jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They wouldn't do a whole event just for Airtags (I would think...). More likely the event would be tied in with overdue iPad Pro refreshes, which are mentioned here as being supply constrained.

Long way to say yes, this could be part of why it seems like the unannounced but expected Apple event remained unannounced.
No, binary formats are often simpler. Really anything that involves text is hugely complicated.
Why look so far down the list?

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82

Bug 82. Number one on the list. Been open 6 years. Patch offered and integrated into CyanogenMod for years. Y u no integrate the patch Google?
This is a silly false equivalence but I'll engage with it because it seems annoyingly popular. The evidence of efficacy of seatbelt usage in crash scenarios is abundantly clear. The same isn't true for wearing a cloth/surgical mask in public during a pandemic featuring an airborne virus. I'm aware there are hand-wavy meta-studies and extrapolated surveys on the issue (but 1 RCT from Denmark which showed no statistical significance between control and experimental groups. See https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/m20-6817) but common sense and being able to evaluate statistics of mask mandated regions vs. not indicates to me their findings are dubious at best. Even n95s are not likely useful against an airborne virus if not properly fitted and regularly replaced.

What wearing the mask does show me is that a person is extremely susceptible to propaganda and likely has conformist tendencies. This isn't necessarily true in all cases but I think it will be for the majority of them. This sort of person is dangerous to bring in to your social circle because they can easily be manipulated into being an instrument of the state. I don't want to have to police my own thoughts and opinions in front of my friends and in an increasing totalitarian "cancel culture" environment this risk becomes increasingly more substantial and existential.
No it hasn't https://paperswithcode.com/sota/image-classification-on-imag...
> Demand for the vaccine is likely to dry up in a year or two

Aren't many scientific advisors saying that 1) it will take years to vaccinate the developing world, and 2) risk groups may need annual booster shots in perpetuity to deal with mutations?
> There’s always a stack trace.

I think you misunderstood. Of course there's always a stack trace; you're still executing code. But with message buses and magic reactivity systems your stack trace always just goes to `mainEventLoop()` or `processEvents()` or whatever.

It doesn't go to the thing that actually caused the change as it would if you used direct function calls. I'm not saying it's a deal breaker, it's just a notable downside of those architectures.
Is Elon Musk bitcoin fan? How about Mass Mutual? BNYM? Pretty funny the language used, fans, seriously 6th most valued currency in the world is relegated to plush babies status. At least people have stopped with the tulips and that talk. Same talk and yet bitcoin acceptance keeps growing day by day, how do you explain that? Is everyone else wrong?
You seem to imply that that's somehow a trick or a bad thing, but the only valid purpose to counting number of vaccines shipped[1] is as a proxy for the number of vaccines delivered. The extra doses in a vial were a happy accident, not a trick. And the number we actually want to know is the one we're being given now.
As awesome as this movie might have been, I'm content with _Dune_ remaining a book -- a beautiful, mind-blowing book. Thank god there weren't any other attempts to adapt it for screen.
This will continue to happen as long as consumers believe that computers are "appliances," without realizing that those "appliances" have almost every facet of someone's life on it, and giving it to someone else is doing the same with everything you've ever done on that computer - even if you've "cleared the cookies."
It's a great test for whether you have helpful investors. If a good conversation comes out of it and you learn something, you have amazing investors. If they say, "You know how to interpret this better than I would, so go to it," that's fine. If neither of those happen, that's a warning sign.

So I would say show them before they invest and see what happens.
From what I recall, subtitles were indeed tremendously helpful when I was learning English - English subtitles only, though. Being able to read along took the stress out of having to cope with enunciation and understanding meaning at the same time. Translated subtitles on the other hand were just a distraction. My brain would end up reading them and start ignoring the English, rather than make any connections.

