jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Thank you, everyone, who participated in the discussion! That thread led to us making an awesome update of our pricing (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20876256).
Early on we were really concerned about our business model. Looking at what’s happened to Graph.cool, Parse, and Scaphold, we didn’t want to die from a free-tier that no-one ever leaves. That’s why we started with launching the 30-day free trial over a free-tier.

We’ve worked hard to find a middle ground based on the HN feedback. So the good news is we’ve changed our pricing for developers by making the following updates.

FREE TIER! It allows developers to build using almost all of 8base's features; free-forever but throttling the API. This makes everything on the backend/console usable while not supporting production use.

Our $8 plan was renamed as HOBBYIST and we’ve introduced a new $49/mo plan called DEVELOPER. The new plan has better limits at lower prices per unit and lets developers utilize their own auth provider – which used to be on the $149/mo plan.

We 10X’d storage for the same price in every plan and reduced charges for overages.

To accommodate long-running jobs, we've changed the way we charge for serverless functions to a combination of memory usage and time (Giga-byte minutes).

I hope these updates put a smile on a few faces! Cause the haters gonna hate...

Albert
No, you're just completely missing his point.

Winning a war is indeed easy for the US if it's willing to go all out. It's just not willing to go all out.
I dunno, I own a 2017 Lexus RX 450h which does not have a touch-screen but instead has a joystick type system which I can only imagine was designed to make it easier to use while driving. Not that you'd use it for much when you're driving anyway though, since most functionality is locked unless you're parked. I'd prefer a touch screen because the only time I want to use it is for plugging in destination names which is currently very slow with the joystick. In my case, I feel that a touch screen would not increase my risk of being hurt.

I think the author is right that using touch-screens while driving is extremely distracting, but I think the point of (many) of them is to be used when you're not driving.

Going onto the whole idea of "assault of information", I find as a driver that I would ideally never take my eyes off the road except to look at mirrors. This is why I cannot believe that some cars have absurdly complicated dashboards and dashboard/infotainment combinations (e.g. Audi). I tell people that my cars HUD is one of the best safety features ever made for this reason - because I keep my eyes on the road while getting info about my speed, gas usage, driving instructions. I don't ever look at the infotainment or dashboard when driving because of this HUD.

I'm extremely excited to see the new AR HUDs coming from the Germans and I'm increasingly frustrated that Tesla won't make HUDs and that aftermarket options for them suck. It seems that few have similar driving experiences to myself which honestly shocks me.
Thanks for your reply, I had no idea the germans issued go-fast chocolate bars! The implications of alcohol rations are also interesting - especially for the social bonding aspect the germans sought to exploit among their troops.
I've been thinking about home heating a lot actually. My first step will be to move the home under ground where it is a constant 52 degree F. Second step will be to build a geothermal greenhouse above the home with a clay wall facing the south and pipes inside the wall. My third step will be to run those pipes into the house and use solar power to pull warm air from that heat bank wall. I will report my findings here when I finally get around to doing this.
> Have insurers determined if touchscreens result in more accidents? And have premiums accounted for this?

Is it possible to buy a car without one anymore?
Fairly sure AMD keeps giving them threadrippers to play with.
This comment sounds like something Linus Torvalds would say - completely eviscerating but entirely accurate.
Well, it's easy from the data point of view. You basically have two data sources: (location, time, credit card) and (location, time, MAC). The location/timestamp history of any given individual is one of the most unique pieces of data you can have; correlating the two is a trivial data-science exercise.

It's the systems-integration part, moving the data from the card swipe onto the right computer, that's actually hard. You might be able to partner with your payment processor to get at that stuff.
This is very unsettling. BUT, I was able to share the TC article about lamebook on my wall. As long as there is still someway to voice dissent, even if it is through a thirdparty site.
Sigh, soon the days where FlashBlock makes the web nice and calm (and easy on the cpu) will be gone.
With the push for hardware accelerated rendering, I think this CPU hog should slowly go away.
Yeah. the 40% is great fro ebook and screencast. I hadn't taken ebooks into account.
Good point, I had glossed over ebooks. Many thanks!
When I was in college my friends and I came up with a chess variant that used the dice from Risk. You played chess normally but if you didn't like the move that your opponent made you could 'challenge' it using the dice. Since you were challenging a legitimate move you would roll the two red dice and the defender would roll the three white ones. Whoever had the higher total would win. This meant that if you put the other player in check you still had to actually capture the king because they could challenge the actual capture and keep the game going.

