jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well, motivation/ambition seems like a very high-level target; I'm probably not really shedding light on this subject, but just for completeness, I found that Adderall helped me do a lot of work I might not have been able to do without it.

Some work, I really just don't want to do. But there's a certain category of work I really believe I want to do, but might not have been able to make myself do without Adderall. Adderall seemed to give me the energy I needed to tackle certain projects.

Doing work, solving problems, and being useful seem to be central to my self-esteem. I went through a depression that lasted about 4 years, and I think Adderall helped me stay motivated and slog through it.
"Worse is better" doesn't preclude good design. Something like STL is fairly straightforward to implement, so it is not too hard to get it right.

C++ has a problem with bloat and 'tacked on' features, and that is clearly 'worse is better' design. Backwards compatibility is a huge indicator of this kind of thinking. Partial backwards compatibility is an even more egregious example.
Have you seen mbed? http://developer.mbed.org/platforms/
Not used it for a couple of years myself, but it seems to have expanded in scope a lot recently.

Was very quick to get started hacking (can program over usb from the free cloud-based IDE), and some of the boards are under $15.
I think you presented a false comparison.

You said anything we can teach a human within an hour: do you mean a fresh human that's only just been supplied with a brain? Because you can't teach a baby anything besides basic stimulus response on that time frame, and I'm pretty sure we can get computers to do that if we rig up the stimulus response hardware in a way comparable to a newborn.

What I think you actually meant, and what I think is a completely rigged test, is comparing a human with years of training and adaptive hardware modification to a computer with absolutely no training in its ability to learn a new skill or building out its knowledge base. That, of course, is a completely terrible comparison.

I'll take your bet, and call it by 2050, if you're willing to compare a human with 5 years of hardware and knowledge base training and adaptation to a computer with 1 year of hardware adaption (eg, FPGA circuit reprogramming) and 1 year of knowledge base training.
How would these kinds off DDOS attacks affect a service that is behind a major CDN like cloudfront or cloudflare? Would this affect those?
> "How do you fix this? In anything other than upper to upper-middle class suburbs, the parents themselves probably went to state schools"

I'm skeptical this is a problem. There are some FANTASTIC public universities (many people choose to go to out of state).

> "By the time most kids learn how the culture works, it's too late, they're already in whatever college and life track they happened to fall into."

There's absolutely nothing wrong with choosing to go to a public university. Many of us decided to attend one instead of private ones.
Trello is best
Class 2 wiring isn't "plenum" wiring. See http://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/inwallrating.htm and the NEC.
Welcome to life in a democracy. Stupid people voting for stupid laws. Why can't we just put the smart people in charge?
By your measure, Facebook is still not a large-scale engineering organization... I think I'll stop there.
A Poison Tree

William Blake, 1757 - 1827

I was angry with my friend:

I told my wrath, my wrath did end.

I was angry with my foe:

I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I watered it in fears

Night and morning with my tears,

And I sunned it with smiles

And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night,

Till it bore an apple bright,

And my foe beheld it shine,

And he knew that it was mine,--

And into my garden stole

When the night had veiled the pole;

In the morning, glad, I see

My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
What we don't know from the article is Meerkat's engagement stats. If reuse and retention is high, investors may feel they just need to work on an efficient new user funnel to create a healthy growth trajectory. Maybe meerkat was featured by apple and then inevitably lost downloads post-feature. The same thing will happen to periscope which is being featured now. I suspect the platform with the best network effects will reach success faster, and I'd put by money on periscope there because Twitter. But it's premature to say meerkat is dying at this point in time.
Another one is Boinc http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Matlab has made great strides. They even have proper data structures now. String manipulation also got somewhat better, if I remember correctly. The problem is, that (like with C++) the standard string isn't the `right' string with all the advanced bits.

I do not know about I/O libraries. All my Matlab knowledge basically comes from helping out friends with Matlab problems, and reading the manual together with them.
Agree. I like the one they made for this article: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2010/10/tri-screen-cpu-...
It's because everything in an airliner is heavily regulated by the FAA. Everything has to be rigorously tested and certified.

This just increases the development cycle length. Compare to car nav systems, which also lag behind. Then add the length of the certification process, (even more extreme) conservatism in the industry, installation time (airliner must be taken out of service for a week or two, which is a lot of forgone revenue), etc.

Also, there are power consumption and weight considerations. It may not seem like much for one seat, but multiply by 300 seats in an airliner and it starts be significant.

