jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
About this:

"if z grows too large then you get a massive inflation which is very damaging"

No! No! No! I am surprised there are so many people on Hacker News who are bad at math. You can not get inflation unless:

x < y + z

but what I wrote was:

x = y + z

you can not get inflation while that is true. Remember, you face deflationary pressure for as long as:

x > y + z

and that is what Switzerland was fighting. Not inflation, but deflation.
Well for example, there is a proposed transaction tax by some politician in the USA, targeting HFT processes. It wouldn't be painful for joe buying his mutual fund EFTs every month, but it will be for HFTs.
I was looking forward to a smartwatch that somehow made use of https. Now I feel like an idiot.
When I read reports of massive Yosemite bugs, I think that I am ether lucky, or I'm just a really bad QA tester.

I've personally had very few problems on my 3 different Apple computers.
Unlike the Emotional Support Animals, service animals have to undergo a large amount of training and certification in order to be considered as such. This ensures that they are well behaved in situations where animals would not normally be allowed (like airplanes).

This is very unfortunate for those with disabilities that really do need service animals. I'd put the ESA-abusers in the same class of people that use their relative's handicapped parking permit to get a better parking spot.

EDIT: Furthermore, there are only two species of animals that can be recognized as a service animal: dogs and miniature horses. There doesn't seem to be a species restriction on ESAs.
I feel there is a large difference between disabling a drone, and killing a human being. That's a bit of a disingenuous argument in my opinion.
I agree about lack of basic security, and that's the reason we have security compliance programs. Security Awareness Training, classification of health records as sensitive, and properly segmenting those sensitive health records from the rest of the environment are all appropriate controls that security compliance prescribes. It took me 6 months to decipher PCI and 3 months to implement. To others, compliance may seem like a joke, but I felt very confident that at least I had done 100% my due diligence in protecting our customers and employees. I think that's all they can ask and all we can give, 100% honest due diligence.
Who writes off Google?
I also am not surprised that anything other than adulation of Stallman's testicles is furiously downvoted by basement denziens.

Truth is you'll get a better reception without pointless angry tripe.

I've no way of knowing what your OSS experiences have been, so I'll take you at your word. However, a broad statement such as this:

"Most projects won't accept it unless you join their cult, endure hazing, chat about politics and accept their belief system, and adulate their leaders and trolls."

... strikes me as patent bullshit. Maybe most projects you've tried to contribute to have turned out this way, but then I have to wonder if the problem is with the project owners or if maybe you approach things with an incredibly dismal attitude.

Some project owners and communities may suck, but most? You'll have to provide something more than bitter anecdote.

The biggest problems I've had with OSS projects is not getting an answer to questions. There are a good number of "works for me" code repos that simply refuse to build on my system no matter what dependency dance I do. If that's the case I go look for an alternative (though on Linux it's typically not something I can purchase).

Mostly I get things to almost work and get stuck, and then join a forum or mailing list or something to get some help.

Help tends to be of two forms: None at all, or friendly and pragmatic.

I've offered patches to a few projects, and everyone has been very nice about it, even when I forget to include unit tests or fucked up their coding convention. Maybe I've just been lucky.

As the maintainer of several OSS projects I empathize with those I contact for help ro offer patches. Time is often short, and most people aren't getting paid to support their OSS projects.

Most of this is all a gift, and when a gift turns out to be not quite what you hoped for better to just move on and be grateful for you have, not bitter about what you didn't get.
The life-cycle of the parasite is also illustrated in a great oatmeal comic :

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/captain_higgins
I've decided to put the timeOn and timeOff values into an array which I will manually factor the best values for power level.

It's not a super elegant algorithmic solution but will do everything I need for now, and the array is relatively small at 200 indices.
Driving slower on a scenic road that has no traffic is great -- you can take in more of the view, enjoy the 'scenic' part of scenic road. But when you get stuck in a caravan of cars behind someone driving well below the speed limit, you end up having to pay more attention to the driving. As soon as there are other cars around you, you need to be paying attention to them. If the road isn't flat and straight, you have to deal with speeding up and slowing down. You gotta keep an eye out for someone coming up behind you not paying attention, or the guy in front of you maybe not braking in time..etc.

Once the density of traffic is high enough, you no longer have the luxury of 'observing the scene' -- you need to be paying attention to the driving and the other drivers. This is the situation that tends to happen on Hwy 1. People bunch up, and so everyone is just driving in these clumps of 10-20 cars doing 5-10 below the speed limit.
If I know someone has a heroin habit, and I know they thus would buy some heroin off me if I offer them some, is it responsible of me to offer them heroin, since they want it?

But, you see, it is not me who is offering the heroin, it is just this machine which guesses the user's preferences...
Just do the trial and sentencing in a manner as obscure as possible to avoid any publicity because it will only add to the hype.

