jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So what happens if you try to decode a really big PNG, e.g., like any of the > 1Tb large pngs of space photos that are around?
I'm pretty sure I could deal with my commuting app being down for planned maintenance once a year for 3 hours. Especially if I got prior notification.

What's a good time for outage? I don't know anything about your app. You could do a database query and look for 3 hour intervals where less than 10 people are using your app. If those happen at regular times, those would be good candidate times for planned maintenance.

If you can't find a time slot like that, because you always have a significant number of people using your app at any time of day every day of the year, and the impact of a planned maintenance window would be significant to your customers, then you are probably at a scale where it makes sense to think about zero downtime migrations.

But to be honest, I think that 90% of startups don't fall into that category. I've seen founders that wasted time on multi master replication and automatic scaling just because it was fun to think about, before they even had any data or customers...
I agree.

The article is written from a programmer’s point of view and I understand that a programmer doesn’t want to deal with font characteristics or how something is perceived.

The role of a designer ist to think about font sizes an line heights and designers have to understand how typography on the web works. Typography is not something which is based on numbers or technical rules.

I think it’s good that the job of creating good ‘online stuff’ hasn’t merged into one person doing everything. It’s still too complex, because you can’t turn everything into numbers and rules.
See my reply above about your Android App.

I think I want vifero.no itself to be REALLY simple, so OOvsuOO's comment will always be relevant:

"It's pretty cool! Looked at the examples and neat! No distractions that's what we need more in the web. NO ads and distractions."
Von Neumann definitely didn't want to die. According to Wigner: "When Jancsi realized that he was incurably ill, his logic made him conclude that he would cease to exist, cease to have thoughts. The full content of this was incomprehensible to him and it horrified him. We all know this and try to accept it, but it is always difficult. It was heartbreaking to watch the frustration in his mind when the hope was gone. His fate was unavoidable to him, but it was still unacceptable."
The very first B compiler was written in BCPL by Ken Thompson. B later became self-hosting, i.e. the BCPL compiler compiled the B compiler, but this had another set of challenges due to the extreme memory constraints. It was an iterative process where a new feature was added such that it pushed the memory limit and then the compiler was rewritten to use the new feature to bring the memory usage down.

C was heavily inspired by B and I suspect written in B aswell. Alternatively, BCPL was extremely portable as it compiled to OCode (what we'd recognise today as bytecode) so that might have been another option. The assignment operators of =+ are straight from B and later changed to += due to Dennis Ritchie's personal taste.
They dogfooded, past tense. But nobody wants to work with old PHP code - which I guess is part of the dogfooding in this case? idk
This article contains no content except a decades-old rant against full disclosure.

Two things to remember: the person who discovered the hole didn't put it there, nor is it likely he is the first person to see it. He is, however, the first person that was thoughtful enough to tell you about it so you could take mitigating action. The crackers wouldn't do that, nor would Microsoft.

As for the exploit code, well, he's a programmer. People don't believe you unless you prove it. He proved he was right by writing exploit code.

Bottom line: don't shoot the messenger. He is helping you! It's Microsoft that added a security hole to their product and hoped nobody would notice.
Except for gauging how a product will resonate with end users if your targeting a non technical audience, those other 99% can be very useful for discussing broad concepts or showing demos to where other technical or business startup people will usually focus on different aspects.
hmmm i am gonna miss this one since i am in Kobe at customer site..but sure would like to sit with you when i am back in Tokyo...some ideas spinning in my head...
Sorry I was rather vague there.
Ultimately needed lots of parallelism. Smallest unit of parallelism in my ETL tool is threads. If you need more threads than one core or CPU can deliver, then you cluster out to multiple machines, and they communicate via sockets as needed.
Hopefully the Fed is smarter than the Russians, an actual US Treasury default would be a cataclysmic event that would drive all risk premiums everywhere through the roof. I suspect that they will choose riding the inflation tiger and trying to terrify the politicians into some semblance of fiscal rectitude over seeing them just plain crap out on the debt. I also don't suspect that the Russians have anything approaching the political neutrality of the Fed anywhere in their government, nor have they ever.
While Hacker News is focused on hacking/coding, that will almost certainly be the easiest part of what you're trying to do.

What will make the difference in whether or not you shake up the news industry is the type of content you create and how you create it, not the software that runs the site.

My advice to you is to get the easiest possible writing platform (that means WordPress) running, and then spend your time writing and putting out those "short, sweet facts." Try and find other people to do this as well.

Then get as many people as you can to read the site and see what they think of it.
This is (IMHO) how you should go about doing it yourself:

1) First of all find out who your looking to speak to. Airlines are huge. Who in the airlines owns the process/es that your solution addresses? Who in the organization would benefit on a day to day level from your solution?
- If you can't find this info from secondary research your going to have to try to speak to someone in the industry who can help you figure this out.