Add that all up, and it's no longer surprising that the systems are outdated.
That was the first thing I did. I do not think they have my card details. The bank thought that too. They just used my email address.
Where's the maths?
Mainstream media hyperbole in full effect.
A Bloom filter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter) might work well in this case.
It probably isn't credit card fraud if they didn't actually use your credit card. The most likely issue is

a) The merchant doesn't verify email addresses and

b) the customer put their email address in incorrectly

Just with a minute of checking I found a hundred accounts in my system going to yaho.com, aol.co, gmal.com, etc etc. Imagine the possibilities for fumble-fingering or misremembering the part before the at-sign.

I also asked for the password to be resent from X even though I did not make the account.

This is the very definition of "accessing a computer system without authorization", which you do not want to be caught doing.
I've wanted one of these since the new Nano's came out (and this is certainly THE incarnation of the iPod Nano wristband I was dreaming of) but I have reservations.

It's not water resistant, much less water proof. I don't want to have to take my watch off to wash my hands or do the dishes or when it rains. Another thing is watches are tough. Most people don't realize how tough. I don't know what the glass on this thing is, but I don't it can stand up to the abuse I dish out to my Timex.

Having said that, I'm probably going to get one anyway. I'll get a Luna-Tik and wear it as my dress watch. :-)
Ah, good. Arc 3.1 was released sometime before 2009-08-04, since those are the timestamps of my unpacked .jar file. The post you linked is about six months old.

Maybe I wasn't as confused as I thought I was.
Interesting, hadn't considered that one...how long and are the 'rubbers' holding up? Also cheers on that article...I've been finding it confounding that both masks and disposable gloves are NOT being preached in all media, if one must go into confining public spaces.
Agreed. Think something like sheet2site.com, but even then it requires one to be familiar with spreadsheets.
I prefer Gofmt's strategy/philosophy, which is to mostly let the developer control breaking, and only format around it. Gofmt will format everthing strictly, but will leave decisions about "layout" to you.

This is a wiser design because the formatter can't know what the best layout is, and a formatter really ought to only format something where there's is an unequivocally, universally correct way of formatting something.

As an example, sometimes table-driven test are better written compactly, sometimes better verbosely. As a naive example:

for _, c := range []testcase{
{input: 1, expect: 10},
{input: 2, expect: 20},
{input: 3, expect: 30},
} {
assert.Equal(t, c.expect, someFuncToBeTested(c.input))
}

If the formatter starts splitting each testcase entry up over several lines, like so:

{
input: 1,
expect: 10,
},

...then you potentially lose readability. In other cases, you have more complicated structs that might fit on one line, but deserve to be formatted across multiple lines.

This is something Prettier doesn't always do correctly, and with Prettier, you don't have a choice. Opinionated is good when there is just one answer, but not when there's a range of possibly answers.
Because the CMS is decoupled from the content, and installing Netlify CMS is very fast. I was able to coach an SMB owner into using it for their website in about 1h tops (after setting everything up myself).
> I don't know about others but Von Neumann architecture is much more described by Church and Turings work than derived from it, like steam engines are described by thermodynamics. Neither invention was actually dependent on the theory.

Huh? Turing's paper on the halting problem and Universal Turing Machines was released in 1936. Von Neumann, Eckert, and Mauchly's memo was not released until Jan 1944. There is no way that Von Neumann's architecture is described by Turing's work, given the 8 year difference between them!

> I don't know about others

I'm puzzled by how you can make such a strong claim about the nature of innovation without precisely drilling down into the evidence backing your theory.
What it does do is shore up demand, which is why all those products got made in the first place. They got made because someone had an expectation that they could sell them. Nobody is going to be making anything to sell if the entire population has no money.

This is why it's essential that relief go to directly to people, and that we free those people up enough from expenses that aren't directly economically productive (things like rent, say) as we can. We want people to have money to spend, so producers will have a reason to go on making things to sell them.
That's why i push my git to both github and gitlab simultaneously. Git makes this easy to do, there is no reason to not use both.
This changes everything. Thank you!!!
I took a philosophy course in college to learn symbolic logic
Riding an ebike in 39c is uncomfortable but not unthinkable. I do it semi regularly. If your trip is >10km it's not that bad at all. You will probably have to shower when you get home but it's still better than owning a car.
Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Apple TV+, Viki, Hulu and all the other video streaming services.
I could not find the US TV show available for purchase anywhere. It wasn't a great era for TV quality, though.. I hope they do a Netflix reprise!
Ron Headrest for president!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Headrest

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/05/07/Ron-Headrests-reveng...

>HELEN THOMAS, UPI White House Reporter, UPI ARCHIVES MAY 7, 1987

>Headrest is shown saying, 'That re-reminds me! Kids! Need rock-solid information on safe sex? Call this number on your screen!' - 202-456-1414, the White House.
I wonder if they are considering RISC-V. Probably not - they don’t sound like risk-taking people. But given the timelines of chip production, I would think a couple years from now a solid RISC-V server might be very much in demand.
Yes. But whoever is in the path of your connection to the server you're talking to can man in the middle you.

