jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I get why they put out a post like this. They also appear to be correct in calling out the misinformation, regardless whether it was caused by a misinterpreted fun meme or intention to fool/misinform.

However, with some of the decisions I've seen the company (or particularly its management) make before, this post still rubs me the wrong way. Rather pedantically sounding like a lecture on what all these people "up in arms" did wrong.

Those people were indeed wrong, at least this time. But their emotional response may very well have been primed and driven by past experiences (with more merit). Which to me makes this blog post sound rather smug and maybe even a bit arrogant. Even when it was likely sincerely written to calm people down.
Gambling rules require explicit declaration of the rules of the game and the house odds of payout.
>Today we’re introducing the Firefox parent brand — an icon representing the entire family of products.

I don't know, it's a bit funny but it really looks like only tail fo the fox has been left ) which makes you worry about the life of the fox. Perhaps it's only my perception.
> There was never one commonly accepted meaning for a MB.

If that was correct, this HN post wouldn't exist.

For the 50 years preceding Apple's intervention, any example that can be produced of MB equalling 1,000,000 bytes, likely has about one MiB-worth of counter-examples showing it equalling 1,048,576 bytes.
By your definition Google Analytics is not tracking because they disallow PII.
How is blocking incognito a bad thing? Right there it should tell the user they need to avoid that site at any price.

I'm pretty sure incognito is detectable right now. I'm always going to assume it is.
Firefox are memeing back. Gotta love it, honestly XD
Yelp has over 2500 full time employees and $3 billion market capitalization. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=YELP+Profile
I just dont understand why JIRA is so slow... Something weird is going on. They are not connected to external API's that could make them slow...

Trello (although less features) is a breeze for me.
Maybe yes, maybe no, but FLAC files on my storage don't file intrusive patents.
They also don’t support Android Auto.
This goes against the HN trope that "you don't need Kubernetes unless you are Google-size".

It turns out Kubernetes is actually perfect for small teams as it solves many hard operational issues, allowing you to focus on the important part of the stack: the application.

The key is to stick to a simple setup (try not to mess with networking config) and use a managed offering such as GKE. We may need a Kubernetes, The Good Parts guide.
Can the study result be: "A third of anyone suffer nerological or mental disorders due to the world situation/lockdowns'?

My country just opened a couple things and I have been talking with a lot of friends/coaches/workers. Pretty much every one of them (including myself) have these symptoms, having caught covid or not. I see people that were in general 'happy' feel depressed, run down, see little hope. I see their 'face' changes from pre covid to post covid. The people that lost their jobs.

Not wanting to be pro/against lockdowns, but I believe we will see a long effects of this for years to come.
This..

>"kids don't get sick from it"

..isn't strictly true. A quick look at the local (Danish) health department says that the hospitalisation rate of 0-9 year olds are 181 out of 17004 confirmed cases and 10-19 yo 180 out of 36065 confirmed. 23% of those had an underlying disease.

Hospitalisation is defined as someone who have been hospitalised for at least 12 hours with something covid related inside 14 days from a positive test result.

So while only something like 1% needs to go to hospital compared to 27% of the 70-79 age group they do get sick and so get long-term damage too.
Someone should get the leaked data and notify everyone. It does contain contact information after all...
> Your comment does not address the basic problem with a legislative implementation of freedom: it is undemocratic because the power to fight legal battles will always be constrained by money, therefore giving more weight to those that have more.

Yes, my comment did not address the US legal system’s wealth bias, except to say that if it needs solving then all citizens should benefit from the solution, not just one class. So I’m not sure why you’re painting me as having one view or another on the solution. What I attacked was different laws for different people. Am I to understand that you believe legal classes are necessary to solve wealth bias? Could you explain the link to me?

> the power to fight legal battles will always be constrained by money

In the US, under our current system. It’s not a result of democracy, it’s a result of a largely privatized legal system.

Also, what exactly are you arguing here? That the power to fight legal battles is bad?

> That makes the legislative or libertarian version of freedom undemocratic.

Dictatorship is undemocratic. Biased legal systems are flawed, maybe unfair, not undemocratic.

Again, I fail to see what this has to do with qualified immunity, or how qualified immunity is more democratic.

> Naturally, if you have the means, that may seem inefficient, but then that was never the point of democracy, and as far as I am concerned, must never be the point of freedom either.

I haven’t said a word about inefficiency.
Yep, wasn't disagreeing with your point, just wanted to fix the maths :)
Minor quibble: please put [video] in the title.
Same values? When Alexey wrote

> We live in a world where having the technological edge makes the difference between success and failure; asking us to just give up that edge for a theoretical idea of freedom is not going to work.

he embraced pure expedience and pretty much disclaimed having any values he'd go out of his way to uphold in this area.
I wonder how many people living in San Francisco actually know its beautiful history.
It's currently at the Exploratorium, but I have no idea how long it'll remain there.
Yeah, I read that the same way, too. I've seen correspondence from RMS to people that he really disagreed with. In RMS parlance, his response to Alexey sounds like a polite form of, "I'll think about that."

