jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How is your mattress?

I started having a similar experience this year and also started feeling better while on vacation. When I returned home and it immediately got worse again I realized my mattress was part of the problem (the symptoms were often the worst in the morning, though they persisted all day). It was not a terrible mattress, but over the years had gotten a little saggy in the middle. I bought a new mattress and while, the problem hasn't completely gone away, it has gotten a lot better.
AGHHH.

"The so-called Y Combinator model, in which small amounts of money as well as office space, mentoring and networking opportunities are sprinkled among a dozen or more promising businesses, is gaining more attention from investors."

Y Combinator is extremely explicit about NOT giving office space to its startups. Why does every article get this wrong? Presumably because so many clones get it wrong too?
This is one of the more interesting comments in this thread. Can anyone confirm it still works?

EDIT: I get the following error:

[xxx@xxx laanwj-dropship-464e1c4]$ ./dropship examples/sintel_trailer-1080p.mp4.json
('Oops, blocks are not known: %s', ['lykR7INbdxXNk04IpJUxTvO97GeETwAbobol2283eqY', 'ciZ4YYqkiA9VssSpfmcagRJaYMtD3wNqZ4NTeV9BvOc', '7qe_U9KLL8t1RRH3K01PdTxnEGCnm1nP8S30ZkXK0KI', 'cPJPJ_uch8hJFhKaEeXufETDZ-q6Fqz1cibxoYwL8G8'])
Elastic Load Balancing, S3, SimpleDB, CloudFront, SQS, CloudWatch, and DevPay.

You can combine things, like automatically starting up EC2 instances from monitoring/balancer.
> But seeing the NIMBY madness and price rises in many coastal cities makes me wonder.

Suddenly Lex Lutor's evil plan from Superman : The movie, makes sense.
Nice to hear that. It's way more comfortable to report bugs in Github than mailing lists. I will make it easier to constribute, as well.
> we could be writing web apps in Go/Rust instead of JS. (or Groovy, $lang_of_choice)

Couldn't work out if you're using Groovy as an example of a shoddy language used because there was nothing better (like JS), or a better language that everyone couldn't agree on (like Go/Rust). Groovy was originally based on Beanshell but with closures added, and became mildly popular for scripting on the JVM around 2006 onwards, and its later use by Gradle for 30-line build scripts. A meta-object protocol was added and Grails (a knock-off of Rails) was built to utilize it, though Grails use is on the decline partly thanks to Node.js. Although the backers of Groovy have since added other cruft, it hasn't moved beyond its original use case of scripting the JVM (like Bash for Linux).
I regret finding out Signal uses recaptcha in its welcome screen, and sets the Google PREF cookie permanently in the App's Cache.

Traceable by Google every time you open the App... and using Google's Backup service to store the private keys unencrypted. Well, so much for E2EE.

This combined with what went on with LibreSignal and legal threats from moxie made me realize it's just a company selling privacy claims without proof.

(if you don't think this is true, use AppWarden or decompile the APK. Play Services, Firebase and Recaptcha are still integrated years after LibreSignal was forked.)
>is there anything stopping Mr. Bezos from simply voluntarily paying more in taxes than he owes?

This is about taxes Amazon owes, not Bezos. Bezos already is giving vast fortunes away through his charities.

And yes there are two things that stop Amazon from giving away free money. 1. A fiduciary duty to their shareholders, 2. competition.

Bezos is completely right to state that, if people want to see more contribution from large firms, have it done through proper legislation and taxation.
I am still trying to grasp how Thiel intellectually went from ultra libertarian to American statist cofounder of Palantir. What happened? He realized the threat of China and changed his mind? He’s hedging his bets? He sees a strong American state as fundamentally necessary for libertarian values?

No snarky replies please. I am genuinely curious.
I haven't been able to read a book in a long time. I think I have adult-onset ADD and all the media out there to consume is overwhelming. It's crazy that if I want to read I will have to schedule time in the calendar for it. I was a kid before home PCs existed and back then books were something that I craved because we just didn't have the tsunami of media that we do today.
There has been no brigading. The submission is flagged because it's off topic for HN. I'm sorry that you had a difficult experience but you can't dox someone like this here, so please don't. We wish you well in your search for good work.
This is something of an aside, but the design of Tailwind CSS classes inadvertently (or perhaps not) makes developing custom user styles nearly impossible.

