jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Underwhelming, even without the glass demo fail. Looks like it was designed by an outsourced rogue design team trying to design an 80's sci-fi car for kicks, that somehow it made it to production.

The demo was lacking in interior, technical specs, real-world examples of why its design is superior, etc, overall I'd say its Tesla's worst unveil. Though the design of the ATV did look pretty cool - unfortunate it lacked any details.

Luckily I was never interested in trucks so not disappointed by it's lack of appeal, still looking forward to the Model Y tho.
It looks like it was designed in Minecraft.
"Order Now" ->

Too Many Requests

Guru Meditation:

XID: 2262329

Props for an error page that tickled my nostalgia in a most geeky way.
You mean Tesla's chief designer Franz von Holzhausen? I'm not so sure. ;)
You are confusing RSI and carpel tunnel. You don't treat RSI with surgery.
Here's why I disagree: smart human beings evolved from not-very-smart primates.

That proves there is a natural process by which greater intelligence can be created.

Therefore there is no reason that an even greater intelligence cannot be created with help from man. And for singularity's sake super-human intelligence doesn't even have to be an AI. Genetically-engineered super-intelligent primates would do the trick as well. The idea is that once you've created something smarter than yourself, not matter how you did it, it will then be able to figure out how to make something even smarter. And so on. That's the singularity.
(I was born and raised in India, now involved in biomed research in US).
This is absolutely and completely correct. For every compound that makes to the clinic, there are 1000s that fail at the preclinical or clinical stages: worst case in Phase III when 100s of millions of dollars have already been spent on it. India, in its shortsighted view, is refusing to acknowledge the effort and money that goes into bringing a molecule to the clinic.
India is notoriously shortsighted when it comes to biomedical research. Here's a classic example: In response to a Texas company that tried to patent an indigenous Basmati species under the name Texmati, the govt imposed a blanket ban on the export of any indigenous DNA outside. What is the result of that? When the global HAPMAP projects began to genotype humans of all races and ethnicity and trace human history, Indians couldn't be genotyped because of the (Texmati) DNA law. HAPMAP ended up recruiting Indians living in US and UK. Now when the world is starting to reap some of the benefits of HAPMAP, India is at the forefront criticizing "bullies" like the US for not paying attention to diseases with restricted incidence in, say, India.
> You've presented a coherent, non-bigoted argument for the anti-marriage position; it does nothing to legitimize the anti-gay marriage position.

That was already covered. The argument is that allowing gay marriage will reduce support for the anti-marriage position. If gay marriage is denied then supporters of gay marriage will prefer to support the anti-marriage position rather than supporting marriage when they can't participate in it, which is preferred if you're anti-marriage.

Ironically the corollary to this argument is that allowing gay marriage preserves the institution of marriage.
> Many of us, after having run out of other crap to do, would sit around and wonder if the "B" grade network engineers were assigned to run the company LAN

Internal IT is almost invariably a cost center, the technicians providing the service you are selling to customers are working in a profit center. So, yeah, probably that plus be managed in a way which focussed on minimizing cost not maximizing internal customer satisfaction or other quality metrics.
Doesn't have the Apple logo? :)

But it looks like it was ~$500 less than the LG version all in all, so a decent project.
Didn’t see it mentioned anywhere - this might be in response to a recent scandal where the US champions were found to be using players from outside their district and were stripped from their title.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disqualification_of_Jackie_R...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqauFgkYUtU
If you get allocated a /32, you have 95 bits of addresses to play with. You could use a different IP every millisecond and not have problems.
Following the link to the article about Landauer's principle[0] and then to Koomey's law[1] takes you to a set of facts that have stuck with me for years. Firstly:

> As of 2011, computers have a computing [energy] efficiency of about 0.00001%.

which means that computers could theoretically be made 10 million times more energy efficient. Even more strikingly, though:

> Assuming that the energy efficiency of computing will continue to double every 1.57 years, the Landauer bound will be reached in 2048.

The possibility of seeing a 10 million times increase in energy efficiency in my lifetime is hard to imagine, as indeed is the possibility that the practical limit is reached before 2048.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer's_principle

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koomey's_law
We don't have review apps yet, we just have a few testing environments which devs can push changes they want to have available to. It is a really nice feature of heroku though so something it'd be nice to replicate. I think it'd probably take a week or so of dev time to do, the hardest part would be automating spinning up copies of all the dependencies we need.
what a shitshow
There is gold in that computer you are using. I would say gold has value.

Bitcoin as a working system has a value.
This is a great comment and I'm replying because I want to build on top of it.

Completely agree that the first priority is understanding your why and having a conversation with your manager.

After that, if you feel good about both paths, go ahead and try the managerial path. You've already experienced being an IC, why not experience management and see if you truly like it? As mentioned, it's easy to go back to being an IC and your management experience can only be helpful. You can set a timeline where you re-evaluate your decision so you don't get "stuck" by accident.

