jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's true that experience is harder to get than knowledge from reading. But I still think reading offers a huge amount of benefit that you cannot get from experience.

One thing is that it opens up a world that is broader to your own. Another thing is that it can provide clear mental models that you probably won't figure out yourself, and that you can observe only after you know the theory.

Let me give you a clear example.

Early in my career I had to manage a junior. At the time I was reading The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People. I applied the "stewardship delegation" from that book to the letter. It worked perfect. In my 19 year career, I apply it all the time, with great success (it also works on your kids :D).

But nobody I know knows about it. I could have never learned one of the most important things, from experience alone.

Even when you look at people like Bill Gates for example, they also still seem to get great value out of reading.

Thanks for the conversation, and sorry for my snarky remark, I admit I was wrong judging you :)
Embrace the diversity of perspectives :)
And it doesn't even work on most consumer AMD graphic cards^^
No idea, but I would wager so. The scale it was being used at would be hard to replace, and they'd have little reason to do so.

EDIT: To be clear, there is no "the DB" at Uber. It was the main database flavor that the larger teams used, but they used everything at Uber, from MySQL to postgres, to mongo, etc. Sometimes with things on top, sometimes directly. For more analytical/financial things, they used HBase/Hadoop/Cassandra, or even older things like old IBM database tech from the 80's. Really weird mix of stuff, and it really depended on which high-profile engineers they hired in which part of the company.
> STAFF WRITER

Thought for sure this was an op-ed. But, it helps to know the context was this was back in 2016.

Think about this: if only the snapdragon based devices were as well-designed as the Apple SoCs, the focus back then (and now) wouldn't be on just Apple - it would also be on Qualcomm and device OEMs.

I don't prefer iOS but I really wish Android's security & privacy were as good. It's slowly getting closer. But Apple is raising the bar again - now with anti-tracking features.
It also translates to a relational model, selection, join and projection.
This ain't actually how science works, it's just an idealized account. Special relativity wasn't technically falsifiable compared to its competing theory by Lorentz, because both produced mathematically equivalent predictions. If you pick up a random science paper these days, odds are you'll find all sorts of unfalsifiable claims. Does this mean modern scientists are doing it wrong? No, but even if you think it does, it still shows modern historians are on the same footing.
> Clearly if nobody did this work then advantageous but sophisticated business deals could not happen; companies and people would be less aware of their choices and pay more for an inferior product;

What? What I see on the professional ad market is that you pay more if you believe in it. Trusting the crowds opinion leads to far better results and you save money.

Right now those bullshit jobs created a world where people throw money out their windows because they have been taught to love the logo of the product. Bullshit creates bullshit.

I don't see how this business deals thing won't work. It's not like having business deals is a new concept to humanity.

> And ultimately global productivity would significantly decrease.

That escalated fast...of course no detailed explanation followed. I see that analysts and similar are relevant for that cause but his examples right above that statement are just more then poorly chosen.

> At Domini, we look at...

Right. Now I get it. This is just another bullshit product by one of the bullshit jobs. Thanks for the example.
It's not down to the code style level, but Atlassian has the Atlassian Design Guidelines (ADG) and Atlassian UI (AUI).

ADG is the general patterns and UX stuff, AUI is a UI library which covers both CSS and JS components and implements the patterns in the ADG.

ADG: https://design.atlassian.com/latest/
AUI: https://docs.atlassian.com/aui/latest/
Because the 10 grams don't enter orbit. They're expended and stay on Earth. You'll still need more than the 10 grams because you will be lifting the some portion of the 10 grams up into the atmosphere because you can't use or get the energy in an instant. The explosion and propulsion happens over a period of time.
For me the biggy has been lack of multitasking. It's so annoying to open a link in a new tab, only to come back and have safari reload the entire page I was just on. It's like the iPad's browser has Alzheimer's.
Awesome UI, but there is no way in hell I'm giving you any files until you have some legal pages up explaining my rights, your rights, and what you can/will do with my information and files.
I've received discounts on beta books in other PragProg sales.
I very rarely use it. The iPad is pretty good about detecting the proper orientation. What types of things require you to lock it often?
It's not keeping it hostage, if you are a Yahoo Mail user. You can export email addresses there and to Hotmail I think.
Wow, that's an interestingly buried little bit of sugar.
It's difficult to distinguish between a persistent user trying to upload a large image over a spotty satellite link and a hacker.
Yep, Microsoft (probably) just bought Unix.

Somehow, there's something poetic about that...
"Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?"
My favorite is Context Tree Weighting (CTW) (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/382012).
Mathematically it's much nicer than PPM. Modern implementations of CTW achieve ratios close to or better than PPM in most domains (see e.g. P. Volf's Thesis "Weighting techniques in data compression")
MSCHF actually settled the case, so this isn’t saying that the right of first doesn’t apply. I personally think that Nike would have lost the suit, but I am not a lawyer. I’m guessing MSCHF didn’t want to spend the money litigating and they had already sold the shoes anyway, so no big deal for them.
Most things are web applications and you can edit those - sometimes people even do it with browser extensions.

