jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's not actually true. It's more fragmented than that.
At least we could do A/B testing with them! Isn't that what states are for?
>the middle man exists because they are worth the money.

I strongly disagree with this statement.

Rent seekers are everywhere and it is never guaranteed that they are adding anything of value to the system, and often they are only extracting.
Starting the first paragraph with a 1984 reference and the second one with McCarthy is a great way to look like a boy crying wolf.

Even if there is really a wolf. Especially if there's really a wolf — you don't want people to immediately write you off as a conspiracy theorist and alarmist. Even if you believe that you live in a true dystopian society, if your goal is to persuade people, you should try not to sound or look like character from The Lone Gunmen.

Sometimes I wonder how many conspiracy theorists are actually right, but when I begin to stuff like this, I can't bring myself to take it seriously, just because of pompous, self-righteous, anti-establishment way it is written.
The problem is you're not just moving whole pages, you're moving and compacting the objects within that page. Each object in the page has a new offset in the new page (or pages).
How is this not a failure on Google’s part? Isn’t it a failure for Google to give me results from an unoptimized website? If I click on a Google search result and it takes me to something irrelevant to me, how has Google not failed?

I am very confused by your argument.
I'm going to keep pointing out the ridiculousness of HN and the voting system until it's fixed.
A good friend of mine just finished up a year and a half of living and photographing in Whittier. She has a few amazing photos here: http://documentarystudies.duke.edu/uploads/media_items/city-...

The stories I've heard about this town are wild
Please don't do this here. It's hard enough to have a substantive discussion about something divisive even when people stay on topic. Introducing adjacent generic flamewar material is not helpful.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13193640 and marked it off-topic.
Surely you've heard of the Stairway to Heaven?
File systems are an abstraction we created over disc storage. The discs don't care. They only know about sectors of, say, 4096 bits. It is not at all clear that a hierarchical structure of byte-records is the best abstraction to create over that storage.
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It’s an interesting theory, I’d question what’s their end game here? What’s the motive?
And it still is a fairly standard exercise for first or second semester undergrad students.
> You can find them on Google Scholar or similar search engines, but you cannot post them to HN or Twitter because they get instantly censored.

That seems crazy. Can you give me a pointer on what to search for?
The problem is, as you've said, very generally and applies to almost all p2p applications. The Bitcoin client has a series of bootstrapping attempts (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Network#Bootstrapping) which involves a list of hardcoded DNS and IP addresses, and establishing an IRC connection to find peers. I think using IPFS for bootstrapping is a pretty good idea IMO. At least you're relying on an already-decentralized system and not on a central server.

I've been thinking about finding simple solutions to the problem like treating the IP space like a binary search space or generally finding solutions that are better than random sampling (More methods are compared in https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-642-01...)

I anyone can recommend more resources for learning about bootstrapping methods or has examples of how other apps solve the problem, please let me/us know!
that ignores the finding of Covid in September 2019 in Italy, which would make connection to Wuhan lab questionable
Not in this case. The WHO also pushed the same charade.
Use the IDE for intellisense? Great idea except the database models are in a different project...

If for whatever reason you can't link the project properly, as a tip for the future, I've ended up just making a separate copy of the project which included a reference to the uncompiled project.

And in the worst instance I actually used a reverse generated project from the binary. I actually gradually refactored that auto-generated code into more readable code too!
This is very common in D and D doesn't not have any macro system. It uses regular syntax (more or less). D was doing this way before Zig existed and before C++ had constexpr. Simple example of platform specific members:

struct Socket
{
version (Posix)
int handle;
else version (Windows)
SOCKET handle;
else
static assert(false, "Unsupported platform");
}

Another example is the checked numeric type [1] in the D standard library. It takes two types as parameters. The first being the underlying type and the second being a "hook" type. The hook type allows the user to decide what should happen in various error conditions, like overflow, divide by zero and so on. The implementation is written in a Design By Introspection style and inspects the hook type and adopts its implementation depending on what hooks it provides. If the hook type implements the hook for overflow, that hook will be executed, otherwise it falls back to some default behavior.

[1] https://dlang.org/phobos/std_experimental_checkedint.html
This article is dumb because it doesn't explain why Ron Conway is so good. Maybe this is written for a silicon valley insider audience that knows what he does that is so great. It feels like pg's writing was more interesting when he was the outsider taking on the status quo.
I am an expert, and it's not. How do you like them arguments from authority?
Java and Javascript walked into a bar...
I'm biased, but Kash has the best blog around if you're interested in keeping up with privacy (and anti-privacy) issues
Hmm, I've been "kicking" software for years:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Even if I did have access, I certainly wouldn't want to go back and start changing things. I cared deeply about my members and fully trusted my administrative team to do what they thought was best, and sometimes that meant putting aside my own beliefs and trying something different.

