jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Mike Pall

Writing a full just-in-time compiler for a dynamic language (Lua) [1] that was not only much faster than contemporary browser Javascript engines, but also faster than the Android JVM (at the time) [2].

Also porting that compiler to emit x86, x64, ARM, PPC, MIPS. All as one person.

It was so impressive that I'm actually a little curious what he's been working on now, since he's mostly moved on from the project and has (I'm sure deliberately) little online presence. Maybe some company has some amazing secret project that we'll find out about someday.

[1] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-11/msg00089.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2617628
They chose to ditch it a few months ago in favour of lumia for their windows phones. They still have the rights to use it though, for a couple years i think.
Very interesting, I never considered looking at the conflicts that way. It might be helpful to allow looking at the conflicts in the diff3 conflict marker style. The advantage is that you get to see the common ancestor, which can be crucial to figuring out a tricky merge.

git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3

http://gitster.livejournal.com/25801.html
So would their position be different if they were still the market leader?
If you use 'requestAnimationFrame()' instead of a 'setInterval()' for triggering your update method, your animation will perform a lot smoother:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window/requ...
You think the Pebble Time has a better design than the Apple Watch? The Pebble looks pretty similar but with a bigger bezel. The Apple Watch doesn't go on sale until April 24.
So in other words, you'll happily down-vote people who aren't on your friend list, even though they are trying to tell you something you need to know.
Yeah, the German slashdot. Highly recommended if you want to get in touch with German IT - but don't expect to much ;-)
I'm a Belgian working in Belgium. So my only option is to pay Belgian Taxes. But with my incorporation I can optimize a little bit. But in the end I pay a lot of taxes ;)

But If I would go to work in Germany or any other Shengen country I could optimize better.

Now for an American you first need to get a work permit: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/234826/how_to_move_...

Then your options are open: all tax free places are possible to start your company. You can google for these places.
We all know that academic parpers are biaised on who are funding it. There is event a paper on that.
It really varies a lot in my personal experience - in the UK/ROI salaries are much higher than for senior roles, salary basically spans from 45-50K to 80-90K euros, but contracting you can easily make much more than that. In Switzerland you get good deals, but if you cross the border to Italy you go back to figures similar to the one you mention for Austria.
I'm a developer in Stockholm, Sweden. Making around $72-75K a year. Pretty average salary around here, I think?
I remember watching Open University program when I was about that age that worked through Cantor's diagonal argument - I vividly remember being spellbound that such a seemingly simple argument could has such a profound and counter intuitive result.
I second this. "If you're only in it for the dollars, then avoid!"

The usual employe is expected to take all of his 6 weeks (in Germany the minimum is 4 but 6 is standard, in France I think its 8 weeks) of vacation even though there are lots of federal holidays and <40 hour weeks.
Maybe you can even collect over hours for additional vacation. But don't expect to get paid for them, let alone 150%.

And yes French food is expensive. But com'on its French food!
For those to lazy to fire up a translator:
According to the heise.de statistic, the highest pay category for a software developer is "group/team leader" and will get you 67 800 Euro on average.
How much do you get after taxes?
What about Libya? While France was the one that started it, he was responsible for the US joining it.
A one-bay NAS... didn’t even know those existed
Eh, Echo's IK works great 98% of the time. The other 2% it's anywhere from slightly off to completely unaligned and pointing nonsense directions. I don't think there's a way to do better than this with current sensors. Valve probably decided they didn't want that kind of amateur-looking content in a game they're betting the (VR) farm on.
Love the game! It would be nice to wrap this up in an Android app and put it on the market place just because when I build games like these my kids end up closing the browser somehow :) I built a few of these at: http://putty.minhajuddin.com/
Wasn't instagram just recently experimenting with not showing the number of likes?
Maybe stick /s on the end. Poe's Law and all that, and these days folks just scan read things then twitch rather than reconsider a post in its best possible light.
That's about my experience too. Systemd just works. It's easy to create new systemd units for all kind of dependent services and resources. Be it server or desktop; systemd just does it's thing and it's bloody good at it.

(shrug)

Hater's will hate, I guess?
Capitalism vores everything.
@brongondwana

Great service. I use all features to their potential And appreciate the work and thought you and your team give.
Out of interest, where do you draw the line between local storage and distributed storage? By local storage do you mean directly a attached storage?

What about FC SANs or iSCSI over a WAN? Are they local or distributed?
Great article. It would be nice to know what they are doing for whatever database they are using (mysql, etc.) because they are not using RDS / EBS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)

Quote:

"Using a PPP basis is arguably more useful when comparing generalized differences in living standards on the whole between nations because PPP takes into account the relative cost of living and the inflation rates of the countries, rather than using just exchange rates which may distort the real differences in income."

