jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Microtransactions have been around since 1887 with the invention of the first slot machine. Social Games are the distilling of the same motivation slot machine players have when they almost hit a jackpot. They focus on the exact moment a player feels compelled to reach for their credit card, then exploit it.

Traditional game developers feel like they're taking the high road by lambasting social developers, when in reality all those developers are doing is fusing the two together.

It's understandable tho that developers who make games out of passion for the medium feel disgrunthed by social game makers with budgets similar to indy games making multiple millions of reoccuring dollars.

Ultimately, this is the same as any other hardcore vs casual gaming debate. If people enjoy them, they'll pay. If people don't enjoy them, they'll go away.
I've used coda for awhile now i actually prefer the simplicity of textmate. Coda can lag when you get to a few hundred lines and mo code collapsing was always a pain for me.
youtube-dl!
I don't believe in metrics for individuals.

I do believe in metrics for a team, made by the team, and used by the team. The best metric we had when I was on a platform team was hours spent firefighting per sprint. These didn't have to be burning production issues, just ones that we're unplanned and couldn't wait to be dealt with. We scheduled time each sprint for firefighting and we would estimate higher or lower depending on our confidence in the stability/performance expected from recent developments both internal and external.

It was the most satisfying thing to see this number start ridiculously big when we added up all the time spread between team members and fall an order of magnitude and also interrupt fewer members to let them focus.

If there was a metric, it would be an inverse: number of times per day checking email, slack, refreshing whatever page, popping into HN.
I don't know either, but lots of stuff in hospitals is disposable, because this is easier than figuring out a system to disinfect & re-use it.

Although perhaps that makes more sense in an operating theatre than many of the lower-risk places people now wear them, all day.
That discussion of merging sctp functionality into glibc is from 2004. Anyone knows what happened after that?
His legal fund is here:

http://www.gofundme.com/skiplagged

I encourage everyone to donate.
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I have an app called TripView. It gives public transport information and you can plan a trip using it. It does use internet for updating and real time information. But the main reason I use it is because It doesn't need an internet connection to work, unlike Google Maps or 131500.com.au.
The community is bizarre, I will not lie, but the original developer did release a book quite recently using Shen, although Shen might not be the focus.

http://www.shenlanguage.org/LPC/lpc.html
Obviously it seems intuitively plausible that touchscreens for drivers are dangerous.

But it seems suspect to me that an author (such as this one) is arguing this based on hypothesizing, rather than on actual evidence, when cars with touchscreens have been around for years now.

Surely there must be statistics showing or not showing correlations between touchscreens and accidents or deaths?

Hell, for all I know they could counterintuitively keep us more alert with constant quick context-switching.

So is there evidence they're dangerous? Are government agencies measuring it? Or are they not measuring it, which is a scandal? Are insurance companies measuring it? Are states not banning touchscreens because they're actually fine? Or are they not banning touchscreens out of incompetence or corruption?

It's easy to hypothesize. But what's the evidence say?
If only. Somehow there is no way for users to actually fund development of the browser.
There is no such need. Plenty of laws are based on what a "reasonable person"[1] would believe rather than based on an objective standard.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_person
Humor is fine. Humor as the only substance of a comment just wastes everyone's time.
> Which to me says that training on a specific medical database couldn't solve the problem - it might only mask the problem by avoid big error but allowing small errors that can still be deadly.

I think it might even make it worse: if something is obviously unnatural in a context, the reader will be less inclined to trust it. If GPT-3 used more valid terms and phrasing common in the field, it might lead someone to trust it more than they should, especially if the error rates are low enough that routine sets in.
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I don't know. My goal is to establish some baseline of fact and perspective before I start opining on causal relationships.

Thank you for the link. I'm having trouble locating the national rate for 2020 -- Most reports seem to be from a sample of a few dozen cities. Maybe it takes more time to report the nation data?

A %30 YoY increase is a dramatic increase, but also seems to be considerably lower than a few decades ago, if I'm understanding correctly?
The goal of the SEC is to ensure confidence in the stock market, to protect the stock market and the whole economy in general.

They were primarily setup to avoid another great depression. They are operating under the assumption that the great depression was caused by a general loss of confidence in the stock market (and other types of investments) and that if they insure confidence, it will never happen again.

They don't really care if an individual investor loses money.

But pump&dump schemes prey on inexperienced noob investors and are very effective at pulling all their money away to experienced pump&dumpers. The SCE are worried that many noobs will experience such a scam and decide that investing isn't for them. This deprives the sock market of funds which the SEC considers bad.

