jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'd add a few more (equally regarding APL and K and J and q)

* They make it easier (and thus idiomatic and common) to write code that is vectorizable, GPUable, parallelizable, etc.

For example (q syntax here), if you have a string x that has parentheses, and you want to know if they are balanced, a "balance" vector would be b:sums (x='(')-x=')' [sums is cumulative sum] this would count +1 for each open, -1 for each close. To verify the string is balanced, you have (all b>=0) and 0=last b [read: minimum of b is 0, and last of b is 0]. They can be combined to one vectorizable expression:

(all b>=0) and 0=last b:sums (x='(')-x=')'

* The bugs in these languages tend to be almost exclusively logic bugs (wrong implementation assumptions, common to every language) or one-off bugs if your cut-and-paste vectors with mismatched indices. Others are very rare

* The terseness makes a lot of code fit on the screen at the same time. Which requires more mental effort to process but pays off hugely as you get a lot more context at the same time.
That is an awesome idea and would be fairly straight forward to develop..

Though you would have to incorporate some sort of timer for office hours only!
To be fair, it says "potential lost sale" :

Each visit represents a potential lost sale of our client’s patented invention at $149 per sale
I am sure TIME had this picked out by October at the latest - it just had to go through editing, proof-reading, printing, etc. for a while and they kind of missed Wikileaks in the process. While I think it's not an excuse, it was probably chosen before Wikileaks released even one of the cables that are a big deal now.
I'm very well familiar with homelessness, probably much better than an average person on this forum. I do agree that a lot of people are victims of circumstances, as I mentioned in my previous comment, and you are right that they often tend to be invisible to the wider society. For this category, getting housing usually solves majority of issues and they can take it from there. The other categories, whether it's mental problems or addiction or anything else, require much wider and more complex approach.
Yes, it is. TW is amazing! Even a skiddie like me can make it work. It's extremely portable, flexible, and enduring. I owe a great deal to the fantastic Tiddlywiki community.
Yeah, pretty much. I remember a Twitch streamer who'd broadcast from there even abused the DMCA to take down a video that Seattle's police department posted to try and identify the CHAZ-affiliated people who were caught on stream shooting and killing a black teenager. As far as I know Twitch didn't have any problem with that, because "Black Lives Matter" doesn't actually mean black lives matter...
Best you can do is gold plate the object you would like to scan. Sputter coating is the preferred method.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning_electron_microscope#S...
Rebasing and cherry-picking are awesome tools once you know how what they're actually doing. I think people avoid rebase for a few reasons; the term "rebase" doesn't mean anything outside of Git so it's not obvious what it is doing under the hood, and inexperienced Git users might use it to change the history on the main branch, which I see as an antipattern.

There's nothing inherently wrong with merging, but I personally don't like it because I find merge commits harder to understand than regular commits. Better to use things like rebasing and cherry-picking to move commits arbitrarily and then squash some commits into units of work that make sense.

Stash is crappy though, IMO, because it's not branch-specific. Instead of stash, I like to fork the branch I'm working on and create a "WIP" commit. That way I don't lose track of work I had in progress that only belongs in a certain branch.
> What does it even mean to "cherry-pick a snapshot"?

It means to do something like a three-way diff among three snapshots: the cherry-picked baseline, the target, and a common ancestor.

You can do something similar with the diff3 tool, which takes three files (snapshots) as input, not diffs.
>This comment is about the tone of the post in The Paris Review. There's a kind of elegiac primitivism circulating among the cultural elite that rubs me wrong, both in Birkerts and the contemporary reviewer.

Funny! It's the exact opposite that rubs me wrong, and I see it all the time from both fellow nerds, pundits, and so on...

It's like many people believe all of history is either a blob with no ups and downs - it just is what it is forever -, or a straight arrow to even better things.

It's like loss, nostalgia, or even the hint that some things could have been better is if not forbidden strongly discouraged... - lest one be considered insufficiently modern, which appears to be one of the big crimes today...
Or, having been there, maybe they remembered them because they were interesting/weird tidbits that caused them to have to debug something for hours. Or perhaps they ran into those weird things last week. (I will never forget, for example, that certain glibc functions such as system() use movaps to copy data from the stack - because it’ll crash the program when you call them from an unaligned stack ROP...)
To be fair, I don't think this is little-known. When a write must be acknowledged by multiple devices (as is the case with RAID1 or RAIDZ), a write requires more IOPS.
The average duration of power outages in Germany has been on a steady decline over the last 15 years [1]. The fraction of electricity generated from renewable sources has increased from around 10% to over 40% in the same period of time [2].

[1] https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Sachgebiete/Elektrizitae...

[2] https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/klima-energie/erneuerb...
We counted all the trees we haven’t seen yet and got to 9200
> I never understood why people would want to take drugs to see the shit and live the suffering I have all my life but that's where we are...

