jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> You can show up at a bank and demand your balance in central bank money aka cash.

Of course you can. Whether you get it or not is another matter. Have you ever tried it? Do you know anyone who has tried it? Sure, for trivial amounts you can do it. But do you think you can just waltz into your bank and walk out with $50,000 in cash? Good luck.
No if you have millions or billions basic wire transfers are instant and cheap. It is more interesting for if you have a few hundred or a few thousand dollars, where a $10-$50 fee is significant. Or you want to bypass regulations or bureaucracy eg send money to a friend in Argentina or Lebanon which have currency controls.
The question is, based on standard of living, would you rather be poor now or some time in the past? I don't think there's anyone who would choose the past.
Even if you are giving something up for cordless--and I'm happy to stipulate you may be to some degree, there are a lot of situations where you want to do a quick touchup, clean up a spill, etc. and a cordless vacuum like a Dyson is so much quicker and easier. It's the same with a lot of battery-powered tools. They may not be quite as powerful as a corded or gasoline version but they're increasingly powerful enough, especially for relatively light duty use, and they're a lot more convenient.
Yeah, I saw that they implemented a new GTK/Cairo "terminal" backend. This is a good approach and helps to further decouple Emacs's editor core bits from its rendering bits.
Phil and I have been working on this together and are excited to open up beta today. We'll both keep an eye on the thread if there are any questions!

Phil was also on .NET Rocks! today talking about Abbot: https://www.dotnetrocks.com/?show=1726
Thanks for the thoughtful response!

I have played with VS Code remote. I can also recommend Tuple [0] which we've been using (linux version coming soon).

0 - https://tuple.app/
I think it's perfectly valid to point out that improvements in technology are beneficial to the poor. Technology is the reason why most people would likely prefer to be poor in 2021 than rich in 1547.

It's not just iPhones. Even access to food is dramatically better thanks to technology. We no longer have wide-scale famines that we used to have in the past that would kill thousands. Even in the US, to my knowledge, food insecurity is much less of a problem today than it was in 1960.

So I don't see the point in implying that technological progress is worthless.

I do think it's correct that the rich benefit from societal structures more, but I'd rephrase: the rich are more capable of leveraging societal structures. Which in and of itself isn't a bad thing, so long as others are allowed a shot at utilizing those structures, too.

In other words, the fact that more money gives you more benefits isn't something to be sneered at. It's kind of the whole point of money. It should make your life better. Otherwise it fails as an incentive. What shouldn't be the case, however, is that people are unfairly barred from being able to make more money in the first place.

I think we focus too much on equality of outcomes, and not enough on the three important questions:

- It doesn't matter who can leverage societal structures the most. Kudos to the people who can. What matters tax-wise is, who is stressing societal structures the most? An example for illustration's sake: if Amazon is placing an insane burden on the road system and causing more maintenance work, theoretically they should pay more for that than the rest of society does.

- Why don't people have more opportunity to make money? Is our educational system failing them? Are there laws and regulations that are keeping people down? Is rent-seeking behavior edging people out? Etc. This idea that people can't make money because rich people are "taking it all" is silly and not the real problem.

- How can we raise the floor? How do we make it so being poor in America isn't so terrible, and ideally, is okay? We have so many problems with rising healthcare and educational and housing costs, segregation, crime, etc. Collecting more taxes doesn't seem to solve this. Look at SF. One of the most tax-rich cities in America. But do we even know how to deploy that budget effectively to curb homelessness? It doesn't seem so.
Well, you're ignoring blind adherence to process. E.g. it doesn't matter how good an idea is in a 'traditional' Japanese company, if the person presenting it doesn't have seniority, it will be ignored.
BBC micro:bit V2 - Will be able to get tangible results very quickly.

Start with the simple stuff: https://microbit.org/projects/make-it-code-it/

I find games in scratch are complex and require too much programming knowledge to really get something interesting up and running. The micro:bit on the other hand can do interesting lights, sounds, etc with just the drag and drop of a few lines.
Switzerland is only the 13th most dense country in Europe. Notably, the UK and Germany are more dense.
May be worth at least looking into contractors in another time zone to cover your overnight on-call. My team did this a couple years ago and it's significantly eased up our on-call rotation, at least to the point that we're only getting called for major outages while the offshore team handles the minor issues, change/release support and things that go bump in the night. There's still weeks where we put in significant time if there's a major issue, but we're not getting woken up for every little alert that goes off.

