skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The astounding thing is that people continue to work here. "It's like modern slavery" was thrown around, but they can quit. They can work somewhere else. Either conditions are not sufficiently awful or wages are high enough so that they keep getting new employees.
No. Project Mayhem was anti-capitalist and anti-consumerist. The message of Flight Club was that nihilism is a destructive force.
I'm in the Pacific Northwestish area.

I'm a consultant these days, so yeah 1.1 years is actually a long time.
> It's because film is a visual medium,

It happened with books too: See "Liar’s Poker", by Michael Lewis. He says that he wrote it "so that fewer idealistic college kids would dream of working on Wall Street. ... Somehow that message failed to come across ... They'd read my book as a how-to manual."

http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~pel/misc/The-End-of-Wall-Street...
https://danwang.co/liars-poker-by-michael-lewis/

Michael Lewis also wrote "Moneyball" and "The Big Short" which were made into films.
no there is no dependency in layerJS. Also not on jQuery.
Sam Zeloof makes ICs in his garage
And there's always the great short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener", perhaps the first commentary on the meaninglessness of office life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartleby,_the_Scrivener
Agreed. For even a small tech business, $650 should be in the 'lol whatever' category of purchasing - especially if there's compliance regimes mandating some kind of HSM in the stack.
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Wikipedia provides exactly the same explanation that your link does:

> The prison director's assignment of prisoner numbers to drawers can mathematically be described as a permutation of the numbers 1 to 100.

> Every permutation can be decomposed into disjoint cycles, that is, cycles which have no common elements.

> In the initial problem, the 100 prisoners are successful if the longest cycle of the permutation has a length of at most 50. Their survival probability is therefore equal to the probability that a random permutation of the numbers 1 to 100 contains no cycle of length greater than 50.

What did you think was missing from the Wikipedia article?
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I think your on to it. But can we just say that people and characters aren't just "good" or "bad".

I want to be Don Draper because he is handsome, well dressed, and extremely intelligent. That doesn't mean I want to do everything negative he did. Although I wouldn't mind being able to drink at work.

When kids play Batman, one of them has to be The Joker. It could be that they like clowns or the color purple. It doesn't have to mean that the child is murdering cats in the backyard.
> Haven't watched "Mad Men", but I think part of the appeal of Walter White was that his character, being the show's main character, was also the most well-written and nuanced which almost necessarily leads to him being the most sympathetic. The reality that he was unhappy is more than outweighed by the fact that he was living out carpé diem rather than surrendering to terminal illness.

One other thing is that he had great talent and competence as a chemist, which was often on full display. Many of the other characters in the show had no clear talents, or if they did, they it was more background or reputation than something clearly shown.

I think any character that shows extreme talent will attract fans, regardless how evil or unhappy they are, because people will divorce the talent from the other attributes and admire it on its own.
This paper doesn't claim to make generalizations about human behavior in either case. Why do you feel my view on that dichotomy is important in relation to this paper?
Jumbo frames are limited in the improvement over 1500 octet frames, around 9000 bytes. That's still too small. I think NIC offload mechanisms already handle bigger chunks of data and let the OS TX/RX 64k or more at a time.
When a rocket explodes, it's normally in the atmosphere right over an ocean.
It seems to be a glass half-full/half-empty debate. Yes, earnings were better than expected. But losses were also at a record high, which is not nothing, given Tesla has had only 2 or 3 profitable quarters since 2009. That Tesla's stock and business isn't cratering is a testament to the optimism people have about what Elon Musk has built and dreamed.

I was just wondering if Jobs had ever had an episode like this during a quarterly call. I mean, he was obviously known to be abrasive on other occasions. But in his final decade, Apple's business was in a much more solid position than where Tesla is at now.
Some city crows have learned to drop nuts onto a pedestrian crossing and let the cars crush it. They then wait for the traffic light to change before safely retrieving the food.
Animal Kingdom did not made me feel like crime life is good and murder there felt badly. Similar with American Psycho. Westworld made mass murder by the end feel fine, a bit sad at maximum, while Game of Thrones made them feel disgusting. People don't root for sociopaths or even good guys in Game of Thrones as much. So I think a lot of admiration for sociopaths comes from how they are shown on screen, what kind of music is played etc, and not just from what they technically do.