I think we are fast approaching the point where the whole concept of "society" will have to be abandoned...
Just want to correct you. The march from the White House to Capitol Hill is only about 2 miles. Still probably was too far for some of the insurrectionists...
It’s one thing to fire the exec team. It’s another to charge them with criminal responsibility, especially when the shareholders will ultimately fund their defense one way or another. I don’t think it would be proven.

My comment was a broader point about why corporations never seem to have employees get charged. It’s because they usually aren’t liable and won’t get convicted by a jury, and the government subpoenas all the records and determined it won’t fly.

If you disagree with my assessment, you must think there is a conspiracy in which government lawyers collude with corporate leaders to protect them. That’s a very strong conspiracy. I’m not saying you are wrong, but recognize what you are asserting.
I think ihodes is using "one-to-one" to mean injective. Sometimes "one-to-one" is used to mean bijective.

This confusion is why the term "one-to-one" should never be used!
It would be fair to attribute the ECS naming (specifically, making "Systems" an integral concept to the, ahem, system) to this from 2007: http://t-machine.org/index.php/2007/11/11/entity-systems-are...
Forensics and attribution are big parts of the infosec world. Researchers study attacks, tools, payloads, etc. and get an idea of different threat actors, their levels of sophistication, and who might have done which one. I’m sure it’s never ironclad - the conclusion that it was a particular intelligence agency is just an educated guess, and sophisticated attackers might intentionally ape the signatures of others. But it’s not completely hopeless.
Check out Photoprism

https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism
The point is that he's "10x" versus other humans. I only pointed out that he's clearly outstanding IN THE NFL alone for effect. If you compare his season stats against the bottom-ranked QB, he's still in the 2x-5x range, depending on the stat. If you're going to claim a "well, akshually" on per-game stats, then compare him to everyone else who's "thing" is quarterbacking. He's certainly 10x versus European leagues, stadium football, college players, etc. Though I'm certain you can narrow the scope of this metaphor enough to declare it invalid.

I think we're talking about 2 different definitions of "10x." You're arguing that "10x" is literally defined by, say, LOC output. I'm saying "10x" is defined by total EFFECT. Did Michelangelo create the Sistine Chapel's ceiling because he could paint 10x _faster_ than other contractors? No, but you could have hired 1000 other people to do that job, and not come up with a work of art that has endured and inspired for hundreds of years. He is a "10x" painter because his work is _infinitely_ better than I could have ever done, both in term of content, AND execution.

That's the sort of thing I'm trying to explain and extrapolate from. Take one or two steps down from that kind of talent, and those kind of people are all around us, by the law of large numbers, if nothing else.
Should be easy to eat it then ;)
The below github account is making fun of the concept 'Enterprise code' and contains an Enterprise-level FizzBuzz solution. I have never seen that much code do so little.

https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
It is not disrespectful to the FBI or the government to expect that they play by their own rules. China is being dealt with like an oppressive dictatorship and the FBI is being interacted with like a law enforcement agency in a functioning democracy.
> high entropy passwords

You only need that to impose a greater character width against brute force attacks. That is the only value in high entropy.

The actual reason people think they need this is because it was written into a NIST publication a very long time ago and it just became common practice. As a proof of concept what is the published standard that imposes that practice? I bet you think you need this but cannot find the written standard guidance suggesting it.

The guy who originally wrote that standard later came out and said it was a mistake. Bad advise that he wishes he could take back, but it’s too late everybody thinks they need it and they don’t know why or where that guidance even comes from.

> and it's a PITA to enter in a password field!

Only on a touch screen.

My first example also contains uppercase and punctuation. Think of it like IPv6. When the key space is large enough you don’t need a bunch of bullshit and gimmicks to ensure uniqueness.
Literate Programming is one of those ideas I keep coming to. There is an idea there that touches on something I find to be true about software development, namely that the communication of an idea to other humans is the most critical piece. There is a similar idea in Naur's paper "Programming as Theory Building."

That said, I've never loved the LaTeX-centric nature of most tools. I don't like heavier markup systems while I am writing prose, which is why I wrote SpiralWeb (https://github.com/michaeljmcd/spiralweb) as a Pandoc/Markdown centric tool.
Without referencing non-public documentation https://yuzu-emu.org/entry/yuzu-nvdec-emulation/

"The Switch uses NVDEC along with VIC (Video Image Composer) in the GPU for video decoding. Games are exposed to higher level APIs by Nintendo which abstract the configuration of these modules."

If you're using a custom engine which does not want to use these APIs you're of course free to do it yourself (and deal with how you're going to syncronize it and the higher resource utilization) but most major titles use the built in hardware decoder provided via the API.
Why would you turn an RTG device into a bed and break...

