jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think you might be taking me to literally. I didn't mean that we've regressed technologically, or on average as a civilization. Of course our technology, ability to build pyramids, is greater.

I'm mean that we're having a very hard time with problems that are ultimately tractable. Pyramids, aqueduct systems and other impressive endeavours were big achievements. They put a lot of resources into these things, pushed boundaries and succeeded. When it comes to public works these days, it seems that fiasco avoidance is the high bar we set.

Can we add a train system to a city from scratch? Impossible. More expensive than WW2. Think smaller. Well... such things aren't impossible. They're just hard. Equivalent projects have succeeded in the past.
How about being able to debug multiple threads and processes? That would be actually useful.

> Rust and Go and all the new age languages never seemed to have heard of it despite proclaiming their commitment

Go rebuild / full rebuild times are fast enough. I don't think edit and continue would be that amazing with 1000 concurrent goroutines.

Rust will hopefully have edit and continue one day. Hopefully compiler will get faster as well... That said, I much prefer Rust compiler catching a significant portion of issues at compilation phase, thus not requiring debugging in the first place.
On the other hand, when writing new code it is quite efficient to simply type, supported with proper completion.

It would be much less efficient to create a program in a point and click gui, dragging visual elements onto the syntax tree.

So both is necessary. Efficient text editing is required to work quickly with the code, edit things locally efficiently. And refactoring is also needed if you want to perform bigger operations which span methods or classes.

An efficient text editor with completion + powerful refactoring. This is the winning combination.
I like applications to be efficient as well, but come on, surely this memory consumption is broadly pretty reasonable? A few hundred MB?

Also, what is your memory there for, if not to be used? Is Dropbox good at releasing or allowing memory it no longer needs to be released, paged out, or processes killed if there is pressure from other applications in the system? If so, what's the problem with Dropbox using the memory until then?
It depends. Have you looked into Haskell land lately? It's the 90s again there.
There is a ton of free software. Price is not up just because of IP law. It's up because running and maintaining Wikipedia for example has a price even though most of the stack is free.
Maybe you can make the "hex editor", "debugger" and "disassembler" bold words into links to good FOSS implementations of each tool?

Otherwise, this looks very interesting :)
You seem to be confused.

Atom is developed by a for-profit company which is owned by the for-profit megacorp Microsoft. For them open source is a PR move and an employee retention measure, they just don't give a fuck if anyone is helping them out... at most they want to have contributors to help with PR and retention.
Interesting, but no iOS client or WebDAV support. That would prevent me from using it.

Most developer/engineer types have a private server and that’s a great place to install Nextcloud. Nextcloud has cross platform clients, supports strong authenticators (U2F), and open protocols like WebDAV. I even use it to sync org-mode files across many devices with great success.
The definition of LIUR here is:

"The share of available time devoted to
work is the LIUR, calculated as the total
number of hours that the working-age
population (16 years of age and older)
was actually at work relative to discretionary
hours—100 hours a week on average
per working-age individual—that that
population could have devoted to work.(3)
The numerator—hours at work—excludes
hours paid while on vacation or on various
leaves that do not contribute any labor
input to the production process."

"3) This number of hours of time available to work per week for each member of the working-age population has been conventionally adopted in the literature by rounding up the figures documented in “Response to a Skeptic,” by Edward C. Prescott, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review, Fall 1986."

"4) Notice also that, by construction, the labor input utilization rate (LIUR) overcomes one of the limitations of another commonly used labor market indicator, the employment/working-age population ratio, which measures the number of workers on payroll, regardless of the number of hours they are at work. This alternative indicator could provide the false impression of a tighter labor market in circumstances in which two or more part-time workers have replaced several full-time workers, even if the total number of hours worked remained unchanged."

From:

https://www.dallasfed.org/~/media/documents/research/eclett/...

And from my perspective, it's quite weird indicator.
What really puzzles me is that Doug Cutting worked at Xerox PARC and Mike Cafarella has two (!) CS Masters degrees, a PhD degree, and is a professor at the University of Michigan. It's not like they were unaware of the previous work in the field (Connection Machine languages, Paralations, NESL).
This headline is clickbait. Read the actual survey. The actual survey says that 1/3 said they would start looking for a new job if they were no longer allowed to work remotely. But then 49% said they would be happy with a hybrid environment, where they only had to come in some of the time.
You can also do some consulting projects here and there to get a big boost for that year. I'm living in a expensive place and have kids so it's not really doable for at least some years for me
It's important to note that the PLA is beholden to the CCP. The CCP sees invasion of Taiwan as its raison d'etre. Therefore the PLA is required to plan for and even attempt invasion should the CCP and the CMC demand it. That does not mean that the PLA considers a successful invasion likely or even feasible at present.

