jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> But mostly I am skeptical of the timeline

People should always be skeptical of timelines when it comes to Musk's ventures. He is famous for short deadlines, high expectations, and a competitive environment.

There's a TED talk somewhere out there with SpaceX's CEO where this comes up a bunch, and she plays on it very well.
Creative Computing, along with BYTE, was one of my favorite computer magazines in the 80's.

This one had a role in the Wargames movie:

https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1982-09
> "Politics today is not about ..."

It has never been. Parties or other representatives will represent (or claim to represent) their backers, not everyone. The more important the backers are the more they will influence the politicians. If there are two parties, one represents everyone equally and the other provides you slightly more advantage than to others, then you will (normally) vote for the latter.

You should _always_ look at politics from the game theoretical and/or evolutionary perspective. (Read 'The Dictators' Handbook').
Do you not get that with Flask?
Trying to go completely off grid - building your own house - is way too much hassle.

I think of it as an optimization problem. you do not want inconvenience yourself too much with having to worry about your own home being towed !. It will add unwanted stress to your life.

The best approach as someone said - "college town with a roomate" - this is the lowest you should go since college dorms are really fancy these days and are super cheap. the extra saving you will get by going below this ( becoming essentially homeless ) is not worth the other problems associated with it ( security, winter, etc )

Money is not the end of it all. Mental wellbeing and physical wellbeing is always more important.

The other great advantage of college town is its filled with people who want to socialize. You dont want to be 50 and look back at your life as someone who saved a lot of money and lived in a car.
I think that reason is the most important consideration. It looks like you may be referring to the worst parts of #4 on this list!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/12/highest-murder-rate...
I can't speak for cnkeller, but I first got a Modi and Magni. The Modi was good enough, but the Magni wasn't. The problems with the Magni were that it wasn't grounded and its volume pot sucked. The lack of grounding made it very susceptible to interference and crappy volume pot made fine adjustments in volume impossible. I replaced it with an Asgard 2 and have been satisfied ever since.

I suspect that the newer cheap amps such as the Vali and Magni 2 have fixed these issues.
> my vacation house is 200 km away and have barely enough electricity to support itself,

At least in Norway that is already practical over most of the country with an electric car, especially a Tesla because there are so many chargers.

I have driven from south of Oslo to two hours north of Trondheim and back at least half a dozen times in my Tesla S 70D. without trouble.

It looks like Tesla in Sweden haven't invested in quite so many chargers yet but even there they are typically less than 150 km apart even in the north and of course there are more public chargers being built all the time.

I agree that most other brands of car have had rather shorter range but they are catching up rapidly.
Yeah, everyone has some justification for why they are a special case.
> The best way to eat a pretzel: with butter and Nutella

A Bretzel with Nutella, this is disgusting.
I will rephrase it since I see what causes a friction - in 1946 Communists won in Czech part of Czechoslovakia, in Slovakia it was Democratic party with over 60% (Demokraticka strana). Still, Slovakia was only 1/3 of whole republic, so communists won the elections overall, especially in Czech border regions with Germany, where arguably a still-unacknowledged atrocity happened after WWII - brutal forced removal of hundreds of thousands of Sudet Germans.

Its true that in 1948 the elections were a sham since there was only a single party to vote for - communist one, hence their total victory in both Czech and Slovak part of the republic. But the true rise to power was in 1946 that enabled all that came later, and was done via those democratic elections.

Coup d'etat sounds like there was a democratic government overthrown by some communist fringe movement outside government, which isn't true. They got to power and got majority, and used it to remove everybody else. Maybe my idea of coup d'etat is incorrect and this whole discussion is kind of pointless.
Blaming the security researcher is a bad idea. Without the security researcher, the tool would still be created and used by somebody. The security researcher highlights the problem and makes people understand the danger in it. Without the POC, is it highly likely people who know nothing about cyber security just wouldn't care about the vulnerability.
They have onboarded big tech and the media, if anything I see them doubling up.
The ignorance on HN always astounds me. Not everyone is a young software engineer making $100k who can move anywhere they want. You realize there are people in this country who can barely afford food, right? Let alone picking up and moving to a whole other city?
That's the great thing about conspiracy theories. They're like standards - there are just so many to choose from! ;)
Cargo is not hugely different from Maven which has been working fine for over a decade. Yes, it takes some polished ideas from other systems, but Python has had more packaging tools come and go than several other ecosystems put together.
The high degree of secrecy is in response to the previous decades of protest and outrage at e.g. G20 meetings. You can't protest what you can't see.
Funny how some policy prevented backup generators operating, during a planned outage. Surely this is a case where there should be an overarching policy of, if a situation arises where no power is available for any level of criticality, then all other policies are null and void. There should be tests for that.
It says "the needs and requirements of projects, foundations and more" and "projects, communities, standards bodies and other not-for-profit software groups engaged with open source" which seems clear enough who this is for. It's not for any Web company.
Yeah I think that too. Everyone else too! No way a recession is coming!!!

