jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Why is protectionism bad? Why is it better to allow trade imbalances which sucks your nation’s financial and intellectual wealth to others with nothing in return?
Top four are:

* AWS: 32%

* Azure: 20%

* Google Cloud: 9%

* Alibaba Cloud: 6%

Followed by:

* IBM Cloud: 5%

* Salesforce: 3%

* Tencent: 2%

* Oracle: 2%

That adds up to 79%, which leaves 21% for 'other'.

Personally I though AWS would have more.
It doesn't matter that "Swift is faster than Python". Your TensorFlow graph is gonna be slow as all hell if it's running on the CPU. The bottleneck here really isn't performance on a CPU. That's a no-brainer for all non-ML applications.

But for applications that require a GPU (i.e, most ML applications) cutting over to Swift from Python will likely win you nothing in performance, and wouldn't be worth it at all.
Unfortunately, it's not so easy as to say "I want $x per year with this wide skill set, what should I do?"

If you love Python and Javascript, that leads me to believe that you're into nice looking scripts and web development. Have you looked into Django?

I'm not really sure what to tell you other than do what you love, and hone your skills. If you can become specialized in a specific area of coding, even better.

It's not a piece of cake to go out and earn $200k/year, but with determination and a sharp mind it is definitely possible. Unfortunately, nothing HN can tell you will really move that a long.

Good luck!
Don't see social proof or trust factors to be honest.

The reddest flag - "We expect 95% of college students will be active users within 4-8 months." And no insight into how they feel they can do this. Claiming market share of any kind is always tough. In 4-8 months, even more dubious.
Does anyone know what city that picture of that crazy spaghetti junction is from?
I do a lot on a netbook, so I changed to having a hiding start menu rather than an ever present. It was more for viewing space, but I actually found myself less distracted afterwards.
http://www.delicious.com/tags/richardjones
Theories aren't laws. Laws are observations. Gravity is a theory: why do balls fall to the ground when you throw them? Gravitation is a law: balls fall to the ground when you throw them.

Relativity isn't an exception to Newton's law, it's just more accurate. An exception would be a ball not falling to ground after you threw it in the air.
My understanding, from having filed a bunch of patents for different companies, is that getting the inventors wrong is a Big Deal. Our IP lawyers told us emphatically that we needed to make sure anyone involved with an invention was a listed author.
This is why NeXT developers were so productive in the early years.
After turning Grayscale on, it took me 2x the time to go back and disable it, because i was looking for the "blue" icon and had a hard time distinguishing between all the icons.

Color helps in _saving_ me time as well -- so let's not forget that :)
And what about alternative platforms tha don't have an Adobe flash plugin. Do you honestly believe that there only exist three OSes (Windows/Mac OS X/Linux)? At least I can download the .mov file just looking for it on the html source, I can't say the same for flash video.

P.S. I use OpenBSD as my desktop OS.
We don't read actual books to them yet, but since a constant supply of words helps their cognitive development we basically talk to our baby at every opportunity. Reading twitter, food packaging, store signs, singing songs (even if we can't remember the actual lyrics), explaining how to make a good reuben sandwich. I'm glad to see the research bears it out.
The bullshit didn't even have to be believable: "Marilyn Manson was the kid that played Paul from the Wonder Years. Also, he had a rib removed so he could perform autofellatio." Kids everywhere believed that. Hilarious.
The JavaScript programmer in me welcomes that but the PHP programmer in me is a bit annoyed for having to remember another.. inconsistency.
I use Beeminder.com to stay motivated. They have githun integration, which helps.
I had an interview where the interviewer began describing a problem he wanted me to solve. About 3 seconds into it I exclaimed, "Oh, you want me to implement FizzBuzz" and so he stopped explaining the problem and said not to bother with it.
I have to load some non-trivial datasets for the interactive visualizations. It may take a minute for javascript to fully load.
We impose limitations on Free Speech for libel, slander, obscenity, pornography, sedition, hate speech, incitement, fighting words, classified information, copyright violation, trade secrets, non-disclosure agreements, right to privacy, right to be forgotten, public security, public order, public nuisance, and campaign finance reform. (This incomplete list scraped from Wikipedia). The means by which we decide these exceptions are by applying the principle of harm and the principle of offense, so named by John Stewart Mill. Specifically, we determine whether the speech actively causes, or is likely to cause, actual harm or whether it merely only has the capability to, but may not, cause harm.