So I don't think trying to have two languages active concurrently and constantly translating forth and back works well. However, having audio and text in the same language active concurrently helps with instilling an audio representation of the language in your head, which is crucial in e.g. improving reading speed, because you really need to be able to actually speak in your head instead of working with abstract symbols.
I think what the parent comment was saying is that the smoothing algorithm used in subdivision modeling is very similar to bezier. Actually, subdivision surfaces are very similar to B-splines [1], but are much more convenient to use than NURBS -- which require the modeler to maintain consistent rows of control points throughout the model. ILM's use of patch modeling in films like Jurassic Park are incredible examples of working around these constraints. (I believe they side-stepped the continuity issue with their proprietary "enveloping" software which allowed them to blend discontinuous B-spline patch surfaces together.)

Love this post btw -- extremely impressive / educational.

1: http://graphics.pixar.com/library/Geri/paper.pdf
XFCE for the win.

I don't agree with this article. Have alternatives is good.
https://lttng.org/
I highly recommend the Handmade Hero series referred to in this blog post. I've been following the archives on YouTube (at 2x speed). Casey Muratori is an engaging presenter and I'm rediscovering my love of low-level programming.
Suppose you'd called the police to report that the locksmith was trying to extort money from you. Do you suppose the situation would have improved?
You seem to assume (or at least imply) that being famous and being remembered is the definition of winning, but I must disagree.

Winning only means something within context, but as a broad rule of thumb it can be taken as a rough synonym for success in achieving the stated goals. If someone sets out to make the world better, and the world is actually better because of them, even if only slightly, then I would call that both success and winning.
That's great, thanks. I didn't realise until this announcement that you guys are competing with facebook in some respects (at least in terms of where people spend time online). The way you guys are going, I won't be surprised you will be one of the biggest players on the internet in a few years.
Apparently it's gotten that far that I consider any kind of navigation a "search". I meant if you click on any kind of food, and on the result page click on the image of the dish. The Url seems to be correct (e.g. "http://www.toptendishes.com/Samosa~Banjara~-manhattan-new-yo...), but the page displayed is "Home > Top Ten Best Burgers (Beef) in Manhattan, New York > Cheeseburger".
No - neither Lisp nor OCaml makes looping over collections with an arbitrary number of dimensions implicit.
Linux support on consumer hardware depends on community contribution generally. So it will take time generally to have good support. However in 2021 it’s no longer necessary to buy a good laptop and struggle to put linux on it. There are some great linux options like the xps developer edition or system76 and i know thinkpads also have a lineup now of linux. These generally should have good linux drivers for hardware (though for certain oems it’s not necessarily the case the drivers will be open source). System76 is probably the go to linux laptop right now.
I have no internal knowledge of Zencoder, but. . .

Because Zencoder is running a service, they can have lots of boxes going at the same time. You might want to encode 50 things at once which would have to be queued up if you were doing it on one box, but can run simultaneously on Zencoder using their many boxes.

Likewise, Zencoder can fire up high CPU boxes that will get your videos encoded faster. The faster they turn around videos, the more capacity they have. If you're low (or bursty) volume, you can't justify that cost and you go with a small instance that's slow and queue things up if there are multiple jobs at once.

Plus, Zencoder is probably knows ffmpeg and the like better than you do. It's their whole company. Unless the focus of your work is video encoding, the likelihood that you will have any reason to be as knowledgeable is low.

I'm not saying that Zencoder is right for everything. They have certain economies of scale since they're encoding video for many people that kick in which mean that you can have 20 boxes encoding things for you at the same time for a few hours without having to pay for them all the time or going through the hassle of creating 20 encoding boxes and then getting rid of them so that you can use that capacity for an hour or so. That said, if you have a slow, steady flow that isn't too concerned with time or you're popular enough that you've hit those economies of scale yourself, Zencoder might not be right for you.

