skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry if I came across as condescending, that wasn’t my aim. It sounds like perhaps I misread your comment above and that maybe our respective arguments weren’t actually about the same thing. It’s easy to make too many assumptions about what people mean (especially in text-only conversations!) so I’d like to walk you through my thought process in interpreting your words in order to minimize ambiguity.

When I was reading “the only reason they did that was because …”, I mentally substituted the pronouns to read “the only reason Apple didn’t support Flash on the original iPhone was because …”. And then I was left with “The only reason Apple didn’t support Flash on the original iPhone was because Flash portals were competing with their app store”. So that’s the idea that I was confronting. If that’s not the sentiment you were advancing, then the first thing we should do is settle it.
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There are plenty. They're ridiculously cheap, so they get used everywhere. Checking DigiKey for the cheapest 8 bit and 32 bit micros: Atmel's ATTiny5-MAHR is $0.196 each at qty 100 (no further price breaks listed, full reel of 3000 is non-stock/call for price). The Cypress CY8C4013SXI-400T is $0.49 each at qty 2500 (full reel). 2.5x the price is a big difference, and matters a lot when you're producing thousands or millions of something. Tons of power supplies use an 8-bit (or even 4-bit) microcontroller instead of or in addition to a dedicated switchmode controller ASIC. They're also ridiculously common as LED dimmer controllers, keypad controllers for microwave ovens, etc. 8-bit micros aren't going anywhere any time soon. Price matters too much.
No: pick the right tool for the job. Wasting money in the MCU is probably wasted 5x to 10x over in the price of the product embedding the MCU. And if that's a consumer product, good luck with the competition.
Why did you leave? I'm making the opposite journey right now, minus the job switch.
A number that points to a URL costs a dollar.

At 4k per DOI, you can store 1/4 million of them per GB. They are basically MAC addresses for documents.
I don't drive, but as a passenger, it is my understanding that the left lane is the fast lane and the right lane is to remain empty or mostly empty so cars can enter and exit the highway?

Please correct me if I'm wrong. Regardless, if I ever get my license, I'm pretty much always going to avoid the highway as my anxiety cannot handle those speeds.
My comment was written 13 days ago. I have since gotten off the street with a market based solution. I am in an SRO.

Historically, we had a lot more SROs and boarding houses than we do currently. Up to 80% of SROs were torn down in the 60s and 70s when they weren't needed by Baby Boomers, who were a demographic anomaly. As demographics returned to something more normal, we never rebuilt them.

They are less profitable than other land uses. This is not the same as being unprofitable.

In California, residential prices are skewed by protectionist government measures. Dismantling the government interference that pushes housing costs up in the state would very likely reduce the need for government vouchers et al for the poor.

I left California to find someplace I could afford.
Cheapest M0 on Digikey: https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/cypress-semiconduc...

Cheapest 8-bit AVR on Digikey: https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/microchip-technolo...

2.5x the price is not cheaper.
It was largely the principal of the thing. It's yet another $x/month, on top of other services being paid for to help service/manage those clients. Example - PM tools. I'm already paying for project management tools - put the files there, damnit. "oh, but I like dragging to my dropbox!". Oh, and someone else uses box.com, and so on.

Again, what gets my goat is partially the payment, but mostly the "it's free for them, but I end up needing to pay to accommodate their use of the service" angle. If they - other parties - were paying for it first, it would bother me less. But raving about how 'free' a tool is which I have to pay for to work with them (and they're using it precisely because it's free) bugs me.

Getting sucked in to a few more $x/month things here and there 1) dilutes where stuff is supposed to live (wrt files) and 2) just becomes a drag on finances. A handful of services can end up going from several hundred dollars in to the thousands if you don't keep tabs on things.

Maybe I'm an HN failure because saving several hundred dollars per year matters to me? I guess my skills must suck - most people can apparently rustle up $300/hr Rust/Go/Elixir project work simply by starting to formulate the idea that they're considering taking project work. I'm not that skilled.
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Or this one for the Wrover: https://github.com/loboris/MicroPython_ESP32_psRAM_LoBo
I'm having trouble understanding your point about GC. The post points out that GC solves some of these problems, at the expense of creating waits. Do you think there's something wrong with the way it describes the issue?
"Nelson invented a new way of crossing the street: when arriving at a busy thoroughfare, he would dramatically turn his back on traffic and step with theatrical nonchalance off the sidewalk. Drivers, frightened, would slam on their brakes."