2) Contacting People
- Try your best to get an introduction from someone (Anyone - friend of a friend, in-law's cousin, alumni, whatever) in your network to someone in the airline. They don't have to be the right contact to begin with. Sometimes they're just contacts to get more contacts.
- I agree with what others have said about big companies being harder to break into. People at smaller companies often know counterparts in larger companies. So this can be a good first step.
- Cold calling probably has the lowest success rate (you will have to make a ton of calls to even speak to someone useful)
- Random LinkedIn messages are better, but will go mostly unanswered.
- Join their forums, groups, sign up for their blogs.

I could go on, but I have an incubator interview myself tomorrow I have to prep for.
I agree, it's a cumulative thing. If they're stingy, make my day to day tooling a pain in the ass, AND expect a lot out of me? No way.
> No software project cares what the calendar looked like during the roman empire. Sure, its quirky that OCTober is month 10 instead of 8. Doesn't affect anything at all.

Unless you're doing astronomy:

* https://stellarium.org/doc/0.21/classJulianCalendar.html

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_year_(astronomy)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day

* https://squarewidget.com/julian-day/

> There is also a Julian date commonly used in astronomy, which is a serial date system starting on January 1, 4713 B.C.E.

* https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/insert-julian-dat...
I do not recall any issues in WA. OR had a bunch of people out of power due to downed power lines due to ice forming on trees and then trees or tree branches falling down and taking the power line down.

There was never any problem with supply of power though, since there is plenty here due to hydro.
When people say "there is no evidence of genocide", they mean it in a legal sense. No legal definition of genocide applies to China's domestic policies in Xinjiang. The UN and US government both agree on this point; they don't pretend to prosecute China for something they know they can't prove in an international court.

But that's not the point. USG doesn't give a single F--- about distant Muslims, much less Chinese Muslims.

The propaganda effect is the point. And Wikipedia is an important tool for that.
Move fast and break cyclists
The civil war is still taught as the "war as northern aggression" in a lot of schools
> I get the utilitarian argument that maybe self driving cars could reduce traffic accidents in the future by being better than humans on average.

This keeps being touted (by Elon and others), but is a long way away: https://twitter.com/Tweetermeyer/status/1488673180403191808

Tesla uses misleading stats (like not excluding highway miles, which are inherently safer) to try and make it seem like autopilot is any good.
>If you can justify one more …

Reminds me of Terry Pratchett quote "No excuses. No excuses at all. Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.”

Full quote is fifth here: <https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/819104-thud>
Self-driving cars will never be a reality if the standard for success is zero deaths during the early stages of development. It just won't happen. The technology won't ever be good enough if it's not tested in the real world.

Furthermore, no self-driving system will be perfect even in a mature stage of development. People will still die, and they may die because of mistakes a human driver would not have made.

If society isn't willing to accept that sacrifice, then let's just ban self-driving cars.

But let's not try to have it both ways -- let's not allow self-driving while also holding the view that risk of death is unacceptable.
If they run late, or have a badly formatted resume, it shows their lack of attention to detail or poor planning/preparation. That is exactly the qualities I don't want in an employee.

I've interviewed hundreds of people in my time as a manager and employed around 100 people (probably around a 10 to 1, interview to hire ratio average) and one thing I've learnt is the small issues are important things to note because they are the early warning indicators of issues.

Being a good employee and fit for the team is much much more than simply answering a question correctly.
>"What we call "corruption" is just a manifestation of the human nature to be selfish (combined with unability[sic] to think beyond scope of one's own person and family, something many people seem to suffer from)"

Without going into the whole "altruism" vs "egoism" discussion. One simply needs to admit that there is a slight, never-zero skew for individuals to favor self and family over others. Hardly something you could use the word "suffer" for, without injecting your own personal bias into the matter.
The first thought I had would be to put this into HSV, and then index that with an R-tree [1]. This way, you can do nearest neighbor kind of stuff, similar to geospatial indexing.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-tree
Why bother working on a proper distribution of a package that isn't anywhere near ready?

It will come in its due time.
I just finished a 10 week internship at Yahoo and while I can't say much about where the company is headed strategically, I can say that it's a super exciting time to be working there :)
It's easier to price a luxury car appropriately if the taxpayer is contributing $7,500.
Pollan is an investigative journalist more than anything. But whatever, it was just a pointer. There is quite a bit written out there about the psychological aspects of eating.

I'll agree that Soylent is healthier fast food than McDonald's. I just won't agree that eating Soylent on a regular basis is as healthy as taking your time and sharing non-McDonald's meals with your friends and/or family. Everyone has friends and family. I guess I feel like Soylent is encouraging social isolation, and helping people to deprive themselves of the physical pleasure of eating.