Oh, plus you might not want to deal with ffmpeg and such. Some people would rather it be abstracted away a bit.
That's definitely the first time I've seen such a strong literary reference in the first sentence of a programming article :-)
If you're really serious about building a better Google Health, why not apply at Google and try to actually build a better Google Health?
This needs to be reiterated. Even though he mentioned it multiple times, and you addressed it, it can't be overstated: there are people whose emotional turmoil is not cured by any amount of cognitive help.

These people are disproportionately more creative than the average person, and are lauded "mad geniuses". As a result, others (and I'm not accusing the author for this) jump on the bandwagon, mentioning their mood swings as a way to emphasize their bouts of creativity. I've even heard the occasional self-diagnosed bipolar declare it worth the suffering.

This does a disservice to those who spend decades on medication, 20% of whom eventually end their own life. Many of us who like to call ourselves creative might have our days or weeks of mild depression or mania, but our ability to have a simple perspective change return us to normalcy distinguishes us from them.
That is a smug remark that misses the point. Dropbox is a service aimed at everyone and their grandma . Zencoder is a niche technology aimed at people transcoding videos. There is a whole community of us at videohelp and similar sites and we have been doing this for quite a while. We gripe moan and bitch , but we get ffmpeg , mencoder and others to work long enough to get the job done --- for the magical price of $0.0. We have several hundred manhours worth of scripts and hacks invested already. Hence my question , what do you do better than ffmpeg -- 'cause I would be willing to pay for that extra smooth encoding, streaming . This is a technical question. You should not have replied as you do not appear to know your head from your ass.
I suppose fb caches the recent messages in memory, and use HBASE as archive storage most of the time.

It depends on the developer's favor to pick up a system. If it's me, I will pickup cassandra. The consistency model is not so hard to work with.
Identifying influencers is important, but that's not the sole feature of our product. We already differentiate ourselves with other features (which Klout et al. don't offer): visit backtype.com and try it out. Thousands of people use it every day.
ups thanx, forget to remove the list(str(x))-term.

And yes, the solution from #19 dont work in every century.
That would mean, by itself, pretty little. They could be liberals due to the liberal stand on education, not the other way around.
Anathem is also fantastic, once you get into it.
Wait, who says the USSR wasn't effective? However bad things were during communist rule, they were worse beforehand. Not to mention that it brought one of the most heavily battered combatants in WWII to become a superpower afterwords.

Plus, there are plenty of examples of capitalist governments that have had famines and such. India is a notable example.
I thought this is being continued as http://xsb.sf.net ?
I use rvm on OSX every day, Ruby would be worse without it.

I'm going to sorely miss it when I start working in other languages again.
I don't deny it as a general trend - but just curious as to why Mr. HotShot recruiter mentioned those three in the same article with startups in it. It's just interesting that quite an overwhelming amount of west coast startups tend to be ruby and/or python shops (in my recent memory, I've seen php mentioned in WePay and facebook; and Perl in Craigslist; Java seems to be mentioned in bigger tech shops or Android shops). If there is one "hot" skill today, I'd have picked JavaScript over all those three.
If you give a man a fish he can eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he can live forever.

Simply put, throwing money at poor people solves no problems. If anything it further entrenches the mentality of entitlement and dependency. I would actually argue it's the social services that are forcing minorities to be oppressed and under achieve in society. We need to stop blindly helping those that ask and teach them to help themselves.

You can see trends of this everywhere.

1. Black Students from the eyes of a teacher. It's disheartening in a lot of places -- but his conclusion is similarly that we have given too much.

http://martynemko.blogspot.com/2009/06/white-teacher-speaks-...

2. Africa has a huge dependency issue. And a lot of very smart African thinkers are suggesting less aid or directing the aid towards more sustainable endeavors is the long-term solution.

http://www.nme.com/news/bono/32704
http://store.whatarewedoinghere.net/What-Are-We-Doing-Here-F...
They used to be my go to. I have Unix Power Tools/ mastering regular expressions still looking down on me.

