jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I agree it's not conventional wisdom yet, but given the way the evidence is piling up I'd say it's only a matter of time. Serious conversations about energy are nearly totally dominated by hydrogen and related subjects. There has been an endless stream of new hydrogen investments, with total investments well into the hundreds of billions of dollars.

While there are still substantial numbers of naysayers, they always seem to be coming from a position of ignorance. I suspect if they actually knew about current events in the energy sector right now, and assuming they're open minded, then they should also agree that is the case. And if this is the case then yes, this is more matter of fact than speculation.
Its clients included 425 of the Fortune 500 and the top 10 US telecom companies. https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/15/22176053/solarwinds-hack...
Also, who was there to witness god creating the universe? Any eye witness account of that? And if not surely that part of the bible is just made up?
I kicked caffeinated coffee a couple of years ago, and the disappearance of decaf coffees from grocery aisles was pretty surprising.

Starbucks doesn't even brew it anymore, though they'll make it on demand.

We stockpile Peet's decafs as we find them in the big chain grocery stores, but I've just taken to paying for a Peet's decaf subscription delivery. 2 bags show up on the regular, it's a bit more expensive, but it fits our schedule.
I think the West could have an approach to white collar crime that is more inline with China.
True, but of the last hundred times you came across the word cock, how many would you say we’re using that meaning? Probably close to zero for a lot of people coming across Coq. You know that meaning wouldn’t matter if you tried to name your new repo at work “cock” as in rooster.
Amazing, I was going to start such endeavour, Zanzibar is to me that best of the ACL system that I know of, from a theoretical flexibility perspective. However, I was thinking of taking the principles but actually represent the triples as RDF and use SparQL to represent policies, to use the power of graph engines rather than building my own triple store & query engine. Any reason you went for SQL storage and a custom query engine/language on top?
Not related to Ory: I don't know why the name of the Google's service is Zanzibar but if that's related to Zanzibar Island which was once a slave route, I don't feel good about it. I'd love to be enlightened on this part. You can call it my curiosity to know.
Hmm. Definitely non-native here. I wonder if I've misattributed some regional variation.
> continuous finding and fining of ever more wrongdoings.

How perverse indeed.

> A specific branch of government, a select agency, to become a profit center

So don't directly give them the money from the fines, simple.
What would count as "get someone to take it more serious" ?

She has a prolonged non-life-threatening condition with no known treatment. There's no tests to run or nothing more to diagnose, that's apparently done already. There's no drugs or procedures prescribed because, as far as I know, there are no drugs or procedures known to be effective for that. And that (looking seriously at her issue and giving a serious answer "do nothing") is a reasonable end state for diagnosis - it sucks, it's less common nowadays than it used to be, but it still happens.

That's it, the next step is acceptance, not continuing to seek soomeone to "take it more serious" - and if acceptance isn't working and is causing distress that's causing further problems, then indeed the next step is psychological help or pharmaceutical help for the psychological issues. Perhaps a few years later (not sooner) there will be treatment for that issue, so when (if!) that happens, then it would be a different discussion, but until that IMHO it's dangerous to encourage people to keep looking, as it can only lead to various snake-oil charlatans who'll make false promises. If the system would deny her some test or treatment that's likely to help, then it would be justified to seek attention and have someone take the complaint seriously and do the thing that needs to be done, but it doesn't seem to be the case here.

I'm sorry as this does sound like a dismissal, but if there are suggestions about what the system should do differently in this case, I'd be glad to hear, perhaps there can be a better way to go about this, but I'm all out of ideas.
Unless the rocket explodes and spreads it everywhere.
well he might have some differentiators but may not want to talk about them or he'll figure out while building it up.

@irahul Best luck!!!
You're right that I'm probably fighting a losing battle, but I'd expect a group of people with a demonstrated proficiency in critical thinking to not take actions that make themselves worse off.
"Is the author trying to trap non-programmers into understanding their error by (falsely) promising to provide them a scapegoat?"

Yes.
While I wouldn't care to listen to him sing very long, if he's satisfied with 15 years of practice then that's OK. Whatever floats your boat.

But there's no substitute for talent. Best of all is talent + training. Humans are not _tabulae_ _rasae_ onto which anything may be written: they have significant genetic differences which are expressed as different talents/abilities. As a young boy, I could listen to music and extract and replicate melodies and chords easily (learn "by ear"), something my sister desired but could not do without a decade of intense music instruction and practice.
I wonder what is the secret to keeping these corporations alive.

