jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I saw both words used in the BLM riots and both words used today. "The Media" is not a monolith. Different organizations spin the story different ways.
Its just easier to believe what you want to believe. Than what really is.
Hard to get a diagnosis when the hospital is overrun with people dying in line, friend.

To the other points: yes, things will be hard. We can quantify how hard each approach will be.

In the case of a lockdown, there will be orders of magnitude fewer deaths.

A tally is being kept—all the numbers were run before a lockdown was even considered. The only reason this debate continues is because so many ignore the hard work medical administrations, public health departments, virologists, economists, and policy makers have already done.
While I agree with this 90% of the way, their backup, restore, and phone changing process is very much "tech for tech people".

I've had the joy of trying to explain to my elderly dad why his text message history is lost because he chose Signal as the default sms system, didn't make a backup, didn't sync that backup to the cloud or manually copy it to the new phone, and didn't write down the very long decryption code.
Time-outs are a band-aid that works in practice but formally speaking are not an improvement at all since for every packet sent due to the time-out you'd need another time-out.
Unless, of course, you are running a hard real-time OS, in which case kernel timers are guaranteed to fire at the exact rate specified.
Supply and Demand.

The issue that's being ignored by this article is that there is an explosion of interest in technological entrepreneurship, and because of Angel List and many other factors, a much more efficient market for early startup equity than has ever existed.

The fact YC has thousands of applicants for only 40 slots, and the fact that Angel List has helped get 280 companies funded in the past year means that the YC model isn't scaling to meet the demand both on the investor side and on the founder side.

There are holes in the market that are being filled with competing incubators, and as with any market, I believe that competition and innovation is a good thing.

<rant>But, "Copycats and Incubator Raiders"??? Really? Since Murdoch took oer the WSJ, there has been a marked decrease in quality of writing.</rant>
If you take a look at our benchmarks, you'll see that with RAID you can get 100 MB/s of seq reads (or ~5MB/sec of random reads). Even on a really bad day, speeds will only fall to around a third of that.

While that's not the fastest thing in the world (e.g., a good SSD will outperform a 16 drive EBS Raid for most workloads), I don't think it's fair to characterize it as 'slow as molasses'.
Maybe. At least some though are working on a bill to mandate a permanent base on the moon. That's a decent piece of high ground. And if it has a core of iron as has recently been suggested, could lead to some interesting research. Might even shed light on some phenomena down here on the blue ball.
Did you mean "product designer" not "UX kind of designer"?
XFBML is different from FBML
Is every US Citizen's salary data released publically too (or in a format that it can be mined)?

If No, then why the distinction (did not want to use discrimination).
You are of course technically correct. However, most providers here have not deployed 5G yet, and are facing waves of sabotage with their trial deployments as the people are angry due to the number of controversies surrounding 5G. The usual criticisms of surveillance capitalism and IoT apply, but also:

> The report, published Saturday, found that 5G networks could be responsible for an extra 3 to 7 billion extra tonnes of CO2 released into atmosphere.

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20201220-deploying-5g-wil...

> moveed to 5G system architecture already while keeping their 4G air-interface

Yes, so that means operator have to deploy their new 5G towers. And in addition, they still have to maintain existing infrastructure, or redeploy 2G/4G setup on their new towers. In my opinion, that's a strong maintenance burden, and a strong waste of resources that we could do without.

But what's really shocking is that most of the population still has bad connectivity, and those who have the 4G are already pretty happy with it. It's an understatement to say it's an insult to pour billions of $$$$ into 5G when some folks still don't have any (or so little) xDSL or even 2G.
I think the argument is that the left-right model leaves out important dimensions in which people might agree, perhaps worsening political tribalism.

All models are wrong, but some models are useful.
They look at metrics such as whether an user immediately returns to the search results after going to a page, how long they stay at a page (relatively to other results, etc). That's the primary metric, according to a search engineer who told me during an interview.
Oh come on. That is bit dramatic don't you think? Fast food, like coffee, sex, drugs, and even water are dangerous when taken to excess.

How about this mantra: Everything in moderation, including moderation. :-)
What if you count the exit costs of vendor lock-in as costs associated with that vendor? Suddenly Office is a lot more expensive.

"TCO should include exit costs and cost of vendor lock-in"
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/tco-should-include-exit-cos...
So, the downfall of Apple?
> I was really surprised to see that Bloomberg opposed it.

That's because Bloomberg thinks of (and has often talked about, on record) 'his' police force in explicitly militaristic terms.

Accountability of any sort is seen as an impediment.
Open source makes a lot of sense, especially under current circumstances when you can't trust anyone anymore (I mean the USA gov etc).