I should also add my team has an automatic comp day at the end of our rotation, though that's handled on a team-by-team basis. Plus it's not uncommon to get an extra comp day if you have a particularly brutal week or support some major off-hours work.
By “it” you mean the chips have 4266 MT/s LPDDR4X SDRAM and not ECC, right?
> running arbitrary code on a mac will not be changing.

i wonder how much of this is thanks to peoples "gnashing of teeth" about mac getting an iphone lockdown

in the end its speculation, but id wager a guess apple wouldnt have a big problem locking down macos if people didnt make a big deal out of it
With wifi, you need to make accommodations as well. It's not just Magic Internet Waves. I've had no problem video conferencing on wifi, but I make sure to have reasonable line of sight to my AP. I also chose a model with a simplistic and streamlined design so that it didn't look awful placed prominently in my space.
Fixed interest mortgages in Switzerland are usually only up to 10 years. The 5% underwriting limit is used to minimize the interest risk.
But if you just do the trial you don't know if you actually got the vaccine or placebo.
>> Many of the big society-level issues that we grapple with are more properly questions of economics than science.

I would add that resolving those issues should involve engineers because they try to design solutions that take reality into account. To often solutions from politics and government are based on hope and intent. Sometimes they dont even care about money, principles or goals.
Disagree, you should always strive to write code in the common idioms found in that language's community with local "house rules" deciding the fuzzier points.

I've gotten into this argument frequently with coworkers over the years, usually surrounding situations where we have some side code in a language where the common idioms, style guides, etc are vastly different than our main language. They end up writing X as if it were Y with different syntax, to which I object. Their take is always that it makes the code more readable, but that's not really true - it's only more readable to a Y programmer, not the space of X programmers.
You could test this hypothesis on a website and get 100x the data (with more noise) pretty easily.
Acronis logo doesn't retina-ready... :)
This has the potential to be really devastating, and not because of a few stray lawsuits (if that) that won't go anywhere. It threatens to put the most powerful brands in this society on trial. People understand that there's some socioeconomic corruption in the process, but still have the idea that admissions are 85-90 percent academic. If contrary information gets out there, it could have a major effect.

What will be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in a very short amount of time is that the non-academic "character" component of admissions isn't "partly" socioeconomic but almost 100% socioeconomic. And that's a huge brand risk.
Not seeing a problem isn't evidence that the problem doesn't exist. Announcing that you don't see a problem is a way of denying that there's a problem.
You are absolutely right, if you are not familiar with docker-compose, ssh tunnels, wireguard, etc... it will take more time to setup, that being said as far as maintenance go you will probably have a similar experience.

Most of my setup was done through SSH during boring classes in college so I had plenty of time to read documentation and figure out new tools.
Lucky. On Android it just says the app isn't ready yet.

My guess is they want to herd users to the mobile app right away, rather than manage both the app and optimized website for mobile.
I'm pretty sure tech is the only subculture in which 'disruptive' implies 'good'.
I must be a luddite, I prefer my pixilation like my soup: chunky :)
Buy some reserved instances and then put them for sale.
Did you close your eyes?
Good questions.

> Why do people want to encode videos?

My assumption: Because they either want to watch them on some gadget of theirs (eg. smartphone), or they want to "give" the video to someone (colleague, friend, etc - so not neccessarily sharing in the tweet/post on youtube/vimeo sense). To address this, Encode gives them a video page url they can share / retype in their gadget or use to preview, instead just a download link to the media file.

> Have you considered providing an API for developers and reduced prices for "bulk encoding" (on a monthly basis let's say).

This is exactly what Zencoder does (as well as several others). They're awesome at doing this and have a great API - if you're a developer in need of something like this, you should definitely take a look. Encode is basically a trimmed-down Zencoder for the casual / average Joe user.
You can learn a lot more of the high level parts of the theory by watching the videos at http://videos.syntience.com and by reading http://monicasmind.com . We're not using "usual machine learning" techniques. We use a fusion of several Model Free Methods. The result of the learning is functional but opaque, so there is no "identifying correlations between variables". And the A-N site is not "marketingspeak" . It's a serious attempt to convey the high level points of the theory to those who would benefit from knowing that alternatives to the current failing paradigm exists... Researchers that are struggling with something that doesn't work and students entering the field. We are making an effort to stop the cyclic propagation of the Reductionist AI meme, which is what universities and established textbooks teach.
Does anyone have any experience with one or more of the above, to help narrow down the field of viable frameworks?
The point is that always adding semicolons does not solve the weirdness problem. Consider:

return
17

This returns undefined, which is counter-intuitive if you come from other c-style syntax languages. But if you say "always terminate statements with a semicolons, otherwise weirdness happens", the intuitive fix is:

return
17;

Which still doesn't solve the problem. You have to remember an additional rule: "Don't insert line breaks in the middle of a statement, if the line break could be interpreted as a statement terminator." Or to put it another way: If you are in doubt, don't use a line break.

The problem isn't really if statements should be terminated with a semicolon or not. The problem is to decide when it is safe to insert a line break when it is not intended to terminate the statement.
No, Hell no. The UN should not be involved in the Running of the Internet. That would be worse than ICANN by far
I wanted to like quora. I tried to engage there and contribute to raise my professional profile and, yes, pitch my side projects as parts of answers when relevant.

