jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I haven't followed Mr Musk's career at all and I kind of assume he's an insane ego-maniac. Having said that, this guy's my new hero.

He sounds like he's more Burt Rutan than Richard Branson and the fact that he's seen through an end-to-end design for launch vehicles is pretty mind blowing.

If you look through the photos on his site it kind of has the feel of a boutique bike factory - say Cannondale in the early days - but then you see pictures of them 'spin forming titanium' or something equally exotic. Pretty cool stuff.
Gruber also made a couple of bad calls / predictions, but none as big as this.
Can't wait to hear how this plays out. This stuff happens all the time in religiously totalitarian "governments". Where is the moral outrage and street rallies from the moderates? Oh, I know... laying low cause they'll get shot. There a bunch of brave Iranians though, good luck to them. Maybe a few brave Pakistanis will stand up and demand change too.

Religious orthodoxy = idiocy
It's more likely a Microsoft exclusive.
So a reason for removing one of their main product lines is because Apple is running out of Cat names? Really? What's next, there will be no more Android phones because all the treats in the bakery were taken?

Edit: I don't know much about this writer or blog, but in the comments it seems that he was joking. Oh the joys of detecting humor and sarcasm in writing..

The comments were more insightful than the main article.
I didn't write them all down because that would have taken another hour and it's 11 PM Bay time on a Friday, but here are a few:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Dalio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Simons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Schwarzman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paulson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Och

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shaw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_A._Cohen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_C._Griffin

If you're curious as to whether I included any specific people please feel free to ask.
>>>>In my experience, these take home projects are woefully underspecified.

Completely agree.

I'm still not sure what these "challenges" even prove. If you're a developer, you should have reams of examples of code, a github account with work, and plenty of other avenues for people to check if you can do basic coding from scratch. Even a junior developer will/should have several examples of work they've done while in school.

I've been in a lot of "technical" interviews and once they start asking coding questions, I usually ask them if they've looked at my online portfolio, or the examples on my github account. 95% of the time, I'm able to pull an example which deals directly with that they're asking.

Doing this has two effects. One, it proves I can do what they're asking. And two, it puts the responsibility back on the interviewer. It's like asking, "Did you do your due diligence, or are you wasting my time asking me this question?"
Running for what? We don't even have mid-term elections until next year, and those are only for Congress.
After reading this I saw an application as a 'tsunami panic room' within your house. It could act as a living space, but can seal up and break away from the rest of the structure safely in the event of a tsunami. That way you don't have to have a back yard in order to keep it handy
Could you expand on that? In which fields would you work with these skills to earn good money?
It’s worth noting that if he was a normal citizen there’s no way he’d have been tested.

We’ve got a LOT of people wandering around with covid-19 who have no idea.

NY’s recent numbers are eye-popping, but it’s quite likely it’s because they are testing a lot more than anyone else in the US, not because other places don’t have the same level of cases.
How does having a high IQ guarantee one makes the right decisions?

Wouldn't testing whether politicians are psychopaths be a better use of resources? Or have we already realized they all are?
But was that ever supported in practice? I don't remember that being supported, and 8008 assembly code needed to be translated anyways by a tool, so that could have taken care of A -> AL.
with everyone connecting from home, what percentage are behind a LAN firewall

From home? Essentially 100%.

that you need to use TURN servers?

That's less clear. I'm not sure how many home firewalls are impenetrable by STUN as well. I worked on Twilio's WebRTC-based audio product back in 2012-2014. In the beginning we only supported STUN. We did get some customer support requests about initial connection failures (which I mostly attributed to STUN failures), but never kept track of stats on what the success/fail ratio was. We eventually added TURN support (after I left that product team), but based on how long it took us to do that, my guess would be STUN was effective for most setups. Also consider that many (most?) of our users were probably behind restrictive corporate firewalls, and I'd expect home firewalls to be more lenient.
That's pretty strong action. In California I think you could technically go to jail for going outside, but it's not enforced yet.

I hope other countries follow the Czech Republic's example, otherwise many areas of the world will look like Italy soon.
That seems to problem, doesn't it? How to identify the truly crazy ideas from the simply bold ones. Especially as nobody "gets fired to buy IBM", which kind of applies to everything from buying and hiring, over startup funding all the way to research.
Thanks very much. Now I have to take a look at SQLite :)
I took a music class in university in which the entire focus of the class is that music is NOT universal.

This was a while back so details I remember are sparse.. but he had tons of examples from around the world where what we might consider "happy" or "sad" was entirely different in many cultures.

Granted, it's probably still more true than not to say "for the most part music is universal", I don't think it holds as a simple factual statement.
This is possibly the greatest argument for social safety nets ever made, really.

The economy of today is so efficient and supply chains are so effective at moving things to people who need them, that it seems incredibly stupid to not use it to provide some kind of basic necessities to every human being, no questions asked.

