jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I disagree to some degree. If you understand some seo and place your link in a few stratetic positions they will come. My last saas got like 70% of its customers straight from google search. All it needed was time and some smart backlinks.
Derek covers this in one of his articles. [1]

> It’s sold compressed in metal cylinders, like other gases, but it needs some care in packaging. The stuff is so corrosive that special alloys need to be used, usually ones high in nickel. If you stick an ordinary gas regulator on top of an HF cylinder, you’re in for trouble, and the complete destruction of the regulator is the least of your worries.

>HF has actually been used right out of the cylinder for a long time in Merrifield peptide synthesizers.

[1]: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2004/03/03/th...
We don't but it helps with marketing and has synergies with other paid products

Most of the traffic is P2P. We operate a couple of geo distributed relays for NAT'd traffic. But everything is 100% e2e encrypted thanks to webrtc.

It's mostly a tool for us and something that helps sell our other products, but we decided to split it out as a separate app so that it could be used independently. All we collect is a name and email, and even those can be pseudonymous.
Containing this wonderful comment:

"Paradoxically enough, moving as quickly as possible is not necessarily desirable. Users tend to get frustrated once they realize how little time their Mac really spends to crush them at low levels. In the interest of promoting harmonious Human - Machine relations, we enforce minimum response times."

https://opensource.apple.com/source/Chess/Chess-408/Sources/...
FYI: "Credit unions generally follow the principle of "once a member, always a member", which allows a member with a current credit union membership to remain a member even if they would otherwise no longer qualify to be such, such as leaving the company with whom they initially gained membership or moving outside the credit union's defined geographic area."

This is certainly true for the credit union I am a member of.
Oof, that's a pretty brutal deductible, although I assume you have an HSA paired with that. FWIW, I'm on an Aetna corp plan that isn't much better, half the deductible for 2x the price.
RAID 6 is pretty darn simple, I'm not sure what controller issues you'd have.

That said, RAID 10 is great for many professional use cases. It's very fast, scores well on reliability, the cost premium isn't too bad, and you need backups anyway.
I guess I'll need a new prescription.
> An API that maps to the underlying data-structure (btree, ranges, cursors), is bar-none simpler than an API that abtracts the underlying data structure away (like any SQL does).

That may be true in this specific case (I'm not saying either way), but it does not hold generally. For example, APIs involving directories and files are simpler than APIs involving inodes and blocks.
What's an inerter?
Richard Rhodes book "The Arsenals of Folly" covers the lead up to the fall of the Soviet Union from the perspective of the leaders negotiating to reduce levels of nuclear weapons. It also covers some of the fundamental economic problems the Soviets had:

http://www.amazon.com/Arsenals-Folly-Making-Nuclear-Vintage/...
"...about the brain are that its slow and very very efficient. Silicon logic on the other hand is very very fast and inefficient..."

Can you elaborate? In what way is the brain efficient in a sense that a transistor isn't?
Sounds like I have a similar set up to you. I have a Macbook, a Nettop (HTPC and other stuff) and a Linode VPS.

My Macbook is backed up to my TimeCapsule over the air once an hour, although it doesn't have anything particularly important on it. My Linode VPS is backed up to my Nettop at home once a day with an rsync (incremental). My Linode VPS's MySQL db's are replicated over a VPN to the Nettop too so I have up to the second copies of my MySQL dbs.

If I lost my laptop or my Linode died then I wouldn't lose anything. If I wanted to reinstall my laptop I wouldn't have to worry about copying anything off it, I just put the disc in and reboot.
because the article just kind of asserts that not everything is an expression, without justifying it.

Without justifying? The article gives some sample code (in a lisp) colored according to what syntax class each bit of code belongs to. The code is not all red (like it would be if it were only expressions).
The utility of autopilot to a pilot is comparable to that of cruise control to a driver, it takes away some of the drudgery. It is not robust enough to be unmonitored by a human. It can not make the many decisions that arise every day in aviation, such as if and how to avoid a thunderstorm.

Autoland needs ground equipment that is expensive to install and has stringent requirements on the surrounding topography that means many airports can not install it. It also takes 2 people's full attention to make the autoland happen in a consistently safe manner, it's not a case of pressing the LAND button and sitting back sipping tea. This video shows a bit of that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMydKAcqKCg
Last time this was posted, several people suggested they strongly cap upload speed to something silly like 200kb/s so it would take years to actually use that "10tb"
All together :)
Wait, what? Why are there anti-privacy trackers whitelisted?
Wikipedia for certain topic is often just as inscrutable as papers would be. I have no idea why this is, but my guess is that it’s written by people with passing interest in the field who lack the experience to effectively distill their knowledge like paper authors might.
Don't know if this is different in 10.10.1 (Just switched to OSX a month ago so I have no prior experience with OSX)but this key-combo doesn't lock the screen, it starts the screen-saver.

