jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The tesla range + charging network eliminates most "what if" situations.
Yeah, I find the reductionist "He wears the same label as me, therefore I can claim him as part of my tribe, and that he has the same views as I/my tribe does" annoying.

Lincoln wouldn't get far in today's GOP primaries...
Being the largest reserve currency has more costs to the US than benefits overall and policy has been to try and reduce that exposure for the last decade or so.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/ben-bernanke/2016/01/07/the-d...

Being a reserve currency means any financial crisis in the world tends to affect your currency and trade, not a good thing.
I was in http://www.sharetxt.live/default and I was expecting to see a password or another secret to enable sharing. So I opened it in another browser, and notice that everyone can read http://www.sharetxt.live/default . Does the text get cleaned when nobody is connected?

For autogenerated "passwords" some sites use something like http://www.sharetxt.live/872-102-617 that is easier to pass by voice, but it may be bruteforced.

Anyway, kids this day don't want to edit the URL. You should add a textbox and a button as an alternative method. (Something like https://www.mailinator.com/ )
I am the only one that is very ill-at-ease with that PCB [1]? The routing seems.. off? No straight trace, irregular component placement. Its the kind of work where seemingly "superficial" concern like that are in fact quite usefull, a clean PCB makes it easier to find issues and do repairs.

[1]:https://github.com/system76/launch/blob/master/pcb/launch-pc...
What is crazy is that they just didn't roll back. Even if they had lost a ton of users surely they could have kept at least 30% and built on that for the next few years.
See also: http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~hemh/gyrobike.htm
The author is "is a professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles." Not a reporter.
I haven't thought about privoxy in years. It's a great way to filter ads/malware garbage for an entire LAN without having to put ad blocking plugins in every browser. I'd consider adding it to my own firewall and pushing all port 80 traffic through it but with the trend for everyone to move to HTTPS this tactic will not work for long...
169.254.169.254 explained here http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3927
Laying internet in Manhattan is an unmitigated nightmare.

For context, they have been replacing about 1000 meters of water main outside of my apartment for 9 months.

I don't mean just a little bit of work, there has been a crew of 20 guys out there 6 days a week, firing up the jack hammers at 7:30am everyday and using heavy equipment until 4pm. (Not that I'm bitter about getting woken up that way). They're really working hard. It just takes a lot of cycles of digging up the street, moving an old pipe, repaving the street, digging up a different old pipe, repaving the street, etc.

I often think (in those moments when I wish I was sleeping instead of hearing construction) that there has to be a better way. I'm not sure what that is, but the layering of multiple systems really makes running anything under the roads hard. It's almost makes you think they should rip up an entire block and do it all over at once so it is organized.
I’ll take one in all black, with a matte display; will definitely pay extra for oled with insanely good black levels. :-)
> Their web UI also has always been miles ahead.

I'd strongly disagree (been on DO since about 2012 and on Linode a few years earlier; I still use both). DO UI is ok these days but years ago Linode UI was far better in every way.
I tend to agree. It was interesting comparing the experience of getting a license in California in 2001:
very few restrictions if you were 18, which I was,
a laughably easy practical test with no training required,
no waiting period after getting a permit - you could take the test the same day if there was a slot available;

to getting one in Ireland in 2014 (12 hours of instruction required regardless of your age, must have had a permit (or foreign license) for at least 6 months, and a test with a 40% pass rate where you have to bring a standard transmission vehicle if you want to drive stick legally).

Even after 13 years of driving, those 12 hours of training were actually pretty helpful. Not just for cleaning up bad habits, but for techniques I'd never properly learned in CA, like stick shift starts up steep hills with a stiff clutch. My city driving has improved as well.
You'd get better response if you gave reasons for your statement. You may be right that this test is complete trash, I suspect many people here would agree.

The top comment on this thread says that Myers Briggs is complete trash

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26291262

The difference is they defend their assertion, and that post led to a very interesting discussion from both sides.

The article and the comments generally lead me to believe that there is correlation between MB and "Big 5", there is little from the tests that is actionable, but that's because of argued points one way or another, not be stating it's "complete trash"

Likewise, if you think rackspace is overpriced, or the customer service is lacking, perhaps some examples would get a better response. Why even post the statement if you aren't going to defend it? Is it to try to persuade people that rackspace is awful? You won't persuade anyone without a reason.

