jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
He had the gall to criticize the Ruby on Rails community when RoR was still considered sacred (I believe that honeymoon is pretty much over now) in the hipster coding circles that form a considerable and certainly very vocal part of HN.

Also, the puritanical American allergy for "profanity" under the thing guise of "professionalism" doesn't mix well with mr. Shaw's somewhat direct methods of communicating.
Aren't ISP's contractually obliged to stay somehow reasonably within the speeds they advertise?
no, because there is a set of grammars that seem to be consistently mis-matched when one overlays English on Hindi or Urdu. One of the exemplar being an intent of "Noun adjective" that ends up being "Noun Noun-form of adjective"
This is a very poor article that does nothing to provide any insight into network neutrality. That's not too surprising, though, since it's 7 years old.

If the knee-jerk fans of benevolent government want to criticize their position, it would at least be appropriate to criticize their current position, such as found in this recent paper:

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-626.pdf
I think the turban example is perfectly consistent with what the author said. You ask "how would rules such as the uniform rule for the police ever evolve?" The answer is: in much the same way! Under this author's understanding of that example, the rule under scrutiny would be: "Every policeman must wear a uniform cap." The Sikhs, wishing to wear dastaars, would petition the chief of police to be able to wear a dastaar instead. The chief of police (or whoever), would then think to herself, "Well, is it all that important that our police officers wear matching CAPS, or is the important part merely that they wear headgear that matches the rest of the outfit and contains a badge?" She would then conclude that the more appropriate rule, which should apply to /everyone/, regardless of his religion, should be that every police officer must wear a hat of the appropriate color and that the hat must contain a badge. A Sikh could wear a dastaar; an atheist could wear a baseball cap or a turban--or a dastaar. The point is that /anyone/, not just a Sikh, can wear /any/ hat he chooses, so long as it meets those standards that /are/ considered too important to change, such as matching color and a badge.

You have an enormously optimistic view of police chiefs. Or perhaps police chiefs where you live are reasonable, inclusive people who are always looking for ways to broaden their force's recruiting.

Whereas up here in Toronto, the opposite was true. The police force remained staunchly Euro-centric until forced by rule to reconsider rules like the requirement that officers wear the prescribed hat. Left to their own devices, police chiefs saw no reason to change their rules about headgear or the minimum height required to be a police officer.

The changes didn't come because Sikhs petitioned the chiefs of police, the changes came because Sikhs petitioned the courts. And that is why we have constitutional democracies: Some portions of our rules and regulations cannot be left up to the "free market" or an executive branch that is concerned with obtaining a plurality of votes in the next election.
If you're going for safety, you should check to make sure that the string can use the particular encoding, rather than assuming that it will work. CFStringIsEncodingAvailable() will do that for you :)
How is this a post-mortem? The blog entry does not explain in any way what really happened.
Yeah, I noticed that after pointing to it, but I was really wondering if this is a commercial fork of the code or an entirely different project. Certainly the core functionality seems awfully similar.
Especially for non-fiction, ebooks are lacking the "flippability" (for lack of a better term) that print books have. The slow response time of e-ink, IMHO is a big factor in that. I was trying to read David Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 Years on my Kindle, and I eventually caved in and got the print book because the Kindle version frustrated me when I tried to flip back to review earlier points in the books.

I would posit that this is why e-books are still far behind print when it comes to textbooks. Even Millenials prefer print textbooks, even as they adopt e-books for other purposes.
This article made me think of the short story Manna:

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

The only difference being that instead of being directed with headsets, people are now being directed with apps.

I wonder how long until the world reaches chapter 3?
Yeah. I've experienced the exact same feeling, and had points in my life where I didn't leave my house for months on end. It was depression that was the cause; CBT, anti-depressants (and exercise soon after) helped fix that and now it's no longer a struggle.
This technology looks great.

