jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I haven't really touched Lightsail in years, but this page shows a really nice graph that helps you understand your instance's CPU usage: https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/amaz...

From what I've seen of benchmarks online, DO's droplets have better sustained (and often overall) performance than Lightsail, and this looks to be the reason why.

(Which isn't to say people should avoid Lightsail, but I don't think Lightsail is the obvious 1:1 replacement for DO that a couple of people in this thread want it to be. Lightsail intentionally restricts various things to avoid cannibalizing their normal AWS sales.)
The greater (lower) the degree of government involvement in the provision of a good or service the greater (lower) the price increases (decreases) over time, e.g., hospital and medical costs, college tuition, childcare with both large degrees of government funding/regulation and large price increases vs. software, electronics, toys, cars and clothing with both relatively less government funding/regulation and falling prices.
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-or-century-5...
So why does Unicode Snowman exist? What language uses it?
It's also worth noting here that you can pay $25 to get the set of 200 and another set of 80 in both bitmap and vector formats without the CCA license.
In this case, I think it's _the_ answer. Your request goes against the grain of what most people would tend to prefer: links act as they were designed to, user modifies behavior by choice.
I have seen this one before somewhere, and what amazes me is that how you can solve problems without a hassle if you get the "trick" right. Another case I read was that Google use(at least used) two vectors(each consists of many 0s and 1s, which in turn represent whether the web page has the keyword or not) to represent web pages, and calculate the angle between the vectors to figure out the similarity(a value) between web pages.
I'll go ahead and add Standard and Poor's, Moody's, the SEC, and the FDA to your list of bad examples, since poor quality and bad incentives can arise with either voluntary or coerced funding. But at least with voluntary funding you can take your business elsewhere, or even compete.
Yea that's been working out really well. /sarcasm
http://plixi.com/p/26362338
Better idea: pay people on Mechanical Turk 10¢ each to bash your idea. You'll get 200 people's feedback instead of 5 from the Starbucks. If even only 1 out of every 30 takes the job seriously, you'll get a better bang for your buck.
The "ten best days" argument is a good argument against short-term timing (you could, at random, miss just those 10 days and nothing else if you're trying to guess good and bad days.) But it's not a very good argument against the particular type of long-term timing discussed in this sub-thread. The 10 best days tend to be clustered somewhat, but often interspersed with several bad days; if you're simply looking for a good price and then buying, you're not going to miss the 10 best days without also missing a large number of bad days. Missing both the best and worst 10 days of the decade gives you almost exactly average returns. Furthermore, the 10 best days tend to occur in the "short sprints" that follow a down market; the strategy described above says to buy in to a down market, which means you'd hit most of those 10 best days -- and, quite likely, miss at least a few of the 10 worst days, generating net above-average returns. (The parent post's graphs showed this exact result: buying into the market after a largeish downturn gets you great returns, long term.)
You don't have to do that for every language. Just support multiple versions in DPKG/RPM so that the languages who do support RubyGems-style loading can have multiple versions. Right now converting gems to DPKG/RPM is all manual work with no good way to automate it. DebGem tries to work around it by making a DEB that includes all existing versions but it's far from optimal.

> I wouldn't expect any system to be able to make correct dependency checks (is this upgrade or uninstall safe?) for discovered files without being told what the dependencies are.

So... tell it what the dependencies are?

Autoconf configure scripts can check for arbitrary things. It's just package managers that insist on only listening to their own databases.
No, I was playing around with creating some basic strategies a while back using MetaTrader4 (http://www.metatrader4.com/) to see how it works when I discovered that site. Never got around to trying other peoples'.
>While Australia's list of blacklisted sites currently stands at 1,370, the Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that that list could increase to around 10,000 sites – most of which are of illegal pornographic content, but could also includes sites that house incendiary political discussions.

yep. WikiLeaks is like a political pornography - in the sense that everybody knows about and does "it", yet it is a "bad" thing to publish details of "it".
I do that as well, but I don't really like that I'm actually committing untested code, since I might forget a needed part.
Organized application -> visa -> blackhole (greencard). If you see recent greencard backlog timelines for the categories most engineers are on, only first two steps are more realistic. :-)

And yes, very well done Dalia, good luck and best wishes!
So on one side, we have a program that costed > 406.5 Billions (2017) [¹] for a failed jet.

On the other side, we have the entire Apollo program that cost $156 billion (2018)[²], was stopped because too expensive. And we never have been able to go on the Moon since because "cost".

Decisions that lead to the usage of public money by governments is definitively a mystery.

I wish the Lobbyists of the Army/Lockheed Martin/Military complex could do a bit of training for NASA and the research sector. Something tell me humankind could benefit a lot from it.

