jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I leave my work laptop at work. After work I go to the pub, or a cafe, or to my apartment, and live life. Sometimes I work on personal projects, but _never_ on my work machine, and _never_ at work (the nature of invention assignment agreements makes this prudent).

Don't work for free.
Yeah iphones are pretty small. I seem to remember some of my Sammys and Motos having in the 9-12 range. 37 might actually be approaching some small netbooks.

The capacity for energy storage is volts * amps over time. So a 10 amp hour battery at 3.7v holds less energy than a 10 amp hour battery at 12v. Together it makes watt-hours. That's the best way to measure storage capacity.
Prior discussion on front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8937348
Next step, do this with Malbolge :)
Having boundaries does not mean your job is barely tolerable. Nor does a lack of boundaries mean you are better at your job or appreciate it more.
That was very well explained, thanks!
For that price the components seems rather inadequate. 4GiB RAM for $1800? Come on.
It's really nice when you're talking to a C library that use various prefixes and other stylistic choices that don't map well to the Nim code I want to write.
Anyone have any recommendations for a nicer looking manufactured version of this?
Yes! I second this. Partial evaluation is especially compelling stuff for improving efficiency. I'm glad other people on HN are into it.
I'd love to hear your thoughts. Unfortunately, I'm not sure we can survive the time for it to be great, or produce revenue that sustains us. Can you email me at sean@orangeslyce.com.
I bet you Gephi cannot handle more than tens of thousands of node.
The difficulty with using HIV as your use-case argument is last I checked, most religious organizations considered HIV to be God's scourge on homosexuals.

e.g. they are not particularly worried about getting rid of it.

(I'm not just being snarky or sarcastic)
Oh, nice. The design for my SpeedBox app landingpage is on top of the references. (latest update released by Apple just today, btw. See bottom of this comment for some free promo codes ;)

Ok, I'm really very happy with the design. It keeps to the 960px grid (16 columns), is NOT just a PSD template with my content slapped into and the PSD is nicely formatted with all the right layers, etc. The header graphic is handmade in photoshop, not some stock picture. This might have taken a while to do! There are also some details I really like. For example Marco took the time to add the reflection layer to the screenshot in the iPhone, etc (of course with layer effects, so I can easily change the screenshot itself)

For me the design is a great starting point to make a nice looking website. I made some minor changes (added an iPad graphic next to the iPhone on top), will add a nice video and image viewer and create an iPhone sized version of the site, but I don't think I would have ended up with such a nice design if I tried myself.

Ok, here's the promo codes (now worldwide, yay) for my SpeedBox iPhone/iPad app. Sorry for kind of hijacking this thread, it's really a coincidence that the update was released today and I just feel like giving away a couple of codes ;)

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FYI, there are OpenCV-based face detection nodes in ROS (Robot Operating System by Willow Garage) that publish the detected face positions using a stereo pair (which prunes false positives based on face depth/size estimates). Slightly modified to use one camera or a Kinect, and you would have a python consumer node that requires a mere 5 lines of Python code. ;-)

http://www.ros.org/wiki/face_detector
Really shows how entrenched the established players are in the emerging markets. Russia has VK (VKontakte), China has QQ (and supposedly blocks FB too), Brazil has Orkut. Makes me kind of admire Facebook for being able to take so much market share in Western Europe, despite home-grown alternatives there.
If you're using something like Passenger, I believe it does the upload in nginx/apache to a tempfile and then hands it off to Rails.
The same activists who effectively just won the revolution are occupying the former president's residence, and have it open to the public. Journalists are everywhere. Said activists have the support of the military and the police and society at large. There's just no danger whatsoever of a raid, they can afford to be open. The thugs already lost.
Some of it is small timers trying to make the big time. Something that makes sense economically for me as a hobby would be interpreted as economic suicide for a goal oriented company. Can't run a business like a hobby.