Probably what the OP was referring to is precisely this. Apparently you were able to stand by your decision to not come back, but I have a feeling that the OP was referring to those people who actually think they can go away but actually do come back.
I wouldn't watch a movie in the same room as friends with a HMD, but I could watch a movie with someone in a "virtual theater" when they're 1000 miles away.

I don't think we should write it off so quickly; it's like saying "Text messages are pointless, they don't carry inflections and emotion like phone calls. I can't see myself texting anyone." There are things you can do in real life but not in VR and there are things you can do with VR that you can't do in real life.
Being an ordinary human, I will never know how trolls trolling trolls had a hand in bringing us this tale of Kopi Luwak.

* you

* the two Kopi Luwak drinkers

* the merchant who sold them the Kopi Luwak

* the modern day manufacturers and wholesalers of Kopi Luwak

* the genius who came up with Kopi Luwak

* the civet

How many are civet shit true believers? How many are trolls — some, none, all?
> That is how you negotiate when you’re struggling to find a job. By doing this you’re admitting that you’re not going to be as good as the high CoL candidate so you adjust your price to make your offer more attractive to the company. That’s a terrible position to put yourself in (but entirely understandable if you can’t get offers otherwise).

Yup. That's what i said.

If you see no reason to negotiate, why negotiate? Set your price at what your think your value is. Don't indulge COL requirements of another location.

> It’s unlikely as a candidate that there is even any competition for the position you are filling (as in not multiple candidates that have passed the bar being picked over). Talking you into cost of living adjustments or whatever bullshit is just salary negotiation, not competition with other engineers.

As someone who hires, i disagree. Every one of our hires has been a debate on expected output when compared to cost. But we're a fully remote company.

edit: Oh, and we're not flush with VC cash. We also can't afford any SF employees for this reason. We're much more willing to hire a junior engineer if their priced accordingly. Likewise, if we hired someone at $250k/y, we'd expect twice the output of him/her - and that's unlikely.

I don't get why this is controversial.
Perhaps if you equate "progressive" with "supporting the Democratic Party," but that's about the extent of the bona fides of most of the others.
Read about the Overton window.

As an example of uniformity of thought in media. Have you considered why we aren’t having debates about open sourcing the vaccine? We just take for granted that the right thing to do is lock it up behind a couple companies and never consider the lives we could be saving by making its production immediately accessible to the entire world.
You have to make the consequences of non-compliance greater than the coverup.

Make a lien on the pension which forces the old guard to feel uncomfortable and request department changes.

Make this occur for the slightest infractions of any individual officer.

Make the municipality have to disclose very significant policing stats when they want to issue a bond, and then quarterly. They currently have a complete disclosure exemption from the SEC.

Turn on these consequences every time a police report doesn't match the video. Or whenever one just lies whether there is video or not.

Make the partners accomplices when they don't report, and that alone being a trigger for the wide range of sanctions against the entire municipality.

There are a lot of ways to make them turn on themselves, while keeping their primarily stated concern of being able to make split second decisions and get home safely at the end of the day.

This would be much better than requiring all this fanfare for a small subset of egregious transgressions.
Haha, you weren't the only one doing this. I used to alter the fire engine to also have some absurd weight but and engine powerful enough to still move it. Their was also a time scaling option somewhere which would slow the game down and put it into a "matrix"-esque mode.

I used to jump into the fire engine, get on the wrong side of the road on a freeway and activate the slow motion before driving head on into the traffic. Their was something mesmerising about smashing your way through the cars and seeing them lift off into the air and fly into the buildings on either side of the freeway.

Eventually the police would show up but what could they do against a fire engine that was as dense as a sky scraper!
Sure. Only a small portion of people care about trying to analyze wine. But it is useful for selling wine. I like wines with lots of non-fruit flavors. Seeing a description with things I have heard used to describe wines I remember liking is useful. So there is a place for descriptors even if I buy wine to enjoy rather than analyze.
It needs to sell itself to drivers, for one. Manage drivers. Advertise...
And the scheme would involve many gigatons of olivine, so the release would be very large.
Information is the number of bits you need to describe the state of the system.

(You can look at the technical concepts of "Fisher Information" and "conservation of probability", if you want more details for the quantum case)

It's then about, what you want to describe.

