jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
And they can also branch out instead of wondering 'what if we didn't make React Native rely on JavaScript and instead just used Objective-C?'. Both approaches will have differing strengths and weaknesses and both teams (and hopefully future teams of new projects elsewhere) will have more knowledge and experience to learn from.

I think it’s quite amazing what Facebook/Instagram are doing. They are creating a legacy that will hopefully inform what Apple and Google do with their frameworks too.
https://www.wattisduurzaam.nl/27493/energie-opslaan/reservoi...

This is a critique of these ideas. The main points are:

- Lifting speed needs to be 40 kph

- Minimal height of lowest stacked state limits storage
Otherwise +1, but characterizing EPUB as "sane" is rather charitable of you. EPUB 2 is an incompatible fork of XHTML c. 2001 with crude CSS and proprietary cruft, and EPUB 3 is still largely unusable in practice.
Can definitely relate to that. I'd rather think that there's something temporarily wrong with my brain chemistry, something that'll get sorted out after a few years pass and new habits and a new rhythm, a new balance of social, work, rest, exercise etc become part of my life.

On the other hand I'm afraid that it's a generational thing. A child of the financial recession (nearing 25yo, economy's not quite booming in Europe), of digital work (I'm able to pay the bills programming from home in my own little company without having to leave the house much), of an age with unprecedented access to information (everything you mentioned, knowing exactly how great the world is and how insignificant anything you do is). As if my particular blend of person in this particular age in this particular economy is just begging to become a shut-in.

I didn't quite ride a wave of easy employment that led to company life playing a big social, professional and personal (confidence etc) role in my life, having graduated during a recession. Wasn't forced outside and into the lives of others due to the digital age allowing me to make a living from home.

Anyway it's all a bit depressing, I try not to spend too much time explaining why. It feels like giving up, or finding an excuse.

One thing a friend told me a while ago stuck with me though... on how the notion that life is malleable (this sort of variation on the American dream. That if you just work and try hard enough, you can become anything and do anything), meant as an uplifting and motivating cultural idea, not to mention an idea that homogenizes everyone: everyone is capable, everyone is unique and special and important and powerful... I think perhaps is the reason of so much depression and anxiety and uncertainty in young people today. Because it's simply not true that anyone can become the next Steve Jobs, yet because of this notion that life is completely malleable, if you're not awesome then there must be some unique character flaw you're suffering from, it's your fault.

Anyway again I don't like to get caught up on this frame of mind too much as it just gets me absolutely nowhere, but it's definitely interesting to discuss every now and then.
We have a search methodology, which can include Yelp, depending on the type of request.
It’s not purely selfish. Some probably wouldn’t contribute here if they could not be anonymous. Quite a few people on HN who are valuable contributors are anonymous.
One question, how you measured your done idea by 90%? Or it's just sheer metaphors?
Given how many good discussion forums there are on the web and how easy it is to start a new one (freehackernews.com anyone?), do you really think that people will pull out their credit cards? This proposal is based on the same mistaken assumption that newspapers make: a failure to realize that in a world where there are tons of free alternatives, adding an entry charge is a bad idea.
I noticed the links you posted were rails related, but here are some programming related videos/lectures.

Stanford Video Lectures
Programming Methodology - http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=824a47e1-13...
Programming Abstraction - http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=11f4f422-56...
Programming Paradigms - http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=2d712634-2b...
Machine Learning - http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=348ca38a-3a...

SICP - http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...

Google Tech Talks
Advanced Topics in Programming Languages - http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleTechTalks#p/u/16/wDN_EYUvU...

AI Lecture Series - http://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd#grid/user/6EE0CD02910E5...
Software Engineering Lecture Series - http://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd#grid/user/8751DA481F0F0...

Python Design Patterns - http://videolectures.net/youtube_martelli_python/
It benefits HN because it makes people willing to comment here. People like ugh who do want to their discussion comments tied to their real name on google for all eternity will not participate at HN if they can't use a pseudonym. An HN without ugh and the many pseudonymous commenters like him would be a much poorer HN.

