jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm in awe at the existence of this thing. Cannot say anything.

EDIT: Alright, I found something to say. Everything is stunningly perfect about this project except for one thing: the disturbing "mock greek" (using d as o and m as u, etc). Is it a sort of modern utf8 version of 1337-speek? Maybe it is too ironical to understand?

EDIT2: OK, now I get it. The "actually portable executables" use an amazing hack where the PE header itself gets executed as machine code, it turns out to be mostly harmless, and execution is captured from that forward, using other data parts of the header as code. This is the same thing your brain does when reading letters in mixed alphabets. It is confusing when you know both alfabets and try to read on each, but if you squint your eyes, then only the actual shape of the characters matters, and you can read it for its intended meaning. Thus it is a sort of self-referential title which is perfectly appropriate here.
Speck is bacon and also (human) fat. Kummerspeck is the fat you get from feeling bad.
I’m not a doctor, but isn’t this a lost cause?

The masks we all wear are primarily droplet guards, not air filters, they catch splatter that might float. All of the air that blasts out the back and escapes is barely going to be diverted by another mask after it’s already escaped the other mask and has had time to exist, right?

I guess for my threat analysis, if you’ve already invited them inside your house and they’ve stayed long enough that you think their breath particulates are floating in the air, you’ve already lost the war, so to speak.

Probably just a few minutes will be all that matters, I suspect. If you like, go take a walk and wait for the droplets to land?
I have also read Kurose and Ross (and other books) but this is another classic of the field and definitely recommended.

Besides it being open source, it's kind of exciting that it has some coverage of topics like virtual networks, SDN, advanced congestion control, etc..
Your proposal has some interesting implications. There's a bunch of services offering web-to-snail-mail facilities. Some of them even offer an API, so this could in theory be automated.
"Everything is easy for the person who doesn't have to do it himself." And it is even easier for those looking at it from an adequate distance and who have no idea what is involved.
:(

It really is pretty cool if you can take a look on a bigger screen!
> Comparing IE10 to Chrome 10 isn't exactly apples to apples. Chrome 11 or 12 should be compared to IE10 since those are the development versions.

That is true - comparing an unreleased IE to a released Chrome isn't fair.

However, the released Chrome was much slower than all other released browsers - Firefox, Safari, Opera, even IE9. Chrome usually does well on benchmarks, so it is interesting to see it doing so poorly on real-world code.
Define "fast". No joke, no sarcasm, no snark intended; you really ought to be more specific if you want useful answers.
Inspirational story. I'm glad to hear success stories from people who took this path. I'll be contacting you shortly!
It does a poor job of comparing a raven to a writing desk. It doesn't know they both have inky quills. Someone with an account should add that answer. ;)

It doesn't know enough about Dali's 'Persistence of Memory' or Botticelli's 'Birth of Venus' to compare them to da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa', but if you ask it to compare the Dali and Botticelli with each other it does a good job of extracting data from Wikipedia to compare them to each other. http://www.diffen.com/difference/Birth_Of_Venus_vs_Persisten...

It was fun to try out a few things. One of the poorest matches in my limited tries was chlorophyll vs. xanthophyll. http://www.diffen.com/difference/Chlorophyll_vs_Xanthophyll . It found nothing for the latter and one of the little bits it know about chlorophyll is 'types: many such as a, b, c etc.'
Android Studio is better in this regard, there's an SDK manager so I don't need to have watchOS/tvOS installed when my apps don't target it
Reading things like these is bittersweet. One one hand, I am glad to see that the art of figuring out “why is this thing slow” is still alive and well, even in the face of pushback from multiple fronts. On the other hand, it’s clear that the bar is continually rising for people who are looking to do this as a result of that pushback. Software has always had a bottleneck of the portion of the code written by the person with the least knowledge or worst priorities, but the ability to actually work around this as an end user has gotten harder and harder.

The first hurdle is the technical skill required: there has always been closed source software, but these days the software is so much more complex, often even obfuscated, that the level of knowledge necessary to diagnose an issue and fix it has gone up significantly. It used to be that you could hold and entire program in your head and fix it by patching a couple bytes, but these days things have many, many libraries and you may have to do patching at much stranger boundaries (“function level but when the arguments are these values and the call stack is this”). And that’s not to say anything of increasing codesigning/DRM schemes that raise the bar for this kind of thing anyways.

The other thing I’ve been seeing is that the separation between the perceived skills of software authors and software users has increased, which I think has discouraged people from trying to make sense of the systems they use. Software authors are generally large, well funded teams, and together they can make “formidable” programs, which leads many to forget that code is written by individuals who write bugs like individuals. So even when you put in the work to find the bug there will be people who refuse to believe you know what you are doing on account of “how could you possibly know better than $GIANT_CORPORATION”.