Well, there's that.
After reading these comments, I'm starting to wonder if I'm the only one who owns an old-fashioned flyswatter. With a long, stiff handle and a flick of the wrist, it moves a lot faster than a fly. I've even stunned them by hitting them in mid-air.
That has died. Every now and then I'm thinking this might be a fun project, but... well.
Did anyone else click on the random period in the bottom left corner hoping it was one of those old school secret links to the "admin" section?
It's the law to keep to the right in most states.

For instance, Washington state: http://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.61.100
How does the active part of the market beat the rest of the active part of the market? Like, I could see the net fees of the active funds being equal to the underperformance of "dumb money" retail investors mis-picking stocks.
Study marketing and copywriting.
Not surprising at all. It's easily the most popular investment tool of the last 20 years, and for good reason.
These towers are popping up all over San Francisco. Another one got installed a few doors up a couple of weeks ago.

They're hard to notice as they're generally quite well disguised. Usually just an extended bulge on top of a light pole. If it's a wooden pole, they'll paint it so it blends in.

According to the local articles there is actually little recourse for locals in objecting:
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/10/31/san-francisco-re... (warning - several annoying autoplay videos).

Update: just walked past one https://photos.app.goo.gl/I8MWfox0eB6G7ztD2
That's actually quite a sensible proposal. I wish the implement it.

I often asked myself what happens when I give an app access to my photos. Can that app upload all my photos to their servers? The same question for things like calendar, address book, health data etc.
Yes. Everything is pay per view in Xanadu.

I knew that crowd when Autodesk was funding them. They were fanatical libertarians. The solution to everything is a market.

Ted Nelson was focused on text to the exclusion of images. That didn't help. He also had strong ideas about how the internal database should be organized, down to the database implementation level, which didn't help either, because they were 1960s database technology.[1]

The closest thing to Xanadu in wide use today is Github. One central place for all public code. Anything can be changed but the history and old versions remain. Full tracking of who changed what. The ability to create a completely new document from an old one while retaining tracking. There's no micropayment system, of course.

The real conceptual failure was not realizing that the future was ad-supported.

[1] http://dubinko.info/blog/2009/11/22/how-xanadu-works/
As indeed they actually are. WWW browsers have a search path, that is added on to a second search path mechanism that DNS client libraries have. Domain names with dots in, but that are not fully qualified, suffer from this. Yes, this means that what http://wibble/ is right now is subject to change; and even http://wibble.wobble/ could be, depending from various factors.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/web-fully-qualified-domain-name.html

Would that I had recorded the case some while back where, when I pointed this out, someone chimed in to note that xe had worked for a company that had actually taken advantage of this in order to usurp external WWW sites.

And then there was WPAD.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/web-browser-auto-proxy-configuration.ht...

This is not taking things to an extreme. This is reality right now and has been for many years.
Are there any good books on coding elementary functions with integer arithmetic? I've got a couple books that cover it a little but they mostly use floating point.
Of the 6 apps under discussion by greggman, 4 are Facebook properties. Facebook is creepy.
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It does work. I use it all the time.
As a research result, this is still an interesting outcome. Nobody has done this before, to my knowledge.
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I can't tell you how many times I've definitely had a photo show up in the "do you want to post this" preview that I most certainly would never want to post.

I feel like I'm having a heart attack every time thinking I posted it already. That feature sucks.
> Whether people would use it or not I don't know. I would.

They could allow an app in their app store to provide this functionality to users who want it.
Doesn't that bring the total games for the switch up to 4 now?
Really? This is how that was done in Python 2.7 and it doesn't seem that much clunkier to me...

dict(dict1, **dict2)
Nothing works forever but there are funds like Renaissance Technologies' Medallion which may just be getting heads for a long time but rather seem to have some secret sauce that works for a long time. Usually though they're not very large and don't seek out investments.
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This headline reads badly to a UK English speaker. If he's drunk can he at least keep quiet about it?
No offense, but I guarantee nobody wants to spy on you.

Mark is definitely not sitting around thinking "ayyyyy what's Gregg up to?"
I don't find Safari inconvenient at all. Its UI is lean, the default key bindings are nice, and with sVim it's even better.
Check the documentation of Mozilla's Spidermonkey in comparison:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Sp...
Apple sells hardware differentiated by integrated software for premium pricing. They want to build better and more expensive products through superior design and quality control. Collecting and analyzing personal data isn't the most important thing for their business. They might see more benefit by eschewing personal data collection and marketing a privacy-focused message, which they seem to be doing.

In contrast, Google and Facebook are companies that sell advertising. The value they can offer to publishers and advertisers completely relies on how well they know their users. Their competitive moat involves collection of proprietary data to continuously improve their products. These are clear incentives to be sticky and greedy with your information, but also to keep it private and proprietary for their own sake.

