jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We wrote and use minicap (https://github.com/well/minicap) to help with this.

The problem with capistrano is that it tries to abstract a bit too much of the underlying project and deployment environment away. minicap aims to fix that by providing a minimal, git-centric remote footprint. cap provides a great foundation, but makes a couple of mistakes in its recipes that are easily remedied with a minimalist approach like we've taken in minicap.
I agree; I also thought the Google 6bn offer was insane. I personally am not a fan of groupon (over valued).
Ah, TeslaLED! An app that lit the way for me and my family in darkened mini-vans for quite some time (I bought the donate app, of course). It was one of the few flashlight apps that wasn't ridden with ads.

I've only recently switched to Cyanogenmod, which comes with its own built-in flashlight app, and I'm committed to not installing anything on the phone now that requires a Google login (like Google Play, for example). So no TeslaLED now.

But thanks for a great app! TeslaLED is a very well-made app, and looking at the Google Play page now, I see it has a lot of features I wasn't even aware of. Best of luck with your future apps.
Yeah, I tend to believe that he does the right thing by the fired founders ... he couldn't have written such a dangerous to his company post without honestly believing so.

That said, it should be interesting to see if and how he walks backs his posting (I'm still working through the comments, as of the half-way point he's not moved an inch).

I know they made me sick to my stomach just by reminding me of, e.g., one quasi-startup situation where I was fired on trumped up grounds immediately after delivering version 1.0 (the follow-on to the MVP I'd previously written). That pretty quickly killed the product and eventually the company but did save them the highest programmer's salary in the interim.
The guardian is really letting me down with the sheer amount of sensationalist reporting going on. They hit the jackpot with Snowden, but they keep trying to milk it and stretch the story out. Quoting the Gmail class action court filings incorrectly and putting words in Google's mouth was a low point.
A system for better communication during different crises. People always complain when things go wrong and the authorities in charge don't give away information, or give it away in such a way that all people involved don't receive it.

I.e. my girlfriend was on a train recently, which stopped for one hour outside of the station. No information was given until nearer the end of that. Why?

A system that everyone could use: the first responders could provide information on the situtation. Editors could then format this for customers / people affected. Some other system could deliver it (something like iBeacons?).
IntelliJ is pretty nice on this point. You write a PEG-style parser and get a full AST. It is a lot of work, but the payoff is pretty nice and they have a lot of solid tooling to help you out.
it's a little like the story of the gold reserves of the federal reserve isn't it ? :D
It's not about rejection rates. It's about what you learn, and the progress. Numbers (of this sort) don't matter.

Learning tends to happen when things don't go as you expected they would. Unexpected good and bad events can have that effect.

Rejection and failure don't have intrinsic merit, and I've seen plenty of people (with the luxury to fail, due to trust funds or connections or whatever) who continually fail and don't grow. But if you never fail-- of course, there are degrees of failure and total failure is uncommon and still undesirable-- you're probably taking too few risks.
I'm really beginning to think that views like this (which I share) are in the minority, at least so far as the "making astounding quantities of money" crowd are concerned. Even downloading an MP3 from Amazon--a process that used to just result in an MP3 link being presented after payment--needs a client and wants to sync to the cloud. Vendor lock-in has been a thing for as long as there have been computers, it's just that our interconnectedness has made it even more visible and incredibly more lucrative.
"It’s not impossible to build great companies in Italy."

Which great company was built in Italy in the last 10-20 years?
More precisely :
In older Android Devices (4.0-4.3), you’ll see about a 10x improvement of both HTML/CSS rendering and JavaScript performance and CSS correctness.

10x performances, after losing much more in the first place ...
That's somewhat misleading. Boston Dynamics made those robots for DARPA before Google acquired them. After Google acquired them, they announced that they would not seek further military contracts in the future.
> Bandwidth is cheap.

Bandwidth is just one problem. If you use HTTP/1.1 to download large files, you won't have much problem. If you try to design a memcache-like protocol based on HTTP/1.1, the result will be terrible. You simply can't afford to parse text at 100+k QPS and wait for previous request to finish before sending next one. HTTP/2 is not designed to solve bandwidth issue. It is about latency and throughput in real world.
It's tricky in fantasy, because of how race-based a lot of the plot is. To put the argument for racist undertones in Tolkein succinctly - all the bad guys in LOTR are basically dark and ugly. There are no even slightly good orcs, and if there are any bad elves, they are mostly good elves who have been tempted to some sin.
> 3.2/5 on Amazon usually amounts to "really quite terrible"

Eh, I've found the correlation pretty hit-or-miss. William Gibson's The Difference Engine is currently sitting at 3.0/5 on Amazon, to pick one example...
How the table is made. The details are beautiful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVbo7ycpkeI
The whole point of GMail was supposed to be that it was searchable. Did Google break that, or what?

