jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
People might be put off by the old thinkers if they know much modern analytic philosophy.

And this is why you should... http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/11/read-history-of-philoso...
Hey. Quote,

"Our breakthrough came when we realized we didn't have to do that. If we called lockPixels without a matching unlockPixels, we created an image that lived safely off the Java heap and yet never slowed down the UI thread. A few lines of C++ code, and we were home free."

That doesn't sound complete. It's off the Java heap, true but doesn't mean it's either safe or won't slow down the UI or is even home free. Allocation in ashmem will still count towards the PSS[1] of the app. The image data won't be unpinned right until it throws an OutofMemory exception. And if you have handled the exception, the UI thread will wait around for the unpin/unlock of data. This would be ok if you could make an educated guess of how much ashmem can be allocated to your app. You can't make that guess easily as it depends a lot on OEM implementation of Gralloc/HWComposer and the GPU. But since you are Facebook, :), you can probably test this on all device/gpu variants. And when you do please publish the results. And while you are doing that, please test this too: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/MemoryFile...

[1]https://developer.android.com/tools/debugging/debugging-memo...

Thoughts?

Edit: Incorrect link
I would just go with "cost-wise", "friend-wise", although I feel there's a nuance in there somewhere.
If you support ES6 why is it Commonjs?
Why does she have to be Indian? What does race have to do with this?
hacker news is a community of highly technical and/or scientifically inclined people. Certainly a Scientific American article that discusses ongoing research, and is very specific in noting the preliminary nature of it, is something the community is capable of ingesting and discussing in a reasonable way. I found the article interesting because I recall just a couple of years ago, discussing the idea that fracking could ever have any relationship to the groundwater whatsoever was considered patently ridiculous and you'd get sent right off to pseudoscience reeducation camp just for suggesting it (which is really because: in the absence of reputable research having been done, all opinions were essentially political).

Now if we were talking about an article that's discussing philosophy, religion, or other subjects within the humanities, there's a much higher chance the HN community will totally misinterpret and butcher the crap out of that, sure.
Yeah, it occurred to me that way back when, as I was learning C on a C=64 (though later I was able to buy a super powerful 386 machine) that as I was trying to code up alife and neural net programs my problems were rarely of the "What's the workaround for a bug in alife.js or alife.rb" sort.

I wrote out a lot of pseudo-code and drew diagrams and when stuff didn't work I could often figure it out by poking through the K&R book or the manual for my compiler.

As it became easier to spread code and ideas it also became easier to spread more sophisticated but sometimes opaque libraries and tools, and perhaps ironically it is those new libraries and tools that most require the increased communication because while they offer more power they also introduce more complex bugs and quirks.
The other benefit of services is you wind up having a lot of people at the customer sites. Instead of having an expensive salesforce, the customer pays for your salesforce as consultants.
"Power Programming with Mathematica". It's out of print, but can be found free of charge on the Mathematica StackExchange:
http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/16485/are-you...

This is a great collection of resources:
http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/606/241
(The most edited post on all of StackExchange)
Had an interview with them about three months after I applied. Well, had a phone interview with them at least. It lasted about three questions because, unfortunately, I had smoked pot in the last year (the one time I had done it in my life actually).

I'm actually not sure if I should have failed it after the second question, which was whether or not I work closely with any foreign nationals. Doesn't everyone in the tech sector? I work closely with a Romanian, a Filipino, and a guy from Sierra Leone. They may all be US citizens now, but i have no idea, so I said "no", after trying to get some guidance from the interviewer (she offered none).

Strangely, after my failed three question phone interview I still got an in person interview request and it took two calls to straighten that out.

If I lived in the Denver or DC area, I'd probably apply again in six months or so (once my one year has lapsed), but I just don't think it's worth moving across the country for a job there.
I'm not sure what the world needs is another config file format. What's the impetus behind reinventing the wheel for the 400th time? Between YAML, JSON, XML, and the 40000 other annoyingly dissimilar config formats people have invented, what does this have to offer the rest don't?
Who would outlaw lobbying? The politicians who benefit from it?
From what I understood, when you launch screen, it starts a master, to which you can connect to later on. Each time you start a new screen (ie, you don't connect to an existing one) a new master is started.

Not so in tmux: it starts only one master, and every client connects to that.

I'm not 100% sure I got it right, but from the wiki, that's what I understood. Which makes screen infinitely more useful for my use-case.

Mind you, I never tried tmux.
If modern humans are any measure, then all your worst suppositions were probably true. Slaves, cattle, playthings, whatever, they were certainly treated differently than 'legitimate' offspring.
Imagine if today there were certifiably different, perhaps measurably inferior people around. How would we treat them? And we're educated, civilized people.
I wish the writer had had even a modicum of scepticism while penning this guy's story...