On one side proponents will suggest that 'trigger warning' discussions are merely offensive to those who may possibly but will not necessarily be harmed - they are offensive but not harmful and this then is not enough to limit it as speech. Furthermore ample forewarning can be given to limit the exposure of someone sensitive to what is going to be spoken and a choice can be made in advance by someone who is sensitive to possible trigger warnings to participate.

On the other side, arguments can be made that (A.) exclusion from the debate based on the possible presence of trigger warnings legitimizes a paternalism because victims can not then show up to the debates (B.) the size of the class of potential victims and the scope of some discussions make it inevitable that harm will be done to someone or (C.) that the affects of open discussion on certain topics themselves have societal affects that cause harm as they institutionalize harmful norms (there are many examples from history).

There are topics and scenarios that exist on the boundary between the principle of harm and the principle of offense. Good arguments can fit these issues squarely into one or the other.
How on earth is this number actually being calculated? I'm an AWS customer and all of my ec2 EBS instances are up and running - and that's in us-east-1b, which is IIRC where this outage occurred.
Is the percentage right?

AWS went down about 30 hours ago, and in the Seattle area we're 111 days + 7 hours into the year. so by my calculations, it's closer to 98.9% than 99.66...%

Or did I make a mistake?
If you are inclined to believe that 0.3333... = (1/3), can you explain why 0.9999... = 1 is a big leap for you? Whether the case is 0.3333... or 0.9999..., each is the result of a convergent series. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_series )

On the word "fraction," do you take it to mean the result of dividing an integer by another integer, and that it must be less than 1? An "improper fraction" is still a fraction, nonetheless; hence 1 is also a fraction, namely (1/1), among other representations. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraction_(mathematics) )

Fractions aside, 0.9999... is a legitimate, albeit strange, way to say "one."

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The grade-school approach (which can be used for 0.3333... too):

(1) y = 0.9999...

(2) 10y = 9.9999...

(3) 10y - y = 9.9999... - 0.9999... = 9y

(4) 9y = 9

(5) y = 1
No business depending on using email for permission based marketing would touch this product - it uses the users own ISP to send email which will destroy your deliverability rates (not to mention get your account shut down at the majority of ISPs).

The major advantage of MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, etc is that the email gets to where its going.
This is excellent.

Many human Mars mission architectures use an Earth return vehicle that is separate from the outbound vessel. The requirements are very different, and there's an overwhelming advantage to placing an Earth return vehicle on the surface ahead of time to produce the methane fuel for its return flight in situ ahead of time, so a vessel that can get astronauts out to Mars without being able to return them is still an important contribution.

On a poignant side note, the article notes that the only feature Dragon now lacks to become qualified for carrying humans is a launch abort system; the original Space Shuttle was designed without a launch abort system.
The email was written a decade ago.
Some people consider it free too which is very painful. Like pretending networks don't have latency.
http://www.hackruiter.com
Governments needs income to provide services like electricity, healthcare, military, roads, infrastructure in general etc etc... and that simply requires taxation. How would you go about gather all that dough? Or are you saying everything should be privatized? Or corporate taxation only? That sounds like a ludicrously idea to me given how easy it is to avoid corporate taxes altogether.
I didn't say it was the only reason. I understand people would think that was implied, so I'm glad you pushed back. In every multi-factor complex system people insist on figuring out which factor is most important. Which is bullshit, because in most cases many different factors are critical in the technical sense of the word critical.
I don't think I ever managed to create a working bootable Windows disk on linux. The hardest part was to fetch the image (from Linux).
All hobbies are "dorky" in a way (maybe except sports-related hobbies like hiking), they're considered especially so if one is obsessive about this hobby. Non-art hobbies, in my experience, are more likely to be classified "nerdy" as opposed to "dorky". I should note that, at least in the US for people in mid 20s, in the last few years (maybe thanks to Covid) "dorky" or "nerdy" sort of stopped being pejorative. Even in dating apps, it's normal for people to write stuff like "the dorkies things about me is... thinking about programming/gaming/drawing all the time" etc.