If there's a demand for this, it might be worthwhile to build IMAP servers with more indexing. It's easy to request searches with IMAP, but the performance can be a problem for IMAP servers that aren't real databases.
And what about biker gangs (Hells Angels) and Italian mafia in the US/Canada?
- Your current company (co-workers), if any

- Previous co-workers

- Meetups

- Founder dating sites

- Old friends

- Right here on HN
If you were an employer, would you fire an employee who was against gay marriage? Should the state protect the continued employment of such an employee?
Thank you for pointing that out! I did misinterpret that part of the abstract!

On a perhaps related note, it seem a bit surprising to me because when I first started with neural networks about a year ago, I tried to shortcut hyperparameter search by reusing weights and noticed that independently trained models with the same hyperparameters would produce model with different performance. I naively assumed that such correlation is something I don't want and it was something that everyone knows about so I just moved on.

Edit: typo (pointed --> pointing)
I have a family member who has a modified Nissan truck, that is currently getting 9 mpg and driving him crazy because of it (it was a whopping 13 mpg stock). He's stupidly spending a fortune in gas. There is certainly going to be a huge market for electric trucks. I don't know if this is one of the winners, it's a super odd design choice so it's impossible to tell how the market will respond ahead of time, however some companies are going to win very big in the segment. I'm pulling for Tesla, they've placed a lot of early, risky bets trying to push passenger vehicles forward.
Days after the Jeep Gladiator (a Wrangler pickup) was available, I saw several in the suburbs. This is Tesla territory, so come 2022 there will be a bunch of Cybertrucks taking the kids to school.
Someone's gotta turn retrofuturist sci-fi into reality
Like a model 3?
Rural doesn't imply the individual owns land. Rural does imply long distances, modest incomes, etc. I certainly wouldn't want to charge an electric vehicle @ $0.14/KWH and I don't have the option for solar.

I have a Toyota Tacoma. I expect it will go well into the multi-hundred miles (typical for Tacomas), I have 4 jerry cans filled for when exploring off-road or for times like "oh hey, the power is out, the pump in a rural town doesn't have power".
I largely agree with your points, but anecdotally, I want one.

I have wanted a truck for a while since I like the look/'pretend' utility (but don't like the tribal-association of trucks). This is so ugly its a statement item, but its a Tesla so its still a status symbol. Its fast (so I don't have to compromise on that bmw/audi) and it can haul shit if I ever need that.
Rivian will ship two or three years before this thing.
They're going to have to rebuild from scratch anyway, this event has just made sure they do so.
thanks for your feedback, will update according!
> No, they were threatening and intimidating lawmakers that were in session to try to manipulate the election. This is an enormous difference.

Sure, it is a difference -- as in not identical. But what do you conclude from that difference? That crimes that are less serious than this should be excused when committed as an act of protest but these crimes are different and should not be excused?

The assertion is that there is a double standard between these types of events. That some riots are excused and yesterday's are not. You seem to be asserting that there isn't a double standard because the events were different in the way that you described and so it sounds like you are saying the different treatment is justified. No one is excusing yesterday's rioters but you seem to be excusing previous incidents of rioting because they were different.
They're both fools that a certain subset - call them uncritical libertarians - of the tech comunity seem to worship. The topic annoys me.

Reading from that to my "purpose" for being here, and moreover calling it a "political" purpose (ignoring the fact that basically everything is political) is entirely spurious.
This is amazing!! I'm so glad you open-sourced it!
1 year? Jesus christ. You know, in other industries things are routinely supported for decades. It is a good thing large chunks of actually essential infrastructure aren't designed by web people.
> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

There is already a presumption that "in early talks" means in discussion of possible acquisition/merger so I think this would be the time to deviate from the source's title.

Possibly like "Hyundai in discussion with Apple about electric car collaboration", or "Apple and Hyundai considering a joint venture for cars".
Could you elaborate on a few of the hundreds of different groups you are referring to within a city, as well as their conflicting needs?
I'm of two minds about this article. It does a reasonable job of enumerating the issues with naively deploying ML in a healthcare setting. However, these articles are becoming a dime a dozen and there is little actionable talk on how to discover or mitigate these issues at a level that practitioners can use.

To your point about the bar for new tech, I agree that singling out AI/ML is a cheap shot and more speculative FUD without concrete evidence. That said, we have seen no shortage of hucksters and self-aggrandizing members of the "move fast and break things crowd" trying to treat medicine as a beginner-level Kaggle challenge. This has become particularly egregious and noticeable during the pandemic [1]. The respective lack of medical and technical literacy among programmers/"data scientists" and healthcare providers/admins is just more fuel for the fire.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/fni5ow/d_w...
Yeah the construction is pretty much in the families. The report explicitly shows how they deter others from bidding for contracts. First an engineer from the government who oversees the project will make a phone call to tell you that the contract has been already given to someone else so please withdraw your body which of course has a lower price. If you don't then some guys will throw garbage at your door. I'm not sure what's the next step.
I think is wrong to assume that VC’s is what fueling advances in AI work. It’s for sure contributing especially from large companies (companies that once where VC funded), but I think the bulk and hardcore advancements in AI are still coming from universities and research centers.

