jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> RISC-V is a competitor to Intel. If successful RISC-V threatens to not only take market share from Intel, but turn the entire market away from proprietary CPU's that are Intel's bread and butter.

No, RISC-V is not a competitor of Intel. RISC-V is a competitor of x86.

RISC-V is an ISA while Intel is a company. Intel could sell RISC-V processors if it had to. And maybe they will in the future? So it's not really a threat to Intel CPU market.

And no, RISC-V is not a free and open-source CPU, RISC-V is a royalty-free and open-source ISA.
So the market is not turning away from proprietary CPUs.
But maybe it turns towards proprietary CPUs that implement an opensource ISA.
To some extent yes; but with limits. If you look at each of these alternatives you mentioned, they have a Terms of Service which they will take down any content that is illegal in the country where it is hosted. The same is also somewhat 'true' with the mainstream platforms. Thus, there is no freedom of consequences either.

If you truly want a truly secure neutral, free speech, private communications platform with freedom of consequences - use Signal. No de-platformings there.
And it got even more awesome with KDE Plasma 5.24 just released → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30257717
Yeah I have no particular axe to grind on Haskell’s behalf. I’m a Lisp guy who has to write C++ all day like everyone else.

Lazy is a ridiculous default, the combinatorial explosion created by GHC extensions makes C compiler quirks look like a gentle massage in comparison, and building Haskell is a friggin migraine on wheels.

But for whatever reason, those folks are on average in my experience, serious as a heart attack.
I never used Facebook.
Maybe, but so far no company has managed to truly sell digital assets, or have they? If you "buy" an ebook on Amazon or music on Apple Music, it is technically still just borrowed afaik.
So then, I need to type the same password the same way every time?

If I set up an account while I'm still waking up, and then try to use it after lunch and coffee, wouldn't I get locked out due to inputting faster than expected?

Or what if I'm on the phone with someone, and trying to type with one hand? That would probably lock me out, right?
how is it legal for the feds to steal private property?
Honestly you don't need to remove anything. You can just hold the icon and uninstall virtually anything nowadays. There may be a few megabytes of shim left behind but that doesn't really matter and will never affect your life.
I feel that is the least fair of the complaints (I agree with several of them and have some of my own too). Not because query hints are not disreable but because who is going to pay for maintaing them? It is not really dogma (I, with dome help, managed to convince them to merge one very specific query hint: MATERIALIZED for CTEs) but that they do not want to expose more of the innards of the query planner than necessary to not slow down planner development. Planner development is hard enough as is, with query hints it is going to become at least twice as hard due to even more fear of breaking applications.
I absolutely agree with everything youve written here.
> When an engineer says they need 4 weeks instead of 2 it's my responsibility as a manager to get into the details, not as a way to micro-manage but to help my team be more confident about the 4 weeks timelines.

As a manager, isn’t your job to understand the well-documented problems with direct time estimates of knowledge work even when the work is being estimated by subject-matter experts who regularly perform the type of work being estimated, and understand and coach your team on use of the known techniques with that mitigate that somewhat (among which “managers getting down in the weeds to ‘provide confidence’ is not particularly prominent), so that you develop as-decent-as-practical estimates with, over time, enmpirical error bars without unproductively wasting everyone’s time and morale in exercises that can be assured to, in general, fail to.refine them meaningfully, rather than engaging in self-deluded pop-management-culture self-ego-stroking approaches that let you feel useful, even though they are known to make estimates worse.
Waterfall never went away, and it can be flexible for anyone that bothers to actually read it properly.

https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/why-waterfall-was-a...

As the author acknowledges most companies never fully embraced Scrum, as not all levels would buy into it, specially into what concerns managing expectations of what gets delivered and development costs mapping to actuall project budgets.

So in the end what reigns the corporate world outside startups, are mini-waterfall projects of three weeks.
Firstly, population density of the whole country is irrelevant. Population density of urban centres (e.g. Sydney + Melb > 10M pop.), is comparable if not greater than many cities in the US. We are largely self-sufficient for most food stuffs. I assume most of the US is too (I doubt that closing your borders would lead to empty food shelves). But we are entirely not self-sufficient for just about anything that's manufactured (the bulk of which comes from Asia, mainly China). We shut our borders to people (mostly) not goods. We also had governments that were willing to make politically very unpopular decisions based on the advice they were getting at the time. And the more the outcomes diverged between what we were seeing and what the rest of the world was experiencing, it became less politically damaging to make those kinds of calls (even more so because there was largely bipartisan agreement on the macro decisions even if details varied across states).