EDIT: Oh wait, I already said that when this article was posted 9 months ago.
It could be that growth in Skype usage/userbase has reached a point where this sort of outage is more likely to occur as a result of slight fluctuations in supernode availability.
The paragraph starting "There's a lot of crap out there."
Whoops, clearly I'm a bit behind the times. Thanks to both of you for the updated info.
Interesting idea. Seems like having one button per item would be overkill.

Maybe have one generic button that opens an app on your phone to choose an item from your 'frequently purchased' items.
I have to say - this actually looks like a great idea for products like detergents, etc. I can see how this can work on a laundry machine. Apart from that... Where would I put the button for Bounty? Or Gillette?
Energy costs are much lower today. Have you noticed the $2.00 gas signs?
Probably confusion with the thermal efficiency (which Wikipedia says is ~33% for coal).
This seems really nice. Just looking through the first few links and pages, it seems to have all of the nice things I enjoy about Angular. It looks like it may have less of a learning curve too, which would be very nice.
This post was from 2013. Has anyone heard from the author what might have happened lately?
>He puts it a bit too general, but against full plate armour, swords are nearly useless.

they are useless for penetration. The rest of effects are in place. The beauty and usability of sword comes from it being very convenient weapon to focus and amplify the power of your movement in much wider envelope of possible positions and movements - much better than any other type of weapon. Hammer/axe comes close but it trades in significant part of the envelope for penetrating abilities in other part of the envelope.
what is this garbage?
Interesting thought, I'll keep my eyes open.

Funny, because Rust is rather a side-note/example in Theo's post...
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one result that seems interesting: "Roughly 53% of fraudulent papers were written by a first author who had written other retracted papers (‘repeat offender’), whereas only 18% of erroneous papers were written by a repeat offender."
Upvoted for Hudsucker Proxy. Very underrated movie. Essential if you're interested in business and specifically product development.
There is a HN api (http://api.ihackernews.com/). It is unnofficial, but pg allows it. Anyone can extend HN now.
I would agree if startups were the only topic covered on HN. But they aren't.

HN has always a lot of interesting stuff that has nothing to do with startups. E.g. general CS, psychology, physics ans so on...
The implication, however, is that they were doing something shady that the rest of the credit rating agencies were not -- which is incorrect.
- The Social Network.
- Black Hawk Down.
- Catch Me If You Can.
- The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Ultimatum.
- Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Eleven.
- Remember the Titans.
- The Blind Side.
Ebay is another interesting counterpoint to PG's essay. They are a company constantly made fun of in the tech community as monopolistic, unoriginal/innovative, without visionary guidance, but somehow they are more profitable than Amazon. Hackers are critical in many businesses, In Yahoo's case they need them to stay on top of changes to media, but if you can get significant network lock in like eBay then hackers may not be as important in the medium term. In the long term I think they'll face disruption in much the same way a company like AirBNB disrupted Craigslist which has a similar profile to eBay.
"Cracker" is preferred, but it will take a long time for the media to get that.
In the warmer parts of the country, you are not looking at a lot of metal/brick. In California for example, you are looking at a lot of plywood and insulation mostly.
Pointing fingers at each other and shouting "YOU'RE WRONG, NOT ME, I'M RIGHT" is of zero value. Let's see the study.
A self-made millionaire starts from what base?

The Millionaire Next Door sets out the terms of an "Average Accumulator of Wealth" which are literally impossible to meet for young workers without family support.
Would you still want to own your personal car when cars can do all that?

I think what you describe is the future but we'll be renting luxury vehicles from Uber (or equivalent) for very little money.
I'd disagree with that - most other large ISPs have similar parental control services but they are not all exactly the same and differ widely in technology and scope.
Thanks for the feedback. They're well aware that I'm located in Canada as all of that information was outlined on the initial agreement. I'm just a bit taken back as I've worked with other clients who have never asked for this. It's likely that these particular clients would like to declare these expenses/right them off to lower their taxable income, I just wish they would have mentioned this before hand so I could have prepared for this.. The sub-contractors are based in Europe so it's really a massive loss for me if I were to go that route.

Also, I've already been paid in full. So at this point I have nothing to lose really.
I've not heavily researched this but I was curious if anyone has real experience with it.

For a couple of very meaningful graph functions it's 700-800% faster. The claim is gpu acceleration as the innovation.
most prop firms are not trading on CB. It's spot only (yuck) and yes, the fees are awful. I'm pretty bearish on CB and incredibly bullish on FTX. SBF could very well be the richest man on earth in 5 years.
I think the big change has been in the autonomous navigation combined with the pre-assembled stuff that is really hard to crash unless you're trying. For a few grand now, you can get a more or less plug-and-play (or charge-and-fly) system capable of transporting a few pounds of cargo a dozen miles with a minimally trained operator and minimal assembly.