It's your fault if you're trusting an unencrypted connection.
Isn't $13/mo quite expensive compared to the cheapest VPS on any cloud providers ?

The bandwidth on Azure might be better, but the first tier on OVH, DigitalOcean and Scaleway begins at 3$/mo and you still have 100mbps.
Use a LightSail instance and get 2 TB of data transfer included for $5/month.
I’m pretty frustrated by the thinking behind this entire comment, but I’ll address only one point

> People need to wake up to the reality that kids demand cars.

Public transport may take more time than driving, but the time spent with kids can be considered quality time, and the overall stress of the parents is likely to be lower.

edit: but good catch about the marketing fail that is not showing any families with kids
Burning candles also releases VOCs (and soot) into the air. My old roommate was a daily candle burner, and the walls in her bedroom ended up absolutely covered in soot after a few years.

Not only that, many (but not all) essential oils are very toxic to cats and maybe other pets too - blanketly calling them "safe" is just plain wrong. Like very, very wrong.

It's probably not a good idea to diffuse essential oils in general, they are VOCs after all, but it's an especially bad idea if you have pets.
Lots of things have wiki pages. Godzilla has Wikipedia page and exists in the minds of many. Doesn’t mean Godzilla is real.
Honestly, it’d have been much less intrusive and more cost effective to use a small drone. I have a thermal-capable quadcopter that can deliver that kind of imagery, and there are COTS fixed-wing UAS that can do it for 2+ hours at a time.
If the code is the contract, each of those actors is individually liable as a tortfeasor.
This looks cool. I had never come across rich[0] before.

[0] https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich
Do any big projects actually use it?
Yeah - probably where I bookmarked it form...
But the cases where the leaders were murdered are not the ones which are cited as failures.
To me it was "too complex" when I looked at it. That it isn't for others is great for them, but it doesn't make it any more suitable for me.

That I also don't have to use a language I consider absolutely awful is another major bonus.
The best place to do something like that is in a cave, ideally in the side of a mountain, so that erosion doesn't have a chance. That's where iirc most cave paintings and artefacts are found nowadays. That, or buried in ruins covered by time.
> It is a good assumption that they chose bronze because ...

Not everything made during the Bronze Age was made out of bronze.

Case in point, as described in the article, this artefact was made of rock.
Bazel's selling point is that it's designed to be integrated into various pipelines, handling complexity (multiple languages, platforms, targets, etc) AND being fast (cache what you can, so incremental builds are first class things).

Of course under the hood it's just a very complicated 'make', like every build tool is.

This likely just means unnecessary complexity for a simple Java project where the development just happens in IDEA (or Eclipse or even NetBeans) and the IDE builds and checks everything, and ... at release time someone just builds a package and it's done.

But in case of a project with a lot of services, dependencies, there's arguably some advantage to setting up Bazel to help with development. (Though the build/bzl files all look ugly and unintuitive, a bit like CMake :[ )
Why would there be more investments in the “gifted” program? In its simplest form, it’s the exact same classroom, exact same teacher, just different stuff being taught - less repetition, less simple exercises, progressing faster through concepts, learning harder stuff.

I think my life would be very different if I was challenged more in school.
Most painful thing in Big Sur for me is all the paid major updates to utilities because it broke compatibility with a bunch of stuff.

Even bigger headache for the developers of said utilities, but they’re at least getting paid for it.
Require customers' Steam usernames and validate that they are true gamers. Oh, you just play pixel art indies? Back of the line.
This Reddit post is not proof as no one has been able to replicate this. This internet lore until there is repeatable proof.
Police unions should pay part of settlements. Say half. (Employer, the city, should be accountable too)

The union and police themselves will fix misconduct when it costs them money. Currently they have little incentive to not use maximal force. And lots of incentive to be maximal, this may be the 1 in 100 people with intent and means to kill a cop and if I'm soft or lax I may be that cop.
> Death is not a disease. It is part of life.

Death as we know it is only a part of life because we have no other choice.

I guarantee you that if tomorrow people could press a button and stave off death and aging for decades at a time, we would suddenly end the narrative that “death is part of life.”

If tomorrow doctors could rejuvenate someone on their deathbed to relative youth with the press of a button, it would be done in the vast majority of cases.

We are forced to accept death as “part of life” because of our current technological reality, just as we were forced to accept many diseases and a shorter lifespan in the past.

But I think it’s clear as day, that if people had control over their mortality and youth, we would not look at death as an inevitability, a “part of life”, but rather a choice, perhaps even a failure on our part.
That must mean cancer is sexist. No wonder people hate it so much.
> no new wars

but multiple foreign military "actions"

> and leaving each state making their own decisions for covid-19

Well, you know other than seizing PPE, and then having your son-in-law, a part of your administration, state -on the record-, that you would openly withhold PPE from states that "weren't friendly to the President".