I live in Melbourne and went through 2 multi-month lockdowns. The first was 3 months, the second was 5 months. It may be comforting to think that it was "trivial" for us to control the spread of COVID, but I assure you it didn't fucking feel trivial 5 months into the 2nd lockdown.
Viewers have various options to choose from (eg CNN, MSNBC, Fox, Newsmax, ...). The divion CNN+MSNBC vs Fox (in terms of, say, viewership or ad revenue) seems to be roughly comparable to what you'd expect from voter demographics.

If, say, Newsmax rose to prominence and we'd see more fragmentation on the 'right', or CNN and MSNBC were to merge, and we'd see less fragmentation on the 'left', what would that change?
People are addicted to memes and depressing news, cut off the head of twitter and two more will take its place scratching the same primal itch.
I like the concept, but I think they missed some of the best jokes.

"A group of American football experts claim to have scored the exact same number of 'goals' as their Slovenian counterparts, despite what many believe to be a computational error in recording the data."
Reminds me of the "phyles" in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. Figuring out how the social contract can reasonably diverge among people residing in the same physical and economic space seems like a hard problem. It isn't obvious that health care qualifies.
I've been meaning to get in touch - would love to get added as a committer. :) I'll email you at the address listed in your profile.
That, and them passing bills allowing same-sex unions makes me want to move there. Nice job Iceland!
One successful example of this he doesn't mention is games. Several large-ish MMO's basically operate on this principle (Adventure Quest, Dungeon Runners and Runes of Magic to name a few). It's basically the exact same idea he's talking about, though games do have a very different incentive model than a business or professional service.

Edit: Turns out Dungeon Runners is no more. Sad, my wife and I really liked that game.
Good stuff. I had my iPhone stolen a few months ago and I had to buy a replacement through my service provider (Rogers) as Apple wasn't selling them unlocked at the time. I think, if anything, this will help dispel the feeling I had at the time that I was getting screwed by my provider for the replacement phone cost even if it's actually not the case.
looks exactly like: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1216648
That depends on whether they build in incentives for the trunk providers to cooperate.
Infowars should really be on the banlist.
And Airbnb was spamming Craigslist posters (https://growthhackers.com/companies/airbnb/ - but of course selling cereals is the anecdote preferred by storytellers), and I have freelancer friends who got totally screwed by YC companies ("We can't pay for your work right now but we'll hire you and give you tons of equity right after demo day!" ... only to never respond to their emails ever again. Yes, the few of my friends to whom this happened could have been less naive, but still shitty).

The vast majority (but not all) of startups do dubious things. That's to be expected in an environment that glorifies "breaking things" and worrying later if what they're doing is legal or not. Being YC affiliated does not change that in the slightest bit.
If you remove the political and non technical articles from HN, yes they are quite similar. There have been a few posts I've seen on /r/technology which I haven't noticed on HN.
That's all "legacy" telecoms and plumbing. It's not like that any more.

It's much worse now.

Any basic problem involves digging up your entire garden and the street to find the pipe / cable which is pissing out water / gas / shit and piss.

Oh and OpenReach can now charge you £150 to fix your line because it's a pain in the arse to dig everything up (for the 8th time in the year) because the ground is flooded and the SNR ratio goes off the scale.

Keeps the contractors in business I suppose by my lawn looks like a fucking chess board...
So what you are saying is that there is no benefit of using Maya if you are not specifically a commercial software company who want to sell derivative tool-kits made from open source projects.

Or... should I sum it up as Maya is used by studios who already has c++ experience, and Blender is used by studios that has python experience?
The funny thing about this is that all the people I know who work or worked at Elastic say it's one of the most dysfunctional and toxic environments.
> but what they ended up changing ruined what made it great

Please explain more. Did they change more than just sexual and other harassment reporting and handling policies? Why did any of the changes have any effect on engineering?
Either they mean something you can learn by reading "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment" or something you can learn by reading "Linux Device Drivers".

In the first case, I'd suggest trying to write a daemon that opens a socket and/or a fifo or pipe, sends some data, forks, execs, reacts to SIGUSR2, gets started by systemd, etc.

In the second case, implement a /dev/reversestring or whatever. Perhaps make your daemon use it :).

https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
I never understood the strict lockdown measures in most countries. Maybe it's useful in very dense cities?

In Finland the idea was don't mingle and meet people. Old people should avoid contact, but going outside is OK. When gyms were closed, all parks were full of people running and exercising. They just kept the distance. Even without a mask it's very hard to get viral dose that causes infection if you keep enough distance when outside.
> uses plain JS for building up the DOM tree (normal functions, no JSX or template tags)

body({
oncreate: (e) => {
console.log(e, 'was just added to the DOM')
}
}, 'Hello world!'),

heh. I find it mildly funny when people recreate JSX from from first principles
I've got 4 servers and an app that monitors everything.

