jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> If you don't have time, fine. If you don't want to talk, fine.

I'm not on your payroll and you're stuck in a groove.

> But I have some strong words which, out of respect for HN's guidelines, I won't say.

Feel free, I'm not made of sugar. But you're arguing from a position that makes no sense to me, you're apparently entirely ignorant of the basics of mechanical engineering and you're going to tell the likes of Elon Musk and his band of merry engineers what they can or can not do. They just came within a hair of planting a friggin' rocket on a barge from space. Do you really believe they couldn't get a bunch of tubes to slide inside each other without overshooting their air intake budget? That's mostly a factor of 'how big are the pumps' and 'how many such sliding spots do we need' (a few hundred would do just fine) and how much room there is for additional seals (plenty).

> And I still don't understand how your solution wouldn't leak air into the hyperloop unless the steel sleeves were pressing very firmly into each other. Like the inner sleeve forcefully pressing into the outer sleeve.

No, you don't need that you can use regular seals for that, just like we do on high pressure air connections, fun fact, they work better when the difference is higher, go figure.

> I have no idea why you refuse to admit this is at the very least a nuanced problem.

Because it is a nuanced problem for you, but not for anybody that has the wherewithal to be hired on the engineering parts of a project like this. Just like my little brother would find assembly language a 'nuanced problem' and I find it relatively easy. It all depends on whether or not you're doing this (mechanical engineering) on a daily basis or whether you want to be back-seat driving nay sayer. Once you've decided on the latter any solution will be inadequate.
Working on something similar at the moment, more on the cloud processing side though, and using off the shelf hardware for the 4G link - a mobile phone.

Watched a video of a talk by the drone deploy guys last week and I think they have done a great job in terms of turning this into a combined hardware/SaaS product, with an easy to use pipeline.
Frank's been doing all his latest work on the Raspberry Pi, actually. In fact, that's what he tested the new LFE support on :-)
Really? I work at a large scientific facility surrounded by serious physicists and computer scientists, and pretty much everyone there uses python and the python mathematical, machine learning, and scientific libraries. (Except me...I use Lisp, hence my desire to call python so that I can use the code I'm surrounded by without having to do horrible hacks like passing files or home-brew stream sharing!)
I don't get it then; your fix to promises being complicated is to remove the ability to perform asynchronous actions. That's cool for a small scripting language I guess, but absolutely impractical for anything serious.
What’s hilarious is to take your side, you have to imagine somebody saving into crypto for 40+ years and then cashing out. The odds of any crypto lasting that long, and that money having even remotely a predictable long term value, is pretty plainly absurd.
I absolutely could do this, even with food coloring.
> There is no metric by which Whatsapp is worth 19B, except for the fact that Facebook can spend that much money.

Let's observe that WhatsApp besides just being a popular app, is a scalable and high performance messaging app, meaning to emphasize that you can't hit this level without some amazing engineering feats [1]. I think that we can also agree that a company that can build something of this sort might be valuable in itself without generating any sort of revenue. If it can make Facebook more productive/efficient over the coming years, it very well might be worth its weight in bitcoin.

[1] http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/26/the-whatsapp-archi...
http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/fair-use-what-transfo...
Ubuntu should not be the bar. Maybe Windows - but Windows has a significantly more difficult task. Apple controls all of the hardware & software. I would expect significantly fewer bugs than the other platforms.

This is also not just about Yosemite. The fact that the iOS update rates are significantly lower this year is a sign users were not happy with the previous update.
I agree with you on many points and it seems obvious that apple is spread too thin these days and tries to do too much.

I dont think this statement is true however:

> The core market for Apple until quite recently was not the everyday user but developers, designers and the more tech savvy.

Historically the core market of Apple Computer has been graphic-designers, journalists and the education market. Developers have only been on the platform post OS X because of unix.
Reminds me of when a friend ordered some San Pedro cactus over the internet "for religious sacrament." It included a note indicating that they ran out of the exact variety that he ordered, but they thought that he'd be very happy with the one they sent because it was stronger when used for religious purposes.

(San Pedro cactus contains mescaline. It's perfectly legal to grow for ornamental purposes.)
Both can be true. Everyone considers sweatshop child abuse to be bad, but we still buy things that people know were produced in those conditions. We have a clear conscience because we just don't think about it too much.
It's often far from marginal. E.g. Shinanomachi to Shin-Okubo: one change on the same company's trains, JPY160. Shinanomachi to Nishi-Shinjuku: similar distance, one change again, but you're changing to a different company's train so it's JPY310, about twice as much.
I don’t think it’s so much “everyone is a {whatever party I hate}” (which changes with your frame of reference). It’s more “everyone is part of the elites against the people”. The party labels are pretty meaningless, which itself is a bit shattering for those who come to realize it late.

