jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
i hear you and I understand this sounds like privacy or security maximalism. but bear with me for a second ...

at some point in the last 100 or 200 years technology has become so complex that society has agreed to compartmentalize problem domains into subject matter expertise and we install specialists to work on these problems.

you're spot-on saying that the majority can't tell and probably doesn't care. but the majority also isn't as deep in this as most people here. if it's not our job as engineers or as an industry to raise raise alarms when it's justified what chances do we have - or what chances do those have who aren't skilled to ask or answer these questions?

Things have become so complex that our reaction is now to no longer question things and instead point to team-XYZ who claim that they are using it successfully (but have they really investigated what they're using or are they just so desperate to turn a blind eye to what's happening?)

I'm not willing to die on that hill but am prepared to fight this for long enough until people wake up to the problem. The point is to stall the nomalization of this behavior for long enough - until a sizable portion of specialists/subject matter experts is aware and can no longer be ignored. The #DeleteFacebook movement and people inside Google and Microsoft fighting ICE contracts are an example that pressure maybe doesn't solve the problem but it still is a very effective "spanner in the works" of Surveillance Capitalism.
Site breaks on Coeur d'Alene, ID. It reverts back to San Francisco.
random interruptions aren't the problem, it's having to drop de-coupling work in a RTOS that I'm 3 days into when I get a support request that requires me to do the same in a second codebase, and then a phone call about a project I just deployed.

I thought I was just an idiot, now I realize I was at a bad company; but [my inspiration is gone] it's too late for that now
The y-axis of the first graph should start at 0. Being more than twice as fast is quite a lot. There is no need for cheap tricks.

If you aren't visualizing tiny deltas, don't truncate the y-axis. It's misleading.
Wow. Just, wow.

The first words out of my mouth actually were "that's beautiful".

Nothing else more constructive to say, just wanted to leave kudos here for the OP.
We don't have that much mystery about Stone Henge. An old physics teacher of mine was an expert on Stone Henge, back in the 80s and did a lot of original research. It's pretty clear what Stone Henge does, why it does it and how it was built. Mystery is for pop science papers.
Conventionally a moving part is one which moves relative to another, but flexing parts are not included in the definition.

The reason for excluding them is that EVERYTHING can flex. So if you included that in the definition it would make it meaningless.
Yes I was struggling with my dads pc trying to get rid on the stuff installed on his pc in the end we gave up and he brought a new pc as it was getting on a bit.
No no, terrorism is the key, as the article says. This technology might be useful for detecting the dangerous fluids terrorists carry onto planes. This problem is reaching epidemic proportion, which you can tell as soon as you get to an airport and have your liquids stolen.
Sometimes "I can't open" means, I opened it, and the formatting was changed, so now I'm telling you this...
No. You can't delete a Hacker News account: http://www.accountkiller.com/en/delete-hacker-news-account
I, too, wish them the best.

But pfSense 2.2 is clearly based on FreeBSD 10.1.
? That crisis was literally started by misguided attempts at currency controls (!) i.e. Thai pegging their currency to USD and unable to 'hold the wall against the sea' so it eventually came crashing in.

So yes, Thailand 1997 demonstrates very effectively one of the challenges with currency controls.

Currency controls come with a cost, that has to be considered.
Earliest date in one of the columns (last login?) is something around 2019-04-28.
I preferred Mesos to k8s. I think it's core architecture (a 2-level scheduler) is a better foundation. For the longest time, I felt k8s was effectively an overgrown hobby project that had no place being deployed the way it was. That had me realize something in the shower this morning:

k8s is the Rails of the cloud.

Back when Rails came out, it too was a bit of a hobby project. When coming from more established enterprise web frameworks, Rails felt like a toy. It didn't have the features, robustness, safety, and scalability of "proper" frameworks.

What did Rails do? It was easy to get started and it hid a lot of the boring and painful work of web frameworks at the time.

Through the sheer force of will of a massive community, Rails grew up and became something more the toy it started as. I was pretty arrogant in my opinions about the Rails community at first, but then I ended up working on several Rails projects over the years.

It still hides a lot under the hood, there are still arguably better technical frameworks out there and plenty of folks use it improperly, when they don't need to, and without really understanding the fundamentals, meaning that they tend to get in trouble when pushing the limits or moving outside the golden path of development.

And I feel the same way about k8s. I think it started out without anywhere near the features of similar frameworks. It didn't scale well, was simplistic in it's model, and overly complicated in it's implementation. But it was much more approachable than something like Mesos and answered the question of "why am I containerizing everything?", giving everything a purpose to those who started down the path of Docker. And now it has a huge following and industry behind it.

