jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> This used to be called "code reuse".

Code reuse intuitively has a much smaller scope, you can use a function on both sides it's code reuse, you can use your templates on both sides it might be (pretty advanced) code reuse. The idea behind "isomorphic" applications is that almost all of the application runs on either side of the network, it's closer to multiplatform or portable computer applications where there's a low-level substrate papering over differences and everything above that is identical.

> It seems like someone watched a Haskell tutorial and copied a smart sounding word and just appended it to Javascript.

It's not completely nonsensical though, isomorphic objects are identical on the properties used to define the morphism. The idea behind "isomorphic javascript" is that you're running (more or less) identical applications on the client and the server.
just a clickbait title. I think the anonymous posting implementation here has some novelty though. There is a massive user trust and acquisition problem to a new app like this, I'm hoping allowing anonymous posts will let people feel comfortable being an early adopter and sharing to a new community before they know what it will develop into.
But what we all fail to ask is how much of a return on our investment does that 95% of effort get? Would something with 20% of the work give us 80% of an ROI? You have to pick your battles. Of course, something that looks slick and professional makes us feel a lot of pride - yeah, that's right I did that, doesn't it look slick? Isn't the UX amazing?... but did we spend 80% of our time attempting to increase our ROI by only 20%? If so, we're concentrating our efforts in the wrong place. It's really easy to get sucked into making something look perfect, but you always have to have an eye on the goal. [Does the extra work I'm putting into this increase or decrease ROI? Is it costing the company more to pay me to fix this bug than it's going to yield in income?]
Excited to see this. Congrats to the team on the release!
> "you should support restrictions on how long law enforcement agents can store this data, and who can access it, and under what circumstances."

Or better yet, start opposing its collection... if you're under the speed limit no authority has a good reason to keep track of where you're going and when.
How is this different from many of the other posts that are book shills? I reckon there's at least one post a day on the front page.

It's not fair to call it out when shilling is tolerated on HN, simply because you didn't like the article.
The source code is quite readable as well. pdp11.js has cases for stepping each instruction. 2Mb hard disk image loaded into an array via an ajax request (rk05.js)

Is it possible to benchmark this on a modern PC/browser, against a real PDP-11?
I argue it is going to be in the field of CAD editing and display. The whole field is totally set up for these "displays" (which at the bottom of it is what they are) and the bulk of 3D models are being produced in that field and are ready to immediately integrate.
I am very interested to see how a dead horse can be brought to life again - it would be an incredible feat if Marissa does it.
No, it didn't. If you're sharing pictures via email, you're doing it wrong.
The teaser page is a work of art in itself.
Bitcoins are itself sorta of "gold standard". But unlike gold, community already agreed on total number of coins (think about price of gold if someone will find huge source of gold and accidentally will let know people about it)
> Is EC2 profitable to Amazon? Likely very profitable if you want my opinion.

As a rule of thumb, if Amazon is doing something then it is profitable. Amazon will very quickly stop doing something if it can't make money.
In case you have not stumbled on to it yet: http://aws.amazon.com/importexport
sslh [1] (which is packaged and included in may linux and BSD distributions) has grown to support HTTP, SSL, SSH, OpenVPN, tinc, XMPP from the same port. It claims it can be extended to filter anything that can match with a regex.

What I find lacking lately is I've mostly wanted to extend the forwarding/routing of ssh connections based on username (or better by identity) to different VMs or hosts, but I have no idea how to achieve that at the moment (without creating dummy users on the sshd server).

[1] http://www.rutschle.net/tech/sslh.shtml

Github: https://github.com/yrutschle/sslh
The Dutch would disagree with you pretty much with every single point. Except the last one, maybe.
I also realized my comment assumed you were in the USA. If not, I think it will be tough to get in at SpaceX specifically due to ITAR restrictions, which are a whole other new layer of 'fun' in aerospace and defence.
The misunderstanding is understandable, since the Apache Cassandra site fails to state what Cassandra is, even directly below the heading "What is Cassandra?"
It doesn't really matter. What does is the process: how their protocol came into being.

If they just did what was most convenient to implement in Python, that can easily have a huge negative impact: a good protocol has to take into account all the complexity, not just the ease of picking up whatever is on Python's very comprehensive standard library.

For instance, would you serialise your messages in JSON? It sure is convenient. Works with many languages. You can send out text streams, or even binary streams if you encode them in base64. Though it takes some space, so you might want to compress the whole thing before you send it. Possibly over an HTTP tunnel, there are lots of HTTP client & server implementations out there. And all of a sudden you are depending on JSON, gzip, and some http stack. Which is crazy.