Daily backup is 30 days retention. Only had to setup once.

Weirdly enough, i don't have any maintenance. When I log in to create a new site, i see all the stats too.

It would cost me at least 18€*30 in the cloud ( amount of sites). I'm 100% sure self hiding for me is a lot cheaper.

I use Gmail and a box account too fyi. But i don't consider that "the cloud", it's a service that i use. Not something to deploy my own development on.

Ps. My uptime is better than a lot of services that is the cloud.
Actually just for High Energy Physics you do not really need Quantum mechanics, I think Griffith 'Introduction to Elementary Particles' was pretty good. You might want to look more into special relativity first.
thank you, i really enjoyed this lecture.
Raw population density (total population / total land area) is a meaningless statistic, as people are clustered together in cities and not evenly spaced around the countryside. The figure you want is population weighted density, which is the density where the "average citizen" lives.
I've never seen it put this way, but it's quite elegant. Did you come up with that?
If an American firm pays for manufacturing for a Chinese firm to make something and ship it to America, and an American firm to distribute, only the price they pay for manufacturing and shipping count towards the trade. So the manufacture does not artificially inflate the total trade deficit.

I think that all the article proposes changing is the way the total trade deficit is divided up between trading partners. However, looking at the balance of trade between a pair of countries rather than between one country and all other countries is pointless anyway.

Consider the following simplified situation: there are only three countries in the world, A, B, and C, equally affluent, and they all use one currency, $. A has a trade deficit of $1 billion to B, B has a trade deficit of $1 billion to C, and C has a trade deficit of $1 billion to A.

In the simplified scenario, there is no net transfer of wealth out of A, B, or C, because each has perfectly balanced trade - so there is nothing wrong with that picture.

In summary, the proper solution is to look at total balance of trade per country, not to get too hung up on balances of trade between pairs of countries. The article is trying to solve a non-existent problem.
Ah didn't think about that. I guess I should leave it as it is after all ;/

But won't this have to be enabled in other countries (like China), where they actually want to see the Unicode characters? Isn't that going to increase their risks of being phished?
Too bad http://www.bankofamericasucks.com/ is already taken...and it's being used as a BoA complaint forumm.
DRM lets them legitimately see content in digital form that they wouldn't otherwise be allowed to legitimately see.
I really can't wait until the phishers get their hands on this. It's going to be a gas.
Forget the bike, I've always wanted a kit that would detect cars around my car and display them like a mini map. Maybe with high speed delta from my own highlighted.
Thanks for taking the time to reply - it seems that Windows is not quite caught up with the usability/experience that I've become accustomed to with Linux after 15+ years. I might take some time to learn about Windows 10 when its released, but it appears that it may not be worth the hassle ... I'm a Linux/embedded developer and have become quite accustomed to the serviceability of Linux. I think, based on your response, I would probably end up just getting frustrated with Windows.
Can anybody explain how this is supposed to work in combination with the end-to-end encryption that's allegedly implemented in the Android client? I can see all my Android to Android conversations in the Web client.
I miss Search Everything on linux. Nothing beats real-time indexing of the filesystem without overhead.
Thanks - so it seems Windows is not competitive with my 15+ years of experience with Linux. I would have thought that would have changed by now, but I guess its just different.
One of my preferred middle-grounds (what I use for my own writing) is to add a "Last updated: <date>" at the bottom or in faded font at the top of my posts. This way the information is there, and useful, but that doesn't mean the post cannot still be relevant today.
Which is why I added "not saying I agree with them".

But requiring an open API (or at least not placing restrictions on an existing API) isn't conceptually all that different from requiring Microsoft to allow browsers other than IE on Windows, and apparently a lot of people think that's a good idea.
The hjkl keys look full size to me.

ducks
I feel you. IMHO Lenovo still makes the best laptop keybaord layouts for coding, typing and gaming. Check out their Legion series.
I’ve added my name to preorder list, happy to pay premium for a laptop with high build quality and hardware. Please don’t screw up the keyboard. Please. And a fingerprint reader would be welcome addition if possible.
You don't need to do mining in the disaster affected area. You need _someone_ to mine and to confirm transactions, but that can happen anywhere the world.
Like most things, there are trade-offs involved.

Including X & Y may greatly skew the results higher or lower, but if the percentage of people purchasing X & Y are low, then they don't have much impact.

The CPI methodology isn't great, but it also isn't bad. Removing volatile sectors makes sense when trying to identify trends, but it doesn't make sense when those volatile sectors are a large component of consumer spend.