I think that if you lost the roll not only did you have to take your move back but you lost your turn as well. I remember it favored a style of play in which you could take your queen and start attacking pieces on the opponents back row. If they tried to capture it you could get lucky on the roll and keep attacking.
And my point is that everything isn't a list, but it is data. Macros are functions that take data, and return data. Their most common usage is that that they take lists and return lists, but that isn't required.
The interior reminded me of the magical tents in Harry Potter movies.
This is elixir, but can be called from erlang:
https://github.com/nirvana/flaky/

It gives a unique value from any node in a cluster of nodes running this-- without any coordination-- such that you can guarantee they are sortable in order of creation. (to a small increment of fungibility-- two flakes created on different nodes in the same millisecond might be out of order, but they will be unique and in order with any flakes created in other milliseconds.)
I won't even set foot in a walmart store anymore, not since it won the gender-discrimination lawsuit that was pressed by its female employees.
Some day, in the distant future, 2015, development of all new startup projects' descriptions, documentation, websites and source code will be automated using Markov chains. The projects' half-life will be a strong function of its position on the Hacker News Front Page. After dropping out of the top 30, the project immediately decays into an EOL abandoned repo in an archive no one will ever look at.

The conspiracy, what most people know is true yet are afraid to admit, is that the Markov chains are trained entirely on past failed code projects. Like cows chewing their own cud, like dogs lapping up their own vomit. Soylent Green is People and Libraries are Pure Virtual.

____ is set of ____ micro frameworks, tools and utilities, under ____ MB. Designed with common sense to make things simple, but not simpler. Get things done! Build your Beautiful Ideas! Kickstart your Startup! And enjoy the _____.

is this the future of technology, or has the future already arrived
I think that, just like the first NFT craze (Cryptokitties), a lot of it is conscious money down the drain from people who already got dirty rich and now care less about $100k than about stimulating the market and promoting the growth of cryptocurrencies in general. They'll throw money at anything they perceive as aligning with their vision of what should come.

Consider the case that this truly is here to stay. Kind of cool to be able to flair one of the first really pricey NFTs, which also happens to be an art piece you think is kind of rad.
It would be a problem! I don’t think people would care as much because it’s the same as stealing a balloon on free balloon day but you still have a guilty mind and had the intent to deceive people regardless of your success at it.

It becomes a bigger issue if the evidence on the site is made up but I won’t assume that.
The project needs to be finished if for no other reason than the US refuses to learn from anything other than spectacular failure. SLS hasn’t even reached F-35 levels of mismanagement and we learned nothing from that.
<slight rant> I remember these mysterious computers from primary school... I never got to even touch one, only the "cleverest" kids seemed to be blessed with the chance to use it and merely to learn typing - remember when that was considered a skill? Later on in the mid 90s my dad got me an old Atari ST where my first exposure to programming and fun with computers began, It might seem dated by that point but I am still extremely grateful for it to this day.

I will never know how useful the BBC would have been. My memory of schools back then were not the most inclusive, they seem to arbitrarily decide who should and shouldn't get a chance to do something based on their perception of who is the cleverest.
The purpose of my discussion is to educate and inspire a global Ecosocialist revolution. The purpose of my account in general is to have interesting discussions. I have some pretty extremist views and I'm quite vocal about them in some discussions, that doesn't make me a troll.

Now, do you have anything constructive to say or are you just going to continue personal attacks?
The Downers Grove store was in a weird location, it's not really on the way to or from anywhere except the freeway exits or if you’re trying to bypass Highland.
I would guess most of those employees will be in sales / account management where the job would be to develop relationships with businesses to post jobs on StackOverflow. For example, look here [1].

[1] https://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?nl=1&k=Job...
In that case, if you write a new reader macro every time a syntactic feature (or lack thereof) irks you, you're never going to get anything done.
Are you trying to make money off of an investment of that sort, or do you merely want to help contribute to the success of SpaceX?

If it's the latter, then there are probably far more creative ways you could help their situation than contributing a few thousand dollars.
That's basically what the wayback machine does: https://archive.org/web/
>These aspects of the nuclear security system were designed by politicians,

This is false. I suggest reading Command and Control; it is illuminating and terrifying.

The setup you described evolved from a tug of war between competing bureaucratic interests combined with ineffective oversight. The various military organizations fought to keep control and funding of prestigious nuclear weapons; the political arm dealt with the paradox inherent in having a system that was ready to be deployed at a moment's notice, but impossible to detonate accidentally.

The compromise that emerged were these broken systems.