For example, say I order PCBs from China. Takes seemingly forever, but thats OK, I can hang out with family and play minecraft or post on HN. For a hobby that's fine, especially if I save $50. For a company thats economic suicide if you lose 4% of your annual combined salaries waiting for delivery of a prototype. Even financially, dropping your revenue per year might be more expensive than just paying an extra couple percent to the locals.

Another typical smalltimer way of thinking is I make a mistake on a PCB, who cares, its the rare PCB that can't be fixed with some cut-n-solder by hand. That solution doesn't work on a qty 5 figures production run. You'll get much better cooperation with locals, which is irrelevant if your time is free and quantities are single to double digit, but is crucial once you reach consumer kickstarter type scales. Maybe one way to phrase it is problems at the single digit quantity level are interesting anecdotes or minor customer service challenges, but problems at the 10K level are disasters, and problems don't happen at the 10M level because the cost of your onsite overseers stationed in China rounds down to zero per device.
Investigating facts and reporting them clearly is a solved problem.

Do tell. What is a fact? Is it an assertion that is truthful? If something is not asserted is it still a fact? Is gravity a fact or an assertion without evidence? Was Ptolemy wrong or just complicated?

Who are these people who go to universities and study how to investigate facts and report them clearly? Are they the in journalism or normal schools? Are they philosophers? Are they physics majors?

How much of a fact is bound in the frame of reference or context in which it is asserted? Can two nominally opposed assertions both be true? Does that make them both facts? Can all facts be recorded someplace?
We wired my parent's place during construction in 1999. A mix of mostly plastic conduit with wires fished inside and a couple of runs that were not in conduit.

Out of 56 total drop locations (many with multiple cables), we've seen the need to fish new wires down the conduits exactly 0 times in 21 years. That makes for a tough RoI calculation, especially if we'd been paying for all the labor to do the conduit installs.
> parent teacher communications

Where we are (EU) schools have been told not to touch WhatsApp, so official school-parent communication goes via other channels.

However parents still end up creating WhatsApp groups for each class to exchange messages and chase lost bits of homework and so on.

Feels like it's almost like like a virus ... <sigh>
Moderation and extreme-ness exist on a continuum. Being not sufficiently extreme is being too moderate by definition.
Whats the point of moving away from WhatsApp for privacy reasons only to go to Telegram that also has privacy and security concerns?
Usually when I'm coding, my laptop is on my desk so I don't notice the heat.
Not needing to write markup at the time of content generation even better than writing HTML, though. Use any of a million static site generators and get the benefit of writing what you want to write in the most efficient format for that, without needing to program the typesetting markup while you're writing.

HTML is in no way the best tool for write content. But it is the best tool to serve content in a browser.
I bought the StarTech dual 4K DisplayLink adapater after watching one of those videos. I use it to power a second 4K monitor with my M1 MacBook Air running lid-closed. I have a 1080p gaming monitor as my primary connected to a Elgato dock via DisplayPort.

DisplayLink is definitely suboptimial, but it's the only option. There is noticable input lag (my guess is around 100ms) that makes mouse and keyboard input feel sluggish. Showing a moving image on the screen pegs the DisplayLink Manager process to 100% of one core while it's playing. DisplayLink does not currently support rotation on Big Sur, though it probably will in the future. However, the image itself is pixel-perfect, so it's fine for secondary apps like chat or monitoring.
Yeah this is just completely untrue. A business owner can refuse to serve you for any reason, as long as it isn't a specifically protected reason. Much as a company can fire you for any reason except for the legally protected ones.
A good password manager generates a new, strong, random password for each site, stores them in a file and encrypts the file with a key that is derived from a user provided password via one of the aforementioned methods (PBKDF2 or scrypt).

This lets the user change his master password without invalidating all stored passwords and the compromise of any single or multiple site passwords does not affect the master password in any way.

And since the password-file is encrypted it can also be trivially backed up and synced across devices using any untrusted transport (e.g. Dropbox).

