jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Very nice. Like postlets, but not for real estate. One gripe: Can we see an example of the finished product?

There should be something similar for other categories. (And when you're done, move onto eBay auctions!)
As someone who's been on a low carb, no-grain diet (mostly) over the past year, this is gratifying to read. In that time I lost (with little effort) about 30 pounds, and while I find the diet occasionally difficult to maintain (mostly due to boredom), it's easier than a low fat diet, in which I was always starving.
Great idea. Would be nice to have a link to a sample ad at the top of the page, so that I know what I'll get in return for filling out this long form.
I think you're right except if you look at his review, half of his points deal with the battery not lasting 3 days. All of the other points had to deal with the app crashing when he said "I'm awake early." I doubt this applies to all phones too (even different Android phones). This also means the app/software can be improved.

"The score is based on the failures of this thing to operate, not questions relating to data relevance or actual ability to improve sleep cycles."

Where is the actual review of, "OK, so I recharged it every night, it woke me up before my alarm, and it did/didn't work." This review is useless for that.
It's not just carbohydrates so much as refined carbohydrates. The sugar and white flour that make up so much of the typical American diet have a very high glycemic index, which causes the body's blood sugar to spike pretty heavily. What makes this really fun is that the constant blood sugar spikes make you hungrier and you tend to eat more as a result.

White rice still isn't great in this regard, but it's not as bad as comparable American staples.
All I can say is long live the internet.

And Woody Allen, too.
There is not one single other engineering profession I'm aware of that thinks a "portfolio" consisting of past employment is insufficient, or that has academic trivia questions figure as largely in their interview process.

To me a request for portfolio contents beyond the contents of a resume is an indicator that the would-be employer is interested in people who are easily exploited or cajoled into working lots of unpaid overtime, or else that they don't actually trust the candidate's resume; both of these are negative indicators. A heavy focus on DS/algorithms for engineering positions is an indicator that the employer either doesn't understand the difference between academics/theory and engineering or, worse, thinks the latter is trivial, irrelevant, or otherwise beneath CS; both also negative indicators.
Exactly right. It was not invented here, it began at Github
You seem to be describing web pages. In ~20 years they've had little success in replacing textbooks.

Since they're so obviously superior for that purpose, I can only assume it's because there's not enough money in it for one reason or another.

Seems like some sort of free multimedia web textbooks resource would be a great way to spend public money helping some of those unemployed/underemployed professional scholars and scientists that are often covered on HN. Shouldn't even cost much, as government education expenditures go.
Civil disobedience is fundamentally respectful of the shared project of having a civilization, but only when the protestor gets arrested voluntarily and without sneering at opponents. Instead, one hopes to raise consciousness with a flood of respect and compassion, even for those who disagree.

This bit, I think, bears repeating. Too many people claim to be engaging in 'civil disobedience' without understanding the actual philosophy behind it.

Civil disobedience works like this:

1. You find a law that is unjust (no Indians making salt, no blacks in the front of the bus)

2. You break that law, and that law only (Gandhi used to make the point that if you're going to be a civil disobedient it's important to obey other laws scrupulously, even the ones that others tend to disregard. This means: no more jaywalking. Unless you're a jaywalking civil disobedient.)

3. You get arrested and go along willingly and politely. Always be nice to the policemen whose job it is to arrest you.

4. Seeing you get arrested for breaking that law makes everybody realise that this law is, in fact, unjust, and the law gets changed.
This seems to boil down to a preference for expressions over statements. It's easier to reason about the meaning of a value than a listing of commands, and more insightful to recombine subexpressions to make values than to recombine statements to get side-effects and void.
Reminds me of what I've heard about "Mt. Fuji" questions for technical job interviews: the interviewer doesn't really care that you get the question right, s/he just wants to see how you think.

Yet somehow, I think that the mere knowledge that each keystroke is being tracked will somehow skew the natural writing process. Some shameless self-promoters may turn writing into something like a performance.

(here's the timeslider: http://ietherpad.com/ep/pad/view/D8SOJGh37k/latest)
Yep, that's basically my experience, too.

However, that seems to be EVERYONE's experience, which makes me think that it's a good spot to become an expert in, since nobody else wants to go through and learn it.
Maybe it's because I don't have an iPhone, or a smart phone, but I seriously don't understand instagram's insane adoption/appeal.

It seems bizarre and not novel in any way. Mobile sharing has been around forever, and even my 2005 feature phone has filters built into it. Someone enlighten me.
i would never have expected to read an article that mentions both ezra pound and paul graham. awesome
Google docs has a revison history.
Hacker News: now with weather!
Nearly orthogonally great answers from both of you, thanks.
I do wonder about dividends, returning value to the shareholders. Should they start issuing dividends? If not, when and why should a company?
Probably worth mentioning that Manchin is one of the most conservative Democratic senators before people start flaming him as a liberal bent on destroying freedom.
> US emissions are actually lower than in the past.

