jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I believe attacking the downvoters usually leads to even more downvotes.

Don't loose sleep over downvotes. It usually either means you broke a rule, or your point of view is largely unpopular. These systems of 'like', 'pluses' and 'up/downvotes' will turn us all into uninteresting sheep if we pay them too much attention.

I agree with your view point, mainly because even though it is sexist, it has managed to mint billions for the toy, movie and game industries. A good portion of the male population do have a proclivity to dominate or destroy or at least simulate those experiences.
They were used on Japan and not Germany because they barely were okayed for use a few weeks prior to their detonation over enemy territory. The Germans had no compunction about dropping them on us had they had a working one so I don't think we would have had any issue deploying one over Germany --just like we had little issue firebombing Dresden. At the time saw both Japan and Germany as mortal enemies and would have used any resource at hand to defeat them militarily.
could you do it the other way around?

how accurately can we recreate a 3d space from sound? what assumptions/information would you need to make it more accurate?
Excellent point. Guess this will depend on the work you need done.

I did a lot of web apps and not much print or illustrations so I never bothered with vector tools.

I did the business card in pixels - good enough for email proofs. Then a guy at the shop remade it in CorelDraw for actual print.

For icons, I just use 512x512. :)
This, my friend is your experience. Make the best with it. To be honest, it sounds terrific.

Also, some years ago I wrote an accounting application I wasn't particularly proud of and it was always with apprehension that I was going back to it to fix some minor bugs. Overall, it worked quite well though.

One day a coworker-friend IMed me to let me know that he had fixed a glimpse in it and said he was impressed at how lean the code was in it and how, ... You get the idea.

So two things: you will always hate your code because it's your creation, thus not/never perfect enough, and you will often find worse coders than you to provide some sort of relief :)
Does anyone have any good resources for http://www.andengine.org/ ?

Or does anyone know of another good 2D game engine for Android?
From my (admittedly outdated) knowledge of the Google recruiting process (I worked there as an engineer and interviewed about 100 people), this was almost certainly NOT an engineer.

Google isn't going to waste an engineer's time going through a predefined script of multiple choice questions over the phone.

These calls are called pre-screens and are usually done by non-technical, dedicated recruiters - frequently contractors.
Yeah, I was thinking about that. It couldn't just encrypt on "no signal". On a rooted Pre I have, I'm able to get lots of radio stuff even when the phone is saying "no signal" and I can't make calls. The noise floor is a pretty good place to start. I'm thinking just monitoring the noise and watching for very sudden changes. If you suddenly change rapidly to very quiet, you might be in a faraday bag.

Hmm. It actually can only report the SNR. I'll have to look into how it comes up with this number. Thanks for the microwave tip. Might be handy.
>Oh wait, there's some super-keen, super bright chap in India who'll do your work for a tenth of the price?

Except he wont. If he's as good as you are his telecommuting rates will be close to what yours are. Think about it.
I have seen one other strange behavior. My wife and I use the same laptop. She had logged into FB. When I was using it, i signed out of her account and signed into my account. I then saw some posts from my wife's friends who are not my friends. Strange.
"even novel algorithms shouldn't be patentable"

Even though I have a couple of patents to my name I am generally against software patents, sometimes I think that for genuinely novel algorithms there should be an exception (e.g. RSA encryption). However, as there is clearly no way of objectively defining what a "novel" algorithm is (i.e. there is no algorithm for it) we can't really have this exception.

So yes, I would agree that algorithms should not be patentable.
I really like this project, especially when going through the docs.
Nearly all the abstractions are very clean in their approach, the only outlier being the hack of using `#each` `/each` comments to indicate looping. I suppose the HTML specs don't have anything for this yet, so one has to adapt in some way.

I like the docs because, having come from a different dev environment, and seeing web/html as a vast sprawling landscape of surface area to learn, littered with defunt, old, broken, and janky throwaway bits everywhere - the documentation implicitly points out the core path of what's needed to understand how to bind and work with data in a web page.

Bravo!

I'm convinced this clarity comes from you distilling down what exactly _are_ the core pieces, and only implementing them first.

some rambling questions:

I wonder how this (synergyjs) works for a webapp type situation? Would one extract .js scripts as modules to reuse custom components? or is that trying to bring this into a more complex setup than is the sweet spot for this lib? e.g. is this better suited for a page at a time?

Also, maybe I'm dense, but does this approach lend itself to single page apps? My understanding is it shines when you have single pages with some logic behind them. If you need to jump to another page, the "passed data" would be encoded in the url, yes?

(I seem to recall the html 5 standards were looking to add something (was it 'proxy'?) that was something like frames, but involved web components, and maybe even passing of data through slots... is that a thing?)
This is a bit of a tangent, but:

Before the pandemic, my wife and I worked from home while our kids went off to school. That made it really easy to have "special" time without concern for the kids hearing us or walking in on us.

