jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
https://github.com/muka/peerjs-go is a Go implementation. I believe there is also effort to make a Python one.

It is pretty exciting to have such an easy way to have processes in different languages (and different networks!) communicate.

I would really love to find a way to drop the server dependency even https://sean-der.github.io/webrtc-uri/draft-seaduboi-webrtc-... mDNS/Zerconf would be amazing. Even if it just works between WebRTC Agents and not the browser.
I deleted Facebook permanently in 2005. Never looked back!
They all just shadow banned you by setting the privacy settings on everything they post to exclude you.
Signal is a better choice because it uses end-to-end encryption by default.
I didn’t think of that. It’s a good point, thanks for sharing.
When new collegues are joining our team or people start working on a subsystem unfamiliar to them, I usually tell them that this is a great opportunity for us as an organization and that they should be very vocal about everything that appears strange. Their lack of knowledge is a valuable asset that must be exploited as long as it's fresh. Unfortunately, often it fades within a few days when their mental mode adapts to our quirks.
It's an incorrect conclusion that requires further education and experience before you can be sure your subjective experience of productivity truly is that poor.
You're conflating calories-in/calories-out according to food labels and tabulated exercise studies with actual calories-in/calories-out, which is the simple physics which all the complex biological mechanisms eventually boil down to.

The food labels are averages, adjusted based on other averages. The exercise tables are averages, based on small studies. Any figure you come up with is an estimate, and unsurprisingly, they won't always work for outliers.

But for any given individual, on any given day, there is a net caloric balance. It will be different someone else's, given the same conditions. But there is still a net caloric balance.

"Individuals have varying responses to the environment" is not the same as "aha! physics is wrong".
I've found the vast majority of his stories to be pretty bad compared to his best books. Then again, the vast majority of his books are also pretty bad compared to his best books.

Hollywood has made some great movies out of his short stories (the original Blade Runner, the original Total Recall, The Terminator). But you have to realize that these movies usually have little to do with the short stories. The movies are more inspired by them than faithful adaptations of them.

This is for two reasons:

First, the stories have too little in them to make a movie out of if Hollywood was set on making a faithful adaptation of them. But this is how they like it, and why they choose the short stories rather than the books. The diretors and writers want to use a lot of creative license to fill in the gaps and flesh out some core idea that they might find interesting.

Second, Hollywood still isn't ready to make a faithful adaptation of a Philip K Dick work, because his works rarely fit the Hollywood scifi formula. They are usually too dark, too depressing, and are rarely full of action, have too much dialogue, and require too much thought on the part of the audience. Scifi blockbuster material this is not. Not unless it's heavily altered from the originals, like most of the movies based on his stories are.

Blade Runner is a notable exception. But even it is pretty superficial and action-packed compared to the book. It's still a great movie, and (in my opinion) far better than the book. But it's not as faithful as it could be.

Regarding your disdain for his books, I can understand it. They're not for everyone. I happen to like weird books, and I think Dick has points he wants to make when writing them, but you obviously missed them. And since you missed them, I don't blame you for not liking them. I wouldn't have liked them myself if I thought that they were pointless. But they're not. I could write long essays on the points of each of my favorite PKD books, but I'll spare you.

I'll just say that they are great for people who enjoy reading and thinking about the following themes:

- what is reality?
- what is the purpose of life?
- what does it mean to be human?
- is the world as it appears to be?
- what, if anything, lies beyond the appearance of the world?
- are non-human or "subhuman" lifeforms less worthy than the fully human or "superior" human beings?
- what is the role of the mass media in our world?

Dick is also a great champion of the underdog and has a very strong sense of justice. In many ways, he is a very moralistic writer, who was deeply influenced by the Holocaust and the Civil Rights struggle in the US. His works reflect that.

He was also deeply interested in mysticism, gnosticism, and philosophy, and is one of the more philosophical science fiction authors I've ever read (as you can probably tell by the many of the themes listed above). If you are interested in any of those, you'll probably like Dick's best books.
This is a common but completely unfair criticism of Apple. Plenty of people complained when iOS 7 was made available for the iPhone 4 (because the hardware was too slow to run it properly). And Apple still sells and supports relatively ancient hardware (the iPad mini) as a result of their current strategy of selling last year's model as the second-best option.
The 3 to 5x difference between those cells and commercial offerings make me hopeful we'll see the market for home batteries take off relatively soon. LFP are ideal for the application and are already cheap. With the cost of rooftop solar continuing to dive, getting a house to be much more energy independent, or even fully off-grid will become almost easy in the next 5 years.
I only see weird distortions which I would interpret as aliasing between the readout rate of the camera and the vibrations from the helicopter. Any radiation should show up as noise.
Agreed, there are a boatload of moving pieces. Throw in a work queue and there are even more.

