jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm a former postal worker (summer job in the 90's) and I drove some of those postal trucks. I drove the "half ton" and "quarter ton" trucks. Those are the small or very small delivery trucks you would typically see in residential neighborhoods.

Those things were named after their actual weight and made of aluminum. Obviously driving around in a 500 or 1000 pound vehicle when every other car weighs considerably more is anxiety producing. Plus the driver seat is inverted compared to every other US vehicle, so my visibility to the left side and rear was poor. Plus other drivers can't be expected to know or understand that my ability to see them is different from what is typical of other drivers. Plus if the vehicle was damaged in any way, I would be fired, even if it was clearly not my fault.

Fun times! And great memories. What a unique summer job to have while in college.
“Best value” can be very hard to get approved when lower bids exist. Circling back to the incentive theme, I have a feeling contracting officers are graded, in part, by how much they “save”. (In quotes because you can often pay much more in the long run by selecting the lowest bidder).

I’ve found people are very risk adverse in this regard and would prefer to select the lowest bid instead of potentially defending their decision during a protest.
Also jumped the shark in 2007, 2000, 1989, and 1972.

Bay Area has always had boom & bust cycles, and the busts can last for 5+ years. They also seem to precede the recession by about 2-ish years. I'd agree that 2016 was effectively the end of the last boom, 2016-2018 we were coasting, and the crisis was COVID in 2020. So we'll probably see the next boom start around mid-2022, and really get going through 2023.
Interesting, the VC firmware is ThreadX based, indeed[1]! The number of platforms this runs on is absolutely mind-blowing (from an engineering perspective).

[1] https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv
yes! i've used Verbatim BDXL M-Disc 100 GB discs for backup. i just store the data in a Vercacrypt container for security. there are some low quality drives and discs out there so you need to do your research but I've been using it for couple of months and they've worked great. you can get 5 discs for $60 on amazon.
I did a run of all “packages in main repo” screenshot tools for ArchLinux.

Flameshot has an easy UX, and does everything that other tools do, plus a bit more.
I was referring to the gif on the GitHub README here: https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/#preview (sorry if I was vague)

In this project's case, it showcases a lot of features as they're actually used, rather than some bullets that say what it _should_ do. In general, I appreciate a gif like this for explaining because it boils down some essential features into one easily digestable clip. It's a preferable medium for me over a long YouTube video or text explaining how something works.
The analog parts are the slow parts.

PCIe costs you less than a microsecond of latency. A good SSD has 60 microseconds of latency. You're not going to notice any difference from moving the controller.
About damn time, with Lindsay Lohan tweeting about going to the moon and every haidresser talking about buying Bitcoin again.
The Raspberry Pi foundation wants you to use Visual Studio Code, which means you want to free up RAM. A file system on SD that's mounted read only on boot might be a good call, with /home on an external USB.
My company has deployed Kubeflow for production model training. Early on, we used their big deployment, but we got frustrated trying to manage it with kfctl, so we started using kustomize directly and deploying only what we need, like KFP. So no istio for us! YMMV with your use case.
> But in general detection is pretty reliable across cultures.

Unfortunately that's simply not true. Your example merely shows reliabiliy between two countries, not all countries. You can research, for example, how Japanese people tend to smile when angry, sad, or embarrassed, in total contrast to Westerners.

This is one of the classic "extreme" examples, but it demonstrates how my point holds -- errors are not random but are highly correlated with the culture -- not to mention the subculture, the individual (the person who hides all emotion when angry), etc.
> Seems unlikely but I’m very hopeful about Apple sneakily creating the world's largest mesh network. Slowly, but surely adding functionality to the mesh.

In your hypothetical, I'm curious how you'd see this comparing to Amazon Sidewalk in size?
Safari on iOS does NOT like this page. I was pretty excited to look at some low-contrast examples to mock in that top slider graphic, but the dang page keeps auto-scrolling me past it. Glass houses and all that...
I find HIIT doesn’t do it for me. Can’t push myself hard enough in such short bursts because I have ridiculous cardio conditioning* from running. Boxing is great because it’s hiit but with technique and tactics and strategy.

* ridiculous conditioning in that I can keep average heart rate at 155bpm for 2 hours no problem. Most hiit isn’t long enough to get me above 110
Or a textbook writer.

Seriously, if you need a decent breakdown of "Learning X" into steps, then it's useful to look at the table of contents of a related textbook even if you'd be learning from other sources (experimentation, documentation, whatever) because the split and order of topics will be at least somewhat reasonable.
There's also this little bit from an interview:

Q: About three-quarters the way through the Illustrated Hitchhikers Guide there is a strange illustration of 42 multi-coloured balls lined up in columns 6x7. I can only assume this is the famed "42 Puzzle". My question is, how do you play? What's the puzzle?