As for GME and WSB... well the SEC are in a bit of a tough spot.

In general the SEC wants the stock price to match reality, and WSB's short-squeezes are clearly violating that. But if the SEC does anything to drive the share price back to normality then it looks like they are siding with big hedge funds and that really reduces the confidence of retail investors.

I suspect they might eventually enforce a technical solution which provides live updates to the current status short positions. Such updates will mean that short squeezes can operate on the actual intelligence of short positions, rather than the wild speculation they are currently operating on. On the flip side, shorters will use the live updates to know when they are at risk of a short squeese.
I think this tweet sums it up pretty nicely:

https://twitter.com/azizonomics/status/490595027589267456
HAMT by mr Bagwell are great:

* https://idea.popcount.org/2012-07-25-introduction-to-hamt/

I was mostly surprised not by the CPU, but by the memory efficiency. From my experimentation it turns out that if you want to store X bits of data, HAMT will use ~1.5 * X bits per item.

In other words: thousand 8-byte pointers in HAMT will occupy around 12 thousand bytes of memory.
My first thought was that this sounds like an idea taken from microkernels. Is this a correct analogy? Would it be sufficient to use libos and fuse to call the Linux kernel a microkernel? What would be missing?
Re: data about title length:

Since I have a database of all HN submissions, I spent a few minutes to check. Turns out that title length (for non-1-word submissions) has no significant effect on submission score at all: http://i.imgur.com/1zthOwS.png
"First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing
because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival
for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no
verbs."
-- Peter Ellis.

And from the wonderful Calvin and Hobbes:

Calvin: I like to verb words.
Hobbes: What?
Calvin: I take nouns and adjectives and use them
as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing?
Now, it's something you do. It got verbed.
Verbing weirds language.
Hobbes: Maybe we can eventually make language a
complete impediment to understanding.
No user interface for the multisite/multiuser functionality appears until a constant is set in the configuration file. So most users will never see it, and those who do really wanted to. :-)
Ah, the past tense has always jarred with me and I now know why. Makes sense. It's going to be hard to eradicate from my technical writing though.
Especially considering the timeframe - right around WWDC. This eng manager was likely scrambling like crazy to get ready for that.

Also, if the manager was considering hiring this guy, he was probably looking not just at his code, but evaluating what kind of a person he is and culture fit. If they're hustling to get ready for WWDC while this guy keeps emailing and pointing out what competitors like Google are doing (as if they don't know this), he may have concluded that this is someone he just doesn't want to work with, regardless of the guy's algorithm.
Yes, it strikes me as a fig leaf for something else. I'm not sure what, though.
These are definitely exciting times for container networking!
Good point. Until we control of the baseband it's somewhat moot what smartphone you use.

Anyone working on an open LTE stack? I'm looking for the donate link @ http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/ ...
Circulation on its own is not necessarily a health metric for companies.
I'm not sure if this is exactly where al2o3cr was going, but a Ruby (or whatever) application would normally include such things as caching and queueing. Despite the slowness of Ruby et al, I actually would expect a modern application with these layers to handle load much better than straight database calls. So I guess I would consider the PostgREST implementation a bottleneck because you can't add any of these layers.
This is one of the major problems I have with Facebook, from a social-usability standpoint. They provide zero separation between your friends.

This, which came around during the "Google Circles" mistaken-hubbub, describes the problem very nicely: http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ... your group of friends A may be offended by what group B does / not want to see it. But Facebook shows it all.
Facebook can merge with contacts in Android too.
Similar: http://www.squrl.com/
That's part of my issue with Yahoo. They have so many smart people who do awesome things, but they'd rather spend all day trying to become a media company.
Google cache still has it

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome...

In case that goes down, here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/H5U8Z.png
I would say that in particular, I'm fairly certain I can usually tell the difference between $5 wine and $15 wine, and the $15 wine is usually markedly better. On the other hand, my experience is that it's usually a lot harder to tell the difference between $15 wine and $50 wine, and as often as not, I prefer the $15 wine.

Hmmm... as I think on it, maybe there's something more to it than that. Because when I think of those $15 wines, I'm not thinking "generic $15 wine". I'm thinking, "oooo, that $15 wine I really like." That is to say, I'm not sure I could reliably tell you which of a set of random Zinfandels was $5 and which $15. But I know there are certain reliable $10-$18 Zinfandels -- Ravenswood, Renwood, and Rosenblum leap to mind -- that I like much better than anything I've tasted under $10. That doesn't mean that I have liked every $15 Zinfandel I ever tasted, though.
. . . but then you aren't really developing on an iphone, in any meaningful sense anyway - all the "iphoneness" has been replaced, so it's effectively no different than any apple device with a cpu - ipad, mac mini, macbook etc.