I'll also agree that spending hours a day preparing food sucks. That's for professional chefs and stay-at-home spouses to choose. But a maximum average of an hour total per day is pretty reasonable in my opinion.
I can be snooty too.

At some point, I will learn that many people just aren't capable of pulling the blinders off and realizing that killing thousands of innocent people every year without any sort of accountability is just complete lunacy.

Honestly, it seems like your definition of "intelligent" is "middle of the mainstream road." I can't really see how that holds up to tell you the truth.
I think one sign of maturity is learning to watch out for your own well being, as a long-term investment in your own future.

These companies take advantage of young, immature people that are still finding their way and learning life's many ropes. Unacceptable.
but I don't want to follow anyone at the moment, I want to look at the stories and comments on the main page.
People who spend a lot of time working with and thinking about the Internet, and not a lot of time working with and thinking about government, often fall victim to the delusion that the Internet somehow "changes everything."

It's not true in the slightest. Governments have consolidated, maintained, and lost power since the dawn of civilization. They have marshaled popular support, quashed dissenters, and brutalized their enemies. They have taken major societal changes (Industrial Revolution, advent of firearms, invention of broadcast media) and harnessed them for the perpetuation of their own power.

Governments will continue to use their central power, the power of violence, to maintain the general framework under which their power endures. The Internet won't change that at all.
Wistia has a lot of great how-to videos for people new to video content: http://wistia.com/learning

I believe they also have a newsletter where they share good tips.
These website clearly radicalize some people. I too lurk from time to time on thedonald.win and far-right subreddits, you can see that over there reality is completely distorted, calls to violence are constant and they just feed off each other's insecurities, fears and hate.

Nothing good comes out of these places, regardless of where in the political spectrum you position yourself (except maybe downright fascists). Look at what happened at the Capitol, did he further the right's agenda? Of course not, if anything it put them in a much more awkward situation.

Reddit admins are enablers and they share a part of the blame. Remember how subreddits like /r/jailbait and /r/creepshots were allowed on the website for months, if not years (among many others I can't be bother to remember, including some extremely explicitly racist ones)?

Then it's always the same thing, some news outlet or politician talks publicly about how Reddit hosts fascists/pedos/racists or something like that and within two days you have bans and a heartfelt post by the admins saying how they felt that it was their duty to do something and "think of the children" and all kinds of bullshit.

Reddit is 4chan wearing a tie to try to look more business friendly.

These subreddits and websites don't host free speech, they host hate speech. I have zero issue drawing a line in the sand here. "First they came for the fascists, and I said nothing because I'm not a fascist, and the world was a better place. The end."
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Yeah. For what it's worth (not sure if it makes you feel better or worse...) I've found similarly bad bugs in SciPy too.
> please don't judge me

I'll say it out loud: though I despise Trump and mourn the damage he and those enabling have caused, I spend more time online looking at pro-Trump, conservative and Republican focused material than anything else. I downvote none of it, even the legit crazy/scary stuff, and in the rare cases I comment, it's carefully worded to be neutral or even sometimes conciliatory, though always honest.

It scares me that many people feel the need to apologize for openly admitting that they looked at material from 'the other side'.

More often, people will refrain from posting their actual, perhaps nuanced views entirely, due to the fear of being judged/attacked/whatever. Didn't Paul Graham write an essay about that?

My wife was writing a research essay to present to our local Toastmasters group, which she is a relatively new member of. She was going over the talk with one of the senior members, one on one, on zoom, and she mentioned, in passing, that our family is going to delay getting the Covid19 vaccine a couple of months, because we've been exercising (essentially) phase 0 (extreme) lockdown consistently since last March. We can do that because we're blessed with the ability to work and (for our son) go to school from home.

The person my wife mentioned this to just lost her shit, and went into a verbal rampage about how to delay getting the vaccine is akin to being an anti-vaxer, how it was immoral to not get it as soon as humanly possible.

To be clear: If any of me, my wife or son came into contact with other human beings with any frequency, we'd get the vaccine as soon as possible. We're not afraid of it.

But others need it before we do.

However, that 'nuance' was entirely lost in an emotional, knee-jerk reaction which reminds me of so many other things we see today.

Was there voter fraud in the 2020 US presidential election? I'd bet my life on it; that there was at least a single single incident of fraud. Did that fraud in any way change the outcome of the election? Of course not.

Apologies for the tangent.

I want to encourage everyone to consider looking carefully, deeply and compassionately at what 'the other side' writes and says. It's not easy to do, but I believe it's a necessary, critical work that all of us need to honestly engage in.
It's further fanning flames as well. Censorship is a coarse option and bound to inflict the collateral damage of instilling in the reasonable a sense of voicelessness. Beyond setting a precedent and creating something that can be used against us, we're creating more people we seek to deplatform.
How is it strawman? Those are actual real world actions people commited, because of their opinions.