Some people say that the grandpa build the business, dad grow the business, and the son wreck the business. So these families might have ways or tradition to transmit knowledge and wisdom to their offsprings, or maybe they're just incredibly lucky.
Yep, Google Checkout is definitely the wrong choice for this business model. It is extremely unfriendly if you are not shipping within a week of an order being placed.
Thanks! That bit you quoted is from the book "The Art of Learning" by Josh Waitzkin, so I can't take credit for it. Great book. Really inspiring. http://sivers.org/book/ArtOfLearning

Writing good essays/articles is something else I really aspire to, and definitely put a lot of work into. I've been studying my favorite essays by Paul Graham, Harry Beckwith, Seth Godin, and even Robert Fulghum. Those are the tops I've found in this short-form blog-length (under 2-minutes read-time) format that I like.

No other motive than the feeling of wanting to share everything I've learned before I die.
There are so many subtleties to this concept that it actually far more disturbing/fascinating (depending on your viewpoint) than this article briefly surveys.

Even when we are looking at a real tiger with our real eyes, we cannot likely count the stripes unless our eyes are looking directly at the stripes. But when we are looking directly at the stripes, we are no longer seeing the whole tiger, even though it is there. People have no idea how selective human vision actually is even when looking at real objects.

Now moving this into the realm of a mental picture, I indeed see a tiger, head-on and from the side in my mind. But because mental constructions are more of a visualized gestalt than a detailed image, when I move from seeing the tiger itself, I no longer have a real tiger there at all. In fact, you have nothing at all. When I focus on the stripes in my mental picture, the tiger of my mind (how's that for a philosophical concept?) ceases to exist as anything but a peripheral concept with a not so clear form or substance, and there are only stripes.

I suspect this is true of most visual thinkers because it also happens to be how we see! We may be aware of other things besides what we are directly observing, but our mind does not deal with them except as an approximation. Our brain literally filters out of our visio-spacial conception that which is not relevant to our current point of attention. But in the real world, at least, what we are not focusing on remains what it is, even when our attention is not on it. Not so with mental pictures. I may convince myself the tiger is still there, until I realize that with my mental tiger, I can make it have as many or as few stripes as the parameters of my mental concept of a tiger allows.

Obviously, the point of the article is that this is different for different people. Everything I think about is visual, sometimes in vivid detail. Even when I am thinking about abstract concepts, I do so visually, although for the life of me I couldn't describe what I see to you.
How did you market this book? Do you think having 1k twitter followers helped with sales?
Actually - more information here:

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2223862130

From the blog post:

"Almost all our servers are running open-source software. Our Web servers use Linux and Apache and PHP. Our database servers run MySQL. We use memcached to help keep the site snappy. Some of our behind-the-scenes software is written in Python and Perl and Java, and we use gcc and Boost for the parts that aren't. Our developers use Subversion and git to keep track of their work. The list goes on—like many Web sites, we use it from top to bottom."
Good to know that engineering effort at Mahalo is being diverted in response to PR backlash due to the CEO running his mouth.
Congratulations! I just gave my two-weeks at Big Fruit, moving on to something very exciting. All my friends who have left have told me it's been a great decision for them.

As to how I got my job at Apple, started interning after meeting an engineering manager at a school event, and turned that into a fulltime position after graduation.

New job was through a friend of a friend.
Nice. As a guy who got involved into OpenNLP's development, I'd like to see the comparison too.

Also, it would be great if you include SENNA into your benchmark: http://ml.nec-labs.com/senna/
Add one more step and it sounds like something out of Monty Python.
which was a failure - a failure to commercialize a technology that we all wanted.
Apple later delivered the iPad, and the rest is history.
Banks don't make money on interest rates, but on spreads. They lend the money at 0%, but in Europe banks can borrow at negative interest rates.
Strong language, name calling, no real argument. The conse sus is that inflation is not here now because of low money velocity but wil come next years inevitably.
Ah, I'm on a Ryzen 7.

I was used to always getting an aftermarket cooler for previous Intel builds to replace the stock one with the whiny little fan, but the included Ryzen 7 cooler is comparatively great (unnecessary bling aside).
> What if members of FAANG+M decided to hack small startups or even each other?

You mean the way Amazon does it every day to successful, independent small sellers, copies their products and bans them from Amazon without providing a reason why? The way Google removed Tutanota from search results? Microsoft spread FUD about open-source? Or like Oracle acquired MySQL?
It's a drastic shift from how Wordpress has traditionally worked, but that doesn't make it bad.

It's a huge irritation to me because I'm very accustomed to the user interface of the "classic" editor, and the Gutenberg interface is a tremendous regression for my use case. It may be wonderful for other purposes, but I hate it as a composer and editor.
Yes, but in all fairness, that post addresses problems that can result from a computational attack. The one you raise doesn't need such at all. If a state wanted to compete with Bitcoin on all features but distributedness, a peaceful fork in an independent network would have essentially the same effect.
Sounds like disruption: lower quality on the metrics that mainstream programmers care about; and targeting non-consumption (i.e. making programming accessible to people who wouldn't otherwise be able to).

