skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point in posting such a response is that it’s actually a mistake to complain about this.

My revulsion is the use of the internet as a bragging platform, in general. It doesn’t matter if it’s a walled garden or a fediverse of open source aggregators. People showing off and hamming it up to score points is the root cause, and any attention, even negative is going to fan the flames.

Particularly if people develop a sense that you’re going to step on their efforts to goof off and play drunk jenga in the woods with popsicle sticks, which is the tone this argument projects to most people.

If it’s not this, it’s love locks or any other insipid passtime that erupts for a few years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_lock

Graffiti never dies, it just takes on new forms, and moves to new areas, growing at a fixed rate proportional to the population, just like litter.

To be honest, I’d rather go back to last week, when we were more worried about the giant microplastic garbage patch in the Pacific ocean gyre. It’s probably a more pressing issue than rearranged rocks being moved a few feet, here and there, in zones already tightly controlled by humans to seem artificially wild.
If you've got "big" servers you can expect to spend minutes just checking RAM, and having the RAID controller identify disks & volumes.
It's a good question, and sort of hard to balance. I don't have any formal training as a teacher, or really a _pedagogy_ per se. I did teach five years of discussion sections among calculus, python programming, and differential equations. I do guest lectures for high school math classes, volunteered with groups like Black Girls Code and Hour of Code. I also did years of tutoring-center style tutoring, which meant I worked with students from the entire math curriculum. One time I even did an impromptu linear algebra course for a group of co-interns when I worked at MIT Lincoln Lab.

So in terms of number of people face to face, somewhere in the low thousands seems right. In terms of writing, my blog has on the order of millions of all-time page views.

I think it's a stretch to call the book a textbook. I think of it as an O'Reilly-type general technical book, but for math. If someone uses it to teach a course, that would be pretty wild, and I'd feel honored.

Hope you enjoy it :)
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Drink water while drinking alcoholic drinks and then afterwards before bedtime. Also have antacids.

Alcohol -> acetaldehyde -> acetic acid. Antacid neutralyses the acid.

Alcohol dehydrates the body leading to electrolyte imbalance. Drinking water between your brandies and afterwards prevents that dehydration.
Yeah, hobbies are totally “rackets young people fall for”. LOL quite the controversial statements you are making there!
Designing and building an FPGA sprite-based graphics accelerator (2014)
/shrug misaligned incentives probably. Schools are also handing out CS degrees without students being all that good at writing programs either.
Databases often do this already (I'm more familiar with databases but I suspect filesystems probably do too). The original motivation was to provide some defense against bug reports along the lines of "your database ate my data", that turned out to be due to 3rd party code inside the same process crapping on memory, hardware errors etc.

These checksums are typically done on blocks of payload data of course, not all memory content.
It really is, but as someone who started skiing when I was 3-4 years old and am now closing in on 30 and am not in excellent cardio shape... wow, skiing is tough. I had no idea it would be so much harder at 25 (years ago) than it was at 16.
> As much as Unix is a bit of a mess, it doesn’t have any of these problems.

Unix was an option, even back then. An expensive option, sure, but you could even run it on some types of Mac:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX

Actually A/UX was a pretty amazing operating system. The GUI of a Macintosh with the underpinnings of UNIX. Just like OS X - only in 1988!
> Word 5.1a, a.k.a. the best version of Microsoft Word ever made. Still waiting for Google Docs to catch up in terms of feature parity, it’s not even close.

What features are missing?
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There was Windows NT Workstation, which was the best option for running CAD software on PC for some time.
Andrew Ng's Machine Learning Yearning

http://www.mlyearning.org/
https://www.deeplearning.ai/machine-learning-yearning/
It would be off-limits, but it's not like these types of laws are unique to the US.

When I last visited Paris over a decade ago my Parisian colleagues took me to a bar where it was supposedly common to drink, smoke, and generally socialize outside such establishments. Either the ordinance or enforcement changed recently and we were forced to go somewhere else because it was too crowded to fit inside, and we were not permitted to take our drinks outside.

It was a memorable experience for me. My colleagues were looking forward to showing off how much better Paris was than San Francisco where you can't take your drink outside without causing trouble. Yet it was basically the same deal, though I must concede the last call situation was much later than California's exceptionally early 2AM.
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Sounds good to me, would be fun to piece that together and pick different types of parts for each different function.
Here's another one https://trynocturnal.com/
They may do if I measure each shadow separately only when the sun is level with the slat which casts it - I don't know.
This is using Python 2, which is end-of-lifed. Those bare print statements are gauche. Python does have a variable keyword, `global`.