As it happens, this is exactly how the common solutions (KeePass, LastPass) operate. This part of the wheel is in no need to be re-invented poorly.
It's a dog-whistle that they'd like it to be a TSA crime.
Regardless of how hard it is, it's still easier than making the entire population of the US immune to fear.
Corrected the sentence in Play Store. Thanks for the input!
After reading the article, I'm kind of confused. What is the public-safety concern with this behavior?
If it drives down the financial and human costs of war (at least in terms of rich country soldiers lost), why should we not expect more war as a result?
Satcom data rates and reliability are definitely going to be inferior to fixed lines and I assume terrestrial wireless.
This sounds absurd. This is the best analogy i've come up with:

A Sandwich shop sells half sandwiches at 5$ and full sandwiches at 6$

You, and a friend would both like half a sandwich. Instead of ordering two separate halves. You order only 1 full sandwich and cut it in half yourself.

Now the sandwich shop is suing you because you paid $6 for one sandwich, and only ate half of it. That's instead of paying 10$ for two half-sandwiches like the shop would like.

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I think if they don't want people to buy a product, then they shouldn't sell it.

Either lower the price of A -> B tickets, or make sure that tickets from A -> B -> C cost no less than A -> B

OR they could ignore this altogether and continue to sell A-B tickets at a premium realizing that people will only buy them for convenience.
Best Buy doesn't care about people price checking GPS units, they care about people price checking HDMI cables. Watch for cell blockers to be installed near the cable isle.
"Submissions are cheap and skippable."

By that logic, you will not mind if I spam your mailbox since emails are cheap and skippable.
For the downvoters:

Weasel words may be used to detract from an uncomfortable fact, such as the act of firing staff. By replacing "firing staff" with "headcount reduction", one may soften meaning."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word#In_business
I haggle at almost every store on anything more than $100. Seriously, what store won't let you haggle on a major purchase?

My favorite haggling technique is to ask about the credit options and extended warranty.

If you're going to haggle, act like you're going to buy it on the store credit card with extended warranty.
Or you could do what Neiman Marcus does – employees are 100% commission based. In this case, the employees commission would be derived from how much over a hidden base price they were able to sell the item for. That way the could lower the price for the customer, but it wouldn't be in their best interest to do so.
It is not a flaw in new hashing algorithms that they run fast. Running fast is their design goal.

Timing attacks don't exploit properties of hash algorithms; in fact, they would prefer compute to be slower (and networks to be faster).
> or vice-versa

I have quite bad myopia (-4.5). My parents didn't notice this until I was in fourth grade (~9 years old.) I have a feeling that this contributed to my early enjoyment of indoor, "up-close" activities (reading, video games) in preference to "outdoor activities" where I would have relatively little clue what was going on at the other side of the soccer field/baseball diamond/etc. So, in a way, my bad eyesight could have pushed me toward computers.
wasm provides more than _just_ a speed improvement
Yes in particular it's viewed as a pro-communist armed revolt from a region that has not received any of benefit from Korea's rising economy.

It's a controversial topic in Korea and views are divided. It's interesting to note that the special force soldiers specifically from South East region were handpicked to carry out merciless beatings and killings.
While it makes sense for some projects to use AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc, you could track the same number of requests on Digital Ocean, Vultr or Linode reliably and for less money.
Not sure you can count tear gas and fire extinguishers as "armed" (that's what CSPAN is showing and reporting).

Then again, the lack of firearms is probably why Capitol Police are playing it so calm.
> Electric Porsche

Porsche and certain other manufacturers will always be handling kings. (even if the lower center of gravity, means that all electric cars kind of handle well)

> Manufacturing consistency and quality

We see Tesla struggle with this, But, Toyota and Honda have this down to a science like no other manufacturer. There is a reason the Civic/Corolla/Camry/Accord quadrilateral is impenetrable.

Excellence in manufacturing also saves a lot of money.
It's likely an issue of differing goals, too.