You could also use a big model rocket, but you can't buy a huge one off the shelf that works so reliably with little skill. RC subs would also be possible, but again, you'd need to do a lot of your own R&D, whereas companies like DJI now do it for you. Big RC helis have been capable of the same-ish payloads for a decade or more now, but they're hard to fly, hard to build, and require quite a bit of training to fly without crashing. You'd also need to be watching it every second in flight, unlike the self-stabilizing GPS waypoint systems which have become affordable (<$10k and available to non-military) in the past few years.
Apple isn't completely a free loader.

http://www.opensource.apple.com/

Can't argue Apple's contributions rise to the level of Bell Labs (that's the gold standard of research groups). But WebKit, for example, certainly has been leveraged to great effect outside of Apple.
Need an off pcket with an NFC tag in it that shuts the phone down whilst in proximity. When the tag goes away, the radios awaken...
That's a really good name.
Self-righteous internet mob seems like a better idea than DCMA and government action.
I think they were mostly acquiring the name and the user base.
It seems a little noisy, but it does filter out forks and the dates are nice. Is the user language percentage also a new creation here?
What happens to all these payments startups when credit card fees go from 3% => 0.3%?
[both pension and health fund are private, in case that wasn't clear]
Hang out in IRC and you will be able to determine who's worth their value. freenode #nodejs #coffeescript
This sucks and everything, but this is just the kind of garbage you're going to have to put up with when you put such an emphasis on using a proprietary social networking site as your main presence online for yourself or your organization. Now, imagine you were also using Facebook for all of your communication (chat, messaging, forum, group, etc) needs. You'd also be out of all of those services until and unless they restored them for you.

This is why my advice remains: Do what people have done for almost twenty years. Make a website. Do your stuff on your website. If you have anything worth while, people will come to your website. Stop handing the keys to the internet over to Facebook both by using their services directly or spamming your own site and uglifying it with Facebook Everything widgets.

Using Facebook as your web presence strikes me as about as professional and makes you look about as serious as using Angelfire or Geocities, anyway.
I dig it, Ethan. The Twitter contact tie is brilliant, and I can see this crossing into many different potential areas of real utility.. sexier DM sessions, group collab (work or for fun), CS. Very slick.
Yes, of course! Looks like we got 13 upvotes today, which is, generally speaking, pretty high.
I agree that Medium is misunderstood. I have no idea, as a reader, what the compelling differences are between WP, Medium, Blogspot, or any of the other numerous blogging platforms out there.
What voicemail system allows you to "skim" through voicemails (roughly the equivalent of fast-forward and 2x speed playback capabilities) and is as convenient to use as email? Honest question. Because if you can name such a voicemail service, I'm sold!
Sounds like part and parcel for a National Security Letter. Do it and don't tell anyone and don't mention the letter.
They are trying to scapegoat the guy. Thankfully, people are not falling for it.
They use Mullvad, which is a reputable VPN provider.
Yeah, absolutely. I really like Notion as a platform, but it’s these exactly concerns that led me to switch to Obsidian as my personal knowledgebase. I’d feel better if Notion had a truly offline client with sync rather than wrapping a web app.
>When popping over a mates I often just plug it out and stick it in to their machine.

I would have assume that this would not work unless the hardware was the same - due to device drivers, etc.
I mean sure, it doesn't work exactly like Linux. It can't. Note there's nothing in the doc linked by twic that say these function maintain pids.

> Each _exec function loads and executes a new process. All _exec functions use the same operating-system function (CreateProcess).

I guess they could better emulate Linux using another layer of abstraction but I don't think they do. It is true that large parts of the C library in Windows is there only to emulate Unix like behaviour so as to make porting easier. But it's not meant to emulate Linux exactly (that's what WSL is for).
@zck - no idea - I spent almost an hour looking for the item and then was told that it had already been converted to a live auction due to high demand.
Generally I think we've evolved a lot more than orthodox thinking gives us credit for since the agricultural revolution. We still have some vestiges of our hunter-gatherer roots, but most of us have had ancestors cultivating crops for millennia.

As for life in the metropolis, we're a little less well adapted to us.
I disagree with that. I read blog posts for the story, not for points. That's why I hate blogs that bold the key phrases. I want every phrase to be important, and I want the reading experience to be enjoyable. I could not care less about your 5 tips for getting more Twitter followers if all you write are the tips (instead of how you discovered them, or why you think they work).

For example, I like Steve Yegge, not Jeff Atwood.
Not before making easy things hard, though.
Interesting stuff. I just take melatonin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melatonin) personally, but I might experiment with that approach sometime. Melatonin is supposedly pretty safe, but sometimes I still feel kinda groggy in the mornings after taking it.
In the Git community they call this an "alternative porcelain".

