jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I am self hosted since forever or I will rather say - since ADSL was available. The server has changed "a bit" during the last 20 years (oh, Mercury mail server :D), but last "few" years (from FreeBSD 8 :D) I am happy camper there. Just using it casually and learn a thing or two by the way. Upgrading it, migrating (2 times until now), adding disks. Nothing special.

Just got into situation where mobo has started failing and I have said it is time to reinstall, bought new hardware and throw it together. Migrated in a week, everything that was customized during ~20 years without taking notes (but with my good ol trusty diffing software) and was migrated from previous server, optimized a bit, removed unnecessary settings, upgraded postfix and dovecot to new server, replaced spamassasin with rspamd, php-fmt,...

The server was mostly operational in 2 days. Everything else was studying new software, doing things that i always wanted to but didnt want to turn around whole configuration (like stuffing everything into jails), customizing netdata, upgrading database/nextcloud/... etc. It would take longer if I would loose the data, but I trust zraid and my LTO drive, they never failed me.

Now I will sniff around it every week, maybe run some update etc. and I will be fine until some disk fails.

Being system administrator is not my occupation, but it helps if you NEVER EVER become a hostage to a cloud provider. The more you go into leisure of someone else doing everything for you - the less chances you will have to learn new things and the more you will be on mercy of someone else. And the longer you are enjoying such situation, the more technology progresses and the bigger the gap between the knowledge you have and the knowledge needed to, in this case, setup a server.

I remember dreaming in 1991, as a kid, that in 20 years everyone will have his own server at home, and how we will transfer files simply. But now everyone is saying they don't have time and buy ready made boxes or pay for the cloud.

The technology came, now it is simpler to use than ever.

But no one has "time" for that now. Or is really the time?

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Dont take having a home server as a pain. It is a great way to learn things.

I can bake a perfect bread too. "Kicked" all my girlfriends out of kitchen. Brewing home beer. ...

But all this wouldn't happen if I would rather go to bakery. Eat in restaurants. Buying beer in a store. ... Sure I could, but I didnt.

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Google "the big three weight lifting" to find lots of modern guidance which suggests those as the primary exercises to build overall strenght.
Exactly. You can follow SRP, use clean constructors and do it by hand. An IoC container is a nice /mechanical/ helper to do the wire up for you. I really dislike that the majority (all?) of the javaland IoC containers work with annotations; I believe that your object graphs should have no idea if they were built "by hand" with manual calls to new, or resolved from a container.
And so do the million others who are happy to give up their privacy to the government so that it can keep them safe from terrorism.
Even in a small, young language like go, there are already features that are considered somewhat unidiomatic, like naked returns: https://tour.golang.org/basics/7
>I'm not saying that drone registration thwarts illegal use, but at least something was done by regulators.

Drone regulation has done precisely nothing to thwart illegal use, while imposing substantial cost and inconvenience on legitimate actors. The laws don't stop me from buying a heavy-lift drone from China, nor do they stop me from doing something nefarious with it. At best, the regulations have slightly reduced the risk of inadvertent airprox incidents, but they have been utterly useless in addressing the sorts of risks they were supposed to combat.
i agree, but I believe the issue here is limited resources. Not everyone can have the world's best education so we use the resources we have on those that early identify as talented.

Not saying its good, just it may be a resource management issue
But the problem there is that the "Great Lakes region" typically includes Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan's UP. And none of those were included in the update.

So it's not really any better than describing the area as "parts of the Midwest".
Perhaps because it sounds like a corporate mission statement? So vague and open to interpretation, it is practically meaningless.

Let's talk about what DevOps means in the real world: cloud infrastructure operations, systems administration, automation / scripting, continuous integration / deployment, etc.

This takes a variety of forms.

Type A company: Embeds "DevOps" folks working side-by-side with other engineers.

Type B company: It has a dedicated "DevOps team" which is siloed. Requests are routed and responded to in an untimely manner, just like the IT/IS departments of old.

Type C company: Developers are expected to pick up infrastructure stuff as they go along. "Devs doing Ops."

Others I've missed...
> In the end this will stop future cases of investors trying to jam garbage companies into the public markets, essentially stealing money from retail investors who don’t know better

Until the next bubble, at least.
dang: Will do from now on.

Funnily enough, right before you posted this comment I had responded to you, explaining my decision to post twice, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21609044

Please feel free to delete my parent comment :-)
"Maharaj" is a protester, the billionaire is "Khosla". I think you got them mixed up here.

Khosla is still a dick though, so the rest of your point is valid.
Which is not a good thing.