When Laravel refreshed its documentation design, I wrote a stylesheet to revert it almost entirely to the old design. I could do it because restyling something like `.sidebar` is super simple. The new class list is

fixed top-0 bottom-0 left-0 z-20 h-full w-16 flex flex-col bg-gradient-to-b from-gray-100 to-white transition-all duration-300 overflow-hidden lg:sticky lg:w-80 lg:flex-shrink-0 lg:flex lg:justify-end lg:items-end 2xl:max-w-lg 2xl:w-full

And that is much harder to maintain in a user style.
"As computer programmers, our formative intellectual experience is working with deterministic systems that have been designed by other human beings. These can be very complex, but the complexity is not the kind we find in the natural world. It is ultimately always tractable. Find the right abstractions, and the puzzle box opens before you. The feeling of competence, control and delight in discovering a clever twist that solves a difficult problem is what makes being a computer programmer sometimes enjoyable.

But as anyone who’s worked with tech people knows, this intellectual background can also lead to arrogance.

People who excel at software design become convinced that they have a unique ability to understand any kind of system at all, from first principles, without prior training, thanks to their superior powers of analysis. Success in the artificially constructed world of software design promotes a dangerous confidence."

-- idlewords, emphasis mine
One could easily flip that question around right? "Why would Intel try to sell fab services like Global Foundry which didn't work out well?"

But more importantly, Intel actually has way more foundry expertise than Global did/does. In the case of AMD selling off Global it was more like cutting loose an under performing part of the company rather than empowering the a significant asset of the company.
Rare earths supply has diversified quite a bit in recent years.

Of course, there has been some government intervention on all sides, but companies are also willing to pay a bit of a premium to secure a second supplier.
The nice thing about CRISPR is that you can use pretty long sequences for matching, so in theory you can just pick a sequence that doesn't occur anywhere else and cut there.

(Before CRISPR, you would use restriction enzymes with a short, fixed recognition sequence, typically 4-6 base pairs [1]. In that case it was a bit tricky to find the right enzyme that cuts the DNA in the right place, and not in an unwanted place. And you couldn't just cut the DNA in any place you want.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_restriction_enzyme_cut...
There is still so much that we do not understand about the brain and its diseases.

When we find the source of dementia, alzheimer, etc, I won't be surprised if very common activities put people at higher risk. Artificial sweeteners, OTC drugs, THC, and drinking water out of plastic bottles can all be 'linked' to brain diseases in a similar fashion to the study mentioned in the article. __Correlation does not imply causation__.

I think the important stat out of this article is that over ~20% of people in the study ended up developing dementia. It is hard to compare this with past trends because we didn't understand brain diseases like we are understanding them today, but that is extremely scary for an aging population.
I actually use such a service at home sometimes. If I am supposed to take an important early flight, I use a service called "Personlig väckning" - Personal wakeup. Its been around forever. You call them, tell them that you want to be woken up at 04. They call you at that time. Its a bit safer option than the alarm clock for me. Because I actually have to answer the phone, say good morning and say my name to confirm they called the right number. One time they called me again because I didnt sound fullt awake.

Of course there a modern solutions to this problem but I kind of like the "human contact aspect" of it. It costs like $5.
I think this is a great example of why that list of "right" things is not a good list.

Focusing on growing insanely fast, with high usage numbers and a relentless focus on where the next source of funding is coming from is not the way to build a sustainable business.

If an entrepreneur's goal is just to get rich via exit, regardless of the viability of what he leaves behind, it's at best cynical, and at worst is deceiving public investors.
Sure, but that balance point still involves a lot of needless running before the energy costs become an issue.
You're partially correct. Words we learn are linked to experience of their usage but they're also linked to other words and to tangible things in our experiences such as things like books or teachers or places which are objects. Objects have use-cases ie. Expected purposes and these are linked to the type of experiences you've personally had, imagined, or which seem to you likely or possible to have with a given object. When you go to a restaurant you have expectations in mind based on the restaurant object being linked to other restaurants.
I doubt PICBIT (or Microscheme for that matter) could run on the PIC16 family, with it's 25 bytes of RAM. Wouldn't be much of stretch to port Microscheme to PIC18s though (with 512+ bytes of RAM), the code generator is pretty straight-forward: https://github.com/ryansuchocki/microscheme/blob/master/src/...
Isn't a iPod Touch that's a cellphone... just an iPhone? Am I missing something?
As faculty he was,

1. Interacting with people who are interested in commercial viability of his research ideas

2. Interacting with students, interested in pursuing research careers and seeking guidance

3. Teaching. Forming concepts in otherwise uninformed minds

4. Coaching grad students who mostly will get inspiration from him to pursue reasearch careers

5. Preparing for talks.

I think the author is under-estimating his contributions back in college.

While he laments the student whose minds are un-prepared, he likes to debug/test the code which too in the same analogy is going thorough curative process.

IMHO, if you compare the long term outputs (ROI), his work in college would far exceed that his does in private enterprise. Hope at some time, he could return back to campus re-invigorated.
Religion is a subset of metaphysics. Ethics is a subset of metaphysics. Neither is a subset of the other. I don't understand your objection to ethical claims unfounded in religion.
This has happened to me a few times as well...enough to annoy me enough to post this to HN with the hope that it will kick them into fixing it.
If you think about it, isn't it incredible that you had to invest so much time and money in building out your infrastructure? How many web businesses had to re-invent the wheel to get to the same result?

