skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're absolutely right. It's not an excuse, and the example/hypothetical I shared would be a violation of my ideals.

But that's my point. We're flawed. Which isn't an excuse. It's like, when the experts talk about how to change habits, they say the best way to do it is to change your environment. Because of the powerful influence our environment has upon us.

And most models of change for behaviors like smoking or weight loss (and it's becoming increasing clear that computers/screens/apps/the internet share the addictive qualities of those behaviors) incorporate relapse as one step of a change process.

It's an old book and a simple one, but as far as I know their research on how people successfully change behavior still holds up: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46680.Changing_for_Good

Most studies show, I think, that positive motivation is a better tool than shaming/blaming/judging, in most situations.
There's so much potential in a better university/college.

Imagine that in society we pooled our resources to make the best video/online courses for a variety of subjects. The best CS courses. The best history courses. The best biology courses. We could focus on making the courses accessible and translated. We could make the best assignments and projects, iterated and experimented on with a population of millions. Heck, we could even hire professional actors that would both help with engagement and with representation problems in various fields.

Then in addition to being places of research, universities become the places we go to facilitate taking those courses and applying the knowledge. Watch the interactive videos, and expert tutors help you understand challenging topics, guide you where to look next, and facilitate labs. At least for undergraduate, this seems much better than what we have now.

And then, why not open it up to everyone? We could all take various courses throughout our lives. I'd love to be continuously taking classes in new fields, but the world isn't set up that way.
Some famous musician (can’t remember their name) said something along the lines “you take 10 years to write your first album and they expect you to write the second in 6 months”.
There is no easy for market for 32b of any stock . You cannot just make sell order for that qty and expect that Order to be filled.

That stock market is also there for ARM stocks . There is no need to trade for nvidia shares at an undesirable price if there is no immediate cash in it.

Nvidia could potentially raise money from an FPO or similar instruments and leverage advantageous stock price they have, I.e. issue lesser newer stock than they would have at a lower price ,but only way SoftBank will consider a deal is if they get cash
> I don't know if they fail as much as non-phds,

Yet you claim a PhD is not a signal. Weird. I'd have suspected you would have some empirical, not anecdotal or selection bias, evidence that was demonstrable....

>And it's well known that if you are smart and start working out of undergrad instead of getting a phd you usually end up significantly ahead in terms of earnings and on the corporate ladder.

Citation? Also now you're moving the goalposts. It's especially funny since you didn't like that I pointed out how many Turing Awardees had PhDs, to which you complained. Now you see fit to sub-select your original claims. :)

Well known? Then you should be able to provide evidence, since it must be so commonly demonstrated.

I claim it's not well known, because it's not true.

I've worked with lots of PhDs, and lots of non-PhDs, and the PhDs by earn more than the non, including owning the companies.

Also, look over the boards of companies, especially tech, and see again if PhDs are over or under represented. Hint: they're over-represented.

So you are simply incorrect in this. Demonstrably so.

You make a lot of popular claims but have provided no empirical evidence. I at least provided two demonstrable cases where you're wrong.

I noticed I've offered many times for you to provide actual evidence. None so far presented as expected.
It makes me a better programmer.
I wish more people, especially tech CEOs, could understand the incredible sacrifice of time, money, and energy it takes to make an album people actually enjoy. Everything you listen to, unless you are willing to listen to raw demos, is a miracle. I've worked both as a sound engineer and and a software developer. It's orders of magnitude easier to make working software than it is to make a hit record. The way tech companies have abused musicians to get rich is one of the most shameful things to ever happen. Furthermore, I'm sick of these guru edicts about how everyone will need to work that much harder in the "new normal". I got into software to pay the bills, but the way geeks talk about the industry and people I love drives me right up the wall. Have some appreciation--even awe--for the art you enjoy. It requires more effort than you could ever imagine.
How does that change anything? ISIS had hackers, that doesn't make them good or anything. I don't want to compare you with ISIS, I'm just trying to make a point.
Also, didn't the hip hop crowd just give away their music for free and make all their money touring? Until signed anyway. And mix tapes were more than a single. So to that end, music definitely was their marketing. To put it another way, they let the music market itself. That's all they needed, and was all they got. I would put influence under marketing though, unless we can settle that music and influence are both both.
I mostly do when sleeping, staring just before fall asleep and when a wake up everithing seems much clear
Microsoft in talks to buy out TikTok – sources
I'm not particularly familiar with US antitrust law specifics...

One big point that came up in the congressional hearing the other day was how Google, when buying DoubleClick, said (under oath to congress) that not only would they not merge data but that they legally couldn't if they wanted to - and then years later did just that.