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Opps : recession.
;-) it's a paradox
Boingboing has a long history of silencing voices that disagree with them and depersoning those who they have falling out with. Cory might not be as bad as others on that site but he certainly goes along with it.
And the benefits go beyond cars. I would like to replace all my tools with electric motors but the energy density isn't there yet. I just got back inside from cutting down a 5.5" diameter tree branch that fell on my electric fence with a battery powered reciprocating saw. I need to go back out when the battery recharges (had to cut multiple large limbs) to get one more branch.

I have gas chainsaws, but I prefer the electric saw because it's much quieter, much lighter and easier to maneuver. I'm waiting for the day when I can buy a battery that lasts as long as a tank of gas.

I am quite happy that the cost is dropping though.
Lots of shady retail subscriptions out there, especially in the supplement 'healthcare' product market.
There's not enough discussion about the eventual recovery in all these recession articles. I was looking at the last 2008 recession and found some interesting gems. For example, if you bought AIG, one of the main causes of the financial crisis, you would've made out like a bandit during the recovery period. Definitely too big to fail.

Here's all the data on how stocks performed during and after the last recession: https://shan.io/writing/learnings-from-the-2008-great-recess...
Birth rates in the developed world have dropped tremendously. The birth rate in Indonesia is only a bit above replacement, same as the USA in 1970.
Your plan will expire on October XX, 2020.
Well... shit!
I am not affiliated with Tesla or paid by them in any way, if you're implying that. Was also not making apologies for shipping devices with guessable passwords, that's obviously a serious screwup that needs to be fixed - ideally at a level of changing the engineering culture if that's what it takes. But the rest of this thread treats that subject in depth, and I wouldn't contribute anything material to that discussion beyond piling on, which is a bad use of time and brain power. Thought I made it quite clear in my comment that I was specifically adressing the discussion of sub-par software engineering practices, and how this is a very common consequence of extreme growth.

I know Tesla has a marketing budget and marketing people, that's obvious enough, so traditional marketing was indeed what I meant. Maybe I could have made that more clear.

Wasn't aware that they're paying people to astroturf though; first I hear of this. Do you have proof of it?
This is not a good-faith argument, and strawmanning at best. If you cannot comprehend a view, implied malice is not the obvious fallback.
He was very active on Reddit while he was first starting out with comics (he did an IAMA and commented on the site a lot, talked about SEOmoz, too), Reddit revolted on him for possibly using SEO techniques and being rude (insulting critics on twitter, etc), he started redirecting any traffic from the reddit domain to a rickroll page, and now everything seems to be back to normal.

He's been on Reddit for over 3 years:
http://www.reddit.com/user/GiantBatFart

His IAMA was 11 months ago:
http://www.reddit.com/r/iama/comments/aws4z

Reddit revolts (2 months ago):
http://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/dreg7/how_to_pander_...

The Oatmeal redirects Reddit traffic:
http://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/eb3pg/every_oatmeal_...

The Oatmeal comics work again on Reddit. Tubemonster (author of Hyperbole and a Half) defends him:
http://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/eow1i/how_different_...

There you go. More than you ever wanted to know about one of Reddit's many soap operas.
As a general rule, when talking about risks, you want to evaluate the cross section of Likelihood vs. Impact. Sometimes, you ignore high-impact risks because the likelihood of them occurring is just so low that it doesn't make sense to do anything about it, especially if there isn't much you can do about it. Like, "a meteor could strike our office, killing everyone inside". There's just nothing you can do about it[1], and if it does happen, there won't be anyone left to pick up the pieces anyway.

So I think you're underestimating the likelihood of employees copying code (it doesn't take anticipating being fired), and overestimating the impact it would have (it really won't do a damn thing)[2].

Every job I've had, the project code has somehow ended up on my personal computer. It has been a combination of factors. Generally, it goes that I get sick and declare I'll work from home. Either the company had provided a laptop or they hadn't, in which case I would have to use my personal PC to work. If a laptop was provided, the hardware was slow, or the tools installed were not my favorites (or particularly bad), or issues with the VPN connection/antivirus/corporate spyware software made everything slow. So in almost all cases, I've ended up with everything copied anyway.