Even if the savings are exactly zero it's still a good move. I imagine this created new jobs for people who will install, train and debug LibreOFfice.

The problems they will hit will hopefully have solutions upstream so that everyone in the world can benefit them.

This is good for Valencia and good for Libreoffice and ultimately good for us, the rest of the world.
SpaceX would drive the product and Google will be a great partner and investor. It is a good match. If Google drive the product, that would raise a lot of concerns across many governments - like EU - as if they didn't have enough problems already.
Again, that's a personal preference, not a statement of fact. There is a cost associated with different type systems, and that cost can vary with the problem you are trying to solve. It's not that I argue against the benefits of having such a system in place, but you should be aware of the fact that this too might not represent the end-all-be-all for all programmers.

One of the basic mistakes made here seems to be the notion "if programmers only _knew_ about the one true way of doing it, they'd all use the same language and tools, namely: mine".
It's good this isn't stackoverflow because this question would be closed in a heartbeat. I'm going to go completely against the grain here since you're asking about jobs and advise that you learn Java. You already know javascript, learning a second language will get you into the I'm a programmer and out of the I'm an 'X' programmer mindset.

All languages are a means to an end, through various routes and with various properties. Some are better suited to one set of problems than another.

Java may not be the most elegant language (to put it mildly) but it's a solid one and it gives you some interesting long term options such as to use your knowledge of the Java runtime and libraries by adding Clojure.
But what really qualifies as fundamentals?

Database? Network protocol? 3D graphics? I tend to put these in the same league as web programming, they are job skills. Yet there are plenty of university course on these subjects. So why not have web programming?
> Programming is a tool for getting things done

...and some of those things, python isnt any good at.

To be fair, it's very very good at others, but you can't argue with the points he's making. They're spot on.

It turns out, people learning programming in school aren't interested in processing scientific data. They're interested in games. and showing their friends what they've made on their phones.

Python is flat out bad at those things. It was never the intended purpose of python, and it's not a priority for the core team.

Why not teach kids with a tool that excites them, instead of one that frustrates them?
Well I was not sure whether if I can get into a company without any degree in computer field, there are times I wonder if it would have been better me doing CS than medicine from the beginning
And created the very context for that poverty to exist in the first place as an extension of post ag society.
> I never actually understood this.

If you grow up middle class or better then it’s pretty much impossible to make good decisions and end up poor. The incorrect “moral failure” mindset comes from projecting this belief onto people who grew up in poverty and never had a chance.
Its soft and conducts at 70% of copper so it's great for contacts for electronic equipment

barely oxidizes

supply increases at a slow and sheady rate of about 2% a year

used for other electronics like circuit boards (not sure why to be honest, so might just be parroting this last point)

I'm curious too tbh, but I think that list is already pretty good (along with the fungibility and inner golumn arguments earlier in the thread)

ape do like shiny
Daigou shoppers did buy up all over-the-counter masks in January and February, for some strange reason :-/. Amazon N95 and hazmat stocks ran low in those months too:

https://www.junglescout.com/blog/coronavirus/

Purell and water bottles ran short and gougers gouged.

By March when Fauci spoke against mask mandates, civilian-mandated mask supply chains had recovered. We bought a bunch then without trouble.

But early shortages and gouging for various products are all beside the point. Mandates on civilians that passed in March and April by county and state health orders were for people to wear polypropylene and cloth masks, not N95s or hazmat suits.

Cloth and polyprop are not used by HCWs, and Fauci was not saying "yes" to people wearing those mandated kinds of masks, while saying "no" to people buying N95s. He was saying no to masks, period, full stop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06a4RriBrhg&feature=emb_logo

He gave the same long-standard talking points against mass masking that the WHO and CDC, as well as the US Surgeon General, had made.
Sort of: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/vm/cl...
I also agree with this on principle, but like you, I can no longer trust most major media channels. I've seen too much blatant lying and agenda-pushing from them the past few years.
>"Easton, manufacturer of aluminum bike frame tubes, began using the technology to make lighter, stronger tube sets than anyone else on the market.

Scandium works by convincing aluminum molecules to restructure themselves. When aluminum is smelted it hardens into microscopic grains that fit together to make a solid architecture.

Scandium makes those grains smaller, among other things, which allows them to fit closer together for a denser, stronger overall structure.

Scandium also interrupts melted aluminum crystalizing at a molecular level when the metal cools.

This means that the properties of the alloy are less likely to be affected by heat-treatment and welding, so a scandium-infused aluminum alloy is less likely to crack while cooling.