But you’re right, there are a few left that seem to be fighting for the people. Some are effective and others are naive but well meaning.

But they are clearly the minority. They’re fighting bombastic partisan media coverage on both sides, they’re often fighting people within their parties, they’re often struggling just to earn their place.

At first, you get excited at the prospect of holding police accountable when Rand Paul introduces laws against knockless warrants, or you hope for the prospect of a real, sustainable income plan from Yang or Gabbard.

And then you watch as they get maligned and lied about on Fox News and CNN alike. You think, “this plan they’re advocating for will surely attract support from the rest of their party” and then you watch in awe as both sides warp, twist, or outright attack their plans.

You watch with weary eyes as someone like AOC who appears to come from the outside with a background similar to your own gets taken in by people like Pelosi, and you hope against the odds that she will remain true to her ideals, but you know that so many before her did not. After all, at one point Pelosi herself was fighting for the freedom of the internet, yet look at her now.

At some point, you get tired of putting hope into the good ones. You get frustrated every time they seem to make progress only to be struck down. You get sick of seeing them naively fall for the notion that their colleagues are as genuine as they are.

At some point, you just find it easier, both for the sake of conversation but also your own peace of mind, to wrap it all up into the same package of “they’re all bad” and just stop wasting your emotional energy on it.

Or maybe that’s just me.
For example, to fight inflammation, high dose vitamin C may be helpful (and very safe as well).

Potentially very safe if vitamin C is actually needed for some reason.

I'm not familiar with the term orthomolecular but eating right as a primary modality of treatment is one of the things I do for my genetic disorder.
I hope this ends better than New York Airways, which offered similar services in '60-'70 and went bankrupt after two deadly accidents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Airways
"the public tender document says that it must be able to handle 250 operations a month, then they've leaked some potentially sensitive information"

Maybe you could elaborate on how exactly this is sensitive? (Then we can have discussion about whether or not it's worth to divulge it publicly.) I mean, how does it help criminals to know that your police force has X million policemen? They will have to deal with it anyway.

Unless you are in state of war, and have a single enemy, then such information is not of much help to anyone. However, it can show if the money are spent efficiently. We can look at cases resolved/worked on during the previous time period and compare it with spending.

I claim savings due to these records being public will outweigh an advantage of any enemy knowing things like these. Just like democracies with all the public information about government spending economically beat dictatorships keeping these things secret.
Owners? Oh no. If I'm taking a pledge to kill myself over a pile of thorium, the profit from that energy belongs to me and mine. We are heroes of society. There are no owners.

Our world is not even vaguely ready for any of this.
There won't be a practical successor to Prolog.

Clojure is possible because Lisp already is a general purpose programming language. Prolog isn't. You couldn't do many of the projects in Practical Common Lisp with it. For example, imperatively changing mutable state is really hard to do, yet a very useful approach to many problems.
I am wondering ..
What's meaningful equity ownership?
It's Anonymous. I don't have access to Twitter right now, but they make it pretty clear it's them.

Either they do it for lulz, or they believe moot has worked together with FBI.
Your last three comments consist of you claiming that piracy is theft. Either you actually think that repeating a belief will make people agree with you, or you're trolling. Either way, please come up with a better argument (each of these three comments has at least one person debunking it, using the standard "theft deprives a person of an object, piracy does not" argument, which I have yet to see successfully disproved).
Not claiming to be one myself, nor do I anywhere. Tons and tons to learn. On the other hand, that doesn't mean I can't share lessons learned and extrapolated from trying to learn from those that are great. That's actually what most writers do: observe, extrapolate, and try to make sense of it in an article. I could gladly attribute each bullet point to a great startup CEO.

The infoporn comment was pretty mean spirited though. I don't get paid to write these articles and only do it because I love sharing things observed. It's purely for the love of the game and not for "linkbait traffic". If enough people like them, I get to continue doing it.
Based on the Firebase HN API, I made a web client that updates stories and scores in real-time.

No need to refresh your browser anymore to see new stories and comments.

Also, I used a responsive design to be able to read the stories on my mobile phone.

For now, I only show the top stories, up to 100 of them ( that's how many the API gives you anyway ).

If people find it useful, I might add other things.
Hope OAuth becomes available so I can add up-voting and comment adding.
The rewards for being a great programmer already exceed the rewards for other options. Great programmers can clump together and start companies, and be rewarded more than they are offered by existing companies. This could destroy existing companies.

Are you trying to say great programmers don't do that because starting a company that succeeds is hard? And that existing companies try to take advantage of this (and possibly a first mover or other advantages) by not rewarding programmers?

