jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's not a genetic standard, it's a phenotypic advantage. Taller humans are preferred by other humans and have a physical advantage over the competition so they are more likely to survive as the fittest.
The feel good title. The call to action email signup. The affiliated deals. And the fact that a mere landing page is deliberately posted to Show HN. This strikes me as a spammy "growth hack" from Codementor.
No, that should be an ARIA label. Specifically NOT a `title` attribute.

A title provides additional (not redundant) info and browsers and assistive technologies implement the attribute differently.
OT: siarad Cymraeg Paul?
I don't understand the purpose of this comment, but it seems vaguely as though it is to suggest that "depression" is not a sufficient name for his condition and that its treatment through anti-depressants not a sufficient answer.

I appreciate and support efforts to get people to continue to investigate their condition and to explore treatment options, but I bristle when it seems to stem from a kind of prejudice against psychology and psychiatry as it appears to here.

(As an aside: Hypomania is on the opposite end of the emotional disorder spectrum from depression. Mentioning it here is akin to telling someone complaining of constipation that they may want to speak with their doctor about diarrhea.)
J2EE and J2SE are also solid platforms...
>And specifically, the APL/K/J focus on data makes it a better foundation for optimization, parallelization and reasoning about program behaviour.

I'll give you the first two points (though some heavy-weight optimizations become necessary to eliminate big wasteful temporaries), but certainly not the last. At least not in general--- recursion is a terrible pain with arrays! Even stateful object-oriented languages deal with inductive structures better than array languages.

What does tree processing in APL look like? I'm it's possible and I'm also sure it's hell. The K/Q approach of nested vectors is a first step towards making recursion tolerable in an array language, but it's still a kludge.
Sure they are using Java, through languages like Scala and Clojure both of which runs on the JVM, neither of which forces you to actually write in Java.

These days there is basically no reason to do webdevelopment in Java - even if you have legacy stuff lying around, JRuby or Scala will serve you much better and neither is that hard to learn and both will get you over Javas sever limitations (really, no anonymous functions? No Closures?)
I understand the point of the post but what is “intellectual potential” really? Even if we’re discussing helping humanity as a whole, what does “helping” mean? Maybe we want to make society better, say by helping everyone involved to live the best lives they could possibly live, but this is also a quite vague and subjective concept.

What I’m trying to say is that a fulfilling life is something that changes per individual. Perhaps a less-scientific and more art-driven society is preferable and would result in a much more enjoyable life for specific individuals. Others might prefer the complete opposite. For instance I want to go to the stars and conquer different worlds because I feel that a life worth living means exploring the unknown. But I also understand that using our resources to reach for the stars might also exploit some other parts of society in a negative way.

So who’s to say that playing a video game that fulfils your needs is less valuable than doing anything else? Life is beautiful because it’s diverse. Let the billions of variables coalesce and generate an existence that fulfils the needs of the people that live it. Sure you can push the needle in a specific direction (like scientific research) but the variables are so many and the individuals so diverse that it’s hard to contemplate a formula that would work at scale for everyone.

Instead of concentrating on the intellectual potential I would argue that “diversity” is a much more important variable. Life thrives in diverse conditions - we see this in how important biodiversity is for ecosystems (like plants). I think the same concept also applies for intellect.
I think the comparison is quite apt, given that the most popular artists are usually not the ones that have "mastered their craft" the most.

One can argue that White Stripes' 7 Nation Army or Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans are not feats of technical mastery by any stretch of imagination, but the key is that there is no correlation between technical difficulty and monetary value in the first place.

With that said, it's also worth mentioning that the world is vast enough that there's a bit of everything. Yes, there are companies making millions on the back of terrible excel spreadsheet hackjobs. But there's also Google's impressive infrastructure. And there's lichess.org running a hugely popular app on just a few servers. Success in itself it not one-dimensional.
Such a great landing page.