People who don't have access to anything are delighted to have something. Therefore, PHP gets a foothold even though it's lower quality. This is the beginning of disruption.

The next part of disruption is improvement. And PHP is improving. At the same time, other programming systems are improving - C#, python, ruby, objective-C even Java has improved (generics etc). So it might seem that PHP will never catch up - which is probably true. But the crucial disruptive insight is that it mightn't need to: programmers might not all need all the extra improvements in mainstream languages, for all tasks. One piece of evidence is that PHP itself is already good enough for some tasks. For any advanced functionality, it's often possible to think of use-cases that wouldn't benefit from it. This means that it's possible for mainstream languages to "overshoot" what most programmers require for most tasks (to "overserve" them, like serving more food to someone who's already full). But, you might say, mainstream users are increasing in their ability to use advanced functionality as they learn more, so they can use the extra functionality (the patrons' stomachs are getting bigger). The interesting possibility is that the rate of improvement of mainstream languages may be faster than the rate of increase in the ability of programmers to use it (the servings getting bigger faster than the patron's stomachs are) - disruptive research has found that this is usually the case. It's because companies developing competitive products work really hard at improving them (to remain competitive); but consumers don't like to change their behaviour that fast.

The final stage of disruption is that programmers leave their mainstream language, and switch to PHP because although it's not as good, it's good enough for their task, and it has other benefits (not sure what they are for PHP, but for disruption it's usually: cheaper, more convenient, simpler - the latter two are true of PHP, but as it adds functionality, it would seem it must lose them. It will just copy mainstream languages).

But I can't imagine this happening, so therefore either disruption doesn't apply in this case (perhaps because a company isn't running PHP? Or because programmers themselves are unusually competitive and early-adopting, and even if some don't want to change their behaviour that quickly, there's another generation coming up real fast? Or as I said above, PHP can't retain its simplicity of being a template language while adding advanced features) - or my imagination is lacking.
Sent you an email, Silent Partner should be able to help you out...
Oh, and you can buy a copy here

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters
If Edward Tufte is to believed (and he generally is) Charles Joseph Minard's map of Napoleon's army in the Russian campaign of 1812 isn't just 'one of the first infographics ever' it is:

'probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn'
What village do you live in and how much do you spend each month more or less if I may ask? How much is needed to live comfortably? I'm thinking of going back to Europe but I'm afraid I may have got completely spoiled at how cheap life is over here in Arequipa, Peru.
How about iterating based on what the users are actually doing on the UI (or website?).
PG said in one of his articles if you don't know how to design, keep it really simple.
That's probably a starting point.
As a developer learning to design I find myself thinking in terms of data rather than user experience.
the people receiving the salaries aren't the ones who make the decision as to whether a new hire can telecommute or not.

True, but they can whisper into the right ears every day, 9 - 5. And it's quite easy to negatively impact a coworker's productivity, if you so wish.
Common Lisp, C and C++ did not contribute to the field in the enormous way that Scheme, Haskell and Smalltalk did. They're sheeple languages (made with the worker in mind) to control employees, and not languages to empower and liberate the programmer (like Forth, another great example of an experimental language by Chuck Moore).

My point stands.
If you lay things out well that it has a much better chance of succeeding than if you lay things out poorly. And knowledge helps with that.

If you optimize more than you need to then that is premature optimization. But if it takes 5 seconds to load a page (or more) then any level of success will kill you and that's bad for business. You need to scale just ahead of the needs of your users. Too much and you're going down the premature optimization rabbit hole, too little and you'll end up with angry users and competitors will likely eat you.
Alibaba has a ton of Open Source: http://alibaba.github.io/

They're a major technological powerhouse, to the point where they offer their own AWS equivalent: http://www.aliyun.com/
Im new to the industry but I definitely agree with the author. On the other hand, I think its only natural that with the high salaries developers can get more people who don't necessarily love it will join the industry.

Not only that but I've definitely noticed that even among those who are passionate, they usually fall into one of two groups: the ones who like CS and the ones who like building things. That is, the first group is really interested in learning how computers work and theory and the latter group is really interested in building products.

I think the authors point might be that there are many more of the second group of people now, which makes sense since there us so much abstraction you really don't need to know too much about what's "actually" happening to make something.
Yes. Letting others to kill you
> The pretty standard tree view?

Pretty sure he's referring to the popup menu for shortcuts that ST has as seen here:
https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/2988/1796891/85e69ff2-6a93...
It depends on the country. In Romania salaries are taxed at the source (employer), the tax rate is flat and there are 0 deductions that I know of.

So the employers knows for sure what the employee makes in 99% of cases. That's why salary negotiation is on net salary.
Has anyone done, or seen, any analysis on energy used for ML training rather than clock time? I’ve done some of my own for comp heavy workloads, but it wasn’t ML on a GPU.
Not true. For example a monetary system might be valuable because it supports high transaction volumes even at a low rate, or because it has high costs to attack.