Something like "Rackspace is overpriced trash as they charge $500 for a 1U colo and my server had frequent outages, where BobRackInc charge $100 and has never had downtime" would, despite being an anecdote, at least open up the conversation.
It is a significant understatement to say that I carry no water for rationalists, but I would nonetheless love to see you attempt to defend this claim that they broadly seek to repress speech they don't agree with.
He not only didn’t make much effort to hide his name but had even published some of his SSC writing under his full name. The way his supporters focus on this particular attack rather than the substance makes me inclined to believe they’ve selected it as the line of argument most likely to garner support from a general audience since it’s not exactly outside of long-running journalistic practice.
I thought you were mocking wireless packet loss or something.
We don’t know whether Apple’s apps will ask yet do we? Not until the next iOS update.

And when an app doesn’t ask, does that just mean there is no tracking going on or is it some nefarious scheme to achieve who knows what?

The nefarious option will probably become most popular on the interwebs, obviously. I can already see the HN posts: “Pages caught loading an asset from apple.com, violating their own tracking policy! Is Apple doomed?”
So who investigates whether Apple’s apps do this sort of tracking or not?
Why should I put the security of my family in jeopardy hopelessly trying to improve a country that I already gave up on?

I love Germany, I'd rather work improving where I'm living, which is something I'm already trying to do, instead of getting stuck in the past.
I really appreciated Matthew Yglesias’s take on this a couple of weeks ago. Highly recommended:

https://www.slowboring.com/p/slate-star-codex
YPG is terrorist organization according to Turkey and many relevant countries and even US officials don't deny its connections with PKK.
They maybe freedom fighters for Biden but it is not seen that way in middle east. Especially to whom lost their kids in car bombs.
Looking through the pages for "software engineer" I see mostly in the range of $90k - $135k with a few outliers. This is pretty reasonable for a big software company in my experience. There are some that are $200k or more, but these are probably very specialized roles.

Even searching through all companies there are some down lower around $70k, but most of these are companies I've never heard of, in locations that are likely cheaper than New York, SF bay area, etc where Google has offices.
I've heard the same thing about "Peloton Culture" elsewhere, but not a good explanation of what that culture is. Can a HN Peloton user elaborate?
tailrec is more restricted: it only supports simple tail recursion (i.e. calling the same function in tail position) that can trivially be rewritten into a loop. Scala isn’t really in a position to optimize mutual tail calls, since those don’t in general collapse to loops.
I see the developments so far in two stages:

1. The vaccine development and trials more or less happened in a science-backed way (not saying this was perfect but it was say 90% right way to do)
2. The actual deployment : this is worrying because the scientists who have developed the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and the Moderna one haven't tested delayed doses and are rightfully raising the alarms. The Oxford-AZ one is tricky because they have only tested the two full dose regimen with the right sample sizes and that's the one approved. From memory, there was some noise about delayed doses being approved but this is really shaky ground. Respected journals like BMJ [0] are questioning the lack of data around this.

tl;dr : Delaying doses not tested as per protocols and seems to be optimising for reach disregarding the fact that it wasn't tested and should rightfully worry most of us :(

[0]https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n18
I guess it's because annoying laptop fans were a given until recently; my 2012 MBA, 2015 MBP, and 2019 MBP all sounded annoying. Like a Retina display, once you experience a quiet office, you don't want to go back.

Also, I think the 16" MacBook Pro in particular was way, way, way overrated because people desperately wanted a story arc where Apple comes to its senses and builds great laptops again.
They needed to have a quick, cheap, simple, easy way to let any doctor reset the pacemaker to a known-good state. I can totally understand why they went for this.

Apple should have done basic testing before releasing this in the wild with plans to sell hundreds of millions of these devices. At that large scale, you must consider all kinds of users.

And pacemaker usage is relatively quite common nowadays. I'd be surprised if nobody directly involved in magsafe development had a pacemaker installed.
And in the process burnout yourself. Quit the job or exit game of life.
So .... where do I learn statistics in the first place? Let me rephrase the question. What is the most efficient way to learn the minimum viable amount of statistics?
Hm, you’re right - what I said applies to Poland (perhaps Europe), but in SF/NYC/possibly rest of US it’s different and exactly like you said.
> Addresses will have a street

> An address will include a state

These two are quite annoying whenever I have to write my address somewhere that presumes them. Here an address is city, city area (by name), block inside the area (by number, sometimes a letter). Blocks are numbered in the order they're built, so their numbering doesn't follow any pattern. And while there is a street passing by and it does have a name, the building itself doesn't have an address on the street.

And no, we don't have states. From the description above, you might think that the city:city area might be used like state:city, but no. City is city-sized, city area is neighbourhood-sized.

Additionally, there are addresses on streets, but those are not the same places as area-block numbers. Sites around here that need to get your address either include every possible field and ask you to only fill in the applicable ones, or give you a free-form text area after asking for which city and post code you're at.