But they really really pushed the safari subscription and stopped selling dam free e-books. Safari is probably great, but when I tried it I found it clunky and kinda a pain. Being able to search through your books is great. I had bought probably like 20 ebooks from them when they were still selling them.

I imagine that tech books don't sell in huge volumes. So the pay isn't great so its probably hard to get people to write them, as its more of a labor of love than a profit making endeavor. With online resources they're probably selling fewer books as well.

Manning is quite decent I'll agree.
Actually

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion

"The Kelly bet size is found by maximizing the expected value of the logarithm of wealth, which is equivalent to maximizing the expected geometric growth rate"

In real life people often choose to make bets smaller than the Kelley bet. Part of that is that even if you have a good model there are still "unknown unknowns" that will make your model wrong some of the time. Also most people aren't comfortable with the sharp ups and downs and probability of ruin you have with Kelley.
Re RAISE and ARISE: they are not pointers to the same place in wordspace in the same way that 1+2+3 and 2+3+1 are in sumspace.

Re your second point: I love wordle. I'd love a game with similar game play that obeyed mathematical principles. It seems that nobody has found the right set of rules yet! That's why I've been trying these once and stopping. I don't find their rules beautiful in the same way that I do wordle's.
You could calculate it by taking the average lifetime of a tree and dividing by the length of time slept and the number of trees in squashing distance.
Pretending to understand the discussion I googled about "ucc products".

So now you know:

Our Products

view all.
whole bean coffee.
ground coffee.
drip coffee.
instant coffee.
ready-to-drink.
Coffee Capsule.
Drip Pod.
Ironically, the author is a medical doctor.
The world is the world.

Because there are so many other people out there that might be up to no good, so many laws (US commercial code, anyone) that an individual will create so much digital dirt over their lifetime, it becomes very easy to attack anyone that does not just keep most things private as a best practice. It's nearly impossible to know which digital bits will be at some point in the future X years taken out of context for political, employment, romantic, legal or other purposes.

"Three Felonies a Day"
https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-J...
Are you thinking of Diana? She was Charles' wife.
Thankfully Autopilot is not in charge of explosive bolts
> Eat vegan/vegetarian and you will have a minimal impact

This is mostly true. You could maybe have a "mostly rice + meat once a month diet" that has less impact than a vegan diet rich in Impossible/Beyond meat and avocados. But apart from comparisons of "outliers" this statement true.

> But in the meanwhile these new vegan/vegetarian companies are a huge cause of the deforestation of the Amazon [1]

Might be so, but nothing close to what is needed for real beef. They say some forest is cut for soy, so soy is bad, and vegans (plant eaters) eat soy, so vegans are bad. Well, beef was a cow, and cows eat by far most of the soy on this planet. So "fake meat" is not compared to the alternative "meat" (they just point out something unsustainable about fake meat in isolation). Just an example: to produce one beef meat burger patty enough water is used that one could shower for 3 months 24/7. When it comes to "impact" (as you call it) it does not get much worse than red meat.

A big fallacy in your argument is that all vegans would eat massive amounts of "new vegan/vegetarian company" products: they dont. We (yes im vegan) eat a lot of lentils, soy (tofu/tempeh), sweat potatoes, veggies, etc. As a group we are MUCH less impact for for the environment, simply because it is so inefficient to feed plants to animals only to have a less shelf stable product (meat), and lots of waste (bones, feathers, some organs, consciousness of sentient beings, etc).

Please be vegan while we bring this wasteful industry to its knees. It's time.
Scrape != leak

If someone scrapes my public info from LinkedIn and bundles it together for sale, that’s not a leak. There’s an entire industry that does this.

I consider leaks when data are breached and private data are revealed.
The ones in .NET 5 and .NET 6, integrated into Roslyn and a key part of the upcoming AOT support.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-c-source-g...

