jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In my opinion the article does not put enough weight on lack of transactions in a microservices architecture. Of course you can add distributed transactions, but doing so makes the architecture much more intertwined and much less error-proof.
Hank Williams has opinions (not all of which I agree with) that hackers seem to find interesting (lots of up-votes on his pieces). Some cabal is killing threads that link to him (I have seen two get up-voted and killed in minutes). I know this will likely be killed also, but I still think I will try and ask this question. Why is it so obvious to some that Hank William's writings need to blotted out? There is dissent in his comment stream- so how dangerous is he?
Not particularly, no. I'm not going to track it, and nobody else is in a position to. If anyone were going to try, they should rethink their priorities.

If you like I can say 10 years but that doesn't advance the conversation in any meaningful way.
Hm, heating is either switched off/on depending on a thermostat ("bang-bang") or in more sophisticated systems is regulated according to need (modulating control). It might be on 24/7 regardless of whether it's hot or cold, but it's not going to use the same amount of power.
Shopify's Top 90 Most Visited Websites in 2021. This has very little to do with startups.
It's not just conservative policy, although I admit that it has been a prominent source of backwards thinking. The problem is ... everyone. There is no party vs party war. There is a system of underlying issues that transcends party lines. It's just that some people are hit harder than others which forces a bigger response from them. There is too much emotional thinking instead of just looking at the problem and figuring out what solution is the most agreeable for everyone.
I thought of Ted Nelson (pioneer of hypertext) while reading this. Nelson could have contributed a lot more to the world if he hadn't convinced himself that his Project Xanadu was the answer to life, the universe and everything and that the Internet today is "a crime against humanity."
Any cool monetization strategies on Qiita or Zenn? I know dev.to is betting on Coil, so I'm curious if Japanese developers have a method they're betting on.
“Meditative” is exactly the word I’d use as well. Which also brings up parallels with meditation itself: meditating might seem boring, but when fully engaged in (and with some practice) can be a transformative experience.
Certain kinds of novels can perhaps be written well by computers - but I believe the classical conception of a novel - one which has both internal narrator state and external state cannot be conceived of being written well with current methods.

Note I used well written as an indicator of goodness, obviously internal and external states can be represented but will they make anything approaching sense and aesthetic pleasure, ever, given current strategies for computerized writing of a novels? I don't believe so.

The current strategies for any content creation via computer are, as I understand them, always based on having a large enough corpus to be able to determine what should be done.

The corpus for good novels is of course smaller than the corpus for novels.

The corpus for internal state of narrators is smaller than the internal state of good novels, the corpus for internal state of narrators who represent characters of the current generation will not really be very big until that current generation is no longer current.

Things that are probably achievable - a unified style - but only in the way of a pastiche, so rewriting HuckelBerry Finn in the style of Jane Austen seems like it might end up a doable thing in less than a decade? A unified style that is unique seems unlikely within a decade, a unified style that represents whatever are the young, happening writers of the moment seems like it would require a different way for the computer to generate that content. Although 2 decades from now, maybe?

on edit: I seem to go from thinking it will never happen to thinking it might happen in 2 decades, I believe it won't happen, but lots of people have believed stuff will never happen and been proven wrong, so, accepting the requirement that we use the methods for computer generation of content currently available - if those methods have not generated good novels in two decades (by throwing more computing power at bigger corpuses) then I feel confident in concluding my belief that they never will is correct.
I invest hundreds of hours per year studying bitcoin's development, the crypto markets, etc. But you think your opinion somehow weighs more than mine, eh?

Ignore Lightning Network's development at your own peril.

Increased and decreased interest are part of the normal market cycle, the chart of which I'm betting you don't know by heart.

You have to be extremely & wilfully ignorant to claim 'medium of exchange' is off the table, just now that PayPal & Mastercard are embracing cryptocurrencies.

But whatever, man. You don't wanna belong to the future's 1%, that's fine with me.
It seems like the "proper" solution to this problem would be to make all random number generators pull from the cryptographically secure randomness pool by default. If your random number needs are within what can be provided with strong guarantees, it doesn't seem like there's any reason to give you anything but strongly random numbers.

