jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Government is not supposed to be profitable. It is supposed to minimize cost of meeting needs that the voters agree should be provided by the government.

“Profit” in the public sector would indicate that too much tax money was collected, because there shouldn’t be a surplus at the end of a year. There shouldn’t be a deficit either, but that’s a different story.
Since covid hit I wasn't really going outside that much.

I was taking 2500 IU daily since September. Got tested in December and had 102 nmol/l. The conservative reference is > 75 nmol/l and newer ones are 100-150 (https://www.grassrootshealth.net/document/vitamin-d-dose-res...).
So even with 4+ months of taking 2500 IU I was on the lower end of the reference.
Timestamptz doesn't store a time zone in postgres. It converts all timestamps to utc. It's a common misconception.
Not sure if a lot of people on HN are old enough to remember that :)
> zero-cost interventions like “wear a mask”

People who told me banning plastic straws was helpful are now calling billions of disposable masks per week a "zero-cost intervention"?
Then there should be no difference in how it is handled, and “porn” is not a wild card to prevent the critical assessment of proposed actions, just like “think of the children” isn't.

I suppose that some legal options are available to Rick Astley and other people whose name are hardly well known. But can they realistically do anything with it apart from causing another Streisand effect? Who is to blame for that, who is going to pay billions of dollars? YouTube? 4chan? Tim Berners-Lee?
AWS has both big/small customers, I would say those two have very different priorities when it comes to SLA.

Having a killer switch that could make one's AWS account stop would be a risk for big customers, I would predict, if it is misconfigured, maybe even intentionally. A better solution for them would be alerts, and get things right afterwards.
Sure, I point out being a CPA is meaningless here and you get really defensive. Grow up and you might break 200 karma before 2022.
"lol :Man facepalming: :medium light skintone:" becomes the skintone applying to nothing (which might crash?) and the wrong coloured man. (e+accent a) making éa becomes (a+accent e) incorrectly making áe - or possibly invalidly making an error combination. Right-to-left markers[1] and left-to-right markers will change which sections of the text are reversed unless you swap them over.

Codepoints can combine more than once, to the point where if you're too nitpicky you can't validly substring either, you can only read a string from the first codepoint onwards; they could become invalid sequences if reversed, possibly?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left_mark
So don't read the article.

People do care, hence the upvotes.
The relevant graph are in the Figure 6 of the first paper and Figure 2b of the second. The idea is to match a simulation of the results you would expect if the new particle has different masses and compare it with the experimental data and see how good is the fit. The horizontal axis is the mass of the hypothetical particle in the simulation, and the vertical value is how good is the fit (lower is better). In both the 17MeV region is out of the interesting region. So if there is an effect, they did a very bad analysis before.

I think it's better to wait until another group can independently reproduce the results. It doesn't look too complicated, for someone that has a similar lab.

(It's not like the results of the LHC, where the reproduction steps start with: "First dig a 17mi long circle and then call for further instructions." :) Note that to try to avoid false positives, they have two almost independent groups in oposite points of the circle.)
Got rid of the desk. Laptop in lap. Lap in Ikea Poang with footstool. Caveat: “as a professional” isn’t in the spec because I can write my own spec. Good fortune no doubt.

It’s been nearly four years since the change. I still get into ergonomic ruts. But climbing out of local ergonomics minima is easier because there’s no changing configuration. Adjusting happens as quick as recognizing an issue.

It’s shifting my weight. Moving my feet. Scrolling with another finger. Repositioning the laptop. Tilting the screen.

There’s no proper typing position that includes a mouse. Tracpoints are ok. Touchpads kind of aren’t too bad. But keyboard shortcuts are the only way to maintain a typing position.
I think people fail to deeply reflect on what they want from life. I'll share my list, because maybe it will help someone else to figure out theirs:

• Maintain my body

• Maintain a sense of mental tranquility

• Work on projects and learn things I find meaningful and interesting

• Visit my friends and family in my hometown regularly

• Have a good home life with my wife and someday children

• Have a job that keeps me interested but isn't so exhausting it detracts from the above

If you don't have a list like this, and you don't know what resonates with you, then your actions will be unguided and you'll not find any sense of peace or progress. Pay attention to what helps you be happy, reflect on it and use it to guide your choices and use of time in this life.
Unfortunately that's not the case. They plaster us with nag screens and content hidden behind logins because it works. Most people don't care, and the company gets another profile to spam and track.
I remember when the Boston Science Museum had this in their little off-in-the-corner computer room.

