jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The most important bit of doing any kind of complex sale is listening to others.

Reading the "most important" idea article that he made no attempt to sell is also illuminating. It's a mildly thought-provoking blog about how many fields have concepts of state and state change, and the concepts are interdependent and blur at the edges, leading to an unsupported conclusion that we think too much about data and inputs and not enough about CPUs. It would probably get a few upvotes and a few confused replies on LessWrong, but there's not really much for the computer scientists and creatives he clearly hopes will take notice to work with. Perhaps they might find a different version or some of his other ideas more valuable
Counter argument is that it is not my business to have to think how to consume energy to match the production pattern of my provider. It is literally their business to meet my energy demands. Invest in more generation capacity, more storage, improve the transportation grid.
...from 2016.
back in grad school, I did a comparison between the (then new) XeonPhi and GPUs to run my own N-Body engine using the same OpenCL implementation - the rest is history: GPUs still rule today for high intensity computational needs.
Look at Machine Learning: GPUs are so good at SIMD, that if your domain can benefit from faster computation, /i you should make it SIMD i/, if it's not already. ;)
I absolutely adore TCC, fwiw. It’s the base project that this one is derived from.
Like all of bellard’s work, this is legit and also extraordinarily high quality. At one point before I got bored I basically had a game engine that took C source code as scripting inputs. Totally stupid, and worked great thanks to this.
It hurt a bit for two days, then subsided. No other side-effects aside from better 5G reception /jk .
In a two horse race
And yet you also have corporations that are 200 years old at the same time and that plan 20 years in the future. How does that fit in your world view?
They banned the whole 150+ organization google suite account.

Someone had a private, secondary email in the profile.

A private gmail account was suspended. They suspected that he has sent a "virus" in `*.apk` file as a gmail attachment.
The UK system is similar - a web-based form, starts off asking you some basic questions ("Did you give to charity?" "Are you a director of a company?" etc etc) then tailors it directly for your needs, with the "obvious" stuff being pre-filled from your usual employer-deducted taxes. The wording is clear and simple to understand (...most of the time - some of it is a bit "legalese" in places but it is getting better each year)

Takes about 20 minutes to do it each year if you have all of your figures to hand... (if you are disorganised and have not been keeping track of any capital gains losses/gains etc throughout the year then it will take longer as you'll need to work those figures out first)

My wife is dual-national US-UK, and she does her UK one herself without much fuss as well, but seems like she has to employ an accountant in the US to do her US return due to complexity and convolutedness.
"My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets" - Names of the nine (recently eight) planets in their order of distance from the Sun. And, the first "My" makes it easier to remember "M[ercur]y", not to confuse with "Mars".
> Haha. The Age of the Sturlungs, the "bloody" era is after the early Commonwealth I am talking about.

The Age of the Sturlungs is what Commonwealth devolved into in a relatively short period. Are you suggesting the Age of the Sturlungs just appeared out of nowhere?

> Seems like just another bullshit excuse for an increase in bureaucracy like OP is joining into.

Ok, apparently you haven't yet read much about economics. Division of labor is a precondition for both wage labor and capital accumulation. If you have neither wage labor nor capital accumulation, you can't have capitalism. It's that simple. You have markets, yes, but everbody had markets for thousands of years. Markets =/= capitalism. Your argument boils down to using a society that is neither culturally nor demographically nor economically similar to present day societies as a role model for present day society. Can you now see why I'm not persuaded?

And again: Ad hominems don't help. You want to persuade the majority to try out a grand libertarian experiment, but you get all worked up because a single person questions your reasoning. It won't work that way.
Yeah, just weird conversations about when feature X is fully ready in which sprint, features that were done getting new "improvements" and getting sprints replanned in the middle of execution.

Oh, and the famous feature requests disguised as bug reports for the features that didn't make it out of the backlog.

I have done both ways and still haven't found a way to getting it working across the board with all parties.
When I read pop-sci interpretations of it (which is basically all I've ever read) my impression was that the top percentile estimate themselves as worse than the lower-percentile does.

The graphs cited in the article show that the top still estimate themselves better than the lower percentile, which is new to me.
Ah yeah that's definitely going to be different HTML on Lynx, then, since I bet they don't support that and Google's not missing out on tracking.

Yup - curling with Lynx user agent gets a targets of href="/url?q=<whatever>" rather than href="<whatever>" ping="tracking"
As long as there's a choice between dark and light mode I'm happy. Heck I don't even really need a customizable interface color setup anymore, I've given up on that.