In quantum physics you want to describe the full state.
In our world you want to describe statistics about the full state we have access to : the "observables".

Among those statistics there are some quantities which are expected to be conserved and easily accessible.
In our day to day language information is about the value of these quantities, and the number of bits necessary to describe these values, which is a lower bound of the full state uncompressed information.

When we have the full state, the rules of evolution are reversible therefore you cannot lose information,
if you know the full state at any one time, you can know it at any other time in the future or past, it's just a matter of computation to time-evolve the system.

What gets fun is that information can get compressed. Imagine dropping a piece of glass to the floor and it shatters.

Before the shattering it can easily be described as a uniform square of glass, but after, you have to describe the positions of every pieces.
But because the system is deterministic there is the same information before and after : you can describe it simply by stating it's the time-evolution of uniform square of glass at time post-shattering.

But if you want to do some computation on it, you can't always work in compressed form.
You then need to find a suitable representation which allows to perform the computation you need efficiently.

How much will need to be materialized will depend of the rules of your system.
> Practice for half as long as you're on <time_wasting_social_app> in one day and you'll be fluent.

To be fair, you could learn almost anything in that amount of time;)
For more than a decade now people on the mainstream parts of the internet have been casually joking about the getting on lists, the feds glowing and generally being mindful that the internet is well monitored and if you're gonna do something stupid you should leave your phone somewhere it can ping a tower to produce an alibi.

I don't think anyone who's more than a spur of the moment participant on either side of things is making the dumb opsec mistakes that the author and these comments are portraying as typical.
Yes, this indeed. Especially given the positive feedback loops: https://climaterealityproject.org/blog/how-feedback-loops-ar...
re: if open source

Free for open source () => http://resources.xamarin.com/open-source-contributor.html

re: if free

Free for students () => https://xamarin.com/student

re: if cheaper

So $25/month is too much for capability to ship on all three mobile platforms - native development - using a shared codebase written in one of the nicest languages (F#/C#) in existence? If you're a startup w/ at least three people in your team just send them a email to work something your in your favour.
Consider that the wavelength of red light is 700 nm, and the wavelength of UV-C is 100nm to 280nm.

And immediately, we see the problem about dropping to 10nm: that's literally smaller than the distance that photons vibrate on their way to the final target.

And yeah, 10nm and 7nm is a marketing term, but that doesn't change the fact that these processes are all smaller than the wavelength of light.

-------

So there are two ways to get around this problem.

1. Use smaller light: "Extreme UV" is even smaller than normal UV at 13.5nm. Kind of the obvious solution, but higher energy and changes the chemistry slightly, since the light is a different color. Things are getting mighty close to literal "X-Ray Lasers" as they are, so the power requirements are getting quite substantial.

2. Multipatterning -- Instead of developing the entire thing in one shot, do it in multiple shots, and "carefully line up" the chips between different shots. As difficult as it sounds, its been done before at 40nm and other processes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_patterning#EUV_Multip...)

3. Do both at the same time to reach 5nm, 4nm, or 3nm. Either way, 10nm and 7nm is the point where the various companies had to decide to do #1 first or #2 first. Either way, your company needs to learn to do both in the long term. TSMC and Samsung went with #1 EUV, and I think Intel though that #2 multi-patterning would be easier.

And the rest is history. Seems like EUV was easier after all, and TSMC / Samsung's bets paid off.

Mind you, I barely know any of the stuff I'm talking about. I'm not a physicist or chemist. But the above is my general understanding of the issues. I'm sure Intel had their reasons to believe why multipatterning would be easier. Maybe it was easier, but other company issues drove away engineers and something unrelated caused Intel to fall behind.
Sure, the bill was ludicrously simplistic.

Generally legislators aren’t going to fix a bill like this with amendments. Those are used for something that is close to what is needed.
>Software is still a new industry. I fully believe the companies that win in the long run will be the ones that have the best codebases (assuming software is what differentiates your business).

There are so many counter examples (Facebook, Microsoft to name two) to your point it simply can not be true.
Judging by responses here, it is more like 1 person who finds it awesome for every 9 people who find it ugly. Otherwise you are right.
In German they are called “one times one”
Alberto Contador initially won Tour de France in 2010, but tested positive for traces of clenbuterol. He blamed it on meat he had been eating. It has become a meme in cycling circles.
I don't see the problem. The same companies that competed when BT owned OpenReach at the same time as the ISP BT Internet. In the early days before LLU they paid a damn rental to BT Wholesale (as I think it was back then), yet loads of ISPs managed to grow via essentially second class access, and second class service speed (early repairs and provisioning were essentially down to "Ask BT Wholesale nicely"). Well how the hell did the others get large enough to push for LLU?