Discussion forums are subject to network effects where the value of the forum increases with the square of the number of commenters.
"However, some antitrust enforcers say that if they wait until a tech company has cornered a market it may be too late"

Sounds like the plot for a boring sequel to Minority Report. Makes me wonder how much money/influence is being moved behind the scenes here. Good to have friends in high places?
I'm not sure if it's the book to which the author was referring (he doesn't give any references), but I've found Bicycling Science by David Gordon Wilson [MIT Press] to have a very informative treatment of human power generation. It also includes an entertaining introduction concerning the evolution of the modern bicycle.

http://www.amazon.com/Bicycling-Science-David-Gordon-Wilson/...
> It’s not purely selfish. Some probably wouldn’t contribute here if they could not be anonymous. Quite a few people on HN who are valuable contributors are anonymous.

Maybe this is a case of the baby/bath water problem. Would comments improve if accountability is improved? Would overall comments/discussion improve?
Just a couple dry facts seem to work the best, pick the top three, or maybe show a live example. I've used jacktheripper against NTLM hash in front of an audience and cracked the password "Pass!" in seconds before their eyes, this received good response.

Whenever someone wants a reminder about password strength, I send them to xkcd

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/password_strength.png
I'm not an acoustical engineer but my understanding is that noise canceling devices are usually passive - think of the oddly shaped foam panels you see in recording studios: https://www.google.com/search?q=anechoic+chamber&source=lnms...

Or, in an extreme example, the ones you see in anechoic chambers: https://www.google.com/search?q=anechoic+chamber&source=lnms...

The foam devices serve to both absorb sound energy, and to scatter the remaining sound energy at a variety of angles, where much of it will collide with other reflected sound waves and cancel out.

I needed some acoustic foam for a small project at home and found this place. They seemed pretty affordable (and had lots of colors) compared to other places, though I'm far from an expert and I was only buying ~$40 of foam so I didn't exactly spent too much time comparison shopping: http://www.foambymail.com/acoustical-foam-products.html
This _almost_ touches on the useful part of this:
If you search in less and then put it in follow mode, it continues to highlight the search terms. This is very useful for trapping an exception or webcall in the wild.

The downside:
less buffers and tail -f prints directly. On a slow printing log this can cause events to show up slowly, and can cause performance issues on a fast moving log.
If you're piping through a script for processing, tail -f is still the best bet. If you need multiple files, multitail is probably better.
less +F hits a quick+easy operational niche and is available almost everywhere (whereas multitail is not).
Why do you think that any cause of death had to go up?

Overall US death rate went down from 8.5 to 8.0 between 1991 and 2011 (ie 6%). So every cause of death might have gone down (although I couldn't find the stats).

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005131.html
Interesting, and of course I love the mission. They are trying to move beyond PGP and protect metadata (who talks to whom) instead of just content.

The spec strikes me as complex. Why are there three modes (Trustful, Cautious, and Paranoid)? Why is there a Cryptocurrency field and a Motto field?
About 3 or 4 days before the PSN went down, my credit card number was compromised, and handful of small 'test' transactions were made from the mainland US (according to my bank).

My bank spotted the fraudulent transactions and cancelled the card.

It might be a coincidence, but Sony did have that card number on my PSN account.

I guess I'll find out one day when someone bit torrents the database.
Shadows of the mind?
I'd be curious to see a comparison with the die of something like the ubiquitious Realtek NICs. They're definitely a mixed-signal design given that everything is on one chip.
I’m not entirely convinced that DirectStorage can do DMA directly from the device to the GPU. I suspect that even current NVMe devices aren’t quite fast enough for this to be a huge deal yet.