It gets the point across instantly, no bullshit at all. No corporate memphis illustrations [1] and no marketing fluff. Excellence in all manner.

[1] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/corporate-memphis-design-tec...
> For over 90% of workloads kubernetes is an overkill.

It's not. Take any simple web app and deploy it into managed GKE with Anthos and you automatically get SLI's and the ability to define SLO's for availability and latency with a nice wizard. Takes a few minutes to setup.

The amount of engineering needed to achieve good SLO monitoring dwarfs the engineering needed to run a simple app so it just never happened. That's no longer the case.

> Only when company is reaching google scale kubernetes make sense.

Also obviously not true given the number of companies deriving value from kubernetes.

Note, I'm a Google Cloud partner.
In my opinion, the main limitation of TSan is that it cannot find all possible races. (An impossible task so I think TSan is a pretty great tool to get to the point that this is the main limitation)

As a dynamic tool, if a race is observed during execution by TSan, the race is very likely to be real. But it is impossible to "observe" execution for every part of a large code base, and so real races are likely still hiding in some edge case that TSan did not execute.

Static Analysis tools are interesting in that they have the opposite problem. Static tools can detect races across the entire code base, but without runtime information it is difficult to know if the races are real. This leads to more real races being detected, but also comes with more false positives.

There is a lot of interesting working being done on data race detection and how we can bring these two sides closer together to find more real races, without overwhelming developers with false positives.
That’s funny.. when I read OP’s post, I was pretty underwhelmed by the complaints. He describes a pretty typical office environment, in my experience. The HVAC problems and disgusting facilities rang the most true to me. I remember a spider infestation in a break room that did not get addresses until an employee threatened to complain. (The place ended up spider-free but smelling of insecticide, and the complainer was fired for “poor performance”.) I agree that a lot of HN readers seem to have only been exposed to idyllic FAANG workspaces, and have no idea the conditions most office workers have to put up with.
Archegos was hedged. All of its long positions were matched with short index futures, and the fund was running at or near market neutral.

Hedging doesn't mean zero risk. It just means removing the risk of whatever it is being hedged. In this case it wasn't a general market decline that took out Archegos. It was a decline in the specific basket of stocks they were holding relative to the broader market.
You tell your boss:

"Just so you know, we only take a snapshot every X minutes... so there's a chance Billy wasn't the person who made that change. If you had told me you were planning to fire people as a result of this tracking system I might have spent more than five minutes hacking it together with a cronjob and a git repository."
Fun fact: According to the initial Mesos paper: Spark was a demo project to show off Mesos.

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~alig/papers/mesos.pdf

> To validate our hypothesis that specialized frameworks providevalue over general ones, we have also built a new frame-work on top of Mesos called Spark ...
How about on Sunday at the Cherrywood Coffeehouse at 7PM?
off topic, I like the design. Can I get in touch with the designer?
You do need names for some parts. I would modify that to:

"It's a program that lets other programs see themselves."
Has it passed in terms of sales per unit time, or total sales to date? I think it's the former, whereas the latter matters more to someone selling apps.
If you want to get into the nitty gritty, the 1% rich generally don't sell products or services. They own companies who employ workers who do these tasks. Some surplus portion of the value generated by those workers is then captured by the organization (and its owners) as profit. Whether you want to call that "taking" or not is a question of ideology, not of fact. Arguably, omitting the word "taken" from the headline would be editorializing as well.
Attaching an air filter to a box fan doesn't look great and sounds loud. There's no remote and no pivot or heating functions.
https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...

I have used this for many years to prepare and file online. It is FREE and uses the IRS forms. No annoying wizards or questions. Anyone can use it, no limitations.
Electron apps
I did a double take. There are ads on PLATO[1]? Do they do monochrome graphics in TUTOR[2}? No, it's social media. Sigh.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUTOR
By adding a carbon tax and a carbon offset refund.