Oh.
Definitely don't throw this stuff out. Especially with lockdowns around the world there's lots of hobbyist hackers around that would love nothing more than their hands on this stuff. And if you have any truly exotic hardware give @foone a shout on twitter, he does amazing write-ups on all sorts of crazy shit :)
Obligatory George Hotz (geohot) PS3 rap from back then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iUvuaChDEg

First time he appeared in the PS3 jailbreak scene I was like "wait, is this a Romanian?! Some boy-genius expat?!" because George is a common first name here and (fun fact) Hotz means "thief". Actually it is written hoț but Romanian teens sometimes write tz instead of ț. He was meant to be a key thief, I guess.

I still wonder if they got to examine the video in the courtroom...
glad we agree. I am a little concerned about the rounded rectangle wheels, but then again we re only going to be driving on Apple Roads(TM). I hope they make a version without the door, it will look awesome. i m fine just lying on the roof

> It costs almost as much

Just get the adapter, it's only $1699
Wait, you want a part time job on top of your full time so you can fund the startup with the extra money? Or you want to quit your full time and get a part time job so you can survive while you build?

Option A is almost certain failure as you'll never have time, Option B is not uncommon but still can be hard and not work out as well as you think. I'd suggest Option C, keep your full time gig until you get some traction with the project and get it to a point where jumping off the cliff is manageable. Then take on some consulting every so often to help pay your bills but devote almost all of your time to your project.
In the old days people used to write letters and send them in the post. Imagine that. Anyone could hack into a letter, and they were rarely even ever encrypted. Scary.
I said we can strike 5. That means I agree with you about 5.

Your argument is "it's different this time" because of reasons 1-7. I'm claiming 1,2,3,6 are not different when compared to Basic, at the time Basic was released.
They're probably trying to find as many ways as possible to embed themselves into relevant industries before they aggressively monetize.

I bet the end goal (for all these MOOCS) is to become the de facto source for web based courses offered, for pay, through the current university system. You're right, they're also trying to become a recruitment tool for various industries, but they'll make the most money by switching on the revenue steam once universities become dependent on them and there's no turning back.
git does not handle large files well. Actually none of the open-source VCS do a good job. I think that was picardo's main point.
They won't go to the FISA court for every suspicious guy they see at an airport. What the author describes must happen every day at most major airports.
Whether most agree or disagree is irrelevant. It is immoral to attack someone who has not attacked or threatened you. It is likewise immoral to advocate attacking innocents. Take that how you will.

Nuclear power is a special case since it arguably represents a threat, even libertarians would argue that it should be "regulated", in the sense of being required to prove that it's safe. Part of proving safety is by being able to obtain private insurance from a reputable insurer, which is precisely contrary to the non-libertarian solution of just having the government say "just trust us, the nuclear power is fine, and besides, it helps us build nuclear weapons."
Markdown is an embedded language for content inside Elm, so it is strictly speaking not a single syntax. And Elm provides a better way to specify dynamically evolving content that eliminates the need for a separate language for specifying static styles.
I would be afraid of publicly supporting something the police don't like.
Great post.

I agree he was a bit unprofessional. Gates' awareness probably did fall off as his earlier emails were buried under the mountain of new stuff. Rather than shouting "Hey look at me" he should have sent a gentle reminder about improvements that have been made in the last week or whatever. Bring him back to top of mind in a positive way. Who wants to get stuck working with a guy that annoying.

Copying Jobs as if he were an active part of the project is a total dick move, BTW. He should be thankful that Steve routed him to the right person. The only future communication to Jobs should have just been a quick thank you for the introduction.
>because authorities time and time again have misled them.

I think because people are more comfortable believing what they want to believe.
http://web.archive.org/web/20220208165810/https://www.washin...

https://archive.is/IcdPK
The federal government has a ridiculously high conviction rate: 99.96% [1]. They basically only bring the case if they have everything they need to convict.

1. https://www.bhlawfirm.com/blog/2021/05/the-federal-convictio....
you could probably use a weight system. Yesterday's upvote is worth a value of 1. Today's upvote is a value of 2, etc. Then store the absolute count in another column/field if you need that.
Teams tries to be Slack, Zoom and more and it's been terribly confusing and bad a few times I had to use it.

However when people in suits take decisions then "why pay for N products instead of one?" becomes compelling for many. I saw a tweet last week saying Teams have 10x user count of Slack apparently. I guess some upselling from MS who already has Office does wonders.

I didn't use Teams more than 1h at once so maybe long term it's not that bad when you learn to use it? But Zoom and Slack seem aay better products for me.
I was expecting a link to a paper that would be similar to results like in "On the impossibility of fairness" by Friedler et al.

