jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yea, there’s definitely been a decline. Conspicuous injection of Lex talking about himself, poetry/love, and (sigh) cancel culture. All feels awfully Joe Rogan-wannabe-ish.

The MIT AI podcast => AI podcast => Lex Podcast worked out great for him, though...but it feels kind of gross. There are some fascinating guests, but it feels like the content is good in spite of Lex and his “journey”.
I get the same feeling as everyone. There is no point in the game because even a single digit wrong is no clue at all. In my 1st and only attempt, I entered 1 + 2+ 8 = 11 and both pluses, the 2 the 1 and the 8 were right, with only the 2 in the wrong position. And yet that gave zero clue to what the other number was... and it turned out to be another 8, which made finding the solution really luck-based.
Holding dumbbells at maximum weight for 3 seconds is tiresome. So this is extreme version of high intensity training when one always do exercises to the point of failure.

It is surprising that doing just one repetition works. A typical recommendation with high intensity training is to select weight so one can do 5-12 repetitions to the point of failure. The actual number depends on goal (strength or muscle size), genetics etc. I guess the college students where not trained previously so this worked.
I haven’t used cash in Australia in about 5 years, maybe longer.
I worked for a company that had acquired a B-list, top 20 mmorpg - its database was mssql and had been running 24/7 for 5 years, with no way to back it up, no safety net, and an increasingly pissed off player community suffering degrading service. Everyone was terrified to reboot.

They started bouncing paychecks before I got to see the drama come to a head, but I'm obsessive about proper levels of redundancy anymore. Don't build fragility into a system, and at least leave yourself a means to fail gracefully.
My main point was that it is a meme/conspiracy theory that people who don't think they fall for conspiracy theories have fallen for big time.
One big problem: professors don't have a lot of incentives to educate. They have incentives to publish, which helps explain grade inflation: http://jseliger.com/2011/04/02/grade-inflation-what-grade-in.... The current higher education system hasn't really designed around the needs of undergraduates, which a lot of people don't understand.

This is part of the reason I wrote How Universities Work, or: What I Wish I’d Known Freshman Year: A Guide to American University Life for the Uninitiated -- http://jseliger.com/2010/09/26/how-universities-work-or-what... , which I give to my freshmen every semester.
If you're interested, try reading Keith Johnstone's Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre, which has gems like this in it:

"Once you understand that every sound and posture implies a status, then you perceive the world quite differently, and the change is probably permanent. In my view, really accomplished actors, directors, and playwrights are people with an intuitive understanding of the status transactions that govern human relationships. This ability to perceive the underlying motives of casual behaviour can also be taught" (72).

Or this: "A further early discovery [in theatre status games] was that there was no way to be neutral [...] The messages are modified by the receivers" (37).

Consequently, we all have to play status "games" (an imperfect term that nonetheless gets used frequently) whether we wish to or not. Attempting not to play such games might confer the highest status of all, implying that one doesn't need to rely on status modifications to achieve social standing: one is beyond the petty concerns and judgments of others. Chances are that almost one actually is beyond such judgment, but we would like to pretend that we are.
It would be good if they have examiners in SV. Maybe the culture would rub off on them and sanity would rule...or not.
Amongst layman's or techies (coders, etc.) Most "normal" people don't seem to know what DropBox is outside of "introduction" via a "techie." Very anecdotal..it would be interesting to note paying vs free users, which could be (very lightly) related to layman / techie usage (VERY lightly).

Their affiliate program apparently has helped immensely with their growth.
http://www.quora.com/How-effective-is-Dropboxs-referral-prog...
"As of Apr 2010, the referral program with 2 sided incentive permanently increased signups by 60%

September 2008: 100,000 registered users
January 2010 (15 mos later): 4,000,000
Mostly from word-of-mouth and viral:
35% of daily signups from referral program
20% from shared folders, other viral features
Sustained 15-20%+ month-over-month growth since launch"
> Both times we did the exercise, only one person was out of place, and that too, they were right next to each other.