Not even month ago. Ignoring yesterday, there was plan and attempt to execute Mitchigan governor last few months. There was Nashville boombing, likely due to whatever conspiracy theory that man believed.

Even Elliot Rodger had opinions largely from incels chans.
No, by 2040 Well need flood defences and water treatment plants (for the droughts)...
> On the right, you have people who storm the US fucking Capitol building while they are confirming the next POTUS.

Could you directly address that time back in June when armed BLM protestors stormed Capitol Hill in Seattle and kicked out all the police for a month?[0] Why does that event get a pass in the context of this conversation?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Autonomous_Zone
Or if you want to take even more risk, do some rally and go full speed through a forest. That way you can also get your car destroyed if you make a mistake.
We don't know if any particular configuration of OpenBSD with or without hardware accelerators in any particular release of OpenBSD had this problem exploitably, although it sure looks like they did.

I'm pretty certain 3.0 and 3.1 had this bug, regardless of hardware accelerator. At the bottom of this post http://extendedsubset.com/?p=41 there's a rough description of the code path.
As someone who sells VPSs for a living, well, I'd want a pretty significant discount to take a VPS over a dedicated server of the same specs. The big problem with VPSs is I/O. If you have a 1TB disk and you split it so that two servers are using it, each server, sure, gets 500gb, but each server gets /way less/ than 1/2 the I/O performance. When you have more than one server hitting the same disk, all your sequential transfers become random transfers, and random transfers, especially on the SATA that nearly all VPS providers use, suck.
> thinking in such a black and white manner isn't beneficial to decent conversation.

Should having "decent conversation" be the goal?

Because I prioritise not being discriminated against by my government because of my sexual orientation slightly higher than having a decent conversation.
Why would you be surprised? Why throw out scrap fish and seafood when you could sell it as chicken feed?
Who you give the gatekeeping keys to has importance and value.
This is just not true for at least the first 15 years of a doctor's career.

Source: Worked with multiple surgeons all over the country.
The technical term for the cut is called Merchant Discount Rate (MDR). It's usually 1-3%.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/merchant-discount-rate....

I'm not sure what's the exact revenue share model / contractual agreements between Apple and its partner payment platforms(Stripe, etc).
I met a local portraiture teacher, and all he did was take a nice photo of someone and copy it on canvas. His craft seemed great. But I didn't get the point of copying a photo exactly. Why not just print out the photo? But I guess he enjoyed the painting process.
Or 20% of just the corporate and 100% of everybody else.

They’re still a small company.
Does Intel have access to the necessary patents?
"You can't legislate away hate" does not imply "you shouldn't try". The Civil Rights Act was a positive development, despite failing to "solve" racism.
It's only in the Chinese market where FSD isn't offered.
Very true. I think I should have said European region/Western Europe. Philosopically I'm a European, Brexit or not.
Sounds good. I've signed up for the Beta. I'm a stats whore, as are, probably, many Twitter power users.

I guess the monetisation is pretty obvious - charge businesses for analytics - though I wonder how they'll tier the pricing. After all, many tiny, broke businesses are very active on social media, so activity won't be a good way to split it...
He's not a savory character, and it goes farther than just bad social skills. Your friend made the right choice.
It's a bit bizarre. Why would someone use a service to tell them they're no longer following them rather than do it themselves? I mean, telling them in the first place is fairly petty, but getting a service to do it for them?

Having said all that, kudos to you for building something and shipping it in a day.
It's kinda like the emperors clothes.

They're the most wonderful lavish invisible clothes I've ever seen.
easing not easying
I'm concerned about that as well.

On the one hand, I can understand that you don't want to grind kids down and completely humiliate them. On the other hand, I don't see how they can learn to handle adversity if we constantly shelter them from anything that might hurt their feelings. Sure, it sucks to lose (the soccer and basketball teams I played on were terrible) but sometimes life works out that way, unfortunately.

Granted, I'm talking out of my rear end here since I don't have kids, but several of my friends do and most of them agree that kids aren't that fragile.
This title is misleading. The article isn't very good and certainly doesn't have any real answers. It's pure speculation.
The point (for at least the ipad) was to get the ability to get that plan only in the months you need it, not all the time.
That would make a entertaining game of soccer won't it. Everybody trying to score on their own goal.
It took me a while to remember mine. It was my first introduction to functional programming using JavaScript. I didn't even realize that's what I was doing but when I realized that I could write a function that returned a function my brain damn near exploded with possibilities.
If it isn't illegal, it isn't a conspiracy.