Meh. The internet loves it some drama.
A long time ago (1990) Tom Stonier wrote an expansive and thought-provoking book on Information Physics (http://www.amazon.com/Information-Internal-Structure-Univers...)

I'd never seen anything quite like it at the time. So while it's certainly a 'new approach' to science, it's not exactly 'new'. It's not fair to be dead and forgotten...
One of the problems with CS PhD graduates at least is the lack of broad familiarity with their and related fields.

Outside of a handful of top US schools the resources (i.e. high level graduate courses taught by people who actually understand what they are talking about) are simply not available. Indeed even there one needs to make an effort to take classes from other departments.

Somewhere like UK with no course work requirements at all, it is not as easy to find a PhD student with an understanding of the proverbial bigger picture (of course there are exceptions etc).

It is the broad understanding of the relations between methods employed in different fields that makes a PhD useful in an industry setting and not the narrow topic of their research (for example someone familiar with ideas used in numerical computing can do research level work in many fields).
I taught myself to program on a Ti83 because I wanted to cheat on math tests by creating programs to do the formulas and calculations in trig and calculus. However by learning them enough to write a program to automate it, I was actually doing a form of applied-studying and learned them so well I didn't need the programs!
> I don't know how efficient a houseful of IOTs can be

The Nest thermostats come to mind.

> what's to keep my neighbor(s) from ignoring efficiency in favor of demand

He gets to pay the price for it. It's the same thing that prevents him from buying fuel guzzling cars. (Note that sales of guzzlers inversely track pump gas prices.)

Price fixing by the government has the perverse effect of continually causing demand to outstrip supply - rolling blackouts, shortages, rationing, etc.
Well, that was then, and this is now.

Even without a grid, people have built more billion dollar software offerings on the web (SaaS) than they have in native form.

(Not that I don't prefer native myself. Just saying).
>Houdini is still barely capable comparable with native drawing.

Which is neither here, nor there. The web stack (sans Houdini) is powerful enough for 99% of things an app will need to draw.

>Layout managers were already a thing in Motif.

Too bad Motif was crap and is irrelevant today.

>Where is the great web tooling capable to beat Delphi/VB workflows?

One could also reverse the question: where is the Delphi/VB tooling today?
> In principle generating dependencies from a notebook should be as easy as parsing the ast, finding all the import statements, and then using sys to lookup what package provided that module.

Well not really.

First, there is no link between a distribution package name (what you install with pip) and python package name (what you import).

e.g. The distribution package "foobar" can install the python package "baz". Well, it's even worst than that. There could be name space packages so multiple distribution package actually install parts of a python package. And there could be monkey patching.

Second, Python is not a static language. The import system is part of the interpretation of python code, and as such, is dynamic.

You have absolutely 0 guarantee that "import foo" on two different environments, even if they have the same version of package foo, will produce the same results. There could be an infinite amount of magic done in foo's __init__ that depend on other libraries being installed, etc.

Third, don't get me started on the actual version of these libraries.
Modulating demand by modulating the price won't solve the entire problem, but I bet it could reduce the size of needed grid batteries by a huge margin.

> calling it “battery”

I did put it in scare quotes, because although it is not an actual battery because it does not store/release charge, it serves the purpose of one.
His parent was shykes comment, so I think he was referring to the sample JSON document posted in the docker spec file, which docker calls a schema even though it's clearly not.
> One of my favorite things is that methods are way less awkard than Objective-C. It looks, you know, like other programming languages now.

This made me laugh. I've also suffered from them. I tried to convince myself to like them when I started learning Objective-C, but soon I failed.
Last time we met with Revolution Analytics they did their demos on a MacBook Pro running MacOSX using RStudio.
I think lifetimes are the part of Rust that people see as ugly. I recently wrote the following lines of code:

struct Parser<'a, 'b, T> {
value: &'a [T],
inner: InnerParser<'a, 'b>
}

impl<'a, 'b, T> for Parser<'a, 'b, T> {
fn parse<T: Into<String>>(value: T) -> &'static str {
...
}
}

and the equivalent code in Scala:

class Parser[T] {
var value: List[A] = Nil
var inner: InnerParser = Nil

def parse(value: String): String = ...
}

of course, those programs are not semantically equivalent, but you can clearly see that the Scala version is the more elegant of the two. I can't think of any other way that you could syntactically express lifetimes, but I can see why people would see Rust as ugly.
That is true. This is more of a book about Docker than about orchestration. The naming is unfortunate, and something that I did not have control on.
Unity is really making a disservice to games development in safer languages by bundling that prehistoric Mono runtime.

