jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is Great. I started Swift a couple of weeks ago and this is the right time to see a professional instructor teaching Swift
Lenat never released the source code to Eurisko. There has always been a question as to how much he did and how much the program did.

Ideas that Lenat promoted with Eurisko and Cyc have made him successful by most criteria. But it would be better had he published a proven finished product, including it's innards. My feeling is that, in publishing, one should show the code or it never happened.
This revisionist hacker/cracker thing is an ESR fabrication, and seemingly, it's never going to go away.

To paraphrase raganwald, "Hacking is the exploitation of unexpected side effects".

There are good hackers and bad hackers.I have been on both sides of the fences since the beginning of the 80s. We were always known as hackers. Crackers were always a subclass of hackers that "cracked" software protection schemes, but they were hackers, too.

Virtually everyone inside and outside of the OSS community uses it correctly, but still this small element of ESR followers try to ram it down our brain stems. And then a new, young crowd discovers ESR's essay and attempts to repeat the same with false authority.
That looks like a fun app, but I'll stick with a real guitar for now.
I don't think I made my point really clearly: what I was saying is that the web as a platform needs to take whatever are the best tools, API's, and patterns that exist in webOS/Android/iOS, of course. It's the fragmentation of those well designed platforms that I'm seeing an issue with.

Maybe it's best to speak as a hypothetical "developer with an idea" that I'd like to hypothesize to be common: I don't have time to become proficient in developing on webOS/Android/iOS, and I don't want to do a half-assed job by quickly learning a system I'm not familiar with, so I'll pick one (probably iOS, because it provides the biggest reach internationally, and because I have the sense that iOS users are more likely to pay money for apps). I'd prefer to make one quality app, though, and ship it to all app stores, and have it degrade gracefully across devices that have one feature or another. Also, a pony. But seriously: I think Adobe's Flash-to-iOS is a great idea, but I have close to 0 confidence in Adobe being able to maintain it & keep it up to date with changes to the native platform. If Adobe had advocated making iPhone apps by shipping a full-featured Flash-to-HTML5 compiler and vocally advocated pushing HTML standards to reaching feature parity with the iPhone 4, it would be a dream come true.
There's more to wireless networks than just radio technology.

Contemporary cellular service is made possible with low interference licensed spectrum ($0.XX per MHz per million residents), real estate (towers) $$$$/mo each, fiber backhaul ($$$$/mo each), and an army of workers. Telcos each spend billions of USD per year on CAPEX.

Spectrum auctions are better than the previous allocation method of licensing channels for specific uses. If companies have to pay money they will efficiently deploy it, unlike incumbent users that refuse to digitize, simulcast on extra channels, or even leave it idle.
I wanted to see what you meant, so I signed up for an account and followed the prompts to deploy their stock express.js example.

At the AWS provider setup, there was a “?” next to “Provider Credentials”. Hovering over showed this text: “ Providers are a simple way for your team to store and use credentials for cloud platforms across your apps. Looking to use local credentials instead?”

The last sentence links to docs for using local credentials.

This seems to make clear what’s going on.

Edit: To add, maybe I’m just not hip with new front end strategies, but in my mind, if a website asks me to enter data into it and submit a form, I assume the server operator is getting that data. I’d consider that the default, and even sites which claim to keep my data client-side I approach with hesitancy.
Pretty much every city in Europe has some sort of train service. Maybe a tram system, or a metro/subway, or just regional train service.
Sounds like vaporware to me. If there are any RDBMSes that support practical autoscaling, they're certainly less mature/established than e.g. Cassandra.
You should include details on how long each of those interviews are. 3 technical interviews plus an intro call seems excessive depending on how long they're expected to take.
5-20 minute commutes are more normal. If this sounds surprising to you, take a look at the Census Bureau's commute data. Keep in mind that this data includes commutes that cannot be walked that are in areas of low unemployment and high income relative to cost of living. https://project.wnyc.org/commute-times-us/data/commute_times...
Keith Rabois
I find taking the subway in Paris or NYC a terrible experience. The smell, the crowds, the stress... after a ride I need to take a shower. As an alternative, I prefer the South East Asia "motorbike centric" cities, if only they could switch to eletric it would be perfect.
Sounds like a feature request. Some type of daily digest scheme ranked by each posts total popularity would be nice.