The reason you can't do it the rest of the time is because developers would have to support it if they allowed it, and then they'd never be able to change anything ever again. Apps also aren't set up to allow this because of Conway's law, or maybe I have it backwards there.
I am a Linux enthausiast but I never got why people need/want hibernation. My Linux laptop (Dell XPS15) boot under 7 seconds... my desktop starts in 10ish (?)
Even if it took 20 I am fine with that. My previous desktop did not even have an SSD and I was fine with a 1 minute boot.
If what is suspected is true, then yes, strong Church-Turing is false. If there's a symmetry in QCD that makes simulation possible in polynomial time, i.e. a helpful property that is true of QCD specifically but absent from the more general class of integrals its solutions belong to, then no.

If you're looking for something to raise your hair even farther, some suspect that gravity is outright uncomputable[0] due to the unclassifiability of 4-manifolds and the expectation that quantum gravity will require summing over possible spacetimes.

Since all of our computers are built with QED, it should come as no surprise that everything else made out of QED-obeying-matter, like Turing machines are imagined to be, is equally difficult to compute and equally powerful at computing. I don't see why you'd expect the other field theories to fall in to the same computational class.

[0]https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/0506019.pdf
If "we" is the US government, it won't happen.

We spent $63 billion over one year to cover payrolls for airlines in a demand nadir, but we get locked up when it comes to less money over more time toward semiconductors in a demand explosion. It's a textbook moral hazard.
I am lucky enough to have read the drafts. These articles are a huge grind. Most of the skill seems to be putting the time in and having enough experience to go as deep as necessary.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vandergaast-edns-client-sub... is an RFC to fix this problem.
Its amazing what you can get away with if you just try.

Of course, like you, we had a reputation for getting stuff done. We got keycard access and permission to store our project work (since it included electronics) in the postgrad labs and we then went to see how far we could take it. We produced some great projects for them in return[1]. We even got a photo (alongside then prime minister) in a local newspaper.

My project partner is currently doing a PHD there and has used the similar tactics to get equipment, lab space and other benefits and his supervisors don't mind because he has opened new research avenues and published papers for them.

[1] the project I linked to was pioneered by myself and my project partner, but has since been used for further projects (and has been professionally rebuilt using expensive hardware - ours cost about €300 in materials to build; the professionally manufactured version cost approx. €10K - but was (is, I guess - I haven't been involved) also much, much more accurate
Only everyday. I HATE our system. Any math, science, design, I only use the metric system.

It's just so much easier to do math and not nearly as confusing when you're trying to communicate with someone. Pound? Wait Pound Force or Pound Mass, wait maybe I meant a Slug. Horsepower, wait what. It's like someone randomly pulled names out of a hat and assigned them random numbers.
If you read the Bruce Schneier article instead of the linked blog post you get this:

EDITED TO ADD (4/12): Seems that the BBC article misstated the law. Companies have to retain information they already collect for a year after it is no longer required. So if they're not already storing plaintext passwords, they don't have to start.
Indeed. All these new french laws such as HADOPI, LOPSI 1 and 2 are crazy enough they don't need more sensationalism.
They do consider the modified BSDL to be both a Free Software license and compatible with the GPL. There are other licenses which are not compatible with the GPL, such as the original BSD license (with the advertising clause), yet they do still consider them to be Free Software licenses.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
Assuming that the people managing this challenge are the same ones as those that did the previous Hearst Challenge, I'll stay far away from it. They don't think through the rules, and change them on the fly. Last time, at one stage, the leader in the challenge gave up and quit.
Unfortunately the Guides and Books links aren't much use. Instead, have a look at the "small talks" series on his blog http://blog.redline.st/category/series/
Federal != Fed, the reserve bank. Close, but not identical.
Make sure to use a gate and/or compressor along with the EQ. If you just use an EQ you will sometimes get transient glitches that it can't easily or effectively filter out by itself (I had lots of problems with this)
There is a great (humorous) Computerphile video about this topic: "The Problem with Time & Timezones" [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
> we have to assume that anything could be a TLD

Yes. This has been the correct way to handle it for at least a couple of decades and perhaps arguably more. RFC 2606 reserves a handful of TLDs (such as .example and .invalid) and it would be sane to treat these specially (e.g. this-is.invalid just isn't a valid DNS name) but otherwise the most you could say for sure about any TLD is that you don't know whether it exists.

There's a lot of bad legacy code out there which will do things like reject email addresses with a TLD longer than three characters, don't do that even if you think .horse was a bad idea.

> At this point, why not just accept any string of characters up to a certain lenght as a TLD?