It is too bad Facebook doesn't have their own platform like iOS or Android. It's becoming pretty clear that they have a much better handle on UI technology than Apple, Google, Microsoft, or anyone really. Them creating a logical functional UI API on top of messy imperative APIs is very helpful, but even better would be if that was not necessary.
I can provide an intuitive thought picture answer, that if you're doing something that boils down to numerical integration under a curve, a pile of hexagons or other polygons will win over a simple raster array of square pixels at a similar quantity of polygons, but when implemented, if its computationally cheaper to run the rectangular raster array at 10, 100, maybe 1000 times the resolution of the hexagon implementation, then the raster will always win at the overall systemic level at the numerical integration game. Not implying forest fires are simple numerical integration games, but they are similar-ish in trying to discrete-ize a non-discrete analog problem.

If you were talking about EE DSP stuff, you'd call it quantization noise. Theoretically a floating point A/D converter would be nice / interesting if such a thing existed, but in practice you minimizing that noise source by using more fixed bits per sample.
We forget sometimes that the mind both thinks about stuff and thinks about thinking.

If you think about making a breakthrough, it is a two stage process. First you have to think the thing, then you have to assess that thing and come to the conclusion that it is a breakthrough. And that in turn makes you feel a certain way.

Often when we dream, or a hallucinate a 'breakthrough' - we're not actually dreaming or hallucinating the thing itself, we're dreamng or hallucinating either of the following stages, we're imagining the experience of assessing something as a breakthrough, or just directly feeling the emotion that would result from a breakthrough.

Because of the way our brains are wired to see causality, we assume that it must be because we actually had the thing that caused the breakthrough. But, tantalisingly, we can't remember exactly what it was. It was awesome, perfect, we remember that, but what exactly, that's gone now, damnit.

I think LSD can definitely expand the mind in the sense of letting you experience the mind in a different way. But I'm very skeptical that 'insights' can be brought back from a trip. The excitement and emotion of that insight, certainly, but the actual insight itself seems never to be quite explicit.
> They even have powers of arrest.

Source?
Your imagination is wrong, sadly. The cement industry accounts for nearly 5% of global CO2 emissions, about half of which comes from the chemical decomposition of calcium carbonate (which is how you make cement).
As a counterpoint: I am in 78 IRC channels. I've never seen slack mentioned anywhere aside from here on hackernews. I suspect it's not actually converting any long-time users, but only being an effective draw on people who like the new and shiny.
Fallacy of relative privation. [1] Just because things are bad in Cambodia doesn't mean a startup can't spend its money how it likes, for good or ill. If a startup chooses to spend money on a fancy office with massage rooms, they are probably doing so out of a belief that this will help them attract and retain higher-quality employees, thus produce a better product, thus become profitable (or do so faster). They may be wrong in this, and in fact, quite likely are; most startups fail, after all. But if startups had to take the conditions in Cambodia into consideration before deciding where and how to spend their money, it's not likely we'd have any startups at all.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_relative_privation
So you made something similar to Spritz only not as good? http://www.spritzinc.com
Milton notes that .6 miles of new ground requires 37.5 million cubic meters of fill

.6 miles is 1 kilometer. Why would you convert to imperial for one measure, but leave the second as metric?
This isn't true of Mississippi at least. There are no age restrictions on consumption of alcohol, just on purchases.
Writing the bootloader contrary to what exDM69 has said in my opinion is not a waste of time. A few years back I set about writing the smallest possible kernel I could for the x86 architecture and eventually got it down to 512 bytes - meaning the bootloader is the kernel.

https://bitbucket.org/danielbarry/saxoperatingsystem/src

Obviously in such a small amount of space, you only get an extremely simple file system, use of one core, heavy reliance on interrupts, 16 BIT, no concept of threads, ~16Kb of RAM and a lot of headaches. But the fact is that it works and programs do get offered a variety of functions that they can go onto use in order to save space. It's relatively complete, with a text editor, game and simple script language. Without using interrupts, the speed is just incredible. Unlike your normal kernel, there aren't a million pointers to follow through or any safety checks eating up your precious processing time or other processes to share your precious registers and cache. You may only use one core, but you really do use that to your advantage.