A "full stack" like using ASP.NET MVC,EF and IIS will get you to a dirt simple app pretty quickly but it still feels like too much for what you are actually producing.
Bitcoin doesn't have to replace the dollar, it just has to replace Paypal and some credit card business.
While web production costs may be lower than print-edition production costs ... the cost of editors, reporters, photographers, etc. -- that is, the people who actually produce the content -- remains the same.

Actually, it may even be more, since you've also got videographers and programmers and other content-producing positions that did not exist at most newspapers before the Web ... as well as a 24/7 news cycle, rather than just a one- or two-edition daily cycle.
Isn't this just the problem of choice? If you really want an end to end cohesive development stack here you go: use google app engine with Java and gwt, all java, all eclipse, all the way to the client side javascript / packaging etc.

But I'm happy to have the choice to use python, and play with different client side javascript libraries to suit my various needs (I do use app engine). And maybe next week I'll use clojure on the server side next week and coffee script on the client; that's the beauty of choice.

Overall if there were a single SDK for web development ala IOS development of android development, I would enjoy it less. I'll take the rough edges along with the additional choices and flexibility.
I'm not a programer. But I write business plan in xmind tool. I do Branding - meaning I rewrite business idea for the market and implement strategy as a manager. I can be a co-founder with reasonable spendings plan. I have 2 projets that are commodities as well as digital products. And have few good domains for all sorts of business. So considering your startup idea is of a business kind, would you like to attend a meeting with me? All best, m
Dharmesh, are you saying it would be a bad thing to have a world with many profitable startups much smaller than Dropbox?
The insight in slightly more detail:

> The reason mediocrity sucks more than failure is very simple: Failure lets you move on, mediocrity stalls you and keeps you from reaching your potential.
...but I think linked list were not the main problem, but (1) use of inheritance instead of composition to implement unit behaviour (but we all walked into that trap, and these were the 90's when OOP was still hip and universally seen as a silver bullet), and (2) it looks like objects have been linked to each other quite ad-hoc, instead of providing some sort of 'object relationship system' which encapsulates object linkage and querying for objects. But as I said, these were the 90's and game developers have learned from these mistakes. There's a lot of good whitepapers around about entity component systems, composition, high-level architecture of games and so on. Today it's more about asset creation pipelines and production tools, at least for 'big' game projects.
Most versions of the American accent are a bit nasal compared to other English speakers, so I guess that makes it higher pitched on average -- even if I wouldn't call it "shrill".

Also, there is no a neat separation between nasal Americans and other English speakers. Many Australians are also quite nasal, whereas black Americans (unless you count Steve Urkel) don't strike me as nasal at all.

On the third hand: I find the Irish accent is higher pitched than most, without sounding either nasal or shrill. But Americans often sound a lot like the Irish, so that might also make them higher pitched.
While we're at it, I'd ask to remove TripAdvisor results as well.
50% since they announced a third Half Life game.
Those are all centralized. And trivially censored.

I'd rather have stuff like Aether, NotABug, Tor onion sites, and so on.
Haha oh wow. I must see this.
Because that's not up to the browser to decide.
Ironically, the author's defensive responses to criticism seem to be the only thing being exponentiated here.
I think, he was assuming commodity 1Gbit/10Gbit on which most databases are run. Does anybody use Infiband to interact with their database? It would be interesting to hear from them.
A manipulated virus will do fine. In fact, they've been doing a trial on something like this for years now with some american heart patients, except the genome us not their own. Defeating genetic heart disease by hot-swapping the genome is somewhere between obvious and mad and also exciting.
Signal claims to specially protect some of that data, such claims need verification. Storing or not storing that data needs verification, without the trust that they do what they say they are no better than their competition. Trust is earned e.g. by openness about the source code. And that a server backdoor isn't strictly necessary is also beside the point because the server is the easiest and most obvious way to get at all that data.

Also, there is competition like Briar which has less of those pesky metadata problems (but some other problems instead)
Managing a highly self-motivated team of engineers is different than managing a team of undermotivated slackers.

For the former, a great manager will regularly ask, "What can I do to help you do your job well?" This person fights the political battles that need to be fought, takes bullets for the team, gets the team the resources they need, removes roadblocks, recruits, etc. The team already wants to work hard, wants to do their job well, and "manager-as-controller" is absolutely the wrong way to lead.

But when you're managing a team of undermotivated people doing more dreary work (which, honestly, might be most people and most jobs), a great manager will occasionally pick up a hammer and do some of the hard work themselves to boost morale. They'll find and remove the major pain-points of the day-to-day, improve training so the team is more productive, cheerlead a bit, try to improve compensation, make sure the team's major wins are visible to upper management so they can get the resources they need, etc.