Is there any way to acquire in such a way that Apple would own ARM but there'd be a complete firewall between them, with ARM having a separate board, CEO, etc. and nothing between them except the technical ownership (and any contracts between the two companies)?

I hope not, as I'm in favour of breaking up huge companies myself... but if legal firms can have a system in place for firewall of information between clients I don't see why a similar legal situation could be feasible for allowing Apple to buy on the condition that they can't have any say over operations, with selling ARM being their only way of influencing them in any way?

Of course, owning a company where you have no control at all isn't great, but in this case it might be worth it if Apple trusts ARM to keep doing well without Apple's help, and if it would prevent someone like NVIDIA from shutting Apple out.

And would there be any antitrust issues if Apple bought a 500 year license to freely (or at a pre-set calculation of pricing) use any and all current and future ARM designs?
How can you maintain journalistic integrity by selling the products directly?
If you've been a homeowner for that long, California's recently arriving high income population is subsidizing you.
>"This other person does not live in reality, move on".

That is basically forgiveness. It's not a gift you give them, its not letting them off the hook. To forgive someone, they do not need to be aware you have done so. It's you taking control of the damage they did to you, and moving beyond it hurting you further.
ARM the companies growth rate has been tepid at best since SoftBank bought it. You need a high growth rate to justify a high multiple.

And interest rates can change quickly. It’s a value trap to overweight current interest rates in equity valuations.
Bankruptcy negatively affects your credit score by a large amount, so it's not exactly an easy decision.
Thanks, this is an interesting discussion. I thought the arms would be much more expensive: https://www.reddit.com/r/olkb/comments/6wt6mi/evaluating_mcu...
I am okay with a broad tax increase on the middle class and above which would actually generate the revenue necessary to pay for these types of projects sustainably. I suspect the poster you're replying to would be as well.
Parents that invest time and resources into their children?

We had a computer lab with 8 Apple II's in my public elementary school in 1983. We also had a few TRS-80s.
Why would Arm be valued at $10B publicly and $32B+ privately? Nvidia shareholders would be paying a premium for ... what exactly? Did Softbank overpay for Arm?

Is Arm not profitable as a standalone business? They recently raised some license fees by 4X.
There is some type of tracking code in the URL which should be removed.
“Hiding” network latency for fast memory in data centers
I'm not the one you're asking. But...

Here's a data structure that represents a bill of materials. It has a list of components, and a total cost, which is the sum of the costs of the components on the list. That's the invariant - that the total cost is the sum of the costs of the components in the list.

If it's just a structure, then someone can add or remove a component, and forget to update the total cost, and the invariant is violated. But if it's an object, if the code is bound to the data (in the way OOP normally calls encapsulation), then only the member functions can modify the structure. So if you want to add a component, you have to use the object's addComponent method, which (in a properly debugged object) isn't going to forget to update the total cost.

Now, you could say that the structure could have a code library to go with it, and that could have an addComponent function. That's true. But the user doesn't have to use that function - they can mess with the list directly, if they think they know what they're doing. Whereas with OOP encapsulation, they have to use the existing function. That function can guarantee that the object's invariants are maintained.
When I switched to an anime profile picture I became ostracized at my job, and that boosted my productivity 3x due to fewer distractions. I have never felt more lonely in my life but my manager is happy with my performance so it's worth it imo
Your friend was absolutely right. I never cared if people pirated my bands music (or later the bands that I was managing) because the real thing I wanted was them showing up at shows, buying merch, posting us on facebook, asking events to bring us on, etc...

At a certain point, Taylor Swift and larger artists _do_ make a good chunk of change from their actual music sales, but it isn't a feasible strategy to rely on that for indie and DIY artists.
Scrum sprints for musicians. Sad news.
if you want to demo a split keyboard you could plug two keyboards in and put one hand on each
There are still plenty of musicians doing that. I haven't kept track lately, but John Zorn used to release albums every 2 months or so. Thee Oh Sees and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are also constantly putting out new albums (King Gizzard had 5 albums in 2017).
On the other hand I think it's more common to send a friend a link to a music streaming service for them to listen to a single track than it is to send an amazon link for them to order the CD. Streaming lets you capture revenue from people who may end up not liking your song(s), doesn't it?
Fair. But doesn't that stifle genres that focus more on experimentation, deep philosophical lyrics etc.? I don't mean to imply that Rap is not that, just that some types of music, (including Rap & Hip-Hop in many cases am sure), require more time and experimentation to 'feel right' than others, they require research, studying history etc.

Not sure these are fit for a single/month type of release. Even on a 12 song album that used to come out every 3-4 years, you only have enough material for a single year now, at that pace.