In a following year they had removed it "for being too bloody//violent". I'm sure many parents at the time were happy about that. I'm sure some of those children who remember that are now parents, and I wonder what they think.
Quora and Pinterest are the worst parts of Google results. Also Google Images has been ruined. Used to be you could View Image and get the source image but now Google images hijacks that too. I gotta say I hate whoever decided that was ok. Do what I mean. Actually come to think of it I think this was due to copyright infringement case against Google. Stupid.
btw Legra does the offscreen canvas trick when rendering images, but not when drawing primitives
I am from India, and I remember the time when Quora got famous. I remember reading some quality content on the platform. Then "the masses" started answering questions just to rack up upvotes (or whatever Quora was calling it). Imagine Instagram, but instead of uploading pictures of yourself you copy-paste someone else's content in an attempt to answer a question you do not know much about.
Ah, okay, then I'm using a different definition of throttling.

Intel will publish as you say a base speed of 1.8 GHz, then a single core Turbo speed of 4.6 GHz and also an all-core Turbo speed of 4.2 GHz (numbers made up, but something like this). If sufficient cooling is available, the CPU should be able to sustain the all-core Turbo number indefinitely. If it can't, I call that throttling. It can be mild (if you go from 4.2 to 3.2) or severe (if you go from 4.2 to 1.8). A colleague has the XPS 15 (well, the Precision equivalent) and he's never seen it drop below base clock, the problem with it is that base is something ridiculously low like 1.2 GHz. If a machine drops below base freq. due to thermal issues, it has been designed ver wrongly.

Our workstations with water cooling run at maximum all-core Turbo freq. for days on end. Those CPUs do exceed the specified TDP when doing so, which is fine as long as the cooler can easily dissipate that heat. And you can get water coolers that support 500W TDP, so no worries.

The only guarantee Intel makes is that the processor will stay within TDP when running at the base clock. What's happening when your laptop goes briefly to 4.2 GHz is that it exceeds both the Intel-stated TDP and the cooling system TDP. Then it throttles back to 3.2 GHz, which is a little below the cooling system TDP but above the processor TDP. In a laptop like the XPS 15, the cooling system TDP is only a little higher than Intel-stated TDP.

The momentary thermal headroom between what the CPU puts out at max Turbo and the cooling system TDP is provided by the heat capacity of the metal in the heatsink/heatpipe.
This is really just replacing one type of "debt" with another. It's true that if I do all my work with one toolset, I'm likely to end up not using the very latest and best tools to solve problems. However, if I regularly use different toolsets, I'm going to end up with a costly cornucopia of applications. For a medium-sized or smaller company, the choice to add another toolset should not be taken lightly.
I think you're wrong.

> "We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours." -- Steve Jobs, regarding the recent Apple vs HTC lawsuit.

That's about as cut-and-dried "how dare they" as it comes, particular when examined in the context of the lawsuit.
There was this from a few years ago too: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/10611 -- I think it was the same sort of "append a param to the URL" event.

We're at a gaping chasm of misunderstanding here. Tech people see websites as things to be used and toyed with. Non-tech people see websites as things that have terms of service that are supposed to legally restrict what you can do. "YOU MUST NOT ACCESS THIS WEBSITE IN ANY AUTOMATED FASHION WHATSOEVER."

They argue on a basis resembling: "You wouldn't break into the admissions office and steal the list of accepted candidates, would you?" We counter-argue that it's like knowing a person who can't lie to you. If you ask them for the result, they give you the result. Is it illegal to ask for an answer if they don't even hesitate to give it to you?
a major contributing cause to the disarray of American politics is the polarization of the citizenry.

What is the "disarray of American politics"? Is politics in the US more disorganized than elsewhere? Or are you saying that somehow politics in the US has changed relatively recently and that that change is bad? Or what?

We're too quick to take sides, regardless of issues and will gladly "drink the kool-aid" of whatever side parallels the most with what we believe is good, versus what's intrinsically right.

Compared to what? Are there other states in the world where people behave better in your opinion?
I worked at Amazon as an SDE on the SimpleDB team for a few years and saved my runway money. At Amazon, I learned a lot about running highly scalable web services. I left Amazon a month ago to build RestBackup full-time. I'm taking full advantage of AWS to keep expenses low and grow with revenue.

Now I need early adopters to help me turn this into a killer product!

Thanks!
Look in Rosedale. You can still get a good house for under $500K.
I upvoted you because I love seeing HN used like this.

But dang, dude, that title really is mind-numbing. Something about it just isn't correct. I think I lost track of the verbs and nouns.
I couldn't read this without thinking about MacRuby.

