavengers who have an olpc and want to hack. Circuit diagrams I think will be easy, block-logic-structure stuff.

I did find people who cheated and used X $DISPLAY. I don't think thats quite the goal here :-)
That's interesting, I didn't realize that ERCOT can be seen as a sort of hands-tied midpoint between possibly under-regulated energy inputs and the various energy consumers. The slide shown in the thread seems to indicate that weatherization is a widely-varying standard with little effective regulation...quite lax from a contingency POV.
>I would have killed to know that that wasn't the case.

Same. It's actually pretty important information to know at that age, as it'll help prevent you from settling into a LTR with someone that you're not compatible with, because "I'll never do any better."

I was most recently single at 43, and my dating prospects were pretty great compared to what I experienced at 22. If 22 year old had been able to foresee that, I would've saved myself quite a bit of grief.