jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I would find it interesting if many mobile networks in the world that support many more users and many more messages per second will have even spent $460m on their SMS/MMS infrastructure.

I understand that Twitter is different, but 65 million tweets a day is only what, 2,000/second burst @ 3.2Mbps and 13GB per day of new tweets (4.7TB/year). And that is only their recent volume (2010-06-08: http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/08/twitter-190-million-users/).

I know that Twitter made the decision to put the data at the location of access (in this case, that makes it the end-users 'inbox') however, that means that the more popular a user gets (say Gaga with 7.3m followers), every tweet they make needs to be delivered 7.3m times and cause, say 1.5GB of data/traffic to be generated, especially when we're only talking about 5TB/year of new, raw data.

Surely a model more like Google's search infrastructure makes more sense. Store tweets in clusters. Send a search request for all tweets less than X-minutes old to the clusters, the search clusters each return their results in parallel to the caller who then merges & orders the results before returning to the user.

The clusters would replicate data based on popularity (e.g. Gaga may have 10 copies of her data throughout the cluster, compared to me with a couple dozen followers having just one). 5TB + replicas is more than enough to store in memory among a couple-hundred servers and the load generated on the total system would be based on those accessing data rather than producers with a large amount of followers tweeting.

To build this infrastructure to date they have raised $160m and, unless this $200m is completely unnecessary, they have spent most of it.

Anyway... I seem to have gone a little off-topic and gotten a little ranty however, the total amount of money being spent on a company with no long-term, sustainable business model just seems ridiculous. It's as though the VC's have already spent too much money on building a massive network that they need to keep propping it up so they don't look like fools.
It might work. However, you will have to worry about false alarms/people not telling the truth. In addition to this, we always don't know where we got food poisoning.

This could lead to a situation where you, the site owner, are sued. This is probably why most people don't start a site like this.
If you don't get it (took me a while), look at the slide counter ticking away in the bottom-left corner from around the 40 second mark...
Glad I am not the only one thinking that its almost a paid advertisement for Dropbox. It looks particularly suspicious given the Amazon unlimited storage announcement.
As a web developer or user, you can't really see the similarities anymore. The basic stuff like CSS 2.1 works the same everywhere. It's the new features where the browsers differ.

http://caniuse.com/#compare=ie+TP,firefox+39,chrome+44,safar...

Chrome matches Safari in 57 cases. However, Chrome matches Firefox in 61 cases. So, going by the implementation status of those features, Chrome might as well be using a fork of Gecko.

Here is the script I used:

for (let b = 1; b < 5; b++) {
let r = [0, 0, 0, 0];
[].forEach.call($$('tbody tr'), function (row) {
for (let i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
r[i] += +(row.cells[i + 1].className === row.cells[b].className);
}
});
console.log(r);
}

Output:

[130, 35, 36, 48]
[35, 130, 61, 36]
[36, 61, 130, 57]
[48, 36, 57, 130]
Let me throw tent.io into the mix: https://tent.io/
They've taken care of that edge case (and many others).
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc
Could this be prevented by stricter CSP server-side?
Gerard Manley Hopkins[1], G.K. Chesterton[2] and John Bradburne[3].

Spring and Fall

to a young child

Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sorrow’s springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.

– Hopkins, 1880

A Little Litany

When God turned back eternity and was young,
Ancient of Days, grown little for your mirth
(As under the low arch the land is bright)
Peered through you, gate of heaven—and saw the earth.

Or shutting out his shining skies awhile
Built you about him for a house of gold
To see in pictured walls his storied world
Return upon him as a tale is told.

Or found his mirror there; the only glass
That would not break with that unbearable light
Till in a corner of the high dark house
God looked on God, as ghosts meet in the night.

Star of his morning; that unfallen star
In that strange starry overturn of space
When earth and sky changed places for an hour
And heaven looked upwards in a human face.

Or young on your strong knees and lifted up
Wisdom cried out, whose voice is in the street,
And more than twilight of twiformed cherubim
Made of his throne indeed a mercy-seat.

Or risen from play at your pale raiment's hem
God, grown adventurous from all time's repose,
Or your tall body climbed the ivory tower
And kissed upon your mouth the mystic rose.

– Chesterton

Love

Love is a short disease, a long desire,
A strong and lasting healing; love is like
An angler landing fish, a hand at lyre,
A roadhog flogging home his motor-bike;
Love is a deep unsleeping thing, leaps time
And steeps amidst eternity for rest
And love is like three candles lighting rhyme
And metre I am making for the best;
An Alleluiatic sequence shows
A little of love's eloquence that lasts;
Love has three lights, one to another glows,
A third proceeds between: naught overcasts
True love because it knows that it possesses,
Being possessed, a zest above distresses.