Any invasion of Taiwan would require an amphibious assault and urban combat unlike anything the world has seen since D-Day and Fallujah.

Any one interested in this subject is implored to read "The Chinese Invasion Threat" by Ian Easton. It includes a trove of public, classified and restricted access PLA documents to illustrate the invasion threat as the PLA itself sees it.
Nobody suggested hosting on your own server. There's 74824884 providers, free and paid, that let you drag and drop html files from the left to the right.
This study is of UK office workers. I’m surprised that on average participants spend half an hour a day looking for another job! I would like to see the distribution of responses to know whether this is truly normal.
https://www.myopenrouter.com/blog/asuswrt-merlin-xwrtcross-w...
I don't understand this either. Does Signal need to compete with streaming services like Netflix next? What about Steam? I didn't choose Signal as a platform, I chose it because it is (supposedly) a secure and privacy focused messenger app.
> Does a quick interruption that unblocks me and allows me to continue working outweigh allowing you to finish your thing first?

No, absolutely not. As my coworker you have no right to my time, at all. Certainly not on-demand.

You are in no position to prioritize my time, especially in the context of you finishing your task.

> Because maybe you're unblocked but I'm blocked by you now, and the thing that's actually blocking me.

No, you are blocked by whatever you are blocked by. Solving your problems is your problem. Not mine.

> So only 1 person is able to work.

If you can't do your job without also consuming my time in parallel what exactly are you contributing? If you are blocked and need input then go work on something else until you can get the input. This is elementary time management and respect for your coworkers.
So angry. Did you design Courier New or something?

> 1337hax0ll

> hackers != designers

I guess not, so there's no reason.
Maybe the people who criticize Noam Chomsky should actually listen to what he says first.

He condemns America more than other regimes who also abuse power because he considers it the moral responsibility of every citizen to correct their own nation's behavior first, taking the principle straight from the Bible: "Remove the speck from your own eye."

Condemn Chomsky's anarcho-socialist ideals if you like: he actually has those. But calling him an America-hater both misunderstands his views and demonstrates his point about nationalism trumping democracy.
I am not a statistician, but if I found myself in an infinite forest, I would probably get drunk, too.
Oh nice, looks like they just launched in July!
The reason I asked it because taxis have very different usage pattern than regular cars -- there might be extra operating costs (like extra gas, oil change, & service costs due to the extra range, and probably taxi operating license fee) that I'm not aware of which might weaken the analogy with the average car a bit.
This is a bit like that fellow who did pixel art by manually writing coloured table cells in HTML in Notepad - very, very impressive, but it does make one wonder a little about the person who has done it.
Better for what? If you want to have stable money supply, commodity money is better. If you want to manipulate money supply in order to achieve political purposes - of course fiat money is better.

BTW, if fiat money are so great and gold money is so inferior, why exactly the government snatched the private gold in the 30s[1]? Did they want the inferior thing so much that they had to force people to give it up because they wouldn't voluntarily exchange it for the much better thing? I imaging they were rescuing those people, that's what it was. A sacrificial act by the Feds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
Here we have a situation where someone is being detained and effectively punished (denied food and drink, for example, forced to miss their flight) without any benefit of the legal system. Preventing such things is the entire reason we have a criminal justice system. Within the legal system we have all of these procedures and rights and so forth that have been carefully honed over centuries to ensure that the system is fair and not abusive. Except here we have this bizarre little bubble that is effectively outside the criminal justice system for most intents and purposes which has about the effect one would imagine in such situations.

The detained here has no benefit of counsel, no ability to see the evidence put against them, no presumption of innocence, and so forth. And we can see within this one little example a microcosm of why all of those things are necessary and what happens when they are absent.

No matter how you cut it this individual was effectively punished, the fact that there are almost no safeguards to prevent such abuses of power today should be chilling to everyone.

"Setting off an explosion detector" is not the most important part of this. Imagine the detector as a human being instead (explosives detectors are just as fallible) making an accusation against someone. An accusation is not a conviction. Just because someone cries murder, or rape, or terrorist, even if it's a piece of equipment doing that, we shouldn't jump to conclusions and rip away every right and protection that people have in this country. Except it seems that we are doing just that and to some degree a lot of people are OK with it.
Don't be too quick to dismiss this harassment as part of the gamergate-style nonsense that has been going on as of late. This type of thing is typical of the frat boy intelligence community. It's considered the height of their tradecraft to anonymously harass opponents with facile mockery and threats. Recall the FBI's campaign against Dr. Martin Luther King: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr...
A great demo of binaural sound - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKdDA_jhgX8
Even the HSTS header can be used for tracking:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=930638
Woot! I can't wait until djb + Tanja Lange's talk :D
That was also my feeling, and i have it pretty much every time i hear about "deep learning" : it's all PR and people trying to get as much funding as they can while the trend is hot. I have a suscipicion that it will all collapse like a bubble once again.