[¹]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...

[²]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program
σ_x * σ_p ⩾ ħ/2

The product of the uncertainty in each is always at least some constant. They can still be point-like without you knowing where they are; and also knowing exactly where they are regardless of if they are point-like or extended means there is no defined momentum rather than it is defined as infinite.

That said: (a) you can’t pick a number from the set of Reals with a continuous uniform distribution, so I guess you can’t ever have perfect knowledge of the location ever even in principle, and (b) I’m self taught so likely only have a half-understanding.
"violence and drugs"
One of these things is not like the other.
Irrational luxury goods, particularly expensive shiny objects are a great way to signal a person who's money exceeds their pursuits past simple consumption and hording.
This was addressed in the first page of the article. Gold in the form of coins or bullion is a commodity with high resale value. Gold in the form of jewelry is a luxury item with extremely low resale value. You can't compare the two.

You can even hoard gold under your bed and buy gold coins and bullion (albeit at a ~10% premium to market rates). If you want to hoard gold jewelry however, there is typically a 100-400% retail markup so that’s probably not a wise investment.

Your comments on land are closer to accurate but neglect to point out the massive leverage common in such an investment. You can effectively buy a $200,000 asset with only putting $40,000 (or even less) down. If you get a 20% appreciation in the asset over a period of time you've doubled your money. You also get a tax deduction on the interest from the loan and rates are ridiculously low right now.
If you're never going to use this, it's a nice reading anyway. Goes over their major concerns, their problems with other companies/OSS groups and the design of their solution.
Fair enough @pimlottc. But most of the time I am far more concerned with accurately capturing a moment in time than I am with making it instantly readable. I also have helped some companies that ran into serious datetime management issues when they worked with strings that led engineers to assume a certain timezone, others to assume others, and chaos ensued.

Epochs may not be instantly readable, but they do force everyone onto the same page.

In any case, I tend to view a timezone as a separate piece of data than the actual moment in time (but I know others have a different paradigm): datetime = accurate moment in time; timezone = the timezone for which this should be viewed, or was captured or, etc.
We can't help but build real models of what we see - our retina/optic nerve are already doing this before our brain even receives the 'image'!

I can't help but believe some of the image recognition mentioned in your article, especially of icons, is built through previous experience with similar iconic images. Symbols for things become associated with the real things. Its a modern adaptation of a much older processing mechanism.
My undergraduate research addresses this subject:

A Comparative Study of Three Random Password Generators

http://tamale.net/pub/2007/pwdgen/pwdgen.eit2007.proceedings...
I'm kind of disturbed by the kind of cultural misunderstandings that are going on here. Bribes are one thing. Gifts are another. An iPod is cheap change. How much do you want to bet those officials didn't have one already?

When I was a child, my mother would give gifts to everyone from my piano teacher to the doctor's receptionist. We would do well to be able to distinguish between bribes and gifts.
There are plenty of non-native deciduous trees in Australian cities and suburbs too.
Meaningful is not strictly equivalent to influencing the outcome. Imagine a typical "racing" game where players advance along a track. The track could incorporate forks such that mathematically, all choices are equivalent. But the entertainment value of the forks may differ. Some children may want to cut through the "garden," others through the "playground."
To be honest, an iPhone is too expensive for most of the developing world. Rarely anyone has an iPhone in thailand, and they're looked as luxury items like a luxury car.
No, to be honest, I misread and thought that the final sentence meant that they were taking all configurability, both preference and keyboard shortcut, away.
Acronis is #1 for me. Maybe you've got something weird going on with your computer? Fire up incognito mode of Chrome and see whether you see Acronis then.

P.S. Thanks for posting a specific query. 90% of the complaints I see like this never mention a specific query, which kills me because I want to dig into it. :)
Not as bad as blowing up occupied federal buildings
RISC-V was originally a teaching ISA but because of it's licence and open design process it's increasingly being adopted by industry.

There are other open ISAs available but they are generally bigger targets (POWER is open now but it's a result of decades of IBM-work so it's not as initially simple as RISC-V).

Also one thing that even on HN seems to be missed - RISC-V IS THE ISA not the silicon. All it means is that you don't have to pay the designer of the ISA any royalties to use it a la Arm, the CPU itself is most likely still a black box.
ah, yes, not always easy to tell the difference between fact and opinion.
Nothing stopping him starting his own blog. He could probably appoint a Secretary of Important Presidential Lying and everything, make it nice and official.
My understanding is the process in a lot of these states is that you put the anonymous ballot in an envelope, then put that envelope in an outer envelope and sign the outer envelope. The idea being that the officials check the signature on the outer envelope, if it's valid and non-duplicated they open it and put the now-anonymous envelope with the sealed ballot in the pile of votes to be counted. This is then opened by the vote counter, and this person who has no idea of the origin is the first to see what the contents of it are.
Like I said call it a "lie" if he says dumb/not true stuff. He could say Stalin was a great person or whatever who cares. I certainly dont need or want twitter to decide whether that should be read or not.

