jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Substitute 100% with a percentage you feel comfortable with. Whatever puny humans consider "full effort" without ever aspiring for more…

I think it is probably correct to say that the tips of major breakthroughs come from small groups, but to claim entirety of the credit would be discounting all of the work, research, support and infrastructure currently and in the past. I do not think it is feasible to go to an "every man for himself"-system at this point — plus I'd like to see some historic examples of such successes if that is your gist. Notably fostering an overall empowering society is not the same as putting Joe Sixpack in the Manhattan project 'cause he's been trying so hard, bless his little cotton socks. You need not respond here, but I hope your article-in-potentia can sufficiently flesh out and support your idea instead of only trying to deconstruct the current (?) stifling environ.
Most of their technology is not related to the processors themselves, but to the rest of the computer. They've got a fancy high-bandwidth, low-latency interconnect between the chips. They multiplex access to I/O hardware, which I'm sure takes advantage of that nice interconnect. They have hardware-accelerated network load balancing which tries to keep the CPUs at maximally-efficient levels of utilization, letting the spare CPUs sleep, and avoiding malfunctioning CPUs. I would love to see this with ARM Cortex-A9 processors, and I think that's actually very likely if this company succeeds.
Funny and hilarious cartoon...Excel rocks...!!
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yup, it's a big deal, and a big reason to get on a group plan rather than getting individual coverage. Keep in mind, though, group plans usually cost more (because they accept unhealthy as well as healthy people, while the individual plans only accept healthy people.)
I'd imagine this is feasible because they are getting more value in free advertising from this than the cost of running the servers.

2.4-3.2 Xeon can mean a _lot_ of things. My guess is that these are old servers that they'd otherwise firesale to avoid having to pay dump fees.
Semantic wankery: They did not say "in 2004", "at the time", or anything of the sort. They said around 100 dpi is "the ideal resolution" — no qualifiers except for "after years of experience".

I realize they meant this and I realize they didn't say it because Apple marketing tries very hard to not confuse users with not-strictly-necessary detail (and to make sufficiently general statements to be as generous to Apple products as possible without being outright misleading, but I digress). But no, they did not say it was the best compromise they could get at the time -- they said it was the absolute best.

edit: can the two downvoters state why they don't feel this correction of a statement regarding what "Apple said" adds to this discussion?
Yeah, there are still some single-threaded tasks that I want my servers to be able to tear through. For serving up HTTP requests, though, this sounds great.
I doubt this is true. However, many rental buildings in NYC are now LLCs for the reasons described above.
I don't think that's an accurate portrayal that they were "C++ programmers" as if to imply they were experts or even proficient at it. Plan 9 doesn't even have a C++ compiler. From his wikipedia bio, Ken Thompson "later refused to work in C++".

I think they were surprised that C++ programmers didn't like Go because Pike and Thompson weren't actually C++ programmers. Griesemer however appears to know C++ well.
Sadly, making ends meet is not the reason people do not give to charity. It is those least able to afford it that give the most.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9276527
I would love this if I trusted any online service to maintain the paid option as truly ad-free over time but I've been burned by the TV industry too many times. Ad creep ruins every paid service and ultimately just drives the price up.
Yes and this is exactly the problem with buses! You and everyone else rides the bus on the core routes at the peak times, but the buses run for long hours and the routes cover more areas than the core, so the average utilisation is very low and pollution per passenger-km very high - although the average passenger experiences crowded buses.

Deciding to switch a solo peak hour journey from a SUV to bus might help a little, but the bus will still be driving empty outside the peak times & routes. Working from home takes a passenger out of the peak times entirely, and with a reduction in peak time travel then demand-responsive transport becomes more attractive than huge buses blindly following rigid routes, and eventually maybe we can dream that sustainable transport like walking and cycling might be deserve a safe place on the street.
I thought that Stripe gave sellers a customer token, so you only had to write your card details once.
I thought http://coreobject.org/ was refactored out of Etoile?
I have had manageable but painful wrist pain in both wrists for about 2 years, and I worry about the long term because Im only 26 now. I had never thought of this as an avenue to explore even though Ive had good results in the past from pt for a weightlifting injury. Thanks!!
Nice insights and I will definitely take a deep look at ko.