There’s only two or three companies in the top 25 of organizations leading AI research. The vast majority are universities. https://link.medium.com/L2JrbVKAT1
Ignoring the lifestyle argument (SF/City life vs. Boise, Denver), there's a practical aspect too. I would take the right offer in SF and relocate there because if the company went under, or I didn't like it, or it somehow didn't end up working out, I am confident I could find something else comparable.

I can't say the same thing about any of the cheaper places you mentioned.
Using diacritics for this is extremely visually noisy and not very legible.

There has to be a better method.
That's intentional. Google wants you to recognize google, and google colors, and they want you to THINK about which google product you are about to use instead of doing it subconsciously. What are you gonna go, stop using Gmail?
The only quotes attributed to the judge are:

– ‘Koh said she’s “disturbed” by Google’s data collection practices’

– ‘Koh said she finds it “unusual” that the company would make the “extra effort” of data collection if it doesn’t use the information to build user profiles or targeted advertising‘

– ‘The judge demanded an explanation “about what exactly Google does,” while voicing concern that visitors to the court’s website are unwittingly disclosing information to the company. “I want a declaration from Google on what information they’re collecting on users to the court’s website, and what that’s used for”’

None of this implies that this judge, who has specialised in litigation involving SV tech companies for a decade, can’t understand “basic aspects about web browsers.”
Because then you have double the changes to deploy on Monday. And if you push that logic further (no deploys on Thursday, no deploys after 3pm, no deploys +-3 days around holidays, etc.) you end up with very high density deploys, which are riskier.
I really want to know how we can work Banelings into a hilariously extended metaphor here. :P

(Rule 5: if you haven't played SC2, Banelings were a super in-character addition to the zerg unit tree. Zerglings are able to morph into a variant called the "baneling" that's a fairly powerful suicide bomb. Rather like the "scourge" air units in SC1, except a ground-only attack. Fairly good at rushing bunkers, but die pretty fast to siege tanks.

Really loved the design though - fit the zerg ethos really well.)
This - but add 1) it's aspirational work which distorts some things (a lot of jobs are like this) and 2) probably lack of good Guild or Union.

Markets actually rarely function very well on their own because participants often don't have enough information to make decent decisions or there are huge power asymmetries. An Artists Guild would, in the long run, probably make everyone better off.
Honestly it reminds me of an effect straight out of Harry Potter films. Would be an interesting affect if it could be easily applied to otherwise static billboards and such
I don’t think this is true. GA has at least 2 versions it doesnt support in the past decade.

I imagine the opposite is true, in that they hold so much power they can do as they please.
Sometimes finding limits of free plans for static site platforms is hard.

The easy way is to view all the information from once place so you can really see what you get with the free plan.

Let me know what you think and what I can add.
> Oh look, a Google employee throwing shade at privacy concerns.

Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. Please don't do this here.
"Shibboleet".

http://www.xkcd.com/806/
I did this in my last consultant project, and it turned out well but with some difficulties.

Before, I photoshoped the webpage (main page, and maybe some thing else) and then meet with the client to make the modifications, so that ,with the design done and closed, I could keep coding to finish the page. This turned out by the client in like huge focus on the design asking for lots of changes because they couldnt really imagine how it was going to be in the end.

Ultimately, doing it on reverse turned out to be more revealing and useful.

Fist map the pages of the site. Then html prototype all of them with simple styles.

The hard part is explaining the client that this styles have nothing to do with the final design of the site, and that its all about structure of it.

After the changes, the website is pretty much done in terms of big changes, so it gives you room to code knowing that bit less of the structure will change. Then at the end, I do design and iterate with the client until their happiness.
Are you at liberty to say why the Erlang thing got replaced? (Erlang & Python are my two favourite languages to use, but there are not that many problems I would interchange between them.)
I spent years fighting with Verizon customer service about my DSL line. Not only was the DSL flaky, but the accompanying voice line would routinely lose dial tone. So there was obviously some sort of bizarre equipment problem.

After about 6 phone transfers and a technician who claimed Vermont was a city, not a state, I hung up and called a local phone company that provided DSL. The very first thing they did was run new wires into the building.

Everything has worked fine since.
I'm not sure yet since I haven't got the API designed, but I will aim for autho.me to be a centralized web service that your clients and/or webservers use to auth people. Most likely you wouldn't even know they're using it unless they choose to tell you.