DNA: The point of the puzzle was this: Everybody was looking for hidden meanings and puzzles and significances in what I had written (like 'is it significant that 6 * 9 is 42 in base 13?'. As if.) So I thought that just for a change I would actually construct a puzzle and see how many people solved. Of course, nobody paid it any attention. I think that's terribly significant.
Agreed, which is why I included the note (preceding your comment) adding that I agree with Lockhart that there's a problem in the way math is taught.

Edit: Can you expand on your idea? I did just re-read the essay (for the 3rd time) and Lockhart seems pretty absolute in his belief that math should be taught as a playful, creative abstraction. And he seems to disdain practical applications of math. So how would you teach math in an inductive manner that maintains the level of abstraction and "playfulness" he's advocating for?

By the way, love the book chapter! That's exactly how I'm trying to teach my kids. Not always easy, but they respond well to it.

And it's entirely possible I'm reading something into the essay that isn't there. But I'm not yet convinced.
If only everyone as submissive as you are! Perfect citizen that every police state needs
This. I really would like a small netbook type ARM device which runs a normal Linux distribution and doesn't cheap out on battery capacity. The Samsung ARM Chromebook comes near but it could have a better display, casing and keyboard (ideally with a trackpoint).
a) Why is 40 hours the magic number and not more or less?

b) Isn't the 40 hour work week pretty much a relic of industrial development? What about 40 means "virtuous"?
By what right?

By the right of a society to make rules that govern those within it.

I realize from previous experience that it's likely you think this is an illegitimate right. Nevertheless, it is important to recognize that this is how societies have functioned throughout human history.

Edit: I believe this is a distraction from the nuclear regulation debate - which I note you have chosen to ignore.

I agree that, yes, there is a fair debate to be had about the legitimacy of laws deciding what someone can do to their own body. However, there is a fair amount of historical evidence that indicates it has been a long accepted right (eg, laws against drunkenness). As I said previously I don't have a strong opinion either way as to if these should apply to private use of cannabis.
I can reasonably assume that those tasks are not what he meant by "internal tools." When someone talks about "internal tools," they are referring to stuff like internal dashboards. Other hypothetical examples: 1) internal bug tracker, 2) a custom CRM for a company's sales team, 3) an internal message board, 4) a conference room scheduler, 5) a dashboard to view the health of a service, etc etc.
Even saying that the school is in Georgia is helpful. I would expect that it's harder to run a school outside of SF, if only because it's harder to find instructors and the tech jobs are less dense.
I would guess the CHT files are commands for text output on a dot matrix printer, or a format pretty close to that.

* The MARLEY songs are laid out in two columns (side A, side B) from left to right then top to bottom, which suggests its pretty close to a matrix of characters, rather than something more abstract/structured.

* Every character is taking up two bytes, which could be some Slovenian encoding but I doubt any European language was taking up 16 bits in the early 1990s, which makes me think every second character is a formatting for the character that precedes or follows it.

* The MARLEY title has a repetitions like "BB o o b b M M a a r r l l e e y y" which might be the kind of overprint mode I remember dot matrixes having, where the printer prints a character then goes back and reprints it, to get a bold effect.

I would dig around for old dot matrix standards, Epson and so on.
there is no price, it doesnt exists, its a render and an idea they will use to milk $100-200k out of indiegogo suckers (no KS in Poland)
So one might argue that that is a philosophy in and of itself. An agnostic one that is founded on technical specification, not moral imperative.
Check the blog post

- They wanted the same language for implementation and user API

- They wanted a single machine, CPU bound runtime where the executable is the model

Given these, D and Go make sense - easy to pick up, compiles fast and performant.
> In practice, most strategic nuclear warheads today are in the 300-500 kT range

Capable to wipe out all capital cities in Eastern Europe, or most of capital cities of Western Europe, I mean if only one is used, and not two, out of few thousands.

Few weeks ago something fell out of blue in Zagreb and later they identified it as a Russian spy plane. That's it.
Different perspective: at least they will delay the singularity, which could be a life-saver, overall.
It's a psychological coping thing. A lot of people, in particular younger ones born after the cold war have never actually been in a situation where their own physical safety is threatened by brute violence or seen the world around them fall apart. See also "covid is just the flu, right guys?" phenomenon. Substack bloggers in particular with their Pollyanna-ish tendencies take these things badly.
Declining to use military force against a riot is not siding with the rioters. By your logic the military also sided with the BLM looters.
and his career a history book
I mean my city counted wood shields, water bottles, and leaf blowers during the BLM protests. I don't think either group is armed but we should at least be apply the label consistently.
But then why not use the DEXes directy?
Perhaps so. How soon, though? Not in the first half hour...
I'm frustrated and saddened, but not surprised. What can we do but watch and seethe and hope? What words, shouts, or ululations can be uttered to bring relief to ourselves or our nation? What conversation is left?
They were deployed during ferguston and portland.
Someone familiar with the technology claimed to me, that in 5 years the super-capacitor batteries will be in widespread production and their prices will start dropping.

