skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps, depends on who writes the history.

I think 2001-2019 will be like 1900-1914, a prelude to the real story. 9/11 represented the first challenge to America’s post Cold War dominance and leadership. IMO, 2020 marks the beginning of the end of US leadership and a new path.
But planning/hoping to sell copies in the future is unethical, is it?
I think it's something else. One cannot simply shut down a Windows 8+ computer any more in order to access the boot device priority. There is a menu entry for shut down, but it's mislabelled and instead it will hibernate. This is very perplexing if one is used to how it was done before. The real working procedure is orders of magnitude more complicated and documented at https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5831-boot-uefi-firmware-...
This bit at the end was the most interesting to me.

"For me, I stepped out into an uncertain future. I don’t really see meaningful human interaction anymore. I see a society that is impossibly distracted by likes and selfies, smartphones, and similar technologies, and I often find it frustrating to find my place in the midst of this new interconnected world simply because I was not there to naturally evolve with it."
> FYI: Remap your capslock key to escape to use Vim more effectively.

That's more one way of doing things rather than a "FYI". Eg I switched capslock with ctrl. There are many ways to exit insert mode, I prefer:

inoremap jk <esc>
inoremap kj <esc>
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> My only real gripe with PHP is the annotation syntax. Yikes. Stuff that's in comments SHOULD NOT AFFECT RUNNING CODE. Who came up with that?

That will change in PHP 8 with the introduction of attributes (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/attributes_v2).
Perhaps I don't understand what you are talking about. One hyphen for single-character combinable flags, and two hyphens for multi-character flags.
All this work to elim background is great. But we also will need business oriented group meets which emulate real life: Allow breakouts, 2-4 people in group "sidebar" to chat, the burble of other convos drift in, providing a gentle low background hum. The sidebar, unless marked private, would also contribute to hum of other users in a main group or in sidebars of their own. Acoustic effects can even allow directional it of the sounds.

Yes, we can do VR worlds that still look like Second Life, but while we are working on fixing that, we might solve for near term things to improve interactivity.

Well, and solve the "one person speaks, all must listen, lag for response, loop" which I find is similar to how morse code discussions work.
That's really interesting.

- If we say you take a 10 minute break every 50 minutes, you would need almost 10 hours to work 8 hours.
- Let's say lunch for 30 minutes, dinner for 30 minutes. We're at 11 hours.
- If you're sleeping for eight hours, we're at 19 hours.

This is a very very strict, and probably somewhat unrealistic schedule, and you only have five hours left after this. Realistically, there would be a lot of other small things that add up to a few hours, going to the bathroom, responding to people on WhatsApp, cooking, etc.

Are you really good at managing your time and getting started, or do you only focus on work and try not to spend time on hobbies and other activities?
I agree that passing `ax` and `bx` as inputs is better than setting them in the inline asm, but I don't like the idea of setting registers that shouldn't get changed as outputs "just in case".
He probably would have asked to go back into prison.
Symfony is directly inspired by Spring, and Laravel is an based on Symfony, so yes, that's the direction they are going.

I kinda hate that trend, but it satisfies a cross section of devs who want "serious" enterprise looking code base but don't want to move from PHP. It's still noticeably different from Java, even with the heavy typing and all the inspiration.
I used to get most of work done in the morning when I had the most mental energy. If I could, I would avoid interruptions - answer emails after lunch, etc.
Perhaps a better title would be "Hints of new volcanic activity under the Eifel region". The geographic background is well known, but the study finds the activity was larger than expected:

> The Eifel area is the only region in the study where the ground motion appeared significantly greater than expected
I use Google Keep after 5 years
Some do but it's hardly universal. AFAIK that comes with its own security problems like each app having to bundle and update its own dependencies. Games aren't great either. I think Steam for example makes its application folder writeable by all users by default.
They would have been told "great, we understand your concerns, please add a card to the tech backlog (or whatever local jargon is at that team) and we'll address it in the next sprint/dev cycle/quarter". That's the right way to acknowledge these complaints while preventing actual progress.
It's the predecessor of the dictum about putting a wrong answer on the internet to get the right answer. Sorta, and with a few hundred years involved.
10 years, or 1 year, wouldn't be much different.
I really don't understand 4K 10bit HDR video that's still only 29 FPS. Why is smooth motion not a focus at all?
>Couldn't one argue 9/11 was the 'start' of the 21st century?

There was one major US political event in the 21st Century before 9/11 and arguably even lead to 9/11.