– Bradburne, 1971

There are a couple of rare recordings of John Bradburne reciting his own poetry[4]. Much of his work was completely unknown until after his death in 1979 – he wrote about 6,000 poems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Manley_Hopkins

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton

[3] http://www.johnbradburnepoems.com/

[4] http://vimeo.com/michaelbradleyjr/love

[&] http://vimeo.com/michaelbradleyjr/mombe
> [China] an unfathomable degree of control over their citizens

You obviously haven't been there. I think Chinese gov have the same level of control over its citizens as France: very erratic, sometime works well, some people try to play with fire, but overall the Chinese are all but lobotomized robots in the hands of a few puppet masters. There's over 500 strikes a year in China, not counting all the ones not big enough to be counted. I have seen streets of pedestrians walking against policemen, who were sweating of fear. Right now the prez is quite appreciated and trusted by the people, so he probably has some level of control, but this is earned by its fight against corruption, and not by some matrix-like brainwashing system.
Also, break it down into subtasks, and only do the first one.

There can be a lot more involved than I (consciously) noticed.

There can be a lot less... just the scary chance of it being much worse.
Agree. I think reversing in non-ascii should always be thought of as "per-token", where English is character-as-token. So the reverse of what you gave would be:

":medium light skintone: :Man facepalming: lol"

(with the lol reversed). In this problem, it is a much harder problem than, say in python, mystring[::-1]. Therefore, it is a different problem "reverse a string" than to "reverse an array".

Accented characters would be kept as is in my scenario.
If you really want to go all the way, you can either DIY or buy one of the existing ice backpacks. These come with a vest with water tubes to cool down your skin and blood. The ice supply lasts a few hours.

Of course, it means there will be more to worry about contaminating when doffing.
Apparently not enough of one.
You seem to be forgetting that the rest of the world is not as litigious as people from the United States.
My concern is that politicians don't seem to be acknowledging fundamental limits on how long a lockdown can last. One governor in my country suggested eight months was a possibility! That obviously couldn't actually happen - but the government could do a lot of damage fighting against reality to try and make it happen. Even for a 2 to 3 month lockdown, there are critically important questions like "why will anyone accept our country's money if we're not producing goods and services" and "what will we do about the fact that all small businesses are bankrupt at that point", and I don't see answers to them.
Yeah, but that seems like a completely different situation. Wasn't the thing that happened then the dynamic where the sickest people were sent away from the front to the hospitals where they spread it, while the mild cases kept fighting?

Also, I said "or".
Namespace and lexical scoping can both solve the long variable name issue. If a language have none like Emacs Lisp or CSS, the issue happens.

For example, when there was no namespace for JavaScript, people can easily simulate modules/namespaces with lexical closures. For a lot (not all of course) of bundling systems, modules/namespaces are just syntactic sugars on top of lexical closure.
I wonder if this is trending because people figure you might be able to strengthen your diaphragm as a precautionary measure in case of contracting COVID-19.

Anyway, if anyone is interested in a practical application from a scholarly source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2971640/
Strip away media narrative on both sides, an impartial timeline would be:

Wuhan medical community recognized a new pneumonia of unclear cause in late December during winter and the height of influenza season. The novel Corona Virus was identified, WHO was notified, the genome was sequenced. This took roughly 1 week. Then it took 3 more weeks of "stability management" before central government quarantined WuHan and essentially shutdown the entire country right before the most important holiday of the year and the largest annual human migration.

4 weeks for identification to evaluation to 3 months of aggressive techno-authoritarian quarantine, and assuming 2nd wave and import cases can be managed until the vaccine - China just demonstrated the first civilization model in human history to be able to suppress a virus of this magnitude in large countries. Other countries are only recently adopting the war analogy, China executed it on a dime. How they'll fair in rebooting society is unknown.

Was there missteps? Yes. Could they have done better? Not by much IMO. Every misstep with Chinese characteristics is being repeated just as worst in other countries with their cultural characteristics. The overall response as been not as agile (if there a response at all), despite having ample notice and more information.

The retrospect of this global health crisis is going to be interesting, China and a handful of islands managed to successful crush the curve, complacent developed countries may or may not successful spread the curve, and all the developing countries get rapid herd immunity because like the Spanish flu, they have no other choice. 1.4 billion people without herd immunity among a globalized world with immunity is going to be a conundrum though.
I think the embedded one is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4tFhEQFs7I but your link is of better quality.
Not quite as extreme, but if you want to experience something a bit like him, and are willing to travel to Ethiopia, you can. There was a story last week on NPR about a chef there who has been compared to the Soup Nazi.

I've just submitted a link to that story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9254708
Hmm, yes that would make sense. I've probably been flagging more stories than upvoting lately. Didn't realize it might be a black mark on my record.
Yet ANOTHER Android app store? Gimme a break. How many is it now? I've lost count.
You need Visual Basic for that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
> If you change your mind and want to learn anything else, my door is always open.