Thailand ranks #24, #23 and #24 in those lists. I rounded up. You picked a list to illustrate your point (that Thailand and the Philippines are poor?). I picked one that better reflected GDP vs cost of living, which was my point.

I wasn't jumping down his throat specifically, I was saying that the term "third world" as applied to Thailand (and other countries) is a worthless description today. As the original commenter pointed out, it's related to the geopolitics of the Cold War. People often swap it for "developing nation" which is a euphemism for "undeveloped by Western standards" which I think is condescending and a culturally biased value judgement. When someone says "third world" I would say they either don't really understand the economics involved or are deliberately being derogatory to another people/nation. I think that's pretty safely called ignorance.
It's been amazing how often people have been giving us bad advice about our business. They point out that the obvious customer for us is in category A or category B, but in our own thinking & experience it's become clearer and clearer that actually it's category C and when we check with people who operate in our sector, it makes perfect sense to them.
A similar case:

Defiance, or: How to Succeed in Business While Being Targeted by the FBI, the KGB, the Department of Homeland Security, the INS and the Mafia Hit Men

http://defiancethebook.com/
"plus with a solar sail, how do you get back?"

This is actually really simple and not a problem at all -- you just have to understand orbital mechanics a bit. Basically, you angle the solar sail so that its force is directed against your direction of travel along your orbit. This slows you down, causing you to start spiraling in toward the sun. Then you change angle so that you start speeding up again and match orbital velocities just as you arrive at your destination.

But it's a separate issue anyway -- solar sail technology (or Vasimir, or Nuclear Thermal) is no more required for exploring Mars than jet airplane technology was required for exploring North America.
Yes, I'm seriously overdue on a blog entry about current state-of-the-art for DBs at SmugMug. :( You can watch my keynote from the MySQL conference two years ago to see what we used to do, but things have progressed since then. http://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2010/04/15/my-mysql-keynote-sli...
This "hitpiece" can be of interest to those who doing / wants to do business in Russia. This is a story about business climate in country, not only about one person's death.
I wonder what caused the massive spike in failures for the 3TB Seagate drives in 2014?
I'm not very familiar with the Quebec language laws, but I suspect that it's actually illegal to call it "Three Rivers" on signs or advertisements within Quebec.
Fun fact: You will likely lose more money in divorce (about 50% probability in Western world) than all the money you had saved throughout all of the married combined by choosing cheaper vacations, forgoing hobbies, finding discounts, buying inexpensive cloths and cars.
Expecting the customer to be all-knowing is not realistic.

Or are you always reading all the terms and conditions print on all the software you install?
I buy that argument maybe during a draft, but not for those volunteering for such duties.
Right to Repair and the other foundations fighting to defend GPL don't seem to be in conflict with Stallman's position, nor what the FSF does, so your point would be that the FSF is not as efficient as you want it to be ?

In my opinion, if Stallman is an hermit that only serves as an anchoring for other people to move toward the right direction, I'd argue it's plenty enough.

Now I don't know much about the FSF finances and what we should really be expecting from it.
This happened notably for example where the creator of Redux Dan Abramov, who is also one of the main maintainers of React and Create React App was employed by Facebook in London. Discussing salary it appeared that he was making less than your average React developer in San Francisco:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22331478
And the way to stop the trafficking is to make the industry legal, and regulated and the workers in it given protection (like pretty much any other worker - OHSA style).

When you make a demand illegal, it doesn't stop that demand, but instead a black market and exploitation happens around it. Making it legal will stop the crimes, make it possible for the police to patrol and arrest people doing the wrong thing, and provide a way for those exploited to seek help without themselves being exposed to another type of danger.
they most likely won’t. hence the need to have users scrape the TL. “content creators” refer to the smaller creators and micro celebrities with a decent twitter audience that would be likely to follow such a scheme
Just because they can do it should not be a reason for doing it. You're broken in, defatist or conformist.
You don't get "reasonable-looking" results for "pirate bay" on google.
hmmm... it might be written in Rust, but I'd still rather use an instance of good-old OpenSSH as a suitably configured bastion host.

OpenSSH has been battle-tested to death and comes from a good stable (OpenBSD, LibreSSL).

I'm very weary indeed of re-implementations of SSH servers.
In definition 1:

> as by embezzlement

In definition 2:

> attributed to … volume of money and credit

We’d be able to conclude that “inflation is theft” from noting that inflation is driven by “printing money”, whether paper or credit, and that the benefits illicitly go to those in control of the financial system to the detriment of others — which the other poster would likely characterize as “embezzlement”.

So you proved that person right — at least to people who view the Federal Reserve and large banks as in a self interested cabal.