I think she meant she wanted a touch-screen ui that lets you drag and drop elements into a new app. Doubtful you would get anything complex or terribly unique out of that kind of interface. Certainly no angry birds :)
I'm 33 and I've been programming for almost 20 years. Rarely does my work not disappoint me still. It is getting better, though.
Who's to say, it got blasted away immediately. Whatever.
> The reason the ISM bands look so "hot" or busy on a spectrum analyzer is exactly because they're a "free for all." It's a classic tragedy of the commons: everyone keeps "shouting" at max volume to be heard and there's no coordination between operators and users of different services.

This would be a lot more believable if the unlicensed spectrum wasn't already under low regulatory limits on power levels.

You can always come up with some kind of system that will extract a little more efficiency out of things, but the reason most things use maximum power is that "maximum power" is already low enough that you can barely provide decent coverage from an access point on one side of your apartment to a device on the other.

The reason the unlicensed spectrum is busy it that it's busy. Because there isn't enough of it.

And the reason licensed spectrum isn't as busy is that incumbents buy more spectrum than they strictly need because it's a mechanism of excluding competitors.
that's interesting i didn't think about that! would taking an antibody test be banned for participants? because those who confirm that they received the real shot could change their behavior?
You mention "objective measures of code quality and simplicity (true) modularity...", are you able to talk more about that? Know of any good resources? I feel like I can recognize convoluted code easily, and I'm able to avoid writing such code, but backtracking from it and saying "you should have done _this_" is much more difficult.
Is there a larger unused subway system?
Hey HN!

I wanted a simple way to continuously publish my favorite reads online - without having to sign up for an external service like Pocket, or manually export my bookmarks each week.

So I built this - a simple site + Chrome Extension to automatically sync bookmarks online. All you have to do is rename a bookmarks folder to contain the word "(publish)", and anything added to that folder will be dynamically updated on your own page.

For example: https://linquist.app/view/edb18a0cec0940ccddb616802a1773a7f7...

Sharing it here in case anyone finds it useful.

Couple caveats:

* Chrome only.

* You must be signed into Chrome to use it. I know that's not great for privacy, but it keeps bookmarks in sync across multiple Chrome installs - the alternative is to create a Linquist-specific account.

Hope it's useful!
A couple of years ago they ordered 20,000 Sprinters from Mercedes-Benz for the US delivery fleet. Previously, MB were selling about 27,000 yearly, so this one order tied up the factory for almost 9 months.

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Following is the repository: https://github.com/tpkahlon/dark-mode-hackernews

Highly appreciated, if you could send a PR to address outstanding issues regarding HN search page
"They also pursue nuclear weapons."

That always feels strange to me, why this is considered evil. If there is a strong military might with nuclear weapons on your doorstep threatening you, then also going after nuclear weapons is just logic and self-preserving.

(I mean, not that I want more idiots on this world having nuclear weapons)

Evil is indeed all the other shit they are doing, but I am not sure if collective punishment helps with that. And collectivily banning any person from iran collaborating with the rest of the software world via Github is a very strong collective punishment, which I doubt would make me see the west in a nicer view, if I would be such a developer in Iran. (and never mind all those other bans, like money transfer). Maybe I would even feel a push to close ranks with the hardcore idiots who are in control.
There are lots of crap game ad, crap video ad, and crap fan page ad. I would be glad if fb banned them all, especially crap mobile game ad.
>Just being told I can replicate my application in html and css isn't helping.

You can't. But do you really need to? Couldn't your webpage work without suggestions popping up as query is typed into the input box? Your webpage should not stop working if you can't validate user input client side, etc... .

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
Start exploiting bugs in real software.
That's one of the more successful "fast in the middle, slow at the ends" conveyor-type systems for people. Several moving walkway systems have been built with similar properties.[1] None were very successful. There was a system where escalator-like plates made of twin combs expanded and contracted. There have been systems with belts moving at different speeds. There was a system which went from slow and wide to fast and narrow as it turned a corner. So far, none have been successful enough to be installed in any quantity.

The SF version, in Arthur C. Clarke's "The City and the Stars", used a material that was solid in the vertical dimension and liquid in horizontal, so it could be both used as a moving floor and pumped.