With the exceptions in RFC 2606 and the practical constraint that some TLDs are "poisoned" by decades of misuse (e.g. .corp) this is the situation today.

However the next question is - who shall operate the registry for each of these TLDs? So that's what the ICANN process is for. It's not a problem for .some-ludicrous-vanity-domain-for-a-corporation as on the one hand, nobody else wanted those names (often even the corporation itself never uses them, it's just burning money) - but it gets trickier for .horse where understandably the people who own a horse's name in .horse don't want to hear about how the company operating it went bankrupt and now they need to pay somebody else or their site stops working.
No wonder why Maven is so freaking slow
Glad my ramblings were useful to somebody!
Pannier bags are the go-to design for both bicycles and motorcycles, for good reason.

They keep weight off your back and the center of gravity as low as possible. They also don't interfere with swinging your leg over the bike, unlike rear baskets or top boxes.

When properly attached, you don't really notice them at all, other than making your bike a bit heavier up hills.

I DIYed my own pannier bags from military surplus shoulder bags. They're not pretty, but then again neither is my bike.

Handlebar bags are more of a bonus item, you use it for things you need to grab while riding, small snacks and that sort of thing.
I am guessing that Nvidia only copied what Intel is doing with x86. Why don't Intel free the x86? A little bit of competition would be good for everyone, otherwise ARM will take over the market, so Intel has nothing to lose from doing that.
For my daily tasks, VSCode works better than Vim. But, sometimes, I'll have to do a macro in Vim, end up staying there for a couple of days and I have to admit: using those commands, motions and macros is pretty fun. It feels like gamifying work for me, adding an extra layer of enjoyment to the frequently boring tasks.

Eventually I notice that I'm playing with Vim instead of finishing tasks, and go back to VSCode...
This site is such a treasure. Imagine if all of humanity's heritage was copyable/mashable in the same way that the Apollo videos and telemetry are!
> to identify yourself in whatever situation.

Not OP but I'm in the UK, (and lived in Ireland before this) and I carry my drivers license in my wallet because it fits, but I have _never_ needed it for a situation other than buying alcohol when I was ~19/20. What situations are there that I would need to identify myself?
I would hope that in this situation, a persons first response would be to call for professional help. And the medical professionals would know how to access it (it shows a button labeled “emergency” on the home screen if it scans a face not of the owner).

When my phone was lost once, it was dropped off at the police station and they opened the emergency access screen to call someone to get the phone returned. So it’s not completely unknown.
Sure, but its also backed by a few aircraft carriers, ICBMs, ~ 1.3 million warfighters, and a few other things ;)
I’m curious what your ethics say about your implicit buy in to the destabilization of the environment for future generations?

Everyone is a hypocrite given the right context.

I didn’t really see concerned Americans setting aside their superfluous materialism to spring child political prisoners from cages.

To the people of the U.S.: time to stop believing what the TV told you about your place in the world when you were children. Your military and elite are responsible for the vast majority of the environmental destruction impacting everyone.

Let’s sober up a bit, shall we?
did you know that population in Ethiopia is 100 millions
& the size is two times France?
We're evolutionarily optimized for understanding slow, macro-scale, somewhat low-energy things.

Of course we'll perceive things as complex when we move outside of that regime.
This explains why I feel so exhausted when I incorporate a lot of work-like training and exploratory stuff into my day. I'm working at least 3 times more than most!
I'm talking more about if I've got a story where something isn't clarified properly. The project I'm on at the minute, the stories really aren't well refined at-all so I need to talk to a project manager/architect-style character for something that I can't answer myself because I simply don't know. I've said things about doing refinement sessions etc. but they've never surfaced.

What you say sounds pretty selfish though. If someone came to me and asked for help with something I'd be happy to drop tools and come and help as I'm not just a 'colleague', I'm a team member.
I agree with your sentiment, although I disagree with the way you said it. On the actual issues raised, most of them can indeed be turned off or at the very least mitigated some how.

Akonadi is indeed a resource hog and useless (a dozen processes and 100+MB memory usage). If you don't use any KDE PIM application (Kmail, Korganizer) or any calendar event integration they don't appear. Nepomuk is no more, replaced by baloo, which is actually pretty fast and light on resource usage, so I keep it running. But it can be easily turned off in the system settings under the desktop search item. I don't use activities, the only trace of it is a kactivitymangered process running, if it bothers you that much you can set up a startup script to kill it.

The tray icons and cashew you may have a point. Although I like monochrome status icons but the cashew is an eyesore, so I drag it underneath the panel and it stays out of the way.
https://mobile.twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1197242429365...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21153531
I know my comment will be downvoted for sure because it isn't a popular idea, but I'm still gonna comment on this.

Reading news about any foreign country, including China, only from US MSM, is inherently biased (sampling bias). Maybe consider reading news from Chinese outlets in this case?