The only thing that really impressed me so far was that ibm computer playing jeopardy, but the fact that no other application became public after all this years make me wonder if once again all people built was a manually tuned specialized system.

Note : i'm not in the field so my feelings are just based on the communication around the subject and decades of claims about building an intelligent algorithm with no success.
That's not really the same form factor. It's at least 20% heavier and much more thick and larger. The same form factor would be something like a Dell XPS 13 or surface pro. But those are not offered with Ryzen CPUs.
As far as I can tell, none of these videos have actually been taken down. It’s just speculation at this point.
Anybody that doesn’t know the code their device is running is a fool to trust it by default. Even knowing the code well, devices are compromised all the time. Yours seems like the lone sane opinion here.
Not true. This is a common myth that comes from some old Linus posts in the 32-bit Pentium 4 days and still won't die. I've done comparisons to test this. Compare sizes of modern x86-64 Linux binaries to their counterparts on AArch64. You'll find that they're extremely close.

The biggest problem is all the REX prefixes. The inefficient encoding of registers in x86-64 squandered all the advantages that x86 had.
Economists aren’t doing climate science, they’re relying on IPCC models of what would happen.

What you’re saying is “don’t trust economics experts to translate climate scientists’ projections into economic impact.” That’s silly.
You're saying the US is the middle ground between Texas and Puerto Rico - both parts of the US? Maybe you need to be more specific about where you are referring to.
$28B / 17 years / (29M people * 60%) = $94.66 average per year per person

My electric bill usually hovers around $100 per month. If it increased by $8 per month over the course of two decades, I wouldn't bat an eye. It looks like inflation alone could account for the difference (38.48% since 2004). That said, the recent incident suggests that quality-of-service has probably decreased.

EDIT: I forgot about households. Looks like there is an average of 2.85 people per household in Texas. $94.66/yr * 2.85 = $269.78/yr or $22.48/mo.

EDIT 2: I originally cited 9% inflation since 2016. I have no idea why I did that. I've corrected it to show 38.48% inflation since 2004.

EDIT 3: The $28B only applies to 60% of residents. I've corrected the equations again to account for that.
It will starve the container of CPU, but might not 'sleep' it for a while. So wake time can actually be really quick if you have had traffic recently.
Most military aircraft don't fly any faster than civilian airliners. In fact many of them are slower.

Fighters can reach supersonic speeds in some circumstances but seldom do so outside of controlled exercise areas.

You can't reliability differentiate between civilian and military aircraft just by watching contrails from the ground.
It wouldn't necessarily need to be g-forces, given how many Americans have severe underlying health issues, you might just go over a rough bump and have a stroke or something.

Roller coasters tend to hit a good amount of gs, but if you pass out you'll be fine since you're not driving. One wonders if a Tesla detects its pilot unconscious can it bring itself to a full emergency stop. Automatically contact emts and then automatically distribute snacks to the arriving EMTs
Dammit Jim, we could have sold that to a SPAC after we got the boards designed on UpWork.
Power generation != power distribution.

You can (and should honestly, if you're liberal) have privately owned power generation, but the infrastructure and network? Its a bad idea. Private road, private rail, private lines... The same way, you can have water extraction and cleaning privately owned (and some say you should), but its dangerous to let private sector run the water infrastructure.

And also, if any power generation company is caught lobbying against public infrastructure funding or nuclear power plant funding, kill them. force sell or something. You can't have private owners with skin in the game lobbying public spending.
> I am perplexed at the complete and utter avoidance from western countries (including US, Britain and Israel) of these.

Dexamethasone is a standard treatment in the UK in line with WHO guidance[1]. Its use was first recommended in June 2020, before the final analysis of the RECOVERY study results was even published[2]. I was treated with it in October 2016.

Hydroxychloroquine was trialed, and found not to be effective in hospitalised patients[3].

[1] https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/C0870_...

[2] https://www.gpni.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DEXAMETHAS...

[3] "On 5 June 2020, the trial determined that there was no clinical benefit from use of hydroxychloroquine in people hospitalized with COVID-19." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RECOVERY_Trial#Hydroxychloroqu...
I don't think poverty in britain or india mean the same thing.
Like homeopathy. That one's gotta be real, right?
ironing? Yes, that was it, I was ironing. For, like, the first time in 15 years.
I honestly do not understand why people bring up completely tangental issues while discussing politics.