I think, but I’m not entirely sure, that Linux can do the peer to peer DMA trick. One nasty bit on any OS is that, if a portion of the data being read is cached, then some bookkeeping is needed to maintain coherence, and this adds overhead to IO. I wouldn’t be surprised if consoles had a specific hack to avoid this overhead for read-only game asset volumes.
* When connected to a monitor, there is no way to turn of the laptop's screen, without plugging in and closing the lid. This will overheat your laptop if you are doing anything slightly intensive.

* Sometimes you will lose windows when you disconnect the external monitor.

* Touchpad and mouse scrolling direction is linked. So at least one of them will feel bad to use.

* Macos will randomly choose wallpapers for each new desktop you create, there is no setting for this behavior.

* Due to the unnecessary Cmd button, shortcuts are very difficult to remember. In VS code, to search : Cmd+F. To go to line : Ctrl+G. Drives me insane.

Honestly, I hate Macos. Windows is 10x better. I don't understand what people like about this system.
Yeah, you're talking about capacity constraints.
Being a soldier is in itself not honourable or noble. Most atrocities are committed by armed soldiers killing unarmed civilians (or killing civilians using drones because they happen to stand near a wanted target). It is what you do as a soldier (or civilian) that makes you honourable or not.
Interesting idea! I had to think about what you were describing, but that actually is very similar in spirit to the experience back then.

It's kind of like discovering the assembly monitor on the Apple ][, which you could get to by poking a value in Basic. I remember typing in an assembly program I found in a magazine that sampled audio from the cassette recorder, and played it back on the speaker. It was gritty sounding, but an amazing discovery for me at the time (about 1982).

(I'm always doing Ctrl-Shift-C to copy text from the browser when I forget I'm not in the terminal anymore--which brings up the element inspector and the console. I've always wanted to explore it myself, but I'm usually deep into another project.)

I wonder what I could have done if I had Three.js?
I agreed with the part of the first paragraph that says that most uses of blockchain are deadends or solutions looking for problems. I'm coming from "Bitcoin blockchain + POW is a store of value," and "LN is the fast, convenient transaction mechanism" that sits on top.

Dabbling in other cryptocurrencies with comparable POW's and blockchains to Bitcoin is basically speculation and gambling. I don't think they have very compelling use cases that Bitcoin+LN doesn't solve already. I assume non-BTC cryptocurrencies will survive in the long run, but who knows which ones, and eventually the LN will make swapping and conversion of currencies trivial and/or automatic.
This service is fundamentally broken. You call them on the phone and someone who seems to be located in an overseas call center asks you about your credit history. If the information on his screen does not match the information you provide, you fail identity verification. If you try to escalate they instruct you to photocopy your driver license and social security card and mail them the photocopy.

Source, tried to get electricity in Tampa, Florida, after leaving the military. Was denied because TECO only was willing to “verify” my identity through Experian, and Experian <see above>.
Think about the risk trade offs: Honest Bob’s VPN and Bait Shack is a niche business, probably an LLC or equivalent which can fail, leaving most of the assets untouchable, and the people behind it can just setup another shell company and start over.

Google, Amazon, etc. are huge businesses which get a ton of scrutiny by large business and government customers: if they get caught cheating, especially in a way which jeopardize customer data, they’ll lose orders of magnitude more money than any VPN user is worth and as a publicly traded company in the United States they’re going to have a much harder time avoiding legal consequences.
"Pay-as-you-go pricing for growing startups."

$100 / month is NOT "Pay-as-you-go" pricing.
> It also would be reasonable to come out and say they've changed their minds due to political climate or some other risks.

This is no different then when HR calls you in before you're terminated. Anything you say can, and will, be used against you so no point in saying anything.

If (when?) they decide to take another crack at things it'd be helpful to not be on the record about anything.
Well, I think the argument (whether you buy it or not) would be that platforms like Twitter and Facebook are trying to curtail abuse and bots, and "owning a phone number" is a decent way to tell if someone's human. To my knowledge, neither has ever texted or used the phone numbers for anything other than verification.
> Are there any tools out there where the TOTP seed is encrypted and multiple parties (X person key system) are requested to auth to grant access?

