jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My 2008 (Core 2 Duo) MBP died last week and I figured I'd upgrade rather than repair it (I felt the Core 2 Duo was aging fast). I borrowed my mother's low-end MBA for the time being and Fell In Love. It was great for Xcode development/tricked-out Emacs for remote dev. (pretty much all you need).

However, I ended up with a tricked-out MBP 15" w/ SSD & Hi-Res screen - the reason is I need the peripherals &etc. for heavy apps like Logic. But let me tell you, if you're going MBP 15" - cough up for an SSD, but also ... get the Hi-Res screen. It's only $100 extra and you will feel as if you have an absurd amount of screen real estate.
How does 4 Euros/GB on 3G replace free, faster wifi at my favorite coffee shop?
On a separate note, does anyone know where one can buy a 12-core, 32GB RAM, SSD RAID machine that's not made by apple? I've looked around and I can't find any. Blade servers, sure, but desktop workstations?

I think it's interesting how apple has claimed the ultra high end user market in addition to it's other markets.
Every time I bookmark something using the FF plugin it gets saved to my Delicious.com account. I'm betting if you log in to your delicious account you'll see all of the bookmarks that are not showing on your browser currently.

The reason that they aren't showing on your browser is most likely because the Delicious plugin is not compatible with FF4. Their lack of FF4 support is a totally reasonable thing to criticize Delicious about. They must be severely under staffed to not have updated their plugin to be compatible with FF4.
It isn't a trick that I've ever seen a magician perform, it's more along the lines of something your Uncle would do.

Many people are more concentrated on figuring out a magician's tricks. A great magician will make sure you aren't particularly worried about that until the end when you go, "Shit, what happened?"
this kinda of stats is really biaised by the nonlinearity of investments
> Housing is a function of city council zoning policy...

This is the laughably reductionist take that predictably appears on HN when folks think the dynamics of San Francisco apply everywhere.

Housing costs have nothing to do with the Fed? Really? You don’t believe record low mortgage rates are driving demand at all?

Nah, it must be city council zoning policy that is sending home prices soaring all over the country—-even in rural and unincorporated areas.
Although I follow the logic, I think your friend is wrong. A consequence of trying to make bitcoin BTC a "store of value" first has led to huge investment centralization as well as a drastic reduction in the number viable use cases.

Investment centralization is bad because it makes it much more susceptible to regulatory capture by the industries crypto stands to disrupt. We're already seeing this now. The same big banks that called crypto a scam have suddenly become bullish after a few years of quietly buying coins. We need regular people on the streets advocating for crypto.

The reduced use cases is a problem because it minimizes adoption and the network effect, both of which are vital for the long term survival of the network.
Standups are boring and sprint planning takes too long. And who wants to talk about schedules and progress, anyway?

My co-founder Rahul and I didn't. That's why we built Nirvana (https://nirvana.work/)

Nirvana is built to give teams the guarantee that tasks are being managed perfectly, and reduce anxiety around planning and progress. So that everyone can happily shift their whole focus to building awesome products.

Nirvana puts tasks on your calendar on your terms. If your team is scattered across timezones, or some people work part time, and some prefer to work in the night - no matter! Nirvana will schedule accordingly - it eats complexity for breakfast.

If you don't do sprints, and are working on continuous delivery, even better! Just prioritize and schedule features as you decide to pick them up. Nirvana will ensure the best possible Time to Value (TTV).

Think of this as an Autopilot. Or Google Maps. It computes your ETA/Delivery Plan when you start your sprint, and updates your plans as you go.

Here's a cool video with Matrix references to clarify further->
https://youtu.be/1t4os4WS24s

Or just visit us to know more and try it yourself:
https://nirvana.work/

Here are some references on various aspects of the basic idea:

Kunal Shah - Google Maps-like execution for Startups
https://twitter.com/kunalb11/status/1356872413355659265

Joel Spolsky - Evidence based Scheduling
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-sch...

Marc Andreessen - Productivity and Scheduling
https://a16z.com/2020/09/07/on-productivity-scheduling-readi...

Paul Graham - Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (halfway there)
http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

We're a self-funded 2-member team. And we're eager to hear what you think!
Exactly. Like dB.

Same as "processor speed is all that matters"... well, not. I honestly would gladly pay more for a QUIET computer (they are become more available).
I can't actually help you directly with your request, but stop telling yourself that you're building something "very technical", at least to the extend that it's an impediment to articulating the business value of your product.