In doing so, I learnt a lot about programming space efficiencies and OS design in general. I would highly recommend it as a journey worth taking. It recently all came in handy at work where I needed to run some very tight image processing loops for 120FPS at HD (don't ask!) and knowing how the underlying system worked meant I could bypass the heavy kernel operations in favour of my own much leaner, purpose built ones.

UEFI has of course put a bit of a spanner in the works, where some modern computers unless put into 'compatibility mode' in the 'BIOS', have completely blocked out the world of hobby OS's for time being.

I would highly suggest that you all check out the MikeOS project and if you're interested ask questions on the mailing list. It's a bit quiet at the moment but he's a great guy and knows his stuff as well as the others on there.

What's more, if you consider yourself more hardcore and need more power, I think the InfinityOS project was inspired by MikeOS and runs on 64 bit computers and allows for distributed tasks over a network. It's very impressive to say the least.

A down side to writing your own 32/64 Kernel is you take a look at the support and what you're competing against and you start woundering whether you should just use the embedded Linux kernel for example or of you're hell bent on ASM then Kolibri OS is pretty complete!

Another point for 16 Bit kernels is the fact you get to whip your old machines out of storage and boot those noisy beasts up. Load an old OS onto a kernel and listen to it churn away.
Similarly in computer programming some code just seems like it should work, but it does not compute
'More people' needs to be compared to a differenet group but the use of 'they' means the 'more people' are being compared to themselves.
> we'll all just have to do with less toys and disposable things and pay more for food

This will be nowhere near enough. Maybe 5%.
>And you'll find out how little people will pay just to listen.

You don't need to leave Spotify to learn that
That's my layman question as well since the first covid injection. Maybe my daughter getting a shot everyday/week/month? Like insulin injections.
Interesting:

"Only Tunisia among the three is a high growth country, underlining one of the report’s main findings that economic growth and human development often diverge significantly, even over as long a time frame as 40 years."
I'm asking the original speaker for a new link. :)
Now see, you just described me perfectly with everything you said except for that last part about how many pixels the border should be. As a programmer I'm great at all of it except border width type decisions -- which btw I don't think are the most important thing affecting user experience. It mostly just helps aesthetics. It may be that I'm rare as a programmer that's good at following the user experience rabbit hole all the way, but I don't think so.
Mahmud's traveling and offline for a few weeks (http://twitter.com/#!/BigThingist/status/1947382564519936), but he's answered variants of this question before - try searching the HN archives.
You don't even have to raise the taxes - all you have to do is more eligibility for social security to 70 and that alone will get you half way there, combined with ending the waste in Iraq/Afghanistan and that is all that is required.
Put that way, it sounds like a scene from Pygmalion where the doctor can distinguish a bunch of distinct vowel sounds in a continuous "eeeooouuu" sound, and is therefore esteemed an expert in spoken languages - at least by himself. If your summary is true, it's a bit more like this parody: http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=280
Doesn't Google do some user-agent sniffing for requests for their webfonts to optimize for the target platform?

I guess you would lose these optimizations by hosting them yourself.
> Facebook uses PHP

This is the common rebuttal of PHP jokes - but pointing to a sole outlier is rarely a solid defense. Especially when they have created Hack[1] and HHVM[2]. So it's not entirely accurate to say they "use PHP."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(programming_language)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_Virtual_Machine
Right, this was more along my line of thinking "good work for good money." I'm still delivering great ideas and code for my new/acquisition employer, but their money isn't good so I'm not sticking around.