This is especially valuable in high-strength aluminum, like 7005 alloy. Traditionally, 7005 alloys make light, strong, forged or CNC machined bicycle components, but can't be welded because they weaken when they melt. By adding scandium to the tube or to the filler between welded tubes, melted 7005 aluminum becomes usable in welded components, like frames.

So, at a chemical level, aluminum alloys infused with scandium (less than 0.5% by volume) are stronger and more weldable than scandium-free alloys."

PDS: There probably is a whole series of things, as of yet unknown, that can be added to metals and other elements, while they are cooling (or perhaps heating), to imbue them with various interesting properties...

Opinion: Modern-day metallurgy and metallurgical sciences, though its knowledge is formidable in this area -- has probably just "scratched the surface" of all that is possible...

In other words, experimentation, much more future experimentation -- is required in this area...
I think it’s disingenuous to assume everyone in SF is commanding higher rates because they are all super talented and not coasters. There are definitely tons of undervalued engineers in poorer or lower cost areas being overlooked to do this fallacy.

Just because someone is charging $200k doesn’t mean they are worth it.

Companies previously established artificial constraints such as colocation that forced higher salaries. If colocation is no longer a requirement, it’s only natural the associated premium is going away. That is, if you want the benefit of living in, say India, then you’ll also have to incur the cost of competing against someone like Ramanujan (famous mathematician) rather than whoever just happens to be within commuting distance of Mountain View.
> that these people

Who? I’ve never met anyone who believes that.
Agree, I would actually want to revisit the experiences of the past, human memory is very tricky and it helps to have things written out to revisit how you felt about something.
I wonder what you think the net benefit to society of all those years and billions of dollars for Alcohol and Tobacco advertizing where? It's possible for a parasitic relationship to be wonderful for the parasite, but that says nothing about the host.

PS: For many products advertizing does not increase sales rather it allows a higher price per unit to be charged. Depending on the demand curve restricting supply, increasing price and spending money on advertizing can be better for a supplier than producing more product of identical quality.
> Ignore the fact that they wrote a slightly patronizing post detailing what OTA sync is

Wow. This has to be the fastest I've ever stopped reading an article halfway through.

Has this guy considered that, just maybe, the world does not revolve around him, and that other people might not know what OTA sync is? Especially considering the audience of Things.
Yes, sync is hard, but it is not that it should take that long, especially when it is THAT important. When I was in a process of choosing PIM on iPhone, when gmail introduced Calendar sync I jumped on this feature literally next day. After that I migrated to Informant which does both google calendar sync _and_ tasklist over-the-air sync with RememberTheMilk. It has its occasional glitches but mostly works, and now no amount of other features will make me switch to PIM without OTA.
I'm not seeing how this will work out for AA. I understand that it's monetarily more efficient for them not to have a middleman but I thought a good % of sales were directly from customers (not always through agents). Do they actually expect customers to go back to the days when you'd try to compare prices across 5 airline sites?
Ironic considering the fact that they do a productivity tool.
I think he accepted the surgery but regrets it for some reason. That’s how I read it at least.
How are you meant to pull package from docker hub with nspawn?
Don't assume we all do it. Identity politics is used to get people to ignore class politics. It is driven primarily by the left-leaning political factions.

> exactly how the Nazis and fascists thought here in Europe

Yes, we know. That's why we wound up with an orange man who didn't really care about race.

> You are going right back into the same divisive state of affairs.

Division allows the elites to control the masses more efficiently. It's like "divided we fall" might be true or something.

Prepare to see the division tear the United States in half. That's the goal, anyway.
I didn't know about webjack - looks very interesting, thanks.

About why use such a low bitrate - I believe ggwave is a bit more pleasant to the human ear, although this can be subjective I guess. I also think the transmission is quite reliable - at least this is true for the few devices that I am using. But I guess the main reason is when I started coding this, I had basically 0 knowledge about existing audio modulation schemes and today this hasn't changed much :-) I find it more fun to experiment this way, even though I am probably rediscovering basic knowledge or missing some well-known approaches or techniques in this field.
I’m not sure that it sounded better - it was more that the quality was “good enough” for the amount of precious disk space that was used.

Back before mp3s became ubiquitous, you could rip a CD to .wav files and it would basically sound identical to what was on the CD. But then you’d also be using some 600MB versus the same CD sounding not quite as good but only using like 40MB and at that time that was a lot of disk space to use.
> This page is strictly a tribute to Calvin & Hobbes, the best comic ever, and two of the best characters who have taught me so much over many years. It is meant for research purposes only.