Anyone that isn't aware of that will assume C# in Unity == other runtimes.
> If there's a way to teach that kind of math without programming, I'm game for it.

That's largely what pure math or abstract math is. This isn't
really encountered unless someone is getting a degree in math.
Thanks for the response, we'll start investigating Xamarin.
what is the reason behind blocking this in many states and internationally ? I would really like to send some bitcoins and use their trading platform.
If someone is jamming your power lines AND rf / wireless, you're under a full on assault. You're unlikely to defend against someone invested that much in breaching your home easily.

Although a Springfield Armory XD45 makes a wonderful backup :)

As does this sign in my rear window:
http://img3.etsystatic.com/il_570xN.284053143.jpg
I was expecting you reply, "What's a check?"
We will see. As far as I can tell, it's the productive enterprises and everyday people that are ruining the environment. But hey, your comment sounded smart, which is the the real goal here.
If your request are huge. For example, imagine you need to read many huge files into memory.

Whether you read one file after the other sequentially, or try to read all of them concurrently, won't make a difference, because your Disk/RAM bandwidth is going to be bottlenecked anyways.

Trying to do this concurrently requires more work that won't pay off, so it might actually be slower.
The irony is that Google discourages businesses from being on Google Local when they do not have a staffed public-accessible office.
> io_uring's "slow" path is roughly one syscall per iteration, right?

Right, so if a blocking API makes 1 syscall, io_uring would make N syscals for N iterations.
That's the most commonly given reason for using async/await so a lot of people assume threads are way more heavyweight than they actually are.

What other reason were you thinking of?
Yikes, I looked up the specific values involved for softbank (as they are the exclusive iPhone carrier) and the $10 usage is roughly 1.5 mb. The max-ed out usage is.... 8.5mb.

The current values in the scale are clearly a bit antiquated, but the concept seems like a good one.
It's worth pointing out that the case study is from 2007, there's a good chance that this company is no longer involved and likely wasn't involved in building the API for apps and the security on them.
It would be a great place to hold out with a large group if you had a way to obtain and import supplies and you cleared the building first. You'd probably be able to spot anyone coming or going (living or undead), and it would be likely that very few zombies would be in the surrounding land.

Also, of course zombie fiction requires a major suspension of disbelief in this regard, but the damp/cold weather would cause the zombie bodies to freeze (at below zero) or decay faster (at above zero, though I suspect it is rarely if ever above zero)
Awesome. You can ignore my email :)
The official PostgreSQL Documentation gives a good start, as well as explaining the many considerations involved in scaling.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/interactive/different-rep...
With increasingly-replicated data that increasing seniority levels of leadership and simply the plain wealthy over-represent sociopathic and psychopathic traits when compared to the general population, I doubt the idea of paying government leaders more will move the corruption needle any appreciable amount. Generally, it seems the prevalence and diffusion of these traits is semi-stable depending upon the cohort or even industry (financial services, for example) under observation.

Note we're still talking about relatively small groups even so: single digit percentages at most is all I've seen for US population cohorts of various selection criteria. The positive takeaway is that in the US at least, while leadership overrepresents these traits, you are more likely to simply meet well-intentioned and honest leaders (or well-intentioned but ineffective) leaders than those who exhibit the aforementioned traits.

What paying government leaders more CAN pave the way clear for however, is for far less "privacy" of their daily lives, and far stricter anti-corruption regulations. Something along the lines of a bodycam streaming straight to a replicated digital vault, accompanied by rules like unexplained gaps in the stream are grounds for instant, unappeal-able, permanent dismissal with revocation of all retirement benefits, with the ability to let third parties also vault the encrypted streams if desired. If they're paid so much out in the open, then it will probably be easy to sell the voting public on keeping such "digital tabs" on the leadership. Still wouldn't prevent the corruption, but I'd be happy to root it out before it rots out the infrastructure from underneath us.
> A good taxi drive will get you someplace faster than a bad one, will
> know shortcuts and longcuts, and understands patterns of traffic to
> avoid them.

A good taxi driver optimizes the ride in order to maximize their fares. The more runs a driver can make between downtown and the airport, for example, the greater their income will be. Besides which, if tips impact the route the driver takes then passengers ought to tip up-front to avoid being "taken for a ride". And if the tipping percentage is to reward efficient driving, how would someone unfamiliar with the city (or drunk, or blind, or ...) know whether they got ripped off or not? Doesn't this ultimately result in tipping someone in order to prevent unethical behavior?
This comment received a bunch of up and down votes - roughly seven each.

I stand by it.

"She's fucking crazy" is not an accurate description of her. It assumes her behaviour is pathological when there hasn't been any suggestion of illness from any source. It then assumes a narrow type of illness, when stalkers could have any of a wide variety of mental illness (or no mental illness). So, it's pure bullshit speculation that is inaccurate about the person and inaccurate about mental illness.