Similarly, I like horror movies a lot. But, it is not nearly the same as video of real person suffering (or realistic portrayal). I don't like those at all. Horrors are made to feel you fake bad and it is similar with most popular movies about sociopaths.
Yep. The extremeness of e.g. The_Donald on reddit is a direct result of how hostile r/politics was to anyone who didn't support Hillary. Sadly, I think the far left actually likes it this way. They want unreasonable boogiemen they can point to and demonize, so their own echo chambers can pretend to be the moderate ones.
That wasn’t the question he refused to answer; he refused to (I think in his opinion) sit there and do a bunch of simple—yet almost entirely spitballing—maths that any financial analyst could do, to tell them how much his proposed steps would save the company.
Yeah, totally. "Our cash flow is bad enough that I need to move debt into the future to - barely - make your salaries" is just the thing you as a boss should say to your people.
This looks... awful.

You're piling on massive amounts of attributes, making your app almost impossible to read and figure out the transitions. Anything complex is going to become a tangled pile of nodes and code. It would take anyone but the original designer a long time to puzzle out what exactly is going on and figure out the workflow, unless there's also a ton of HTML comments in there too.

You have attributes that should just be classes with CSS (overflow: hidden prevents scrolling, not sure why you need lj-no-scrolling), you have html elements that actually need to have attributes to define their neighbours, and you're just overloading your HTML with a bunch of extra baggage that doesn't need to be there.

Look at your parallax example. A 30KB library, a bunch of superfluous divs, and a ton of extra attributes you need to try to figure out have successfully replaced "background-attachment: fixed". The sliding divs could be done so much more clearly with just a bit of javascript that tracks "current frame" and hides them all then shows the next one when you click the button. The ZoomUI is admittedly pretty, but I feel like you could do it much easier with just a click event that expands the frame via changing the classes on it, rather than all the extra baggage and divs and wrappers you need to make that work. The animations are pretty, but not worth the extra baggage it takes to use them.

It's a neat toy, but I can really only see it being usable by people who are inherently terrified of javascript and will do anything to avoid it. And even then they'd only need the simplest of use-cases, and they'd need to make sure it wouldn't be on something that would need updates, because I wouldn't want to have to come back to a project with this in 6 months.
Right, so picking a box at random and following the chain would be bad because you could get back to where you started having not found your number. Starting with your own numbered box is your defense against this because to go back to where you started you would have to have found your number.
I think I'm making the opposite claim - effort isn't fungible (and availability of effort isn't fungible). You can't necessarily spend 1 hour that would otherwise go into, say, rewriting Mercurial into a compiled language and instead spend it on making CPython faster and get the same results. One of these is more likely to work, and also the two problems are going to attract interest from different people.

And one of the things that affects how productive one hour of work will be - and also whether random volunteers will even show up with one hour of work - is the likelihood of getting a change accepted and shipped to users. This is influenced by both the maintainers' fundamental openness to that sort of change, and any standards (influenced by the maintainers, who are in turn influenced by their users) about how careful a change must be to not make the project worse on other interesting standards of evaluation. It's also influenced by the number of people working on the project (network effects) because a more vibrant project is more likely to review your code promptly, finish a release, and get it into the hands of more users.

So I'm claiming that it's better to spend time on rewriting Mercurial in Rust than to spend time on getting CPython startup faster, because the Mercurial folks are actively interested in such contributions and the CPython folks are actively uninterested, and because there are fewer external constraints in making Mercurial startup faster than in making CPython startup faster. And I'm saying that the more we encourage folks to help with rewriting Mercurial in Rust, the more likely additional folks are to show up and help with the same project, thereby making 1 hour of effort even more productive.
But that's a policy on name-squatting. Something that doesn't apply here. The creator isn't squatting on the name they created and I would be surprised if Github would commute the name at their discretion unless considerable time passed, something I don't necessarily have a problem with on a long enough time scale. Though there there's a point on that time scale where I'd expect the new owners to just consider a new name.
Just curious but what's your math here?

If you divide by number of people in Manhattan (8.538 million) you get roughly $72.14 per person, but this isn't really accurate since not everyone in Manhattan rents- maybe you're a kid, or you own a co-op, or you're homeless.

You'd really need to divide the value by the number of rented units in NYC to figure out the average raise in rents per apartment, and even then that won't draw a perfect picture because many people live with roommates who contribute to rent.

I started picking out values from here: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/rentguidelinesboard/pdf/17HSR.pd...

I don't know the nature of rent control that well in NYC so I'm just going to take a few approaches:

If we assume only unregulated apartments picked up the burden, the cost per unit is 725.80.

If we toss in the "other regulated" apartments, 546.42.

If we toss in all rent-stabilized (pre and post 46), it's 368.96.