Why wouldn’t that be considered “astroturfing”?
The distinction between could could and should? Or the distinction between private and public? Because all are debated on a regular basis, vary by jurisdiction/country, and are not black and white. Take the issues surrounding filming police officers in public is an example.
If a website didn't require an account initially it should not require it years after it's founded, that's just nonsense and it will drive people away to other alternative websites giving the same service without requiring registration.
The crux of this article appears to be:

> it seems reasonable to allow that simulations, as experienced by their inhabitants, could have entirely different models of math, physics, and even consistency.

Which is a (shallow, informal) restatement of Hilary Putnam's work on externalism and its many responses. Just read some of that instead.

Software developers (or worse, tech entrepreneurs) often assume they have something to add to the discussion of simulationism just because computation is the simulation substrate du jour in Bostrom's work. But the philosophical discussion goes back directly to Descartes and indirectly even further. It's broad, complex, and not something a dilettante can just jump into after a teenage diet of scifi.

(This doesn't apply to Bostrom himself - the article's objection is a subset of his #2 option. If the "necessary overlap in metaphysics" is impossible or prohibitively expensive future civilizations are not likely to run them.)
Started dealing with computers since the mid-80's, I never remember big corporations being big into any kind of "open", beyond standard specifications like X/Open and similar.

Even Linux's adoption was more with not paying UNIX licenses than caring about any kind of openness.
You would be surprised how fast things played out in Yugoslavia. I clearly remember 15 years old me at 1989 when I become aware how expensive weapons really are and how stupid is to spend such large amount of money on something that we obviously will never need. War started two years later, I got drafted couple of years later and ended using same weapons that I firmly believed we'll never need.

You can argue that I was naive kid but war came as a big surprise to large percentage of adults too. From memoirs of various politicians it's clear that they had much better grasp on reality but for general public things moved from bad to worse really, really fast.
People get shot over things that amount to less than a minimum wage paycheck, that doesn't mean she is dead. Your example of Bulger is bad, he was 89 at the time of his death, that's 10 years older than the avg European male's lifespan. If John McAfee's still alive, she could also still be alive.
What would the "killer" part be? Just being not-from-Google is not enough of a value proposition for most people.
It's this friendly, open attitude to new young programmers that has made Lisp as popular as it is today.

I can't wait to see this person's algebra textbook. "Integral calculus is so old and boring, puleezz. Wake me up when you've rediscovered quaternions."

And people wonder how PHP can be so popular. I could spend all day enumerating PHP's faults, but when people who have never written an X before build an X in PHP, the PHP community welcomes them with smiles, not sneers.

I wish, I really do, that one percent of one percent of the world's programmers had actually implemented a simple Lisp in Lisp, let alone reached the point where such a thing seemed boring. But lecturing us on our lameness is not going to help.
For `tech' news, yes.

For `news' news, the BBC (Radio 4 and http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/).
That's, probably, because most (IMHO) sites are hacked "live", by modifying code right on the production server. And there're no automated testing involved, at all.

With proper development process (with development->staging->production cycle), and fair tests coverage, there shouldn't be any problems with strict XHTML validation. Except for human laziness (I'm guilty too, of course) and lack of easy-to-use "here, install this toy, fill in this five-line config and deploy with just one command" tools.
Can't find any particularly good sources, but the comment section of [1] has good information on the route (essentially, winding around "Mescalito", a classic aid route) and well-informed speculation on the gear. Essentially a pretty standard setup for hard free climbing on big walls - trad, augmented with a mix of bolts and fixed gear.

[1] http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?t=605685
Are there counterfeits being made? Seems like those games would be relatively easy to copy for someone with a little skill. I don't imagine many buyers are able to verify authenticity.
Thank you. The db drivers do need some love and are going to get it soon, but it's been a relatively lower priority considering other areas of focus by community members.
"The second technique is that of trying to normalize employee performance review ratings across departments"

And here goes your sloppy thinking. You didn't actually normalize anything, you just assumed it away. You didn't attempt to understand if some team really is all-stars or not - you just assumed that the distribution of capabilities of people in the teams follows the same bell curve. Regardless of how good their manager or project or other circumstance is, for instance. Basically, you decided to fudge the numbers for a warm-fuzzy feeling.
Is that Saturn in the upper left? I thought it was an icon or some artificial marking it's so stereotypically Saturn shaped I didn't think it was really Saturn.
I don't know about movies, but VGHS @ rocketjump.com did it rather well, it's amazing seeing this kind of quality from a Kickstarter project...
The list isn't intended to be 100% serious.
Quite true. The total is quite a bit higher as some popular apps like GIMP (136,000 downloads in the last month) are 64MB and July and August are our slowest months. Additionally, apps like Inkscape are hosted on their own SourceForge project and LibreOffice is hosted by The Document Foundation (not included in the above numbers). Then there's all the freeware we host elsewhere that doesn't show in the SourceForge stats (which we pay the bandwidth on). All told, I think we're easily exceeding a petabyte a year. I used to actually keep those stats, maybe I should look into it again.
But the 1020 doesn't shoot in RAW, does it?
That sounds like the 'standard' model of several threads calling accept(), after all if you are multi-threaded you don't need to pass a file descriptor around, each thread will already have it.