Do you have an example of such a system? I would be curious to read about the motivating use case.
You only have to trust your phone momentarily.

Add TOTP, add security key, then delete the TOTP token from your phone.

At that point, the only copy of the TOTP secret is stored on Twitter's servers.
Again: they are withdrawing from China. There's nothing to spin out.
> Do you really think not a single Republican has critical thinking skills? That of course is incorrect, just as the opposite statement about Democrats would be.

Seems like that's not at all what he said. He said you'd have to lack critical thinking ability to equate the two parties.
I've never said this before but, I really wanted a read.me file for this...
Since we live in a world that has copyright, it is reasonable to expect that a lot of works will be created with the expectation of copyright, so we are surrounded by copyright-incentivized works.

Obviously if we changed the rules, behaviours would change. Perhaps for you it's hard to imagine how bloggers/journalists could do good work without advertising revenue, but for many of us we would much prefer that. There are alternate business models, but they are obviously secondary since copyright/ads is the social norm.
And the way to handle this is to lobby to get the right redefined to have the sort of scope you want. And nothing would help this effort more than supporting indie content creators, undercutting the wealth and power of the traditional media companies.

So the appropriate response to a rigged game is to just buckle down and try harder?

(Youtube, Apple, etc)

Did you even read the article? Google and Apple are part of the problem; they created the walled gardens!
Not quite, forks are ill suited to the job of consuming many soups. This is more akin to how the Samsung watch is ill suited to host a Super Bowl party. All devices cannot be all things, nor should they be, and this has nothing to do with content licences.
The fixed length encoder means more in those segments.

X64 decoders are really complex. I've heard 5% of the die. Unlike other parts like the ALU, SSE/AVX, AES engines, etc., the decoder is almost 100% "hot" all the time. This adds significant energy overhead vs. a simpler decoder.

The other problem is that it's hard to decode lots of X64 instructions at once without this energy cost ballooning. Apparently 4X decode is kind of a magic number. Intel cranked it to 6X in Ice Lake and newer with some magic, but beyond 6X is gonna be hard.

The Apple M1 has 8X decode, meaning that it can fully saturate 8 execution units for a lot of instruction level parallelism. Nothing in ARM makes it that hard to go higher. If there's a performance advantage to it we will see 12X, 16X, or even higher decode pipelines.

Another big win for ARM is looser memory semantics, allowing for more memory write reordering and more efficient cache designs.

Overall ARM is just easier to optimize than X64. X86/X64 is only fast because vast amounts of money has been spent optimizing these designs. If the same amount were spent optimizing ARM, we'd be way ahead of where we are now.

P.S. The only area where X64 still really shines is its big complex vector units, but these massive vector instruction sets are to some extent a hack to get around the difficulty of decoding X64 instructions. Think of huge SSE/AVX instructions as big macros. I'm sure ARM will get 256-bit and maybe even 512-bit vector extensions at some point, at which point the gap will shrink a lot in this area too.

P.P.S. SMT / hyperthreading is a hack to get around the difficulty decoding lots of instruction in parallel. It's a way to keep a big parallel core busier. It comes with its own overhead though, which increases power consumption, and is a security minefield. Are there even any SMT ARM cores? It's just not as big of a win when you can add more decode width easily.
So what if it's scarce? Why should I be transacting using a record of someone's solution to a useless math problem to begin with? You haven't answered my question at all.

As for it "not depreciating," I claim that's because people believe it should go up, i.e. BTC is worth something (meaning you can exchange it for USD at a favorable rate) because people say it should be -- by fiat of the speculation market rather than fiat by a central backing agency. If it were only worth something because it "didn't depreciate," it BTC rises would correlate strongly with inflation. Since there's been essentially no inflation since BTC has been created, that's obviously untrue.