>Did you miss the parts where he said he loved the people who stormed the Capitol with rifles today?

He never said that that that's just total nonsense not even misinterpretation that straight made up BS.
You could just as well says he said he loves rapists because it happens to be that at least one of the person at the protest was a convicted rapist. If that's how you interpret things from someone you dont like you have a serious problem with reality.

Hes speech was to the people who attender the protest not specifically to thous who entered the building which obviously where a minority. And even if he included the people who entered the building he did not encourage them in any way to do anything they should not do, in fact if he includes them he too told them to go home peacefully.
>> 5X as many spam registrations on sourcehut are from gmail than from the second-largest offender.

Wow, I'm looking at Google in new way now.
They also provide pre-release builds on their download page, too. I played with 2.92 geometry nodes some two weeks ago.
Assuming you’re working with JSON, it’s very easy to ignore extra fields and no reason to deploy any fixes for that :)
So someone else has nukes and satellites, then what? Are they seriously going to engage in mutually assured destruction trying to go to war with America? That is the primary reason why I find all the bullshit excuses about having a trillion dollar annual military in the US disgusting - no nation will ever again attempt to invade American soil, because to do so would be to at least end their nation and at most end life on the planet.
Just so you know, they got rid of the "rock — hard place" comment. You can relax now.
Here are the insidious effects of outsourcing and remote workers. Slowly and surely they will take over. Take a look at this and you will understand the dangers of offshoring and remote work. How Dell lost to Asus.

http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-current-relationship-betwee...
I believe 1000x is likely a combination of luck and a bunch of pre-conditions. Something like this:
1. you got a 10x-person or a bunch of 2x-5x ppl.
2. your organisation doesn't drag down this constellation; but actually supports it.
3. the right problem arrives and the right tools are close to be at the needed level; but before it's obvious to anybody but a few.

A note regarding the "right" problem. I believe there are a lot of problems that a "10"x won't achieve his/her true potential "10"x speed.
I think the "right" problem is more like a problem that matches the skills of the tea very well. The match might not be that obvious.
also .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis

Some sharks can have so-called 'virgin' births.
That's what I thought too, but I've heard from friends that didn't get offers that not getting the optimal solution is a reject. Even things like O(n) to O(log n). I don't agree with it at all, just communicating what my experience has been (and people I know that have gone through it).

Obviously this is completely anecdotal.
I marvel at the visual design of that film regularly; it is frequently playing on mute on ambient displays in my home.

This is sad news. :(
Whatsapp is end-to-end encrypted.

Google Drive backups are not. [1]

Should the wrong person/people slip up, your messages are no longer end-to-end encrypted, and are stored on Google's servers

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/whatsapp-warns-free-google-dri...
This is the party line. It misses that “a day’s worth of code” is highly unequal across individuals. The people whose “day’s worth of code” are most valuable, quickly get pulled off of spending their days that way.

It appears that they key skill is coordinating a lot of developers, because the ones left developing are the ones you need a lot of (and who need close supervision) to get anything done. Managers will never rock this boat, because their career KPI is the number of people they manage.
That's a hell of a lot more work than "install DOSBox".
Thanks for the post, hope it stays up. As a non-American I had only recently learned about today's planned protests (I had inadvertently reached /r/conservative, only to then remember that thedonald.win now exists), the mainstream media had treated all this almost like a non-event (I regularly check the front-pages of the NYTimes, BBC and Financial Times).
Universities do research, and publications in major journals are the units of outcome. It is not surprising to put this on the university website because it is good exposure. The people who browse university websites are often other academics, so this is indeed an announcement to the broad scientific community and brings prestige to the university.

This would be comparable to winning some scientific prizes, since they are accomplishments that are hard and competitive to achieve. Of course the general public does not care about which scientists win which prizes.

This is all part of marketing to get broad exposure to the scientific community first, general public second.
I suspect you are thinking of EPIC - http://epic.org/ which has indeed filed a lawsuit - I don't see how this is EFF purview.
Come checkout Portland sometime.
Jesus, it took 19 slides to get to the point which can be summarized in exactly one sentence:

1) Have skills

Newsflash: What we call a "job" is simply the trading of one currency (actual monetary currency) for another currency (useful work). If the work you are doing does not have some element of skill then you will not get a job. If your degree supplies some of those limited in-demand skills then you may not need more than your degree. If your degree does not then you will need to acquire useful skills in another manner. Period.
Postgres is finally catching in terms of replication also: http://brandonkonkle.com/blog/2010/oct/20/postgres-9-streami...
> because she's a vegetarian.