People tend to forget the 2000 Presidential Election between Gore/Bush. It seems common place for a candidate to lose the popular vote but win the Election, which was the case between Gore/Bush, but we hadn't seen that prior to Gore/Bush since 1888. Not to mention the shenanigans (electronic votes in swing states like FL going to the opposite candidate, entire truck loads of missing ballots)...it ended in a lawsuit and the SCOTUS deciding the election.

Politics/news coverage was set down a path of partisanship we have never recovered from and has only gotten worse. But to your point there is a chance 9/11 is stopped or never happens under Gore, and if 9/11 happened anyway, the response for sure would have been different and Iraq/Afghanistan wars likely never happen (perhaps an entire generation doesn't go off to the longest war in American history).
> Stadia Base (free) lets you play your games in 60fps 1080p. This is the tier you play your purchased games on if you don't keep a subscription up.

translation: the tier that lets you play the games you paid retail price to rent for no additional fee for the next 18 months until google kills stadia too.

No thanks.
I agree, this method probably works for a "maker" and not a "manager" (or a person whose job requires them to move between tasks a lot).
yet you don't see articles about how bad python is, it still receive lot of praises and much love. This is telling a lot about how fair are some comments about PHP.
> it's abhorrent to our sense of justice that one suffer no consequences after committing a crime

This is interesting, philosophically speaking. Why do you say this is so? To what end is the suffering, purely for the sake of the suffering itself, valuable? If it's at odds with the rehabilitation, which should take precedence?
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> Some people are skittish about the idea of punsihment. But it's abhorrent to our sense of justice that one suffer no consequences after committing a crime.

I suspect this is the majority view, but it’s not universal. I’m pointing this out not to argue with you directly so much as to point out that this may be more _your_ sense of justice than a general rule of human nature.
Did I say anything in particular that you disagree with?
> Another advantage is that php runs each request with a clean state, that means all the variables get destroyed after the request, helping to avoiding memory leaks, and possibly issues with concurrency which Java exposes

Care to elaborate? How is that different than java web frameworks?
I believe they'll still be able to do those things, though. It's just a matter of time. The slowing and spying that is. It won't be as easy, but I believe it'll be feasible. It's the typical arms race.

Or as last resort they'll legislate either to end or weaken it.

I hope I'm mistaken, though.
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> Edit: This was diffrent times. Lots of people said things like "i wish he was dead" and worse things. Noone called out such talk like we do now. When I starded as aprentice in a factory about 9 years after this there was always threats of violence among workers, people was called racial slurs to their face, women was always "courted" in crude ways. Noone took such things seriously at the time.

That your class position has moved from the working class to the professional managerial class does not mean the working class has adopted the PMC’s speech codes.
As a graduate student, I had what was for a while one of the fastest workstations in the department on my desk (they were allocated somewhat randomly), but pretty much everybody could run remote jobs on everybody's workstation.

So I named the workstation "yggdrasil" to make it a bit harder for my colleagues to memorize & type the name…
> what you mean with free will there has nothing to do with the formalized free will the article discusses

There is no accepted formalization of free will, that's why it's still a topic of hot debate in philosophy. When people say that free will exists, they're saying that there is coherent notion of control over one's actions that grounds moral responsibility. Some people additionally assert some metaphysical baggage from religions or what not, but that's irrelevant to the real question of free will.

So I reject your premise that the article's conception, or really anyone's conception, of free will is "canonical" in any meaningful way, and so I also reject your claim that "formal free will doesn't appear to be possible".
Function names are rather inconsistent.

get: gettype get_class

str: str_ireplace str_pad str_repeat str_replace str_shuffle str_split str_word_count strcasecmp strchr strcmp strcoll strcspn

encode: base64_encode quoted_printable_encode session_encode rawurlencode urlencode gzencode

php: php_uname php_sapi_name php_logo_guid phpinfo phpcredits phpversion

htmlentites: htmlentities html_entity_decode

to: stream_copy_to_stream strtolower strtotime strtoupper unixtojd

2: bin2hex deg2rad hex2bin ip2long long2ip nl2br rad2deg
> There's no defense. Might be harsh, but whoever is directing Windows' UI and UX department needs to be moved elsewhere, to say the least. Windows 10 might have the worst looking UI paradigm I've seen since I've started with DOS computers in the 90s.