With these incentives in mind, I more readily trust Apple when it says that it will not collect my data compared to data conglomerates, and Apple hasn't done anything to aggressively betray that idea in its history (to my knowledge). Combined with the technical security advantages of iOS, I'm inclined to believe Apple products to be the least-bad option for the security-minded today.
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> warning - several annoying autoplay videos

NoScript in default deny JS mode - zero auto-play videos yet I was able read the whole article.
Ok, yes, at the very very low end (that thing has 6 pins!) you might get an AVR for slightly cheaper. My point was that you typically get better price, power usage and performance from a Cortex M0. If you have $1 to spend, for example, there is rarely any advantage to going with AVR.
You completely miss the point of what he is saying. There is nothing intuitive about "1", "2", "3". Your proposed solution requires everyone to build expertise at throwing things away.

You also open the system up to folklore about what the numbers mean and what should go in each bin. And that folklore is impossible to control and correct.

It's fine if you want to build systems that way. They may be good and work well enough. But a more intuitive system will prevail at some point.
Not the parent. But I've done a bunch of both hardware and software and frankly I would go for software any day of the week. It's a lot harder to get into a flow with hardware. And it just feels a whole lot less free than software. You can go from pretty vauge idea to a working prototype very rapidly with software, but with hardware that both takes a lot longer and the types of things you can imagine is a lot more constrained.

If you want a taste, go build some stuff in pure x86. You'll pretty quickly get tired of it and will want to build higher order abstractions, and then you're back in software-land.
This was tested in an experiment I can't find now. One group of drivers was asked to stick to one lane, the other group was told to switch lanes when possible to get ahead.

The outcome: as expected switching lanes gained next to nothing. But importantly the reported experience was significantly worse for those that stayed in one lane.
So switching lanes doesn't reduce commute time but the perceived commute time - and that is not insignificant!

This however isn't a poor performance because of switching a lot - these funds make money but the managers keep too much of it. The bet was on whether someone who invested in these funds would do better than the S&P - not whether the stocks in those funds did.
It looks like Widevine is the new Flash Player.

Big site's will support all the CDMs because they have the resources but everyone else will standardize on the one with the largest installed base (Widevine).
> You have to consider risk.

The question is: OK, you account for risk, now what? You can manage risk by tempering an all-stock portfolio with bonds, lowering volatility. Why pick high-cost hedge funds over that option?

> Throw them all together in a pot and all the spice is gone.

Except if you look at the breakdown, any one of those sub-funds did poorly. None beat the S&P.

> Plenty of individual funds did beat the S&P

But how is an investor to know in advance? Also: winning funds tend to rotate around - can't use past performance as a reasonable guide to pick a fund going forward.

> You have to wonder how the bet would have fared had we not experienced the unprecedented reaction of central banks to the crisis.

You can always argue this time was different, but the reality is we had roughly 7% average returns on the S&P over the course of the bet, which is pretty typical. It wasn't just some short period, either - for nine out of the ten years the S&P won the bet against the group.

> You can find long periods in the past where the S&P was sideways.

Which is why a smart portfolio is three-fund, covering global stocks and bonds. A portfolio of that makeup does not tend to travel sideways for long periods like the US market can alone. Take for instance 2000 to 2010, in which US stocks did go sideways - bonds and international stocks compensated for that.

At the end of the day, instead of excuses/explanations (no offense intended) I'd like to see you make a case for who should be using hedge funds and why.
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Usable implementations shouldn’t take decades if people put the research and development work in, though the basic UI research probably needs at least 8–10 years of some top-class people thinking hard about it. I’m just speculating that it might happen within a few decades that that work gets done, but alternatively it might not and paper might remain superior.
That's unusually hard to Google for :)

I did find one example: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/74767/code-golf...
I suspect that Richard's first computer was an Apple ][+, not an Apple //e (as claimed by the article), as Ultima existed (published 1981) well before the Apple //e was released (1983).
Yeah, so what you describe is basically what's happening now. Piracy is convenient enough for individuals to get around paywalls, but not so convenient or widespread (in terms of use) that universities start cancelling subscriptions. If piracy stays that way and doesn't kill subscriptions then it's sort of a win win, readers effectively get access and the work of publishers is compensated. Right now that's true, and piracy is a net positive (in my view anyway). But the obvious concern there is that that homeostasis won't last.

There are other business models that are being tried that mimic the current one a bit. For example, instead of a university library paying a subscription fee to gain access to content, they can pay a fee to allow all researchers at their university to be allowed to publish in all of a publisher's journals. Essentially moving the APC charges from individual researchers to universities. I know we've tried floating that idea and have gotten a lot of resistance from libraries, which I don't fully understand because it seems entirely reasonable to me.