Put the responsibility on the generators, not consumers.
My favorite play since high school.
Gosh. Would it be illegal for HN to do this automatically?
Makes me wish average joe could buy spacex stock. Willing investors shouldnt have to be elite or accredited. Just believers and supporters of a better future.
Yep, on that point I agree with you completely. I don't at all understand why people find their appearance complicated or scary, but I agree that it's more appearance than reality.
You know, it's funny but reading the EC2 forums you see several occasions where Amazon does reboot instances automatically after a failure.

I recall several posts where a customer asked a question along the lines of "Why did my instance reboot" and then someone from Amazon replied something to the effect of "Sorry there was an issue with the underlying hardware but we did restart your server on new hardware".
The alternative to the market served by satellite Internet isn't fiber, it's nothing (or in some cases, cell towers). To address your point: The satellite network would almost certainly be in LEO. There's no fundamental reason why LEO satellites should have high latency. They're only a few hundred kilometers out, so round trip times are measured in single digit milliseconds. GEO sats have latency (and bandwidth) issues due to their distance from the surface.
I didn't downvote, but your formulas don't make any sense. What is y? What is k? Why are they multiplied together (or subtracted?)? Isn't x - x + yk simply yk?

Also more substantively, if you are already making $x, why would you volunteer that you'll accept $x to move?
It's not a fact, it's an opinion, one I personally disagree with. I know the "steam and sweat" and still find industrial spaces interesting. What's next, not finding the rain interesting because I got a cold once?
Google Inc. does direct investments from time to time. Also they have their growth investment arm, Google Capital, which has invested some large sums recently in Glassdoor, etc. (but surely not $1B in one company unless they acquired that company). Perhaps Google Inc. is leading the investment with the round consisting of many undisclosed players across private equity, etc.
Same here. I'm hoping TC or even Sam Altman will do a similar post comparing how demo day has changed over the years.
That's 41,600,000 pixels.

My 24" display, at 1920x1200 (~86 PPI) is 2,304,000 pixels, and even with a moderately high end graphics card, it struggles under load. You're talking about a display with 18x as many pixels to paint (or, to put it in a metric more easily graspable, it'd be like running ~18 displays at 1920x1200 @ 86 DPI, across which a single frame would be painted.

Needless to say, I don't think that technology is going to be showing up in stores near us in the next year or two. :)
That confirms my own experience. I currently live in a noisy flat. When I started sleeping with earplugs, I started waking up way more alert and ready.
Much of the discussion here is about how you should be judged by what you write, not how you write it. I thought I'd mention an experiment I ran across a while ago.

http://neil.fraser.name/news/2005/08/20/
Talking to humans improved my writing skills :) Reading about mythology e.g. Joseph Campbell improved my story telling abilities.
I don't understand why there would be something ironic, postmodern, satirical, or unexpected about a relatively privileged white South African who grew up in the era of apartheid being associated with space travel or other technology that is considered futuristic.

Nothing has changed. It is still as it has always been.

The US space program and the Moon landings can be traced directly back to Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun and his work at Peenemünde, utilizing slave labor to build rockets for Nazi Germany.

"More people died building the V-2 rockets than were killed by it as a weapon"

The course of history was shaped by Von Braun being terrified of the Soviets and choosing to surrender to Americans.

Some people see this sort of historical note as extremely relevant to everything today, and some don't. I see nobody trying to bridge that gap.
You are right. Percentages are the meaningful numbers here.
Looks cool. I’m guessing this is for embedded, right?
Using "command=" in authorized_keys is one way. I've used this to restrict a certain ssh key pair to only using allowing a few simple commands via a wrapper-shell script.

A couple of succinct examples I found via a quick google:

https://www.virtono.com/community/tutorial-how-to/restrict-e...

https://ctrlnotes.com/restrict-a-user-to-ssh-forced-command/...

You could also use Match in sshd_config and ForceCommand too.
My last few computers have used AMD chips. I think I will stick with those.
Seriously? What the fuck. His comment wasn't clear.