I would guess "dorky", "nerdy" are more mildly self-deprecating than pejorative nowadays. But this could change wildly from one area to another.
I really don't understand the title changes sometimes. I have no idea who Jakub Konka is. On the other hand, the old title communicated that this hiring was the first for Zig, which gives me far more context, and a prompt for my next thought which was "huh, how does that work?" That value is gone now.
> and simply tax all every dollar that ultimately goes to a person at that rate. Finally, eliminate all deductions.

Well there's your first problem; little money actually goes to a person. Bezos is listed as the richest person in the world, but the vast majority of his wealth is in the company.

It reminds me when the Google head honchos humblebragged about only having a wage of $1 a year. Basically admitting they were dodging income taxes.
We were barely able to keep this post alive. It doesn't matter. Stallman will probably be out of the FSF soon and people will keep thinking of him as a monster and be happy that they got rid of him in this way.
I think this is going to be more of a fleet niche -- companies and gov't agencies that have a ZEV requirement for some percentage of their fleets, such as in California.

For rural/agricultural uses... EV doesn't make sense until range is fixed. 500 miles is certainly good enough for most applications, though, so maybe my thinking is out of date.

For urban contractors/builders etc., an EV truck does make sense; they're not typically going to drive more than 50-100 miles in a day. Then it comes down to cost, though; your average plumber or electrician isn't going to plop down $70K for the 3-motor AWD 500 mile range model.

For general rough-and-ready pickup drivers, the Tesla comes across as too exotic and weird looking. Those guys (and I think it's almost all guys) are going to wait until their F-150 or RAM wears out, then buy another one used. Or they're going to wait for a more "normal" looking EV truck that has decent range and off-road capability.
Whether people may like this exterior design or not, it's a display of bravery from Tesla to steer away from old conventional shapes and forms. Strong innovative design deviations like this should be praised.
I totally agree with you on the fun part, but I think what we define as fun is pretty different. I also agree with you that talking and knowing people you work with is important.

Where we disagree is the point that I don't think that gifs are helping you to know who your coworkers are. And more importantly I think it is not helping anyone to better understand themselves, which is one of the values of having conversations with people in the first place - that's kinda what philosophy schools were for. Gifs seem to serve some sort of emotional regulation function, but I've never investigated more deeply into that.

Now, I'm not trying to make a point here that you should only have serious conversations all the time, and definitely see the humour value of well timed gif, but I've found out that in general the trend is to shallow out the discussions and keep them within very narrow window of discourse.
The old mobile maps were frustrating to use. Very data hungry and high latency and with quirky UI bugs. It was very much a translation of the web app meant for desktop use on low latency broadband to a mobile app with only a few tweaks. For example, pinch zooming would work surprisingly, by zooming the low-res tiled image and then effectively translating into a button press to zoom in/out one level, leading to a very frustrating and clunky experience that essentially removed any advantage of using multi-touch gestures over just pressing the zoom in and zoom out buttons.