And when I left the jobs, I had immediately deleted it. But even if I hadn't, even if I had taken and used the code (illegally), it really wouldn't have impacted the company. It's not like I would have been able to approach the clients and gotten them to go with me: typically the client owns the code anyway, I wouldn't have needed to copy the code. It's not like I could have started a competitor all on my own off of the company's own code base. And finally, the vast majority of projects just aren't that novel: why would I potentially throw myself into a den of thieves and lawyers for what is probably a crufty POS that I could replace in a weekend of caffeine fueled mania?

[1] oh, except, you know, not forcing your team to be co-located.

[2] This leads me to believe you are probably more the businessy/MBA type, rather than the engineering type. It's usually the MBA type who is most fearful of someone stealing the IP. The engineers who actually make the IP rarely consider it a threat.
If that’s true that sounds like a different problem. Maybe they need to train more dermatologists? And if there are appointments available privately well... I don’t know what to say. Seems like an structural systemic failure which is odd. Maybe dermatologists are gaming the system to induce private pay..
> Vim lets you jump through text. Try G for bottom, gg for top, $ for end of line

How is this better than Ctrl+End for bottom, Ctrl+Home for the top, End for end of line? I believe these keys have actually been put on the keyboards right for this and that's why their names are self-descriptive.

> 5j to jump 5 lines

I can't imagine a case when this would be of serious value.

> w to jump word, b backwards etc.

Ctrl+arrows.

So, I still don't get it although I sincerely want to.
But if you slap a label onto every app that does any internet communication it has about the same effect as if you'd slap it onto none of them.
Nuclear power plants are designed to withstand attacks from crazies. Terrorist attacks done so far have had minimal impact on infrastructure. It is a very minor and manageable threat.

Release of heat due to chemical and nuclear sources does heat the planet, but the contribution to heating compared to effect of increasing CO2 concentration is negligible in the range of 1%, this is well known.
I don’t think more features is the issue. It’s adding them at the cost of your personal data, especially when you need to pay the cost even when you don’t use those features.
I can, and do. Sick people go out in public every day, which I think is awful. Of course, the option is for those who are afraid of that to be the ones to not go out. This is just like driving. If you are afraid of others' driving, don't drive yourself; figure out some other way to get there. If you are afraid of others' sickness, don't go where they are.
Where are you running it? The MacOSX one stopped working on newer MacOSX versions.
These sentences summarise it all:

"Google will effectively control how websites can monetise and operate their business,"

"This means that any business that buys or sells advertising will be reliant on Google for a part of the process, whether they like it or not."
The list is things shared by default. You have to manually opt in to sharing your location, even if you're using Family Sharing.
You can practice taking naps without going to such extremes.
Well if they're actually leaking that much water every day, then they'd probably not have a way to recapture it. If they did, it wouldn't be a leak.
If your cameras are IP and not coax you can just run a NVR locally. If they are coax then another dvr would work. Blue Iris is great for home use as a windows NVR server.
I'm not gonna put out my own model, but this one seems strangely, suspiciously well fitted to the historical data.

How can you have a model that gives a 100% chance of something happening in the future? Yet that's what it says during the last recession. And it falls off a cliff when the actual recession ended in June 2009.

I was alive and trading during that time, and I reckon the business cycle would be quite easy to predict -as in, the model would be in a textbook- if you could be that confident of recession one day and the opposite the next.
I'd not intended to suggest it was a problem, only that it was perhaps related to the inability to get into the flow. Merely an observation.

Parasite the korean film?
> There's so much effort

Because there is nothing else to do? Whatever happens to the market it keeps going up. There is little reason to search for an upturn (and you don't want to jinx it), so they are searching for a downturn.
Japanese Kanjis were lifted from Chinese weren't they ?
There's so much effort put into timing the next recession. It's not just that they can't even do that with meaningful certainty-- it's that they also can't tell you how significant the recession will be. I mean, with full employment right now, of course a recession is on the horizon (who knows when). But, going from full employment to 1% less doesn't mean the economy or its people is even worse off than they were 2 years ago. Same thing with virtually any thing else that plugs into GDP.
You forgot an important one: man
> I think their point was that "old internet" was harder to use as a publishing platform than the new one

harder to use as publishing platform by who? don't you mean businesses & corporations?