There's many, many more. But you're presenting a rather simplistic (and inaccurate) narrative here.
It's clearly a direct transcription, rather than a translation, of サラリーマン. I doubt any mockery is intended.
Interesting, because the law demands that Amtrak get priority, to the extent that the railroads have sued Amtrak trying to reduce the strictness of the law, as they've been abusing it.

http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/blogs/frank-n-wilner/amt...
Try disabling hardware devices until it goes away.
The thing I dislike about YAML is how unwieldy it gets and how quickly that happens. "Simple" YAML files tend to be half a dozen pages long.

HCL is more information-dense.
Matrix is a protocol, so there can be multiple Matrix home server implementations.

There's already three: Synapse (python, main implementation with full support), Dendrite (golang, beta level feature support), and Construct (C++, alpha/beta feature support, fully third party).
same. I spent ~500$ on boox air. To me its my most used device after my laptop. I use it everyday for hours to save my eyes, totally worth $500. I also have an ipad which i never use.
HN doesn't chat.

We prefer to have constructive discussions. Most of the comments here are not constructive nor charitable.
Everyone knows the Pulseaudio backdoor to gain root access can be activated by playing "Party in the CIA" by Werid Al, yelling George Washington's name 6 times and then typing in a valid .gov email.
Why, seriously? Those of us who care what is happening have the news and political discussion sites open in other tabs. No one who cares is ignoring current events. I think it’s just as important to flag it as anything else that doesn’t meet the rules.
People like to make a contrarian point on here that technology doesn't solve cultural or political problems but as you can see, it often does.
Good to see Pakistan related post on HN
That's not true, and you'll notice also that the OP is now not flagged.
As much as I'd like to blame the news (they are partially responsible, especially for keeping contention going), I think we as a people are also to blame. How often do we point to people with different points of view from us and say 'How Dare You!'. We could all cool it a bit, or at least be a little more generous, and I think people wouldn't be quite as alarmed, and this situation might be less likely. We've stoked the fires of emnity and now we're reaping the rewards.

Just my two cents. Hope your having a good day.
Yes, I always start with a tourist visa to see how I adapt to the country, if after one month Im doing good and I am loving it, then I start thre process.
Why do you hate TexMate? And why do they all stink? Please explain, else it's just flame.
When you say hair styling, is it real artistic work or press a button to get effect work?

Could someone conceivably hire third world people / turkers en masse to do this at a profit?
Often merely moving from the dev environment to the release environment changes the URIs. Sure, you could try to minimize the part that changes between environments and teach all your clients to form correct URIs between environments, but it's still coupling. And dev/prod is hardly the only thing people find themselves adjusting in URIs; it was just an example.
Oh, I know about the RSS feed, I just prefer it this way. :-)
Awesome, now I can get the new Air without fearing it wont run Scala.
> There are as many games having complex geopolitical models underneath as the market can support.

Is this an appeal to the efficient market hypothesis, or do you have some actual evidence to support this statement?
Please don't do this here. Nothing good (by HN's definition) can come of it.
Worth stating that this update does not currently work with the virtualbox gem, and thus is incompatible with vagrant.
Any hints as to the problem? Affecting Global Index or something else?
Ok, I was simply addressing this nonsensical comment:

"I personally would greatly fear a decentralized system like Skype, for many reasons. Peer-to-peer anything comes with its own truckload of problems, and would do more harm here than good (as with the DNS)."

Thank you for mentioning Jingle. I was not aware of its existence.
An app can grab the unique UUID for each device. I believe their restriction is 7 unique devices.
No religious discussions on HN please. This is off topic.
You're not being downvoted because you disagree with Mormonism or their so-called prophet, I'm sure many of us here do as well, but because you're being abrasive and incredibly off-topic. Save your trolling for someplace else, or start a "Tell HN: Mormonism sucks" thread and see how far that gets you.
"Zero Hedge is a far-right libertarian financial blog, presenting staff-written articles and aggregating news and opinions from external sources. Zero Hedge, per its motto, is bearish in its investment outlook and analysis, often deriving from its adherence to the Austrian School of economics and credit cycles" - wikipedia
Ideally they aren't
D-Lang and Julia.

Dlang if you want a compiled, next-generation C (low level language) that writes like Javascript but powerful like C, similar to Vlang but imo far better designed and has been around for 20 years. Incredibly easy to get started, and to learn! The docs are great, and the tutorial really outlines and explains how everything works.

Julia if you want a nice scripting language that crunches numbers quickly and efficiently and just ease of development.