To quote from Command and Control:

>After the accident at Thule, the Pentagon had ordered SAC [Strategic Air Command] to impose some form of use control. Instead of relying on PALs, during the early 1970s the Air Force put a coded switch in the cockpit of every bomber that carried nuclear weapons. The switch permitted an arming signal to be sent to the bomb bay when the right code was entered. The lock had been placed on the bomber, not inside the bombs—and a stolen weapon could still be detonated with a simple DC signal. SAC was far more worried about its weapons being rendered inoperable during wartime than about someone stealing them or using them without proper authorization. During the late 1970s, a coded switch was finally placed in the control center of every SAC ballistic missile. It unlocked the missile, not the warhead. And as a final act of defiance, SAC demonstrated the importance of code management to the usefulness of any coded switch. The combination necessary to launch the missiles was the same at every Minuteman site: 00000000.
I tried to use it a little over a year ago when I was looking for my next gig. I got a couple decent leads out of it, but no real interviews. It seemed not to really have reached a point of "critical mass" yet where there were a lot of good listings available. It seems to have marginally more promise than the rest of the things of its breed, but it did not change my mind that finding a job through (even casual) acquaintances (which is what I ended up doing) is much more effective. The half hour it takes to set up a profile would be much better spent going to your local dev Meetup if you only had a half hour to spend IMHO. That being said, it seems to collect "all the right info" and I go back and update it every once in a while.
A presumably text document and "CPU limit reached".
Something is seriously wrong with the typical blogging engines. Well, maybe static engines (like Jekyll, Hugo, yst, etc) will eventually take over those CPU-burners.
Why did you ditch libgdx?
I've had a profile there for a while and prefer it over LinkedIn because it's (obviously) more developer focused. It's also less spammy than LinkedIn in terms of being contacted by recruiters/agencies.

That said, LinkedIn still takes up the majority of what little time I spend on sites like these since that's where most people are.
C++ repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.
"While many called for his ouster for many years, I never saw a single leader emerge at Microsoft who could fill his shoes or the needs of this lofty position. Looking at the available options today, I still don't."

This in and of itself is a failure of leadership. If you can't groom a leader to replace you in 15 years, that's a problem. Some could argue it's deliberate (defending their job) others might argue that he just didn't have it in him to make it a priority. The board should have insisted. I would argue that our last 2 presidents, and the current mayor of NYC have made the same problem.
And massive increases in the income of billions of workers worldwide - just not in a few developed countries.
I don't have anything with more than 4GB. I use Linux often, but my main driver is a Windows tablet (Acer Iconia W700). I used many applications at a time, including stuff like Eclipse, and occasionally a Debian VM with 2GB assigned. I have no trouble with 4GB of RAM, although I was forced to switch away from Chrome. IE11 and Firefox work great though.
Seems more likely that it's the increased geographical wealth/income segregation.
What do they think China is testing?
Which is determined by rarity. Reducing supply will increase the rarity and thus increase the status from owning ivory. This results in those using it as a status symbol having even greater desire.
(I think you have a reasonable point, but I still disagree, so I'm gonna take one last whack at explaining why.)

I'm a idiot who should have read TFA before commenting --- because then I'd have been able to make a slightly stronger case. The burger was advertised as "0% beef". Now that, coupled with the "everybody knows the impossible burger is vegan", screams to me that it's a vegetarian meal.

The task of eating shouldn't be a hellish chore for people with reasonably common dietary restrictions. I don't know much about celiac disease, but my understanding is that a large part of it is "gluten = bad". If I see something advertised as "0% gluten", it should be safe to assume that it's celiac-safe!

Even disregarding the "0%" part, though... the news has been trumpeting the "impossible burger" for months now. Suppose there had been some "impossible bread" in the news, because it was specially invented to avoid needing gluten. Then, ordering an "impossible burger on impossible bread" from BK, I'd expect it to be gluten-free! Not because it happens to be made with a single gluten-free ingredient, but because the form of the advertising, in the context of the last year of news, would lead any reasonable person to the conclusion that yes, this burger was made with the intention to be gluten-free and vegetarian.

You're absolutely right that, if you have celiac disease, or strong moral dietary restrictions, and you take the attitude of "BK better get it right", then you're gonna have a bad time. But, to me, that's clearly wrong, and we should seek to change it.
The ethical issue lies in classifying different kinds of people as undesirable and then fixing them with drugs.

Sometimes "fixing" a specific condition sounds obviously ethical to some and to others it is offensive.
I'm a fan. It's so refreshing to have all the HTML and CSS in your own codebase, under your control, instead of reading through a list of 50 sparsely-documented props only to realize that none of them quite do what you need.

Another example of this pattern is `downshift`, which is a headless autocomplete library: https://github.com/downshift-js/downshift

I would love to see a datepicker component that used this design. I have some choice words for the various datepicker libs I've used over my career and none of them are friendly.
It should look like this: 􀈂 􀈒 􀈖 􀈠

https://i.imgur.com/b1T6p9r.png

Of course they will appear like blank squares on most webpages and iOS, but you can copy those squares back to the symbols in native macOS text fields.

It's a little inconsistent; in iOS/tvOS/watchOS/Catalyst apps you have to use `Image(systemName:)` but it's not available on macOS, where you have to copy the symbols from the SF Symbols app into regular text, like emojis.