Were they on the very top, or very bottom?
Self promotion is an entirely separate hobby from programming. Most people don't blog about their hobbies.
Pfizer-BioNTech (it's the GNU/Linux of vaccines)
https://www.sec.gov/about/what-we-do
Dabrowski and Munson weren't able to reproduce the old 50- or 100-millisecond rule of thumb in what sounds to me like a poorly-controlled experiment

It sounds rather poorly-controlled to me too.

They mention that they didn't account for the time from mouse-down to mouse-release. Seriously? Here is a program that can measure that difference: http://www.daimi.au.dk/~sandmann/click.py. It uses GTK+ so you'll probably need Linux to run it. For me, the delay seems to be around 30 ms. They also don't mention the framerate of the screen or whether they controlled for that. On a 60Hz monitor there is a delay of 17ms between frames.

Both 17 and 30 ms are huge numbers if you are measuring intervals on the order of 100ms.

Then there is the question of what you consciously perceive vs. what you subconsciously perceive. It would surprise me if you couldn't measure a difference even in cases where the subjects didn't notice anything themselves.

Finally, we can definitely reject the idea that latencies below 100 ms never matter: there is an obvious difference between a 10 fps animation and a 60 fps one.
Exactly!

Who's checking for this stuff on every blog page open, actually? I wish I was, but, usually am not.
“The Midwest didn’t appeal.”

Clearly climate change was the deciding factor. /s
End of the day the people at the top of Adobe only really saw Flash as owning the web video delivery mechanism.

Also it was pretty disgusting how little effort they put into optimization until it threatened them being on iOS. I was knee deep in working with Flash and suddenly one day all the code was running as fast on Mac as it did on Windows. After years of it usually being 30% slower.
Yahoo is a case study I think.
That was a huge failure on [1] the Canadian Red Cross. They knew the blood was tainted but wanted to use up existing supply. They were buying blood from prisoner populations, didn't bother to do testing that would have detected most of the Hepatitis C cases, and infected more then 2000 Canadians with HIV. This was a giant screw up I have heard many times because back just before it went public the doctors wanted to give my dad a transfusion for a massive cut he sustained at work. He refused saying no way he trusts the blood. It was just a gut feeling. The doctor said he was making a foolish decision. Two weeks later it was all over the paper. So of course my dad took the paper to his next doctors appointment to get his stitches out and asked the doctor what he thought of his decision now.
[1]: https://www.cbc.ca/strombo/news/canadas-tainted-blood-scanda...
Many NYC outer borough neighborhoods can be like that; there might not be any garages - or maybe there's only 1-2 which are always full. For example, in Queens, think of Jackson Heights, Flushing Main Street, or parts of Jamaica. I can definitely see spending 30 minutes looking for a parking spot in Jackson Heights on a busy evening if you aren't too familiar with driving in the area.
I've been working on a chat web app for the past few months. Its defining feature is that it reimagines the way in which conversations flow, allowing them to be really nonlinear.

It's almost ready for a ShowHN. I just have to get the websockets working!
Protein synthesis is complicated. Antivenom is still produced in the same way: inject an animal with small doses of venom, collect the antibodies from the plasma.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antivenom
I'm not an expert on infection control, but I work closely with people who either work in the infection control department of a hospital, or are running their own infection prevention and control consultancy. They live and breathe this, and I am only repeating almost verbatim what they have explained to me. I'm pretty sure they have "thought this through".

So believe what you want, but I'm gonna go with the experts on this, not someone who's only support is his own conjecture lol. They're not even the only ones saying this. Go Google some reputable sources yourself and stop guessing.
Yes. That's a great idea. XBT for bitcoin.