All rented units together? $363.
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These would be great questions to answer when creating an event invite. Would make a pretty useful chrome extension.
all ledgers imply relative immutability, with the security of the immutability having a cost that is dependent on the security level. There's a really large cost to having the immutability level of the blockchain. Is it worth it? Probably not in most cases.
Housing a persistent issue that comes up a lot on HN. It seems to me that as tech-workers, we feel the guilt associated with economic pressure adversely affecting the civic-environment we coexist in but strangely feel that it is inappropriate (inconvenient?) to take part in the political machinery that addresses these tragedy-of-the-commons-type problems.

Perhaps there is a collective disillusion with how slow building civic-consensus is (i.e. too much bureaucracy). For those who may feel this way, I strongly encourage your support of political action groups like YIMBY. They provide a low-cost way for you to associate yourself with a group of people focused on trying to fix NIMBY forces within the housing market.
He’s also getting away with it because it was a propane torch mounted in an airsoft gun, not a dangerous weapon. It’s a tool in a toy, so basically... who cares?
> For me my main concern is I use my phone as an alarm clock and it's 30cm (1 foot) from my head all night. I also leave it there since it's my main phone so I keep it close to me. Hopefully the inverse square law is on my side.

The danger comes from when you are actively making calls using voice; my understanding is that transmitting voice data really cranks up the EM radiation. When making phone calls you are safest using a hands-free headset. When the phone is idle at night this is all mostly irrelevant unless you're getting poor signal (for which it cranks up EM to compensate).

So, don't sleep with your phone next to your head if you get poor signal. If not, there likely isn't much to worry about.

> I'd be curious to see if any studies showed butt cancer was a thing. I'm sure many people keep their phones in their pockets and seems it would exposure people more EM radiation for longer compared to holding the phone and talking into it.

When the phone is idle the EM radiation is relatively low. Plus, if it's resting against your thigh there isn't anything critical there to irradiate, compared to having it within two inches of your brain. If anything we might see more skin cancer in the future from this (and some say EM from pocket storage may contribute to infertility), but it beats brain cancer.
If they're routinely dropping emails then they haven't communicated up and down that they're overloaded or they're in a shitty work environment. Either way, I've been on the other side of dropped emails and it's like sand in a motor. It's precisely why most large organizations have issues being agile.
I misunderstood what you were saying than, I thought you meant the rocket was exploding when it was already far into space away from Earth.
The only question is whether your loop is less than 50 drawers long...

So then the question is: what proportion of the permutations of 100 numbers contain a cycle greater than 50 vertices long? Is it 30%? The claim made in the Wikipedia article is that the prisoners have around 30% chance of surviving.

Edit: looks like that is the case. You can even take the limit of the number of boxes (hence prisoners) to infinity and their probability of survival never drops below 30%! This is an amazing result.
It's a good thing for the BBC that Mellanox didn't agree with you, eh?

#1 is trivially true for all products.

#2 is essentially saying "if your code is crap, you will get crappy contributions". Well, if your code is crap, maybe you want to fix that?

#3 is valid. You don't necessarily get great results without putting in a little effort.
We rely on 15 people to do our science
Can it though?
This should be easy to prove simply by stating the totals by age instead (that are supposedly growing each year very fast), which has to be possible if we are confident in ratios.
Is there any source for this?
If colonizing a new planet isn't a new era of humanity, I'm not sure what is...
Sorry to say that I'm one of those guys.
I never comment code that is straightforward and easy to understand if I succeed with naming classes, methods and variables right.
If I need to solve something in an illogical way due to other requirements/bugs that are out of my control I comment it.

I have read to many comments stating the obvious or that are just plain wrong.

No comments are better than comments with errors. The code is the only true fact.
You can't do a full Mac backup to iCloud though can you?
I doubt for most distributed object stores (with consistency or availability guarantees), performance is bottlenecked by the underlying filesystem access. Probably, network latency runs the show.
Some quick googling says that the average apartment rent in Manhattan is ~$4000/month, so at that sort of rate, $64 is only about a 2% increase. The 100/year is barely noticeable to most people when you're already paying nearly 50,000/year.

It's a tangible amount, but if you're paid enough to live in that area, it's likely not a huge burden. And again, this is an change that is likely disproportionately raising rents in desirable and trendy neighborhoods that are more expensive than that already and likely seeing natural rent growth of more than $68.
The prisoner starting with their own number box ensures that they are in the chain with their number ticket in it.
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Because he's Elon Musk and he doesn't care about investor returns, he wants to build rockets, cars, tunnels, and explore space.