If the US were to do this today, there would be more innovation, less misery, a supercharged economy as you've increased the purchasing power of millions of people overnight...It a fucking no brainer. And cutting taxes rather than providing more benefits seems like the most stupid way to run a country I've ever seen in my life.
It depends on where you live. I do this a lot but I live near a store.
> I can assure you that the general population has no idea what half the nouns in that sentence mean, let alone how to do any of that.

Keep in mind you're on HN-- we tend to be a more technical population :). If you're interested I found this on StackOverflow via Google: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/144482/iptables-to-...

You'll have to Google how to set up iptables/telnet or ssh on your router yourself, assuming it supports it.
the NextDNS people are really smart; I just submitted a request for the ability to blacklist replies (for any hostname) that match a given IP/mask or originating AS number. This would solve the problem, especially if it is supported in blocking lists.
That's actually a very cool way of imagining it. I'll save that concept for future use. Thank you.
Like it, or not, this is the future of retail.
The bullet proof thing is just a gimmick to give you a retort when a retard questions your manhood for driving an eco friendly car.
If you are interested in Shen, you might be interested in previous discussions on Hacker News:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8250316

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8359796

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3117235

Also, check out Fogus's summary of Lisps:

http://blog.fogus.me/2011/05/03/the-german-school-of-lisp-2/

I signed up as a donor who gives 5 pounds a month to this project, because the ideas going into this project are extremely innovative and deserve support.
I'm at home with vim (10+ years + a finely tuned and pimped up ~/.vim/) and have used vimoutliner a lot, but it goes in the opposite way for me: org-mode is one of the reasons I'm considering giving emacs another chance :)
Ship early and quietly, talk to early-adopters and improve. Keep doing that in cycles.

- Jon Yongfook Cockle (@yongfook)

http://startupquote.com/post/1676096050
Amazing how it still looks dated compared to Google Maps.
Publication lags -- sometimes 3-4 years in economics/finance -- make the news feed they built less useful. If instead they built the feed around http://ssrn.com or http://ideas.repec.org, it could have value for fields where publication occurs after a paper has its impact.
Denmark and Switzerland have both banned Transfats. Also, various bans exist for genetically modified foods in Europe. Sweeteners such as stevia, meats with bovine growth hormone, etc.

I'm surprised people are unaware of this. My apologies for not citing it in my comment, I thought everyone was aware of this, and so I found the original implication that banning foods leads to totalitarianism absurd.
Interesting where developer mistakes end and platform problems begin. Javascript numbers are obvious example.
Maybe if someone's passionate enough they can fund their own science? Surely you could have earned 80k quickly enough in your private sector job. Similar to poets and artists who usually get paid nothing for a long time/ever.

Oh, maybe I misread you. They spent 80k just on fighting for IP rights?
One nice perk of journalists doing much of their research on Google nowadays is that a layman can too -- there is little moat around journalism anymore. So a couple years back I decided to take an informal random sampling of news articles from respectable US newspapers, and dig up the source material associated with those events. I found that when you looked at the sources, about 3/4 of the claims made about Trump were either deeply misleading, or outright false.

The WMD debacle killed my trust in media, but this was beyond my expectations. I can only hope the sample was not representative.
Wouldn’t you need more than 12 patients to conduct such experiments?
That's no longer true.

From 2013 onward, the results of all federally-funded research needs to be publicly available. Here's the memo mandating it: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expandi...

People do generally take this seriously and there are consequences (e.g., can't use publications in NIH grants if they haven't been deposited).
I understand the idea that a diverse selection of exclusive communities leads to isolationism and echo-chambers. I just don't know how to judge if it's true or not.

As others observe, those exclusive communities were the precursors of our inclusive communities. They gave the marginalized a safe space to learn acceptance, confidence, and toughness, and take that out of their safe space. And no one is a member of just one community, isolated from the rest, even when we try to be. The issue seems to me to be less about how exclusive of opinion those communities are, and more about how freely one may join and leave them while staying within bounds.
At least you were told why it was rejected. That’s often not the case on Chrome.
I don't think of constructions like "on the left" or "from the left" as equivalent to "leftist". On the continuum of US politics, The Atlantic is clearly center-left or perhaps a bit to the left of that, though of course that doesn't mean that their articles are universally of that variety.
I don't know a serious method, but perhaps this can be useful:
"The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html

How many points do your company get? Don't answer it here, but you must think about this before evaluating the other company.

Some questions like #8 are not relevant after the aqui-hire, but are important to understand the company culture.
Make every interaction with your manager a deal that you both benefit from.