> But the US could go to zero and if China and India don't lower emission it won't matter.

Because if the US cut its emissions by half, the standard of living of US citizens (and its associated carbon cost) will become about the same as in China, and will still be a whopping 3.5 times better than India.

Looking at total emissions is actually meaningless, as reducing emissions (significantly) necessarily involves lowering the standard of living - less meat, less transportation, more expensive electricity, less stuff, less construction, less heating etc. The US and EU have a lot of place for reducing our CO2 by reducing our standards of living than India (which produces less CO2 per person than Sweden or any other country in the EU).

Sure, there is some amount of CO2 reduction that can be achieved by green power, but nowhere near enough at the scale and speed needed to avoid catastrophic climate change.
I wouldn't attribute the movement to Google, strictly speaking.

I suspect that during the first dot-com boom, open offices were all the rage because they were cheaper. When I entered the industry in 1998, my employer (a start-up) had an open office, as it was less expensive to find used desks and skip cubes altogether. In fact, I didn't work in my first cube farm 'til I took my current job seven years ago--instead, my employers generally had four person cubes/pods.

Heck, in the late 1970s, my dad's engineering firm had "pods" for certain functional groups.
>analyzers gobble up more memory than available.

I can run 128GB, if need be. But yeah if the software is pitiful and poorly implemented. Running on swap is an one-time-option I guess.

>so we could stop them and resume the other one later from a snapshot file but that isn't implemented in the current workers.

Indeed, this seems like a poor implementation, lacking 'save' function. I have not run into similar cases.
Reinforcing fins can do quite a bit. Macbooks don't have a lot of flex.

However, Apple has some patents that cover building up solid aluminum with stir welding instead of CNCing out of a solid block.

You might have to challenge that patent (prior art, Boeing patents that may be older) to make it cheap, but if it's enthusiast targeted, an extra 50 bucks or whatever might be just fine for people.
Google just need to offer an on-prem version of GA - that would sole so many of my problems.

The problem with your view is you have X resources to get things done - how do you measure the ROI or even get an idea of possible strategies.

Of course you can go back to the 1960's mad men era "its toasted" approach to marketing, but that's not the best use of resources.
Our QA has zero working hours overlap with backend engineering, which has one working hour overlap with mobile engineering. QA’s bug reports never include the relevant IDs on the first pass, so if it’s potentially a backend issue where we need logs, we have to comment on the JIRA and wait 24 hours. It’s amazing. I wish we could have zero bug tolerance or drop everything to fix bugs. Local management would even like to. But a globally distributed cost-conscious company is physically incapable of collaborating that fast. All we could do is sit there and twiddle our thumbs while waiting for our peers around to the world to wake up and see our messages. So we work on features.
I started like that, then it jumped, I recovered my cost basis plus expected inflation for years and taxes, and now it's more like 8/10% of my portfolio but I'm not touching it and I'll just see what happens. It was "free money" after all.

It's the second time I'm doing this, the first time I had to spend the money on moving but those were mostly mined coins.
It worried me that they’re only at a couple hundred MM in a self-proclaimed 116B+ opportunity after 10 years.

Yes. How do they grow further? DO will be compared to AWS and Azure in the market, and there's a good chance their stock will be punished as a result. Plus, if DO actually makes in-roads in market share, AWS is a beast that, if it wants, can crush them on pricing and features for long enough to kill them.
39 hours + "you come running when we call or you lose it."

It's just shy of full-time (to withhold benefits), but not exactly the same thing as a side gig. And you're bent over a barrel.
Fair point, I have to admit. And I do appreciate that to some degree, but it’s not what most people want out of a desktop environment since they do not have the technical know-how to do it anyway.
I talked about both ways. Either buy the shares and buy an option as insurance, or only sell an option for the "pennies"

In the first case, you can have unlimited profit if the stock goes up, a slight lose if it trades sideways, limited downside no matter how much it drops (or possibly profit, if you have a lot of options)

In the second case, the steamroller is not so bad. If I am forced to buy above the market price when the option gets exercised, that is still below the marker price at the time I sold the option. Thus it is better than the alternative -- buying shares rather than selling the options. Then there is limited upside, limited downside, and a profit if it trades sideways
I used to have GA on my Github documentation. Then I realized how much of it was garbage referer spam that Google wasn't doing anything to combat.
Tiger was the most stable release I've ever used.

I haven't upgraded to 10.10 yet. It just seems like a lot of useless pain. I have no need for any of the "features" they've added.

To be fair to OSX, when you do an "upgrade" in modern "user friendly" linux distros (Ubuntu, for example), you would be smart not to click the "upgrade me to the next release" button. It's usually worse than the experience on OSX in my experience by a large margin.