I'd agree, and I'd have to extend that sentiment to almost everyone working on Windows Desktop. Forced updates,updates that frequently break things, a start menu that breaks because it is tied into the Windows Store database, a Windows Store database that breaks, ads in the f'ing start menu, needlessly replacing perfectly working system configuration tools with flat-ui bullshit alternatives that don't have the same functionality...
If you don't know about UEFI, you are not going to look for a switch to turn it off...
> Another advantage is that php runs each request with a clean state

PHP apps are almost guaranteed to be "stateless", thus scaling up and down is quasi-painless also.
I have yet to see development of a js search engine continue for the long term. Used FlexSearch in a recent project but it too appears to have been abandoned. Mini search seems nice and it’s a bit newer. It has a focus on low memory usage so it may also work well for this scenario of a static index.
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Doubt very much that ~2M will be a memory issue (unless you got less than ~130MB). https://goaccess.io/faq#performance

We're running v1.4 in production and it has been working pretty nice for us.
Just this year I read that a new insight about eigenvalues/eigenvectors had just been discovered, shocking the math world that a new insight from linear algebra could be discovered.
Spend or save? The choice has consequences.
How does this square with the type of automation Amazon is doing? The type that people rarely think is automation.

Retail jobs are being decimated across the USA not because robots are directly replacing them, but because as more people shop online these companies collapse and Amazon is able to perform the same service without the staff.

Maybe warehouse worker, delivery jobs and coders are increasing at the same place? That doesn't pass the sniff test to me as they seem to have much higher efficiency than your average salesperson at a retail store.
> It seems common place for a candidate to lose the popular vote but win the Election, which was the case between Gore/Bush

I know the education of the average HNer is a bit higher than the average person off of the street. How is the electoral college perceived here? I've heard a great argument from a conservative friend: it prevents densely populated cities like LA + NY for speaking on the needs/wants of the entire country.
> I bought my first house in 2006 just before the peak. I sold 3 years ago for less than I bought.

I am surprised housing price was less in 2017 than it was in 2006. I guess it depends where you live
I can't help you with your specific question but you can get gigs for companies that you used to work for (and others) by maintaining a robust network of former colleagues. Keep in touch with people you used to work for and 2 years down the pike (if they liked your work) you may get a call for a job. I've never actually looked for consulting work, I just finds me through my network.
I just want to point out that engineers are in no way the "peasant" cast in any organization that's worth its salt. If you feel that way, I'd look for a new job.

In most tech companies, senior engineers make as much if not more than senior managers. It's not until you get to the director level that you probably start passing engineers in salary.

I think you need a better job before you decide to bootstrap your own company. A little change would probably be good for you.
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If you were starting a project now, would you choose PHP or Hack?
as far as I remember, Ubuntu works with secureboot, doesn't it?

Ubuntu wiki seems to say so too https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UEFI/SecureBoot
Has anyone ever "floated" away in space?
> That kind of free will isn't controversial, but it's also not what people mean when they debate determinism, free will, consciousness, etc.

I disagree:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274892120_Why_Compa...
The way to learn is by doing. Pick some companies you think are relevant and introduce yourself and keep doing that for as long as you are in business.

A couple of things:

+ "your services" consist of whatever solves the client's problem.

+ don't waste time trying to convince people to hire you. People with real problems don't need convincing. You can spend forever trying to convince someone who doesn't have real problems.

+ consulting is a relationship business. Relationships take years to build. The best potential clients are in established relationships with established consultants. New consultants see a higher percentage of bad potential clients: amateurs and non-payers.

+ selling is hard. Almost everything else is easier.
I am at my wits end trying to find some challenging work. I have grown up reading about Stallman, Carmack and team, Zawinkski etc. I used to love reading "A little Black book of Computer Viruses" by Mark Ludwig and Michael Abrash's books on optimization.

I am into embedded domain because of being so close the metal guys and there were so many greats in the electronics domain too.

I still remember the days of early linux trying to boot Gentoo on a iMac G3 and going nuts seeing the final bootup. Building computers by myself. Reading war stories and flame wars on slashdot.

All these were in the golden years of the 90's.

Currently I am finding no inspiration with work as there is nothing revolutionary coming out. Corp jobs are a complete mess. The systems suck with uninspiring team members. No experimentation whatsoever.

I too am in the same place as you just 4 years older. I used to do interesting personal projects before but it has completely reduced because professional life really screws you over and reduces you to an empty shell. Now all I do is grind leetcode so that I can retire in some good engineering driven company.
> Our prisons should protect the public

If this is priority number one then rehabilitation follows from that. Rehabilitating prisoners to minimize the risk of relapse and continued danger upon release to society carries the greatest benefit for protecting the interests of the public as a whole.