As I mentioned in a previous post, my Dad used the 80s MS Flight Simulator for IFR training. The graphics, on our amazing CGA monitor, were Battleship Gray ground (with mixes of solid green, I think) with white lines representing "scenery". I'm guessing that (for the 80s) the physics were a high priority, but graphics -- even for the 80s -- were not.

Microsoft could do the scenery more easily than others due to Bing, and frankly, if it weren't for the scenery, I wouldn't have shelled out the cash. The flight physics, while positively amazing[0], wouldn't have even been able to be described to me in a manner that would have gotten me excited enough to purchase it, but on that -- alone -- it'd be worth it[1].

I can't speak as to how well it simulates IFR/related things -- not a pilot -- though I mentioned in a previous post that my Dad basically got his IFR rating by practicing on ancient MS Flight Simulator.

I am curious, though -- what is it that MS Flight Simulator's latest version gets wrong about IFR that X-Plane gets right?

[0] Admittedly, I've probably used it for a total of 3-4 hours since its release. What I saw was impressive in that I wasn't intending to notice the physics, but it was impossible not to. There were moments where I had (extremely minor) anxiety while angled just right, looking out the "window" trying to get the plane to do something nuts.

[1] Bear in mind, my impressions come from not having played a modern flight simulator (outside of ones that are not intended to be accurate) in over a decade. Perhaps some of the things that I'm so impressed with have been available in other simulators and I'm just seeing them for the first time, here. I'm encouraged that so many people love X-Plane; I hadn't looked at it, yet (and not exactly sure as to why), but I'll be checking it out, now.
> Also, German unions are less antagonistic to management than American unions.

The same could be said in the other direction. Fundamentally they are set up differently, and one of the results is that corporate-union relationships are more collaborative in Germany, more combative in USA.
China appears to be succeeding at conquering asia and getting the 7 armies/turn, for only the second time in history (the Mongols previously).

Their infrastructure buildout will enable them to economically benefit from/dominate Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Pacific at a minimum.
It is going to open a big door for people who reimplement APIs.

In particular, social-media aggregators (one app to display your Twitter, FB, Instagram, etc.) may have new protections.
So can other vendors with S3's api.
Yeah, when I had a commute I would devour Economist magazine, and I still consider it an even-keeled international news source for English-speaking readers. I can tell it has a neoliberal, "we have everything under control" underpinning, but I'm curious what people suggest as an alternative.

That said, their culture section can be sloppy. After noticing numerous errors in topics I care about and being disappointed in multiple book recommendations, I think I'd sooner try a cooking recipe from PC Gamer than accept their entertainment opinions at face value.
I think anyone who has taken Uber and Lyft a lot knows that they allow drivers to abuse the system for their benefit, with no recourse for riders.

A few incidents that have bothered me:
1. Having an Uber refuse to take me to the airport from downtown Chicago
2. Lyft not giving me an automatic refund for a pickup in SOMA when the driver had been heading down 101 for 10 minutes and was showing no signs of turning around.
3. Every Uber driver cancelling rides at LAX to force surge pricing.

I'm not suprised that Uber drivers do not want to deal with riders with disabilities. Since Uber and Lyft are not profitable they can't even afford to kick any drivers off the platform other than drivers that pose a risk of physical danger to passengers.

Until Uber and Lyft implement a system that actually can result in negative consequences for unethical drivers, I have no sympathy for any losses these companies incur.
They definitely have decent journalism but I just can't stand the website and cancelled my subscription (although very liked content and hope they fix website to make it usable).

The issue I have is that they display ads on a page. I don't mind ads in general but they actually embed animated banners which are very distracting and it worsens reading experience a lot, and you have to pay for such a privilege to stare at flashy animated ads of some clothing.
I agree that the most used phrasing of "selling your data" is factually wrong. On the other hand, I think it is approximately true enough for the general public.