As for "surreptitiously logging your password", no matter what you do, they can anyway. Just no way around it without handing all your users to some other website, and even then clever UI evil can still trick most folks into giving the password up.

Autho.me would be less about magically protecting you from some imaginary evil site, and more about making it easy for sites who aren't evil to do the right thing with their auth.

But, I still have to figure out how it will really work. This is just a test to make sure the crypto works right.
Maybe someone with more knowledge of this can help me; does this mean that one simply has to use https with EC2 and store everything on AWS to be fully PCI compliant?

If so, AWS just became even more attractive.
If I can venture a possible explanation of downvotes while noting I always prefer a respectful reply than a downvote for any disagreement.

Every religion since forever has claimed their religious practices are beneficial. Such claims are not science regardless of the religion and, importantly they aren't science even if the claim turns out to be true.

If you have a properly executed study gathering the data correctly and doing a dispassionate analysis on the effects of fasting as practised by Jainism or any other religion that's worth looking at. The easiest person to fool is always yourself and never is it easier than when looking at something about which you feel particularly strongly such as your religious beliefs and practices. Claims from religious devotees (or former devotees) about fasting or magic underwear, or genital mutilation benefits or miseries should be completely disregarded. Evidence properly gathered, analyzed and capable of being falsified about those same things should be taken with the seriousness it deserves. Religious claims might give one an idea about where to look but should but not be mistaken for any kind of rigor in themselves. Or you end up with truly barbaric, unnecessary medical "treatment" that needs to be consigned to horrific sections of history texts where mercifully at least some of it has now been.

Properly done science is how you know if any given claim is true, false or its truth is still yet unknown and possibly still unknowable.
Personally I view that as being a pretty big flaw in democracy, but it also works the other way when the extremist element has a hard time gaining influence. But that is not a guarantee either, the Tea Party being a good example.

It may be a distiction, and the second way is more subtle and covert, but the net result of a power imbalance is still the result.
Users are not the ones that Persona needs to be marketed to. Users will click whatever the website present to them.
Interesting that you went it alone. I bought mine on mass drop and it cost me around $275 when all was said and done. I did get the full hand with metal tops though.

I think you saved a good deal of money by having access to a laser cuter, which makes me think that the mass drop price is actually not terrible given the extra convenience of everything arriving as a kit.

The blue acrylic top is awesome!

Have you considered tents to tilt the edges? They made a huge comfort difference for me.
The government can print money, and buy back the debt. Excessive inflation only occurs when the combination of private and public spending is chasing after too few goods. We've been deficit spending like crazy for years and the inflation rate has been too low if anything.
I mean to be clear, I'm not drawing a conclusion from a premise: I'm making an assertion, and in fairness, that assertion is trivially false by virtue of invoking words like "anyone" and phrases like "no need". Nothing exists `forall` what I said. I'm also aware that the assertion is a flashpoint for a lot of people and extremely controversial, even when you relax propositional logic enough to admit the trivial counter-examples (intelligence is clearly not some nice, neat scalar quantity).

Nonetheless I think that everyone knows what I'm saying: which is that they're are more than enough people who can both do deep technical work and wear clothes well and work a fucking powerpoint that the industry doesn't need to resort to employing nontechnical people in roles that require both, and that outside of certain verticals, someone who knows their shit but makes iffy eye contact or stutters is still a better person to put in front of the slide deck than a slick, charismatic figure with a dim grasp of the subject matter. It's nowhere near the either/or that it is so frequently presented as, and even when presented with that either/or choice I'll take the competent nerd unless I'm selling IBM z-series boxes to credit unions or something like that.

Given that OP is on the thread I'll leave it to them to clarify the point of the article, but I will point that my reference was to a classic parody of this whole "good with people" trope that was already darkly funny long before pervasive cloud services, the vastly increased prestige in software engineering roles, exploding FAANG engineer salaries, and all the other things that have people with the right look signing up for CS classes in droves [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi25sLQ_t-k
Yeah, I haven't been remote working but I tried working from home before with that result. Now I know I have ADHD.
Stoned Ape Theory?

https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/evolution/stoned-ape-...
This is the kind of argument I was referring to. Anything specific you're referring to?
As Taubes documented, a lot of people have known this for centuries. It's not like it's that hard of an experiment to run, even in prior centuries.

If this fully pans out, as I think it will, nutritionists of the past fifty years or so are going to have the unenviable task of being used as an example of how an entire discipline with billions of dollars in funding and the best possible science apparatus can get it horribly, horribly wrong for a very, very long time.
You waited all this time to ship the product but then you sent a very buggy beta unit to a reviewer and allowed him to review it with the worst platform?

You couldn't wait a bit to send a final version?