I agree with the poster on almost everything he said, but I still don't know if the pain is enough for me to justify switching back to linux. The amount of time spent configuring things is just wasted time. I lost the drive to spend countless hours tinkering years ago.

"Turning things off" in OS X usually is a preference pane option. Every now and then you have to do something a bit more elaborate to get the behavior you desire. I'd argue that on Linux, the time spent turning the things you want on and off is far more time consuming.
Shortcuts on the desktop and pinned applications on the taskbar remain the same. The new start screen permits shortcuts. All the existing avenues are still wide open.
I didn't get a "...so you should be too" vibe from this post, nor from most "why I did ___" posts that I've read.
I don't see why happening to have a famous person with your last name means you can't use your last name for a domain. If a) Ira Remsen was still alive and b) I was a food blogger instead of a tech enthusiast, I wouldn't hesitate to buy remsen.com or remsen.food (if i wanted it) just because Ira happened to invent artificial sweeteners.
It would be nice if a moderator would update the title to, "Why Geoff Wozniak Quit OS X."
It is when your name is identical to the co-Founder's name. It's link-baity by the fact that many people were baited into clicking that link under false pretenses.

I'm not accusing this Wozniak of malice, however.

I didn't look at the TLD I just clicked. I thought Woz was ditching OS X, I got excited. I was baited.
I've tried 12.04LTS, 13.10, 14.04LTS, and now 14.10. Sometimes upgrading, sometimes from a clean install. The current issues with my ThinkPad are due to bugs in the latest drivers.
Not conventionally so, I think some of the AGI people think his un-supervised/supervised training thoughts do not lend themselves towards AGI/Strong AI.
that would be woz.org
This is even less honest for a simple reason: the manager keeps asking, "will this work for you?"

It's fake in the same way that the sandwich is. They're being reprimanded, and that's the fact of it.

I think the sandwich is much more honest as long as you're being honest when you execute it.

You could even merge the two and say:

"Here's what we're going to talk about. We're going to talk about what's been going well lately, talk about an issue I've seen recently, and then close out with a plan to improve things. How does that sound?"
Or you can look at the legislature enacted to curb unionism instead of comparing the twentieth century to a start up.
See above. These images were accepted to a juried art competition and posted in a museum:

http://www.evolvingai.org/share/20150213_184537.jpg
c is just a flash in the pan. I will stick with Cobol thanks.
No, definitely don't do that. You're just trading one set of small annoyances for a huge set of unpredictable problems.
What's interesting is that there is a category of specific neurons (called engram neurons) in which this process of chromatin-based memory formation occurs.

It would be really cool to know how these neurons are different, and how and when they differentiate.
As someone who used to work on Synergy I can assure you that building a .deb or .rpm that works across as many distros as possible is a royal pita.

Around about the time I was working on it half the distros users wanted to use were on OpenSSL 1.0 and the other half on 1.1.1. even Debian and Ubuntu were split due to their release cycles being different.

Also, Linux support was never a priority for the company. You should probably save your money and just use Barrier, a FOSS fork.
I've gotten pull requests for some of my personal single-person projects. It's very appreciated, and I doubt they would come as much if the only interface was a read-only git repo and an email address.
Wow, literal Darth Vader line there.
The style parts are in Rust, but layout is C++, I believe.
servo does have an experimental layout engine (or two? layout 2020?) in Rust, but I don't think that ever reached a point where Mozilla were seriously considering replacing Gecko's with it.
This project has existed for mor than 6 years. It is a fork of RhodeCode, which has existed for more than a decade.

When rhodecode went closed source, Kallithea was forked, and has been maintained ever since.
Generally they mean a refrigerator brand but sometimes a character from the Mortal Kombat franchise.
I don't use any of those applications and can't guarantee that they'll play nicely, but a browser extension that allows you to use vi keybindings, like VimVixen, is generally useful for one handed navigation. Especially the link highlighting feature.
At some point using Django just makes more sense.

No need to reinvent the universe for bigger jobs.
Great, I guess we'll have to gate ADA compliance on overhauling the entire US healthcare system, first. Heaven forbid someone has to do work in the same environment as a blind person with a service animal.

Until we do, are there any other forms of work that you feel that an employee/contractor/etc. should be able to shirk by claiming that they have a medical condition, without providing a shred of evidence thereof?

A medical note for a chronic, life-threatening condition is a sufficient, and reasonable requirement, and is good from years to decades.
It depends on the definition of "semiconductor startup".

Since 1990 there have been no foundry or IDM (vertical) startups funded by Sandhill road VCs. ZERO. Zip. Nada.