Lastly, the skills above like hard conversations are important, but you don't need to have the skills now. Right now you need to accept that you are okay with those being your reality and commit to learning the skills and not be that manager who doesn't tell you the truth and then you find out the hard way later on.
My experience is that procrastination leads to anxiety and stress before I even start doing any work.
First of all, it's nice to see Malaysians other than myself dabbling in entrepreneurship. As a Malaysian, I know what it's like trying to run a start-up locally; the environment is just too non-conducive, for various reasons I'm sure you're familiar with.

My advice is to try to dissociate yourself from all the noise out there (all the get-rich-quick seminars, how-to-make-millions-on-the-internet books, work-from-home business "opportunities", etc.) and immerse yourself in the real gems of knowledge (e.g. blogs by entrepreneurs, Hacker News, TechCrunch, etc.) to get the right paradigm.

Second advice, get new friends. Go to local start-up gatherings and know people. Best of all, get incubated in a local incubator. Unfortunately, if you depend heavily on social validation and you're not self-contained socio-emotionally (i.e. you feel the need to "hang out" and "talk" to someone all the time just to be functional), which you sound like you are, I think this might be a painful change to make. If you've identified your current friends as a negative influence on your ambitions and personal objectives, you know it's time to discard them.

The truth is that your current friends are probably a dime a dozen. If you want fight the negative influence, the only option is to dissociate yourself from them, not to try to "manage" it or, worse, to try to change them. Start spending more time with your family instead to fulfill your socio-emotional needs.
interesting - i guess the rgb (and luminosity?) channels are captured in succession? was this captured by a satellite?
When I read the headline I immediately thought Ayn Rand and Nietzsche. Apparently I'm not alone in that opinion.
QUIC and http/3 address three problems in my mind:

a) multiplexed tcp of http/2 is tcp-in-tcp with its well known problems. tcp over udp is not so problematic

b) as a udp protocol, congestion control is user space controlled. There's been some work on congestion control lately, but it's difficult to explore that for client to server transfers with tcp

c) path mtu detection in the presence of icmp blackholes is still a mess, in 2021; a udp based protocol puts control of packtization into userland.

I think that's fairly factual, so here's the opinion part.

a) tcp-in-tcp problems could have been solved by just using tcp. http/2 without multiplexing still gives some benefits (explicit server shutdown indications are a big one for me; binary vs text and compression may help with data length, but framing may not)

b) plugable congestion control would make more sense here to me. A certain company behind quic also controls a widely deployed operating system, and could make it happen; although adoption is slow, so it would take longer than switching to quic for their sites.

c) turning on path mtu blackhole detection by default on that same company's mobile operating system would help here as well. A certain other mobile OS without a diverse hardware marketplace quickly discovers and responds to lost big packets by sending smaller packets.
> I wonder how do you do grocery shopping while living at some picturesque country place, without a car or even a motorbike.

Their subscription comes with, and I quote:

- LOT Life subscription, basic self-care products

- Remote smart address (delivery locker, automatic postal routing, DMV untethered, utilities)

- Water delivery, food boxes

So you don't do grocery shopping!
I think on average the ceiling for US is about 4x higher than UK and the avg salary is about 2x. UK seems to be about £43k ~= $59,879 [0] average and software dev in America seems to be about £79k ~= $110610 [1].

Both stats from Indeed which say they are basing it on 11.6k salaries for UK and 29.8k salaries for US.

Personal opinion but it matches what I expect. America is where the tech companies flourish and talent resides, as much as we would like to say healthcare is more important than double your average salary in EU I'm not convinced. I'm sure for some people it is however.

As for FAANG specifically I'm unsure but do be careful as taxes in UK are a bit more harder on you compared to somewhere like Austin. You lose 40% of anything you earn above ~£50k in England.

[0] https://uk.indeed.com/career/software-engineer/salaries
[1] https://www.indeed.com/career/software-engineer/salaries
> timezones

Wait till they discover all the competent English speaking engineers in South America
Are remote exploits in minimal server installs particularly common? Like for any OS? Feels like probably not very. I can think of one off the top of my head in Windows.

But like, let's imagine a minimal Linux server install, not even something hardened - I feel like there probably aren't too many RCEs in there. Even fewer that are legitimately exploitable with a bit of work to harden.

It's not really to diss OpenBSD so much as to say that, yes, a lack of RCE in a default install is cool, but you also have to wonder what anyone is doing with a default install, and if that's really something you should care much about.
It's been awhile since I thought deeply about epicycles, but if my memory can be trusted... They weren't incorrect. They did a decent job of predicting the motions of the planets given the assumption that Earth was pegged at the center of the coordinate frame (which then required a whole bunch of "hidden behavior" in terms of non-apparent phenomena dictating the rotation of all other bodies).