People who need more random numbers per second than can be generated securely will simply have to pass explicit parameters indicating they want to stop getting high quality numbers. This would be easy to see in code review and highlight the choices being made.
In Go, as in C, there's no magic. A programmer using Go thinks of a string variable as a pointer/length pair, and knows what will happen. Just like with slices

If you keep a pointer into an allocation (in your example, a small Go string pointing into a much larger Go string) the allocation is preserved by the garbage collector

You should explicitly copy the substring out (instead of aliasing the underlying string) if retaining the underlying string causes you a problem
It sounds like you're using the Dyson as a fan and something else as the actual purifier. Sounds like that setup works great for you, but it does prove the point that the Dyson is a fan, not a purifier.
This is exactly what my wife said when she went to that site. Synethesia is personal in its details.
Thanks! We don't have any immediate plans to expand into other data types. We've decided to remain focused on just one 'data vertical' (anything computer vision related) for the foreseeable future, as we want to build out a solid base of labeling algorithms for CV before spreading a wider net.
I like the idea a lot and am not criticizing this article, it's author, or the concept, but a few quick "minor corrections" if I might:

>"Superconductors — materials that conduct electricity without resistance"

"Superconductors — materials that conduct high amperages at low voltages without heat"

>"Most metals lose resistance and become superconducting at extremely low temperatures, usually just a few degrees above absolute zero."

Most metals, even small cross-sections -- can already conduct huge amounts of amperage -- but the electricity so passing must be conditioned so as to be at a high enough voltage -- to prevent heating effects.

A good example of this would be a high-voltage transmission line; those tall steel towers carrying aluminum cables.

The amount of electricity that they carry is enough to melt a small building -- but the cables themselves, despite being much smaller in diameter, never melt -- why is that? -- this is because the electricity is at high voltage...

So is metal with electricity running through it at high voltage a superconductor? Technically not, because there are power losses over long enough distances.

Also, it would not surprise me if everything (every metal that is, and possibly non-metals as well) -- becomes superconducting at a few degrees above zero...

In other words, superconductivity -- might be more of a property of temperature -- than it is of the underlying material...

Now, combine that idea with the idea that electricity can be conditioned in various ways to enable greater degrees of conductivity (voltage is one, frequency is another) -- without heat -- and then we might have a larger understanding of the underlying Physics...

That being said (and I hope it was not taken as a criticism -- it was not intended to be!),

I do like and appreciate very much the idea of superconducting nanowire!
A theme park sounds like an excellent way to make a small fortune. With the caveat that you start with a large fortune. The problem is it's a real-estate play in an area that is subject to changing public tastes and the ups and downs of changing economic cycles.

The long surviving theme parks are the front end for larger organizations. Universal Studios in Orlando. Sea World as marine mammal research centers. And of course Disney's lands and worlds.

Sea World however illustrates the challenges of changing public tastes...or opinions. What seemed like evergreen content is turning out not to be.

Do you have enough money to survive an event like the pandemic?
That's a fair point. Thanks for the respectful conversation about this. :)
Well as I understand it their long-term goal is to get back onto the aggregators, but with the aggregators getting their information direct from AA instead of a third party (fourth party, really -- it's a middleman to access the middleman) to whom AA has to pay money. This sounds like a fairly legit sort of goal.

I wish AA would stop sucking too, but it's not easy to take a huge company with sucky infrastructure and a sucky culture and make it stop sucking, especially when it's not clear that every million dollars you spend on sucking less will actually result in a million dollars of extra profit. It's usually easier just to start a new, not-sucky airline. Hello Virgin America!
What about http://rapportive.com?
> than Radford 50th percentile for the Bay Area

Can you give us the value rather than the symbol name, please?
I'm giving BatchBook a try right now, see how that works out.
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> If I snapshot the state of my cloud server, it creates a full copy of its disk in block storage somewhere, and takes several minutes to complete.

Which cloud provider are you using? Neither Amazon nor Google take snapshots this way. Amazon EBS and Google Persistent Disk both use copy-on-write semantics for snapshots. If you take a hundred snapshots of a 100 GB disk, your total usage is 100 GB plus metadata. When you run a VM instance from that disk, the storage usage will increase as blocks change, to a maximum of 200 GB total storage (for live disk + out of date snapshot).

When I use QEMU or VirtualBox at home, I also get copy-on-write snapshots of disks, although it's certainly possible to get a full copy if you want. I think the feature is pretty standard.
> The resources needed to forge a signature aren't going to be much different than the resources needed to create a deepfake to begin with.

How? If you have a public/private key pair and then do some kind of multisig process wherein the manufacturer can sign the photo, the OS can sign the photo, and then a user supplied signature could also sign the photo. You're not going to be able to fake 3 cryptographic signatures without 3 private keys. It would be extremely difficult to fake all of that. It would take a concerted, concentrated effort and would be extremely rare in practice. It would certainly improve the situation.
Don’t now why you’re getting downvoted.

This happens.

Particularly in rape cases where the woman (or child) describes some particular feature on the alleged rapists genitals.

Michael Jackson had to strip down, as I recall. Obviously not in open court.
To add a data point, I recently had a grandparent who died with Parkinson's disease.