Fabless have been founded exclusively by VCs. But they are NOT the current bottleneck. It's foundries that are. E.g. TSMC, Samsung, Global Foundries, etc. And further ANY future innovation will NOT come from fabless companies - it will be from semiconductor HW companies or their supply chains.
Basically Silicon Valley going all out into software/internet/social media has completely obsoleted the professional ecosystem there. And most of the people who were part of the prior ecosystem have been retiring or dying or have moved on to other things. All never to return.

In general to do anything OTHER than fabless especially since 1995 (which is about the year that semiconductor companies started RACING out of 'Silicon Valley' never to return), you've had to get startup funding from anyway BUT VCs generally and usually only from Angel/VC investors OUTSIDE OF California.

I know because I've founded such companies. I'm a HW guy with device physics, circuits and similar training with software added on. We had to bootstrap hard and then only ever got funding from foreign companies or non-California investors. My last startup was bought by a Taiwanese company.

So I'm dubious and I also know well that the US no longer has the professional ecosystem to support semiconductor HW plays - the US literally needs to start from scratch (like it's 1950-1960) because it's already pissed away everything that would allowed a quick and cheap re-entry. Honestly the better investment is to so other things like follow where the money went (e.g. like my last company).

People grandiosely wanting this don't even know what the right questions are anymore. You would have had to have "gone to Asia" (like I did) to keep up.

The best hope right now is TSMC in Phoenix and Samsung's planned expansion (location still TBD but it's between Phoenix, Austin and Malta apparently) plus GFs Malta expansion. Most importantly: Silicon Valley will never rise again in this market.
They still have something like 40% to go to even reach parity with Intel though
That’s a good start, but it barely scratches the surface when it comes to the dangers of AI emotion recognition.

Also, those Muse headbands that read your alpha brainwaves which are used for meditation are dangerous. While they are incapable via (hardware) technical specifications of being able to determine your emotions via code, it can determine whether your mind is in a clear or distracted state. Hence it is used for “meditation” and is considered to be “beneficial” for that purpose.

But, of course it nearly certainly can be used for perpetual harassment, especially since third-party apps can interface with it. Is your mind clear (according to the headset, via code)? Alright, time to bombard you with harassing adtech. Also, it benefits the “designers” of these apps as it makes you more dependent on the device.

The same goes for other consumer EEG devices. The ones that are used with sleep like the Dreem 2 can be used to make your life a total hell through unethical experimentation and more.

I honestly have no hope on such issues. Spotify AB (a Swedish based company), for example, is believed to violate the GDPR. Not only that, they have a patent pending for emotion detection based on your song listening/streaming pattern. There are projects doing this for Spotify doing this exact thing publicly available online at GitHub of course.
My interpretation: Small buck converters are cheap and efficient, and so many parts need different voltages anyway (1.8V, 1.5V, 1.2V, etc.), that what you want to do is distribute the 12V from the main PSU and then locally convert it to the voltage you need.

If you are already putting buck converters everywhere, it makes sense to raise the voltage coming from the PSU, because you can reduce the current supplied by the PSU. Only the power supply will be running at 12V, almost everything else will be running at a lower voltage. (Would you rather supply 120W at 12V/10A or 5V/24A?)
> What's great for you is not what's great for another.

> Too bad we can't understand this in our politics

Unless you have a very good reason to not get a vaccine and not wear a mask I will expect from you to do these things. Not because I don't understand what's not great for you. It's because I understand the objective reality of the disease.
Regarding 2. — are you sure the people with disposable income would buy a gaming console of all things? I mean it requires time to enjoy which is something a middle aged person trying to dance between family and work doesn’t have.. Also those younger people that are being targeted have middle aged parents with money:)

Of course it’s entirely possible that you’re right and I’m just bitter that I can’t spend more time gaming :)
Oh, for sure. Fortunately, they're all trying to get you under their control, and they don't want you under the control of the other guy. As long as you don't get pulled apart, they can act to counter-balance each other.

As for identity: I'm not a believer of us having total free will, so what you hear and see is important to what you understand and think. I don't think we're at the point where we're totally controlled by whatever bubble we might have gotten ourselves into, but it certainly doesn't get easier to get out when the services that, to a large degree, shape your world view, have learned what you expect, and are trying to give it to you, even when you've changed.

Graphic design to writing might not be the largest change, but for things that affect you to the core, having the world presented to you that in a way that was learned based on the previous version of you might be like a recovering alcoholic walking through a town where every ad is personalized and shows him nothing but booze.
My job is writing C++ and I love it. I've been working with C++ since the mid 90's and have grown very fond of the language and I'm pretty productive in it.

If C++ use declines, then there are fewer opportunities for me. So you can count me as a member of team C++.
Is it though? We're already 6 days without a commit. Who knows that the history isn't frozen again until the next major release?