I wasn't thinking a lot about different formats and properties. The idea was to get out something as simple as possible. This is just afternoon hack to see if there is any demand for it.
Do you feel that this isn't true? I was raised by musicians, and am an (amateur) musician. It rings true to my feelings and experiences. It not just our software but inside our hears and ears. We want to play and replicate what we hear and know and western musicians hear mostly western music, based on (but not exclusively on) 4/4, equal temperament.
The real message is how emotional and immature the leadership is to a perceived slight

It's very telling that personal privacy has Facebook's leadership fudging its collective Huggies, while every other company — even Google — is going along with it.
I'm not sure why this is getting down-voted, but I think the point here is the _fact_ that you have been put in a situation where, as an individual, you are concerned enough to do this is telling, crazy or not
Well you simply print the guns and 3d printer parts. It's the power source stable enough to not interrupt long prints that's a pain.
not sure i get (a). maybe someone can help me understand.

software engineers are one of the best paid people today. i highly doubt that we are hard to find.
<p style="float:right">

<center>

Sure looks handwritten to me. I guess "beautiful" is subjective; the <center> element being deprecated is not.
> I can't think of anything I've personally done on or off the internet which would make them good friend suggestions.

Being born a male a few decades ago
Nor is there any good safe long-term storage solution for CO2, or heavy metal pollutants. But while those are technological problems unlikely to be solved for decades, the lack of nuclear storage is simply political.

Remember - nuclear waste is dangerous for centuries, but chemical waste is dangerous forever.
Maybe you just like punishment? Also Daft Punk, of course.
You can easily double it, because neither Germany nor UK have mountains covering half of the country.
> A magic wand to seal off over-60 olds? How do you feel about sealing off everyone?

Worked great in New Zealand and Taiwan, and pretty dang good in Singapore, Australia, and even China. A pity we weren’t fast enough to do it here.

I haven’t seen any society successfully execute a strategy to exclude the aged from human society or viral transmission yet, and we’ve had 9 months to experiment. If such a strategy existed and was proven to work, your theory that it was idiotic to ignore it would make sense. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to exist.
I suspect they're all for privacy. They don't want people's data made public, either. Rather, they're OK with the fact that policy can't be made, because they're not especially interested in the policy implications.

They likely assume that any regulation will be bad by default unless it's proven to them -- and won't put any effort into reading that proof when offered.

Software engineers get used to the notion that things either work or they don't. Policy is a much messier process, where you do the best that you can with incomplete information. And software engineers are generally comfortable enough under the status quo that they will set high standards for change -- and aren't interested in how that affects anybody not in their immediate circle.
if AI replaces human creativity, who will create novel content for new generation of AI?

Vast majority of human generated content is not very novel or creative. I'm guessing less than 1% of professional human writers or composers create something original. Those people are not in any danger to be replaced by AI, and will probably be earning more money as a result of more value being placed on originality of content. Humans will strive (or be forced) to be more creative, because all non-original content creation will be automated. It's a win-win situation.
Part of ARMs licensing generally prevents socketed CPU chips.
You're neglecting the time it takes to recruit 40,000 patients. It's not fast or easy to identify those folks, as a significant number of people have disqualifiers (like comorbidities e.g., obesity). Once they're identified as candidates, you still need to go through the task of recruiting them, likely through their healthcare network. You can't just use automated calls for that because nobody's going to trust a recording that promises "Free Vaccine Fast, Act Now!"

They likely ran the trial with 40,000 patients because that was all the qualified patients they were able to quickly contact reliably enough to include them in the study (otherwise you have study dropouts, as mentioned in other comments above).
"We operate according to the law, because we are not governed by laws."
For millennia, being "elite" meant owning land. In a primarily agrarian society, owning land is a huge advantage. So then, if that land is passed along hereditary lines, the establishment of a "landed aristocracy" is inevitable.