I can't imagine what could lead you to think I'd be interested in "learning" from someone who clearly doesn't even understand what my claims/opinions are, but insists they're "ignorant" and "trolling".

What you've accomplished here is not to teach, but to harden my existing biases.
Huh? This guy is already reporting profits he will almost certainly be spending in Chile. So his participation will probably end up being a net positive for Chile even if you don't include the value of his knowledge and experience in creating a top-1000 site.
The author says this is not very effective but not bad advice. I disagree, this is perhaps the worst advice you could give someone:

# Publicly announce that you will work on your goal, and that you are going to post regular daily or weekly updates regarding your goal. Announce it on Facebook, Twitter, and tell this to everyone you see regularly, etc.

http://www.psych.nyu.edu/gollwitzer/09_Gollwitzer_Sheeran_Se...

Anyway, I'm still skeptical of the madman hack since that seems like what most students do and most students still have motivation problems.
You should show the interface of the editor on the marketing pages somewhere. Also, the "view the source" links don't work for me in Safari Mac.
It can be dangerous yes, somebody could exploit this. Not sure who you should contact at Posterous tho ...
I think he is saying we shouldn't use jQuery Mobile because it's a web app that tries to look like a native app.
If Facebook wants to scale?
This is one of the worst articles I've ever read.
I prefer the Russian smiley ))
Part of why I quit drinking is so I have more time to study programming effectively. There's no way I can do that buzzed.
Agreed, good on these folks and I wish them all the success in the world. As someone over 30 however, I find these lists depressing.
Netflix (and partners) should take the lead and make its content accessible without any border restrictions. There is no technical reason for this restriction. It is purely for the purpose of getting more money. Is the problem purely a copyright issue, or is it something else? Eg, the government of the non-US country losing out of tax revenue from the non-US Netflix subscriptions.
Daniel Gambis, Time Lord would go well on a business card.
Please don't do this here. Even if you're right, it only adds poison to the commons.
In this OS, are chroots enough to "withstand zero-day attacks in userspace", e.g. in combination with other hardening features?
Dominic Giampaolo asked at at Be Developer's Conference, for a show of hands as to whether we would prefer a case-sensitive, or a case-preserving but -insensitive filesystem.

We overwhelming voted for case-sensitive, so that's what he implemented.

He later claimed that BFS did not need a filesystem consistently check tool; with its journaling, he said it was simply not possible to screw up the filesystem.

I owned two BeOS computers back then - one a PowerPC mac, the other a Pentium II box that I built myself. I powered off one with the intention of removing its external SCSI drive, but cluelessly detached the drive from the box that was still powered on.

In a panic, I plugged the cable back on. Rather oddly, most of the filesystem was just fine, but other parts were totally brain-damaged.

I reported this on the bedevtalk list. Dominic personally apologize. A few months later, Be released a filesystem tool.

Good Times.
Ah I see - the inherent hypotheticalness of statements about the future. But as you say, the pro-surveillance case also rests on forward-looking statements about what the security services are going to do with the data.

In that case we have to go backwards. The National reminded me today of this incident: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19860903&id=F... (Leon Brittan's involvment in politically motivated surveillance of CND). There's also the long and ugly history of Northern Ireland, and the more recent business of planting police informers in environmental groups.

The problem with trying to use recent history to prove a point is that everyone's already made up their mind which side they're on for things like extraordinary rendition, "School of the Americas", torture, Iran-Contra, arms-to-Iraq (Matrix Churchill), etc.

Matrix Churchill might be a good example, tbh. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Report : MI5 instructed and secured secret permission for exports to Iraq, but then tried to protect the secrecy of this at the cost of not just allowing Matrix Churchill directors to be jailed but censoring their only legal defence and getting ministers to lie to parliament.
Source on Silent Circle being backdoored?
Ah, the "obviously the most important discussion to have about this is what the exact meanings of words are" derailment tactic. Honestly you could play mansplaining bingo in here.
Extremely light weight? It may be complex, but x509 is based on ASN.1 and one of the most compact and efficient way to represent and handle certificates.

There are so many tools supporting it properly, and many of them are extremely hard to change (especially HSMs) because there are actual dependencies, that I wouldn't bother.

The problems are mostly in SSL & TLS protocols, not in the certificates. We should get a new alternative that would be designed to be easily implementable, and it should get proper reference implementation (with proofs of correctness, which by the way are available for X509... That's the only part that is verifiable afaik).
I don't think Google cares since they're currently about 85% of the global phone market and they're projected to be 88% by the end of 2023.
Yeah, I also find this annoying.