After doing research, it turns out their home was located very close to a Superfund cleanup site from a dry cleaner that operated in the 60's and contaminated the groundwater with TCE and PCE.
The chemicals leach into the groundwater and can spread hundreds of feet per year. Buildings located over these plumes are exposed to vapors which accumulate indoors over time and expose the occupants.

According to Wikipedia, the PCE solvent which is used at nearly every dry cleaner across the country has been known as a x10 risk factor for Parkinson's [1].

For California residents, you can find out about these groundwater plumes on the waterboards website. They are located all over Silicon Valley and former dry-cleaners around the country [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachloroethylene

[2]: https://geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/
When you rebase, you basically replay the history of your branch since it diverged from the branch you're rebasing onto. Thus, the branch is always in a consistent state (or equally consistent to when you originally authored the commit you're replaying). And of course this assumes the target branch is already in a consistent state.
Wait till you see what anti-psychotics can do.
My father has run every day for almost 10 years, a combo pack of speed and distance, but at least a 5k every day. One thing we talked about regarding thinking and running really stuck with me.

He sometimes listens to music and audiobooks so that he wouldn't get bored during his runs. Then one day, when his headphones were dead, he went without any music. He found himself having a conversation in his head, addressing questions that he hadn't asked himself in years. Now, it's some truly coveted alone and reflection time. He very often comes back from his runs energized with new ideas or an organized plan of what he needs to tackle next in his job (he's in academia).

I have also found the quiet of running to be invaluable at on some days and will often choose the conversation of myself as opposed to tuning in and out of an audiobook.
If I'm an end consumer taking pictures and videos for fun / posterity what's the incentive for me to have them cryptographically signed? Why would I ever need to prove they're real?

Are you saying that by law devices should cryptographically sign pictures?
What are the challenges with porting to ARM, besides third party code which doesn't support it?

I only know about unaligned reads and the weaker memory model, but both of them are already undefined behaviour in C/C++/Rust.
The legislation applies to a list of companies to be designated by the Minister. At this point in time, it appears that the Minister will only be designating Google and Facebook.

(The Minister has spoken with Microsoft, and it appears that they were "happy" with the result, and there hasn't been a suggestion that they will be asked to comply.)
I pay my Spanish teacher in Latin America using crypto. Can't do that using gold, or paintings.

Blockchain is a global consensus network. The consensus is on a data structure's definition, rules and it's actual data.
Yeah, if you have the fab, circuit board manufacturing plant, and assembly plant then it is. Keep in mind that you are economically isolated from the rest of the world, forcing you to do things like copy designs to save time and limited resources for building the machines.
All of those points are correct. "Big Tech" can remove me if they want. Why are they required to serve me?
Oh and look there just happen to be several bluestones that geologically match the ones at Stonehenge still on the site, and radiocarbon dating puts the site a few hundred years older than Stonehenge so the timeline happens to line up perfectly. How convenient!

I'm not saying I believe them for sure, but yours is in no way a fair characterisation.
From the article:

> According to Apple, before visiting a website, Safari may send hashed prefixes of the URL (Apple terms it “information calculated from the website address”) to Google Safe Browsing to check if there’s a match.

Does anyone have links to algorithms for such "hashed prefixes of an URL"?
I've thought about this, and researched it too, and see two problems with encrypting user data in the DB:

1. You would have to use an external search engine to index user data, and that would need encryption too.
2. If the user forgets their password then their data is inaccessible.

There are ways around 2, but the most obvious way is to encrypt the password with answers to 3 common but difficult to know questions.
> Timezone-aware and UTC by default

This is the main problem with python's builtin datetime module: the default is a kind of "localdate" or "localdatetime", and when you add a timezone it becomes an instant. It's a bad idea to conflate such two concepts.

OTOH arrow seems to think that "one size fits all". Which is bad as well :-/ I think joda time / java time design is good!
Expecting reasonable product longevity from a durable good is not extortion.
To quote the late (and great) Billy Wilder: "The Austrians have completed the feat of turning Beethoven into an Austrian, and Hitler into a German."

Stuhlinger was part of similar effort, downplaying von Braun role in Nazi war effort (including use of slave labour).
There were mentions of both technologies and I was replying to devindotcom who was talking about how high latency satellites are still useful. Here's a link to that comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8920059

That is why I was careful to specify traditional satellite internet services. It appears the distinction was lost.
Yeesh, probably shouldn't work with that guy :(

That's what I get for posting while distracted. Thank you for the correction.
Or you had other ways of indicating scripts were meant for processing after the document had been parsed (which might be smart or even essential depending on your support targets).

That might have been something that senior devs only did 5-10 years ago, rather than something senior devs do now, though if that's the case one might wonder exactly what we mean when we say "senior."
No, "laying claim" to mineral deposits not on Earth is valueless. Even if, in a rather fanciful world, said claim was in some way legally enforceable.