> The health of an economy is measured by how quickly money flows in it

Bitcoin isn't an economy. It is just a small part of the overall economy
The idea is interesting, the execution, doubtful.

An RV + a car means you have a car to e.g. commute, while your home stays where you put it. Here you cannot commute as easily. I wonder how do you do grocery shopping while living at some picturesque country place, without a car or even a motorbike.

I would see a normal RV retrofitted with these amenities (solar energy, a Starlink antenna, etc) a much more reasonable proposition for those who wants to live off-grid.

BTW one of the things I see especially problematic when living in an autonomous home is water. Storing it, sparing it, recycling it. When you don't have a water pipe, or a 1000 gal water tank, not having enough water may be pretty nasty.
I always thought a Tesla camper would kill it. Extra power sled, reimagined hitch system, butterfly solar panels, auto leveling, and starlink, among other ideas.
Yes, Java's pattern matching is much more fully fledged than Kotlin's. You can destructure nested types. Also, at some point in the (near) future, you should be able to do things like:

Object o = new int[]{1, 2};
if (o instanceof int[] {var a, var b}) {
// a == 1, b == 2
}
He has said himself that he want to provide a space to foment and cultivate far-right ideology on the internet. That’s a Nazi and your prevaricating is obvious.
Buying PA Semi, for one, was an interesting move. They'd shipped their embedded PowerPC chip and it was both way over the promised power budget and the errata was crazy. That was not an obvious buy in any way.

Ditto Intrinsity.
There are not enough vaccines at the moment anyway since EU failed miserably at getting them. You can't really make a massive effort of maybe even asking military to help etc if there are not enough jabs. Then it's smarter to use the ones you have in q strategic manner.
Is that any worse than our culture of disposable items that have no business being disposable? Washing machines, dishwashers, and dryers have no reason to not last 25 years, they haven't changed how they function in over 50 years. And all the smaller consumer crap that works maybe a dozen times before an irreparable part or piece fails. Or how many working cars were destroyed in cash for clunkers only to be replaced by trash that is harder to repair and maintain?

Using energy on "worthless" cryptocoins isn't great but we produce tons of other worthless shit using tons of energy and materials that will be worth nothing in just a few years without blinking an eye.
Semi-related question: Anyone know of any good courses online that are intro to molecular and cellular biology related? Thanks, my grad school grades aren't the best and I think it's my lack of bio foundation that's hurting.
There's a couple of graveyards full of them. How much evidence do you want?
On the other hand, the best and brightest women used to become teachers. Nowadays, those women will typically go into other professions. Why deal with teaching when you can go into law or medicine or engineering.

My mother, a retired high school science and French teacher, thinks that part of the reason we have a dearth of excellent teachers is because women are now doing other things than teaching.
I wonder what exactly do they use to brute force DES, especially in the PPTP attacks.
The X-15 was also a milestone in the development of flight control systems -- in some phases of flight, the aircraft was too unstable to be easily controlled by a human pilot, and on most flights, it had machinery massaging the pilot's control inputs.

"Digital Apollo", by David Mindell, has a chapter on this, before it gets into the space program proper.
This sort of cloud scale thinking about power usage/performance is how we'll clean up the environmental record of the data center industry.

Think about how this sort of thing when applied to AWS ElastiCache would reduce the coal fueled electricity footprint of the thousands of startups that use that service.
> If in doubt, use virustotal

Virus scanners are based on blacklists and some iffy heuristics. A clean result is not a guarantee of safety. Nearly any custom-built malware will slip by.

Windows is a huge pain for compiling software with dependencies, but I don't think MozJPEG has any. There are detailed build instructions for Windows included.
Tribler does everything wrong and has been previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8780313
Too late to edit: PCX is lossless, what we did was reduce the higher frequency bits in the images before using PCX in order to achieve a reasonable compression ratio, in effect making a lossy wrapper around PCX. It was a pretty crude way of making this work and JPEG was so much better that it is hard to believe we managed to sell our customers on the original version. I should see if I can dig up some of those old images, they're interesting historically.
Is that a bad thing? I personally think the greatest threat to HN is not bad comments, but too many mediocre comments. I think the best case scenario is if only the people who had a lot of knowledge or things to say about a given thread commented. It's equally easy for HN to be dragged down in a comment deluge as it is for comments to simply become worse.
It's best to keep the heterosexual agenda out of schools.
Thanks guys for all your feedback!

We took all notes to heart, the main problem we identified that currently (at this stage of the product cycle we don't yet support all edge cases)

And this hurts usability and value, will figure out a way to deliver this kind of tech in a way that is still valuable at this early stage :)

Yuval