Slightly off topic but since you linked to his Twitter account, everyone should check out Dan Lorencs articles. There is some interesting articles about Golang, kubernetes and other Ops-like things.

https://dlorenc.medium.com

I only wish I could get his stuff into my RRS feed so that I didn't miss it.
this is a pretty textbook example of unconscious bias and it's very real.
approximately equal to the ratio of unicorns to leprechauns!!!
If you go back to my original comment you'll see that I don't propose paying for food with UBI, it should also be supplied.

> I can get $X for free, so I need "more than $X" to keep picking potatoes. Now potatoes cost "more than $X" because of labor cost. You can't buy potatoes with your $X UBI.

Why do you need more than $X to do the same job? Anything you get paid with be on top of UBI. People picking potatoes today are hardly living the life of luxury, pay their basic needs and they'll most likely just keep doing their same job and spending that extra money on stuff one level above survival.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=diverse+teams+performan...
That's not a pyramid scheme though?
Calvin and Hobbes is fine, but I think Peanuts was better in capturing and commenting on human experience of clueless people trying to make sense of a dysmal world.
Its not just that... There are people here who claim win10 is "nice" but have obviously never really _looked_ at it. It takes about 1 minute to start 4-5 different applications which are the equivalent of a 20 year history lesson in windows UI's. There are the win3.1 interface which is basically a menubar, there is the 95 era ones which have a menubar and button bar, and maybe even right click works, then there are the ribbon applications, and the modern/metro ones. All shipped with windows, so we aren't even talking about 3rd party apps at this point. Even then we haven't even talked about MDI, or the mishmash of shortcuts for doing the same operation depending on which application.
A rough analogue for changes to the environment in regard to the US might be the logging of old growth forests to fuel construction and urbanization.
I assume you in the UK?

https://www.gov.uk/tax-employee-share-schemes/overview
I was wondering how this would compete with docker swarm. Is my understanding right that docker swarm basically lets you run an agent on individual docker hosts whereas triton will let you run a single virtual docker host?
Some more SGI boot/shutdown sounds here
http://www.spam-filter.de/irix/sgi_kultmusik?s[]=irix
If you break my “typographer’s quotes” by overzealously sanitizing when you don’t absolutely need to, you’ll end up 6' under a † if you know what I mean. ;-)
No, I think that this is simply Ubuntu providing exactly what they promise: an up-to-date system that is also stable. If you don't think it's up-to-date enough, I suggest trying out CentOS or Debian for a while.

It simply isn't easy to provide a stable system without some kind of release cycle. How would they gracefully upgrade something like Python or Perl or that have wide effects on the system? These kinds of changes are not trivial.

It's not that Linux software installation is that bad. It's that they've solved the "dependency hell" problem that well. Now they have to handle the implications of all of those dependencies and the complex interactions of all of those version changes.

I mean, it's easy to just roll the bleeding edge version of a package out if it has no dependencies. But it's rarely that simple.

If you know of a solution to all of these problems, I suspect you'd be able to make a lot of money building a distro to compete with Ubuntu.
FYI, the world's population is about 22x the population of the US, so 15M doesn't seem crazy. That tool sales are lower in China does not necessarily mean that there are fewer programmers.
Reflection on your efforts is key to success.
On OS X this particular character is alt+space.
I saw someone do a talk using Prezi. It was incredibly shiny and worked pretty well, but it had a downside. All I really got out of it was that whatever thing he'd made the slides with was really awesome looking, what is that thing? Sitting here now I can't recall what the talk was about at all.
It's called a "Soft Hyphen"