The choice of giving access here is a different measure - to give access to the infrastructure arm for those companies who have built out smaller, competing fibre networks like the couple of city services that sprung up. It's unclear if that will encompass the tiny regional additions to add internet to far flung rural villages.

In essence, that is no difference to local loop unbundling, except this time it's going the other way and requiring the national provider be given access to infrastructure.

There is still no reason not to provide a commercial retail ISP service. Maybe Talktalk will still be able to offer something in place of merely being cheaper by being the shittest in the market. Maybe Zen or Andrews and Arnold will be able to carry on charging more by offering a markedly better standard of service, or faster internals, or a robust stance on blocking and censorship. The compulsory part is -- from what we have been told -- only the infrastructure access. Sky and Virgin will probably include TV as part of the package.

It will be similar to how private medicine ceased to be in the UK after the NHS was instantiated -- except it didn't, did it? BUPA and others found a niche.

Whether it works, is a success, or a mega-project mega-failure remains to be seen. The idea of a nationalised infrastructure in a world where the net is required for so much makes sense, particularly when national rollout of FTTH has been so dire. It has become as much a natural monopoly as water. I'm less convinced the retail side makes quite so much sense...

5G is, for the time being, completely irrelevant as it's a mobile tech.
> and anything you can do without blowing that fuse won't damage the grid

That's what you'd think. But I have actually done damage to the grid and had that fuse still in one piece. I accidentally connected the -HV line of a neon light installation to ground. After I could see again I realized the power had gone out. I called my boss (landline still worked) who lived more than a kilometer away from the workshop and there too the power had gone out. It turned out my little accident had put a good chunk of the eastern part of Amsterdam out of commission and the fuse was just fine.

Fuses react to current, not to power and when you dump a high enough voltage back into the grid your fuse might not blow before you cause something further upstream to trigger to protect the rest of what's connected.
"Gee coldpie, why do you use NoScript? All you're doing is breaking every website you visit!"

Shoe's on the other foot now, hahaha!

:)
Catching up to London in the 1930s...or was it 1950s?

Burning lots of coal in dated power stations next to a city is a bad idea for the residents health.
I mentioned that Guile also has one, called a vhash. I guess my point is that special read syntax for them isn't that useful when you can use an alist and convert.
> I don't think I can imagine anything less robust than cars, in terms of the frequency and severity of operational failure.

Maybe US cars :P

> They're pretty much the deadliest thing we've ever invented that wasn't actually designed to kill people.

It's a box weighing 1-2 tons that travels at 100kmh+. Millions (billions?) of km are driven every year. There will be accidents for both good drivers and bad. This won't change.

> cars and shell scripts are perfectly safe if operated by highly competent people, and only become (extremely) dangerous when operated by incompetents, but in practice most operators are incompetent, in denial, and refuse to learn from others' mistakes.

That's simply untrue - both points. Highly competent drivers will have accidents. I highly doubt you feel extreme danger when you get behind the wheel/in a car. The way you phrase it, one expects millions of fatalities daily.
Failed state? More like failed UN insurgency and failed propping up government the people don't want going on 20+ years. Anarchy reigns outside of the warzone. Past Galkayo there is quite a lot of peace relative to Mogadishu. Even before Barre's regime failed it is estimated that 80-90% of any state court orders were ignored in preference of Xeer customary law. You don't know the situation here if you can distill it to "failed state" and "warlords".

Who cares you read sagas or whatever about a Lebanese kidnapping?
My point wasn't about the punishment, it was about what people find horribly distasteful and offensive -- and why your pet standard might not necessarily be the one accepted by 50 million Burmese. Reducing it to "Ha ha, a picture of Buddha wearing headphones on Facebook gets you jail time!" is a bit simplistic to be honest.

How do you know that a Buddha with headphones isn't offensive enough to the people of Myanmar for them to legislate against it? Anyway, in case you are genuinely concerned with the difference in magnitude of punishment, see the reply to my comment in which someone has pointed out how owning a manga can get you prosecuted in the US.

As a side note, I should clarify (if some people were in doubt) that I don't agree with the Burmese decision. Throwing people in jail for two years for an offensive picture is, in my opinion, ridiculous. And so is the manga example, or how Matt Taylor was pilloried on social media.

If, in your opinion, makes me a "professional man-child", so be it.