However you currently have access to the RSS feeds, which I believe gives you a permanent link. Even if the article has been archived.
I grew up poor, extended family scraped some money together (plus me working) to put me through college, worked at a software company for 6 years, saved up, and now I'm burning my savings every day bootstrapping. Here at Hacker Dojo, every day someone walks in the door, and I hear a similar story. That's my experience. Which is clearly the opposite of yours.
Yes, it's an exaggeration to say bad ideas, particularly in your case. I wish the choice were so clear cut. In fact it's more like choosing between fairly good ideas that might grow into something great, and fairly good ideas that seem, on reflection, like they will run into trouble of some type.
Actually, I'd be willing to bet the people at YC agree with what you said about how useful and popular it could be... but how do you make money with it?

That seems to be the one point that everything hinges on here.
Well it depends on what Heroku's SLA was, if any. If Heroku stated 100% uptime grantee, then Heroku would be to blame for not living up to their 100% uptime. If Heroku said hey listen, we can't guarantee any amount of uptime so be prepared and someone were to host some "mission critical" information on Heroku then yeah it would be the customers fault.
This is very useful, I don't play farmville but I do run an online football game http://deeproute.com

We get about 10 signups a day, and very very low rate of people saying. But the people who do stay, play for years.

I think the lessons from this based on farmville can help me increase the retention rate of users who sign up, but don't seem to "get" it
Certainly not common sense to me, but I don't play farmville or WoW
Did someone here say she did?
The blog post also explicitly advocates in favor of deplatforming.

It doesn't just get to walk away from that, even if it has additional recommendations.
Considering you can't read comments there, I don't know how useful that is.
I had forgotten about 230. Banning Trump makes a lot more sense with that in context.
Please don't post flamebait to HN. This cliché predictably made the flamewar hellishly worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25696026.
> Additional precise and specific actions must also be taken:

> Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.

> Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact.

> Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual* voices over disinformation.

> Work with independent researchers to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms’ impact on people and our societies, and what we can do to improve things.

*go to the article for the link

Short, clear, and forward-moving (I think).
Stupid question: does this have anything to do with the recent cryptocurrency boom? This always seems to happen right around the time people start scooping up GPUs and such.
You got me thinking. Maybe democracy is just like a religion. We go in every Sunday ( if that ). Some on sufferance. Some recent converts full of awe. Some out of habit. We have disciples. We have priests. We have holy words and phrases that shall not be spoken.
> By dismissing purely on procedural grounds, you weaken the democratic system.

You don't seem to understand how the justice system works. Courts can't just decide to investigate whatever they want to investigate, if there is no standing to hear a case then there is no case to be heard.

Also there were some fraud claims that were dismissed on the merits (because they were utterly baseless) so it's not true that they were all dismissed on procedural grounds.

> Bush v. Gore

The Bush v. Gore lawsuit was about how to deal with ambiguously marked ballots (remember the hanging chads). No insane Chavez/Dominion/dead voter/whatever election fraud conspiracy theories involved.
I had it in my mind to try and respond to every takedown request, but I have very specific instructions that should hinder mass takedowns.

Also, if there is a flood of takedowns, response time will take longer.

And, there is nothing stopping from someone uploading the same file under another torrent. (although this will hurt seeders/leechers)

But we will see. I don't think this will become too popular so hopefully I don't have to worry to much
I wouldn't put British media on too high of a pedestal. Churning out inspector/detective crime drama swill is one of their specialties. Many of these are about as creative as an episode of Law & Order, some less so.
In thread-per-connection server applications, the concurrency is exactly the number of threads spun up for the pool of connections. In node, it achieves that concurrency without a thread pool for the connections themselves, and thus you get less resource usage (memory mostly) for the same number of connections as the daemon scales up.

Node's real draw, aside from pretty easy concurrency, is the package ecosystem.
I wonder if Broadcom had anything to do with that...

Realtek made the RTL8366/RTL8369 which have plenty of info available and you can get from Aliexpress for ~$20 each.
cool. also liked your chat on scala.js at the scala meetup!
I'd go as far as to say that a zero debt situation is worrisome. It'd mean that we don't have anything (such as infrastructure) that we'd like to spend money on... It'd mean that the situation is bleak for everyone.
Whenever I watch a British show, I always feel like the writing is much better than American sitmcoms. Don't get me wrong, I love American TV too, but watching British TV doesn't feel like "TV". It usually feels like a series of movies.

This completely backs up what you said, and makes a lot of sense in the context that it's ok for characters to change and that most shows only get a limited run.
A completely balanced budget would probably result in deflation. In the U.S., there are only two ways that I know of that money is created: 1) A bank making a loan and 2) the federal government spending money. Likewise, there are two ways that money is destroyed: loan repayments and taxes. But in the case of loan repayments, the total amount paid/destroyed is always greater than the initial loan due to interest. The extra money for the interest has to come from somewhere. And this is without even considering the effects of increases in GDP.
And if the Surface 3 ever gets some market share, too!