Quantity is often said to come at the expense of quality and for a good reason.
Internet Archive Tells Court Its Digital Library Is Protected Under Fair Use
"Software isn't our product, software is our marketing"

I think this is fairly accurate. In software, you can write some for marketing, but keep some proprietary.
> I want all your lunches, or I’m going to break your legs

In this case, the cost of duplication of the said "lunch" is free, so there is not really any problem. The question arise when the school bully sells your "lunch" 100x for $10, gives you back $10, would you have been able to make that $10 by yourself ?
After working in the Scala, which blurs the line between FP and OOP, daily for years, I feel like the choice to use OOP or not tends to boil down to how you'd prefer to solve the Expression Problem [1] for your domain. (if you follow the paradigm of "Functional Core, Imperative Shell")

If you're following this paradigm, for all your core objects they:

-Will be immutable, meaning calling methods on them will not change their state. (except for potentially some transparent optimizations, eg in-memory caching)

-Should not have methods that have side effects (i.e. purely functional)

If this is the case, then choosing whether your classes are objects or simple data structs is only a matter of code organization. ie do you want objects to carry around their methods with them, or have those functions live separately.

If you want to share method implementations among objects, you have the option of using inherited methods/types for a more OOP solution, or the typeclass pattern for a more FP solution. (Though the typeclass pattern has significant syntactical baggage in Scala)

[1] https://wiki.c2.com/?ExpressionProblem
Page and Brin are not married to each other, as far as I know (which would make the shares their common property). You can always try to drive a wedge between them, have one of them turn on the other. With Zuckerberg, no, no chance.
>In the end, "the internet" will look no different than mainstream tv.

I worry about this, but I also suspect we're heading in a direction that will mostly avoid this fate. However, even if given a hard binary choice between TV land and the current popularity of hatred that Duke exemplifies, I wouldn't have to think on it.
ARMs growth has petered out, its market is large and mostly saturated. PCs and servers won’t ship a fraction of the CPUs mobile does.
I agree with you on DLC. I'd rather just pay $100 upfront (or whatever it needs to cost) to get a finished product.

on the other hand, I think F2P monetized with cosmetic items is a pretty good model for a multiplayer game. anyone with a computer can enjoy the game, and the people who care the most (or have the most disposable income) support ongoing development without messing with the balance.
But, why do plants need a regular amount of light energy? Can't a black plant just absorb everything available?
I love it when people bring up Cloud Flare's DNSSEC.

First, Cloud Flare's curve-based DNSSEC is itself already obsolete. New designs don't use the P-curves, which are difficult to implement safely, and they don't use DSA, which is also brittle and dangerous. For the last 10 years, the mainstream state of the art has been twist-secure curves like Curve25519 and Schnorr-type signature schemes like EdDSA.

But equally importantly: the overwhelming majority of new DNSSEC deployments today use RSA.

Modern cryptography is nowhere on the horizon for DNSSEC. A concerted industrywide effort to use a safer signature scheme wouldn't see widespread deployment before 2030.
Why would nvidia overpay by 22 billion dollars?
That's basically a hand-rolled implementation of a state monad that supports real mutability. The Haskell equivalent is the ST monad.

While it's possible to do this kind of thing, it's busywork that properly designed programming languages are perfectly capable of handling well on our behalf.
I love Zappa. But I think John Zorn wins:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zorn_discography
I don't know. Framing it in terms of opposition to a perceived political trend doesn't read that way to me, and my own relevant experience includes nothing to suggest that framing forgiveness in any way related to any kind of political anything would be a useful way of dealing with the ramifications of past emotional trauma.

Perhaps the original commenter will come along and clarify.
The answer is an unequivocal yes
More like Fortnight realizing that they need to push merch hard at target, etc.
Oregon Trail but for Investing
If ARM could raise licensing fees, it already would have.
I think the problem is that your example is too contrived and you can hide implementation details by just having a function giveFinanceDepartmentARaiseInDollars(company, dollarAmount) that exhibits the same issues as the “object oriented version”.

More generally the issue of global mutable state and keeping your own sanity as a developer is a problem across paradigms.
I wonder how that is influenced by demographics, i.e. if the people who are on a family plan or a free plan are more likely to listen to certain artists and less likely to listen to others.
It is not just optical astronomy. Radio is also in danger

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3702/1
This is a massive generalization, made far too early in the lifecycle of a new platform.

Don’t take this advice.

Similar criticisms could have been aimed at developing iPhone apps, which have spawned many multi billion dollar companies.
Big story!
The ISO layouts for the UK have a two-row enter key.

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

US keyboards don't. There is a backslash key above the single row enter key. Which is a key I have no real great use for. Maybe it rocked in the MS-DOS days but backslash doesn't really need that priority place.

So look at the Logitech keyboards for the UK. They offer one model with the true layout, i.e. a double height enter key. The rest have some US keys with UK labels on.