people have always been fine. myspace anyone? geocities? irc? icq? aol? msn? yahoo? the list goes on... also the remarkable thing is that people just move to newer and better back then.
By that definition the vast majority of humans do not possess general intelligence.
"As a passcode is necessarily memorized, one cannot reveal a passcode without revealing the contents of one’s mind."
It’s not cynical it’s the truth. Why else do you think investors give money to startups?
Agreed. I find this aspect worrying and underreported.
NMF for factorizing activations is brilliant!
I imagine that if you were paying that tax rate, you were in an upper bracket, and could probably afford it.
But you know before you even send the message if it will go over iMessage or SMS based on the color.
What strikes me as weird about this is that our intent is to do something to the array of strings, so we are looking for a function that takes this array and transforms it into something else. But we are obligated to invert our intuition here, and write this as if we are doing something to the punctuation that we want to insert between the array elements. It’s backwards, and causes us (me, anyway) to keep forgetting how to use this method. I must have gotten this wrong a dozen times. The sensible way would be something like join(array, separator). That is straightforward, and would be hard to get wrong. It could even be written in a way where the order of arguments didn’t matter, so you wouldn’t even have to remember that. Why is the separator privileged as the implicit first argument of `join`?

I accept that you’ve identified some advantages of the Python version; it’s always possible to find cases where object.method() notation gets you something.
Does that list usually contain hundreds of other entries, with accompanying explanation? What exactly was the point of your comment?
This mounting solution worked well to maintain the clean look for me:

https://innovelis.com/
the issue is they are very arbitrary in what they accept. an example: a couple articles i updated to add commands for new os, not changing content other than command blocks (to be clear they allow this and have a submission form for updates or new os for exist articles), were rejected due to "grammar and spelling mistakes". i also had gotten "your commands do not work" despite in some cases them being slightly tweaked, if not the same, to already posted articles. in any case the original articles were still posted and not even getting updates. i took my edits or new articles and gave them to multiple others who found no issues from proofread or running the command. this made me stop even trying to contribute to them, so i image the same will be true of others. making the comp to DO a tough sell.
> It would then lead to a feedback loop that would create incredibly intelligent AIs very quickly

That's exactly what I said. I just limited the domain. Consider for example a superintelligent AI, constrained by your laptop on your desk. It has no network connectivity, but it can teach itself at a billion times faster than any human. Lock it in a room and come back the next day. You observe that the battery died. Did the Singularity (by your definition) occur?

EDIT: doh It actually should have network connectivity to train itself, or maybe some offline source of data.
> For example, if your latency is high then loading a web page with fifty small pictures will take longer than one really big picture.

This is true currently, but check out this http/2 demo with a tile of images loaded with different latencies:

https://http2.golang.org/gophertiles

If you have a http/2 enabled browser, then it shows how even with high latency, the browsing doesn't suffer nearly as much.
This.

My wife suffered with ulcers all her life until a comment on the NHS website suggested cutting out SLS. She followed the advice and very quickly stopped getting ulcers. I mentioned it in passing to our dentist and he said he won't use a products with SLS in for himself or his family ...
Not unique, old.

Remember these?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace

I used to see them on the advertisements section of the Spectrum magazines I used to buy.

Back in the home computer days, no one cared for C, it was all about Assembly, Forth and BASIC.

On the home computers powerful enough to run CP/M, C was just yet another language (mostly a subset of the UNIX one).
Ah, I remember that study and have mentioned it elsewhere in the comments here but couldn't remember where it was from.

In Norwegian newspapers one the authors of the study basically wrote about it with the opposite slant of what the New Yorker did, pointing out what the abstract says: that the long term results are the same either way.
Impostor syndrome?
The fast follower problem.
It is live in Chrome 41 right now (with the exception of the cache API, I think, which it can be used without). It is live in Firefox nightly - and they have clearly stated they are bringing it to Evergreen soon. It is in Opera. Even IE has stated "under consideration". (see https://jakearchibald.github.io/isserviceworkerready/ )

It's a lot farther along than a lot of folks realize. And IMHO, the impact of it makes it something that even Safari will have to begrudgingly implement soon after Firefox brings it to production.

If I thought it was anything less than inevitable, I'd say "wait". But for a JS-dev, I honestly think this right now is the sweetspot between "Hot Shit" and "Will ACtually Still Be Relevant in 5 Years". (Think XHR 6-7 years ago.) So, yeah, I stand by the recommendation.
There's a current limiting resistor and a back-emf protection diode across the relay coil, that's nothing fancy but it ought to be enough.
I'm generally in favor of few off topic articles, but ones like this are easily ignored. The really bad ones are the ones about politics.
Re-inventing the wheel is great when you have the time, money, and information support base. If not a personal project, please pick two and know it does not include as much personal growth:

Fast, Cheap, High Quality
Ah, that brings back nice memories of IE and Windows.