(I have no way to evaluate the accuracy of his prediction.)
> Apple's success is based primarily on aesthetics and user experience.

I cannot say that Marketing and Salesmanship is not as important factor of the success of the company, which has undoubtedly the most charismatic CEO of this era, and one of the best salesman in the business.
I suggest you read "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" and think about why any Earth-bound government would hate the idea of allowing space based travel or settlement by any agency not under their direct control.
Clickable link http://spockly.com
You don't have to answer every single question in C. It's just that you're going to be much more likely understand a question e.g., "how do free() and malloc() work" if you know C. You also don't want to be asking difficult questions for the entire hour: I always prefer to let the candidate introduce themselves, warm them up with an easier question (to help make the candidate less nervous), add a challenging twist to the easy question, and then asks the most challenging questions.

Understanding systems matters for more than systems levels jobs: perhaps you don't need it if you plan to work on CRUD apps in a financial organization, but if technological aptitude is an enabling factor for a company you're applying to (that's the case for companies in Silicon Valley: otherwise there's no point to being in the most expensive part of the country), you should understand more than your segment of the stack (that goes both ways: systems programmers should still understand HTTP and high level languages if they work in a web services company).
As an example, we'll be mentioning the difficulties we've had with stewarding our patent application -- the Patent Office fees are reasonable (a couple hundred $$$) but the fact that a good lawyer is essentially required to write the claims (to the tune of several thousand dollars) is killer for a bootstrapping startup.

Additionally, though the Patent Office offers expedited patent issuance for qualifying clean/green tech, there are additional fees that must be paid for this service. Wouldn't a fee waiver or discount make sense to help spur innovation in these fields?

Links:
Reducing Barriers Roundtables: http://www.sba.gov/content/startup-america-reducing-barriers...
Startup America: http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/startup-america
The really scary thought is that Doom would hypothetically run on any 386 machine -- can you imagine painting e.g. 160x120 on a cacheless 20 MHz 386 laptop

I used to play Doom with a AMD386sx/33 with an ULSI coprocessor (a i387 clone)
You can start another job, go trekking, work for a charity, write poetry, etc. without needing to cash out. Just do it now. No need for money, if that's what you really want.

Your life is made up of what you are doing right now, not what you think you're going to do sometime in the future.
Looking at primitive society's that survived into the modern day paints a vary different picture. Cooperation won in the end, but primitive society where extremely violent.

For example the earliest traders slid between bandits and merchants largely based on how strong you where. Or consider traditional views on corporal punishment. Violently beating ones family members was considered normal and proper let alone what society at large would do to people.
Yes, almost every chief executive portrayed in the book is described in ridiculously idolatrous fashion, with the direct implication that business leaders - specifically those at the heads of organizations - were all but supermen, that the world would collapse without them, and that when they alone were sequestered away together, they could create a fantastical wonderland of advancement beyond the ken of the plebeian masses.
We sang in church, and I took cello lessons and was involved in a choir, but neither of them actively played an instrument. My mother was also a good singer.
As far as Google having your paper trail, I think it would be pretty naive to assume that deleting your email is going to keep Google from having a record of it.
Did you ever work with a list? Did you ever do things like

foo = [bar(x) for x in quux]

Or did you ever flatten a nested list?

Congratulations, you've been using one of the most widespread monads.

Monads are not artificial constructs. Monads, like functions, or loops, or conditional statements, emerge naturally when you try to describe a computation, even a simple one. This is like speaking prose without knowing that.
Sure, they used webkit, but they made most everything on top of that themselves. What's the issue?
Literally translated it says "from zero", and it carries the connotations of "from square one"/"from first principles"/"from scratch"
The best loading page is the one that I never see.
Nice! I've done something similar in the past:
http://static.mysti.co.in/boids/

Source: https://github.com/tech-no-crat/boids
I challenge you to back up your implicit assertion that this is all in my head with an actual argument. Show me that I'm wrong.
I think it's safe to view Laracasts as being "sold" as part of the documentation officially accessible - and documentation should be ready before a release is pushed into public release. I absolutely sympathize if I've got the wrong impression of Laracasts (though maybe they should be less frequently promoted by Laravel itself if that's the case) and I completely understand that it takes time to record updated audio-visual tutorials... but that's exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about - those prominent audio-visual tutorials existing and being pretty officially associated with Laravel means that new users trying to learn the system have windows where the documentation is confusing and out of date.