While JavaScript can omit semicolons, it's an incredibly bad idea outside of console/Node REPL. In particular it'll merge adjacent closures or constants, and you'll have an incredible time trying to find that error. Semicolon everything.

The arrow function as ()=>{} is clearer and less likely to suck up adjacent terms.

There's no point in even showing C#, since it's just Java with the capitalization swapped. Go, as well, but at least it's slightly different.

OP should learn some languages which aren't just FORTRAN-with-C-syntax, like Scheme (or any LISP), Haskell, ML, etc.
Sure, but the abstraction of "RAM" basically prescribes something uniform and lossless, fundamental to the operation of most any software.

If we can make volatile memory chips significantly more dense by letting them be lossy, then lets either add another layer to the memory hierarchy and/or rename L3 cache to RAM and move the L3<->L4 mechanics into real software.

At any rate, manufacturers shouldn't just be silently eroding the abstraction so they can compete on density harder.
Is this true or an assumption? If you’re poor and getting public assistance, you need a gov id. Buying any restricted good or service requires gov id (cigs, beer, etc.) Young people who are dependents on the other hand may be affected.
What are your thoughts about using ipfs/filecoin or swarm/ethereum as the data store for such a media player?
Indeed.

BCacheFS's development is slow, but that's because stability is the ultimate goal. Don't rush to make everything work, but gradually crank out stable code that's actually reliable.

Kent almost single-handedly developed BCache, but eventually, other kernel maintainers took over from him. BCache is basically stable now.

Kent's plan for BCache was for it to be the basis for BCacheFS from the very beginning, it seems. So, while BCache does what it's good at, it is also architectured to make developing BCacheFS easier.

Basically, Kent has been building an entire filesystem almost single-handedly, and has been doing so much better than BtrFS has been.

Kent has a corporate sponser now, thankfully, so he can a bit more easily afford to spend more time on it.

His Patreon donations seem bare-minimum, though, for the task. Enough-ish, but not ideal.
Middle Easterners are even more so, but probably not to foreigners as much. (although in parts of Turkey and Iran even the people living in villages will welcome you into their homes)

Ever noticed why true homelessness is so low in middle eastern countries? The "homeless" there often are people with homes who just don't go there at night.
Instead of forcing businesses to accept cash, why don't they provide debit cards to the poor?
a few years ago arstechnica tried using an OS9 computer as a 'daily driver' for fun, they detail some of the challenges encountered:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/my-coworkers-made-me...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/09/an-os-9-odyssey-why-...
I like instagram because it doesn't force me to look at the public feed. I only look at posts from people I follow and I only follow people I actually know + a few podcasters I really like.
You're intuition is correct that the rectangles would overlap if projected by a light like shadow puppets. Instead, imagine a series of lasers up and down the vertical axis positioned so that their beams are parallel to the plane that contains the sphere's equator. And imagine that the lasers spin 360 degrees around the vertical axis but their beams always stay parallel to the plane of the sphere's equator. That's the projection being described here.
I was in Iceland this past June and the mismatch between the number of tourists and the infrastructure at the national parks and scenic overlooks/stops was enormous.

I have no idea what the right number of tourists for Iceland is but at several locations the facilities (restrooms, food services, shop) were small and completely overwhelmed by the number of busses that were stopping in quick succession.

I was on a cruise and unfortunately the logistics of port calls tends to create very bursty traffic patterns with large number of tour busses disgorging visitors in quick succession at these under-sized locations.

For example the facilities at Goðafoss were undersized:
https://www.google.com/maps/@65.6860127,-17.5395264,3a,37.5y...

On the other hand the facilities at Geysir were much better:
https://www.google.com/maps/@64.3100169,-20.3013397,3a,75y,1...
A notable feature of stacks of stones is that they're easy to knock over. So if you don't like them, knock them over. It'll make you feel good, to the extent that you don't like them. So it's a way for stackers to help topplers feel good about themselves. Toppling stones is actually strangely satisfying, like stomping a sand castle, starting a domino avalanche or exploding a death star. Cumulatively the number of stacks will reflect the balance between stackers and topplers, so it's democratic.