With schools doing remote learning, that's no longer possible. Which means we're at the mercy of whenever the kids are soundly asleep at night. Which means we're more tired during those encounters, and it messes up our sleep schedules.

It's one reason I'm really, really looking forward to school returning to normal next fall (fingers crossed).
Why are so many people applauding their customer service? You can't even call them after 3pm PT.
i mean i think i understand the values at play here
You're probably right but also missing the giant elephant in the room which is regulatory capture. aka politics.

This being a partial byproduct of the mass centralization (aka conglomeration) of most every big industry that started in the 80s, accelerating in the 90s, when globalization became a hot thing. And [insert massive finance company's hackery here].

Tons of these conglomerates have strong legacy gov connections and are often the only shop in town for critical industries and are treated like special semi-national bodies. This puts plenty of natural pressure on regulatory bodies.

Boeing is not the only one. This is a phenomenon wide across the western world. Plenty of this exists in Europe too.
why....why is this so satisfying??
A cynic could think that social media and the Internet exist for the sole purpose to aid law enforcement / the government.

In the series Person of Interest, a joke is made where 'Harold' (a main character) claims to have invented social media exactly for this purpose.
"A friend" was detained in protests and illegal parties multiple times, the police will make you identify yourself when you don't have an ID and they radio in or verify your identity with the terminals on their cars. You are obliged to identify yourself when you are "detained", and if you don't in cases like this were there's ample evidence of _at least_ breaking and entering they will arrest you and move on to the next person. They had basically all of the the DC police at their disposal for this, plus the national guard. They can't say they didn't have the resources to identify 100 protesters, I've seen them do it with 20 police officers with bigger groups.

If they are overwhelmed they don't do the verification but they always always always at least write the given identities on a notebook or the car computer.

If they didn't do that when they emptied this building is because someone on the chain of command told them not to. Otherwise they _have_ to do it.
I think the argument is that if we stopped all our CO2 emissions right now we would comply with the 1.5 C target in 2050 but would "only" break it in 2100. Since stopping all our emissions is not even close to what's happening (actually CO2 emissions are rising right now) that's not a viable model. So we will probably need to recapture CO2 as well – or rather we will need to develop the necessary tech first.
Feynman's lectures on physics.
I am quite aware of that keep mind I said generally. However, still the compiler is not wrong returning 1 in the example. Let me show the parts of standard as to why.

So first the operation is a relation expression. Both signed Char and Unsigned Char of the arithmetic type. So we will follow usual arithmetic conversions.

https://i.ibb.co/92bHJMj/1.png

So the when converting integer types the following applies. Particularly, the section I have highlighted. Both signed and unsigned char are also the same rank. So the signed char is converted to unsigned char. However, we have a problem -1 can't be represented in unsigned so we need to look a bit further.

https://i.ibb.co/jRhqd9H/2.png

If we look here we can see the 3 applies. As you can see implementation defined.

https://i.ibb.co/8XrXt34/3.png

However, if we promote to a signed int as you suggest happens; we still run into the same thing.

https://i.ibb.co/RppGK5D/4.png
There is so much misinformation regarding China. China helps all sorts of countries against western aggression. I support socialist projects like China and do not support a straight "free market" capitalist system. I like that they have state owned enterprises. I do not support the Hong Kong terrorists and really no one in the international left does.
The "mysterious constants, registers, etc" are very readable once you get familiar with the agreed abbreviations and the MCU you're programming for (and how bit shifts work in the code example you gave). I really disagree that Rust is somehow more readable, especially not the example you brought. How can you say `pioc.oer` is somehow more understandable than any piece of that C code?
Have you spent any time working at Apple? Because that's not even remotely how things work. Designers are minor deities at Apple; engineering is a remote 2nd.
It depends on the traffic frequency. My father-in-law recalls childhood memories in medium sized town in central Italy in the 50s when kids played soccer in the middle of the main road and just moved the goal when a car or truck had to pass. The road was the main artery for Carrara marble from the quarry to the port. I guess the economy was way smaller then.
Yeah, I got it wrong, it’s Dianne Feinstein not Pelosi, and furthermore it seems that on-the-books financial ties had been broken, but that sure stinks. Furthermore, I’ve had first hand experience with corruption in this state, and I know many other who have. I find it difficult to believe that most states are worse. Oregon seems far more together from what I understand about their politics, for an example of another Democratic state.