At this point, I've learned that what becomes popular isn't necessarily the "right" or "correct" architecture. There's a lot more to programming trends (and fads) than that. The whole industry seems to want to reinvent the wheel every decade, almost like some sort of planned obsolescence to justify our work. Nevertheless, it's rarely wise to fight against the tide and when you have the enough of the industry moving in a direction, we can make even toys into real tools.
Why was trust worth 12.5 BTC every 10 minutes at the beginning of May 11 2020, but only worth 6.25 BTC every 10 minutes by the end of the day?

How did trust get instantly cheaper without causing a disaster? Was Bitcoin paying too much for trust?
Them not allowing federation sucks, because I would absolutely use a client with this removed.
Windows is an OS meant for normal users. Every normal user needs a default built-in browser. I'm sure you will do fine with a stripped down linux distro that ships without a window manager, but that's not what Windows is designed for. I don't want my old grandfather to uninstall edge by mistake and have no way to access any website.

And where do you stop? What do you consider essential in an OS? Is the shell essential? Is a calculator essential? Is a terminal essential? How would you feel if Windows let users uninstall keyboard and mouse drivers?
"Does it require deep intuition to comprehend that man’s ideas, views, and conception, in one word, man’s consciousness, changes with every change in the conditions of his material existence, in his social relations and in his social life?

What else does the history of ideas prove, than that intellectual production changes its character in proportion as material production is changed? The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class."

"But whatever form they may have taken, one fact is common to all past ages, viz., the exploitation of one part of society by the other."

-Chapter II, Proletarians and Communists, Communist Manifesto

And please watch the first five minutes of this video, where "labor" is understood to be necessarily metabolic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2hhrUHSD6o

I cannot help you reach the intuitive judgment of "class antagonism", "ruling class", "class exploitation", etc. vis-a-vis labor being metabolic and ideas being a function of material ergo calorie affordances. It is demonstrative based on the sources I have provided.
Is this bizarre feature actually some kind of warrant canary?

I thought Signal was already financially secure.
> Without ability to import cheaper foreign parts, what would happen?

We'd lose the economies of scale that come with being a major exporter to Europe and South America, for starters. Which would lead to an R&D disadvantage. Which would further widen the gap. Strategically protecting industries is very different from blanket sanctions / capital controls.
n.b. Your statement does not mean shares were worthless, only that they were worth less than you paid. Salvage value for large investments is painful, but still worth collecting.
"commits" and many other words in the text are actually not French.
"""
We write a lot of Python here at Safari, in fact it’s our most widely-used language. Because it’s a very high-level language, it was likely it would satisfy my second requirement. But my experience with writing log parsers in Python before–even when using tricks like lazy evaluation–led me to suspect that it would not do so well in satisfying the first requirement.
"""

How can one say one parse is high performance and another isn't if no comparison is made? e.g. the author could use pylogsparser and benchmark it:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pylogsparser/0.8

Then we can get an idea of whether the project set out to meet its goal of being quicker than python.

In any event, I'd be interested to see how luajit-lpeg compares to their haskell impl. It even has a nice online test tool:

http://lpeg.trink.com/share/syslog
Consider both ways: even if you run 100% of your backend on-prems, a significant portion of your routes may go outside to reach roaming employees, remotes, maybe customers for some apps, etc. You likely have some Infrastructure-as-a-Service, dynamic subnetting and addressing for containers, VPNs, firewalls to cross, etc. AD and MS Server DCs in general are just not suited to this environment, where IPs may change on-the-fly, hosts die quickly, etc.

You typically need a more robust, web-compliant solution using e.g. tokens + MFA and web-compliant centralization of authority and certs on e.g. Consul or Red Hat Identity Management.

That being said, IMHO, it's a much saner and safer approach to bite that bullet and setup a rock-solid ID/Auth system on-prems (or at least vendor-agnostic and load-balanced over at least 2 major providers). It's really the kind of low-level infra that you can setup properly once and use for a decade, + cost of extra features you may want to add later.
1 is so close to true that it's a basically harmless statement. 2 is flat out true, anti-vaxxers have no scientific basis for their claims and they are essentially murdering people including small kids. so yeah 2 is just as ridiculous as was states.
Someone sent one as soon as I got in and there's no way to reject. Now there's a big "pending requests" box on every page and an easy to misclick Accept button.
The bigger competitor for Word and the rest of the office suite is not Libre or Open Office but Google Docs. It's cross platform and does away with local file storage, which is a security risk and a data loss risk.
Can you expand on what you feel is over-engineered?
I still don't think that would have had the same downstream macroeconomic effects as, say, exploding mortgages for millions of working and middle class Americans. Nobody leasing their commercial properties to WeWork is one missed paycheck away from homelessness or health crisis.
Almost never. I've never in my professional career had to invert a binary tree or write a sorting algorithm from scratch or reinvent a queue data structure. I've never had to build a Minesweeper clone or generate a maze. Any time I go into interviews and they ask me to do these kinds of tasks, I mentally roll my eyes and my excitement about the role drops.