If you start from the wire format, and make sure it is as simple as possible, you will get simplicity for most implementations, without dragging it huge dependencies just because it was convenient, you will get performance because you're not wasting your time juggling between formats and compression and whatnot, and you will get security because your stack just got much smaller.

What I fear about IpV8 is that it appears to be Python only. Which is a strong clue that this protocol wasn't designed, but grown on top of what Python provides. At the very least, we need a C implementation with no third party dependency to measure the true complexity of the protocol, and maybe simplify whatever needs to be simplified. I know, C is a underpowered, unsafe language. That's kind of the point: if the C implementation itself is simple, then we know this protocol can be implemented in anything.
I vaguely knew a dude who got bald at 20. Beside the slightly strange feeling in the early days it really never made a difference in how we were with him. But he was a cool guy so that helped.
Buy land, and invest in the means to defend and hold it. Don't worry about followers yet; get good water, good food storage, and good defenses in place first. There will be plenty of recruits ready to work for food when you need them.
This is extremely exciting, if they can reverse aging in eyes, why not in the rest of the body?
Was shaving my head the best decision? Of course. I still had some hair in front and a lots on the sides. But top of my head is almost bald and my hair is quite thin. So I would always have bad hair and would fix it in the bathroom constantly. Wearing hat was a problem. Going on a holiday to tropical country - bad hair every day. I shaved that thing after returning from 4 weeks in Indonesia. I just had enough of it. A lot of women complimented my looks. My wife got used to it I think. But if there was a way of making my hair the way it was when I was young without side effects and transplants? I would probably try it. But until that day comes, I am shaving my head and don't care about anybody.
I'm somewhere in between. For myself, because I'm young and healthy, I'm not overly concerned about catching it myself.

However, I can also appreciate that in aggregate, the medical impact is higher than a normal flu. Hospitals have been overwhelmed (in Italy most famously, but here in Iceland it was also dicey for a bit around the peak). In that sense, I see it as being socially irresponsible not to take low-cost/low-effort preventative measures (mask/sanitizer).

Where it gets murkier for me is in the shutdown of businesses. I'm not sure I really have an opinion one way or the other on that. On one hand I can appreciate it sucks hard for those impacted. On the other, Iceland's second wave originated from an outbreak in a bar, so some kind of precautions are clearly needed. On the other other hand, at that time life was back to normal, so even normal precautions were completely ignored, so maybe we could have kept businesses open but just with precautions, which is the path we're taking now which seems to be working so far, though right now we're quite strict on international travel.

And though I've been drawing observations from anecdotes in Iceland, Iceland's numbers have never been very high because there just aren't that many people. Maybe the optimal approach is different in a higher-density location like New York.

IMO the solution to merging the realities is to humbly admit although we have statistics, none of us have all the answers. There is no one-size-fits-all solution.

Also, IMO, relationships are far more important than politics, especially politics as transitory as pandemic response. I argue with family about our differing perceptions of the pandemic, but at the end of the day I still believe they're doing the best they can and how wrong I think they are about some things is totally irrelevant to the relationship.
AutoHotkey seems to work for me
They are similar to the point of being identical relative to comparisons between either and any other language you can actually get a job using (although I have a soft spot for it, SML does not fall in this category as far as I can tell from a quick search).
The make manual[0] has always been pretty helpful to me, as it explains just about everything completely. And avoiding templated makefiles like you find in C(++) projects, as they compound in complexity very quickly and are bad as an example to how basic and straightforward you can make your makefiles. What really helps is knowing the terminology of certain syntax features so you can quickly reference then, things like: Automatic Variables, (implicit) pattern rules, functions, etc.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
Survivorship bias suggests we're more likely to see projects that resulted in released software...
As a general rule of thumb there is at least a 2 week delay from getting COVID to death, so it's too early to say going off of a death count. Alternatively, looking up how many new cases of people vaccinated are getting COVID could be used, which doesn't have the delay.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/israel-severe-hospitaliza...
Sure, we could learn that they did something really impressive with the solarwinds hack that we have no idea about right now, and at that time it might be reasonable to compare it to stuxnet. The same could be said of any hack. However right now there is no evidence of sophistication anywhere near that scale, and thus calling it the largest and most sophisticated attack is clearly unwarranted, at least at this time.
That is good news. I think Java Agent is definitely the way to go for JVM. Gives you all the access and APIs you need with low resource usage and only need to drop file in place add flag to JVM.

If you don't need the C API you can also write the agent in a JVM language which obviates the need platform specific binaries.