(Note: They usually don't mean to detract from the topic being discussed, but that is without fail what happens when they derail the conversation.)
You're right, Sony never could work the synergy between its deep vertical component companies much. It doesn't have to be that way, though. Problem with the current video entertainment situation, I think, is the difficulty to bring about that first separation from the pact, much like Apple did with the phone companies. But remember that, Verizon laughed at the level control that Apple wanted with iPhone idea, so Apple went to AT&T. OTOH, Time&Warner and Comcast are pretty much monopolies in their areas, so there's no big competitor that a company like Google can turn to to force their hand. On top of that content providers have seen what happened in the music industry so are very weary of giving control (though the music industry is not in such bad shape as people make it appear, e.g. see this article http://www.economist.com/node/17199460?story_id=17199460&...).

So the situation is a chicken and egg problem, someone has to break through. Apple TV and Google TV has shown that this will not happen as a halfhearted effort. Either Apple or Google should bet and bet big on TV and should not shy from spending a few billion, they've got the money.
You mean like Google Quality Raters?
Some of the TSA's "customers" in this case aren't really the traveling public. They are the insiders, like former DHS chairman Michael Chertoff, who are making money from lucrative government contracts for the scanners. The public fallout doesn't matter, as long as the scanners keep moving.

http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/virginian-pilot-ledg...
I try not to, but I think subconsciously that slight inconvenience caused by weird cards has to register somewhere. I'm sure people perceive them differently, but to me an odd card is more centered on the giver than the receiver, even though the receiver is really the person it should be designed for.

In any case, if I want to follow up with someone I don't think a weird card would make me NOT follow up with them - it's more of a subtle thing.
I'd imagine it wouldn't improve the quality, but could improve your field of view within which you have working stereoscopic vision (e.g. past ~45 degrees looking left/right from your head's facing)

Seeing discussion of the paper earlier, I investigated the limits of my own vision, and noticed that beyond just my nose I can actually (barely) see the bridge of my brow, my cheeks, and even my mustache (significantly more so if I pucker my lips).

I'm wondering if virtual glasses, helmet mounted display elements, or other pieces would also help.
Stack Exchange is to Jobs postings as Facebook is to Advertising.

Both have massive potential audience, but both don't deliver engagement and effectively eat your budget.

Facebook isn't largely effective (in part) because the audience isn't there to be advertised to, their busy socializing with friends/family. Stack Exchange isn't effective as a Job Bulletin because the audience isn't there to find a job (they probably already have one), they're there to get assistance for a problem.
I've seen things similar to this before, but they tended to be unreliable. Has anyone actually used this yet? Does it work reliably?

Also, how does the authentication work exactly? What's to stop someone from blasting out the same signal that your phone emits, preventing it from sleeping as you walk away?
I would go even further that moving away from cloud services is nothing more than an individual mitigation that comes at a huge inconvenience and will have no meaningful effect on the real problem.

The fact that strong crypto is possible becomes this red herring that computer geeks think can save us from abusive government. But this ignores the fact that true security from government actors like the NSA is impossible without a level of inconvenience that no one will be willing to go through. Cloud services are just too convenient, and there is no way to establish meaningful assurances of privacy with any cloud provider in the current legal climate. We have to fight the ugly political fight to wrestle the power back and put the government in its place. This is unappealing to technologists because it is orders of magnitude harder to accomplish than implementing strong crypto for someone who knows what they're doing, but in turn it is orders of magnitude easier than training up the mass populace on those techniques.
Another way to read this is that every generation gets braver, and more willing to stand up for their privacy. (The proportion of people in the 'protection over privacy' camp consistently goes down with age).

I hope its a generational thing, and that these young folks won't change over to the "protection over privacy" camp as they age.
That's a very good point. In fact the main difference in semantics is that Cx code is structured. Sure in VHDL/Verilog you have functions and if statements and loops. But they can only be used to describe combinational logic. There is a chasm between synchronous logic (everything in a big switch/case) and combinational statements.

Cx supports functions, if and loops for both combinational and synchronous logic. You can have a function that spans over two cycles. You can give parameters to this kind of function just like in software, except that in the end this is all inlined and the state machine is flattened.

The language encourages a higher level of abstraction where you think in terms of blocking reads and data availability rather than "is my signal true". The best is that this can be extended just by changing the port signature, for example to provide rendez-vous style communications (we call it "sync ack" but they're not implemented yet), whereas in HDL you'd have to write a lot of boilerplate code.

Another property is that there is no synthesizable subset in Cx. As far as I know, this is very rare in languages for hardware design, but the language is entirely synthesizable. You never have to think about synthesis versus simulation. Exactly like in software, nobody ever wonders if they can write code that won't run on the processor :-)

And for the example you mention, this is another interesting feature of the language. Because we support sequential loop constructs etc. you can actually write code that works and synthesizes pretty easily, albeit it is slow. And then you can produce a derived version that is optimized :-)