Myself, I don't care, but I have other pet peeves that I do care about for very little reason. Stickers that are hard to remove from products, for one. Now that requires urgent action.
>What courses did you take?

Nothing advanced, just Trig, Geometry (proofs based), Algebra and Precalculus. Basically what a sharp high school senior in college prep classes would be familiar with. Geometry was probably the best. If you've never encountered formal proofs before, it's probably the best training for pure logic I can imagine. They start out incredibly frustrating but become addictive once you figure out how to crack them. Precalc was insanely useful too. Learning how to build up a function and shape it with various operators, and work with polynomials is absolutely essential for things like graphics shaders and timing functions and all kinds of other stuff that comes up in UI development (my work). All I can say is that it will give you a much greater appreciation for studying the purely abstract rather than always focusing on practical matters that come up in engineering, as well as making apparent more elegant solutions you may have brute forced in the past.
Or remote people to BSOD you freely as well via some OOB data to the NetBIOS TCP port.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke
Ever wonder how bland, feature barren, largely useless lowest common denominator shit that nobody really seems to like, or identify with can come to dominate design of software products?

My theory is that the assumption there is some kind of meaningful "Average user" which a product is then built for ultimately destroys utility in software.

If you have 50 features that on average 1% of people use, you can easily reach the false conclusion nobody cares about these features, when on aggregate 90% might use at least one of those features. Thus in aiming for the average, you haven't designed for anyone at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy

Combine this with the fact that metrics can't truly tell you why something is, only that things somehow appear to have a relation. Developers love love to run wild with a narrative about how their particular reading of why the metrics shook out this way is unchallengable fact, backed by DATA (when its really exactly the opposite, you drew a conclusion based on relations you assumed to exist), you have a recipe for some really horrible misdesigning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging

I think modern application design is completely off the rails, driven by statistical phantoms that are assigned significance in an arbitrary and non-systematic way and its leading to software that is genuinely a degraded experience for the user, wearing the mask of something that is propped up as "objectively better".
There are so many hidden behaviors in native widgets that once you get accustomed to, you can't go back any more. Here are a few of the ones:

* Right click the document icon on the title bar to reveal a menu bar for ancestor directories
* Drag the document icon into things like an email client as an attachment
* Support Emacs-style text editing shortcuts such as C-a C-e C-k everywhere, as well as user-defined ones (I added a bunch of other Emacs ones like M-f)
* Trackpad shortcuts such as three finger press on a word to show dictionary and thesaurus
* Drag and drop selected text to move it
* Hold option while selecting text for rectangular selection

There are many others. I get upset if something doesn't work when I know it should work if the app developer is using native controls.
If kernel space were relatively small this might be practical as a motherboard feature, possibly soldered in place. Though I doubt it'll become standard unless there are no other alternatives since it seems like a very specialized solution.
There is nothing wrong with tradeoffs. There is everything wrong with violating an agreed-upon abstraction while pretending that you are not.

There is nothing wrong with selling RAM where certain access patterns corrupt the content in predictable ways. There is everything wrong though with selling that RAM for use in systems that are known to expect RAM to return exactly the bits written to it with a certain (high) degree of reliability. And it is wrong precisely because it is not a tradeoff. If you are honest about the properties of the RAM you are selling, then that is the basis for the system designer to make a decision whether using your RAM with an appropriate interface is a better choice than using more reliable RAM with a "traditional interface". Pretending that your RAM is suitable for the "traditional interface" is what prevents the tradeoff from happening and is essentially fraudulent.
Don't get me wrong, you can still make a niche multi-million dollar company out there in tech land and sell it off at some point. That's not my point.

My point is that you can't make a company today that will beat Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple or Microsoft. There isn't going to be a "changing of the guard" like what happened with IBM, Sun, etc...

The "agility" of a startup, which itself isn't unique anymore, doesn't get you to scale faster than these companies anymore. They will wait for you to prove the market and then blow you out of the water. Trust me I have first hand experience here.