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/shy.html

While it makes sense to make usernames consist of only alphanumeric characters (something people are used to - thanks to email), I don't see why you'd need to "sanitize" Unicode characters.
This interview about the topic (Glyphosate by Monsanto) is also quite telling:

http://m.canalplus.fr/?vid=1122650 (English with French subtitles)

Interviewee: It is completely safe and you could even drink it

Interviewer: We got a glass of it here, you want to drink some

Interviewee: No, of course not, I'm not an idiot and the interview is over now.
Yes I know what mammary glands are. Now why would they be shown under the body (skin, clothing) tag?
Back up delicious, play with advanced techniques to create links between the various tags and some other fun stuff.
If you're looking for a somewhat different paradigm, try http://historio.us/. It's a search engine for bookmarks, so you can search in the entire content of the page instead of browse the titles.
Yeah I'm on a 10.5. Why would it be slower depending on window size?
lol, strike two, facebook's also blocked.

i think this site is blocked, too, because i can't access it, but it'll give you a list of what's blocked here:

http://whatblocked.com/
http://browsarity.com/ (YC W10)
but i think the author's got a point, you never hear about any stalwarts of software dev defecting to apple, do you?
If you want to have freedom then you have to accept that a free life is a messy life.

I don't support centralized internet ID systems for the same reasons I don't support a national identity card: it's a central point of control that will inevitably be used by the government against its citizens and corporations for profiling and targeting all of us.

As much as it may appeal to the tech mind to have things in nice little boxes this is a terrible and dangerous idea.
Man, can you imagine if Google stuck this on their home page or on GMail for that matter?

Pretty wild.. wonder how that CPU would compare to the largest farms. Only works on ridiculously // problems though.
Amonia has a very strong & bad smell though? Even if you wash off 99.9% it will still smell bad.
I'm not working in any application domain in particular. That DSL just popped in my mind one morning at around 4.00 A.M. when I generally wake up to urinate. :)

Of course I didn't code all the currencies by hand. I just got the currency list from the Internet and then, using a RegExp, I generated the code.
Ta-daa-a :)
My perception, based on hearsay, is that Amazon is a high turn over, burn out kinda place. Even recruiters say that.

Doesn't mean it's true but the perception is out there.
I was aware of that, I just hadn't thought that Amazon would start selling this sort of service.
I've only heard of ZIP pronounced as a word and not spelled out like you'd spell out CPU. I'd call it an acronym.
> The problem in this area is finding someone you trust and is competent. I don't see how this solves that.

Amazon is extending the trust you have for their brand to local workers that they've screened. They'll even guarantee your satisfaction. That's how they're solving trust and competence.
Never thought I'd ever understand an article about compression :) Great article (loved the "hopping bunny" example) and it almost makes me think that this could replace the need for dynamically loading content in some cases (when network latency, and not DOM rendering and such, is the issue).
My recollection of history is not great but I believe that in feudal times this is true. But the interesting part is that they were granted rights in business that others were not given.

So it wasn't simply that they had to compensate in other areas as a result of not being allowed to own land, but that they had rights that others didn't.
I'm guessing most exjws (like me) seeing these stats get some amount of satisfaction from seeing the fruits of incessant badgering by JW leadership against formal education put them just above historically black churces at the bottom of the graph.

Despite calls for reform, college attendance for youngsters is still actively discouraged in favor of trade school and worse options (such as homeschooling). All in the name of being able to dedicate greater time evangelizing. All of us that have left know that the underlying rationale is to prevent young JWs from being exposed to rational, liberal thought that almost inevitably destroys their house of cards dogma.

Yes I'm smiling too. The moral upbringing was good. The emotional baggage is not.
Actually, it isn't in the guidelines (they say no name-calling, and nothing you wouldn't say in ordinary conversation, but -- for better or worse -- I might in fact say pretty much that in ordinary conversation).