I don't expect the usual reader to understand how that data is commoditized inside Facebook to serve better ads. Do you remember how a US Senator had a hard time understanding how ads allowed Facebook to remain free? People will not grasp without significant effort the ads economy and no journalist wants to take on that every time they write about tracking.

It's a tough situation. I'm not satisfied with how they do it, but I understand it's a limitation related to the medium and target audience.
> I find it astounding the Pentagon can spend trillions on 'defence' but we can't scrape together the pocket lint to have back up offline infrastructure for the power grid ready to go with staffing and processes in place.

Astounding yes, but it doesn't surprise me. "Defence", no matter the country, and much of aeronautics/astronautics is mostly a jobs creation program. Just look how immensely widespread Airbus, Boeing and EADS are - their operation spans continents, mandated by the lawmakers who fund their programs. No wonder that SpaceX (and Tesla!) who are to a large-ish part privately funded can be so cheap and agile - they simply don't have to account for logistics of transporting all the stuff and produce as much as they can on-site, without nasty politicians shouting from the sideline they want a return (=jobs).

Transformer production doesn't yield to creating many jobs or wide-spread jobs in contrast, and thus it isn't high up on priority lists of politicians. Also, keeping large amounts of spares isn't ideal because the technology itself can date - oils can go rancid, metal can rust, and especially isolator material can break down.
I saw it was 2.93 for arm support. I’m waiting to see how it performs. The word is that M1 is fantastic for real-time animation playback and physics sims but lags a bit in rendering. So I’m curious about the next m1 chips and arm support from blender.
I'd ask the question: do you want to do something important/big, or do you want to be famous? There's a difference.
We have a system for doing this - it's called Federalism.
You mean blogese isn't your first language. ;-) The commenter above was referring to the abuse of <strong> tags.
I've advocated this for a while in a somewhat obvious field, traffic law.

However, there's a flaw; science in the political arena is subject to interpretation. In VA, we've gone through this with red light cameras. For a while they were authorized at a few intersections to see if they reduced accidents.

They didn't (http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/18/1844.asp).

But a few years later, red light cameras are back, the whole study thing having been an annoying thorn in the side of politicians, who like red light cameras (because they are perceived as good for safety, for money, whatever - who knows?)

So an article comes out like this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02... which contradicts the link I posted before.

How can the same study come to opposite conclusions? That's politics. In any case, the politicians decide what they want to do, and then change the science to suit.

After all, can you really imagine a politician saying "I supported X fully, until the results of the study came out, and clearly, X is not effective, so I no longer support X?"

Only if the study is poll numbers, I imagine.
Yeah, you'd expect more being sent to the 90000 range, which includes S.F.
You have personal issues and biases you need to air out somewhere outside of HN. Your rancor is unnecessary.
I get the argument, but I think if you look at the history of small nations sandwiched between large ones, you draw the opposite conclusion.

The UK has essentially walked away from a position of power in a very large nation, to take a position as a small nation on the periphery.

That might be fine for ten years, it might even be fine for fifty - but inevitably, the difference in negotiating power between the UK and its neighbors will show, to the UK's detriment.

It's already been showing in the brexit negotiations, where the EU held essentially all the cards.
I was actually surprised no one asked this for so long.
Personally I feel this question ranks low on a quality scale. Too many moving parts and too many variables.

There’s a million different reasons for why they could bomb it and a million different ways they could succeed at it and none of those reasons might be evident to the reviewer.
Why couldn't a potential hire be given 5 minutes to think about a solution and then be asked what their plan is? What benefit is added by 36x-ing the time allowed that justifies putting the candidate through such pain?
This is a tangent, but electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can be very effective for treatment-resistant depression and bipolar.

As far as I know it's not effective for autism, but ECT often gets namedropped for shock value by people who don't like psychiatry, and when it's used appropriately and consensually for disorders it can treat, it doesn't deserve such a bad reputation. The end result is that people tend to be very scared of ECT even when it could probably help them.