IMHO "Hot Dog Stand" on Windows 3.1 was the best it could ever be. Dear god don't let Hot Dog Stand be the default.
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Path for an eight year old (who started at 5):

1) Hour of Code and Blockly, as well as some Blockly Games, age 5-7

2) Khan Academy JavaScript and processing.js at age 7.

He's pretty awesome at JavaScript now. The programming courses on Khan Academy are great. I will mention your child needs to be ready for it. At that age, a few months one way or the other is huge, as is having the mechanics of typing and mousing.

Next step from there is the book "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Developer Best Practices) " and Nandgame, as well as Micro:bit.

I recommend against Scratch. It's a rabbithole that goes in the wrong direction. You get stuck in a local minimum, where it's really hard to move onto real programming, and within Scratch, there are a lot of local minima (move to random position).
That is different because down syndrome is not hereditary. It's caused when chromosomes don't properly separate due their tangling caused by aging of egg cells.

Plus, if it were a hereditary genetic condition, abortion would eliminate those genes from the population reducing the occurrence over time.
Changing topic a bit, the other day I tried looking for some paper on John Reynold's webpage and the ftp server is apparently offline: ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/user/jcr

Made me think about how everything eventually comes to an end...
Because the Unix timestamp is based on UTC and may not accurately capture the user's intent if the DST rules change in between when the timestamp is created and when the timestamp is read.

That is, suppose I schedule an event on 2016 April 1, at 10am in San Francisco, California. Under current DST rules, this translates into 2016 April 1, 5pm UTC or a Unix timestamp of 1459530000.

Now suppose DST is abolished in California between now and the event occurring. A Unix timestamp of 1459530000 would then correspond to 2016 April 1, at 9am in San Francisco, which is one hour too early.

Another way to think about this: You have to apply the DST conversion rules applicable at the time the event was created, NOT the (potentially different) rules at the time the event occurs. But maintaining different sets of conversion rules based on when an event is scheduled is a lot more cumbersome than simply recording the local time and location.
The example only addresses claim #1. I probably should have mentioned that.
Attention to typography itself can lead to some pretty compelling designs. As Cameron Moll once said, great designers use typography/text as a UI element.
In FF4 you can try setting webgl.shader_validator = false. Sometimes it helps to get "something" rendered when things would fail completely otherwise.
It's 2011, FFS.
This kind of mindset is really self defeating in the long term.
Sure, hand optimizing is better. Having a gazillion lines of shit legacy code and technical debt to fix because you hand optimized for the 90's, it's not so great.
I'll keep my GC and sip a Mohito on the beach, while Linus keeps on fixing Linux's "optimizations" ten years from now.
A linked list of course has no direct analogy in the physical world, but I think the analogy has a workable definition of "next(couponX)" which is "put your finger on the back of couponX, move your finger away from yourself, if you touch the face of another coupon, that is the next coupon".

The slot is not an array, it is not directly accessible by index number or key. It is close to a doubly linked list with a head and tail pointer, but it has more operations than a linked list though. You can flip through by "a bunch" and easily start at a randomish middle point which doesn't map back to linked lists, but also isn't important for this example.
A GC system with explicitly visible reference counts (and immediate freeing) with language support to make it easier to get the refcounts right (things like automatically incrementing the refcounts when passing the object off to others) wouldn't necessarily be painful to use, and would clearly offer all the advantages of just doing it all by hand.

I was wondering how that was different from Cocoa on Objective-C.

See: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/...
Sure. He was talking about the OS level.

In UI scripts or something else running on multiple levels of abstraction, preventing memory leaks and allowing developers to quickly prototype is much more important. Cache performance does not even come into it. It would be crazy to advocate manually managing memory there.
The way I like to explain it to get it to quickly click in anyone's head (math geek and non-math geek alike) is so:

What is true about any two distinct numbers? Answer: there are an infinite number of numbers between them (e.g. between 4.00005 and 4.00006 there are 4.000051, 4.0000501, 4.00005001, etc. You can always add more zeros). But one cannot name a single number between 0.9999... and 1 because they are the same number.

Not really an actual, rigorous proof, but it serves its purpose.
Connections only halfway answers it capacity is also a big part of this.
Don't disagree with your points, but it's worth considering:

1. The Founding Fathers were products of their place and time. Many other countries engaged in the slave trade and employed slave labor, and women played a similar role in other societies. Racism and sexism were commonplace around the world during their time. You can reasonably argue that American slavery was uniquely cruel and long-lived if you want, although I would say that position downplays the horrors suffered by slaves under other governments.