I think amazon gets it right - country, administrative area (state in the US, something else in other countries, maybe nothing in some), city, postal code, two freeform lines.
> incl. an acid db.

Why would you want to use a database for this problem? The input data would take time to load into an ACID db and we're only interested in a single ternary value within that data. The output data is just a few lists of boolean values so it has no reason to be in a database either.

This is a textbook stream processing problem. Adding a database creates more complexity for literally no benefit assuming the requirements in the linked article were complete. I would be baffled to see a solution to this problem that was anything more than a stream processor, to say nothing of a database being involved.
> The core Bitcoin developers are cypherpunks who do what they do because they don’t trust governments or the global banking system and are trying to build a distributed and autonomous system, one that is impervious to regulation and meddling by anyone at any time.

I don't think that's an accurate description the the core Bitcoin developers. I know Gavin Andresen, Gregory Maxwell and Mike Hearn aren't like that, at least.

There's really a lot of people in the Bitcoin community who are just interested in the technology.
There's nothing unfunctional about OOP. The two are not at odds. It's just frustrating when people confuse OOP with imperative programming and concludes that for sophisticated type systems to exist, all the lessons from OOP has to be thrown out. Imperative programming needs, to some degree, to be thrown out if you want programs that are easy for the compiler to reason about, but OOP doesn't.
I think that question applies to transistor/feature size in general. Look to TSMC’s process roadmap.
Being dutch myself, I would say the effect is even stronger in the Nordic countries.
In GitHub, that's not the case. People often fork Rails, etc. to make a change that they need locally but will push that (easily) back up to the main project for consideration. Forking allows you and others to easily work with your patched version without even having to wait on the original project. For the project owner that wants sole control of a project, GitHub might not be the right choice. But for those that want other to easily be able to make changes and provide those changes to others, GitHub is great.
#3 that spotify is not available in their country
I just felt a little jealous. They have the kind of freedom I would someday like to have. Maybe Dutch men should be fighting to work less.
The API will probably get more advanced in the future. Hopefully one day someone will build an iPhone app or something that works similarly to the web app but using the API to store the data "in the cloud".

I'll need to think about the anchor link thing. It's got some benefits but also some disadvantages such as bookmarking. Will think about it.
You can use the @ symbol to track the people you spend time with. That would be a nice feature as well
I'd like to have that for my commute.
I'd rather not put epochs according to release of OSes or pocket gadgets. The state of consumers technology clearly lacks things like consumer drones - exploded in 2014 and forced the UK to adopt some new laws for example. It lacks statement of universal adoption of cloud computing. Apple uses Microsoft Azure cloud a lot, ironically. It lacks story of fundamental shift of attitude of consumers to personal data, with Health API in iOS Apple is aware of your every heartbeat and you seem ok with that.
Big tech companies can play the lottery, smaller ones can't.

And I don't see any need for a bidding process, which implies a fixed quota, a fixed closing date for the bidding, and a lot of uncertainty.

Just require the salary to be high enough to show you really need the skill, not to cut costs, and have a process with a guaranteed timing and outcome.
What responsibility? I can see absolutely zero responsibility attached to that scenario.

Humans also may be the most responsible intelligent life that ever exists in the universe. What's the basis to judge such things to begin with?

There's an exceptionally low probability that human survival has any bearing on whether other intelligent life comes to exist (in the we're first scenario). Being first bears no responsibility because future life in the galaxy or universe is not inherently dependent on what we do.
It's incredible what shortages exist when you don't provide meaningful work, competitive wages or room for advancement. Time to import less demanding people.
Today, with "agile" being popular, that specification almost certainly is implicit, and it _was_ in the heads of both parties when they were writing the systems (but probably not completely; if both parties fully understood the protocol, chances are there would be little reason to look into it).

Also, the heads the specification _was_ in may have left the company.

But I agree that "closed source" most of the time is only a small part of the problem. Having the source of your shell script that talks to my perl script helps, but only a bit.
That's an implementation detail ;)
There are plenty of exceptional people who are not given any sort of meaningful opportunities.
Which is likely why the linked-to article says "three theorists Chodos, Hauser, and Kostelecky suggested in 1985 that they might be hiding in plain sight – specifically that neutrinos are tachyons".
Anyone who looks at this style show and wants to do it, please let me know. We're looking for beta testers for a new product that makes these style of shows much simpler.
To me, Meerkat is the one that looks like a one night hack...
> 3. Do all star/ninja/rock-star software developers have rotten attitudes?

Once you are proficient at some language/framework/library it seems (at least to me) hard to be humble about something you built with it. Sometimes, and hopefully, we're excited about what we've built!