Was his comment to distance the Golden Rule from Christianity? I'm having a hard time interpreting it otherwise, but that's an ignorant effort, as the "do unto others" concept predates Jesus of Nazareth by 1,000+ years.

I'm still not clear on what the point of his comment was; all I did was ask for clarification, with NO commentary at all. Can you clarify his initial intent? If so, please do.

Also, I know you might not have been one of the folks to give me downvotes, so I'll address whoever that was separately: Don't just downvote a comment on HN without explaining your beef. This isn't Reddit.
Come on, you're just paraphrasing. Here's the full quote:

“We have the unique ability to uncover interesting workplace trends in our data given the high volume of people with profiles on LinkedIn,” said DJ Patil, LinkedIn's Chief Data Scientist. "In this case, we wanted to reveal insights that help professionals make better choices about how to position themselves online whether they are reaching out to new clients or networking with peers.”
I have read about the lean startups, but I have neveread about the manufacturing side of things. Could you recomend an good book on the subject for a fellow hn user?
I love how the first sentence after the list, the quote from LinkedIn's Chief Data Scientist, is also 100% Buzzword Compliant: LinkedIn has a unique ability that reveal insights that help professionals and much more.

If this is your kind of thing, check out Buzz Whack: http://buzzwhack.com/ .
It's certainly noteworthy that these assertions are now backed by data.
Wow! Sounds like a scene from a (nerdy) sitcom. What'd you do?
Prediction: Windows Phone 7 will merge with Windows 7 or perish. iOS will merge with OS X or perish.

Oh wait, I don't predict either of those things. In each case, one is a desktop OS and one is a mobile OS. Sure, they all include web browsers that use the same rendering engine, but that doesn't mean they need to merge. Mobile and Desktop are two separate problems.

There's a reason why Windows CE laptops were never successful; people don't want a phone OS on their computer.
We tried them where I work. Our office is probably a 75 person open office. No one liked them (I believe we tried two vendors, not sure which). I felt that they were a little too intrusive -- when it was quiet you still wanted to put your headphones on.
A little disorienting at first, but after I adjusted to it the concept is pretty cool. I just built an egg-timer using JS/CSS, but plan on translating it onto an HTML5 canvas as I work my way through the learning process (via Dive Into HTML5). Now I've yours as an example when I inevitably get stumped by something :)
This definitely is not correct. Though there are many who argue that classes should be designed for inheritance and that classes which are not should not be inheritable (I'll leave that to your own judgement), when classes are designed for inheritance you do need a way to call your superclass.

And in Python's case, due to MI, you need a way to call your superclasses in a consistent and sensible order even though these superclasses are unaware of one another (one might be "normally" inheritable while the other is a mixin-type superclass for instance, or used to inject metaclass-based behaviors). This is, as far as I know, a perfectly valid use case and one which requires a `super`-type utility (though Python's own `super` isn't quite a flawless implementation of this).
Boy, you weren't kidding:

Stats from 2008:

* Recognized as the #1 Fastest Growing CE Company by Inc. Magazine
* Total of 100 employees
* Shipped a total of 3,500,000 HDTVs
* Total revenue exceeds 2 Billion Dollars
Looks like the result of hiring a designer that thinks they can create (develop) for the web because they learnt flash:

<!-- START OF SmartSource Data Collector TAG -->
<!-- © 1999-2004 NetIQ Corporation. All rights reserved. -->
<!-- V7.0 -->
<!-- $DateTime: 2003/10/28 16:26:23 $ -->

Hmm, ...
Amish are very nice people, warm, friendly and with strong convictions. I was lucky to have been invited once to share a day with them (a visited a community in Ohio, had dinner, talked to them). But nevertheless ,the whole "no electricity" thing is crazy. Depending on the area there are workshops devoted in converting electrical appliances to pneumatic power. Yes they take things like blenders, food processors, pull out the electric motor put in an a pnumatic one. Then, of course, run compressed air (or vacuuum?) lines through their house. Some reintepret it as "you can't be connected to the mains" so they charge batteries then use the batteries to supply power to the house or machinery. Think about the brainpower and time spent into doing that. There is not logic or careful analysis of "advantages of electricity vs disadvantages" it is plain silly.
... and cleans out the criminals, ousts the corrupt autocracy, efficiently runs services and healthcare, vaccinates your kids...