With FD passing, you can have multiple processes, related or unrelated, pulling incoming connections from the same socket. You use the FD passing to share the listening socket.
IE11’s WebGL support (while good that it’s there at all) is somewhat unfinished.
The impression I got by the end of the article is that he says it's up to Africa to make itself relevant to tech companies, certainly not that tech should pay more attention to Africa 'just because'.
What languages are you developing in? We may be able to direct you to some specific tools.

Command line is essential: You can find it under /Applications/Utilities/Terminal or in Finder: Macintosh HD->Applications->Utilities->Terminal

These are my main dev tools:

GitX (Git), Colloquy (IRC), Transmit (FTP), Vim or TextMate (text editors), MySQL Pro (MySQL client), Transmission (BitTorrent client)
I've used Redmine extensively both as a freelancer and in small and medium sized shops. It satisfies (1), has the capacity for (2), especially with certain plugins, takes care of (3) better than any other app I've used...

You have (3) twice, but it also handles time tracking, and via other plugins handles it quite well and can even handle billing and invoicing from time tracking data. Project status, milestones (it calls them versions, but everyone I know uses them as milestones), and so on.

And if there's anything you don't like about it, hey, it's a rails app, or if you don't want to change it yourself, there's a very vibrant community around it, and I even know a guy who does custom Redmine development work for a living.
+1 on iTerm. It supports 256 colour mode so if you're using a custom vi theme like Zenburn, it'll actually work.

BTW, alt-tab (er, command-tab) still switches between applications, but not between different instances of an application. For that, you want command-` It took me several months of using the mouse to stumble across that one.
Eclipse runs on osx, you just need to edit the keyboard shortcuts otherwise you will be very frustrated.

Re: iPhone 4, jailbroken? I can't live without a jailbroken iPhone fwiw.
"That's a unique pair of boots."
Isn't it odd to announce the A/B test when you've just started it ?

I mean, I don't think HN readers are in the bingo cards market, but still, it feels like he might be influencing the results by blogging about this beforehand.
Given IE's misleading page about HTML5 support, by omitting the parts they do not support to make it look like they are the market leader, Apple could have had something to gain by giving a warning that says something along the lines of "Your browser doesn't fully support the HTML5 features we're demonstrating, click here to continue, click here to experience it in Safari."

I want to see how the other browsers stack up in their demos and think it's short sided of them to not allow that to happen.
This is why I love the Internet.
I started using http://axure.com/ it allows for wireframing and prototyping. It is simple to learn and simple to use. They have excellent support and a free trial, I highly recommend it.
You seem to think that the filter that the ISPs come up with is going to be impossible - or even difficult - to get past. I'm extremely doubtful about that.
It's not really overclocking though - the oven already can handle those temperatures.

The difference is he modifies it so he can open the door when it's doing that. It's not a fire hazard, it's a burn hazard (well obviously there is a fire hazard, but stuff burns at 500 too).
I'm a fan of opt-out organ donors. Unless you have strong feelings (possibly religious beliefs), there's no reason to take it all with you.

Porn, on the other hand, has very few externalities.
Why bottled water? What does not having fluoride do?
Parental protection means a lot more than a filter on the internet connection. I know full well my kids can find a way to get what they really want to get whether porn, drugs, or whatever. My wife even found candy hidden away in my five year old's bed the other day (no candy after brushing teeth). Much more important is instilling values and helping them understand the reasons behind the rules. It is almost 100% the parents responsibility to do that.
I almost considered doing my python development full-time in a windows vm because PTVS looks amazing.
The image of the symbols (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vincan_symbols.jpg) cites some blog (http://weburbanist.com/2010/05/24/undead-languages-10-myster...) which cites wikimedia.
And money is important to them?
That's a good point, but from my own behavior: when I'm ready to buy, I go search for that product on Amazon. My general thinking is "Well, now I'm ready to get a better deal on this thing."

And if people aren't clicking "buy" through Google's ads, then that's really... not good.
You know, that's probably it. It used to be so useful, and with Amazon getting stronger I can't see a good reason why they would have b0rked it so much.

Anybody got any ideas why Google Shopping isn't getting more love?