What if the community decided to "shun" someone for being gay? or having a different political opinion?
Yes, but "proof" in the legal sense isn't mathematical/logical proof; even the criminal "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard does not involve elimination of all doubt: a fairly typical jury instruction [0] on the standard says of reasonable doubt that "[i]t is such a doubt as, in serious affairs that concern you, you would heed; that is, such a doubt as would cause reasonable men and women to hesitate to act upon it in matters of importance."

[0] https://www.jud.ct.gov/JI/Criminal/part2/2.2-3.htm
Congrats! Can't wait to see what happens.
I'm sorry, 110-120 in the fast lane isn't "on par with Europe".
If you look at Germany, 270 is more like it...

If you look at Austria/Italy, the fast lane rarely ever goes as low as the speed limit and going as fast as 145 kph usually meant we had to go out of the lane to let others through.
Whoever is driving 110kph on an European highway is more or less a deadly road hazard. At such low speed it is nearly impossible to overtake lorries without having somebody nearly ram you from the back and it is guaranteed to cause a massive pileup of angry cars behind.

Source - I've been traveling Europe both on motorbike and by car
maybe they have been too cheap anyway ... I mean, it's a pretty pathetic and environment-unfriendly way to make a cup of coffee.
I think that Sweden is regarded as a country with good healthcare quality. The problem here is that western governments thought misleadingly that they were safe because their healthcare systems ranked high in a number of rankings. But here we face what really is a quantitative problem, not a qualitative problem. We can provide good care at an individual level, and the virus is often benign at the individual level. It really becomes a quantitative problem and we are on the exponential phase of the epidemic.
Growth is not something that continues forever. There's already constraints on the aviation industry (lack of pilots, congested routes) that will anyway slow down the growth significantly as time goes.
The real feature that is throwing you off is the extra wide spacing between lines (leading).

This is just an unfortunate requirement of many academic departments for theses, which can’t be avoided by authors.

If you set the document tighter it would look much better. Otherwise the typography is very careful and deliberate. It was very obviously not produced with Word. Word falls over badly when you try to produce this type of document.
Just signed up as a local maker, it is nice that they are trying to connect hospitals with manufacturing capabilities [1].

[1] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdc0aa34YSqm6hPQWRL...
Are they(expected to be) in short supply?
Get rid of that poetry please and give me a single reason why PyCharm’s algorithm that infers types within the functions in Python should not work; but actually works reasonably well in practice.

As a matter of fact all examples given in the papers you provide deal with generalised second-order cases of functions accepting functions which can be resolved by simply allowing to annotate said functions with the types by hand instead of inferring aforementioned types.
You say, "It's my assumption you have a range of pay you're willing to pay for this position. I'm very interested in working here so this isn't _all_ about the money, but I know what I'm worth and I'd like you to make an offer to see if we're on the same page."

So this assumes:

1. You researched the company, the position, and maybe know other people in the company and roughly what they make.
2. You researched your skillset, your experience, and have a rough idea of what you're worth.
3. You've adjusted for location, whether you're FT or contractor, medical, dental, time off, holidays, any bonus structure, and stock (not options!).
4. You're not making an emotional decision because you're not happy in your current position or unemployed and desperate (HR folk will eat you for lunch).

Be prepared, do your homework, and be confident about your value to the company and be firm about it.

The bottom-line, never give them any salary information. This is like going to a car dealer and saying, "I'll pay whatever you want and take nothing on my trade."

But always always be polite, deferential, and calm.
Oh, sorry about the confusion. I realized afterwards that you may have actually described how it should instead of the how it is. Maybe my English is faulty, but I think it was important to stress this for people outside of academia, it could be misleading otherwise.

Otherwise, I agree almost entirely with you - I myself left academia mostly for those reasons. Whether tenure professors do write papers depend quite a bit on the field, though - I know many professors in statistics who still contribute significantly to papers written by co-authors (mostly grad students, post docs), for example.
> The lights will transmit data to specially equipped computers on desks below by flickering faster than the eye can see. Ultimately, the technique could ease wireless congestion by opening up new expressways for short-range communications.

How much faster? My dad built a new type of ballast to reduce flickering because it absolutely drives dyslexics up the wall. Plug in a flicker-free light, and suddenly a lot of dyslexics can read without anywhere near as much trouble, people's headaches go away, and the light looks better, too - although that's my subjective opinion on the last point there.

I'd rather run an extra cable and not get a migraine at work.
"The cost of creating a website, even a $500 design over a CMS doesn't justify the cost."

The question I guess is why restaurant owners spend money having flash monstrosities built when most users -- especially those on mobile devices, which is a big use-case for restaurant websites -- would rather see plain-jane HTML with an address, phone number, and menu.

"The nephew of some restaurant owner finally convinces him or her that the restaurant needs a website."