Hey, IMAX is a "tall" format, also... will that be the argument to sell us new screens, if or once the 4K television game is over? :~)
On the other hand, we tamed nuclear fission, which is also pretty hard to handle. So I am optimistic that we'll sort something out when the time is right
How about copy/pasting the wrong address then (either somebody else‘s, or one the recipient no longer has key access for)?
How would PAC-MAN be considered violent?

Ghosts are by definition, already dead.

I could see it being banned for encouraging bulimia, or the use of psychedelic pills, but violence is not so obvious.
Oh, yes... the decades-old I can benefit for free from that totally unrelated tech project, why can't I get this one as well? fallacy.

Yeah, Debian has volunteers and a lot of people working on it for goodwill. But a project the size of Debian is something where you can get many different contributors who do all sorts of different things and become maintainers of these different subsystems. Couple that with a little fundraising and professionals that work on it because it is something that will benefit them economically (e.g, IT companies that provide services where having a free operating system allows them to commoditize their complements[0]) and it's easy to make it a sustainable operation.

None of that applies to what you are asking. There is no business to be had on a "crippled-but-leaner" browser, so no one will have any incentive to work on it for free. And if you are not willing to offer money nor volunteer your time to do it, why do you think others will? What you are wishing is just for someone to work for you to free. It reeks of entitlement.

[0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
The responsible way to monetize something is to charge for it. Advertising makes it normal to have "free" products and people become slaves to it. Can't say or do anything they don't like lest they kill your income.
> I'm sure the light pollution has gotten worse since then

Perhaps. In the South Bay they still have many of the sodium street lights because of Lick Observatory in the hills. I'm always amazed at how well you can see the stars from my driveway. I don't recall it being as clear in the midwest when I lived there.
Memes have to start somewhere.
What about running it as a sidecar in the backend pods?
I'm not sure if this library is better. If you're making an XHR for each inline svg, then that's a lot of unnecessary network requests compared to a dynamically generated svg sprite-sheet at build time. The latter is definitely possible with a pre-defined sprite UI library like Material Design or Font Awesome mentioned in the blog post.
Wow I have chronic tinnitus and just clenched my jaw a few times. The pitch just got higher. Never noticed that before.
How could it be that all plastic leach and yet some plastics remain in nature for thousands of years before they decompose?
> I just don't understand why his preferences bind on anyone else.

His preferences bind on the NYT in that as Scott can take actions which are adverse to the NYT in order to maintain his preferences. Such as deleting the blog and having his fans sign a petition and cancel their subscriptions. None of those actions are unreasonable: he is free to delete his blog for any reason or no reason, and anyone can make in a petition. What is the problem here?
rest, for me made a huge difference. Sometimes taking time off to come back stronger is immensely important.
Non-GMO and organic products still require fertilizers and pesticides that are manufactured by the chemical and agriculture industries. Organic, specifically, is essentially just freezing pesticide technology to the 50s. Somehow that's a good thing.
Starlink isn't really a solution for dense areas like suburbs at the moment, maybe in future versions. Well, at least except for the few that can get it quick.
> I dunno but perhaps it was better to spend the money on human support staff. Or on means to become less dependent on advertising income. Or on open-sourcing those "shut-down by Google" projects. Or on improving the sandbox/permissions system of Android.

I certainly have my complaints about Google but this post is way off base.

Whether Google pursues any of these possibilities has nothing to do with this sponsorship; they would all be in separate budgets.

It's also highly unlikely that the grandparent has any input on these topics - how much influence do you have over your employer's strategic decisions? It's absurd to chastise someone in a large organization for decisions they almost certainly had nothing to do with.

> But I suppose that the corporate culture dictates that you don't discuss most of these topics with management.

Questioning strategic decisions is rarely beneficial to your career in any organization. I have yet to see anyone promoted for doing so but can think of at least 5 firings related to this.
In The Bell Curve, they report that Asian Americans have a higher mean IQ than European Americans, who have a higher mean IQ then African Americans. Wouldn't that make him an Asian supremacist, if anything?
My web app was rocking squared off design circa 2014. In 2018 we hired a designer and the first order of business was to round all the things. I hated it! But, our users loved it. Strange world.
Different people place importance on different things. The "people who buy airline tickets" market is probably large enough to withstand some segmentation.
vhosts + /etc/hosts ;)

My work projects are blahproject.zg (as I work at a place called ZehnerGroup), personal projects are blahproject.dev.