You're solving a real problem for a real market. You will help thousands of app-developers reach a wider audience with a better product. You're selling shovels to golddiggers, you're not digging gold - that's a good business proposition. Do some back of the envelope math to figure out what the market is worth, and come back with the question "How do we find an investor for a great business?"
llvm cant build a working Linux kernel.
Not a bad pay day for a critical bug. Forget the black market, hypothetically speaking I wonder how much an ad agency would have paid for something like this if they can use/abuse it for a week before fb catching on (assuming the agency is unscrupulous).
I gotta admit, I love this write up on his Pizza! Anyone know of a good write up on Ramen?
Hate to say this, but it's been a while since there is any beautiful UI software on Windows.
Blah. This type of zinger (usually directed at 'complaining about complaining about') never works because the target is always clearly framed as a 'meta' point.
Does Vagrant provide any way to create Ubuntu live CDs from a VirtualBox VM instance? If not, happen to know any projects which allow this? There is a rather long winded way to do it I found on the Ubuntu forums, but would pay well for a software tool that could do it.
I appreciate the candid feedback. I'm not going to say, "I know," although a lot of what you've been saying was bothering me as I put it together.

Re: collecting email - that's not actually the goal. However, I'm collecting WAY more than I would if I put the logo and a general tag-line.

The goal was to just let people have some experience with the brand. Be it amusing or fun. I was hoping to garner a smile. I actually didn't think it would be considered disrespectful, and I question whether you'd feel the same if you stumbled upon it via my Twitter, etc.

Nevertheless, I really do appreciate the time you took to write up your thoughts and appreciate your well wishes.
So what is your solution, just tell them to be good parents?
Radar guns are regulated by the FCC because they are RF sources. They aren't going to come after you for mounting extra lightbulbs on your car.

Infrared bulbs are more similar to polarized plastic covers that obscure the plate when viewed from certain directions. Not sure if they are illegal or not but they are definitely outside the purview of the FCC.
An alternative interpretation is that by forbidding the host from issuing any commands for that initial period, the target device could (if it happens to be expedient) do all sorts of otherwise spec-violating things, safe in the knowledge that nobody will ever find out[2]. After that grace period, it has to go back to playing by the rules, but doesn't necessarily have to be operational. Whether or not it's operational yet can be queried[1] (after the first timeout), and a decision to use it, retry the query after a fixed or variable additional fallback, or mark it as failed.

A better spec might recommend or mandate values for fallback quanta and repetitions, or a maximum bound on the delay, rather than leaving it vendor-gets-to-choose.

I didn't look too hard, but a decently marked timing diagram would be nice, and might make it easier to spot the unbounded nature of it, rather than having to cross-reference the inline '10ms' value with the minmax table elsewhere.

[1] At least, if I understand it correctly. If accessing the status info uses the same mechanism as general traffic, it's obviously subject to the flaw described, and this interpretation is wrong.

[2] c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t-care_term and perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_particle
The article at least implies that the Kolmogorov complexity of uncomputable irrational numbers is larger than computable irrational numbers.
That depends. Some providers are contractually bound (and in some jurisdictions laws also apply) into "preferred provider contracts" that require the provider to bill your insurance and disallow them from taking cash.
That was conjecture on his part. If permethrin were the cause, it should be very well know as it's a very common insecticide and lice shampoo.
I don't know about SF and BART, but in NYC it's not just a matter of telling you to board the next train. Since there are multiple possible routes from A to B it may well be that needing to take the next train moves one route from optimal to suboptimal.

So yes, ideally the app would know that you can't walk a city block and two flights of steps in one minute and nix that as a transfer option. Bonus points if it told you which part of the train to get on to minimize the transfer time.
Beyond the KYC requirements in 200 countries that make phone number based systems useless for those in high risk situations... They have other less obvious problems.

Today with a phone number you can:

1. Port it, steal 2FA and password resets, take over critical accounts that don't allow alternate 2FA (happened to two friends of mine)

2. Pay first party or shady second party bounty hunter cell carrier APIs to get current GPS location on a number.

I do not even have a cell carrier anymore for these reasons, social consequences be damned.
> If there is no transparency into what happened, there is nothing but the companies word that it won't happen again. In the case of SolarWinds, their word means less than nothing.

True, the silence is damaging. But what if the answers would be more damaging than the silence?
> That was fully disclosed in the hypothetical offer.

> Why is it unethical?

If people were good at actually taking that into account then advertising wouldn't be effective, and we wouldn't be having this discussion.

> It amplifies the speech of anyone who’s business is profitable and who chooses to invest in advertising

AKA (a subset of) rich people.

> That is fundamentally democratic. It is also fundamentally anti-democratic to restrict people’s speech in general, however much money they have.

1 person = 1 vote = 1 voice

> To prevent advertising, you’d have to police what the poor could say, in case they were caught taking money to say nice things about the products of rich people’s companies.

Is it wrong that it's illegal for the police to let you off with a warning in exchange for a bribe? Is it wrong that it's illegal to sell votes?