Yes, it's hard work for us. But 90% of the work is the same across all deployments. We take advantage of that fact to offer massive savings in engineering and sysadmin time.
His words were quite harsh, but I do have to agree with him to some point. Rails has a culture of "magic", they have conventions on how to do things (e.g. naming stuff) and you aren't really allowed to diverge from that. This does not appeal to me and I'm not surprised to see that others don't like it either.

However, I can see how Rails "gets things done", and why so many people like it.

Perhaps the author came clear with his opinion a bit too hastily, but you shouldn't ignore someone just because you don't agree with every opinion he has. This was not an article about "why I don't like Rails", that's probably why he did not explain why he doesn't like it.

What comes to the article itself, I think it was decent and I don't agree 100% but not bad advice either.
Right. The OO subtyping combined with the type system makes it complicated. I don't mind that, but another consequence is the limitedness of the type inference, which is kind of annoying.
It is: http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080818/the-curious-case-of-face...

Do you know of others?
> The only real negative is the licensing requirements

Fix: Some of the real negatives are:

* the licensing requirements,

* lack of virtual desktops,

* having to manually update everything except the office suite and the OS itself

* having to use a different platform than what is used in production

* many standard tools works slower / is less tested / etc

(PS: I'm working happily from a Windows workstation now.)
Indeed, my Parrot has a preprogrammed behaviour in case of loss of signal: cease lateral movement and descend to hover until signal is reacquired (or the battery runs low, in which case land). If it were flying waypoints, it'd ignore the jamming as it ignores signal loss - and part of the fun flying waypoints is sending Mr Crashy out of direct control for a short time.

Jamming's a fantasy attack just like shotguns are.
> The US of 1945 is not the US of today. Our ethics and standards have risen significantly in the past 65 years.

Except the US has been in constant perpetual war since 1943...and not all of these wars have been in good faith either.
Thanks! I'll try hnwatcher.com for now. I emailed the creators because I didn't get a confirmation email yet, but it looks like what I was looking for.
I was gonna say much the same thing. Once a machine has been compromised, you've got to format and re-image it. The machine in the article could well still have a rootkit installed. Not to mention he doesn't seem to know the initial attack vector, so any security updates are meaningless if someones credentials have been stolen.

Finally, if you're really paranoid, you also have to flash the bios in the machine too as there are rootkits that can potentially survive formatting...
How does proving something false as true gives the logic system the ability to prove anything ? Can you explain it with an example
Is it too broad to expect software working properly? 149 hours mean time between failures (MTBF) is extremely low. Comparing that to hard drives (1000 000) or anything that has complex electronics and mechanics is laughable.
> Wow, I didn't know this. I thought it's another "compiler frontend" for Racket - essentially just a parens-free syntax for people allergic to Lisps. Instead it's a standalone language with self-hosted compiler and JS based runtime, which is even more impressive.

You know, I was really surprised too. I had just assumed it was another language compiled out with a Racket compiler like Arc or a specialized subset learning languages built into Racket, like one of the Schemes (I mean like the lang/rsr6 or lang/plai) that are a subset for study.

Keep in mind though, after reading this article, I read the mailing list and it appears they just finishing up a functional CLI REPL. It could be fun, but they are still working on the basics of making it fun for neckbeards, who would prefer, by way of stereotype, their terminals and REPLs. At least that is what I am waiting for.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=topic/py...
If the thesis of the thread was "Gee, it sure sucked to grow up in Argentina in the 70s with no access to high-quality financial products." that would be extremely relevant... but the thesis is much more expansive than that ("Prepare for a fantastic lesson about the power of inflation." / "Takeaway: may the sign of the exponential be ever in your favor. Positive, you own the world. Negative, you get diluted into nanoparticles.").

The folks getting spooked about inflation right now and reading this thread (it is written in English after all), almost certainly can invest even very small amounts in high quality investment products. There's no need to get fatalistic about saving ("you get diluted into nanoparticles."), it has never been easier for normal people to put their money to work productively.
All you need is a hashing algorithm (something like md5, but not md5, of course).

If you can memorize a hashing algorithm, then you can use the hash to verify larger pieces of software that you can't memorize.

So large, complex crypto doesn't ever need to be memorized - all you need is an easy to memorize hashing algorithm.
I don't get k8s when you pay for EC2/Lambda. Why add another layer of complexity?
And they will, once he's out, but they have made a formal statement effectively stating Trump's account gets preferential treatment for being such a powerful person.