If you’re looking for ways to improve this, as a user you should strive to understand how the things you use work and how you might respond to it not working–in my experience this is a perpetually undervalued skill. As a software author you should look to make your software introspectable, be that providing debug symbols or instructions on how users can diagnose issues. And from both sides, more debugging tools and stories like this one :)
Zoom.

Enhance.
You should have a way to contact you somewhere on your site. That blog post is an excellent stand in for a resume :)
Or 'Brave'.
I guess they mean what Google says: http://starcitizen.wikia.com/wiki/Idris
For sure. I'm surviving.
I've said this before on HN, but it's worth repeating. I want a Warcraft-style MMO that immerses me in a foreign language. Instead of "Go kill 8 dragons" the questgiver tells me to "Mata a 8 dragones verdes" and it's up to me to figure out he said green dragons, not just any dragons.

I would play the hell out of that game and I'd be fluent in like 8 languages after a few months. Please, somebody with access to like $10 million of funny money, build this.
You can't choose what you are interested in, but you can choose to pursue your interests.
I'm in Japan and I'm having some delicious sushi while working very hard with the support of different parties to find a solution to my recent issues.

Sincerely, mfukar.
To this day I have never seen an engineer laugh as long as I did when I introduced the original Zombo.com to a coworker, back when it was new and somewhat unknown (I think I discovered it via Fark.com?)
> They're touchy about people recognizing what they view as separatist movements

I love how you refer to mass kidnapping of protestors from Hong Kong "touchy".
I don't remember the fully vest time at amazon but at FB it was 4 years.
I'm 30 and my social circle as well as myself regularly use FB, Instagram, and FB Messenger.

FB main platform I'll use for events and, most importantly, Groups. I have been overall quite impressed with the communities in the FB Groups (of course some are better than others).

For example I've been a huge fan of the Streets of Rage series; SOR4 came out last year, 25 years after the previous release. The Streets of Rage 4 facebook group has been an absolute godsend. Very active community, tons of expert players posting videos, very easy to find people to play with, funny memes, the works. The SOR4 discord is hit and miss and reddit is too much of a message board and isn't so active. FB Group is light years ahead of any other community for this game that I've found.

I've also joined groups for The Office, Futurama, etc (all of have dozens of different groups, each tailored slightly differently). I laugh at anyone who says all they see on their feed is people posting bullshit, vitriol, and misinformation. That is a YOU problem, not a FB problem. My feed is filled with relevant updates from friends, as well as a constant stream of The Office/Futurama/Streets of Rage 4. Exactly how I want it.
Oh yeah.. of course it calc.

On the tinier lib side there's bindat, to fiddle with binary data straight from elisp.
I seem to recall OSX didn't used to have clock_gettime, so it's news to me that it even exists -- I might have been away from OSX too long.

Is there any performance difference between that and mach_absolute_time() ?
This is not how the GDPR works. It lays out several legal basis for the collection of personal information, of which consent is one. There are others as well.

I'd have to re-read it to be sure about analytics cookies, but I don't think it says a whole lot about that off-hand. This the the ePrivacy directive.
Thought experiment: US pays China $1T in US fiat. Simultaneously, US cuts $1T checks to every single resident of the US. Chaos ensues. But seriously, wtf would happen in this situation?
If my old cooking book had as much fluff as SEO recipe sites, it’d take more space than a Brittanica set.
I think about this a lot.

What's to stop some random, non-scientist, group of people from just doing this? Mosquitos are pretty evil..
should turn the entire floor into a big toilet
The more I think about owning your data but not having to deal with maintenance crap, I think more tools should work with git.

Give me a pretty UI but use my GitHub repo for storage.

I kinda want something like notion UI but stores documents as JSON blobs in git (could use GitHub api and GitHub auth too)
I searched for Shawna Eccles' story:

> Shawna Eccles brought the two-story, semi-detached home for about $477,000 in February 2019 and exhausted her savings to renovate it. [...] "all of my money covers the mortgage, water bill and property taxes,” Eccles told The Post.

I am not going to say it's a good outcome that Eccles is effectively broke and homeless - but it seems absolutely bizarre to me that someone would put their entire savings into a house to use as a rental property when they don't have the budget to spend on mortgage + upkeep and also on their own needs.

What happens if Eccles' tenant moves out and nobody moves in, for instance? It could happen for many reasons. It could have happened that the tenant died of COVID in late March 2020 just as housing demand started to plummet! It could happen that the place gets damaged and becomes uninhabitable and needs repairs, and even if you put off paying for the repair, you still have to pay the mortgage and the property tax and nobody can pay you rent.

If Eccles had a down payment for a $477K house in the bank, why didn't she keep some of it as an emergency fund? What if she or a family member she cares about gets sick?