But there is a setting to change this behavior: Options / Search / Show search suggestions ahead of browsing history in address bar results

The default for this should probably be off, not on.
and yet, how many artifacts from the 90s web or even 00 web are still there?
Yes I thought the same, so I rewrote the example with the linear state monad: https://twitter.com/sjoerd_visscher/status/13598540881759641...
Personal attacks are not cool on HN. We ban accounts that post like that. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do it again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26103730.
While I largely agree, the direct messaging function is also very useful - sometimes I can't find the email/number for the person I want to speak to because they've moved on since I last had their details and for whatever reason I didn't get the new details - in that case LinkedIn messaging is often a good backup and often a fair bit quicker than asking a series of mutual acquaintances for details.
excellent point, never thought about it before
My wife and I saw him perform a concert at Davies Concert Hall not too long before covid hit. One of my favorite parts was when he described the holidays in his house growing up. He and his siblings would sit at the piano in pairs and improvise songs together. He then pulled up a volunteer from the crowd and improvised a song with them. (Twice, actually, with two different volunteers.) They were both really, really good and the whole thing was just so much fun.
Cultures without their own country are capitalized too.

Capitalizing indigenous is unusual. But capitalizing Native American is standard.
The discussion should feature prominently somewhere on top that the comparison is between the Tokio async runtime and Linux threads. Reason being, people not familiar with Rust may assume that the discussion applies to Rust async in general, when it doesn't necessarily. Sure, in practice Tokio is pretty close to being the de-facto async runtime in Rust. But it's not the only one, as Rust's async language constructs allow for different runtime implementations that may be optimized for different use cases.
> regulatory credits

Why is it that all of Musk's companies rely on government support in some significant way?
Actually, this kind of prediction is just a fact by the laws of probability...
Title is wrong. It was in 1956 (as the article says in the paragraph below where it says "in the 1940s").
Yes, this falls in the bucket of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) [1]

Yes, there's a trend of investors seeking to deploy capital towards ESG (thankfully!)

No, this isn't going to gussy up pure-tech with the 'climate' label. I say this as former-USV founder who is now a USV LP. I can also attest to how solid the humans at USV are.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/environmental-social-an...
Now that’s a piece of the puzzle i hadn’t heard of before. I knew about the memory compression, and iStat menus does a decent job of visualising it but this, this is new to me.

HN is such a useful community for finding little tidbits of brain candy like this.
Why can't I find details about your node partner vetting process and what the requirements are to be considered a partner to run a node?
I think your reasoning is flawed both on a practical and on the philosophical level.

Let me first tackle the philosophical level:
First, you insist on the impractical notion that it is only the suffering that counts and must be reduced no matter what. Being a intelligent fella you realize that the consequence would be the annihilation of all sentient life including your own. Since presumably you realize the absurd notion of this consequence you try to reclaim the validity of your argument by arguing that “not forcing others” is another crucial prerequisite in your ethic. (Regarding your own suffering and the ending of it you simply declare that “life is complicated”. Aha, so much for consistency. (By all means: be inconsistent in that case.))
But strictly speaking, you cannot force life on someone because that someone does not exist before she is alive. You can see it in your own comments. You talk about “forcing life on newborns”. But this is not true. Before they were alive they simply were not there. By definition you cannot force something that does not exist. Again: I can force you to give me your money but I cannot force something nonexistent to do anything. So you are back to square one: total annihilation of all life.

The same reasoning applies to your heroin addiction analogy by the way: The alternatives are not heroin vs. no heroin but heroin addiction vs. death. You see, you can without a doubt compare a person that is heroin addicted to one that is not and conclude the the non-addict is for some reasonable metric better off. But you cannot compare a person who is alive with something that does not exist. It doesn’t make any sense.

The philosophical nitpicking aside, what really strikes me as odd is your sole focus on suffering. In your picture you also “force the newborn” with high probability to having two legs, in- and exhaling air, and opening a bank account before her 30th birthday. And who likes that?
But wouldn’t it be much more reasonable, as other commenters have pointed out, to account for more than just the suffering in the calculation whether a life is worth living? When you are in need for something, lets say food, do you only take into account the costs or do you compare the benefit you get from the food vs. its costs (the costs being the suffering in this analogy)?
I mean, as a “life addict” yourself you realize that the suffering is sometimes not everything that counts especially when it is outweighed by the benefits you have by being alive. Don’t get me wrong: of course suffering is bad. But as you said yourself “life is complicated” and often you have to take more into account than just one single variable like suffering or the opening of a bank account.

It is of course your choice whether you procreate or not. But your argument against it might not be as conclusive as you might think.
Opera has decent market share in central and eastern Europe.

In Ukraine and Russia it's huge:

http://clear.com.ua/projects/ee_browsers/?ukraine