Well, it sounds like you're having a bad time in your life with all of those things, and as a drug user myself, that's not the goal with my usage, and neither the effects it has on me.
Or the Winklevoss twins who store their codes in separate banks across the country.
I'd never know. I'd enjoy the taste of a $50 steak and wine, and put the rest into a Tesla Roadster. :)
May I ask why? I don't think it seems all that unreasonable.
You mention "what is considered professional" in written English. The problem is, it's impossible to be completely confident that your written piece is correct because there is no formal definition of "correct." Take for example gender-neutral third-person pronouns. We don't really have one in English. You can say "he or she" or "the user" or even the dubious "they," but none really sound "correct." If there were a formal grammar for English, you could just use "they" (assuming that is what the grammar specifies) and no one could really argue that you're incorrect or using "bad style." There are local style guides, and I think they're a good thing, but aren't most of them not public and free? I know MLA isn't free, which is ironic since universities often require you conform to MLA style (also, MLA isn't a very formal grammar when it comes to citing sources).

When I say "language government," I don't necessarily mean there would be any relation with an actual government. In fact, any free and amendable formal grammar/style guide would qualify as "language government."
It must have been a while :-) , because it was there.

one quote I do remember is her dad telling Gordon and Alyx to start working on giving him grandchildren now that the neuteuring field is off.

here are 2 articles with more details on Alyx in case you are curious.

https://electriccartilage.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/alyx-vanc...

https://onemorecontinue.com/alyx-vance-half-life-2/

(tbh I only skimmed them right now .. and I unhearthed them with the totally biased "alyx bad character" web search, although I remember reading the second link when it came out)
I’m surprised to see the positive comments about the design.. I saw this and the first thing I thought was: that’s the ugliest vehicle I’ve ever seen. No exaggeration.
I agree with most of what you are saying. I have no problem with Objective-C as well. I never had a problem with Objective-C and I have done Objective-C for over 10 years now…

But I would like to mention that people seem to overestimate the work required to "port" a framework from one language to another. Take 280North as an example. A tiny company (funded by ycombinator) founded by 2 ex Apple employees. They have developed a JavaScript variant of Objective-C (called Objective-J) and reimplemented the most important parts of AppKit. It took them a couple of months but in the end it all worked out, many people used (and are still using it) Cappuccino (name of the framework) and 280North was bought by Motorola for something like $20.000.000. So two guys => 1 language, a couple of frameworks in a matter of months.

Also I am sure you are aware that every year Apple introduces a ton of new frameworks and deprecates some frameworks. It would only take a couple of releases to deprecate 80% of the frameworks used by most apps and introduce replacements for them.

Swift without a new set of frameworks makes little sense IMHO. So either Swift will dies - just like GC did or it won't and then we will see new frameworks written in Swift.

Talking about GC… When Apple introduced GC they told us that it was the latest and greatest shit. It was the future. When introducing GC they told us that "hey - we have ported Xcode to GC - look it is that easy.". So they had more apps using GC from day 1 than using Swift from day 1 (well the WWDC app written in Swift does not count…). Apple had to ship GC-capable versions of their frameworks from day 1. They were even more committed to GC than they are now to Swift so it would not surprise me at all to see Swift let go in a couple of years and buried deep.

At the moment everything seems possible.
Take a look at the pictures

The interesting part is: the weight is inside a faraday cage

The V-Shaped panels, no idea what's going on there, the fractal part maybe has a flat frequency response?
I would add "Practical recommendations for gradient-based training of deep architectures" to the list for those who already have a feel for training multi-layer neural nets. It provides a good overview for those that want to learn more about gradient descent, hyperparameter tuning, and other practical considerations involved with training deep architectures.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5533
> They will make bold forecasts from scanty data ‘more subsidies for domestic industry will reduce GDP growth’, ‘restricting access to Qualcomm chips will cripple Chinese Mobile Manufacturers’ and never validate their success rate. In general it requires a lot of critical reading to not get sucked into believing that they know what they’re talking about.

The Economist actually interestingly runs a forecasting competition that does just that. I expect you have to pay more for those intelligence reports.

https://www.gjopen.com/challenges
I never once said Java was slow. I was saying that JIT compiling is a bad fit for an IDE. The workloads present in an IDE cause lots of problems for JIT compilers. And those problems actually can be exacerbated by an evolving code base with lots of new features.
To me that argument is a 'slippery slope' fallacy. We're not even close to that extreme. It's like saying let's get rid of mail in voting because there might be vast (non existent) fraud in the future.