For example, if your boss asks you to work a weekend say:
"I am more than happy to work Saturday if I get an additional vacation day"

Example 2, if your boss keeps giving you tasks:

a. it is perfectly ok to say "I have too much on my plate"

or

b. you can say "I can do task #6 but you(boss) have to pick which of tasks #1-5 I am going to stop doing to make sure task #6 gets completed"
I really hate writing like this.

"That’s a fascinating piece of logic in a remarkably clear and well written paper."

A piece of logic != proof. It's dishonest, IMO, to claim a link between P≠NP and the quantum nature of the universe, as this post does, without proof, or at least something far closer to proof than "fascinating logic" and really well written papers.

This just another example of the sad, stupid world being created by the BuzzFeed Generation. Sigh.
Is "women are less likely to counter-offer and negotiate during the hiring process" obviously not reality also?

(Serious question.)
Completely agree, friendsreunited was massive, and if they hadn't taken their eye off the ball, they could have been what facebook is today in the UK.

Their main mistake was to charge users for membership if you wanted to communicate with other users. I believe it was £10/year. Even when facebook came on the scene, they continued charging users.

(Yes, charging users directly, however much 37signals etc trumpet it, is sometimes a very short sighted bad thing to do, particularly when free competitors arrive as they invariably do if you have a reasonably sized market).

So facebook did happen in the UK. Plenty of startups happen in the UK.
It is normalised, but the range over which it's normalising is pretty near constant, so you don't need to worry. What I wanted to say was that without the isloated red points we might get to see more structure in the data, becuase we could expand the range. I may yet do that, and make careful notes in the text and annotations to explain it. Then again, I probably won't get time.

Regarding the extrapolation, I hadn't thought of what you suggest, and it's a good idea. It would be non-trivial to implement quickly - I'll see. Thanks.
Thanks, I had to watch that again just to confirm how irritating it is... :-|
> How do you reason with unreasonable people who hold the power?

You don't, you fight against them: http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/
These companies allow this to happen, if they wanted to they could restrict the transfer of ownership of the shares. But the secondary market allows zuck to blow $100 mill on public schools and such.
Favouriting this - as the forum thread doesn't have a conclusion just yet...
> How do you decide which work is valuable and which work isn’t?

By viewing the profits generated. As profits are nothing more than unpaid wages.
> If you’re not familiar with C’s syntax, here’s the equivalent signature in Rust

Author is hilarious. Who is familiar with that but not c?
>Unless you like low-latency video chats. Or online gaming. Or VPNs. Or reliability. Or remote desktop.

I have all of that with CGNAT.

>Fundamentally, TCP won't allow more than 64K connections from one IP to a single port on another IP. That's a hard limit on the number of users behind a NAT of any kind who can simultaneously connect to a given service on a fixed port. Right now my ISP's resolvers are returning exactly two IPs for google.com. If it were infected with CGNAT, at most 128K of my ISP's customers could use Google at the same time. The real number is much smaller as fetching a web page typically opens lots of connections.

First, Google has tons of IP addresses, not only two. Second, ISPs with CGNAT servers don't have only one for all customers.
It’s more likely to be the kind of radicalism you find terrifying.

Exactly this. The “woke” at lavishly expensive colleges or in richly rewarded tech-adjacent jobs are kidding themselves if they think their solidarity with the genuine Workers will in any way be reciprocated. They will be up against the wall with the investment bankers.
The difference being that in what I have in mind, anyone can publish and anyone can review, so it would be more like Arxiv and less like Nature or Science. In the scientific world there are stringent filters in place before you are allowed to play the game at all. Also, scientific communities tend to be small, and they are dependent on each other for funding. That introduces politics and perverse incentives. (I used to be a researcher. The politics and incestuousness is one of the reasons I quit.)
>I read it, though not closely, and am still unclear what is the "real class war"

The real class war is between the 0.1 percent and (at most) the 10 percent—or, more precisely, between elites primarily dependent on capital gains and those primarily dependent on profes­sional labor.

It's pretty clearly defined.

It's the group that makes their money primarily from investment returns vs those who make their money primarily from wages/salaries/payments for skills.
I mean here in Greece violence is in the workplace (you can be fired just because) in the shops (they change prices just because) in the government (takes anti social measures just because) in the people relations (people play the emotional abuse game because law has not caught up) and the decline of our civilization is a result of the increase in violence. It just takes a peaceful face because the vast majority would like to have an opportunity to exercise their dark side but would like to play safe. So the silently agree what kind of violence is acceptable or not. Violence is not acceptable in any of its forms.
There are tools targeting these languages. For instance, clash lets you write functional code and get verilog (iirc).
In government and business you can implement policy even if it doesn't align with your personal beliefs, it's called chain of command. No one cares if you're a true believer as long as the work gets done. How many churches will admit to functioning like that.
Make small adjustments and changes in your daily routine and business life. Doing these micro improvements and ditching old habits is a sure fire path to success.
Right. Does anyone even need a megabyte? As Bill Gates famously (didn’t) say, “640k ought to be enough for anybody”.