How do the real star-software developers that don't seem to have a rotten attitude after years of experience do it? (I'm really honestly asking! I hate when I get excited about something I built and scare off or offend others, or start rambling about all the new things I've learnt or done)
I definitely use fewer distinct apps on my desktop than on my mobile. My browser, spotify, MS Office, and Messages, pretty much.
TL;DR: Blah Blah Blah --- never trust the consultancy firm Mandalah with private documents. Got it.
She's not chicken. Saying that is disrespectful to the culture she is coming from. She is trying to find the most diplomatic way to extricate herself from an arranged marriage without destroying her connections to her family.
This is in Russian (or Ukrainian) ... are the HN readers supposed to read fluently Cyrillic ?
Plus she says deporting the husband did not work and her relatives are apparently working on JFK. What a mix.
Galois, if you are listening, there is a billion dollar opportunity for building a provably secure SAP/Salesforce.
> We benefited from text protocols because we had plenty of headroom: memory was cheap enough, storage was cheap enough, network was cheap enough, power was cheap enough for our use cases. But that's not quite so true anymore when you have to scale to support many connected systems and handle lots of data. The honeymoon's almost over.

Sorry, but memory, storage and network are all orders of magnitude cheaper today than when most of these text protocols were originally developed.

We have significantly more capacity today than we did back then. Thats why we waste all that headroom on reinventing everything in javascript.
I wonder how GDPR and CCPA apply to data brokers and credit bureaus?
I feel like this is something that only inexperienced people fall for though. It's nice to get food, but perks like agency, autonomy, and trust are so much more important than free soda and pizza. Especially when I can get paid more and buy the kind of snacks I like.
> [O]ur deepest fear is no longer death of the body, but death of the soul.

Can we be sure that this is something new? In both Western and Eastern culture, you can go back thousands of years and follow the sentiment right through to now, century after century: warriors (and to a great extent, aristocrats) have always put honor (which I will include under matters of "soul") before mere physical life. If anything, life began to make more of a difference only now, when we are actually able to do something about meaningfully preserving it.
I don't think just limitting submissions from one user would solve the spam problem, as spammers will create different accounts. Less naive ones will even use different ips, change the text of the submissions while keeping the idea, and have random delays, all of this automated.

But I agree it would be nice to have a better anti-spam technique, like those implemented by Akismet on wordpress.
Wow, that's incredibly lame on Nick's part. If the API is the same, but the underlying code is completely different then that it not a 'port', or a derivative, that is a different product.

That's like saying a Macbook and a Viao both have a screen, keyboard and USB ports and so they're the same thing for licensing purposes... Unlikely.
In other news, PepsiCo complains about not being able to put Pepsi in Coke cans...
Maybe as an option we could just ask the submitter to slow down a little

If it was just this one time I would have done that -- but it has happened in the past with other people.

maybe sometime in the future some hot topic might call for a lot of quick submits

Lots of quick submits, sure. But from the same person? I doubt it... if there's big news, lots of people will be submitting links.
In a round about way, I think he's dismissing thinking current technology is a panacea - as the (mostly idealistic) environmental movement would have us believe.

The real issue though of is what should we target the ratio of deployment versus R&D of of such tech. Whenever I hear a politician brag about how many solar panels they installed, it sounds like corporatism. How about an X-Prize / grants for alternate energy with REAL metrics.

Maglevs don't really make any sense compare to standard high-speed electric rail (BulletTrain, TGV, etc.). However, I will agree with you 100% that reducing consumption is rarely mentioned, and is probably the cheapest way of reducing economic and environmental costs.

However, it's more popular to fund wiz-bangery than to impose un-sexy fuel/water/etc. taxes.
I know, I was just mentioning that density would be an important factor when searching for less viscous fluids.
Density doesn't necessarily correspond with viscosity. Water's viscosity varies greatly simply by temperature. Water at 90C has under 1/4 the viscosity of 10C water, but we're fully buoyant in it.
Michio should totally be invited to speak at TED one day.
Predicate = Invented has some scary results for "reliable" sites:

Al Gore invented global warming (33)

Jews invented the Catholics (7), Christianity (5), the legend of the Holocaust (5)

Staples invented the office superstore concept (6)
I don't know either of these people, but Nick clearly has no concept of how copyright actually works. The "result" of code is inherently a process, which isn't copyrightable. Only his verbatim source code is copyrightable.

The entire concept of reverse engineering rests on this distinction.
Why don't you plug that situation into my analogy and see what happens? The existing legal framework is already set up to handle this.

Considering how strongly HN advocates for strict liability for car drivers I find your reply baffling. Why wouldn't the driver be liable?