I once interviewed at CrunchyRoll a couple of years ago, and every single interviewer asked me to implement some flavor of a tree traversal algorithm. The final guy mixed it up by asking me to solve the Knapsack Problem. At the end of the day, I said to the interviewer, "You must traverse trees a lot, then" and he looked at me like I was crazy and said "No, never."

Being a Netflix for anime company, I'm willing to bet they don't fill boxes/knapsacks with products, either.

Ok, so then WTF am I doing here?
The problem with aliases is that it's effectively a way to ensure vendor lock-in even for people with custom email domains. If one of the reasons to use a custom email domain is to preserve flexibility in choosing an email provider, good luck switching providers when you have hundreds of aliases set up in the hands of hundreds if not thousands of third-parties and your strategy for managing your inbox depends on these aliases continuing to function.

It may not be nearly as strong of a lock-in as a @gmail.com address, but I'd be curious to hear how many heavy alias users are paying Fastmail on a month-to-month basis.
In Spain you can find net salaries from 800€/month to 3000€/month (if we forget about big banks, and top notch developers in Madrid and Barcelona).

Yeah, we have substandard salaries and we are not that crappy. This could be the reason why many London based companies are installing here their dev shops.

I work for one of them :)
All throughout reading about the Black Team, i couldn't help but recall the Stanford Prison experiment(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment) and how the article says a lot about how people behave in groups ... Hmm....odd,given the goal of the article..
The first (and only one, currently) comment brought me back years ago! A major performance trick back then was to ensure the code and data would remain into the (very small) cache, as well as preferring structures that would be read in order.

====================

"Because walls were rendered as columns, wall textures were stored in memory rotated 90 degrees to the left. This was done to reduce the amount of computation required for texture coordinates"

The real reason is faster memory acces when reading linearly on old machine, less cpu cache clear. It's an old trick used on smooth rotozoomer effect in demo scene year ago.
Dup, see discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2468376
My take: https://gist.github.com/936362
Amazon's problem is transparency.

Their technology stack, their failover and redundancy setup — nobody knows it (exactly). Nobody can review the measurements and rate it. Nobody can easily swich to other options if AWS isn't a valid option anymore.

Besides the AWS marketing saying you just buy into another SPOF.
Without larger magnetic field the sun would blow the atmosphere into space.
I don't know that I agree - as an Australian, my salary here in Paris, once bonuses and what not are thrown in, comes out to be about AUS$100k. Nobody in Australia has ever offered me something even remotely like $200k. And of course in France, by the time all of the RTTs are thrown into the mix, I have 9 weeks of leave a year. Thanks SFR!
> I'm not in this for the money at all

So what are you in for? Are you looking to live in Austria for personal reasons or is the new job scope intriguing?

If former is the case, maybe sticking to your current employer and telecommuting is an option? Or you could keep ties to the US and do contracting work remotely?
Just so you know I'm not the one that downvoted you, but as one of Jehovah's Witnesses myself I feel compelled to comment on one incorrect aspect of your comment.

It is "Jehovah's Witnesses" not "Jehovah Witnesses" or "Jehovahs". The apostrophe followed by an "s" is meaningful because it shows that these Witnesses belong to Jehovah. This idea is taken from the passage at Isaiah 43:10 which says:

"YOU are my witnesses", is the utterance of Jehovah, "even my servant whom I have chosen, in order that YOU may know and have faith in me".

One of the core beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses is that just as you and I have names, God has a name as well and it is important to use that name in worship and prayer.

Therefore we find it mildly offensive to be called "Jehovahs" as that is like saying we are gods, and "Jehovah Witnesses" makes the name of God sound like an adjective.

We prefer to be called by our name "Jehovah's Witnesses" or as a shortened form just "Witnesses".

I assume your smile was humor about the fact that members of the Jehovah's Witnesses have on average a lower income than members of many other religions. I could comment on possible explanations for why, but this comment is already getting long.
Like Chrome, Safari also suspends tabs on startup. That is to say, tabs are only loaded when first used.

It depends on your workflow, but I don't use an extension for this. I occasionally just quit and restart it; takes less than five seconds.
I remember discussing this in operations class. If I recall correctly, the biggest issue with the single line approach is one of perception. Customers see a really, really long line and decide to skip shopping at a location. Despite the fact that this is more efficient allocation mode of checkout "supply" for the checkout "demand".

I believe Disney may have put some effort in masking the length of the single line to address this issue. Might be something that grocers could learn.

A couple factors, though, would seem to undermine grocers' incentives to change their queuing approach:

One is the need to maximize inventory on the sales floor. They would need to do a lot of reconfiguration to handle the single line. And that might potentially reduce floor space for stock.

The other issue is that grocery stores fill a core human need: food. We're going there regardless of the line configuration.