But critically, this second type of manager ALSO needs to be able to crack the whip once in a while to make it clear that being deadweight won't be tolerated, and complaining won't be rewarded. When the work is somewhat painful, you really want to foster a kind of contagious, optimistic busy-bee state where everyone is eager to do their part and help one another, and you'll have to put on your "manager-as-controller" hat once in a while to get there.
Checked as well. They can only do this, because they require that heap memory owned by pointers does not get fragmented. So programmers must manage pointer offsets to each heap structure themself.
Hence you never get potential pointer soup (pointers pointing to subparts and pointing to other things), which Rust resolves with pointer lifetime checking.

Also loop invariants etc must all be annotated. I would be more interested how they plan to handle IO effects or if they want to omit that.
Quantum chemistry is a field with a lot of unknowns still. To say that chemistry has a complete understanding of the hydrogen atom is inaccurate.
I joked, when Signal was down for a day back in January, that the servers were taken down to install a digital wiretap. The longer the source code remains private the less funny that joke is.
Here's a tell of critical incompleteness — find Analysis 1, which is a must-have course for math and adjacent technical majors.
If the tax law were written to permit it, sure. Fortunately even politicians aren't quite that stupid. We can, and should, structure the law to account for that kind of juvenile gamesmanship.
Everytime I see comments that praises PostgreSQL on top of MySQL without any explanations, I tend to think they're trying to bury a product from Oracle than from a real need of one over the other.
I’m not sure I’m understanding what’s happening here, I’m using the serverless command line app to deploy a lambda function to AWS from my local terminal. Nowhere in that process is serverless.com required to be involved. Are my AWS credentials being pushed to serverless.com when I do a deploy? If so, how do I disable this? We’re in a regulated industry and serverless.com is not an approved vendor of ours and should not be receiving any of our AWS credentials.
replacing the HDD with an SSD doesn't void the warranty, however replacing the DVD drive with one (like I did) does.
"The problem is that we are forced to trust a particular CA because the company we are dealing with chose to buy their certificate from that particular CA."

That's why maybe interesting to make the current approach symmetric:

Create a "CA assurance" layer, which would consist of a business entities who would sell the CA reputation validation services. The product of their business would be the list of CAs to trust (to be realtime-updated into the browser), they would collect a monthly fee, and would be insuring their users up to amount of $$$ in case one of the CAs on their list screws up (or not, depending on their SLA).

This would create a system with two components - on one side "CA reputation services", on the other hand - "CAs" - watching each other and being vigilant, in an effort to not lose their respective customers.

As soon as there is no monopolies, I think this approach could work - and relieve the browser vendors off making the tough decisions. They can still keep the list of root CAs, but just have them all "off" by default - so that the tech-savvy could make their own decisions, and publish their own lists, if they want to.

The "CA assurance" layer would actively fight the attempts to create the monopoly in the CA side (because then they'd be out of business) - and the CAs should not be able to affect the "CA assurance" segment since the entry barrier there would be quite low.

This approach still does not solve the "CA sunrise" problem - making it more difficult for a new CA to enter the market. (But maybe that is a good thing ?)

EDIT:

however, what this approach would address is the "local trust" issue: the said mom and pop shop can very well be trusted by the locally-significant CA assurance service, and not bother with the worldwide paperwork at all.
I personally never understood the the appeal of Parler, be it on a technical standpoint or privacy and freedom of speech. Especially compared to Gab.
That is the bane of Machine Learning algorithms. They cannot be 100% accurate. That is why for destructive measures, you need to establish human oversight when using such algorithms.
Yeah, I'm not holding my breath either. I think his prototypes are usually just conceptual and not meant for use cases, which makes his talks a bit too unfair and utopian for my taste.
Once again: If you read the actual patent ( http://www.google.com/patents/US8254902 ), the quote about some police activity requiring complete blackout conditions is actually in reference to the screen brightness, not the cameras. One aspect of the idea seems to be that the phones OF THE COPS would be able to go dark in response to a central command. It has nothing to do with turning off the cameras of citizen-journalists.

(jwz nails it here: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/08/oh-noes-apple-has-patented-b.... )

Here is the full paragraph from which the misleading quote was yanked:

> Excessive lighting emanating from wireless devices can also create disruption in dark environments. While it is well known that excessive or bright lighting in a movie theater can spoil the mood of certain movies, excessive lighting can also become a more serious issue in other contexts. For example, darkrooms used to develop film can only tolerate very low amounts of ambient lighting. Some biological labs also require low levels of lighting in certain instances (for example, as in the growth of light-sensitive bacteria). Covert police or government operations may require complete “blackout” conditions. A person's sleep can even be interrupted by a bright flashing or modulating display (such as to indicate an incoming call).
"Just" solved? No. But your point makes it clear why Section 230 is not important to protect the Internet: Other businesses host speech without it just fine. Big Tech should not get a special get out of jail free card.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1347677573900242944.html
They're not the most powerful. They're just the most popular. There is a difference. They have ZERO control over your life. I know because I don't use any of them and I live just fine.
> I think it should be kind of like a non-Newtonian fluid. Walk in slowly and peacefully and it's ok. Try and punch it, it solidifies quickly.