I suspect this is closer to the truth. The restaurant owner demographic probably runs in the same circles as the dilettante designer demographic, so the site is built by a wait(er|ress) with a copy of Flash CS.
Elon Musk has been around for a while now. I first heard about him some 10 years ago, about the time Steve Jobs died and some mentioned he could be a good replacement for Jobs at Apple. Most people in my family did not know who he was (or who Jeff Bezos was) until a few months ago and I'm sure that some of them do not still know who he is.

I did not know who Tom Brady was until last year.

Fame is a lot more relative than it appears and there are many parallel universes out there.
With the recent research supporting that supernovae aren't a perfect uniform explosion but that it can be lopsided, doesn't it follow that a black hole won't form with a perfect implosion?

And when the singularity appears, isn't that all mass falling infinitely towards the singularity point at near light speed, and doesn't that impact the travel of the gravity waves at those speeds and time dilations to outside frames of reference?

The most extreme of this would be a black hole merger I'd guess. Do they formall merge once the center of mass of one of the holes enters the event horizon of the other? Can the event horizons "brush against one another?

Generally it's thought that a black hole is a perfect sphere if no spin, or a perfect oblong if not?
It depends on your role. Many people regularly maintain or interact with prod deployments which cannot be customized to your liking. So it may be "somewhere" or occasional in your case but not in all cases. Switching back and forth between shell syntax every few hours is very disorienting and worse, can cause serious errors (for ex: if I have a local alias with rm="rm -i" but a prod server doesn't have it)
Or the article was never really about putting Alexander on blast, and was always really about the broader SSC phenomenon, how it connects to the NRX psychos, and how that's just a hop or two away from SFBA power centers. That seems like an NYT article, more than a long profile about an obscure psychiatrist with a popular blog.
Thanks, I tried to find it but couldn't
Why? We are discussing that one kid got 68 years for not killing someone, and another kid is probably not going to get anything close to that for killing two. Now, I know there are more things involved in crime and sentencing than whether someone killed anyone but it should be crystal clear that these are very worthy of comparison.

On the other hand you are right in one respect - they're not remotely similar in that one boy was white and the other black. I know we're not going to "solve" racism in the comments section of HN but I think it's important to confront the fact that race is an overwhelming factor in how these cases play out.
Github. It is the simplest thing that might work. It is the most well documented option. It is the ordinary choice.

The reasons to use something else:

1. You are already using something else.

2. An ideological agenda that is more important than learning Git (there's nothing wrong with that, problems are in not acknowledging it).

3. An unusual set of circumstances that make Github unusually difficult to use. E.g. the Great Firewall.

4. Architectural design such as not taking dependencies on external services.

Otherwise, it's probably can-becoming-must contrarianism.
The thing is they claimed it originated from the seafood market yet couple blocks across the street there was a BS4 bio lab literally working with the materials.

It's amazing so many people will just take CCP's narrative at face value, there are still many that think it came from the seafood market.

Nature has lied to protect the CCP before:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/world/asia/china-springer...
What people don't understand is that because Facebook is doing something bad doesn't mean apple isn't also.
Sorry I don't understand what you're implying -- can you expand on this?
Well yeah legal system, but the burden of proof for the public opinion is different. If a rapist is acquitted because of a legal procedural error, did he not do it? Of course not, he's still a rapist. He's not send to jail for it though. Those are different things. 'innocent until proven guilty' is a purely legal axiom, not more. Not being proven guilty by the standards set by law doesn't make someone not guilty.

The OP was, as I understood it, not making a legal claim, but merely stating his opinion on whether or not what he is accused of did or did not happen. Proof on this position can come from both sides, but claiming that it must not have happened because the government is after him does not pass Ockham's razor.
That's an aggravating chart for colorblind users.
Really? I found the number of innovative healthtech companies to be very inspiring. Standard Cyborg is building a better version of the prosthetic limb for a small fraction of the cost. I think that's awesome.
What if HN would have been a private Slack Chat?
Most of reddit is open. No account required, no invite required to read. Same for HN. Facebook is closed.
Not really. Nobody is saying that the stated goals of Mars One are impossible to reach. People are saying that it's a scam without the means or even a viable plan to reach those goals.
Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes.
http://www.kulturstyrelsen.dk/fileadmin/user_upload/dokument...
I gasped at this assertion: "Virtuozzo, by the way, is still the best container system available. Unfortunately, it isn't open source, and that means you have to pay if you want to use it. Virtuozzo, by the way, has the distinction of being the only halfway decent container solution to (currently) run natively on Windows."

I don't even know how to process a comment like that about Virtuozzo. The fragility of Virtuozzo and OpenVZ is infamous. We get more support queries about our software running on OpenVZ and Virtuozzo containers than all other virtualization types combined (our stuff runs on a few hundred thousand hosting servers, we have a really good sample size).