2. The Founding Fathers, for all their faults, were clearly very poignant observers of human nature and history. They thoughtfully designed an extremely successful form of government that has inspired countries around the world to copy their model and arguably contributed to material prosperity unparalleled in history.

None of that is to discount what you're saying, but it's only one piece of the puzzle.
I don’t know if they’re naive enough to believe that they’ll nuke anyone at all for them.

Russia nor any other country won’t take the risk to be nuked in return if they’re not facing evident life-threatening events.

As a Russian I would certainly negotiate with the invader on how to split and share the invaded country.

I would say nuclear weapons in general are posthumous weapons.
The self-righteous arrogance of this author is comical.
> An average Joe could probably write influential ML papers by gluing RNN/GAN layers to existing models and fiddling with the parameters until they beat current state of the art.

Right, but you have to remember there are legions of grad students doing exactly this so it ends up being quite competitive to churn out papers this way.
One of the hardest problems in programming is naming--variables, function names, abstractions, etc. A larger vocabulary (in English, the lingua franca of programming,) will enable someone to write better names.
You can definitely ramp up and down power generation at nuclear plants. Whether that makes sense economically is another question.
Particularly when the largest news organizations are run to enrich and empower some of the richest men in the world. Slim, Murdoch, Bezos. All run the most widely read, widely respected papers in the country.
> Their are several ways to can synchronize the latitudes and longitudes such that you get a repeating pattern. This lets you cover the continental US without having global coverage.

This is seriously confused. The Earth turns under that repeating pattern, and the turning of the Earth is asynchronous unless the period of rotation is an integer multiple of the orbital period (which it isn't).

We're in the peak hour right now. This is Starlink. There's no magical favoring of North America (well, except we have a non-operational "train" of new launches overhead). https://imgur.com/a/h94WRsQ

The only thing you can really do is pick your inclination wisely.
Thanks gte910h - What entails "embedded work in general" ? Can you be a bit specific ?
I agree with the argument that PhD's might be underpaid a bit, but I think the author is exaggerating when he says that universities exploit them to get cheap research done, or that there are too many PhD's being produced by the system in general (as if this had a strongly negative impact on our society?)
I rather like these two:

http://www.stlport.org/resources/StepanovUSA.html

I find OOP technically unsound. ...
I find OOP philosophically unsound. ...
I find OOP methodologically wrong. ...

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-DCI-Architecture (at around 39:30)

You cannot do object-oriented programming in Java.

What the first calls OOP, the second calls "class-oriented programming". What the second calls proper OOP, I think is more along the lines of what the first advocates.
It's not so much about the exceptions as it is about the domain the law applies in. Someone else mentioned Newtons law of gravity: In the very large domain of "stuff we can see and touch", Newtons law works perfectly. Even on the scale of planets, it's so close that it took centuries to detect that it was off. On the scale of atoms, it breaks down, so we can define the domain of Newtons law as the interval "bigger than molecules to the solar system" in which it can reliably be applied.

The bigger and better defined the domain is, the more useful the law. If the domain that you can reliably apply the law to is ill defined or has many unpredictable exceptions, it's probably not a very good law.
Some better links:
https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/
http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/examples/todos/inde... (A Demo)
What he means is it would tip them over the edge and declare war against the government. Just like the way Ruby Ridge/Waco pushed McVeigh, only this time it would be much greater numbers willing to fight.

A couple thousand of them using bombs/weapons could cause massive amounts of continuous long-term damage. Guerilla warfare, as we've come to find out over the past 50 years, is nearly unwinnable. It would manifest as The Troubles American Edition.

McVeigh, John Brown, Bin Laden, Eric Rudolph, Kaczynski, are all the classic extremist that's willing to do whatever it takes to right what they perceive as an injustice.
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-tr...

ABC News mirror on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AeI6Mv0ALg and their own site: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/home-love-trump-protes...
I have never had a social media account (younger person here) and it has gotten me many eye rolls too, but I've never cared. However, whatsapp is different, everyone always treated it like internet texting where I'm from. I call my friends when I want to hear them and properly talk to them, but many things such as planning trips and talking about things that interest all of us are just way better done over some sort of text medium over longer periods of time.
I understand you're saying that we wouldn't be in this situation if we didn't let the old getting infected. How do you suppose we could've "isolated every old folks' home" if everybody else had gotten infected?