And even if we go that far somehow I think the differentiation will come naturally. In climbing there is a totally separate thing called Aid Climbing where it's kind of like you say floating to the top haha. Pulling on ladders or whatever to completely eliminate strength and effort. It's not treated as remotely the same sport as free climbing.
My HTPC gets parts handed down from my gaming PC.
I want to leave it "always on" anyway and so I was thinking of yunohost but you've now confirmed my path. Thanks!
Almost every rule has an exception or two. In general, however, most of us aren't working with folks seriously into theater and such things.

Even when folks are, I'm still suspicious until they prove otherwise.
Agreed. I'm not sure what this "culture" talk is. I've been in the bay area for a decade now and have worked at a small YC startup with a modest exit, a big-ish company that got acquired, and a bigger company that's gone public.

In all cases each company talks up it's "culture" - to me it's just a phrase that elicits an eye-roll.

Another commenter suggested you look for a "typical 9-to-5", but even there I'm sure they'd talk up their amazing culture.
I completely agree, and I do the same thing too. If there's something that people are scared to touch, I immediately want to change something fundamental in it so we can get un-scared of it. I'd rather have a controlled demolition than a "rapid unscheduled disassembly".
That implies they see it as a problem that needs to be fixed. But what if they don't care? After all, their business is collecting and selling these data. It being copied by somebody looks bad, but advertisers probably won't do downloading user lists on darknet, so the damage to the main business is minimal. And people still on Facebook don't seem to be willing to punish Facebook for violating their privacy, so...
Have other existing privacy cryptocurrencies been considered?

Grin is a lightweight privacy cryptocurrency using MimbleWimble. It uses a fair distribution (no pre-mine), with an emission of 1 GRIN per second:

https://grin.mw/
How close is it to being out of beta? It seems existing in time for people to import their links to your site and not dispersing to different areas of the web is pretty vital for the act of picking up where delicious left off.
You seem to be mistaken on both counts.

First, a federal law called EMTALA requires hospitals to provide emergency treatment regardless of citizenship or ability to pay.

Second, there is more violence in the UK (about 2.5x-3x times as much per capita -- 993 violent crimes/100K vs. 399 violent crimes/100K) than the United States. And more pro-2A decisions from courts have led to a trend of reduction in US gun violence, including DC murders falling below triple digits post-Heller for the first time since 1963. (Of course it's possible that you live in a very peaceful society and view the UK as also having an unacceptable level of violence.)

Now you may or may not choose to ever live in the United States; I don't care and it doesn't affect me either way. But you may want to educate yourself first.
Does anybody know where I could buy a synthetic clear diamond?
It's on Comment is Free, which is relatively open-access (they exert no real editorial control over what gets published).
You are correct:

VAST was in Smalltalk. VAC++ was ALSO in Smalltalk. And the first VAJAVA? Also Smalltalk. They ultimately rewrote it in Java and it became Eclipse.

It required 8MB to be useful but 16MB (or more, which was unheard of) was preferable.
There's not much I miss about the office per-se. Maybe a few small things, like having a Keurig style coffee machine at work, where at home I still use an old fashioned drip coffee maker, and setting that up and brewing a whole pot is more effort, when I just want my first morning cup of joe. First world problems though, right?

More meaningful, is that I don't necessarily like being stuck in my apartment all the time. I like being home, but I need to get out... so in the past, when working from home a lot, I would frequently go sit at Starbucks or the cafe at Barnes & Noble, etc., and work there some portion of the day, just to get out, be around other people, etc. Now, that's not even an option.

I do try to make up for it by doing more bike riding and running, which is an opportunity to get out. But the weather doesn't always cooperate. Take today, where it's gray, raining, and kinda chilly here in Chapel Hill. I probably won't go running or riding today.

Otherwise, it's nice to get back the hour and a half or so I'd otherwise spending commuting to the office each day, and not having to spend as much money on gas. I can also dress more casually when working at home.
Are you guys hiring? My wife is looking for work. (masters in ed psych with a lot of experience designing lms and facilitating training)
Seattle punted for equity -- (following state level recommendations).

“OSPI does not recommend an online distance learning model unless a district can ensure that all students will have equal access to learning,” the district’s COVID-19 update page says. “Seattle Public Schools is the largest district in our state with a diverse student population and many of our students do not have regular access to technology or the internet.”

https://www.geekwire.com/2020/seattle-public-schools-closing...
That says something really interesting about traders - that more of them essentially add no value - but I am also wondering why you think Leadership would have increased presence when folks are remote. People in companies tend to clique up, it's just how humans do, normally, in an office setting, these cliques are rather limited in terms of exclusive discussion to private messaging, lunch & coffee. Part of this is due to the fact that in an office setting cliques tend to be eroded by shared company and leadership is always quite visible (or it's doing it wrong). To contrast, when folks are remoting these cliques will instead turn into echo chambers where the members are constantly primarily exposed to one another and leadership will become less visible as it is limited to interacting with smaller segments of the team at any given time.
Electrical engineering student looking for fulltime work.