For years, whenever we get a mysterious "this thing stops for no reason" or "this error doesn't make any sense" or "sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't" support request, literally our first clarifying question is, "Is this an OpenVZ or Virtuozzo system?" It is, frankly, broken by design, with regard to memory allocation.
Yeah, I've been following r/spacex for a little bit.

When they started trying to work out some good questions a day ago someone suggested that everyone upvote the resulting questions but the mods there quickly shut that down. [1]

The reasons given for deleting the comments was specifically what everyone was trying to avoid, that is voting brigading. As far as I can tell no one was asking for votes, simply working together to produce some high quality questions.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/lBCWvQh.png
The only thing I can think of: a good HFT algo might be able to exploit leap seconds to somehow gain an advantage over those that are ignorant of them (or vice versa).
Don't sweat it Marco. The people that really care understand the core points and know you're on to something. They also know the media just used you for pageviews. The other people have already forgotten they read that today.
The PC version they used to give out in cereal boxes was a lot of fun. I can't tell if it was "Monopoly 3" or "Monopoly New Edition", but I still remember the intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DuXg9kP0do

My brother and I played it together for hours. The computer opponents put up a challenge and were quite smart—you could do trades with them, which they would accept or reject depending on the situation; sometimes they would even offer you a trade on their own. Each piece had its own personality, animations, and voice clips. I think it might have had online play, too.
Same story, several sources:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003332 - google.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003637 - nytimes.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003930 - datacenterknowledge.com - This one has a comment.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004407 - bloomberg.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=2007474 - yahoo.com
I think "Erotica" is a bit euphemistic for "incest fantasy".
We've launched, YouEye hasn't, so hard to say :).

I'm looking forward to seeing what they come up with, eye tracking is a young industry with a lot of potential, great to see more people getting involved in it.
Plus another what, $13k, for self-employment taxes?
I'm a 'no' too. I think OpenBSD is just being trolled.
It can sometimes be quite surprising to learn which words are a part of your local vernacular.:)
I think that the recently announced NuGet (http://nuget.codeplex.com/) will be a big boost to the .net community. Having the global library repository like Perl's CPAN will be huge in bringing the community together. More users of libraries will mean more improvements too them.

It also seems like the existence and success of sites like codeplex and stackoverflow negates his thesis.

Was glad to read that he was leaving for purely non-technical reasons. I bet he'll be back someday.
Understanding db normalization - subsequently realizing normalization should also apply to code.

Attempting to implement conways game of life and accidentally creating mesmerizing mandalas made of ascii characters!

"getting" lisp, writing a lisp, Figuring out how to implement TCO, macro expansion, quasiquote etc. then doing it all over again!

Realizing that almost all programming is a form of macro expansion/parsing/compiling. (taking the plunge from generating html/sql/css to generating an entire language is seriously not such a huge leap when you think about it)

Picking up and reading the smalltalk-80 reference manual, lisp 1.5 manual, and SICP cover to cover. Wishing I was 30 years younger and then realizing I am infinitely grateful for the opportunity to just absorb all of the work that has come before me and build upon it.

APL - finally the magic of the characters I had only accidentally typed in dos when pressing alt + num keys were mine to wield! (seriously though I really dig APL and its children) The book that finally made it click for me was "APL With a Mathematical Accent" - highly recommended.
These stories are not mutually exclusive, The New York Times covers a lot of the victims' stories too (and there was at least one daily podcast on the subject within the past few months).
Have you used Om?

It completely changes the way you think about modelling applications and their events. It's closer to Flux on steroids rather than a thin wrapper on top of React.
Are there any options besides JNA and multi-process shared memory (java to native through message passing of some sort)?
It's pretty simple: He's accusing me of having given up, whereas I've been saying all along that we should continue to fight the good fight and not give up. He says:

> What you're really saying is that working against the development of surveillance and control technologies by private capital and government decision makers is hard and so is not "practical."

-- when I never once said that. His words imply that I said I gave up, and I never did, in fact quite the opposite.

Maybe he takes issue with the fact that I acknowledge that it's a difficult fight, not an easy one, but whatever. I said what I came to say and I stand by it.
I thought 15 million points was by far the best. TV shows like Big Brother, X-factor, etc, all pray on the vulnerability that certain people have for wanting to seek out fame and notoriety.

Incidentally, Sony had a recent patent for interactive advertisement, that only disappears after user interaction: http://fortune.com/2013/04/30/sony-patent-is-hilarious-terri...
Those water cups are extrodinarily dangerous. Clearly a few cups of water are enough to take down any plain, that's why the TSA needs to screen for fluids.