There are plenty of things that are legal to do of your own volition, but are illegal to sell. That's not a restriction on the performing those deeds in themselves, it's a restriction on commerce.
Yup, probably their next move would be to require constant access to contacts list and check whenever the app runs.

The next move on this side would be to keep contacts in a separate app from the std Android/Apple app, and then have to make calls, texts, etc. from there.

If only there weren't so many sociopaths running these companies... sorry, wrong planet
The whole industry can benefit itself if they don't close charging stations to their cars only.
> They're literally flooding the market with shares that don't exist.

Almost certainly not, more likely it's just a story they want you to believe so they can pump-and-dump Gamestop.

> How is that allowed?

Read this:

https://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/regsho.htm

It covers all the concerns. Failure to deliver or percentage of float shared above 100% is not evidence of naked short selling. Even if it was, naked short selling is not necessarily illegal.

Even if it was illegal, it is not necessarily bad. You can't destroy a good company with short selling. If some hedge fund shorts your company below intrinsic value my hedge fund will buy your shares and squeeze those short sellers out. Many retail traders don't realize that other hedge funds made hundreds of millions from the Gamestop squeeze. The "take it from the rich" narrative is complete nonsense.

If your company is on its way to bankruptcy and constantly needs new cash through stock sales, I honestly don't care if somebody makes a little bit of money on your way out. You had it coming. Gamestop had it coming. It's curious how the same company that would give you $15 in store credit on a trade-in of a new game is now the darling of retail traders.
In many companies any account password is critical, because any account allows access to the company network and internal security is weak.
That's interesting, though it doesn't take into account all the non-rocket costs in the launch.
Also the factory has to exist, probably the yearly cost does not scale linearly with the number of engines produced.
That said, once you go there, if launch prices drop to one tenth, all kinds of other things can start to happen.
I love Manufactoria, precisely because it's a game about programming but manages to avoid the Lightbot style where you just put commands in a fixed sequence. Lightbot abstracts procedural programming into a game, but so did graph3.tpu back in the day for me. Manufactoria makes a game about programming by forcing even programmers to think different.
Of course you _can_ but whatsapp is actively trying to prevent you from building those bots, and they may succeed well enough in their goal to have a measurable impact.

It is easy for us to say that a growth of whatsapp spam is inevitable but I would bet a key part of whatsapp strategy is to take that down to as close to nothing as possible. In comparison on fb and instagram spam is embraced. I think that is part of the reason why we see whatsapp taking a different direction than other seemingly similar social networking companies.
It’s seems like there’s a gap in this story, at least as it’s presented by the article. The article says he was baited into a meeting, and then two weeks after the meeting was when the real trouble began. Did he in fact say something genuinely unconscionable during that meeting? If so, saying you were “baited” isn’t automatic immunity.

So much of what the article says makes me want to pick up the pitch forks, but it’s also clear this article has an anti-left goal in mind, so I’d like to understand more before letting myself get emotional about it.

I say it has an anti-left goal, because it’s framing the issue of community ostracization on the basis of different beliefs as a specifically left issue. Go try talking about the benefits of socialism in a far right community and see how that goes.
QAnon is fringe. Social Justice is mainstream progressivism. There is no QAnon equivalent to diversity and inclusion policy/training in industry or academia. It is not socially acceptable to discuss QAnon except critically. There is no comparison here, this is the thrust of the social justice movement, and even if one accepts that a minority of progressives believe in this sort of extremism, the unfortunate fact is that it is being forced into society from the top down, with training, quotas, "mental health," and the like.
> who is doing as much or more?

Google does end-to-end encryption for Android for free. Just saying...
I often use von Neumann's quote, "Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.", to console myself when I have to read a math book multiple times to really understand something.

The quote also has truth in it. I had no problem accepting that 0! = 1 only because I learnt that fact early in school. However, I struggled quite a bit to accept that span({}) = {0}, even though it is not that different from 0!=1 and I knew multiple explanations. It seems the later one learns a new concept, the longer it takes to accept it.
> That's not only precisely how VC funding works in the early stages of a startup raising seed money and subsequently doing Series A, B, etc.

The concept of "pre-money" and "post-money" valuations exist for precisely this reason. You can read more here: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/difference-between-...

If a company raises $1mm on a $9mm pre-money valuation, the company is now worth $10mm ($9mm valuation + $1mm raised) and the extra shares correspond to the $1mm raised.

Onwership is diluted on a percentage basis, but the Series B and C investors didn't steal value from previous investors through dilution. There are more shares because there is more money in the company.
imo hn is fairly moderate when it comes to social issues. I think the user base (being mostly tech/eng/stem ppl) approach social issues with a similar logical approach they use in their most aspects of their work/lives; sometimes they/we can be critical to a fault (but I'd take that over left/right political extremes any day).

Am I totally off? I'm interested to hear how others would rate hn on a scale of 1-10 (lower = more liberal).
Thanks.