The risk in "meritocracy" is that we no longer live in an agrarian society. In the modern economy skills, training, and education are the surest means to success. We've replaced the "landed aristocracy" with the "educated aristocracy". This could only be considered a meritocracy if the potential to become educated was equally available to all, but the situation in America is further from that ideal than almost any other place in the world.
Wonder how many small-time dealers are already selling smaller quantities via FPV with a drone. Take the drugs off, attach the cash, fly back to the car a mile away...anonymous, no risk of confrontation, you know where you're delivering to if they fail to pay etc.
Non-paywalled link:

https://archive.today/efhmJ
Every explanation of every Haskell feature I encounter reads the same way as this. You define "return" as "<code>return :: a -> m a</code>" and say this means it takes "an a" (by which I assume you mean an object of type a?) and returns a "<code>Foo<a></code>" (an object of type <code>Foo<a></code>?).

The problem I have is: what on earth does this have to do with 'm'?

Is 'm' equivalent to 'Foo'?

If so, why don't you mention that? It isn't obvious to a newb who is lost in the welter of syntax.

Does 'm a' mean the same thing as <code>Foo<a></code>? If so, why not use 'Foo' in your Haskell rather than 'm', which is simply introduced without any description, mention or explanation? Is there some significance to the naming? This is the kind of question that a newb specifically cannot answer, and Haskell tutorials are notoriously lax about. They have a strong tendency to assume you know the syntax of the language, which they use to explain the syntax of the language.

You've given a nice, detailed explanation, but have failed to describe what 'm' is, and that means your average newb (me, or possibly even someone much, much smarter than me, as I'm told such people exist in profusion) is left making guesses. I'm pretty sure I know what the correct guesses are, but I really want to know: why did you use a completely different, unrelated, and opaque name for 'Foo' in your Haskell example, and then talk exclusively about 'Foo' in your explanation?

This isn't really a knock at you personally: as I said, every Haskell tutorial I've encountered has similar issues. I'm just deeply curious as to why this is the case (and painfully aware that my own explanations regarding other languages are likely as opaque to newbs as these Haskell explanations are to me.)
Glad you put the Paul Graham endorsement here; this story was mysteriously flagged off the front page yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8930360
links to this version of the story:
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21640331-importance-in...
You would be stupid to post an assignment on something as well known as rentacoder. I've ad professors who have mentioned finding their assignments on there so they are well aware.
Correct situation if you are on the civil liberties and accountable representation side:

Government has no privacy by default. Government is required to defend any need to keep secrets from individual citizens (and other parties such as the media or businesses).

Individuals have privacy by default. Government (and other parties) are required by law to justify any invasion of that privacy.

Practical situation today:

Government keeps secrets by default. Individual citizens (or other parties such as the media) may need to make considerable efforts to force disclosure, which may be denied repeatedly even where there is no basis in law for doing so.

Individuals have little privacy by default. Government (and other parties) routinely collect and process whatever data they feel like with little consequence, with the notable exception of some explicitly enumerated sensitive areas such as religious beliefs or health information.
But, you know, I haven't had to do anything significant with resolving google.com. I mean, I know that it resolves to something like 145.234.34.45, I know there is a difference between TCP and UDP, and a few other things, but I pretty much just need to open sockets once in a while. I'm pretty much the goto person for hard problems whereever I've worked. I've written articles, and am writing a book.

You are actively answering the question here - this is exactly the sort of thought process and reasoning that would be required. There are no specific facts - that's the point. And I can help but feel you've missed that.
Whoops, I see. Sorry for the confusion!

That's an interesting idea, but are you sure that thermal expansion imparts enough force against 175 miles of steel in order to push it all the way to the station? 175 miles of steel would be incredibly heavy. It seems like the heating/cooling might even cause the steel to weaken enough such that, rather than rolling the tube towards the station, it would start to scrunch like an accordion. But I wish a structural physicist would step in with some calculations to prove whether or not 175 miles of steel on rollers could be pushed by thermal expansion without compromising hyperloop's structural stability.

Maybe we could ask /r/askscience?

EDIT: After re-reading your comment, I think you're saying the rollers would actually provide the force necessary to move 175 miles of steel, rather than letting the expansion passively push it. But those rollers would have to grip onto something in order to do that. They wouldn't be rollers so much as tank treads.