Worse is the blatant stigmatisation of mental illness. This is a simple logic fail. You hear the behaviour and think "stalker with a mental illness" and not "stalker". This is the "conjunction fallacy". The clearest explanation of that fallacy is "the Linda problem" where readers are presented with a short bio of a young woman ("Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations.") and are then asked to select the most likely of two options ([1] Linda is a bank teller or [2] Linda is a bank teller and a feminist). People usually chose [2] even though [1] is more likely.

Speculation on the mental health status of an offender is as ignorant as suggesting that an offender is probably black.
A great move, but I feel that the cable companies have anticipated this: TV + Internet is basically the same price as Internet. Who is this aimed at?
If you're sufficiently motivated by the prospect of disarming an insane conspiracy theory in the minds of someone you care about to actually want to read and understand it, you [i] can certainly seek it out on obscure cult websites without seeing it recommended in your favourite social media feed and [ii] are potentially better off getting it second hand complete with rebuttals.

The people with slightly watered down but directionally parallel beliefs certainly exist in huge numbers, but they're the reason why such places are so harmful; they're much easier to radicalize than deradicalize, and they're the ones getting the content recommended to them or being swept along by the enthusiasm other people who share some of their views seem to have for it. And it'd actually be easier to understand their justifiable grievances if they weren't encouraged to connect them to pizza parlours or Jews.
Right to rebel?

I'm not aware of that one.
I'm sorry, but if you are unable to send a text to an Apple device from a non-Apple device, then you must be broken. If you stated that you cannot send an iMessage from a non-Apple device to an Apple device, then you'd be correct. However, an iMessage is not a text. Any text capable device is able to send a text to any other text capable device. If the app one reads those texts is called WhatsApp, iMessage, or ImTooStupidToKnowTheDifference.app, it doesn't matter.
For extra points, get paid billions for it and then act outraged when the new owner decides to make back their investment.
There are plenty of old people buying lottery tickets.

All of these justifications are just an excuse to erect artificial barriers around the early stage market (aka where all the upside is). People should be free to spend their money as they see fit, even if that means shoveling it into a campfire.
Thanks Tom!

Being a linguist of note, Colmerauer evidently didn't know (or didn't

want to admit) that Kowalski had been carefully studying

Planner and Shrdlu (Winograd's Phd thesis based on Planner)

for quite a while in Edinburgh, where he felt quite in the

minority defending pure mathematical logic against the

onslaught of Popler (Pop2 Planner), etc.

The formalization issue was addressed by the invention of
Actors for all of digital computation including many
computations that cannot be performed using pure logic
programming (including Colmerauer's Prolog).
Furthermore, many practical applications can be implemented
using Actors hundreds of times faster than they can be
implemented using pure logic programming.

PS. Have you actually read the article

"Middle History of Logic Programming: Resolution, Planner, Prolog and the Japanese Fifth Generation Project"

ArXiv 2009.

https://dev.arxiv.org/abs/0904.3036
This is awesome news. Next step is to get federally elected and settled once and for all. If that is how it can be done.
It's acquired taste (as many things are). That said, they would indeed look weird in Boris Johnson's mouth.
Theoretically yes, if they were for example managed by a leasing company.

In this case, the company actually only officially supports (leases) Windows laptops. Macs should not officially exist to start with, but are nevertheless required for iOS app development. So MBPs are handled as "extra" IT equipment. If there is no use for such a piece of IT equipment (e.g. it is underpowered or otherwise not fit for purpose) AND it contains sensitive business data (like a developer computer almost certainly does), it is actually a security issue for the company.

So for security reasons the company would actually prefer that such computer be DESTROYED when there is no use for it anymore. Sadly you can not even remove the hard drive from a MBP and sell/give it to a employee for personal use, so Apple soldering the components on the mainboard is a double whammy.
> usually less efficient than participants just not doing that behavior

This has a terrible track record whenever there is a significant financial incentive for participants to do the thing.
How!? I am a VC backed startup, just went through the same grief described in the original linked post.

I like Firebase, but the moment the utility runs out we're heading back to AWS.
The Astronomical League's material is generally excellent. They also have a nice introductory manual and observing program for beginners called the Universe Sampler:
https://www.astroleague.org/al/obsclubs/univsamp/univsamp.ht...
https://store.astroleague.org/index.php?main_page=product_in...
It's not about California specifically - in general the majority should always have to ability to reject the decision of a smaller body by pure simple majority. To believe otherwise is basically to not believe in democracy.

To some extent this is already possible, but with gerrymandering and non-mandatory voting the obvious solution to this problem for the minority is just to suppress votes - hence mandatory voting.