All the channels are saturated and you'll either get bought or crushed. That's what is scary.
There is more research on this than what you have cited here, unfortunately the literature goes under the catchy keyword "acoustic keyboard emanations", try that in Google scholar.
Yep, I shouldn’t have to re-neg on my promise to myself to “quit Facebook” just to check some details on a public invite / event that is only posted on Facebook.
What if nations funded research and drug production in nation owned facilities that priced the drugs at production price to national insurances and at higher prices for world wide sale? The high costs of research in medicine should be canceled out by the reduction in insurance spending (which no instead would directly be used for research). Given that nowadays drug companies are profitable their spending and earnings must be balanced, so would it would be in such a system as well. The price for drugs can only go down this way. It would not even be necessary to get rid of commercial drug companies and the standing patents. It would just be an addition for the creation of drugs that do not need to rely on a business model but that are focused on actually make people healthy as cheaply as possible.
Opposite experience for me oddly. People (like, outside of SoMa) are so much more relaxed and not rushed. Open to a conversation and not really in a hurry to be anywhere.

I found it tough to find spots like that anywhere in NYC.
They should have given even a bigger cut to those developers who release Linux versions. It would be a good incentive to push more of them releasing for Linux.
And 6x is a good upper bound (achieved by a cube). It's nice that the correct answer is halfway between these.
Okay, here's where I see an important difference.

Let's break it down into a few constituent parts. We have a thing (scripture / spiritual belief OR the scientific method as applied to the world). Then, nasty, messy fallible people who probably don't floss... do stuff with that thing: they teach it, they do it, they investigate it in their own messy wayd. And then regular joe-schmo's who aren't so involved in the doing-something-with-the-thing get reallll impressed by these doing-stuff people (priests/rabbis/gurus whatever OR scientists of all sorts).

Okay, well here's the thing. I agree that everybody is messy and fallible. I agree that hand-wavy "Science people are right!" talk is wrong, imprecise and has potential to be harmful. At the same time, I believe in the scientific-method-applied-to-the-world. I believe in its power to reveal truth. I do not have that same belief in scripture-or-organized-religion-applied-to-the-world. And I think that's REALLY important. Of course people do stupid things and make mistakes, but when someone puts blind faith in people-trying-to-adhere-to-science, it scares me a lot less than when someone puts blind faith in people-trying-to-adhere-to-a-religion. In fact, I'd much rather people put blind faith in "scientists" than in... any other type of group, really, at least when it comes to revealing knowledge.

Hopefully that made sense, if anyone has thoughts or disagrees, I'm more than happy to hear it.
space (not cosmos, just open gaps) is the future then
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> Moreover, we’re simply not robots; one does not simply do consulting from 9 AM to 1 PM, then switch one’s mind to product coding at 1:01 PM and carry on until 5 PM. The mind needs time to unwind, recharge, adapt, and get in gear.

This hard lesson does seem to make bootstrapping a risky strategy.
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If you don't want to live in a society than you should be the one to leave.
DNS replacement is one of the most practical applications of the blockchain database. What database would you have on nearly EVERY machine ever, a name=>ip mapping fits that niche really well. ENS is going to do major work here.
Thanks for sharing; I found it more interesting than the article.
I want to love Atom. I really do.

But it's been four years and they still havn't fixed jump to definition in PHP.

Visual Studio Code has this, out the box. And it works really well.
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Fun fact: by the same logic, the perimeter of a circle is the derivative of its area.
Not easy at all, but still beats most civil wars. Thanks for pointing this out.

Is this where Jurassic Park happened :-)
>You don't have lungs (water respiration doesn't work this way in any creature I know of), so you can't "blow" anything.

You might have heard about mantle, an organ that distinguishes mollusks. Many of them use it to circulate water around the gills and some are so good with it that they can create a water jet and shoot it with such a force that they swim in the opposite direction.
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There's a common anti-pattern that happens with what I'll call "short attention span" development processes (excessive reliance on A/B testing, agile sprints, etc, no long term vision). A poorly implemented, buggy, poorly documented, and/or not well integrated feature doesn't see much use so the developers avoid putting work into it, which just makes all of its problems worse until eventually someone has the bright idea to cut it because "nobody uses it". Sometimes this is warranted, but more often than not it's just laziness and short-sightedness. Nobody ever puts in the effort to fix broken core functionality, all the effort ends up dedicated to superficial turd polishing or gimmicks.
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Why don't they just build the gates and add some pumps to circulate water between the lagoon and the open ocean?
What protections is stripe or square provided that a payment processing business I set up tomorrow isn't? The government doesn't actually give any specific payment processors special privileges.

Yes, all payment processors have special privileges, but so to would the one you start tomorrow. But instead you want to force another to serve you. Why?