Re-framing the whole system to be heliocentric allowed for the massive simplification of Kepler's Laws (and, not too much later, the further simplification of describing Kepler's laws via Newton's law of gravitational attraction).

We currently have an understanding of QM that doesn't reconcile well with macroscopic observation and requires a lot of intuitions to be broken (including, possibly, the singular nature of existence, time-forward causality, or lightspeed-constrained information locality). I can't help but wonder if there's some equivalent to "Assuming Earth is the center of the coordinate frame" that we currently do that forces these unintuitive (though working) solutions.

The solar system moved in epicycles because "it just did," until several leaps of intuition allowed us to see how it didn't. I wonder if there are similar leaps of intuition waiting on the horizon to allow us to explain quantum entanglement without nonlocal information sharing (hidden variables, we have shown, is not it).
Nice work.

What type of backend do you need in terms of servers/users if this was a real product? Clubhouse has been suffering under heavy load in certain cases. WebRTC is mostly P2P, but there is still a significant server load to handle edge cases and large rooms.

You should show this off to Mozilla or some other web company that's backing WebRTC and try to get some funds for scaling up your servers if you need to in the future.
That system at city hall exists because the Mayor (elected) and Board of Supervisors (elected) wish it to be so, and they wish it to be so, so they stay elected.

All the measures you’re talking about are about point #3 - talking about housing abstractly so they don’t notice how it will impact them on their block, for instance, or shifting the ‘balance of interest’ to state wide so they don’t/can’t connect the laws they are voting for to their local impact.

It might work - locals will be angry when they figure it out though, and there will be a backlash.

The reality is, if the people living in San Francisco wanted development, they’d get it. If they don’t, you can try to trick, cajol, force, or ignore them until you get development - but don’t expect them to go along quietly.
So now, the only way in which someone would buy Gox is if the crisis strategy posted earlier is not very accurate. That is, if coins are NOT lost, but indeed are inaccessible for some reason and there is a chance of recovering them.

No one would ever touch Gox if they had to return 770k BTC while the public actually knows those coins were lost. And now you also have authorities involved... If they could keep it secret - then maybe a buyer would be optimistic enough he could convince customers everything is going to be fine. But not now. Unfortunately for Mark, he's going to be in a lot of trouble now if all this is true. I lost all my savings with Gox, but one thing I'm certain - I wouldn't want to be in his shoes now.
I always was a bit jealous of athletes, ballet dancers, concert pianists, etc, because their expertise is valued so highly. A top-level athlete or ballet dancer will have a complete support staff around them which provides coaching, physical therapy, etc. They will spend most of their time practicing. Imagine how good programmers we could be if we were treated similarly! And of course, elite athletes are well paid in dollars too.

I guess the difference is that the numbers of players on the court is capped. Even if a good player is only (say) 50% more likely to score a goal, having the best player makes the difference between winning and losing, so it's worth paying a lot. And the only way to get a good concert is to spend a huge amount of resources training one particular pianist.

With programming there is no cap. Rather than paying a particularly good programmer 10x as much, you can just hire 10 mediocre programmers, and they will probably get more done. So smallish differences in competence never translate into very large differences in pay or training.
You can get the price charts from:

https://pizzacharts.com/c/BTC/USD/Coinbase%20Lunar/

Interestingly, there were 4300 pre-launch trades, probably from testing.

PS: I'm one of the Pizzacharts cofounders.
Another problem with academic writing is the arcane jargon can be so abstract as to be nearly meaningless and easy to exploit. See academic hoaxes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair.
Mildly amusing: dash separated is called 'kebab case': https://lodash.com/docs#kebabCase
If the position is in NYC then your competitive salary probably isn't as competitive as you think. The rate would have to be very high for me to consider moving to NYC.
Response from IBM (via its Hong Kong office’s blog):

IBM does not comment on rumors or speculation. However, we’ll make an exception when the speculation is stupid. That’s the case here, where an industry gadfly is trying to make noise about how IBM is about to lay off 26 percent of its workforce. That’s over 100,000 people, which is totally ludicrous.

The fact is that IBM already announced, after 3Q earnings report, that the company would take a $600 million charge for restructuring. That’s several thousand people. Not 10,000, or 100,000. Moreover, IBM currently has job postings for more than 10,000 professionals worldwide, with more than half of them in growth areas such as cloud, analytics, security and mobile technologies. IBM’s new cloud leader, Senior Vice President Robert LeBlanc, told Fortune this week that IBM has plans to hire 1,000 cloud professionals.