My main contention with "believe in the product" is that it's a canned phrase that I've heard time and time again, to encourage employees to "pull through for our mission" through "sacrifice from your family that is appreciated." The only people who ever benefit from that are the C-suite; customers get broken software coded by broken developers and support has to break themselves fixing the mess. It's a meme, by the purest definition, and it seems to work: people (myself included) get riled up in cameraderi and put themselves and their family second.

If they truly appreciated our sacrifices, we'd have money in our bank accounts, not "belief in the product."
freedom of speech is mostly not about the who owns media company etc! its mostly about who owns naming, addressing people,,, if it is not easy to publish anything, own name and ip to share whatever I have then its never possible to be free ( as in free, not in beer[social media deceive people])
Of course! I don't claim to be a master negotiator -- far from it. But I did negotiate. And, more importantly, I'm quite differentiated. There was no other Indie Hackers to buy.
Thank you for your input!

For shaders I'm never sure if I should do something dynamically or switch to a different shader, but it makes sense of course to kill the alpha test code if it's not used.

As for MSAA, our support for that is pretty rather young and it gives artifacts. I'm actually surprised it's on at all by default...
It's also worth noting that with Spark, you can perform arbitrary computation using the Dataset API and operating on case classes.
Is it obvious that we have reduced diversity of opinion?
If I take a specific example, a AAA game like starcraft 2 uses something like 10-20 different open source projects, where the licenses are everything from personal granted permission, mit, to LGPL. I would also guess that some of those personal granted permission is actually bought permission from dual licensed GPL projects.

Not everyone are willing to go those lengths to save time and work. Not-invented-here is still going strong, as is FUD. If you are in a highly competitive field that can't afford NIH and FUD, then you can't afford a blacklist either.
"as a tool to gauge whether someone has special needs that warrant another form of school with extra support"

Someone is using IQ tests for their intended purpose?!
> plain and simple

Unfortunately it's not in 2021.
Sorry, that's just not how it works.

What makes a card good at gaming (floating point operations per second) makes it good at mining, and vice versa. If the price/performance of the gaming variant is more favorable than the mining variant, why would any miner not buy the gaming one? They'll also have better resale value.

Real world equivalent: if Toyota made a special car for dog owners that costs 10% less but is useless for anything else, why would the dog owners bother with it?

Nvidia is trying to limit the hashing rate of the gaming variant, but it won't take long before someone figures out a way around it. There are billions at stake here. Also, the limitations only affect Ethereum hash rate, altcoin mining is untouched.
If I understand this correctly, A—E are not individual actively-managed funds, but actively managed portfolios of actively managed funds?

It would be interesting to see the distribution of returns among the contained funds. I lean heavily passive personally, but at least if a not-insignificant fraction of funds outperformed the index and were dragged down by really bad returns in others, it would give some indication as to why people would even _try_ to actively pick where to put their money...
I had an experience like this in a parking lot in Belarus: our van wouldn't react to the keyfob. A man soon came by offering to help for some money, but some others warned us he was using some kind of jammer to make this happen on purpose.

In fact I think it wasn't specifically made to be a jammer, he was just trolling with an accidentally-discovered device causing interference
Your arguments are fair.

However, can you tell me more what you mean about rethinking my approach? I am not sure what approach you are referring to.
Because, and bear with me for a moment, the tech community understands how worthless this technology is?
Unless they make the other GPUs less capable of mining or the mining hardware reall cheap no one cares
> All the more striking that it does obey borders.

And please, don't believe everything Google feeds you...
http://tweetymail.com/
re: "Solve the money problem once-and-for-all".

You will still need to prove yourself at a new company if you ever want to produce something again. Life is long; early retirement can be REALLY REALLY long. At some point, you have to do something that you will find meaningful, however rich you are. At that point, you'll have this 'prove yourself' thing coming right back at you.

It's easier if you have a track-record of success, but 'proving yourself' is something that everyone is doing, constantly, with their loved ones, their workmates, in a way, even their local barrista.