Of course, the cynical reason is that Trump's tweets are responsible for a significant percentage of Twitter's "engagement" metrics; I'm sure that internally they have figures that indicate how much revenue they generate from Trump alone.
Lolzzz
It would be foolish to think our countries don't do this. The U.S., Canada, Israel, they all have propaganda campaigns of their own.
The title certainly suffers from RAS Syndrome.
Yes, I have considered that. But, no, that’s not my “problem”; I understand that this is not covered by the constitution. I believe that Section 230 should be updated and the clearly vague “otherwise objectionable” language should be removed in favor of specific language regarding where, when, and why content can be taken down, i.e., only when that content is unlawful.

I understand that some are still basking in electoral victories that were without question aided by the ambiguity in Section 230; this euphoria shouldn’t be confused with righteousness.
those glow effects are sweet - the whole thing is inspiring and motivating
I don't know if this counts, but I solved [problem A5 on the 2005 Putnam exam](https://kskedlaya.org/putnam-archive/2005.pdf) using this method.
Ok then, Zimbabwean dollars then. The distinction is not because of what Bitcoin is, it’s that you think demand may go to zero. Well, it has gone to zero for “bona fide” currencies like zim dollar recently and German currency 100 years ago.
Years ago I got into a deep conversation with a gift card scammer over the phone. We talked for almost 30 minutes about the inner workings of the scam and the exchange rate of gift cards to local currency. Eventually I asked him why he doesn’t leave his country for more opportunity as he was clearly intelligent with strong English skills. He explained that a passport in his country cost thousands of US dollars. I told him that in the US a passport costs $100 every 10 years and he was shocked! It clearly upset him. At that point he said he had to go as his manager was coming. I don’t think I’ll ever forget that call.
Studies have shown that it was circulating in France back in November 2019. Not saying it originated there, there’s no indication of that, but there is a possibility that it had already been spreading for some time before December 2019.
Good article.

However, I disagree with his interpretation of Dunning and Kruger's figures. There is limited data in those figures of course (3 sets with 12 points of data and 1 set with 8 points), and I don't know how big the actual sample sizes were. But in all 4 cases, it clearly and significantly shows that people with low actual ability overrate themselves and people with high actual ability underrate themselves.

> The pop-sci version of Dunning-Kruger is that, the less someone knows about a subject, the more they think they know.

I can only guess that he is interpreting that too literally. I always took the latter part as "the more they think they know [compared to what they actually do]". You could plot "perceived - actual" or "perceived / actual" instead of the figures in the paper to make it more obvious.
I actually think it talking about a case where the rotator and the rotated are both in same place security wise, Like a schedule task to change login salt, both on the same vm\docker etc.

Same goes to 2 apps connecting with a shared secret, making both of them change it wont expose any more components but will add additional layer of security (like google authenticator)
I am kind of in a similar camp with D. I just can't go back to C++, no matter what.
I can’t understand the statistics for Folding@Home.

If there are X million PCs donating Y% of their time to the project, and they cost $Z each, I was wondering what XYZ was.

That is to say, if discovering protein structures is a critical problem needed to solve Covid19, how much would it cost to just replace this distributed computation with some dedicated machinery?
How is that not political advocacy?

If a Socialist site 'republished literature important to classical Socialism and the moral case for social equality' would you not consider it a political entity?
Is there an online archive that I can view before signing up?
I for one find the idea that there is a "white" way to hear music to be pretty offensive. Does he have any evidence for his race-realist perspective? I wish we could move past these outdated ideas.

Of course mp3 is limited by the people who made it, everything is. It certainly wasn't done with any bad intentions.
I can highly recommend ... not buying the DAS keyboard with mac layout.

I have one I got gently used from a coworker, who special ordered it... it's got a sticky spacebar that will random lock up and need to be lubricated; the keys are just printed on ABS so they're already wearing out and they look ugly as sin (plus they get so grimy so quickly).

the only pro on this thing is the volume wheel / media keys, and the fact that the mac will recognize it and follow the "correct" behaviour. had tons of problems with previous keyboards since mac osx doesn't seem to have the same level of customization as eg kde.

they're also advertised as having cherry keys, but they're really no-names -- not even Kalih, Outemu, or Gateron (who at this point are as reliable or better than cherry).

Hard pass. My coolermaster keyboard ended up being a lot better. not holding my breath that apple gets its shit together and adopts a better keyboard layout. did wish someone made a mechanical that maybe used a dip switch or something easy to switch between layouts.
I found myself asking "why" at first. Then remembered we're on HN, and "why not" would be a sufficient answer. Well done!
I respect the visionary aspects of Musk, but these predictions and ideas are all forms of debt that eventually come due. At some point, even ardent Tesla fans will ask, "ok so where is full self driving?" And distrust in the company will eventually overtake hype.