My friend, 2 wrongs don’t make a right. I admire(d) Democrats for their pragmatism and I loathe Republicans for their lack of it. I’m not defending Republicans or Conservatives, only pointing out that what we need is fresh blood.
With the query given, the optimiser can immediately figure out to get the latest record from the index and scan back through the index. If the index has included columns, it could scan the data straight off the index. Without the index you need to scan the entire table, sort it in memory, and then read off the top columns. If you were doing a top X query it would be more markedly faster by fetching less data from disk. But I think that query is getting all the records, but still it will be quicker by avoiding the in memory sort.
Electrical tape also fixes a fraying charger.
If there is a running process using that device before/after hibernate, it needs to know it should re-configure it. There is currently no way to pass this information to a Linux process, and quite a task to add the feature to all existing programs.
Because it is obvious, but apparently not to the HN crowd. Let me name it then. Game industry, it's bigger than both music and film industry and it runs exclusively on GUI. Even text based games are GUI actually, not CLI.
Apple won't release a product like Neuralink themselves until the tech is very mature. If anything went wrong with one and left someone in a brain damaged state it would harm their brand too much. Neural interfaces will come from new companies for a very long time to come.
Given that the post is in the “smart home” subreddit, I’m pretty sure they did connect it to their wifi network intentionally. It probably does something very basic like send a push notification when the load is done.
Yes, I love tab completion.

When I enabled tab completion for git and google cloud CLI, my life became much better.

However, I still think there needs to be a "right click menu" for command line programs. Someone needs to determine the 3 most common uses and make it so that --help lets me choose one of them by pressing 1, 2, or 3.

Right now, --help usually gives me something that is difficult for me to understand, especially if I have never used that command before.

Tab completion works great if I have used the command before and want to save time.
tree.h is production-proven and available under a very liberal license (ISC). tree.h is also fairly extensively documented (e.g. https://man.openbsd.org/tree.3); the only real footgun the API allows is documented under "NOTES".

You are, of course, right that pointer-heavy data structures do not perform optimally on modern hardware. But I've still reached for tree.h quite a few times, because it gives you a very flexible data structure that Just Works with little fuss and minimal dependencies.
Here's an easy one: take all the files in a directory, including files nested in subdirectories, pick ten random ones, and open 'em in a new Firefox window.

firefox (find . -type f | shuf -n10)

I doubt your computer comes with a GUI program that can do that for you. My point is that CLIs can easily be plugged into each other whichever way you want, but GUIs (except in some niches like audio) aren't built that way for some reason.
> why aren't big corporations paying more taxes NOW?

And why should they ?? To quote Steve Eisman "incentives trump ethics every single time".

Here's a tax strategy that will greatly simplify all government efforts: any corporation with a market cap of 100bn+ is obliged to sign a privately negotiated deal with the gov to agree on a annual tax rate for the next X years. The minimum is set at 20% with no exceptions and can go up to 50% depending on the estimated negative social impact of the corporation. There are no write offs, no loopholes. Every year the tax bottomline is checked and enforced.

There is also a tax distribution enforced so that only a few can get the 20% one at any time. The goal of this to force a "bidding war" between them to get the lowest tax and the only way to do that is to reduce their negative impact to a bear minimum or stop existing altogether. Incentives.

Once that is set in place work on reducing the tax code complexity for everyone and everything below 100bn. Currently most if not all tax regimes try to shoehorn all entities under the sun under similar rules and then provide various kinds of tax write offs that create incentives to dodge tax and provides the biggest players with a massive advantage as they can hire specialists to focus on every single possible loophole to avoid paying anything.
For example, you can shorten the words, by removing the vowels.

An example:
https://studio.code.org/projects/applab/hxXJIEGg2yza_Q7t9W04...
Exactly, UTF-8 is great, except this part. In the name of unification you destroyed the culture that was there. But modern days people are fine with it as long as it is not their culture. And no, adding fonts or notation doesn't solve the problem. I remember I read a very nicely put analogy on HN years ago.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8041288
I've used the same handle for most things for 16 years, but have others that have also evolved over the same time period, like nicknames, these are often less under our control than we think...
We are vetting each chef profile, and applying Apple's infamous closed-door approach in an attempt to raise the bar on quality. There will be other features coming up that would give quality chefs much higher visibility than others.
Say what you will, but every ingredient for the world RMS has described in "The Right to Read"[1] is by now well in place.

"Pragmatic" line of thinking will likely land us in the most restrictive police state in history.

1. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
"This [Pak 'n Save incident] is like some mad experiment, because you've sent off to church the religious and it's the secular who have gone shopping on Good Friday ... and you've put them to the test.

Citation needed.
The Japanese have vending machines for nearly everything related to shopping.
You know - I like the hell out of Bill Cosby. I'm glad you told me, and I have one more reason to. Thanks!
He's a fundamentalist and has been for some time now. This isn't news, and Christians didn't invent religion, so yeah, there is a connection between rejecting the author's "ideas," and the author not accepting the Founder's principles.

I don't like baseball, should I be commissioner? The author is talking out of turn and deserved that one-sentence reply.