Hmm... Do you think that might work? Could 175 electric motors working in unison provide enough force to tank treads that bite into the concrete pillar below, and into the steel tube above, in order to successfully shift 175 miles of steel? And the system has to have temperature sensors every mile, and those sensors must not ever report incorrect readings or else the whole tube breaks. And those motors must never break down or run out of power...

I'm sounding pessimistic, but honestly I have no idea whether that would work.

EDIT 2: Ah, I think I've figured out why it can't work. It's not a straight tube. It bends all along the route. http://i.imgur.com/3TavjCY.png

So motorized rollers would actually need to bend the tube in order to successfully transmit the thermal expansion. In other words, when a piece of steel tubing is initially created, it's bent with a certain curvature. But if rollers are to transmit the expansion all the way to the station, the exact location of where the steel is bent needs to be dynamically defined at runtime, rather than statically assigned at compile time. Did I phrase that very clearly? It would help to be in-person, or maybe I could draw a picture if needed.

It doesn't seem like rollers could dynamically bend the steel all along the 175 mile track in order to carry the expansion.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=always+bet+on+text#!/story/forever...
It might be the names:

A C64 was a PC (sensu latu) and the latest Dell/Compaq octo-core gaming rig is a PC, so same-same. Name hasn't changed, so the massive technical advance is hidden.

The BBS networks were networks and the Internet is a network, so they're the same. Never mind the fact BBS networks were lucky to get email across the country in a few days whereas Internet users can chat real-time with full voice and video around the world.

Cell phones existed in 1985. Cell phones exist now. Guess which devices can access global databases in a fraction of a second and which devices were bags which had handsets wired to them so people could make and receive phone calls from their cars!! Again, though, the name remains the same.

People in 1985 had cheap cameras. People in 2015 have... cell phones.

People in 1985 had little black books with phone numbers in them. People in 2015 have... cell phones.

People in 1985 had really nifty digital watches. People in 2015 have... cell phones.

(Really, though, the fact cell phones have kept the same name is pretty amazing, given how radically the devices themselves have changed.)
Oh, I thought of some kind of social pressure.
Economics and quantitative finance.
Here is another similar guide. Easier said than done of course. http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
It gained 0.07% but lost positions to Perl and... PL/SQL, ABAP, COBOL, Assembly. I had to google ABAP, it's SAP. I did a little of each of the other languages and lots of Perl in the 90s. I work with Ruby almost half of the time now and I'm not worried about its health.
> There is no VC who would have accepted a pre-SpaceX pitch for low cost launches, Starlink, or any of the rest of it. It would have been straight up "lol Iridium amirite, get out."

SpaceX was funded by Elon Musk and later, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Peter Thiel's Founder's Fund. Starlink has been in part funded by a $1 billion investment from Google and Fidelity. And since then further funding rounds have been raised.

The DFJ and Founder's Fund investment was before SpaceX had any substantial NASA development contracts, let along their 2008 $1.6 billion launch contract.
This writer seems to really struggle with semantics.

"Product market fit" clearly means: there is a market that closely fits your product.

The consequences of that might be the extreme growth etc. When people make the flippant remarks about product-market fit causing you to want to die, they're just making the logical leap from a market existing, to high demand.

It's not that complicated. Nothing needs to change.
Just ban people. That one ban will eliminate all crimes except bin theft.
> In other words, can't afford to own/operate a car.

Or they know it isn’t worth fixing.

I had an engine light on for about 20000km, and sold the vehicle like that, because it wasn’t worth fixing. One competent mechanic talked me into trying to fix it before I tried to sell it, and that wasted $1000.

Another friend had an engine light on, and the workshop said that happened with that model sometimes and it wasn’t worth fixing.

Both of us could afford to fix the vehicles. That said, if an oil light comes on I stop the vehicle immediately.