Google has not only fixed those problems, they've improved the experience several times over. It's fabulous. It's faster, it's responsive, it's seamlessly interactive, it's a pleasure to use.
Jevon Macdonald recently wrote a piece discussing a Deloitte study that suggests Canadian VC's arn't quite the fan of their own countrymen when it comes to startup investments compared to other nations.

http://www.startupnorth.ca/2010/10/28/what-do-canadas-vcs-re...
What's missing? Some decent formatting to make it scannable?
Bible says fear of God is beginning of wisdom. We are to fear God because He can destroy our soul whereas everyone else can only destroy our body.
Some might find it ironic that a dynamically-typed language is advocating typing as the solution to bugs. Of course, Lisp has a history of strong runtime typing, and this looks like a good approach to the problem.
Foreign Policy magazine stated that the Manning leaks was a catalyst for the revolutions in Tunisia which triggered the Arab Spring. It may not have been good for the US, but it was good for the world. Democracy spread to two arab countries.
Japan is in dire conditions. Society has, just as it did in Europe, corrupted the way of living of people into a "comfortable" reality. Except Japanese are way better at it than Europeans. So they "trapped" themselves in this comfy reality, which really is a slow-mo zone. Because the population is declining and the new generation is struggling to grasp the situation (and what must be done) they are in for a world of pain. They will be a weak nation very soon, and I bet a certain old friend in the east will consider "helping" them...
Never accept the counter-offer. Nothing will change. You will just get some extra cash at the end of the month.
Incredibly stupid to ban him at this point. The storming of the Capitol was a dangerous event, but could've been the apex event of the Trump supporters.

The whole movement should've been let to slowly fizzle away - now they've been dealt yet another very public embarrassment and the tug of war will continue.

This has all the chances of becoming a case file for naive interventionism.
Hello Farslan, I'm the author of Gotalk and just read your article on Kite — very interesting!

In the scenario of composing distributing systems where you'd e.g. want to "map-reduce this data on some number of cores" service discovery is important. However I wrote Gotalk to be as small as possible, meaning I hope it can become one of those small packages I feel comfortable using in any of my projects. The "small" part here is key: that it feels small.

Perhaps there's an approach where a completely decoupled service-discovery package exists which can be combined with Kite or Gotalk to form auto-discovering clusters of programs.

Thanks for bringing Kite to our attention.
Would not water (or any other solvent's) movement cause a scouring action that would remove contaminates and keep the surface clean?
I'm sure that's true. Though even when I'm spending Other People's Money I tend to avoid gratuitously burning it when I legitimately don't care. As I was discussing with someone this past week, I'm probably something of an exception--or at least have somewhat different priorities about things I care about.
Questionable website, clicking on "FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS" on an iPad (Safari iOS 8.1.2) does nothing. Hopefully the helicopters are better.
It's really encouraging to hear I am not the only one who thinks so. It's kind of my dream to build a game with that sort of depth someday.

For now, I'm trying to solve subsets of the problem in a more limited scope by creating a crafting/building game that understands real-world material proprieties.

The upshot of this approach is that the player can experiment with crafting say, a bow, out of any of the materials they have on hand. Some may work better than others, based on the properties of the material. I'm hoping this approach enables more player creativity because it's much more flexible.

I suspect though, that it will prove to be tremendously difficult to balance the game as there will always be edge cases where very overpowered items can exist, but maybe that's half the fun.
Weights and equipment can't be emulated in software. And you need a gym to keep them in and provide hot showers after.

But I'd say that there's less need for a personal trainer than ever before. You can find the how-to use video on youtube, the community on reddit/r/fitness, the training calculator on your phone, etc. I don't see that trend reversing.
No, that's a totally different question. I asked what unconstitutional activity was revealed by all of those state department cables that were leaked. As best I can ascertain, the answer is 'none whatsoever.'
> It will almost certainly cost more money to obtain 51% hashrate than you could gain from a short position

If true, that means it wouldn't be an action of a rational attacker bent on financial gain, but not all attackers are rational, and financial gain isn't the only conceivable motive for an attack on bitcoin.

> Even the NSA doesn't have enough computing power to achieve 51%.