But wait now, while you're deciding for them how they should live you're not accepting that they could also ask you to live differently during this pandemic. So when they take personal risk, like going grocery-shopping, and get infected, does that mean they have a lesser claim to a hospital bed than you, who wants to "make their own decision" about the risk of spreading the virus? Or do you accept the fact that an old fat guy might just block the ICU you could happen to need tomorrow?
Few years ago we discussed these numbers on a pretty popular (top 5 of its kind) local pic-and-discussion forum. Devs said that an average user brings around $2 in a year (including those using adblock, etc). I sent them around $8 and they turned off any ads for my account forever. I could just continue using ad blocking, but they made that “hey you’re using” header that annoyed me on mobile, where it is hard to “pick an element”. Of course their income/user ratio is not comparable to youtube’s one, but they meet their ends well, and also have much much lower megabytes/user ratio. In infra costs they may be even more profitable per user than youtube (just a blind guess).
I've been working on the WMF/EMF/EMF+ code, where there is a problem log a bug with LibreOffice.
The model yielded nine drugs considered likely to provide those therapeutic benefits, three of which are currently in use – meaning the analysis identified six candidates for drug repurposing

Quite interesting! Was wondering if/how this novel approach could be translated into a business. Maybe it earns referral $ if the drug candidate can be successfully repurposed and also does it mean that the IP is protected for another 20 years?
Our single winner first past the post electoral system and the associated two-party dysfunction are more to blame, as they incentive radical schism.
I've always thought the solution should be an open federated IM standard, like email but for conversations rather than correspondence. If that were the widely adopted solution, you'd end up with large free providers that work perfectly fine for most regular users (like gmail), paid services that fully respect your privacy, and the more technical folks would be free to host their own servers.

I guess Matrix is doing this, but unfortunately, the way history has played out, centralized IM had first mover advantage by a huge margin and that's what people are used to now - that a messenger is an application on your phone that you can only use to contact other users of that same application.
http://gawker.com/5689925/man-threatened-with-10000-fine-aft...

https://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://www.tsa.gov/assets/...

https://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://www.tsa.gov/assets/...
We will continue working on Mono :-)

Let me take this opportunity to remind everyone that MonoDevelop 2.4.1 just came out, and that you can get a 20% discount on MonoTouch this week by using the "BLACK-FRIDAY" discount code.

:-)
>There's the fact they're in the same basic industry and a realistic chance that Lamebook could be reasonably confused to be connected to Facebook by a normal person.

The basic industry is the web? That is a stretch. Does that mean anything else is in the basic industry of "physical things"?

Facebook is in the industry of social networking, while Lamebook is a 'lolpics' site targeted at funny things FROM Facebook. It seems like they are clearly doing what Facebook says they are (attempting to piggyback on brand recognition), using satire as a hook to get away with it.

Whether they will succeed I think depends on Facebook's ability to show that this use will harm their name / confuse their customers, and that seems doubtful. In a similar instance, Toys `R' Us successfully forced Guns `R' Us to change names; the case was made that parents would think that Toys `R' Us had a chain of gun stores!
I accepted the invite in iGoogle and meebo. nope, the invite still pops up, and in the account i sent invite from it says 'invited'
"All set"? Hardly. You lock it once, but then you fidget and roll over. Oop, need to unlock. So now you have to double-press and try and work the task bar upside down to unlock, then chase the lock button round as the screen rotates to lock it again. Move again? Same daft dance.

Compare to now, where you can unlock and relock the device while you roll, without looking at the screen.
Amazing someone who immigrated here at 10 years old could never be President, but someone who was in the US only for their birth — until much later in life — could become President.

Ever since reading a first-hand account of a grade school student quietly thinking about how their teacher’s pronouncement that “any of you could become President!” was incorrect for that student, an immigrant, I have seen this clause as a bit excessive.
>There are three "levels of scrutiny" used to determine if a law is valid. The lowest level, the level which every law must meet is rational basis. Government may not enforce a law which makes absolutely no sense.

The article that you linked to indicates that "rational basis review" applies to laws which may be related to the 5th or 14th Amendments, which is substantially narrower than what you've appeared to say. I'm not a lawyer, so can you clarify?
I for one hope this walled garden idea of social networking sites doesn't come out on top. Maybe facebook will become the next AOL.
Western leaders didn't need the Chinese to teach them about propaganda and the control of information. The fact that we immediately associate the Chinese with this is a result of their work.

The only thing special that the Chinese have done in the past 20 years is not to accept the US imported internet as an unpoliced forum, knowing that it was going to be used as a weapon against them. The US didn't want to leave the internet unpoliced either, but they also didn't want to spend a bunch of money on it. Eventually a private tech censorship industry arose that they could just piggyback on.
Also there was undo foreign influence on the election that didn't become evident until afterwards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...
This is correct. The other comment that I can't reply to is incorrect. Banks not supporting apple pay were a significant holdup to NFC payments in the US.