Location: California

Remote: Sure

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Technologies: Hardware (esp. power), embedded systems, C/C++/Python

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Email: gray at graylab.org
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/business/31pay.html

> Thousands of top traders and bankers on Wall Street were awarded huge bonuses and pay packages last year, even as their employers were battered by the financial crisis.

> Nine of the financial firms that were among the largest recipients of federal bailout money paid about 5,000 of their traders and bankers bonuses of more than $1 million apiece for 2008, according to a report released Thursday by Andrew M. Cuomo, the New York attorney general.

> At Goldman Sachs, for example, bonuses of more than $1 million went to 953 traders and bankers, and Morgan Stanley awarded seven-figure bonuses to 428 employees. Even at weaker banks like Citigroup and Bank of America, million-dollar awards were distributed to hundreds of workers.

The amount of economic waste involved in people having silly arguments over their perceptions of reality would likely be a horrifying large number if one was to see it.
Everything works better with immediate success/fail metrics. However the simplest approach is easiest to analyze, and is easiest to analyze after the fact in as many ways as you want. The more complex the decision making, the less we should be willing to put it under the control of a computer program. (Unless that program has been well-studied for our exact problem so that we trust it more.)

Which medicine looks effective? Which medicine gets people out of the hospital faster? What underlying conditions interacted badly with given medicines? These questions do not have to be asked up front. But they can be answered afterwards. And knowing the answers, matters.

Here is an example. Suppose that we find one medication that gets people out of bed faster but kills some. In areas with overwhelmed hospitals, cycling people through the bed may save net lives. If your hospital is not overwhelmed, you wouldn't want to give that medicine. Now I'm not saying that any of these medicines will come to a conclusion like that. But they could. And if one did, I definitely want human judgement to be applied about when to use it
It's not about hackers in general. This is a provincial American phenomenon, and mostly prevalent in the fly-over country. (I said mostly. Of course you can find it in the coasts too).

Nothing universal (Belgian hackers could not care less, for example) or that interesting about it.

I'm not saying it's stupid because it's an american phenomenon. I'm saying it's not universal and "logical" as presented, but a particular national folly / hobby that he tries to rationalize.

(And those others he cites are doing the same, starting from all-american assumptions and argument)
Because a legitimate scrutiny of FAH projects would probably just get them rejected
It definitely does go above 140 fairly quickly during exercise, and easily goes over 100 when walking. I have consulted a cardiologist as I mentioned as recently as a year or so ago. I went because this was something that was not really followed up on when I was a child and I wanted to make sure I wasn't dying of some undiagnosed heart issue. They did a basic EKG, had me wear a device to monitor my heart for a few days, and then also did a blood test to check for things like thyroid issues. Nothing came up. They said my heart rate was high, but did not find a cause.

Good to know regarding doctor's visit should it come to that, thanks!
You can't have competitive sports during a pandemic, full stop. It's not a question of will, it's a question of basic public health, and putting a few brain cells together. Athletes will not compete in PPE...
MacOS renders everything at the highest resolution and then downscales? Does that mean there are no performance benefits from using a lower resolution (or even potentially a performance hit from the downscaling)?
Previously, Netflix was sending traffic to Comcast through Cogent. This traffic had problems because the link between Comcast and Cogent was saturated to such a degree that packets were dropping.

Today, Netflix now has their own connection to the Comcast network that is not shared with Cogent.
This is awesome, no longer need to be subjected to Google Spreadsheets. Those things are terrible compared to EXCEL.
That's a good idea. Why would someone downvote this?
Google has convincingly lost the battle with SEO, so forgive me for not being encouraged by that.
Since someones phone number is incredibly important for all sorts of reasons, it is definitely the companies fault for making it so easy to hijack.
Anyone think the window breaking in the demo was done on purpose - for the media points?
Is it just me who is a bit wary of the sports car claims?

Acceleration is going to be impressive and CoG will be lower than for similar vehicles but likely much higher than say for a BMW M2 or similar sporty car, so cornering isn't likely to be anywhere near as good which coupled with the extra weight, it seems that this will be good for a pick up truck but no competition for a car in a circuit.
Android is in the budget/low end space.

Yes, and it's also in the high end iPhone competing space. We're not talking about prices here, we're talking about whether the devices have competitive specs and functionality.

Android dominates globally, even in the USA and on the top-end devices where Apple is strongest.

Are you saying that Google wanted to release a separate maps app when Apple was still using Google maps before iOS 6?

Yes, long before. We're going way back here.
As far as I recall the answer is that it’s open source from top to bottom.

Not that it’s relevant to trust in algo, but I also recall some very acrimonious exchanges on hn previously when discussing algo, based on trailofbits’s support of USA govt spying. I cannot what the accusations are though, so if anyone who knows more could help me out that’d be great.