I know people will start arguing that Chinese outlets are mainly propagandas because they are controlled by governments and they are not independent...

But, but are we sure that Deutsche Welle or Japan Times are unbiased?

For example, Deutsche Welle is funded by German government. [1], and the editors of the Japan Times were appointed by their government [2].

Yes, German and Japanese governments are more trustworthy than the Chinese government, but every country has its own foreign policy and political agenda. Are we sure that we are not being "brainwashed" by those media outlets?

This is happening within the US as well. Think conservative news outlets vs liberal outlets.

Citations:
[1] https://www.dw.com/en/what-kind-of-company-is-deutsche-welle...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20110716064544/http://www.fccj.o...
Except "strongest supporter" has a particular meaning in English, and it's not the one you proposed.
Thanks Jeremy! Glad to hear you're still enjoying the service.

I still have fond memories of learning my way around the Fastmail infrastructure while sitting on the couch in your Port Melbourne loungeroom back in 2004. Such a long time ago.
> comparisons with the Nazis out of hand

Because they're generally silly hyperbole, just like this example. If you put China in the same tier as Nazi Germany, you're missing the forest for the trees.
> Someone makes some version of this comment on every article about Facegoog surveillance.

Yup, that was in the back of my mind when I wrote that.

I think it's great that they're complaining on the Amnesty blog. Let's be clear: The issue is not the complaining; it's the tracking. It's not that they shouldn't post this important post on their site; it's that they should consider not using Google Analytics.

As I wrote before as well, being a hypocrite is a step up from not caring. It's good to see Amnesty taking a public stance on this.

But I think you touch on an interesting general phenomena there: That someone, who professes a view, risks being attacked as a hypocrite, which could make it easier to stay silent instead.
Except the guy they sent back in to turn on an exhaust fan that arced and blew everything up...

Poor bastard.
Except there is still a double standard. For example, approximately the same number of black people are opposed to gay marriage as Republicans (52% vs 49%)[1], and yet only one of those groups gets consistently portrayed as homophobic and detestable.

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/support-for-same-sex-ma...
Let me guess. The young student was an HN pedant.
I'd be much more interested in the people who look like they were there with intent - like the one stepping across seats (in a gallery?) carrying a bunch of restraints and wearing tactical gear, a very concealing mask, a hat with flaps completely covering his ears, etc. That's a person expecting and prepared for trouble and likely working to not be recognized (fully and concealingly masked with no identifying marks in the middle of a crowd of anti-maskers). I suspect if he had a phone with him it was turned off.
Yes I really do think that makes a lot of sense, all that methane trapped in permafrost springs to mind. These scary once in a generation things do occasionally happen...
There are powerful reality filters embedded in the culture of organisations, of classes of people, and with political groups. It is extremely difficult to tease things apart and find the truth in this environment. By exposing yourself to a source you are opening yourself to be being unduly swayed by that source. Unless I am prepared to sit down and investigate the story, the sources found in the story and follow up with my own research, then I will not expose myself to it.

I have not investigated this story thoroughly, but I have tried to get to the bottom of many other stories. Usually at the bottom I find uncertainty. I find lack of evidence. Confusion, bending, warping of reality to fit an agenda. There so much noise it's almost deafening.

"Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see". We are like children in the school playground spinning tales for each other. Imprinting our own thoughts and values and goals into the stories we tell. Barely aware of our own motives.
for those who don't know, Fabian Giesen (@ryg of demoscene group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farbrausch) works at RAD.

his blog: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/

one of my favorites: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for...
Would a hard drive even last that long.

I hope that we have something, something like the seed bank which saves the most important data of the past. Would kind of suck if no one had a SATA in 500 years though
You should probably mention Portland, Seattle, Kenosha, Chicago, New York as well. The other kind of insurrectionists seem to also have little to fear from the law.
The Taycan being a sports car vs. the Tesla 3 being a entry-level electric car might have something to do with it.
Godot is node based so you compose an Entity out of nodes. It’s a slightly more flexible version of an Entity Component model.
Less time at the destination airport: you get to skip baggage claim, and the time at baggage claim waiting for the throwers to unload your luggage, drive it to baggage claim, and throw it on to the belt.

Additionally, less risk of loss, too: obviously not all bags make it.
Also: check for contacts with weird country-code prefixes that don't match the country the user is based in
Naive question: given that there is a sort of pareto distribution in covid vulnerability, and that the vaccine rollout prioritizes vaccinating the most vulnerable first, doesn't it also make some sense to prioritize stronger vaccinations (2 doses of Pfizer or Moderna) for the early recipients of the vaccine?

Increasing the speed of the rollout with delayed second doses or skipping second doses sounds compelling for other reasons, but it does seem like a more complex calculus to me than many articles online want to admit.