400 million Indians are vegetarian (milk and/or eggs): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_in_India and I've been a vegetarian all my life. Last year I ran 50 miles non-stop in Grand Teton at 10,000ft elevation so I can say from personal experience that it is certainly possible to be healthy on a balanced vegetarian diet. I can't say the same about veganism though and it's not popular in India at all: http://business.in.com/article/recliner/being-vegan-in-india...
ZaReason and System76 are two of the better known Linux laptop vendors.

Generally speaking, the biggest problems with Linux laptop drivers used to be suspend/resume and the video card. Unless you were willing to put in a lot of work for each new release of Ubuntu, it was hard to get a Mac-quality experience. If your time was reasonably valuable, you were better off paying a few hundred dollars extra for a well-supported system.

I generally don't worry about drivers for random USB junk. Nearly all of it works fine with Linux, and if it doesn't, it's trivial and cheap to replace.

I can't wait for 8GB of RAM and an Intel SSD drive. Drool.
What experience is this based on? In my 6 years experience using a Mac as my primary machine, I've never had a higher rate of problems installing open source software with the default build scripts than on Linux.

Also, there's Macports, Fink, and Homebrew, which make it effortless.
An easy way to create your own...

Copy this empty table: http://pastebin.com/tzbd7FCt
Fill it with this random password generator: https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm

Be sure to use a fixed-width font.
Clearly a popular item, as it's been submitted twice already:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2010349

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2012703

It hasn't prompted and significant discussion yet.
I realize it sucks to loose a job, but would anyone rather be let go after Christmas ? With all the holiday debt over your head ? In my experience many companies staff up in the new year making a early year layoff much worse.
He did get one thing right. Google starves the valley of engineers (as does Facebook). Their starting salaries are now so high for even straight-out-of-college grads that it actually harms startups.
"Nobody's ever really lost money on real estate in China" - how can you short this market? Do they have entities analogous to REITs there?
A high tech tanning spa. One of the tanning beds cost 30k and looked like a spaceship. I went all out with this thing, using some money from an exit. I re-did the floors, walls, electric, plumping, etc. in the end I was out about 500k after running it for a year. A lot of that money went towards rent and payroll. I had 4 or 5 employees, including a manager, during peak season.

It was difficult to iterate the business, I was locked into a lease, and the equipment was too big to move easily, so I couldn't just pack up and move to a new location when I realized I didn't pick the greatest location.

The worst part was dealing with the local governing agencies for insurance, workman's comp, town, state, federal, permits, etc. They shut me down for a day or two over something trivial and I spent 8 hours driving around to fix it. Felt like the equiv. of my domain being seized and it wasn't worth it for such a thin profit margin.

There was no doubt that I could make it work, but I didn't want to spend the time or money trying to get it right. I have the internet startup stuff down pat; I'll just stick to what I know best.
> I think the the industrial design of the laptop is driving a lot of people over, not Mac OS X. Are people switching to Apple desktop machines at the same rate?

I'd concur, but that's the rub: Once you have that nice, well-designed machine in your hands, you discover that it has Python and Ruby and Emacs and Vim all preinstalled, not to mention a competent X server, and a reasonably nice terminal. Heck, it even defaults to Bash!

And once you're faced with that, the cost-benefit analysis for switching the machine over to *nix starts to tip in OS X's favor. You can finally run popular commercial software (Office, PhotoShop, etc), if you want. You can finally test things in OS X. Sleep / resume, external displays, bluetooth accessories, printers... they all Just Work. And your battery life is great.

Switching means giving up most of those benefits. And for what? You have a good POSIX environment, right?

It's the nuances that get you: OS X ships libedit instead of readline, and getting the IPython to use the latter was excruciatingly difficult for quite some time. Not to mention libraries like PIL. But by the time you run up against those issues, you've already bought into so much of the Mac ecosystem...
Thanks for posting it, I actually turned on WP Super Cache a bit late in the game today (I didn't think anyone was reading until I was getting 500 requests per minute)
Politics is involved with _everything_ the world has to offer

I completely agree, but it is considered impolite on HN to call attention to the fact. Just as it is considered impolite to call too much attention to politics in many parts of real life.

And it is true, of course, that the impossibility of discussing certain issues on HN means that HN is a very poor substitute for the rest of your life. But that's true of any group. You need other communities, other activities, other obsessions than just one.