I've clicked the link and it will take me some time to begin understanding what I am looking at, but it's at least not a pointless google search pulling up articles saying "An easy way to contribute to open source is to contribute to documentation!" while failing to tell me where I can find documentation to edit.
Overall is relevant when representing the performance of a continent.
How does the ability to transfer "points" from one number to another, remove from the messaging features?

Is it really that hard to imagine unobtrusive UI that makes this as optional as sending GIFs, stickers or location data? Or did the later features already kill Signal for you?
Spec isn't directly for static analysis

Spec is for specification which can be used for more things than precompile problem checking

Clj-kondo is for precompile static analysis that also supports minimal typing
> In response to questions on how it could have been determined that the vaping footage was manipulated without access to the original video, Reiss argued that he could see with his "naked eye" elements that "don’t make sense."

Never expected to see a version of the "I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time." meme used as legal testimony.
Yeah computers are everywhere now “ Collectively, these findings make it clear that the economics of processors has changed dramatically, pushing computing into specialized domains that are largely distinct and will provide fewer benefits to each other. Moreover, because this cycle is self-reinforcing, it will perpetuate itself, further fragmenting general purpose computing. As a result, more applications will split off and the rate of improvement of universal processors will further slow.”
In my experience you can find good people anywhere (even LA), but I wouldn't trade a mortgage and a car for the tiny studio I live in in Seattle. I feel more alive, connected, inspired, healthy, happy and ready to experience new things on a daily or semi-weekly basis.
so you will only read content that confirms your belief that Bitcoin wastes energy? I see. Have fun staying poor.
Just yesterday I was reading a book called "Stones to Schools" about a small NGO that builds schools in remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. I found it very uplifting.

It breaks my heart (out of its cold iron shell) to read about regular people busting out the checkbook for schools for kids halfway around the world (and typically of a different religion!) who have pretty much nothing.

"Don't let the turkeys get you down!" :)
The article is an argument against types, in general.

The point that characters can be stored in other containers is meaningless: the question is whether, conceptually, a specific sequence of character values distinct from another sequence has compile-time meaning. It does. Therefore, it needs a type.

Such a sequence has numerous special characteristics. In particular, element at [i] often has an essential connection to element at [i+1] such that swapping them could turn a valid string to an invalid one. In fact, that an invalid sequence is even possible is another such characteristic.
Yep.

Works(ed?) for Mass Mutual.
Further Protip: Wipe your hands on your jeans.
That's a name I haven't heard in a long while. K-Mart was always one of those stories of going to live on a farm upstate. Now, I know that it actually went to live in a land down under.
I think the same, I slowly working towards it. I made a POC of a language here: https://tablam.org.

My idea is add UI building to native controls with Rust and as database sqlite as the default + connectors to others.
[author] There were a number of critical parts of the chain responsible for FB Ads revenue. It all started at the UI or API (which were 75% and ~25% of FB revenue when I left in 2017). Then you had the DB layer, managed by another team, the AI/Targeting layer and one or two others.

If any had failed fundamentally, FB was in big trouble. However, other than Power Editor and Chrome, the rest all ran in our data centers and were under our control.
Clearly the solution is to force investors to invest in female-led companies at gunpoint.
"I meditate for 30-45 minutes each night. Without fail. Significantly improves concentration, focus. Meditating has made me realize, for the first time in my life- what I actually want with my life. I am much more calm, composed, and relaxed."

Any tips on how to get to the point of being able to meditate for that long? How long could you do it in the beginning? Do those books you mentioned provide some practical guidance?
When I was growing up in the 1960s, my dad (career Air Force) would buy low-priced booze at the "Class 6" store (the on-base PX liquor store that didn't use taxpayer funds). The beer came in pure-white cans, each of which had, in big black stenciled letters, "B E E R"; my dad said he'd been told it was Budweiser but Anheuser-Busch didn't want the brand associated with low prices.
A dumb question regarding flash programming: assume the erase block is 16MB, and there is a fresh block to write to. If I slowly append-write (not modifying existing data) to the block, would subsequent writes require the whole block to be erased/reprogrammed?

The use case is usually about append-only logs: MacOS constantly generates tiny log lines and those must go somewhere? Does Write Amplification make logging a bad use case on SSD?
It is less compact than UTF-16 for CJK languages, FWIW.
TFA = The F**ing Article
China both needs these companies and has nothing to gain in attacking them.

On other hand, the US are trying to slow China's rise by hurting key industries.

This is a geopolitical struggle. The US cannot win because China is bigger than they are and so will overtake them sooner or later, but they can slow things down to maintain their dominance as long as they can.
There was a well-written story about someone in a large company who was by some coincidence suddenly left without duties and went on for years doing exactly that. But I no longer remember the source or whether it was a fictional story.