It's not an unreasonable point to make, by the way, which is also an undervalued opportunity. Markets correct themselves. Maybe the only way to be rewarded for the value you generate as a great programmer in the future will require starting a company. I don't know enough to say.

- A related issue: you can't make someone be a great programmer just by rewarding them. Great programers tend to be intrinsically motivated. Which could be an additional opposing force that keeps them from starting companies.

- Another: pg claimed data that say there aren't enough great programmers; you claim there are: can you talk more about your data?

I'm trying to understand the problem better.
I'm fairly sure this has been the case for a few months, this site is very useful: http://www.blockedinchina.net/.
What I would like is a way to organize not only written notes but files too, keeping them where they are in my disk or dropbox/google drive without having to duplicate them in another online service
The interest died off, JUGs stop talking about it and everyone went back to Java, while some of us got money to port those projects back to Java.

Had it not been for Gradle, and there would be hardly a reason to learn it in 2021, other than historical interest.
It’s said sometimes the most important services of justice through prosecution are those doomed from the start.
This is clearly isolated to the food industry. No way at all this happens in any other industry like climate change or covid policy.
That is a disingenuous argument, at best. Inflation is a specific economic term with a specific definition. And it's not increase in the money supply.
No Firefox support. :(
20 years later it seems I spend months fighting overwrought frameworks like Webpack and React to get the equivalent productivity I could get in one day with VBA.
Equally valid.
I feel like WiFi is damaging my brain /s
The popular press does not perceive Android to be the leader in their number one metric, driving pageviews/rageviews.
Unless I've misunderstood, and it may be semantics, but I don't see this as infinite scroll. If I had 10,000,000 rows the browser would still struggle with this grid as it needs to keep the React JS objects in memory. I would like to see server side paging integrated with the scrolling.

I haven't tried it yet, so I may be wrong.
The "not grouped by parentheses" is already where things go wrong. Parentheses should determine the syntactic parse of the expression, not the order of evaluation. Optimization works with an abstract representation of the program where the parenthesis tokens are long gone.

That is to say (a + b) + c should not have any influence relative to a + b + c, at least if addition is already left associative. Because then a + b + c already means (a + b) + c. Adding the parentheses to make (a + b) + c doesn't change the parse whatsoever.

If parentheses are needed to establish the precise meaning, it means that the compiler writer has neglected to document, and commit to, an associativity for the operator; the compiler writer has not specified whether a + b + c means (a + b) + c or a + (b + c). That is a mistake: a gratuitous ambiguity in the syntax of the programming language.

If there is such a mistake in the design, a stray ambiguity, then you cannot call the optimization wrong. If it is not specified whether a + b + c means (a + b) + c, or a + (b + c) or something else like add3_in_any_order(a, b, c), then the compiler is in fact free to use any of the possible parses as a guide for the operation order.
Suppose that cases are going down almost everywhere and you compute the average and calculate R from that, getting a nice reassuring number below 1 - but there's some part of society, somewhere, where cases are still increasing exponentially. Just a small fraction of cases initially. Over time, the number of cases in the parts of society where Covid is under control decrease whilst the cases in the parts where it isn't increase, until inevitably the rate at which cases grow is completely dominated by the bits where Covid is out of control, even when those started off so small as to have almost no effect on the overall average. That's why you can't just rely on the average. (In fact, I'm pretty sure the fraction of cases which are caused by the parts where Covid is still under control should decrease exponentially.)

Also, remember that the effective rate of reproduction can easily vary by huge amounts between different parts of society, for example if some age groups are almost completely vaccinated and others are almost completely unvaccinated.
I will take it.

Better than just yank it out of existence.
There's legal protections for discussing salary in UK at least
Obligatory:

"People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks." -Mark Zuckerberg
Over the summer there was speculation that neighborhoods in NYC had achieved herd immunity and the threshold was much lower at ~40%(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/health/coronavirus-herd-i...).

The thinking was that some people within a community are interacting with many more people than others and that they would be more likely to have antibodies.
WSL1 is essentially bare metal and can run the CPUID instruction directly. WSL2 would run the same instruction, but it would trap cpuid in HyperV; passing-through some information, and synthesize other pieces (or at least, that's what I've seen other hypervisors do).

Maybe the CPU in your Ubuntu machine is new and unrecognized by the program? I don't have any better guess.
On AWS you can chose the geographic location where you run your stuff. I guess the author is running them in EU zones.