If you want it to lock the screen you need to change your preferences in security and change the screen lockout time to "immediately" for it to act as a lock.
The local minimization step does not have to be gradient based. You could use something like Nelder-Mead to do the local minimization step, and still use an annealing schedule to decide whether to accept or reject that particular minima.
I think a paywall will kill it, and they know that. Perhaps more focused ads is the way to go. The value of programmer eyeballs is a lot higher than grandma.
Expressing ideas as pseudo-graphs is overvalued.
> But the coin is centralised and the governing authority is constantly adding supply.

... the governing authority is constantly managing supply to ensure a 2% level of average inflation :) thereby ensuring resiliency to shocks like global pandemics, and varying population and productivity.

It's also digital, and thankfully, not programmable, because DAO. There's a reason there's no "USLaws.exe" - the vast majority of contract law is about figuring in externalities that failed to be included in the original contract.

The downside of course is the conspiracy theories.
> What should lenders do in the mean time?

They could start by not making the problem worse giving loans to people who can't pay them back.
Banksy the pretend street artist?
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter are not just "websites" they are where much of our public discussion happens. If they weren't you would not care that these videos were censored.

This story, fake news, the shenanigans around the election, etc has shown they are bad stewards of this responsibility.
I just made a site for OrangeGroveCoin[1]. It's a fictional cryptocurrency that you should definitely buy because:

1. It’s an investment of money.
2. It’s a common enterprise.
3. You can expect to make money from the efforts of others.

It's also not a security because it's a token.

I made it recently, after having the idea years ago when I worked at Coinbase. I didn't do it then because I wasn't sure that the SEC would get the joke. It seems like maybe they would have, because they would later make a site for HoweyCoins[2]

I published the site and made a post on LinkedIn. I also had an accompanying joke startup persona. It did not really go as I hoped. No one got the joke. People commented on my pivot, or asked to buy. Old coworkers I emailed about it ignored it, assumably numb to crypto announcements.

I might as well dump the rest of the content here[3].

[1]https://orangegrovecoin.com/
[2]https://www.howeycoins.com/
[3]https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q1zkWGth2xcg581K81S4X6-P...
As far as I’m aware, GMT has never changed since the advent of computing.

Yes, you do need to store the location of the scheduler so that you can adjust everything as appropriate, and of course you need to schedule the time the event was created. But you still only store those times in GMT.

By the way, what I’m describing is the way every AWS system does it.

Edit : Oddly, I can’t reply to your reply to this, but I already addressed the case you were talking about in this comment.
> Swift was a weird choice for statically typed TensorFlow, being only popular on the platform, that does not have GPU/TPU support in TensorFlow, which is, basically, a requirement for any serious work. The fact, that they had to fork the compiler did not help either.

This is available now (not sure if it's in mainline).

https://blog.tensorflow.org/2020/11/accelerating-tensorflow-...
So you're a CEO of a company. Other employees of the company commit crimes. You know about the crimes. The company profits from the crimes paying your salary &/or bonus. You do not inform the police.

How is this not a criminal conspiracy engaged in by the CEO (either before or after the fact) resulting in Jail time for the CEO?

Is it just because "with a computer" that the CEO isn't facing charges? What crimes committed and prior or subsequent knowledge of and then profit from those crimes would qualify in the CEO being charged with being involved in a criminal conspiracy? Does it have to be something that reads dramatically in a newspaper like armed robbery or assult or murder? Do the victims of the crime have to be elderly? Or are those crimes also fine as long as your title is CEO rather than "Don"?

Is this fixable?
> Although M1 still have shitty keyboard

Curious have you used the new M1 keyboard? It's a totally different mechanism, and feels completely different than the ~2019 MBP I have for work. I would go so far as to say that the 2019 keyboard was hands-down the worst keyboard I have ever used, but the new one is really excellent. I really enjoy mine. It seems to me to be one of the better laptop keyboards I have ever used. Maybe not quite as nice as some of the better lenovo models, although I'm not quite sure.

If you have used the new keyboards, what do you dislike about them?
Train lines can be discontinued quite easily as well. And it's more wasteful when it happens.
> They also assume collaborative interviewer, which has never happened in my experience.

As a FAANG interviewer myself, this is very sad to me. System design interviews are inherently collaborative and they can provide a pretty good signal on "do I want to work with this person". I thoroughly enjoy conducting system design interviews -- It's always a joy to talk through the problem with the candidate and sometimes I even get to learn something new myself!