In the face of confidently presented misinformation, I think it's reasonable to begin with something that indicates that I'm offering a correction and not merely a disagreement. Even if that comes across as less than perfectly polite: correcting someone isn't a perfectly polite thing to do.

(Of course, it really is rude to present something as a correction rather than a disagreement if you're not actually right. So I wouldn't do it if I weren't very confident that GrandMasterBirt is all wrong about what "agnostic" means. And I'll look very silly if it turns out that I'm the one who's wrong. But I am, and he is, and I'm not.)
We've been trying to get my mom to use a computer for as long as I can remember. She tried a few times to learn how to 'get on the internet' on a PC but never really used it herself. She'd get my brother to send emails from her email account.

A few months back we got her an iPad. She instantly took on to it. She was emailing recipes, sharing pictures and connecting with friends and family on Facebook within the first week. She picked everything up surprisingly quickly. Seeing the iPad have this effect on a person who hasn't used a computer for more than a day or two in ther life time was shocking.
looks incredibly ambitious, like Iridium :)
Contrary to what you may think, the layman doesn't go around saying "I just installed this awesome app". Before the iPhone got "apps" the reality is that the term itself wasn't popular until Apple started referring to "applications" as "apps".

It first started with Steve Jobs calling them "apps" then eventually Apple started renaming everything in iTunes and their documentation from "applications" to just "apps". If your non-tech savvy parents start using the term "app" then I'm pretty sure that speaks for itself and Apple deserves some credit.
Don't really know Erlang, but having worked for Telecom industry earlier, I would guess Erlang is getting its concepts and messaging model from SDL [1] rather than from OO.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification_and_Description_L...
I look at this two different ways.

1) There is no such thing as "unlimited" anything with technology. Either you haven't read the fine print of your provider's terms or your provider will at some point have to change them.

2) What's interesting is that storage costs are dropping precipitously while they're restricting their customer's use of storage space. I just bought an 18 TB SATA drive for my main desktop that I paid $320 for. 100 TB just isn't that much space today.
This old thing? I'm sure I've seen it somewhere on HN before.
My point was that unless it did result in an improvement in quality, there would be no reason to do it.

And as has been mentioned elsewhere, it would probably be a net negative for quality since potentially good articles would be banned.
Great explanation, thanks.
While I knew several object storage techs came before S3, I was not aware that there were also similar APIs existing before.

It's bad from Amazon to not credit predecessors. If previous APIs are that close with S3, adding their branding is problematic.
SVG was actually one of the first topics I'd planned to tackle once https://concise-encoding.org/ and the reference implementation is finished.

You definitely don't want to solve SVG's bloat problem by moving to another text-based format.
This isn't worth reading. None of the details you'd like to learn, like how much would he get paid compared to the delivery cost he pays.
The business will have to pay accordingly if they want to incentivize the employee to travel at the peak congestion times.
I'm under the impression that on-prem Ubuntu phones home. I guess maybe it can't guess your LinkedIn name, though.
Obligatory non-US HNer snark: I wish I my credit card processing rates were 2.9% + 30¢ expensive, not 8.9% expensive.
This was helpful. I've looked at AWS before briefly, but this helped me understand the process better.

This seems like a good set up for server to server API requests. One question I still have is how to most safely query such an api from a client, rather than another server. ie, if my web app clients need to pull data from the rest api, is the only option to have them go through my web app server as a proxy, rather than pull the data from the rest api directly? I don't see a way around that.
There are tons of them already for sale cheaper, enough I don't think the overhead of running such a program would be justified: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=ti+83

But there's concerted effort to keep the perceived value of used calculators from being too high from TI and their partners.

Things like peripherals that only work with new devices for lab work, to textbook examples that rely on color (which only newer ones have).