No matter what he does he'll more than likely be fine on the money side.
He hasn't colonised a new planet, and frankly my wager is that he never will.
Have you seen MyPy, static type annotations / checking for Python? http://mypy-lang.org/

In context, what I'm really getting at "a sufficiently non-dynamic subset of Python that it can be compiled statically, but also a sufficiently large one that real Python programs can have a chance of being in the subset." PyPy has a thing called RPython that fits the former but not really the latter (I don't know of any non-PyPy-related codebases that work in RPython). In general, adding complete type annotations to a codebase is pretty correlated with making it static enough to do meta-level things on like compiling and optimizing it - for instance if you have a variable that changes types as the program runs, at least now you've enumerated its possible types. It's not the only way of doing so, but it seems to work well in practice and there seems to be a correlation between compiled vs. interpreted languages and static vs. dynamic typing.
Trump wanted to introduce “right to try”, which I think is a great idea. Got shut down in Congress. Don’t recall why.
the problem with this sentiment is what "one" and "two" imply. it's possible to refer/block/whatever multiple addresses with "one" action.
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If it blows up 500m above the launch pad you aren't in space.
Yes, much of the city is limited to four or five stories or otherwise restricted [1]. Keep in mind also that much of NYC is not just the financial district of Manhattan.

In addition to actual height restrictions, neighborhood associations also fight tooth and nail to prevent new development and to limit the height of new development when they can't.

[1] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/zoning/districts-tools/re...
Think what the argument against it is that the rocket explodes during launch, before actually leaving earth behind. Then it would most probably be noticeable.
Keyboard is pretty amazing for C64 preservation efforts. Perhaps lessons learned could be applied to other same era systems.

There's one part in C64 that's becoming more and more rare — the amazing SID sound chip.

I wonder whether it'd be possible to have production runs of truly new 6581 and/or 8580 SID chips. Does someone still have the old masks?

Other chips you could emulate with an FPGA. But SID is partially analog, so it's special. Some say no two SIDs sound the same.

Btw, recent C64 music demo playing off 1 MB Ocean style (= ROM) cartridge (not REU):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qxxnJVU4jQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYAf_awh5XA

Yes, it's real. Not particularly good example of SID though, but still impressive for 1982/83 technology.

But this one does show off SID; C64 "Cubase", realtime DSP (timestretch, low/high pass filter, distortion, etc.) pretty amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4GWheE4Gkw
"We keep your email and its password so we can tell who you are when you visit again. We also keep your email in case we need to contact you, in case people see your information who are not supposed to."
They should be using 100.64/10

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6598
That seems cool, but I hope you don't end up in the place where namespaces ended up where there are too many security-sensitive codepaths in the kernel before you hit the sandbox. :) Unprivileged user namespaces exist but are disabled by default on many distros. It would be a shame for pledge to stay in the use case of "hardening programs that were previously running as root and that was okay" and not in the use case of "sandboxing actually untrusted programs".
A "hello" comment without a question also makes me anxious, BUT I must acknowledge that from their perspective they might be doing exactly what I want, asking if it's okay to talk now, and signaling that they're willing to wait. If a question isn't asked, then you've been given permission to ignore it until ready, right?

And while the greeting without a question causes anxiety -- (you said hello... what do you need??) -- I have to say I'd rather get a lonely "hello" than a "Hey I have this insanely urgent thing, you need to help me RIGHT NOW." And I'd way rather get a lonely "hello" in Slack than have someone walk up to my desk and "hello".
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I think someone should develop a 2 module design for this, where the Stirling engine is separated from the fission reactor with insulated pipes. Why? Weight savings. Insulated pipes can be made very efficient and relatively light. Radiation shielding can't easily be made light. By separating the modules into two sections, martian soil can be more easily used to provide the radiation shielding. It could even be built out of bricks, which we already know can be made out of martian soil.
>meetings can turn into a massive time sink if you don't act like a total nazi during them.

Which would explain Elon ending the conference call. Instead he spent 15-20 minutes taking open-ended questions from a youtuber with a TSLA position of 56 shares.

>If your goal is, "end this meeting as quickly as possible so I can start fixing the things that need fixing"

For Elon the 'things that need fixing' are exactly what the investors he cut off were asking about. If he is so focused on fixing those things he should have been able to give easy answers. The dodge is illustrative of how well he's handling those problems.

As well it seems ridiculous that the CEO of a ~$50B company can't spare an hour or two every quarter to explain his own company. Even Elon Musk isn't that busy.