By embezzling the funds they print, eg giving special access to friends, they engage in theft towards society at large.
> I can't explain the lower ping, traffic shaping?

Better routes. Most latency on the internet is not due to c.
Exactly.

As someone who has been privileged to be naturally inclined towards the more lucrative parts of STEM, I still don’t want to see a society which rewards people like me in a vastly outsized way, while being indifferent or punitive to others whose interests or abilities or life experiences landed them outside a handful of in-demand professions. It’s very easy to attribute success to the choices we make, but so much of it is out of our control (where we live, what our society values, what advantages and disadvantages we inherit).
Historically (since ~mid-20th century) the idea was to create federal agencies that were given lump sums by Congress and which then used a kind of internal peer review process to determine how to distribute these funds. There's a history of some political intrigue there (universities try to get their people into the federal agency so they can direct funds back to their home university, etc.).

This has avoided some of the usual sort of line-item Congressional pork activity, for example (left) Bernie Sanders got the F-35 engine factory for Vermont, and (right) Richard Shelby got the ULA rocket program for Alabama, etc. There have been some coordinated political attacks on federal agencies though, if you look into the history of the USGS, Congress basically said "stop doing environmental pollution research or we'll cut your funding" in the 1990s.

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/cover/1995_Feb_...

> "USGS data is considered so reliable and objective that it is often used for testimony during court hearings", Conomos said... "We do scientific studies and basic data collection, in some cases for 100 years or more. We know the history of streams and the environment nationwide. Private consultants don't do that."

The NSF is probably among the most independent agencies at present. NIH seems pretty tied up with the pharmaceutical sector, and FDA is even worse. DOE is just entirely captured by the nuclear waste and fossil fuel sector at this point. EPA and USGS, they're basically hamstrung.
I don’t disagree that it’s not, by definition, theft. It is, however, an obscured tax on savers, a transfer of wealth from lender to debtor. At least in the US inflation is the result of decoupling dollars from gold and the direct theft of gold and silver from the citizens by the government.
Or just running iperf on a personal server. I use that to diagnose differences between raw UDP / TCP throughput and HTTP.
That is for the "black cab" taxis, the ones you can hail by waving on the street.

For a private hire vehicle (the kind you telephone or use an app to book), the price is under £700 (under £500 if the driver speaks English).

That doesn't seem unreasonable. The GP comment was referring to the American system where the license are traded at very high costs (tens, hundreds of thousands of dollars).

https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/taxis-and-private-hire/licensing...
As long as you don't have to deal with SOAP services or XML handling, you can play with the jlink tool.

But as your dependency list increases, it won't work anymore, due to many dependencies that are auto modules and not named modules.
TLDR; Make 1x1 convolutions sparse, write fast Sparse Matrix Multiplication kernels, get a nearly 2x speedup with smaller models.
but why not building a card reader by reading the chip content (more accurate than an image)?
Helping others find an alternative to uber in these dark times
The cost of the payload is huge today because the launch is so expensive that you have to make the most of it. If it's $25/kg to low Earth orbit, you can afford to be a lot more experimental and take a lot more risks with your cargo.
> "We use ML and Apple Maps to accurately tag your purchases with real store names and categories"

Monzo does this for transactions in the UK (and has done since they launched a few years ago, IIRC) - it's not novel. I think other banks are starting to do this too.
Let it go dude. I wasn't exactly shocked to go to that post and see that you had made the most grayed-out comment.
I wonder if there could be a genetic factor. Maybe something ~unique to Japanese?
I'm from Pittsburgh. Once, on a business trip, I met an old woman. Over the course of our conversation, our common origins became apparent. She asked me, "Do the men still have to change their shirts after lunchtime?"[1] I said, "no, not anymore." "Well, maybe I will go back there again one day."

Carnegie stepped on a lot of heads on his way up. [2]

1: There was so much soot in the air, your shirt would be dirty by midday, so blue-collar workers brought spares and changed.

2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Strike
a "Troll" on the Internet is someone who causes problems or conflict for you, but is doing so for reasons other than that he actually disagrees with you.

In this case, it's because he's paid by the government.

In (most) other cases, it's because the troll wants to see you get angry.
Just streamed what I'm currently working on... felt odd, like letting 14 people into my office, one guy even asked a question "what are you coding?", it didn't have a way to reply by text... which makes sense as you can be either streaming correctly or typing correctly, which is why once that happened the stream got extremely shaky, [sorry for that other viewers]

I think this has potential and it might take a unexpected turn once Carlos Danger gets the news
Care elaborating on why is it a better Golang?
That is just an ordinay dot. Wrong typesetting.
MISRA-C(++), Ada/SPARK also forbid it, yet they are there powering lots of embedded systems, there is a lot of stuff that can still be implemented with such restrictions.
Hi, you should become an angel in startups' investments... take a look at http://angel.co
This is great. I appreciate the "for dummies" approach in the tutorial

Noticed one typo in https://wiz.run/api/#api-run — the second `setHost` should be `setPort` but also probably you don't need either of those in that `run` example
You’re ignoring the fact that people take up space.