We really need to fix the tech interviews.
it is for this reason that I am biased to papers from the 90s and earlier (for certain fields). when there are less papers churned out of desperation to fulfill university degree requirements or yet another use case report of a third party's framework/library.
Sure. But the developer population is far smaller than the general population.
Being a small-scale online reseller of someone else's product has always been risky. Low barriers to entry, no such thing as a regional territory, no motive for the manufacturer to protect or reward you over anyone else.
Does it seem odd at all that everyone is not just willing but eager to accept repeated claims of Russian responsibility for this or that, despite significant evidence for the repeated claims rarely being released? Even asking a question is essentially guaranteed to be met with at least downvotes, if not a stern lecture, despite there being no evidence.
had sears embraced the internet like amazon did, they'd likely still be a powerhouse.

between their ubiquitous catalogs, trusted brands, huge retail footprint, and huge variety of products (there are tons of craftsman houses in Portland), they had a very large market.

it was sad to see what happened to them.
Soo many different better options. As a member of the energy storage industry I give this a hard pass, this is also old news, costly and not multi functional. Pumped storage makes sense in some specific cases.

Look to lithium ion for short time high cycle/fast response, vanadium flow for long duration (expensive currently, large sites), hydrogen potentially and fascinating long duration start up out of Massachusetts (forget the name right now). More tech will come down the pipeline soon.

Compressed air possibly but hasn’t really progress much over its existence so far (geological restraints too). My two cents
The author worked for the Solaris team in Sun back when it was actually Sun and back when Solaris was actually being developed. Among other things, he was behind the invention of DTrace. He left the company shortly after the Oracle acquisition, after working for Sun for 14 years.

I sorta feel like that gives him the right to credit or not credit Sun (and especially Oracle) as he sees fit.
Intersting. I did not consider the question from a practical POV. What are the main technical impediments with using SMT solvers are ASP backends?
Oh good. Lately I've been worried about the US and Russia getting into a nuclear war over Ukraine.
I do not - presently - write much JS, but I do write a great deal of C and C++. I always put variable declarations on their own line, so it's easier to cut and paste them to somewhere else.
"seeks to end revenue slide"

Aren't we all.
It would. They didn't do it probably because they didn't try this trick. But they could i think.
I'd like to be able to capture someone's credit card for a given amount (deposit), and then charge it later (manually) if certain terms are met. Is this possible under this new system?
What's troubling is that apparently there was evil code running on twitch servers, capturing plaintext passwords as they were checked against the "cryptographically protected form". [1]

[1] http://gyazo.com/b31792d4fc4460c006c49d858cc113e3
Apparently I'm in the minority; I read it for the articles.

Certainly the level of discourse here compares favorably against the average mass-interest discussion board -- but that's a textbook example of "damning with faint praise" if there ever was one.

The ratio of signal to (choose one or more of restating the obvious / watercooler chitchat / unnecessary self-promotion / half-off-topic hobbyhorse / self-congratulatory echo chamber / just plain wrong) here seems about on par with that found in most other reasonably-well-moderated special interest forums. I'll dip into it occasionally, and I'm not above contributing to the not-signal with my own blather from time to time, but it's definitely not the primary reason I'm here.
Almost every time a 99% Invisible episode comes out, I can expect an article about the same thing pop up on HN a week later. Kinda funny.
Only if your wires are exposed
No one close to me has died, but I have had other big traumas in my life and big changes. I found that going out and finding something constructive to fill my time was a good move at some point, sometimes after having a period of mourning/wrapping my brain around the issue. I also spent some time in my twenties watching tear-jerk movies (alone and late at night) and crying my eyes out. After a while of that, I stopped feeling sad all the time. It helped me release those emotions.
I'm an expert in online display advertising -- including networks, exchanges, data, etc. Happy to talk in private, or can answer questions here.
I personally think Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics should somehow be incorporated into whatever educational reforms as a platform/canonical text. It's not just so much an ethical treatise (since he doesn't it tell you what to do) as a brochure on parenting.
Clocks on both computers are set to auto sync with MS's time server. No clock changes involved. Besides which, everything check-wise should be GMT based no?
Comparing dates that aren't UTC is a pretty amateur mistake. Comparing timestamps alone is a mistake too.

It doesn't really matter why it broke to be honest, something like that has to be perfect or it's useless. After it breaks for someone it's impossible to trust the system again, negating any benefits. Once bitten twice shy.

They should have done their homework on distributed systems and used something like a vector clock. MS has lots of resources and absolutely no excuse for fucking this up. Especially since small startups have made similar services that actually work.
I used to manage product/ operations for a large display ad network and now have an online ad startup. I am happy to help you with questions. Not sure I can answer them but should be able to at least point you in the right direction.
I find it ironic that he emphatically stated, "The days of finding a new way to cheat the system are over."

Before that he said that he had been teaching for 20 years and hadn't ever had to give this lecture before.
My part time app http://justunfollow.com rakes in wayyy more than my day job. I'll be doing the "obvious" in a few months time. The reason it's taking me long is the people I currently work with. They are all talented and something gives me a feeling I'll find a "co-founder" in one of my colleagues ;)
Are you guys going to consider a low sodium version? I noticed it appears to be gluten free which is good, but there's a significant portion of the population that's on low sodium diets. Most people don't follow them because it's incredibly hard. Organic food is just about as bad as processed foods (or worse sometimes).