Joking aside, we very well may one day have more memory available that 64 address lines can handle. RISC-V’s spec does have a stub chapter for “RV128”
:) The irony here being that the WTFYWPL license is generally not advised for projects that actually care about making it easy for others to use the code, it is itself a little bit of a joke license used to forcefully make the point that the author doesn't care about the copyright and is not interested in suing people or arguing about ownership.

So it's appropriate in this context, but also pretty easy to argue that 10 lines of code are not a serious copyright threat anyway, and that it's not clear what code on this page is even subject to copyright in the first place, and that the author might have gone all the way and leaned into the fact that you don't really need an entire Git repo with a license for a single HTML page.
zombie project does not mean not stopped, it's walking and it's dead. Several core devs are gone and the project is very mismanaged.

https://github.com/handshake-org/hsd/graphs/code-frequency

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713890
I think the GP is talking about Israel.
As he says in the article, it's not the hardware that the price is there for, but rather the backups of years of his company's files, including conversation with Lockheed, etc.

Whether it's actually worth that is another matter entirely.
Right, so it conveys little info, and is rather funny looking.
I see them very often in the San Francisco area.
This applies to pretty much every popular package in a modern distro. I'm not running bash 4.1.2 (which was vulnerable to shellshock). I'm running bash-4.1.2-15.el6_5.2 (CentOS/Red Hat's patched version).

It's quicker for distros to backport specific security fixes than to test all the compatibility implications of updating the whole package to the latest version.
Uhm... that appears to be OPs account, just saying.
"Apart from foreign corporations, which are agnostic to which regime controls the country, nobody has a stake in the Congo."

Corporations are going to prefer regimes that enforce the rule of law. The Congo's primary problem (from a business standpoint) is it's lack of stability. If legal matters are not handled in a predictable way, then it's impossible for to do business in a predictable way.

While I agree that it seems like a positive development, what worries me is that Afghanistan already has a huge problem with government corruption (bribes, graft, etc). This will only make that problem worse. However, even businesses that could benefit their economy in the long run will tolerate some level of graft as long as the rule of law is enforced in a predictable manner.
Code comes and goes, data is forever.

ORM is an attempt to bypass proper data design, when in fact more attention should be paid to the data model in the DB than the structure of the code.

Functional programming has a much better impedance match to the relational concept; maybe this will mitigate the issue in the future.
Turns out it's going to be payware, closed-source only while the rest of their community gets to build and support it. http://discuss.atom.io/t/why-is-atom-closed-source/82/9

But who's going to buy an editor that can't even open a 1 MiB file? http://discuss.atom.io/t/unable-to-open-files-more-than-1mb/...

Moreover, besides code posers and managers, who is going to throw away all their knowledge and time configuring the editor they were using?
Not the exact same agencies. Led by new appointees, with new directives. Not so different as you or I might like, but still: political changes do affect the regulatory system.
I think it was worded poorly, but I think the author was hoping T-Mobile would fight as hard as they could, not holding anything back, regardless of the cost to themselves, because of all the good it's doing the rest of us.
If you're 10x as productive as other programmers, why not join a startup as an early employee, or be a technical cofounder? Wouldn't that be better, compensation-wise?
Yes, but in that case we would be talking about yet another privacy issue here.
> I don't think internet bravado has ever been very intimidating to anyone.

Fbi has no trouble locking you up for internet bravado
Seattle isn't too bad off. It has CondoInternet (the thing I miss the most since moving to the Bay Area):

http://www.condointernet.net/
"Sources also tell me that multiple investors who were approached restricted their own employees from buying or selling bitcoin themselves as soon as they realized the extent of the damage at Mt. Gox."

I wonder how many employees felt all that "restricted," given that it would be very hard to enforce such a dictate.
Siri is the new Clippy. Siri keeps popping up without anyone asking, demanding she be attended to.
They don't. The whole point of TCO is to discard stack frames, which means local variables cannot be recovered. Optimize or debug, pick one.
This. Maybe it's a mini-fusion reactor they can't fit into an iPhone.
Actually I wonder how having two sensors is a good idea, anyways. There is no quorum of two, if one of the sensors is off, what's the actual angle of attack?

I dont understand much of redundancy of sensors, yet '3' would allow to ignore the 'bogus' reading.
Whether or not the majority of your company’s revenue comes from a single customer is not in your control. Imagine you are a small company selling 500 widgets a year then Apple calls and orders 50 million widgets. You have two choices: don’t take the deal or make your company 100% reliant on Apple.
It did come with bash, which is GPL. (sure, zsh is now the default, but bash is there too)
> You also get Apple+ for a year.

Or for a mere $2799 extra, you can get it without.