Since most of the data used by the CPI calculator is publicly available, it is possible for people to construct their own CPI metric and track it over time. This is helpful if you want to get an accurate indicator of the inflation you've experienced over time, or if you're wanting to push the narrative of higher/lower inflation over a period of time.
> Here's a crazy idea: Don't use analytics at all but focus on your product. If your success relies solely on "improving conversions" by tracking your users and then changing the position and color of your "Checkout" button then maybe try setting yourself apart

I am very much onboard with this idea. The notion that it is a requirement that businesses track individual customers’ actions in order to succeed is pervasive in this newly-connected world we inhabit. It feels too early in my life to be a grumpy old man but I do certainly feel like it sometimes. Brick and mortar retailers manage to reach an acceptable level of business without watching exactly how every customer looks at shelves by just selling things people want or need and I don’t see why the internet should be much different. Surveillance just because we can is not something I like.
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It's probably tough to be the company that billions of people use (no sympathy though). I can see at least two valid responses:

1. If you don't like it, you don't have to look at it.

2. Facebook could have made this opt-in: "Hey, would you like to see some of your most trending moments from this year?"

All this until we get really good at sentiment analysis. I think, too, that Facebook users need to realize that Facebook is going to find ways to use their content. If you upload those memories, they can bring them back to you.

(IMO, it's more of a win to consume on Facebook rather than produce.)
Depends on the type of purchase.

Things like software usually go though a multi-state "miscellaneous software" contract. You provide a parts list, provide it to resellers on contract, and the resellers compete over the fulfillment pennies.

Each state is a little different, but I would be careful about telling the world about potentially bad bids.
Anytime I see that someone does work in C, I automatically assume that they are above average. To even _want_ to program in C, means to me that you are passionate about programming. I know I am biased.
Both twitter and facebook ran into some pretty hard limits on those platforms which in the case of twitter led them to abandon RoR and in the case of Facebook led them to create a compiler for the language (doable on that 100M budget but still quite an undertaking).
See if you can take one course, in anything, at some community college. That advances you from "GED" to "some college", which is a huge advance in the resume.
I remember getting a 486 DX4/100 right around then! It was a crazy upgrade from my previous Intel box (a 386SX-16).

I installed Slackware on it.. This was right around 1.0 kernel, I think.
Oh no, your advice is appreciated and correct. I don't have an impressive portfolio. I'm sorry if I sounded so dependent on cash, I'm not in a life threatening situation. I can survive well, thanks to family and friends. Thank you for the advice!
I've taken a lot of biased advice on IRC that scared me away from the idea. My C knowledge is very limited. I've seen young programmers that know C and they are usually better than I at what they do.
It's usually better to not go TC et al. I just wanted to see how to write an article from an HN threads a few hours earlier.
I did this too. My life was a lot simpler on the projects where I could connect to UART and actually output text, but that wasn't always the case.
I'm friendly with a really awesome chef-turned-butcher in Chicago (Rob from Butcher and Larder) and when I posted this to my Facebook feed, he PM'd "while you're on your unconventional pasta cooking trip- get a small shape and cook it like risotto: sweat onion, garlic, etc. Add pasta and coat. Add wine and stir. Add stock cup by cup as per risotto."

Cooking pasta in minimal water is in the Ideas cookbook (again amazing buy strongest possible recommend).

To me, the huge shift is going to be decoupling rehydration from heating. It's more convenient, produces more consistent results, and opens up a lot of possibilities, like flavoring and alkalizing.
Not saying it would take me less time but damn, it took the retired CIA code breaker "several weeks" to solve?
It sucks that Firefox 4 won't have sockets because of transparent proxies. I feel like that's sort of an edge security case just cause those proxies can't be that popular, but then again I might just be ignorant of something.

I am actually sort of worried why the chrome team hasn't announced handling this. I searched google for a response from the chrome team but I guess they didn't think it warranted one.

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/hybi/current/msg04744.h...
That's really interesting, thanks.

We've talked about adding more information about the market in general, and that's the intent of the blog (blog.200square.co.nz), but it's not very prominent at the moment.

Thanks!
I'm talking about large applications.

In C++/Java large amount of code is defensive programming, locking and synchronization - you don't need it in Erlang.

Distribution - even if you use CORBA/RMI you still have to write a lot of plumbing code in C++/Java. In Erlang it's comes almost for free.

Binary protocols handling - very succinct in Erlang with binary syntax and verbose in C++/Java.
"Trader Joe's has a single queue with multiple registers."

Wish they did that in Phoenix/Scottsdale.