It seems like an unnecessary risk to have adopted given that it's not at all standard in the industry - sometimes language designers will give a version specific tutorial but they're understood to be unmaintained with the docos being the official source... Laracasts are a very different thing which appear to be mostly working, but seem really likely to dramatically and suddenly become more of a danger than a benefit.

One parallel I would draw on is the community effort, when PHP 5.3 or 5.4 came out, to purge all the terrible advice from StackOverflow. PHP had an issue, its documentation on php.net was fine and followed best practices, but the StackOverflow answers were often _terrible_ like - this will cause a big gaping hole in your security instantly terrible. It took a significant amount of effort to delete or properly answer these sources and since that happened the reputation of PHP has hugely improved. Bad documentation existing is worse than no documentation existing (but please don't take this as an excuse to not comment your code, just be conservative in your comments and keep it to a level you can actually afford to maintain).
When people ask questions like “how can CEO compensation be so high for person X? There is no way they add that much value to the company”

What they forget is that even a CEO that adds little to no value over time, is phenomenally more positive for the baseline of a company than one who derails the entire company. And the fact of the matter is that it’s easy as a CEO to detail a company and 99.999% percent of people would likely do without ever thinking their actions or inaction was what caused it.

It can happen as innocently as just passively assuming that your CFO is fully capable of managing all the finances, or assuming everything is perfectly fine with your technology because “it’s just a simple thread mill” or by assuming that all media coverage is good media coverage so just ignoring how your brand is managed.

Now of cause everyone is thinking “I’d never do that if I was the CEO of a company”. But these are all the known examples you have in front of you, everyone things they be able to sail the titanic around the iceberg, even if they have no sailing experience at all, yet it wasn’t a random guy of the street who managed the ship when it happened. The important part is putting your attention on the right points. A CEO who is micromanaging the finances, the branding and the technology is also going to be a huge problem for a company. As a ship captain who spends 16hours staring after icebergs every day is also going to be ineffective. And there might be other potential bombs in other companies that need attention.

Point is that being a great CEO doesn’t always mean a 10X growth in value. Sometimes it even means just limiting a loss to 5% through a rough patch when most people would have let it go to 25% lost without, sometimes it means to not fumble the ball when life throws a huge opportunity your way. You know like selling personal exercise equipment when every fitness center closes down due to a global pandemic.
Think of them as contextual advertisement, instead of tracking one.

In other words, digital advertisement is moving into a shitty badly designed copy of the form it had at the time it used to bring exceptional ROI.
No clue either, but interestingly the reader mode was available after I disabled content blockers (that's on Safari on Mac). So I take it back; I read the post and it is quite interesting :)
I am curious now, how did you come to get interested in this topic?

That font, though... It's not that it sucks in general, but it is a bit too quirky to be read comfortably for more than one sentence. At least to me. The combination of sharp angles, irregular curves, and seemingly randomly varying thickness.

Also, Kant most certainly did drugs.
>Because if you don't require evidence proportional to the claim, your world view can end up including any and all beliefs, which is neither interesting nor useful.

This is a reasonable approach, and probably the best universal algorithm we can choose, if we are forced to choose a single universal algorithm. Still it is clearly imperfect, limiting, and guaranteed to lead to false beliefs at some point.

The fact remains, by chance alone, that there are many important things that happened for which we do not have overwhelming evidence to support. Take all such events that have occurred in our history. Let us throw out claims made by individuals and only rely on claims made by groups of people. Let us assume that an overwhelming majority of these remaining cases are organized hoaxes. Even still, we are left with a number of cases where something happened for which we have no explanation, and no evidence, and no way of performing any further testing. These remaining events, by their nature, are guaranteed to be events that would cause a massive shift in world view for large percentages of humanity. The existence of aliens, God, and so on.

I find it somewhat silly that the two groups try to debate each other with any seriousness - those who have put their faith in God for which there is limited physical evidence, and those who have put their faith in the scientific method which requires physical evidence. The scientific method is a great tool, perhaps the greatest we have, but it is not perfect, and is guaranteed to lead us to mistaken beliefs at some point. Both sides are accepting some things as a matter of faith, whether they like it or not.
Sounds like if Mozilla wants to improve Firefox memory usage, they should work on blocking ads natively so people don't need Adblock Plus.

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Is 1:5000 an actually good assessment? I'd suspect it's very much not, especially if you avoid obviously dead trees and maybe move if a storm comes.
It's a lot of votes for something for which the best analysis is something like "move along folks, nothing to see here..."
I'm optimizing the background services that do all the real work on Playtomic, and refining them a little. Two down, three to go.

Then I'm going to go and add error catching to one obsolete component of the system that's used by some games and throws just enough exceptions to bug me in the eventlog.

I sent my pitch off today too to a guy who wants to be a part of it, so I'm mentally exploring that possibility too.