You can argue that locking people away forever is better for protecting the public, but that is ludicrously expensive and deprives the public of tax dollars that could go to improving public interests such as a strong economy. Releasing prisoners and letting them work also boosts the economy. Provided that the risk of them relapsing to anti-social criminal behavior is so small that the expected benefit is larger than the detriment.

The feeling of justice being served and retribution is not very productive. For sure there must be consequences, but the consequences should benefit society and serve to prevent criminal behavior in the first place rather than satisfy the victim's insatiable hunger for revenge.
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> in the last 20 years
> in that time
> a population that's doubled

Are you sure the US population has doubled in 20 years?
Chaos theory (and I mean the real thing, with the real math) also shows that "deterministic" does not imply "predictable", either. Even classical systems can be fundamentally unpredictable.

I think one of the problems with this question is that the experiments are fundamentally impossible. You can't put an identical person in identical situations 100 times and see what they do. That wouldn't necessarily even solve the problem since exactly what any given result would even mean would still be up for debate, but you can't even get that far. You can deny free will all you like and you'll never be able to prove it by predicting everything in advance. You can claim it all you like and you'll never be able to show the existence of the counterfactual world where you freely chose differently. Doesn't matter how much word chopping you do.
That's great! Did these people really implement graph drawing algorithms as latex macros, or does it call an external program? I'm afraid to look it myself, lest I discover the truth.
I'm happy I got to name the "say" tool in macOS X.

Internally we sometimes use a lower level tool for debugging TTS, which is called... "grunt".
I am very suspicious of the ordinary formulation of the 'hard problem of consciousness'.

What is the relevant quality being distinguished between the description or explanation of the physical processes that correlate to certain mental states and behaviours, on the one hand, and the description and explanation of the conscious first-person experience of phenomenal states, on the other? Usually when people distinguish the two in order to suggest that the first is 'easy' and the second 'hard', they beg the question and build their conclusion into their premise.

If you assume from the beginning that the first is subject to the normal canons of empirical investigation as to how the physical world operates, and the second isn't, then of course they will appear as 'easy' and 'hard'. But the obvious physicalist response is that consciousness has evolved as an efficient information-processing device in in the course of evolution and so that it is, really, understandable through the empirical investigation of the empirical world.

Too much is made of the idea of 'objective facts' and 'subjective experience'. It causes so much linguistic confusion.
My point still stands. The author of this article:
- conducts interviews with primary sources and provides direction quotation in the article.
- reports on number previously unknown to the public
- provides historical chronology of events so readers can understand

I ask again, what would be required for this piece to "count as journalism"?
I was thinking ipfs, but yeah there's lots of ways to skin this cat.
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Just wait until someone you love gets murdered or maimed.
For us it was literately an `apt install goaccess`, picked the COMBINED log format and it's been running for over a month in prod without issues (rotating weekly).

You should post the issue on their https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess, they may be able to help you.
you mean your favorite language prevents you to copy paste code, have variables shorter then 4 letters and also fixes the bugs for you, let me know this cool language so I can try it.

I am also sure that in your first years of coding your code had no issues similar with the ones you described.
Is there any implementation? I'd love to be able to run something on my computer and generate speech.
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> Global installed PV capacity has more than doubled since 2016, and now accounts for 3% of total electricity consumption.

3% is nothing. You are proving my point but you are too blinded by agenda that you can't even see it. Wow, a whole 3%, quite the "disruption".

Also, you are conveniently ignoring non-electric energy use - cars, boats, planes, etc. Which would drop that % to less than 1% of total energy supply.

> You seem to be another person who doesn't understand how exponential growth works.

No I do. That's why you can't fool me with nonsense. Usually it's the people who don't know math or stats who are easily duped.

> Ultimately, to legitimately gaslight you, your cognitive failure is to assume that things can't change quickly

No. I showed you how things can change quickly. Natural gas. Now that is something that actually caused disruption. Feel free to look at the chart I provided.

> and that your prejudices from a few years ago remain valid, even as the facts that underpinned them have vanished.

You really think I'm prejudiced against solar? I'm prejudiced against lies and mindless zealotry. That must be why solar is a non-factor in energy ( electricity or as fuel or as anything ).

No sane person could say solar has been "disruptive". At least if they knew what the hell they were talking about. But obviously, with your 3%, you haven't a clue.