I'll bet some grocer out there could make a name for themselves by shaking up the traditional ways we shop. This queuing idea is one example. Would be a smart move in fairly commoditized industry..
Found something:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870477460457603...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_n3Dln4Y74

Speaking of sky high, these guys have to free-climb a 1700 ft. transmission antenna to get to work. I get mild panic attacks just from watching this.
Glad you like that we’re changing things up!

You do bring up a good point. Even though a sequential test is able to be called much earlier than a fixed horizon test (note this only happens when the effect size is large enough to still guarantee Type I error control), it does not change the fact that estimates of the effect size are more variable when there are fewer visitors. The way we are addressing this is to make confidence intervals more prevalent in our platform. The width of confidence intervals represents our uncertainty in the magnitude of the true effect size with the information currently available. They correctly get more narrow as the experiment goes on as there is increased information from more visitors.
Oh Orrin Hatch, you're just pissed that none of your hymns were cool enough to be on p2p.
Having seen the video, and some of the earlier articles about this issue, I don't see anywhere that the professor stated that he had written the test himself. I certainly can't find it in my nature to justify the student's actions simply because he used a set of stock test questions for the test.

The sheaf of papers he holds up as the pool of test questions was easily over 100 pages long; not something you would find in the teacher's version of a text book. It would appear to be an additional resource made available to the professors.

Also, from the professor's statements in the video and the earlier articles, it doesn't appear that this resource was ever meant to be public. This indicates that the resource was obtained through deceptive means from the publisher by the students, then disseminated.
So, I'm trying to see whether this applies to us in academia, whether the "nice-but-no-push-over" types are more successful than the sociopaths. Unfortunately, I can't think of one either in real life or from anecdotes shared with me.

I think it's different when the system isn't run on money, but pride.

EDIT: Actually, I am able to think of one. It is of worth to note that he is pretty clever and a natural born talent and was a child prodigy.
We all saw this coming, and it’s most unfortunate that the network effects simply make us all share our data with them.

But doesn’t this violate GDPR? Correct me if I’m wrong but I thought asking the user to share data or leave service was illegal under it.

Also the same under iOS 14, again I have almost zero knowledge regarding the app store policies but I thought it had the same condition that an app should be functional without the user accepting data sharing policies.
It’s poorly worded in the comment you are replying to but “make DC residents citizens of Maryland and Virginia instead of adding a state” is a cogent argument with lots of merit.

Of course those 2 senate seats that would certainly be Democratic make this a political non-starter.
>Twitter's audience is narrow: Most of the people I know (across countries, religions, genders, professions) do not have a Twitter account.

most of the people in media are on twitter 247, talking heads take from twitter discourse and export that to other media
I do. It's a public space. But while Google gives me the option to remove it, I will.
Imagine interviewing for a job position as baseband engineer in 2006. Apple had no iPhone in the market, why would they have needed a baseband engineer? Even a simple interview can sometimes reveal a lot about their product plans, hence the need for NDAs just for that early process.
Lol I cant stop laughting xD Specially from the Apple website screenshot

Beautiful extension
Does anyone know what TastyLabs is?
C++ has portability issue (where portability does not mean supporting g++ and MSVC), poor interoperability, and is much harder to maintain in a distributed team of people with varying ability in the language (e.g. open source).

When those are not issues, C++ is appropriate. Otherwise, it is a pain.
You can interview for all kinds of positions involving classified weapons and intelligence without signing an NDA, but Apple requires you to sign one? What could possibly be so special about their interview process?

I guess they're worried about people gaming the system, but what stops someone from breaking the NDA to one individual going in for the interview and not online? Wouldn't that give the one individual a huge advantage?

(Though I got fingerprinted and background checked before I could even sit down for those interviews)
The problem is that they're not unifying their services well.

In UX discussions this always comes up as one that sucks.

Basically the Google UX, to me, is "Here's a bunch of stuff that we have. Good luck!"

They need to seriously put the unifying UX of their entire brand from end-to-end as their top priority, so that you go to Google and can actually use what they offer in a cohesive way, instead of with piecemeal walled-off divisions of inconsistency.

It's a huge problem to be sure, and there's no easy solution. This blog post is just a description of one annoying symptom.

Meanwhile, what Google thinks of as good UX these days is removing features from their already minimal individual products. See: New Maps; Gmail New Compose. Their priorities are upside-down and I have no confidence they can turn their ship around...
Signal explicitly disallows third party clients https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
It was bootstrapped. For compilers, it is sort of "a thing" to finally bootstrap your new language compiler in your new language.
This assumes that there’s enough volunteer capacity to maintain it and that federation remains open despite business incentives to close it or the maintenance costs (i.e. spam).

That could be true but the track record hasn’t been good and it definitely won’t happen without a concerted effort to support it.
Mostly because people are quite confused about what "the Internet" actually entails, and how it touches their lives in ways they don't realize.