Notice anything funny about this followup post, by the way? The author links to all kinds of praise, but doesn't link at all to the original letter! I don't know if he expects the world to have memorized or bookmarked it already, but it sure tells you where his priorities are. I bet he silently updates it with a link, but the fact remains that it didn't even occur to him to link back to the original article.

Finally, why is it more important for RMS to stop marginalizing himself than it is for the author to stop trying to drag RMS to compromise? I'm no RMS fanboy, but the author sure seems to think him an idiot who doesn't know what he's doing. Have you read the original post? Here's a sample of the author's compelling rationale:

Dr. Stallman, Google Docs is really useful. I imagine you're unlikely
to have tried the service yourself, abstaining as you have from proprietary
software for the past several decades. It may be worth trying the
service out, if only to better relate to your target audience.

Several decades!
In essence, Facebook was checking the "scheme" return value and blocking any URLs where the scheme was "javascript". By adding a space, the scheme ended up blank and the URL slipped through. Facebook has never allowed FBML apps to use javascript: URLs in links.
I think this shows the promise of fully automated shops (the honor system + technology?).
To me Vietnam is largely "of a sort" with China. Certainly not as developed economically but politically not so dissimilar. Your brief comment didn't seem to me to be making finer distinctions.
No, we don't. The CA is supposed to verify the owner of the certificate and stand behind that with a financial guarantee. Otherwise, it's just security theater.
this one's easy: the financial world experienced a 7-sigma event for which institutions were unprepared for and somebody figured that it is worth pulling the emergency brake lever. for a few days GME was almost perfectly reveresly correlated with SP500 - there was a lot of derisking happening all at once. this couldn't all have been retail moving from SP500 to GME.
If you were only talking about people killed by police, why did you provide a list of 19 people, at least 17 of whom weren't killed by police?
So you are saying that they should be trying to change the political landscape to prevent things that might happen in the future? Gross.
Unions stormed the capitol of Wisconsin: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2011/03/10/general-strike-...

Apparently they were only occupying but these guys taking pictures were trying to overthrow the government. Go figure.
The urban vs rural divide is both geographic and cultural.
So any politician that states a falsehood on Twitter should be banned? Or just U.S. presidents?
By removing the problem. If somebody tries to destroy democracy, you first remove them from the position where they could do that, and then, once the immediate danger is gone, you can look at the complex factors.

Triage applies.
Think of it as a startup product and give it a go. The short presentation format works very well.

You probably won't get the turnout YC did, but a much smaller event would end up being much more intimate, a huge plus for introverts.

If the space you use space that's going to be anywhere near capacity, pre-chill it as much as you can before the event. People and projectors are remarkably exothermic.
1. Design and build AI brain
2. New AI brain designs and builds more complex AI brain
3. Repeat step 2
My point was that we should give good hackers the benefit of the doubt when they say quicksort, as they are likely to actually be talking about introsort. GNU C uses introsort to implement qsort, and if I were to implement quicksort for an important job, I certainly wouldn't overlook the fact that it can run to O(N^2).
Read the center of this item which is cited by stretchwithme elsewhere but not hotlinked: http://www.objectivistcenter.org/ct-2089-mutual_plunder.aspx

It agrees with my recollection of the reporting at the time, that when Union Carbide built the plant in 1969 it was in a deserted area and that the victims moved there later (according to this account, due to the actions of local planners).
Interesting, but I add this data point ...

On a site I manage I ask people to enter 4 plus nine (in digits). Recently I've had the following answers: thiteen, 13, tirteen, thirten, thurteen, and 11.

Yes. 11.

The question is, if someone can't add 4 and 9 do you want their opinion?
Commenting on someone's site using a different name is pretty different from being able to fake a post. I have no expectation that comments are written by who they say they are, but I do expect all the posts to be written by the same person.
Couldn't he just use Haskell to write the Java/PHP/whatever code for him? Yeah, every project becomes a language translator, but then he wouldn't have to leave his beloved ivory tower of horrors.
Uninformed dribblings at best.
I think there is a difference between stacking cargo containers for use as a billboard and connecting cargo containers to a spine that provides power and cooling, with the purpose of running a bunch of servers inside the cargo containers.

Google did not patent stacking cargo containers, but stacking them in a specific way for a specific purpose, with additional resources.
An interesting thing posterous could to is send the user a (daily? weekly?) email "reminding" him of the blog, and making it so that just replies to that email count as posts. This lets them even change the GUID for each user if they think it has been compromised.
Have you tried Starbucks in the Keurig cups? That tastes better than Starbucks VIA, to me.
In order to keep your work up, all you have to do is tell your provider that the takedown notice is incorrect, and they'll restore your content. I believe there's a mandated delay (10 days?) before they can do it, so it's still pretty bad, but you don't have to sue. You can sue for damages if you think they sent the takedown maliciously, but it's not required just to restore the content.
It's annoying how you have to use the HDMI for audio. I wish the rpi had a DAC.