Agree wholeheartedly on direction, I'm hoping for a final phase of "of course we have that" but maybe that is wishful thinking considering not even good metrics are a given in many shops still but we can hope for a better future.
Look at the amount of Delphi code being written as a fraction of all new code being written, today and 20 years ago, and tell me how the Delphi community hasn't been ruined.
Yoox.com has exactly this iirc, allows you to set sizes for for shoes, trousers and shirts etc I believe.
Yep, it's flying under everyone's radar right now too. In my experience Graviton 2 instances are ~20% faster and 30% _cheaper_ than the best x86 instances for typical web workloads (transform some templates, talk to a DB, do IO bound network work, etc.). It's an amazing way for nimble little SaaS startups to pluck away customers from giants by offering much cheaper prices. The little guys that build up ARM expertise are going to be great exits and pickups for the larger fish in the ecosystem too (because if your platform is an old thing with a lot of technical debt, moving it to ARM is not trivial and the expertise to do it is in wild demand).

If you're working on online services and NOT looking at or using ARM servers right now--you are in big trouble and already too late to the game.
A corporation benefits a few, is wealthy, and controls the means of production. They can make material threats and promises that ordinary people cannot by virtue of owning little except their labor.
>Negative taxes are better. No need to give to the wealthy in the first place to come back and tax them later.

It's simpler just to give every citizen the same amount of money than to have to deal with all the edge cases of people having different income this year (and needing the money immediately) versus last year. If you get hit by a bus on January 1st, I'd hope that the money was available for you right away, not in another year.

Additionally, I'd like to see a "rolling average" approach to taxation. I think it's enormously unfair that someone who has a one time event (like making a million dollar commission on a sale they worked on for five years) is taxed massively more, and misses out on many more tax credits, than someone who makes $200K a year for five years.
LinkedIn weirds me out. It's like there's a machine somewhere churning out bubbly young blondes and they all wind up as recruiters on LinkedIn. There was even one that billed herself as part of a combination job-search and matchmaking service: get an interview and a date! It's not surprising that some guys are getting confused, because there are users who are intentionally recreating an "enterprise" version of the thirst/influence dynamic of other social networks.
> Organizing millions of poor people to financially compete with lobbyist funds seems a losing battle.

In the UK unions run an entire political party and manage to have a lot of influence including often forming governments. It's not a losing battle.
While I love linkedin, as it makes it very easy to apply to so many jobs, the photos seriously need to be removed.

A person's physical attractiveness should play no role in hiring, many people who are disabled might not be able to take photogenic pics. Those people are heavily disadvantaged, any person of color is heavily disadvantaged, I really hate the idea of social media creeping into LinkedIn.

For one it doesn't make a lot of sense for your political or social views to become a part of your employability. It's a resume not a statement on who you are. Then again I generally hate social media because it leads to the least informed shouting the loudest.
It's also important to distinguish "coexisting" from "accepting that their beliefs are valid"

There are plenty of cases where two belief systems can contradict each other but still be equally valid; QAnon is not one of those cases

However, that doesn't mean it's necessary or even productive to be constantly pushing back and arguing with loved ones who have succumbed to it. It's possible to coexist with the people without validating their beliefs. It very well may also be an effective path towards opening their eyes.
Spectacularly dumb idea to hang that much weight (6 Tons!?) from the top of those walls. Those walls are clearly meant for vertical loads. And a much better option (if you feel you have to do this) was available so I really don't understand what made them choose this particular setup. Anybody with an ounce of structural engineering knowledge would have looped the cables through the drainage ports.

Right now this looks like a Darwin award candidate. They're very lucky that those walls contained enough rebar vertically to withstand this load, it's at the worst possible attachment point and at the worst possible angle (especially for the inner wall).

Edit: looking more closely at the picture it seems as though the cables under tension are actually running through the drainage ports of the back wall, the ropes at the top seem slack or loaded both top and bottom of the opposite so there is in fact mostly compressive load on the front wall and about 50% of sideways load on the opposing wall. Still, that structure was definitely not meant to be loaded like this.
Exactly. Really really dumb this.
I have to second this.

If you consider the industry very "interesting" then go for it, but I would say think wisely about it.

Finance is one of the most self-indulgent industries out there (more so even then something like Art), you will be spending a lot of time with a lot of people that spend their time thinking about either how to make money (usually trying to find a way of cheating the system) or people who have already made their money and are now preachers of the free market.

I would recommend that you go check them out for a week if you can, especially if you are new to finance. It's not for everybody. Check out a few of the popular blogs (FT Alphaville is a good one) and see if you would be capable of living in that world.