I love that so much.
I won't bother with your bizarre argument, but you are flagrantly taking Harris' words out of context.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/08/13/fac...
Funny coincidence, I was enjoying JP's Ted Talk an hour before you posted this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79zra755WgA
Actual threats of violence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eQzLcO5qhY
Agreed it was a bit underwhelming. Maybe there are strict requirements for it being math driven and not code driven I missed?

The proce55ing page blows this out of the water on any given month.
the real problem is that two core issues exist in opposition: 1) what is the most cost efficient way to solve the problem 2) how people feel about the chosen solution

solving 1 does not automatically solve 2. the slider between anarchocapitalism and state-owned and -operated socialism belongs somewhere in the middle and everyone wants to tug it into a different spot.

if theres anything the internet + social media is teaching us, its that the public has a very, very bad habit of watching one 15 second video of anecdata and vigorously extrapolating, thinking they have arrived at actual data.

all it would take is a couple tweets about some homeless asshole partying in his free government house with his foodstamp money to upset 2 and overthrow 1, even if it was the best solution on the spreadsheet.
The best hand dryers I've user are the really powerful blowers that can peel paint if you need them to. They're extremely loud though.
The Logitech MX Vertical is the GOAT mouse for these issues, IMO. I picked one up when my Microsoft Sculpt gave up the ghost, and I can't imagine ever going back.

The Scuplt was about halfway to a vertical mouse; the MX Vertical is like, all the way there. It was disorienting at first, but I stuck it out for the first weird day or two and I can't say I've ever been happier with a mouse.
You seem to think that the cookie popups are doing something useful, but that's up for debate. Cookie popups could be making it worse by normalizing tracking and programming everyone for an "Accept all or get nothing" compliance culture.

Btw, some of my message was lost in your attempted analogy: If we both are drinking toxic water, then I feel bad that you have to additionally click through a legislator's theater of concern and sign through various permission-granted-to-poison-me slips while you drink from the same tap.
> If bitcoin goes down rapidly or people start exchanging lots of tether for bitcoin (because you can't actually get USD from it) I think it will end up exposed

To be fair, this already happened. Bitcoin crashed from $22k to $4k, and this was at the height of tether worry.
Exactly! You are far more eloquent than I am, from phone on porcelain throne.
I went one step further and searched for "energy", which only appeared in the article's disclaimer in names of institutions.

I then proceeded to close the browser tab.
Docker does allow for daemonless execution, but as you say one daemon per user will add a bit of overhead.

There's some tradeoff I guess though, between rootful setup and per user, as images duplication per user could add up.
$80-400 per hypothesis or per sample (a.i. one sample covers thousands of known chemicals and pathogens)?
Never saw that one before, incredibly unfortunate for the families that lived there
> We should not have a scarce natural resource sitting idle or under-utilized.

Does it make sense to always optimize for nothing but maximum ROI for each plot of land?

For example: imagine how many untold billions of extra value and tax revenue could be generated in Manhattan by tearing down Central Park and building it all full of dense housing towers.

But would Manhattan be a better place to live as a result?
As we're sitting calmly, reasoning about safety, sure. But when the rubber meets the road, you get problems. People learning how to drive don't know the limits of their vehicles; hope you like dead teenagers. Then, you've got somebody in a hurry to get someplace, and their cost/benefit analysis says going an extra 30mph is totally worth the 2 minutes it will shave off their trip.
Perhaps the issue is not the writing of the YAML, but the need to have a good understanding of all the resources/primatives in order to get things glued together. Many application developers just want to focus on their application, and not on all the nuances of subnets, security groups, autoscaling thresholds etc.
not 19th century.
21st century.
Ditto with my journey from Warp to Axum. The Rust Playground now uses[1] Axum as its backend and I’ve been pleased with working with the maintainers.

[1]: https://github.com/integer32llc/rust-playground/pull/777
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The place where this system would be useful would be loading up a company’s email and then asking what problems they knew with a new drug X.

The software would then look at all the emails and work though the chains where they say "Let's call Sample 37b, Drug X" and another one that said "Sample 37b is causing issue Z in 7% of patents."

The software would then say:
*It was known that: Drug X causes issue Z in 7% of patents. See: Email: A and B

Think of it like grep for logic.