For subversion, changesapp or cornerstone might appeal to you.

DVCS has high intrinsic complexity, though i agree that simplifying assumptions could reduce git's apparent complexity
> In other countries they clean and refill beer bottles.

I'm pretty sure I've heard of it in the US as well.
Thanks. What exactly is the loyalty card profile and how does it work?
Interesting, do people actually use the service very often?
Ok then, how about this. Obesity is a growing cause of illness. Removing aging is unlikely to affect that, arguably it could compound the problem.
I think that the value of money has diminishing returns, so that more than $60K per annum doesn't make you more happy (http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_exper....

If automation and efficiency could bring most people to the point where they could hit this point of diminishing returns at 20 hours a week, I think we'd find more (though not all) people opting for that kind of life.
It is an interesting question but at this point, I hope we skip this iteration and just move into electric (obviously barring large trucks were electric is a little less feasabily at the moment).
There's a culture of secrecy because it's in companies best interests to encourage one.
The Enlightenment was premised on the broad idea that people were rational and that, once education became widespread, reason would eventually stamp out superstition and other evils and would cause humanity to want to promote and defend liberty. This thinking broadly underlies the idea that we are continuing to progress as a species and will ultimately learn to solve the problems that historically have beset us.

This sort of episode should serve to remind us that passion and prejudice are ever at-the-ready to spring up and override reason.

On the side of reason:

1. You have a classic work of literature that is widely recognized as an important indictment of totalitarian societies, something that young people in a free society should presumably regard as a staple of their learning.

2. You have a significant historical work that is a product of its times, which sound learning should suggest ought to be taken on its own terms, notwithstanding that society has changed since then in what it regards as acceptable cultural references. Again, even if regressive, one would think those raised in a free society would encourage its study, if nothing else than to understand why the older cultural references existed and why people accepted and later rejected them (if that is indeed what happened).

3. You have reasonable arguments that the references to "savages," taken in context, were not intended to be demeaning at all but were essentially a literary device used to promote the themes of the work. Again, in a free society, one would think these would be topics that ought to be debated as part of coming to grips with a classic work.

On the side of passion and prejudice:

1. You have public school systems that are charged with developing strong young minds and yet willingly succumb to the premise that some forms of expression ought to be censored or circumscribed at the whims of pressure groups in the community.

2. You have serious subjects being resolved by supposedly responsible public officials at the level of pure emotion.

3. You have what amounts to open demagoguery holding sway over that which scholars would widely if not unanimously oppose.

The stunning thing here is how one-sided this all was, with cravenly officials scarcely even putting up resistance. The next thing you know, they will be banning books that use the word "niggardly." Based on the logic on display here, that is surely next in line.
I suggest watching the screencast. It has examples of some pretty complex queries including aggregating and group by.
I'm glad for her sake that she turned it down, since they make a policy of never paying people what they're worth.

Never more then a 10% bump? That's just farcical. Are they afraid the sudden increase will lead to wild debauchery? {Rolls eyes}
I don't think it was short-sighted. I think his point, while partly intended to be funny, of course, was that spending 12 hours to inject a certain amount of information is inefficient if the same substance could have been gleaned much more quickly in the form of concise, curated chunks of text.
The certificates are unverified by a trusted certificate authority, so anyone can perform a man-in-the-middle attack by providing a different certificate to clients, allowing the bad guy to decrypt the information.

(edit: clarified wording)
I don't necessarily agree with your argument - I think it's a perfectly reasonable conclusion that either Microsoft and Google could have worse telemetry in their browser.

That said, I noticed the strange behavior around this article as well. I've seen it pop up multiple times in various content aggregators, and the /r/technology mods even removed the post that I happened to notice and comment in.

I'm not sure why, it seemed like a completely reasonable article on its face. But maybe there's something underhanded going on behind the scenes?
I doubt it. Those devices are not designed to pour lots of kGy into stuff. Food irradiation typically involve some kind of lead-covered mini-tunnel with the radioactive source in the middle. Definitively not an expert, but I suspect the radioactive sources used for food irradiation to be two to four orders of magnitude stronger than what is used for therapy.
Note there's Microsoft's reply here:
https://winbuzzer.com/2020/03/20/microsoft-responds-to-resea...

Apparently this hardware identifier is used to be able to comply with gdpr data deletion requests.
The world most certainly does not press pause for two weeks over Christmas. It's one of the busiest times of the year for retail, business, and travel industries. Manufacturing operations keep running as normal.

Just because office workers get a holiday, doesn't mean the whole world is on pause. This is nothing like Christmas.