The same way that hackers love to code and talk nothing else, quants talk markets and nothing else.
The original article by Wigner: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html
Generally, hardware RAID is good and software RAID is decent. Mobo-integrated and "software hardware RAID" suck.
There is also, more recent, the unreasonable effectiveness of data: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/MIS.2009...
Not to minimise their accomplishments but, once again, the table has been set pretty well by decades of publicly funded research and development. It is actually possible to be vertically integrated again with all the shared know-how.
I'm guessing the multi-hundred megabyte games weren't served from App Engine.
From Wikipedia: "It accommodates only 8,000 diners a season, but gets more than two million requests."

It's also claimed that the restaurant loses money, so why not raise prices??
>As journalists, we all view this as a horrifying assault on the public’s right to know, and on our own status as brave defenders of the public good. And that is all true, for what it’s worth. But this is about power. We need to take some back, lest the rich and powerful run away from one of the last forces restraining them.

It's interesting that they seem to consider themselves the only ones with pure hearts.

I'm not sure why I should assume their hearts are so pure. Or if I assume their hearts are pure, why not Elon Musk's (mentioned in the article)?

I do appreciate the role of the news media in creating a multi-polar rather than uni-polar world. But man, they really do think highly of themselves.

I don't know how you could write all this realpolitik stuff, and still think you yourself are immune to it (outside of solipsism).
> The only relevant factor is how much value they create (either in the form of eventual increased profits or eventual decreased costs)

Not true. Its a market. The upper bound on your pay is how much value you're expected to create. The lower bound is your breakeven point - where you're not sure if its worth going in to work or not.

The range in the middle is pure profit - its value created by your employment. If your income is close to your value to the company, you're capturing most of that profit in your pay packet. If your income is close to your breakeven point, your workplace is capturing most of the value of your employment. Where it lands is dependent on competition. If there's lots of capable software engineers and almost nobody hiring, then competition for jobs pushes wages down. If there's lots of jobs and not enough capable software engineers then competition for software engineers pushes our salaries up.

"Location based pay" assumes your employer is no longer competing with other SV-based software companies (because you don't live there). But your remote job is proof that you have remote work choices! And as more companies become remote-friendly, your company is competing for my time with all the other remote-friendly employers. (Which should push wages up). And employees are competing with everyone else who can apply for remote work (which is a larger pool of applicants).
I find this super inspiring and equally frustrating. We've made very little progress since these breakthroughs.

I'm working on 3d printed Robotics trained with ultra low data RL, but it just doesn't work well.

Traditional control is too rigid and modern "AI" too unpredictable
It’s nice that it is easy for PCs interact with outside world again.

Back in the DOS days, it was easy to connect stuff to computer. Both serial and parallel ports were easy to use, and timings were stable and predictable - DOS was generally staying out of your way unless you accessed filesystem.

Then there was a long period of time after Windows and USB appeared when the interactions become hard. The USB ports were complex, and even if you did get USB-serial adapter (surprising number of people didn’t know about them!) they were slow and jittery due to multitasking.

And now we have all sorts of easy to use embedded boards - from Arduinos which would be computer-controlled over serial port, to Expressif products which give full wifi capability for inly a few dollars. And they come with tons of tutorials, easy to set up IDEa, and powerful libraries.
China sees what FED is doing with USD and understands that dollar slowly becomes "funny money" so they execute hedge:

1. become worls biggest bitcoin miner - funny money alternative to USD

2. if USD is overvalued then you should buy up undervalued assets in EM and gain mercantile and political benefits

3. their expanded empire will continue to print USD and they will continue to expand everywhere except USA to hedge against USD
As someone interested in economics, I would like to hear a speech by Janet Yellen. She is intelligent and interesting and even has a unique voice along with her Brooklyn accent that makes her even more interesting.

I have organized business events and while I haven't ever been involved with hiring someone as high profile as Yellen, I can certainly understand why she could command an $800k speaking fee. I have seen speakers with much less cachet (very little chance you have ever heard of them) draw $50k speaking fees.

Also, this wasn't one speaking fee for Yellen, it was multiple multi-day events over s period of time.

People are paying $250k for a single speech from Malcolm Gladwell or Seth Godin and they are presumably not getting any political benefits for hiring them. So I see nothing odd about Janet Yellen getting $800k total for several speeches.
Big media is essential for democracy? Democracy literally predates the printing press.
> "Natural gas rose to a record $600 per million British thermal units in Oklahoma. And as much as half a million barrels a day of oil output in West Texas may be impacted by well shutdowns that began on Thursday because of the extreme cold."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-14/deep-free...

Energy planners didn't account for extreme weather, regardless of source.
Per MW/hr? $2 to $4 seems way too cheap. Here in MA, National Grid in is approx. $0.1239 per KW/hr so x1000 (KW->MW) that would be ~$123 (that's the basic energy cost, not incl. delivery and the "extras" they hit you with).