The main goal is for them to be the .NET version of Java's annotation processors and thus allow many libraries to replace their reflection code with compile time code generation.
If you want to do it fast you need many people. Check this https://youtu.be/asajgBRa9nE

Note the time in the top right. 2 minutes.
That would require initiative and the capability to execute. So much easier to just say "sorry, there's nothing we can do".
Re: Tableau et al. I don't agree but that's just my point of view. Having worked with Excel all my life, I am probably spoiled. I don't understand how people get by with Tableau...

Re: Javascript, yes I wish there was something better out there. But unfortunately, there's not, and I don't really have the time to build it.
Aren't you noticing the parallels between [3] and that Greenwald's 2005 blogpost ?

That "hordes" phrasing is unfortunate, but it's a little bit like comparing Marx to Nazis because of his phrasing : "The Irish question".
Every single one of those names is more awesome than this guy and contributed more...
how about a guy at the border unplugging the fiber optic cable? I assume it can already be disconnected somewhere physically; all this does is authorize the government to do it.
From the fringes - how typical is a 8:45am - 4pm (3 days a week anyways) schedule for HN googlers?
If you are sharing with other people, something like encfs would be better:

http://www.arg0.net/encfsintro

Encfs encrypts file by file, so you do not have to worry about multiple people editing (and possibly corrupting) one giant file.
In other words, being a professor has far more sales and management responsibilities than the average software developer's gig.
The same issue as with most services: you can't be certain it'll be accessible tomorrow. Maintaining a local archive of your data is always a good idea.
"It's not Netflix's job to make sure you stay anonymous."

Never said it was. The tracking of consumers is rarely seen as a problem by most businesses. Most businesses want to know as much as possible about their customers. But this is very much a problem for consumers who care about their privacy.

"How do you request payment from an overdue customer when you can't even tell who he/she is?"

Just insist that they pay up front for any service you provide. A month's payment upfront isn't too unreasonable, is it? In fact, it's a rather tried and true business model. And it's not at all incompatible with anonymous payments from anonymous customers.

So that's not really a problem at all for such an anonymous system.

But there are some HUGE problems with it, which seem (at this point) completely insurmountable.

One problem is that anonymous money transfers aren't really looked at kindly by the IRS, the DEA, and various other organizations who have a vested interest in keeping track of who's paying whom and for what.

Then there are concerns that anonymous communication (nevermind payments) would facilitate terrorism, organized crime, and the like.

Then there are problems with getting the general public to care enough to use and even demand such systems. And even if that somehow miraculously came about, they need to properly use such systems without inadvertently leaking information about themselves all over the place.

The system and software involved would also have to be made to be brain-dead easy to use, and relatively foolproof (which, if you are familiar with the pain and security subtleties of digital key management and proper encryption use is no short order).

I could probably list half a dozen more major problems with a attempting to create a fully anonymous system.. but I think you probably get the idea by now.

It's just not going to happen any time soon.
The neighborhood probably does make a difference just because that's where certain pizza joints are located (or where their original location started). Some people are extremely loyal to their favorite spot but most, like myself, are happy to have the huge variety of pizza that we have in Chicago.
If you are speaking about insurgent groups in the Middle East, it's sort of confusing. I would suggest that even ISIL isn't a terrorist group, at least in the same sense that the word terrorism has been used throughout the past 100 years. ISIL represents 30k mobilized personel, are made up of a huge number of disparate factions (some fighting for a three state solution - which would actually be a great improvement in the organization of the middle east, whose lines right now were drawn by the British and have nothing to do with historical or cultural boundaries), are fighting with traditional armies with traditional warfare weaponry and because they are fighting for political change in a state where authoritarian governments with financial and political ties to outside nations has limited how much they can represent their people. ISIL to me, if I use textbook comparisons, looks more like an grassroots insurgent army fighting for political representation. How could an army of 30k people be 'terrorists'?

'Terrorist' is the new 'communist'. It's a label you put on someone you want your people to fear and hate.