Yeah, it might be good for a while. Not sure.

In the long run, I don't think they're going to be any more effective than what they replaced.

When the body politic (i.e. nearly everyone) supports the rule of law with a transparent governing process (which includes publishing budgets, new laws, etc. and may also include relatively free and fair elections), that will reduce corruption in the long term.

Otherwise, I think it is inevitable that those currently in power will A) try hard to stay in power, and B) use the perks of office to benefit themselves.

Not that I expect many people in ISIS territory to be having these kinds of discussions... they're all concerned about shorter term issues (like not getting killed).
I think it is ridiculous to point fingers at this point, but he has a point - something is fishy about Lizard Squad.

Here are the facts that I know of:

1. Lizard Squad is fairly new.

2. They managed to bring down PSN and XBL.

3. They make some noise in the tor community with their nodes.

4. They are complete amateurs at OPSEC and they love talking to the reporters.

You can accomplish #2 and #3 by either being good or having money to buy botnets.
I think the comments so far are getting too caught up in the details of the article.

The point is not whether or not you like TV, or what choices the Amish have made. The point is to engage in a thoughtful decision process with technology, (or anything else in your life), and decide if it truly is helping you be the person you want to be, helping your family to grown on a personal level, and improving your community.

If you have truly thought it out and decided that any given tech is good for your life, great. But if you are just bringing technology into your life because it is new and shiny, you might want to consider stepping a level or two deeper in your decision process.
Hmmm. I do like the "Learn X the Hard Way" by Zed stuff. And I do like the in-page edit-compile-respond of the Rust-by-example book.

That said: I'm not really a funny guy like the Perl people or Randall Munroe. Do you think a co-author would help with a more general audience?
That is not correct. If you listen to his talk Lustig said something to the effect of "wherever god put the poison, he also put the anitdote." Thus, anywhere in nature where fructose appears there is also fiber. And fiber if it is processed at the same time and similar quantities as fructose allows the liver to process fructose properly.

So there should not be anything in its natural state that is problematic. The only exception to that may be honey.
At least according to the blog post, it seems like part of the issue may be a stampede of requests due to the complete outtage of a single AZ. If every single service hosted in the Amazon cloud did some sort of solution where they did failover to another Region in the case of multiple AZ outtages, how can we be sure that that stampede of requests wouldn't take out that other region? Could Amazon handle the entirety of the US East workload being dumped onto Europe/US West?
I would absolutely love to import this into OSM, but the data is locked behind their API (which has access restrictions).
Actually, no. Starting a website is nothing like having a baby.

I think this may be the dumbest thing I've read all week.
Nice. Running your own CA is a great way to enhance internal security, and the existing shell/make/perl scripts to do it tend to be pretty limited in their functionality.
Dumaguete, which is a hub of the southern half of the island of Negros.

Edit: If you are serious about this, your best bet is to move here and get it going. Then when you have it running smoothly, you can move on but still drop by occasionally. However, as I mentioned, I know people who live here and have a hard time finding good staff. Think about all those articles you see about businesses in India trying to hire good staff from the pool of college graduates. I imagine the Philippines is worse (smaller pool of people to choose from, schools on average are probably no better) except that English is an official language here.
Awesome, I just figured out that you kept the votes tallied during the 'downtime'. What's interesting is how clearly good and bad submissions were dichotomized when nobody had anything else to vote on.
It was a form for signing an agreement. If they don't fill in their full address then the contract may not be legally binding.