BTW, for those interested in my stack (thats what she said?) I run uWSGI locally right now for all my django stuff, proxied to Nginx. Back in the day it was apache + mod_python, then apache + mod_wsgi, but I love nginx on my local laptop as it uses almost zero memory.
I work in the travel space and have worked on the business/marketing side for metasearch as well as dedicated hotel sites. Based on what's been shared by the Hipmunk team, I think I have a ballpark analysis of their rev-mets:

150,000 searches/month
40% CTR to Orbitz/Suppliers - 60,000 outbound clicks
15% Conversion to Booking - 9,000 bookings
$300/booking average revenue - $2.7M revenue (meshes with the comment that they generate millions of ticket revenue to suppliers per month)
$3 bounty/booking - $27,000 / gross rev per month
$324,000 annual revenue run rate
$180 average RPM (rev/1000 searches)

It's cash flow positive and has no external marketing expenses really. The ITA agreement will entail cost per search but they will make it up by having access to all fares which will give them near price parity with the likes of Kayak and others. Hope this breakdown helps.
I'm not surprised at that.

Honestly, I'd love to have all devel builds of any software that writes XML as output have to validate that XML against the schema before it's written to a file, and have passing that test be part of the the acceptance criteria for the build.

This isn't hard to automate - it's very basic test driven design stuff. I do the above in my own code, and all it takes is a single extra line...
tldr summary:

Could it be that the difference between a generalist and a dabbler is just saying “this is as done as it’s going to be” and shipping the work?
Don’t forget about acid attacks which from what I understand are far more prevalent in the UK than the US.
To be clear, I'm a big Julia fan and would love to be able to move to Flux.jl (I have not looked at the framework you linked but will now). But Julia is still overall more fragmented, sparsely supported, and not as easy to work with as python for ML projects. If I have a budget to work against, I cant justify trying to deal with the rough edges in Julia.
The subject literally is about two police officers in Beverly Hills who played music. There is no mention of brutality, any violation, or any history of violations.
This wasn't a monthly stipend (and it wasn't UBI) - it was one time payment.

Even if we were talking UBI, this calculation is pretty meaningless; nobody believes a version of UBI would be rolled out without tax changes.
> Average weekly mortality due to illicit drug overdose was 40% higher during weeks of income assistance payments compared to weeks without payments (P<0.001). Consistent increases in mortality appeared the day after cheque disbursement and were significantly higher for two days, and marginally higher after 3 days, even when controlling for other temporal trends.

Source: "Illicit drug overdose deaths resulting from income assistance payments: Analysis of the 'check effect' using daily mortality data", https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27402469/

> The findings suggest that scheduling and staffing practices of various emergency service areas in Hennepin County reflect patient load variation associated with time of welfare check distribution. Systematic variation of time or amount of welfare could lead to improved distribution and reduction of emergency services demand.

Source: "Correlation of emergency health care use, 911 volume, and jail activity with welfare check distribution", https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1648313/

To be clear, these aren't arguments for removing or rejecting cash assistance altogether:

> The implications are that there is a general check effect and that it was not reduced by ending benefits to persons with drug and alcohol related disabilities.

Source: "Psychiatric emergencies: the check effect revisited", https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10331323/

> Disability payments impact the timing of substance use, but receipt of disability payments is not associated with more overall substance use than unalleviated poverty. Money management-based clinical interventions, which may involve
assignment of a representative payee, can minimize the purchase of substances with disability payments.

Source: "The Check Effect Reconsidered", https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3094507/

An example alternative model is California's In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS): https://www.payingforseniorcare.com/california/inhome-suppor... On the face of it, it's a voucher program for the disabled and elderly to obtain in-home assistance (cleaning, bathing, laundry, shopping, etc). But it's actually more of a jobs program for the unemployed or underemployed able-bodied. And in cities like San Francisco a significant fraction of recipients of the vouchers are older drug addicts, and a large number of those paid with the vouchers are able-bodied older adults. There's plenty of rules violations and cheating all around (because people will be people), but arguably the money is nonetheless more well spent--e.g. less of the public expenditure is diverted to drugs--than if the program simply provided cash directly to the recipients.

Obviously, a single mother working two part-time jobs has much more to gain (as does the public) by no-strings-attached, direct cash assistance. Not all poverty looks the same, and not all of the impoverished have or even want the same incentives. That's the point being debated and that seems to chafe people the wrong way for some reason.
It's an interesting idea, but it's going to be hard to prove the model when the only payment accepted seems to be Litecoin, which severely limits the audience that can "vote" to prove the concept.
This chain has got me wondering how we count in base 10, but we don't have 10 fingers instead 8 fingers and 2 thumbs. Maybe we have 10 digits, but digits can be fingers or toes so we really have 20 digits.

Is there a word in English which exclusively means hand-digits or fingers+thumbs or digits-toes?