This twitter thread seems defeatist and hand-wavy. The thread does have good intuitions in focusing on uncertainty and nuance. For example, the difference between asking questions and sealioning is hard to tell

Because of that, I agree that a perfect solution probably doesn't exist because of similar trade-offs like in the paper I mentioned, but doing more research at least lets us find out what we are trading-off and what we are willing to sacrifice.
Hi, i'm interested about details. Are they on a wiki somewhere?

> driver stability across both Windows and Linux

Is "Linux" in this case mainline linux or does entail to use nvidia/ati proprietary drivers? If mainline linux, is it a free driver, or a binary blob? (see linux-libre)

> a mature off the shelf BIOS solution

Is coreboot/libreboot on your roadmap?

I'm not trying to nitpick. Congratulations on the hardware design that looks amazing (replaceable port extensions, clever!). I strongly believe software is also an important part of reliability/durability, that's why my questions :)
I loved pair! Never followed what happened to them!
https://storybook.js.org/ seems to be really popular
I understand the code from the article is contrived, but I feel it serves as a bad example. Presumably you would write unit tests for such code in any language, regardless of type safety. Such tests would catch errors like this.

> Tests that wouldn’t tell you very much at all in Scala (that just run the code and don’t check the result) suddenly become incredibly useful!

I don't really know what that means. A Python programmer doesn't (shouldn't?) go out of their way to write insane tests like this because they are scared of the "uncertainty" of dynamic typing. Just write unit tests, and make sure your code is sufficiently covered. Use flakes/frosted to find low hanging fruit like this.
If you have a problem with stuff you could do worse than reading up on Mari Kondo - http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/garden/home-organization-a...

Never did I think I would be interesting in house tidying, but her techniques are effective.
Take a look at buffer: https://open.bufferapp.com/introducing-open-salaries-at-buff...

all salaries are public in a spreadsheet. _YOU_ can see what everyone is getting paid. I think it's pretty interesting.
I'm not saying they're slower, I'm saying the performance is more consistent.

99.9% of the time the std::vec implementation will out preform the linked list. However, that 0.1% seems to be wildly worse than the linked list. This is not a problem for most programs, however in gaming engines that hiccup shows up as a visible hitch in the framerate.
The person doing the recording operates multiple Instagram accounts where he tries to provoke reactions from cops who are trying to do their job. He sells anti-police merchandise through these accounts.

It’s not correct to suggest that this was a routine interaction with police.

Despite the headline, the videos are still up on his social media accounts.
> inhaled jet fuel, and literal blood on the interview floors. These are the things that I’ll remember long after everything else.

Any more information on this?
I guess, but (making up numbers here) two players with 750 skill would be 1500 or an average of 750.

A sum might match them up against two players with 1300 skill & 200 skill due to the 1500 sum. OTOH, the average would match them up against... an average of 750, so the same people?

I'm sure I'm just missing something really fundamental about how this all works.
I can heartily recommend folk music and ridiculous instruments ;)

But more seriously, I did tai-chi in the past and found that a very reasonable low-impact way of developing strength in various areas.
appreciate everything you did to help us on our journey, and good luck on your next one.
The dependence on library authors is always a challenge in any language. You might have one author using `[a]` where another uses `PositiveNumeric a, Fin n => NonEmptyList n a` for the same thing. You can always just annotate whatever the library author used (e.g. they return a list of strings, so you use List[str]).

There are some interesting further add ons that seem very python, allowing you to go further. For example, with a pandas dataframe you can just say your type is a dataframe which isn't so useful, but it's possible to hack your own types onto it in the vein of https://github.com/CedricFR/dataenforce, or use things like https://smarie.github.io/python-vtypes/ to get smarter typing on things the authors didn't type. I expect that trend will continue.

What fascinates me about python's types is actually the very fact that they are bolted on. You have a language that lets you do crazy things and a type system trying to catch up and make it convenient to verify those crazy things. It's a nice complement to the usual developments of verifying all of the things and slowly extending the set of things you can do.
On windows shareX is king. I'd say a good bit better even (miss it on my linux machine where I use flameshot)

https://getsharex.com/

A few things it does:

https://i.imgur.com/FMMrVml.png

- uploads text from your clipboard to pastebins and images to your image hoster

- ftp upload (copying the http path to what you uploaded, full control over file naming ect). I built something to upload markdown via ftp and copy a url with the filename as an argument to the clipboard. That url leads to a js renderer for markdown.

- doing mp4 videos

Only downsides: a bit complex in the settings, wants to update often.

- numbering tool to quickly ad step 1, 2,3 to screenshots.
I personally have no qualms publicly posting corporate solicitations on the internet. Had it been a message of personal nature, it would be an entirely different story.

Regardless, it seems abundantly clear that this is his _job_, and he is not at fault for following the directions of his corporate overlords. No one's saying to go trash his house, and all the information he posted (name, photo) is publicly attached to his linkedin profile that is accessible to any authenticated LinkedIn user.