[1] http://www.liberation.fr/culture/2009/08/01/l-echec-au-bout-...
If child needs this then why is it being free()d in the first place? I don't get what's so strange about the behavior here.
Yes, actually I find it hilarious that the JVM at the time had an aggressive garbage collector, but a relatively weak optimizer (it should have optimized out the call to this.getSize()).

Since the VM apparently does optimization now, perhaps that won't get eliminated until the code path is hot, i.e., after a few thousand calls to the method.
Big, we (littlebirdelectronics.com) found in Australia that people are now way more interested in embedded Linux. Embedded Linux projects now accounts for roughly 50% of our sales .
Considering that (from their stats page), 15k people have answered 326k puzzles, I'm pretty sure it's "acceptable" to somebody.
Possibly this one. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14191777
And only one woman on the list?
Texas willingly made those decisions in exchange for cheap but unreliable power. The question is, if you have unreliable power how do you deal with it when there isn't enough?

>Price discovery and rationing are ineffective mitigations for the irrational self-harming effects of poor strategic decisions caused by prioritising economic ideology over physical integrity.

They are effective. High prices tell consumers to turn off their most energy intensive devices and only keep the devices on that they really need. It also encourages people to find alternative ways of reaching the same outcome without overburdening limited resources.

>Economics is full of these non-solutions. Price discovery is possibly one of the most common.

No, sorry but if you say something like this you just don't understand how markets allocate resources.
It’s telling that the amount is always specified in dollars, because that’s the stuff that actually people want and use. And if you wanted to convert it to usable dollars, it would cost thousands of times more.
Why would you call your hotspot ‘C0MCAST-WiFi-77th-St’? If you just reuse the SSID used by the McDonalds free WiFi peoples phones and laptops will connect automatically!
I feel that there's no silver bullet. Not a 'one size fits all' solution. I found that people acknowledging it with a nod in silence comforting as well as people telling me how they can relate to the loss and pain I felt.

It depends on the person, the relationship as well as the person being their vulnerable self. Being real and being in the moment is what I feel made it relatable.

And no, it will not make the pain any better. But the interpersonal connection will nonetheless help.

It was that way at least for me when my father passed away as well as when my stepdad passed away not so long ago.

What I found most disturbing were random strangers giving condolences when they recognized that I was taking about a person having passed away. Think terminating the telecommunications contract.
Exactly. These type of posts and comments ignore the fact that the actual transaction costs involved are higher, perhaps even much higher.
You can typically wire (ACH in US, SEPA in the EU) within country for no fees to a big exchange like Binance or Coinbase, take something like 0.02% to 0.5% for converting to crypto (depending on amount and exchange, maximum fee is 0.1% at Binance, 0.5% at Coinbase) and do the same thing at the other end.
Overall I agree with you, but what bothers me is that people continue to say that PoW is waste of energy, even if the article is about moving 38M USD for 0.0064 USD. How does that make sense if it's actually doing something useful? Or you think in general moving money around is not useful?
The Net Investment Tax is a better way and already exists. It taxes actual gains over a threshold so “the little guy” is unlikely to pay.
Well, I think this reaction to the Apple location issue show a lack of perspective. Apple stores the location of nearby cell towers and access points on your phone.

Cell phone providers store your actual location for a period of many months.

This is bad, terrible, uber-creepy: http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2011-03/data-protecti...

What Apple is doing now is not even in the same ballpark.
This, coming after VeriFone's FUD, is fantastic. I can't imagine how happy the Square people are right now, they've just about guaranteed their success.
I have done jobs of that size (recurring weekly work of about 1-2 days of non project-based work). Just in my experience:

- It's harder to find these jobs than most other forms of contract work, you'll usually find them word of mouth, maybe someone working a full time contract convinces their employer they could use "a little extra help" in areas that they're not as good at. The reason being, IMO, that jobs at this scale are usually project based -or- the employer wants it done as quickly as possible.

- It's rarely exactly N hours per week (N=whatever you agree to ahead of time) though if you try you can make it average out to N. Some weeks there's just not enough work, others I get pressured into putting in just a few more hours so that it doesn't take another week to finish the task.

Good luck!
The HD audio stream is a cool idea. I've been using YouTube as my main source of music lately, so I'm willing to call it a related feature. ;)

What do you mean it doesn't support your habits? Can you describe your video-watching habits?
It's impossible, so there's usually a comment like this.