Apple, why?
DARPA (via VHSIC) is the reason why most of the commercial VLSI tools even exist today.

That's why it was particularly frustrating to see DARPA missing the boat to try to make more digital stuff happen. We have an excess of digital. We have vast quantities of digital. We have so much digital people don't know what to do with it all.

What we don't have vast quantities of are interesting sensors, oddball RF designs, or extremely low power things. Note that these are all analog.

Throwing money into an open-source VLSI toolchain would do more to relieve DARPA's VLSI bottlenecks than anything else they could do.
I think incidental insect parts are different to a production process that guarantees the product will be coated in animal fat.
I mean, it isn't just startups that do whiteboard coding interviews. In fact, if you want to check my comments on HN, I said pretty directly that I do not work for a startup.

Every single engineer who was or is employed at any big tech company has went through whiteboard interviews. If you are trying to imply that big tech companies cannot manage to attract experienced people, then I question the validity of that.
What is the "active deterrent" analogy in computer security that makes it worth leaving vast numbers of civilian computer systems vulnerable to stockpiled 0-days, engineered backdoors, and weaknesses surreptitiously introduced into standards?
I get only about 2.5 hours when running Arch Linux compared to almost double when I used to run OS X on my MBP 5,3. I rarely use my laptop unplugged though so it doesn't make a huge difference to me.

I think a large part of the difference on my machine is that you are forced to use the 9600GT for video as opposed to the more efficient 9600M that is available in OS X.
If you haven't worked with legacy systems, you may want to check out "Working Effectively With Legacy Code"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131177052/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

You'll want to make your boss's profitable projects your top priority. Then gradually go through and start fixing the legacy problems bit by bit. Don't rewrite the entire system in a year, start rewriting/refactoring/fixing individual pieces of it one piece at a time.

I had a municipal tax management application that was a complete mess full of spaghetti VB code, multiple instances of similar queries/calculations/interfaces sprinkled all across the app in different places with different implementations. I even had one screen with a 40,000 line event handler. Over the course of 2 years, the entire thing was whipped into shape, additional functionality was added, and now it's easy for the new maintainers to work with it.
All the sites mentioned seem sketchy to me because none of the FAQs or 'About' pages list any real person names.

It strikes me as odd that a mere sign-up page with a vague and cheesy promo video rates a TechCrunch article – an article with no details about the people, products, investors, etc. involved.
I'm not really sure what you are arguing against. I just pondered the case what if he's intent wasn't to continue fuelling the unrest and concluded that even then he can still be blamed.
An educator who manages a community college auto training program told me the most reliable car is the Toyota Yaris. It looks cheap, is cheap but because it's built to similar standards and has fewer parts it just doesn't break much.
Yes, French Guiana is as much part of France as Hawaii is part of the USA. They use the Euro, and any EU citizen can move there for work, study or just to live (if they have the money to support themselves).

However, it's not part of Schengen. The usual benefit -- no queues at the borders -- is pretty limited, when it doesn't border any other EU state, and anyone from the EU must arrive by air or sea anyway.

Since it is part of the EU, crossing the border is less-strict for an EU citizen: an identity card is acceptable, and there's less ability for people to be detained by border guards.
> As someone who cannot visit every single polling place in the country (I visited zero and voted by mail) I cannot with absolute certainty proclaim that there there was no widespread, coordinated and shockingly well-concealed election fraud. As a person of logic and reason, I strongly belief this did not take place, and I would need multiple, reputable sources of information and likely trusted peer acceptance before I would change my mind to believe it did.

I have the same views. There are actually some "They stole my election!" people on HN, so maybe they'll read this and reconsider their "reality", but Biden won by several thousands in the 3 disputed states, to pull off voter fraud to swing that many votes require a lot of work, and probably a lot of people, and the problem with having many people is that it's hard to keep something like that secret. And if they were going to steal the presidency, why did some GOP candidates in those states still win seats, why not flip enough things Dem so that the "tyrants" have a comfortable majority?

I think Trump's "They stole it!" proclamations are a scheme to keep his base heated so they can donate to his retirement fund, although yesterdays "We’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue!" (only for him to take the limo back to the White House) probably goes beyond that, that was an incredible "Release the hounds!" moment.

It's infuriating that a significant percentage of the country doesn't listen to reason, haven't even looked at how flimsy the court arguments that Team Total Landscaping have made, but are just screaming everywhere "I know the truth, and the truth is, they stole it!". Then again, many probably would get lost in the first paragraph if they tried to read any court filing. (Not being insulting, but hey, someone must've thought years ago "why spend money to educate children if they're just going to vote you out.".)

This is turning to a rant, but it seems the seditionists in congress who are also still claiming voter fraud without evidence (like Cruz or Hawley) just want to keep the Trump base very very pissed off, and very very motivated.