I have enough money for such a down payment in the bank, and I have a very high-paying tech job, and I'm paying rent on an apartment for myself and looking for a small place to buy for myself - I barely think I've crossed the point where a down payment would leave me with a reasonable amount of savings for an emergency fund (objectively I'm well past that point, but I still worry about it), I have the option of living with my parents if something bad happens, etc. The idea that you would put your entire savings and your entire income into a place for someone else to live is just incomprehensible to me.

I don't have an answer for this particular case, but it seems absolutely good to me that potential new Shawna Eccleses understand that a house is not the sort of thing you put your entire life savings into in the expectation that it will be a money-making vehicle. If you want to put your whole savings into a house for yourself, great. If you have a place for yourself to live and you have the savings (or income) to deal with a vacant property, sure, you may as well buy a property and rent it out. But this is reckless, and if our society's policy discourages people in the future from being reckless, that seems good in the long run.

The choice is probably subtler than between making people who simply can't afford a place homeless and making people who can definitely afford a place and were irresponsible with their money homeless, but if that's really the choice, the latter seems like the obvious right choice.
It’s been a few years since I tried to use it, but at the time the documentation was sparse and misleading. I couldn’t tell the right way to write my own rules and there were several concepts which were muddled. Some of the docs suggested I could extend it by implementing my own rules or macros and other docs suggested I had to delve into the extension interface which was a mess of convoluted Java (the kind of OOP that OOP advocates swear is Not True OOP). It certainly seemed like Bazel supports certain kinds of projects roughly aligned to languages, and if you needed to do anything interesting like codegen the answer was not at all obvious. The worst was that the docs all said that Bazel supported Python 3, but there were half a dozen different flags pertaining to Python 3, and after trying every permutation and asking for help, I discovered that the docs were simply wrong and Python 3 support had never actually been implemented due to various issues. It seems you need deep familiarity with Bazel in order to use it in even a basic capacity.
The NYTimes[0] article takes a more measured tone and reports 1 in 40,000 confidence, ~5 sigma.

5 sigma results have disappeared (even 6-sigma) upon independent testing, so more testing is needed.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/science/particle-physics-...
The frogs gotta eat something.
Germany is shitty though when it comes to tech. The pay is garbage compared to US top companies so they lose out on the top global talent.

It’s possible that unions are great for average and below employees, but they appear to be a pretty sour deal for everyone used to big tech income in the US.
Google has a solution for this. By using DNS-over-HTTPS, Google can start deploying software that communicates solely with it's own DNS servers over encrypted connections.
I have read this article to the end, also read the WSJ article [1] (mentioned at the beginning) and wondered what value / knowledge does this TC take added to what there is at the WSJ original article already.

Seriously, next time, I suggest, just TC author should tweet about the WSJ's article and attach the "attractive" title to it and that is all to it.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870405870457601...
Its interesting to see many connections within India. Also India and countries in Western Asia seem more connected than India and US (which is what I was expecting assuming the FB population in India)
Having never owned an iPod but always having handheld gadgets around, I'd have to kindly hope that the default external audio/media connection is NOT to a an Apple product.
Microsoft hires locally for MGS BigPark (their game studio). The rest are still waiting for their H1-B. It's not in MS DNA to operate like the way Google does. Microsoft prefers their employees for a product/group to be within the same building. (Knew this cause I used to work there).

I personally would put Indicee at the level of Vision Critical and Elastic Path in terms of the technical, the business, and the market. I hope you guys would do well.

I never understand what Bootup Labs startups do to be honest. I also don't understand what these "Social Media" startups are trying to build. Maybe I'm too young to understand the business models.

I'd prefer to see more startups that deal with serious businesses. But that's just me.
I think it perpetuates the ideas of how to wield authority. The concept of enticing people to cheat in order to be able to catch people at cheating is of a piece with "anti-terror" operations where federal agents set up fake terrorist cells, recruit feckless malcontents, and guide and cajole them until they can get them to do something illegal.
This kind of reporting is pretty irrelevant unless we know if this a decrease or increase over the prior 5 years worth of investment. Note that this amount includes new platform development as well as new factories and other infrastructure.

It sounds like a lot of money but VW is a seriously large company. For all we know, from 2005-2010 they spent 100b on new investments. The information is out of context and thus, not much use.
In the 1500's a man called Étienne de la Boétie wrote, in a then-inflammatory "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude":

Obviously there is no need of fighting to overcome this single tyrant, for he is automatically defeated if the country refuses consent to its own enslavement: it is not necessary to deprive him of anything, but simply to give him nothing; there is no need that the country make an effort to do anything for itself provided it does nothing against itself. It is therefore the inhabitants themselves who permit, or, rather, bring about, their own subjection, since by ceasing to submit they would put an end to their servitude. A people enslaves itself, cuts its own throat, when, having a choice between being vassals and being free men, it deserts its liberties and takes on the yoke, gives consent to its own misery, or, rather, apparently welcomes it.