I can't participate in any meal plans either because of this and it definitely sucks.
Choose your own adventure... I was sure that meant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Fantasy

but apparently it's another book series.
> Not vaccinating though is an inaction

Not clear at all to me that failure to vaccinate is inaction rather than action. Viruses push our understanding of moral culpability and causality, but the comparison to blood donation isn't apt. In the case of donation, we're talking about an abstract stranger, in the case of the virus, perhaps we're discussing a distant downstream effect, but we could also be talking about killing your neighbor or grandma.
How old are your students? I'm truly amazed by what you're saying.

As others mentioned, "bit" means "cock" in French, but by the time you learn what a bit is, you're old enough to not laugh at it anymore. And you surely get to use Coq in your studies when you're older than when you learn about bits.

I mean, in France, laughing at your teacher because he speaks of "bits" (cocks) and you're >16yo would certainly make you look like mentally challenged.
Was Zed Shaw involved in this website or its predecessor?
I'm going to address this directly: the term is called "atomization," and it was specifically a technique of all totalitarian movements of the 20th century. I recommend Hannah Arendt's treatment of it in "ideology and terror," and previous chapters.

It's not a right/left thing, it's a totalitarian thing. It is a sophisticated idea, and isn't just a synonym for authoritarianism or bad guys. It is an artifact of the modern era. The only thing standing in the way of totalitarian movements (which are necessarily non-national, and with global goals) is the integrity of ideas of truth, self, and of personal and spiritual relationships.
Um, what's so bad about that?
> Visual programming is very spatial.

I think this is worth stating, but I think it really means that expressions take up much more space.

This can be confronted from two directions.

First, don't use nodes and noodles for expressions, because it doesn't help clarity and hurts density. Use nodes at a higher level instead of searching for a silver bullet.

Second, of course one flat work space does not scale. Node based tools already have ways of grouping nodes as well as making groups that can be instanced instead of duplicated.

> connected blocks seem to me like a dead end.

Connected blocks of any sort mirror how programs work in the first place. Automatic organization is typically pretty helpful though.

> Another problem is structuring the code - the 2D space is simply too crowded to represent layers of abstractions in flattened way. The hyperbolic plane would help here [2].

I'm not sure what this means, but I'm guessing it is also solved by grouping nodes and making components by groups that can be instanced.

> As to success of existing visual languages, I'd argue that they are all targeted at non-technical people and they all run within sandbox environment developed with traditional text code. Why aren't their creators dog-fooding? My own answer to this is that existing visual languages cannot support the necessary amount of complexity.

This is definitely not true. There are many extremely technical people using visual languages because they are huge speed ups in productivity - more interactive and less error prone by a huge degree. Shader writers use nodes instead of text all the time. Lots of tools transitioned from being text based to being graphs. The difference is that they are domain specific and not general purpose programming languages. It is the general purpose nut that hasn't been cracked.
any job were you basically have to support legacy systems is your go to.
As long as it runs, they won't really care. You can automate a lot of your work while pretending to be doing the same routine tasks.
When I think about a small, bootstrapped operation, that kind of fine would bankrupt them. When I think about Facebook, that kind of fine wouldn’t even bother them. Not sure what the answer there is. At some level a very harsh fine says, no matter the value of the product, if you screw up we shut you down, unless you’re big enough to not care at all.
That works until next time someone considers the strictness of the existing protocol too overwhelming or complicated and invents a new "simpler" one.
What users of the Bitcoin network own are private keys. These allow you to control corresponding entries on the Bitcoin ledger by signing transactions and broadcasting them to the Bitcoin network.

Signed transactions can even be shared through other channels, to be broadcast at a later time for settlement, like a check. This is how the Lightning Network functions.

Keys can be held in many forms, including purely in software, digitally inside a hardware secure element, or converted to words and printed on paper or metal.

Bitcoin even has basic scripting that allows more complex setups, such as only allowing a ledger entry to be updated after a certain duration (timelocks) or requiring a quorum of signers (multisig), so simply having a corresponding private is not always sufficient to immediately spend the corresponding funds.

In the past “brain wallets” were popular, where the private key is generated from a memorized passphrase. These are a bad idea because it’s trivial to watch addresses corresponding to every entry a password dump, and automatically move these funds whether you’re the original owner or not. I mention this to illustrate how having the corresponding private key is necessary to control funds but it’s not sufficient to prevent someone else from controlling the same funds.

On top of all this, most “Bitcoin users” leave “their” Bitcoin on exchanges, so what they really own are IOUs rather than Bitcoin itself.

Bitcoin “ownership” can be pretty abstract.