"Having technology able to recover said deposits and deliver them to an area of meaningful economic activity without costing several multiples of the value (or, more realistically, several thousand multiples of the value) of the minerals in question" would certainly justify a very high valuation for SpaceX. But they do not have such technology, and it is far from clear that they are on the path to having that technology anytime soon.

And nothing has much present value today based on its prospective value in centuries. In 100 years, we could be superintelligent nanotech swarms. Or extinct. Or anything in between. Only a fool would place much certainty on the value of a mineral deposit that far out.
Certainly not the current president.
You could say no thanks and view the results without giving an email
You don’t need broken windows for economic growth from action against climate change. We’re going to see numerous core technologies of civilization becoming significantly cheaper than the incumbent technologies.

We’ve already seen that with LEDs and lighting. Likewise opportunistic electricity use (which doesn’t depend on time and location) derived from wind or solar is already perhaps half to a third of the cost of the cheapest fossil fuel source.

Electric vehicles will also end up significantly cheaper per mile, and in fact are already cheaper at the right levels of utilization.

Fossil fueled electricity and road transport are going to be progressively undercut by the zero carbon alternatives, and that’s going to make the global economy vastly more productive.

That’s to say nothing of the economic benefits of reducing air pollution and the massive costs associated with its impacts on human health.
They think they're still hardware companies in a hardware-first world. The problem is we've started hitting some limits in the hardware which software can improve on dramatically, but they are terrible at software (for the most part).
I appreciate your thorough erasure of race from the subject.

https://www.sociologicalscience.com/articles-vol1-12-159/

https://iwpr.org/publications/black-hispanic-women-lag-recov...

https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/08/02/comparing-b...

I think a more recent source than in the middle of The Great Recession itself might be more illuminating.
sounds like the same math tesla used in pricing their vehicles (subtracting how much an average person spends on gas from the advertised total)
I'm not sure what the top poster's "plan" is, but if we wanted to switch to significant amounts of solar+wind, that would require batteries costing thousands of trillions. Practically impossible.

However if he meant planting trees and switching the world to nuclear, that might be doable for a few trillion.

Every government project goes over budget, so it's probably much higher than that.
Thanks, Glosster. Please keep the ideas coming.
S3FS is basically unusable on a linux machine: slow and prone to errors.
You can. 17 U.S.C. § 1008 (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/1008.html) allows consumers to make non-commercial copies (both digital and analog).

As I said, copyright law is quite complex and full of exceptions and clarifications.
Even Chris Sacca says it in the video: "It's almost like the game is rigged". He got lucky at the beginning and now that he has tons of money he can afford to diversify his portfolio enough to be able to buy all the lottery tickets. On top of that, he has become the legendary Chris Sacca, so the probability that the next big thing won't be presented to him at a very early stage is very low.

So it's not only the survivorship bias, you have to add to that the Matthew Effect [1].

And I'm not denying that he is probably smart, has people skills, hard worker... The thing is that, in my opinion, there quite a few Chris Saccas out there that never got as lucky as him. So the survivorship bias here doesn't nullify all his work, since he showed that if you do the things his way you can get the chance to become the next Chris Sacca. It only shows, that even if you follow his path you can still fail.

I realized that people that don't see the survivorship bias tend to view people that do as cynical pessimists that downplay the hardwork of the Chris Saccas of the world. But this is just a problem of perception, at least in my case, I admire the Musks, the Jobs, the Gates, the Buffets... of this world. However I realize that in order to become like them, it takes more than just hard work and a vision, you have to get lucky and preferably be born white, to well educated and relatively wealthy parents, in the right country, be sent to a good school...

I like to consider myself a realist, if somebody gave me 80% of the lottery tickets I will probably be really hopeful that I will win, but if I only have 0.001% of the tickets I won't probably even remember to check the outcome. I want to believe that that does not make me an optimist in one case and a pessimist or a cynic in the other.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect
Anyone reading this should take a look at these, they are quite good.
-Watch a movie
-Get two 3d glasses
-Take them home and hack them into one
-Voila free 2D glasses.
Hello world in machine code for any platform.
One thing that's better is that it's available now. I can't use aerofs. It's a closed beta.
The iPhone (3G, 3GS, and 4) and the 3G iPads have fully functional GPS hardware, and also use A-GPS to acquire a position fix.

If you've ever used a normal standalone GPS in one city and gotten on a plane and flown across the country and tried to use the GPS again, you'll know that it can take 5+ minutes to reacquire a fix that first time off the plane.
Thanks for posting this. This is exactly how I feel about it.

The one upside to this change I guess is I'm spending much less time on H-N now.
Next up: ballet in crutches!