One other note: Gold OA APC charges are not being paid out of the author's pocket. Nearly all the APC charges are coming from grant money that funds the research (or from central government funding, like China). All the major funders allow a PI to account for publication charges. So publication is treated just like any other research expense, like buying equipment. It all comes from the funders. That works great, and honestly seems like a perfectly reasonable setup, but it only works for funded research. That leaves entire swaths of the academic landscape out (as I've said elsewhere that means most of the humanities and social sciences).
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Python just revels in introspection. The standard module dis[1] lets the programmer disassemble and display bytecode, and includes a full list of the opcodes (which appear to be much simpler than the V8 ones described). The standard module ast[2] documents the AST used by the compiler.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/dis.html#module-dis
[2] https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/ast.html#module-ast
"Each chunk of memory has a node struct at the begining and a footer struct at the end."

As a public service announcement, if you are building a heap manager for C code, don't do this (put your heap control structures next to the allocated memory). Sure it looks elegant, however a VERY common C bug is the 'off by one' error, and when an off-by-one can corrupt the structures that define the heap, well it gets out of hand quickly.

Have your heap structures "far" away from the allocated memory. Yes you burn another N bits (where N is log2(max_address)) in your heap control structures, and yes you may have heap control structures you "don't need" pre-allocated, but your future self will thank you for doing it this way.
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Flash was an inefficient, non-touch optimized, full-of-security-holes competitor's runtime...why would they want it on the iPhone again? when a version for it finally arrived, years later on Andriod, it was so awful that even Adobe realized it wasn't worth murdering everyone's battery life only to have flash web-ads visible.
You never should have been using it, though? It wasn't your domain to begin with or your TLD.

It's like complaining that you're using appname.ycombinatordev.com as a development suffix, then someone registers it and all your stuff breaks, and you want them to fix your problem.

It isn't good practice to use random domains or TLDs that you don't own for testing. At work we have a separate publicly-registered domain, and an internal subdomain with NS records on the primary publicly-registered domain that resolves separately. It's never been a problem..
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According to research, only 1 in 20 investors can pick 3 active funds that beat index funds over a 20-year period. The answer, as far as I'm concerned is: don't try.

https://portfoliosolutions.com/latest-learnings/blog/1-20-fu...
Flash games were a serious threat to their app store, that is why they banned Flash. Read the article for more insight.

But since I'm defending Flash, and saying something negative about Apple, let the downvotes begin.

But the blocking of Flash was a business decision, not a technical one, or even a "support the open web" one.

And so yes, if they allowed Flash, then portals were indeed a direct competitor to their app store. That is why they kept them out.
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Who gets to define the options that are available? Shouldn't the developer of the software get to decide what their software does and doesn't do? You want me to spend money developing and supporting options that I would rather not build & support?
It's not like we don't have various periods to look at either - from the chart I saw it looked to me like the hedge funds lost 9 out of the 10 years. So sure, you can say 'some unusual stuff happened in there' but ... 9 out of 10 years speaks for itself.
i dont know what you are saying. im saying that you cant point to "unpredicatable things" as an excuse for losing at gambling, since the entire skill of gambling is weighing risk. do you mean my response is a cop out or the original point
What about the two-minute rule for processing said inbox? Or defining projects as TODO's that require more than one step to complete? The GTD book has been a gold mine for me.
“I don't know if DiagTrack and the service are one thing.”
That just means it was copied without permission... like this code, which is by default All Rights Reserved. For maybe more on-topic examples, though, note companies that are very careful about employees looking at open source code.
What happened to silver and brown? Lots of older electronics were made with bakelite and aluminum or had some aluminum accents.

[I'm thinking about old reel-reel tape players, Sanyo, Philips, Zenith, Braun transistor radios --interestingly I recall seeing some old typewriters which had a weird grey-green hue]
There's been some experimentation
with using https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc to target the ESP8266: https://github.com/emosenkis/arduino-esp-rs

The same would work for the ESP32.
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FYI, there's a WIP PR for Vultr backend support in NixOps.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixops/pull/634

I cherry-picked this into my local NixOps repo and have been using it for several weeks to deploy to Vultr servers with no issues, except one -- the author has hard-wired an assumption that you're using Btrfs for your root filesystem. I didn't want that so I simply replaced that hard-wired assumption with ext4 in my personal branch. Now everything is working great.
Notice no response even a week later.
And you might want to avoid multiplication operations, because the compiler will likely have to implement those in software, which will be slow, and might make your program too large to fit in the memory… :-)
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