(http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/laboetie.html)
> How many different interfaces are there to popen(3)?

popen, popen2 - both deprecated. The new "proper" one is available since 2.4 (quite a long time now) - subprocess.

> How many different ways to get the current time?

time.time() <- timestamp, datetime.now() <- date

Is this that bad? Sure, popen and popen2 are silly, but they're left for compatibility, while subprocess was introduced to update stdlib (as OP claimed). It's hardly a jungle...
I think you mean :(
Perhaps that's a problem with my Macbook - it restarts quite often recently (cooling issues), so I found myself with 2-3 pins with login screens.

When the idea of changing privacy settings came to my mind it was a real "a ha" moment :)

But you might be right that some of the people don't have the issue with the signing off..
It says other financial institutions have done the same, does anyone know if other big banks are doing this too, or is BoA the first one? I know Visa, MasterCard etc are ... but they're not banks.
Photo link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/badastronomy/5258701469/sizes/l...
Kindle is nice for a shower - it has physical keys that work even from within ziplock :)
The url leads to an empty note. I thought of that :)
If you don't alter the privacy settings then you after the computer restart / Chrome restart / whatever the tab/pin with notes will contain a login screen and not your notes. It can be a drag if you have more than one pin with notes (you need to click "login" on each one of them).
Because 99% of the time English will not respond with a compile or runtime error when your input to it is slightly malformed.
I guess I have offended an IITan. I should have mentioned in my post that I am not talking about IITs here. Sorry my mistake. But this is a truth at least in most Engineering Colleges in my state Gujarat.
buying duck.com to squat on it == fear

buying the corporation that owns duck.com for 100+M == classy
I so hate IEEEs broken web-site. Every time someone links to this site I'm irritated by the broken scrolling.
Well yes, I would consider any Android device family other than the Pixel / Nokia line a security hazard, with or without any bitcoins on it.

Comparing a rushed Q4 market Samsung phone to an iPhone is simply comparing a brick and an orange.

There are many problems with Android, but that the price for a zero day exploit on Android has become more valuable than one for iOS as far as 2019 [0] should tell you something about how a proper Android phone would fare in the comparison. Please leave the brick where it belongs.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/android-zero-day-more-than-ios-z...

p.s I would also just never leave bitcoin on my phone.
Fun fact: they remove the little nub in the middle of the peanut (called the "heart") before making peanut butter. Apparently the heart is more bitter than the two halves.

https://youtu.be/4iUduCtx7cA?t=96
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I think cause and effect may be chasing each other here. You're not wrong, but also the A380 was not designed to have a high takeoff weight because they never intended it to carry cargo, so it will never carry cargo because it has a low takeoff weight compared to its volume.

It was a design decision to be a people mover. [0]

0: https://www.flexport.com/blog/airbus-a380-no-cargo-equivalen...
May want to check out https://freight.amazon.com
As with scheduling latency (try cyclictest from rt-tests), the average doesn't really matter, as it's low enough.

What matters is the maximum value. That's the one you'll feel when it happens.

WiFi has packet loss to worry about, on top of that.
You're probably overlooking the Amazon distribution center that isn't far away.
Did anyone else scream a little on the inside when he said he was using UML diagrams? I get the feeling he was going for a grand design rather than shipping something close enough to the final idea that actually works. I think we have all fallen into that trap before.
Same sort of thing in the 5th Element.
Sure, because it's providing both images, not relying on our eyes to receive different images. That's why it flickers and moves back and forth.
I've just read a biography of Martha Argerich. Though she actually did work a lot at time, the fact is that for instance, she played a whole concerto entirely after having heard it /once/. I don't think this kind of ability comes with hard work, unfortunately.
Yes, surely these already billionaires whose entire business revolves around publishing analysis on assets, and who don't claim to be holding any major stake in BTC, could only be writing about it because they are shilling...
Edit. Nocoiner was removed from the previous comment as it was not intended to be taken this way. My Previous Response( Nocoiner sounds a lot like Antifa or MAGA. Is the goal to lump everyone who doesn't agree with you into a group to ridicule?)
Another "The future of <thing> is what <some person> says it is" without much more than a few paragraphs of explanation.

No diagrams. I don't see much of a comparison between costs/benefits of alternatives.

Nice hypothetical. I didn't read it, because I've seen the format before and I'm getting a bit bored of it.

Whereas if it cited some other engineers/technologists, some studies, some academics, etc., then perhaps I'd be more inclined to read this.

But one person's opinion? Nah. I need an aggregate of opinions to be persuaded to read another "The future of thing..." article.