I would also take issue with the assertion that it is, in fact, scarce. Scarcity means nothing when you literally have something that is arbitrarily subdividable.

PS, the USD is also "ledger money." Well over 90% of USD only exist as bits in a computer system. It's essentially the same as a private blockchain.
If the side business makes $200k/mo, that usually means the revenue of the side business is $200k/mo.
how is this different from roboflow?
LinkedIn is for recruiters. It is networking is a myth
Windows Terminal is the most tmux friendly terminal for Windows, IMO.
Sure, but I don't think FB was ever optimizing for that case. Businesses buying ads to get the masses to buy their stuff is far more lucrative.
Remember that runc contains quite a few lines of C:

https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/blob/4d4d19ce528ac40c...

https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/blob/4d4d19ce528ac40c...
Your 100x silver story is incredible.

U.S. gov claims direct trade, which makes some amount of sense:

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35751.htm
My hope is that the core of Atom isn't so bloated with GitHub integration and that integration is optionally available through the plugin management system. I'm of the type who prefers to use the text editor just for code and other tools for source control and project management.
Since I see people suggesting Medicaid all over the thread. It seems there is a basic pervasive misunderstanding of government services in the US. For anyone who doesn't realize it, it is very difficult to qualify for Medicaid. Even if you miraculously qualify for it objectively, which can be derailed if you own anything or you or someone in your immediate family has an income, but even if you should qualify, the nuts and bolts process of applying, documenting, and in some cases liquidating your assets can be so daunting that it's common for people to hire lawyers just for this. If you're already busy dying, it can be fairly discouraging. Good job taking care of your own, Land of Opportunity. Make sure nobody accidentally gets anything unless their back is to the grindstone of capitalism.
You're very welcome.

It's my side project that I created when I returned from my Alaska->Argentina drive to give back to the Overlander community that gave me so much. I'm struggling to attract new people to the site, and especially to get people to update it. If you can help get the word out, that would be awesome. Thanks.

If you're seriously considering an Overland trip, I'm very happy to help in any way I possibly can. Shoot me an email at dan@wikioverland.org if you have specific questions or whatever.
I think you confused context switching with app switching. Yes having Github activity in the text editor means less app switching, but you are still context switching; from writing code to reading comment, which is the real productivity killer. Why not just add gmail to that text editor while we're at it and save ourselves some time?
> actually get it.

I agree absolutely. With everything you mention. These things are intertwined. The solutions need to be intertwined as well.
It is also my understanding that the ruling was sealed as top secret by executive order, please someone confirm this. By doing so they proved/showed a ridiculous loophole in the system, that the court is a total puppet. It can declare verdicts, but the verdicts can be silenced by executive order, disappearing them.

Executive orders of secrecy can and will make everyone guilty of espionage at some point. 2 + 2 == 4 is now declared "TOP SECRET" to reveal it is an act against the US.
No, I don't focus on the freezing part, but you just confirmed it, you favor a lack of confidence. Out of curiosity, what do you consider similar to freezing up? A weak handshake? Avoiding eye contact?

Freezing up is a problem, not the opposite of overconfidence, or just the lack of confidence. Some not so confident behaviors are irrelevant, that's why I'd like to know what you mean.

Are you in a hiring position?

Edit: If you are in a hiring position and manage a team I understand your point of view and that you want a team that works well together.
Trust but verify should be the rule. And that verification should be a public thing. Secret courts ruling secret laws are unconstitutional and getting secret organizations to fix said secret things in secret has no place in a democracy.

Also, last time I checked violating the law of the land is supposed to involve punishment. How is Bradley Manning as an individual violating a law different than the NSA? Why couldn't he simply be told to stop doing what he was doing? </sarcasm>
If by "should" the author is referring to what would be in the best interests of consumers, then the NFL should forget about exclusive licenses and just sign deals with everyone.

Question for the room: If the government were to mandate FRAND licensing of live sports content, would the benefits to the consumer outweigh the market burden of regulation?