Regardinging CloudFlare cookies, I am not sure if this is the authors problem, since I guess he is neither processing nor storing any data about it.
The rational thinking part of my brain says Apple provides more values for money than competing options, in the real world I live in.
I understand that point - it's the "optics". ...but for users that ignore the crypto feature, I don't see the issue - there is no real negative impact for them.
It is interesting this herd immunity thing. I don't think a single figure of 65-70% is nuanced enough.

In the UK 60% of the adult population have had the jab now, but people without health conditions under 50 have not yet had anything at all - not even their first dose. Those under 18 are not even scheduled to get it.

So can we have "herd" immunity when the majority of the able-bodied working-age population and school kids are not protected yet? From what I've seen in media and data (http://coronavirus.data.gov.uk), the virus is running rampant in teenagers now, but everyone is apparently cool with that because "kids don't get sick from it" (ignoring any long-covid repercussions, which seems foolish to me)

Its all well and good making sure at 100% of 75+ year olds are protected, but they're not exactly representative of the people out and about mixing with strangers in shops/workplaces/bars/public transport/gyms/cafes etc
Scientific report of a talk by the principal investigator: https://i.blackhat.com/USA-19/Wednesday/us-19-Williams-Detec...
That's certainly a reasonable understanding, though I can't imagine there not being any men who've been harassed too (even by simple mockery), which is why I read it as if there were women who did not even use it because of the name, and a separate group of others (which includes women too) who still used it, but were being harassed (eg. when they spoke about it).

I think that makes a big difference in the interpretation, not that it should make a big difference in action taken.
I don’t like either side I am feeling double schadenfreude.
That's their problem, not mine. Gaming is a business, Apple is a company. I heard plenty of times here on HN that Google's business is advertising. So go and argue this with the other million of post that uses this semantics.
Thanks for reading until the end :-)
You don't seem very confident, betting only a dollar. ;-)

But honestly, just buy a Thinkpad and everything works out of the box. Yes, everything.
Yes, it's stated in last paragraphs of article. I've commented before I've read until end too, but removed my comment.

And it's not joke, it's about where AI is now and where it should be. But you have to read until end.
Polish notation enforces binary operators. LISP doesn't, so you have to have the parentheses. (+ a b c) is + a + b c or + + a b c in polish notation. These are the same, of course until thet are not, such as with floating point arithmetic or in case you trap on integer overflows.
In Moscow, major Asian companies like Samsung, Huawei, LG all have research centers where they hire some of the best science students from top universities, in particular by organizing joint study programs. This seems to be a widespread practice around the world for them, and actually profitable for both students and universities.
I hope that www.soylent.com and www.spacenutrientsstation.com would do something similar in US
Serving malicious scripts is very bad, and may not actually be accepted. I know I would hesitate to use baidu analytics after this. But people might come around if they say something about SSL and wont happen again.

If the encryption is then broken and it is done again, then a) it will prove that China did it. Because you can see who signed the certificate. b) it will prove that technical countermeasures are not enough, since the problem is deeper than that.
This is the approach we take: Adapters+mocks for external services, but we're okay with hard dependencies (via injection if possible) on non-network libraries. This includes things like json serializers, other serializers, automappers, math libraries, etc.
You don't (shouldn't) put people in prison for stuff like this, you keep fining them increasing amounts of money until they stop doing the thing they are not supposed to be doing. The world would be a much better place if the traffic (and waste) laws were more, maybe even automatically, enforced.
Also, it is fallacious to suggest, that, because of the fact that it was initially formulated by fascists as a propagandistic weapon, postmodernist cultural relativism is false, or not a useful view of the world. If fact I think it is very useful to stop and consider that point of view, and be able to reflect on it, and reach conclusions about why it is or it is not a good cosmovision to have.
The process of producing code is the process of specifying what the computer should do

I'm sure coding is "specifying what the computer should do", but that's not what people are talking about when they talk about specifications. A specification defines what the application should do. Producing code is implementing the specification. Without having any specification first you wouldn't have a clue what the code needs to do, so you wouldn't know what to write.

The problem with the analogy is that most people don't understand what a blueprint actually is. A blueprint is an architectural planning document. It defines the building in very broad terms - where the walls go, where there's a staircase, and so on. It doesn't go in to the detail of how the building is constructed. That comes from all the other documentation. As an analogy with software it's a pretty good one - a building's blueprint is equivalent to the high-level planning documentation that any big project needs.
Then workers ought to demand a raise if they are feeling undercompensated. The market pays what the market allows. Any distortion of that market would have deleterious effects somewhere in the chain. Any time you artificially increase the price of something, that rational response is to seek a substitute; which might mean that more overseas offices are opened and more jobs would be offshored. Which would actually increase the desired effects -- perhaps even increasing unemployment and wages. To paraphrase Jurassic Park: markets will always find a way.