A little perspective on IBM’s earnings is in order. The company still makes huge profit… $21 billion in operating pre-tax profit last year. And IBM’s “strategic imperatives” represent 27% ( and growing ) of the company’s total revenue… $25 billion in revenues, up 16 percent. We have high growth in a substantial portion of the portfolio, and those areas (CAMSS) have better-than-normal margins in areas that matter most to clients today — that’s the heart of the IBM transformation.

https://ibmhkblog.wordpress.com/
>> To try and dress up either atheism or theism in rational arguments is absurd

Why? I know plenty of philosophers that are great with rational arguments that spend their time in atheism or theism. I know several who believe in God or some kind of higher power simply because of free will.
Can you give a definition of free will? Can you provide evidence of it or prove or disprove it even if we can agree what it is that we think we are talking about? Just because we may not have the slightest figment of a clue, not even a scrap, doesn't mean that we can't feel strongly whether free will actually exists or not or posit experiments or rational arguments to explain its existence or non-existence one way or the other.
Do you believe in free will? I do and I know several philosophers who do too, who feel that since they feel so strongly about its existence, despite it going against everything we understand about a physical universe (causal relationships, action and reaction and whatnot) that there must be something else going on in the universe other than mere atoms bumping into atoms, the existence that we can observe. Sounds like a pretty rational argument that dresses up atheism or theism quite nicely. Maybe you just haven't explored enough rational arguments or questioned your own ability to think and act freely to even reach the questions? Maybe you have. I don't know you, but I do know that there are all kinds of ways to talk about atheism and theism in very rational ways.
I run Xmonad with no status bars or anything and it works great. No clutter, just the windows I want to have there. I tried it out as an experiment on my laptop to get more screen real estate and then I carried it over to my next desktop install. I used to think that it was obvious that there were things I wanted to have visible all the time, but in reality there was really only one thing that could even qualify for that and that was a clock. When I realized I could do without that, even, I decided to skip status bars entirely.

The effect is what the article is seeking, without the pain of "Oh, but if I want to do this thing I can't". Free with workspaces that can be used for anything, meaning you don't have to deal with this "It opens up on top of everything else, making multitasking useless".
The web doesn't understand WhatsApp.
your first link points to Tim Sheard's Omega, a dependently typed programming language. Dependent types allow the programmer to codify arbitrary invariants in the types of the expressions. Some notes on depend types: http://axisofeval.blogspot.com/2010/10/notes-on-dependent-ty...
Tests at a primary (elementary) school level are a waste of the teacher's and the students' time. This is not an argument for no govt. provision of education however. The biggest thing that I hear from teachers in NZ is that the Ministry of Ed is doing its best, through a variety of stupid policies regarding untested National Standards for primary school kids, to demote teachers from being education professionals to mere technicians. Teachers have survived for years educating a lot of people with freedom to adapt their delivery of education how they see fit. Now, however, under pressure from all sides to be "accountable" (not real accountability, but performance destroying, lip-service style accountability) teachers are being destroyed as independent professionals as the bureaucracy crushes and bows to political will.

The biggest problem with this political will is that applying pressure to the teachers is politically easy. They get all this holiday, they just play with kids all day "how easy is their job??? zomg" /sarcasm. The real problems with most bad kids start at home and are best addressed with some sort of intervention from the very beginning of the kids life from social workers monitoring the family home and environment and various other early stage policies designed to create and mentor the parents into raising a good child, not a drain on society. But supposedly, policies like this ,which are normally far more effective than simple standardised testing, are "socialism" and therefore bad.
Nice! Congrats to Mike! As mentioned in the thesis he used to run Plateau. That place was infamous for its hacker-ish fueled discussions perfect for hyper curious teenagers.
Pyramid is actually pretty much a fork of repoze.bfg with some minor changes that allow Pylons developers easier porting. Essentially repoze.bfg were newer than Pylons (and therefor learned a lot). It incorporated more flexiblity while being simpler in design. This flexibility also means that a lot of what TurboGears 2 implemented ontop of Pylons isn't needed anymore, Pyramid allows you to use idioms common to both Pylons and TurboGears 2.

Additional Pylons were designed as a lot of WSGI middlewares pulled together. Pyramid is not (so much). The repoze.bfg developer so that Pylons developers had already settled on a common configuration of core middleware, and thus made many of the common middlewares required and therefore more tightly integrated.

So while Pylons were very much a meta-framework, Pyramid is not as much.

I'm unsure about what Turbogears developer exactly wants to do, but there simply isn't as much need for a monolithic framework ontop of Pyramid since it itself is somewhat monolithic and flexible enough to allow extension through libraries. Instead what probably will happen is that a lot of all the extra libraries already built as part of Turbogears 2 will be reworked to work as libaries for Pyramid (not on top of it). (but all of the is conjecture)

Note. I follow the mail-list much don't really participate in the development of any of these projects.