Every single cabin in the woods running off solar used to be an area with trees.

EDIT: And don’t even get me started on those cabin dwellers buying cats and letting them roam the forest like the invasive bird and mammal eating machine that they are.
Not long ago one of our customers asked us the same for his son (also 15). We pointed him to game programming with Unity3D. Unity has Python (Boo Script), JavaScript, and C# styles of scripting. With little work he'll see big advances, this will keep him interested. After learning the basics, he can jump to webdev or other fields...

There's plenty of resources for leaning Unity online, on youtube, udemy or elsewhere... https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?q=unity3d

PS: In 4 months the kid has already sent us 2 games fairly complex and funny.
Kyoto was the traditional seat of Imperial power. Tokyo, called Edo back in the days the seat of the Tokugawa Shogunate, a military dictatorship, is the national capital because of that. A whole lot of the action that overthrew the Shogunate happened in Kyoto, so sparing it was in part to encourage the Emperor---in a position that for a very long time had little or no real power---to do exactly what he did then. If he'd tried it earlier, he would have been killed and replaced with a more pliable one. As others have noted, the final surrender was a rather close run thing....
I have the Clevo 740SU from Xotic, due to the negative press around System76 from early last year. You can get it without an OS and the only requirement is replacing the wifi card if you want a good wireless nic.

Its 14", thin, powerful, etc - only downside is battery life, which only gets 3 - 6 hours depending on workload.
Addendum: there was one message allegedly sent to Sony executives requesting payment. This is the only one that I'm aware of.

>We’ve got great damage by Sony Pictures.

>The compensation for it, monetary compensation we want.

>Pay the damage, or Sony Pictures will be bombarded as a whole.

>You know us very well. We never wait long.

>You’d better behave wisely.

>From God’sApstls
In my experience buying a VW and a Mazda, the financing I've been offered has been through another company. I don't remember who the VW bank was (financed through my credit union at the time), but the Mazda financing is a co-branded Chase loan.

According to Wikipedia[1] Ford is the only one of the big three Detroit manufacturers to still have it's own financing arm. As you noted, GMAC spun off into Ally, and Chrysler Financial was bought by TD Bank.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Motor_Credit_Company
How secure does the Bitcoin network need to be? What mechanism exists to determine that?

Rhetorical question, BTW. There is no market mechanism that determines what is sufficient security. This should become clear if one looks at what the network is choosing to pay the miners who secure transactions.

The block reward is now 12.6% of what it originally was, and tx fees have certainly not gone up correspondingly. So is the network now undersecured? Or was it previously overpaying for security? Again, rhetorical questions - the users of the network aren't paying for security, they're paying to have their transactions processed and have no choice but to subsidize the miners with the block reward as well. As far as how much security is needed goes, the Bitcoin answer is simply "more is more."

But in the future, as the block reward dwindles, won't market forces start to price in security? I'm sceptical, personally, because the only gauge of whether or not the network is paying its miners enough is whether or not the network works. So if, in the process of finding the proper price of security, the market goes too low, attacks will be possible and the price of BTC will likely suffer as a consequence. This would make it less attractive to mine BTC and less attractive to use BTC. You can see how this could lead to a downward spiral.
To the degree that true remote becomes more prevalent (a lot of people will be more in the 1-2 days/week commute camp), you probably see a new equilibrium over time as you say. Even if companies are hesitant to actually cut salaries, given how contentious that is, new hire offers in high CoL areas start coming in a bit lower and raises get skinnier while offers to people living in Little Rock are very generous for the area. You still have disparities but there's more of a nationwide equilibrium.
If you like flying on 40 year old deathtraps, American is great.
I found the setting by following FF's instructions and turned it off. Took about 5 seconds, I guess a minute total including searching for how to do it.
It is also pretty easy to make infinite scroll an accessibility disaster.
It shouldn't, and it doesn't. I agree that it doesn't and that Israel's treatment of Palestinians is terrible. My point is we can have this discussion without also (incorrectly) relying on anti-Semitic tropes of Jewish replacement.

(I am Jewish, but I do not support the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians.)
Why wouldn't companies use WFH for their own benefit? They are businesses. I find it weird that western workers somehow imagine that WFH means that they can happily work remote but not compete with other remote workers. The fact is that their big value-add has been the physical contact with the employer, as employers want to interact with their employees f2f for god knows what reason.
What makes QML so good?