Now look at Microsoft. Again there is some massive backslash key instead of an ISO UK keyboard in all its glory.

What happens is that they take the US board and change a few of the key caps. They do not go to the effort of doing it properly.

There are other layouts, for example, German, that should have the big enter key.

Standards might not be optimal solutions. But at least you know where you are. You know what to expect. But with keyboards nobody sticks to the standards. If you look at the Logitech ones for instance they all have different fudges, such as arrow keys mangled together differently, just enough to trip you up if swapping between Logitech keyboards. Then things like rounding off the corner keys including escape. They do these awful design decisions on far too many of their keyboards.

The tenkeyless requirement is reasonable, laptops don't tend to have the num-pad. But is there a tkl keyboard out there with a standard ISO layout? Not if you combine that feature with wireless or a desire for backlighting. Nevermind switch choice.

Some people struggle with an Apple keypad due to the different modifier keys. God help anyone having to press a few keys on any of the ZSA boards. Might as well learn Dvorak keyboards. Or go all the way with a chord keyboard. QWERTY works and we all know it is not the best. But standards are not kept to when you move out of the US layout.
You can already do that via modules or fake modules in C translation units.

What OOP offers on top of modules is extendability and polymorphism.

And these two capabilities are possible to achieve in various ways.
Microsoft to close its eBook DRM servers: “The books will stop working” (2019)
“There are only three requirements for success. First, decide exactly what it is you want in life. Second, determine the price that you are going to have to pay to get the things you want. And third, and this is most important, resolve to pay that price."

H.L. HUNT
Would you be more open and accepting to commentary if there was more kindness, more love, more empathy and compassion in discussions of how the old normal is gone? Expressions of admiration and awe coupled with opining that the old multi-year release cycle doesn't work anymore, and legions of hard-working humans making sacrifices for what they love may need to change?

Thank you for sharing. The world is always a better place with more human warmth.
> I'm running such a campaign now and getting wildly high ROI's in the 14X range.

Are you able to prove they wouldn't have bought anyway?
Chart is MIT license
Personally, I find the default keybinding for subtitle timing to be the best keybinding. But it's kinda not newcomer friendly.
This is a really silly argument.

There is an art to building software, no doubt, in terms of it being a craft. But I think you've misspoken about functional things being artistically beautiful. What you really should mean is that functional things can be aesthetically beautiful, which is true and different.

Art is primarily defined by expression and exploration, particularly revolving around human emotions. Software products, in the end, do not fit this category. There is a vast difference.

Edit: I defined it elsewhere a bit smoother. I define art as the exploration of emotional expression. Art products are the end result of that exploration. Live acts or art or performances could be viewed as a sort of merger between the two, either as a reenactment of the exploration or as a new exploration happening in the moment.
Code (can be) a form of artistic expression and not every piece of music is art.
SoftBank is run by an idiot that he paid 10x revenues for ARM when its growth was already slowing substantially.
Spherical Geometry Is Stranger Than Hyperbolic
ARM was public for a long time. In 2016 they were taken private by Softbank via a $32bn acquisition.
I don't know if this was intended sarcastically, but novels written in a weekly serialized form were a huge thing [0] and Hemingway wrote at least one novel this way [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_%28literature%29

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_the_River_and_into_the_...
Magpie Driven Development
It's not a choice. It's a disease. No one chooses to be miserable.
Reuters coverage: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-cwt-ransom/payment-...
Agree, that’s a strong point.
Isn't Facebook arguing that they have become a public square though? If we accept that argument, then they can't have it both ways - a merchant who has set up a booth on the public common is not a squatter. While subject to the rules of the common, they still retain full control over their booth and wares.
Important to note that this only applies to "root" workers

> For now, this is only available for Workers that are deployed to a “root” hostname like “example.com” and not specific paths like “example.com/path/to/something.” We plan to introduce more optimizations in the future that can preload specific paths.
It wouldn't have been great in the very short term. But there's an argument that mid-long term, the pandemic will be good for WeWork.
Robotics (as in 6dof teach-in industrial robot arms you'd find on a factory floor). At least that used to be the case 30 years ago, but I doubt that changed.
What exactly can you do/produce with this graph and connection of words? I can't understand the benefits.
It's surely not that simple. Android allows Google to gather all kinds of location data that makes Google Maps much more effective, not to mention advertising. I doubt that gets categorised as Android profit.
Look at AI Dungeon again. Notice the Custom option.
I think even more, since there was a stock split since then (share price is dated at 2005).
Nationalism taken too far. Learning regional languages and Sanskrit instead of English? Having a lingua franca is incredibly advantageous in the global economy.
Personnaly some of the weirdest and deepest hours of my life were live music. It catchs your soul and also bonds people together. No spotify playlist can do this I believe.