If you want to work with people, you will need to earn their respect, admiration and trust. Being rich eases that path (for some), but it doesn't take away that fundamental truth.
This +lots.

http://marcreeves.blogspot.com/2010/06/speaking-truth-to-pow... (excellent post I stumbled across the other day.)
I actually worked with numerous design agencies, and the big clients are the clients of those agencies. This is because most clients (big and small) prefer working with their local design firm, rather than a freelancer online.

So while I have worked on projects for big companies, I dont have many connections. I am trying to really break out of working as a cheap nameless designer that design firms outsource to, and become a professional freelance designer and developer.
It's tax-free if you stay outside the U.S. long enough. I believe the limit is 10 months/year, but it might be higher.

Of course, that means you're not subject to U.S. income tax, but you might be subject to some other country's income tax depending on where you spent your time.

I've met people who work on offshore oil rigs who have (claimed to have) avoided taxes this way, but apparently it is a recipe for an almost guaranteed audit. YMMV.
In Raleigh, NC I had a lot of issues with T-mobile. The problem would be magnified any time I entered a building, on a variety of phones. Having switched to Verizon, I've only found two places in the area where I have poor service. (Too bad it's my research lab and my summer job...)
Apache itself isn't that much resource intensive, it is because of the modules that was bundled with OS packages. Compiling your own Apache with just the necessary modules would make it closer to the other web servers like lighttpd and nginx.
www.unscatter.com is using nginx for load balancing and soon for static content. You might want to add Tornado as an option as well, as that's the web servers that nginx is proxying in my case. Plus, I'd be curious to see how many others are using Tornado.
No, he's saying lame rituals help you avoid hiring prima donnas.
Apache, I don't really like it, but it's convenient.

I retain a lingering fondness for dan bernstein's publicfile http://cr.yp.to/publicfile.html but don't actually use it.
> vastly different pronounciations

Are they? Not very, IMO.

Ask a German how to pronounce "Python" :-)

http://www.forvo.com/word/python
Easy. Oil is an awesome fuel for energy generation, especially distributed generation. In the 19th century, it was awesome enough for people to go to sea for months at a time slaughtering whales and rendering their fat to provide light to homes.

As someone who grew up in the country and got to spend lots of my childhood quality time splitting logs and hauling wood around, I have to tell you that the day the oil-fired boiler was installed in my house was a happy day.

That said, I think people take advantage of a good thing. I work in a downtown city center and live about 5 miles away. $5/gallon gas means about $60/month to me in direct costs. My co-workers live an average of 20 miles away, with a 15% living over 75 miles away. That's insane!
I never "saw" the one-penetrating-zero symbol as presenting ones and zeroes. I bet non-geeks definitely didn't.

I see that as a usability issue. I'm willing to bet that IEC did no usability studies. Compounding the issue... did they do any public-awareness campaigns? If so, they all missed me :/

Related issue: Menus (my Apple devices/software seem particularly acute) that don't tell you a current on/off state - but expect you to deduce it from the fact that (apparently) the option to shift to the other state is available (non-greyed-out).
If this post was written 3 or 4 years ago I might be inclined to agree, but with elastic compute, REST, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, JSON, decent modern browsers and NoSQL databases we really are in (or are very close to) a pretty good place IMO. If the OP is complaining that he needs to know a lot of technologies to construct a website... well, I think that is the nature of the beast and falls out of the de-coupled nature of web-apps.
You can use Coffee Script now, we just don't have syntax highlighting support yet. More discussion on this: http://groups.google.com/group/akshell/browse_thread/thread/...

If you would like us to add more Coffee Script related features, please post a suggestion that others could vote on here: http://feedback.akshell.com/forums/108269-general
Valid point, which I considered before posting. Here's what kicked me over the edge: maybe somebody reading this is wondering "Am I missing something? Maybe I should start reading $1 books." So I it adds value to the conversation to know that there's somebody else out there who doesn't see value in this category.