How, exactly, are you assessing the quantity of the relevant type of computing power available to the NSA in order to make this claim?
I think it depends on your definition of American. New York isn't that different (heavily train using, very limited parking, but on a grid pattern). I get what you mean though, NYC is an exception really.

There is a "rule" about how cities get "stuck" on the transport type they use when they reach a certain size. Hence NYC and London are (mid distance) train centric. Newer cities in the western US are car heavy. Singapore is metro rail.
> one of the top websites in the US in terms of traffic

There's something odd going on with their traffic. I've been on the front page of Reddit and thedonald.win at the same time, and either virtually nobody on that site reads the articles or the upvotes counts are being massively inflated: the upvote to pageview ratio is waaaay lower on thedonald.win then I've experienced on Reddit and HN.
None of it is inclusive.

I personally am very liberal when it comes to speech.

And yes, all communities are good for understanding people better. Does not mean agreeing with them.

It does mean being able to know who one is dealing with. That matters to me.
I've deleted my WhatsApp account today. It was the only product I've ever used from Facebook, and it will be the last. Say no to this spyware machine.
I say crack down on all politicians inciting violent mobs. Don't make it a partisan issue.
Or Firefox Desktop, they don't pass the required headers to enable Firefox's Spectre mitigations in order to use SharedArrayBuffer. I can't tell if Chrome will require it too, because they already do iframes in separate processes.

https://itch.io/t/1028526/cross-origin-policies-for-webassem... itch.io enabled them globally in the past, but it broke some things.
Considering my wife keeps resetting her passwords on websites because she just forgets it, I have to agree this is not usable
The evidence more supports the thesis that security was underprepared and blundered into this outcome rather than a conspiracy to allow it.

Have you not seen the videos of officers swarmed and overwhelmed, being attacked and beaten?

Are you saying the police pulled a "false flag" on themselves? Seems like a Trumpist argument.
Age isn’t the problem, lack of digital security literacy might well be.

My dad was born in ‘39, he did a degree in electrical engineering, and it took until something like his second job after graduation for his employer to send him on a two-day training course for the new-fangled [0] invention of something called “software”. He then worked in software from that course until retirement.

However, he never understood RSA despite working on UK military IFF systems.

[0] “new-fangled” was his description; the closest he came to acknowledging Ada Lovelace before I learned of her was to complain about the language Ada.
It's about the process, which is roughly

"find property X that produces the maximum separation between the groups we care about but would arouse the least suspicion"

and then making X a requirement.
> Designed for the future of work with a 13.5” 3:2 screen with 2256x1504 resolution

I approve of this. 16:9 computer screens are an abomination.
(Shameless self promotion): Check out Lambda's GPU cloud: https://lambdalabs.com/service/gpu-cloud
Most five year olds are just learning to read, so it's helpful to have visual cues like pictures or colorful areas on the screen so you can instruct them to, say, 'make a selection from the blue area' or 'click on the part next to the circles'.

After a quick look at your app, I think it could use more visual cues which are appropriate for your users.
Any chance of the company ever releasing only the chassis so I can buy it and put my favorite arm sbc inside it?
The problem with the karma system is that it incentivizes simple comments and appealing to common human instincts. I often regret it when my score goes up drastically because I think that I made a low effort comment that exploits ingrained biases instead of actually contributing to the discussion.

I am personally not against the idea of sorting comments based on a score but the score itself shouldn't be visible to anyone.
Why compare users who may or may not use Shopify’s app store with people who definitely use apple? People don’t have the choice to use the apple App Store without paying the 30% cut, but they have the choice to not use apple. People don’t have the choice to use the Shopify App Store without paying the 20% cut, but they have the choice to not use Shopify.

Also, I just bought an audiobook last night on my iphone through the browser, and presumably apple didn’t get a cut. I think Shopify’s cut and apple’s cut are fair analogies here.