As soon as you go up a couple of levels in age you see the prices start to spike: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=ti+nspire+cx

I say perceived value, because in reality the Ti-83 would still work for 99% of use cases, but TI has it's finger in the education pie, so it's easy for them to get textbooks to say things like "TI Nspire CX recommended" or have images and button presses that will only match their newest calculators
The amount of public land that is locked in by estates (basically making them private to the estate holders) is astonishing.
No, the work done by worker still has a negative utility — it's time spent and salary paid, a clear loss for the employer.

The fruit of the work done is what's valuable, thus is what the employer buys from the worker by paying wages, or a slave owner forcibly takes from a slave. This is why an employer is interested in technical improvements: they reduce the required amount of work per unit of the resulting valuables.

The tension between the worker and the employer is about the price paid for the fruits of the work. Definitely, with standardized industrial manufacturing, it's about the amount of time and work conditions, because a worker can't significantly influence the performance of the machines he's using, or could not at Marx's times. As the Japanese (e.g. Toyota) have shown, workers with right motivation and right education can influence performance of industrial manufacturing quite significantly, e.g. by spotting inefficiencies and by lowering the defect rate.
If they could have pulled a 4wd they likely would have.
This is the company that shuffled a hard-coded password instead of fixing it. The developers got around the strings AP_image|grep "hardcoded password" "check" the managers were doing on the AP code by just moving it to the controller code instead.

They still have a hard-coded root password on their WLC controllers.
Having worked in a lot of grid systems what I usually see is NFS. Just buy a very expensive filer.
Always been curious about workflow of people who use Scala.js. I am a complete newbie when it comes to frontend. How do you do frontendish interactive development considering scalac's slowness?
I use a Clojure, JavaFX, jlink and AppImage stack to build, bundle and distribute my app. I love it, it's a lot of fun.

Here is my script to build a standalone linux binary:
https://github.com/ogri-la/strongbox/blob/develop/build-linu...

It comes out to about ~55MB typically:
https://github.com/ogri-la/strongbox/releases
Do you mean Lloyd Tabb? He was part of a four-person acquihire from Borland. He didn't do anything for JS, but Ken Smith from that team, after the ten days in May, did do the port we all agreed was the right solution: java.util.Date from Java to C. This left us with the same Y2K bugs, 0-based month numbers, and other warts that Java had then.

Lloyd suggested `with` after the ten days, also the String.prototype.{anchor,bold,...}() methods, and I added them in the same spirit that I made == sloppy on request from others in the ex-Borland gang of four (Bill Turpin, I think). I should not have agreed to any of these. Lloyd can take credit for them. The String methods are the least offensive but not that useful, now-archaic.

Someone (I think jevering) wrote a dishonest Quora answer claiming Lloyd wrote an engine and I used or benefited from his code. That's false. Mitchell Baker, who was a Netscape lawyer at the time, came on Quora along with others from Netscape management to back up my testimony.

It's funny people want credit for JS when boosting their resumes (Lloyd did great with Looker and as far as I know doesn't need money), while I get blame still. As I should: again, I'm the idiot who agreed to these Borland-flavored requests: sloppy ==, `with`, HTML helper string methods. My blame and credit, mine! But Lloyd is welcome to a share of the blame if he wants. :-D
You're exactly right, and I actually called them out on these tradeoffs early in the acquisition.

They were talking about how they were surprised we were able to charge so much for our engineers on our contracts, when all of theirs had much tighter margins.

I told them it was probably because they optimized for winning contracts at any cost vs winning contracts that were worth it.
Oh, of course.

The vaccines have a higher side effect rate than we're used to, but they're orders of magnitude safer than the risk we have from being exposed to COVID, infected, and then having a bad outcome.

Some of this relates to the rush to market and the desire for very high efficacy even if we were somewhat surprised/incorrect on required neutralization titers. When COVID-19 is rarer, we likely will need safer vaccines against it, though. This may just be a question of turning down dosage a bit.
Just a quick follow up... saw this article in the local VN paper today... it is a massive eco disaster.

https://tuoitrenews.vn/news/international/20210212/mekong-ri...