Quite possibly not optimised for heavy traffic.
Fascinating because I would have thought the whole idea is AWS is dog-fooded by retail. Yet in truth AWS is itself too expensive and / or complex for Amazon itself! (Or at least the original part of it.)
There's no way to do this _discreetly_ if the key is properly implemented.

When you register your key on a service, the service sends an application identifier down. Your key then creates a fresh key pair and sends a handle (name for that keypair) and the public key back to the service. Later when you authenticate, the service sends down the handle and challenge. Your key uses the handle to find the right private key and sign the challenge, which is checked by the service using the public key to confirm that you do indeed possess the private key.

Since fresh keypairs (and handles) are generated each time you register a key, the service can't use the registration process to identify whether you're re-using a physical key (it should look no different from using a new physical key).

Alternatively, a service can check if your physical key contains other handles by initiating requests with them, but this will almost always be very obvious. E.g. If they suspect you are Bob, they could request a challenge with _Bob's_ handle.

But they can't just spray handles, since if they do this when you're not expecting to authenticate anything, it will be quite obvious: your key, and any intermediate applications like the browser or OS, will behave like they are authenticating. With a well implemented key, you will be safe as long as you don't touch the key on spurious authentication attempts. The service won't be able to tell whether the key doesn't have the handle (and is ignoring the challenge) or if the key does have it but you just didn't touch the key because you weren't expecting an authentication request.

This leaves the service with the final option of only doing the test while you're trying to log into what they suspect is an alternate account. That means they can only do one check and will have to be fairly certain about you being Bob lest you be tipped off. If they guess right, you won't be able to tell a difference but the service will know that you can authenticate with Bob's handle while trying to log in as Alice. If they guess wrong however, you might become suspicious since the authentication will fail and in a non-standard way (e.g. the key can indicate that it has received a foreign handle).

All this means is that, if the service is trying to tie identities to "serve ads", they won't have a feasible way to do this with U2F. But, if it's a threat actor with nation state level resources and lots of time then... well... nothing consumer level will really help you (though U2F still puts up a decent fight).
Side note: I was poking around your website, and that has to be my favorite way of obfuscating an email I've seen yet.
Serious question, where do you draw the line between investing and gambling? The original case for GME was built on solid fundamentals and I’d say not really gambling even though you were going up against hedge funds trying to short it into bankruptcy. Buying in at $300 is almost certainly gambling.

But where’s the line? Anything over book value? Anything over some PE ratio? If so, you basically can’t invest in anything these days.
What makes you think they'll lose in the mobile space? Isn't there something to be said for the difficulty of developing on a fragmented platform?

From yesterday: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/05/23/2313245/Fragmentatio...
I'm a little puzzled from the news - while good, it doesn't really seem to clearly state that they put the thing into orbit. Did it go up and circle the earth at least once? Did it just obtain a given altitude (because orbital altitude != orbit)....... they seem to be saying it was "hitting an orbital bulls-eye" and "close enough" and that kind of thing... so it sounds like an engineering success, but it didn't actually go into orbit.
Does anyone know how they are accomplishing the bluetooth communication to the iphone? My impression was that you needed to work with apple and get permission to buy their $4 authentication IC.
It's untested and has no pricing information or schedule that I've seen though.

http://www.spacex.com/falcon9_heavy.php
"'m not so sure that Jobs thinks his Macintosh strategy failed."

True, but not quite in the way that the author thinks. The Macintosh lived on if you wanted one, and Windows itself only existed and innovated to catch up with Mac. The Mac made its dent on the world even if you never bought one, because it forced Microsoft to make their operating system more Mac-like.

Learning to accept partial victories is part of life, and Steve's partial victories are a little more complete than some people's. (Alan Kay, anyone?)
From 2003, not last year. Here's a 2007 update: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.02/start.html
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The engine is a big block of hard metal, not what you want between you and another car in a head on crash anyway.

What the CTS does have that you do want in a head on is a nice long bonnet. This provides a nice big crumple zone in front with which to reduce the amount of g-force on the driver and passengers.
I don't have a "position". I was just replying to someone's question. My submissions tend to generate little or no interest. I have never resubmitted them. But I don't see any reason to make a big deal out of it, at least not in this particular case. Due to timing or some other reason, this submission is actually generating discussion when the first one didn't. It doesn't look to me like trolling or anything negative.

Just out of interest, your profile indicates you are a 'robot' but your posts sound human generated to me. Care to clarify/elaborate/enlighten me? (I've been wondering this for a day or two but didn't see any point in starting a thread to ask. This seems like a convenient time to ask.)

Thanks.