It's hard for me to believe that he hasn't heard of MacRuby, but if he had, how could he not mention it in the article.

MacRuby could be a great answer to a lot of the issues he brings up.
I remember a police officer telling me they like getting warrants for small things. For example, if they have a bait car they're trying to get someone to steal they'll have a purse in there. If they can get a warrant that lets them search for a purse (or something the equivalent size) they can basically search everything in the house (anywhere a purse could be hidden), which means free reign to search all drawers, etc. Then anything they find in that search (drugs, etc) can all be used against the person. But if you're only looking for something big (like if someone stole a big screen TV) you're not allowed to search places that it can't possibly be hidden.

But of course I am not a police officer and this was all casual conversation, so grain of salt you know?
Please try out the free download and only purchase it if you feel that you’ve already gotten value from it and would like to support the project. There is no difference in the binary for the free and paid version. It’s really hard to promise anything 5 years ahead as the intent is not to make money off of it.
I had the same question. But when I saw how many apps he supports, and it comes with decent fonts... I'm quite tempted. I'm normally one of the cheapskates. But getting consistent and good themes across my desktop? That's a hell of a lot of work for something I'd really appreciate.
> Only four I/O ports is a little tight

Maybe, but how many do you really need?

I have lots of stuff plugged in at my desk -- but it's plugged into a dock, and there's just a single cable that goes into my laptop. Thinking about my usages in the past few years, I can't think of a time where 4 ports (of my choosing) wouldn't have worked for me -- so long as I could change them over the lifetime of the device.
Hello, I'm the $50 / month customer.

Not an internet business per say, mostly used in the context of processing and storing data + internal apps.

Do is great value, although not the cheapest. They need to double down on the useful items, maybe go a bit offroad in what they offer, lest they might be a in rough spot.
Might get downvoted but HN opinions are based on a minority of people who are more technical and well informed to the point of elitism IMO. When something becomes too mainstream and doesn't cater to the HN demographic, its success is irrelevant and potentially a liability.
Found the healthcare IT guy.

This is the HL7 spec's issue. Everyone interprets the spec slightly differently. It's given rise to the interface engine, which are a type of very powerful software that sits between systems and makes things work properly, which is why I love them.
Hi,

When I saw this announcement I was hoping that I could finally buy a laptop with a good trackpad, with buttons, and a good keyboard again. But looking at the announcement, it seems like trackpad and keyboard quality are far from anyone's mind, and it just looks like the laptop is copying Apple stylistically like everyone else, which means it is going to be kind-of unusable and I won't want to use it. (Especially when running Windows, those kinds of giant Apple-esque trackpads are death, because you'll keep accidentally moving files into places you didn't mean to, and then of course there's the general unresponsiveness once you add all the PalmCheck and turn-off-trackpad-for-n-secons after typing junk).

I like the idea of a laptop built for quality, but for me the #1 determinant of quality is my area of constant physical contact with the laptop, the keyboard and trackpad. And sadly, those look like afterthoughts here.

(For context -- I have bought and heavily used an average of more than one laptop per year, every year, since 1998, and have been dismayed to watch the quality trend constantly downward over that time).
The only thing I've seen on that so far is from the article:

> To create Project HoloLens’ images, light particles bounce around millions of times in the so-called light engine of the device. Then the photons enter the goggles’ two lenses, where they ricochet between layers of blue, green and red glass before they reach the back of your eye. “When you get the light to be at the exact angle,” Kipman tells me, “that’s where all the magic comes in.”

They could be doing real holographic images with that description, but who knows.
Not a Google fanboy by any means, but couldn't this be read with the opposite conclusion as well - that the average time that Google keeps marginal products alive is 4 years?

Of course it's possible that everyone has some personal favourites amongst those 164, but if an idea really has legs what's to stop people from exhuming it from the Google graveyard?
Be worried? This sort of computerized terror has already happened. Facebook would just make this sort of thing much more efficient.

http://www.amazon.com/IBM-Holocaust-Strategic-Alliance-Corpo...
I would have t agree. There was ask HN recently where someone was asking for advice. The advice I would give was already posted so I up voted, but now the guy doesn't know if the advice had 100 up votes and really well regarded or if he just got really few responses. I could have made a yeah what that guy said comment to make my agreement more visible but that is rather frowned upon.
1) freeing memory automatically for you. That's under the table :)

2) Absolutely

3) No. it's just that memory management related issues are really nasty. On the other hand, adding a new printf() function won't do much harm.
"What got a lot of startups in trouble was architecting systems that were fault-tolerant across availability zones within the US-East region, but when one availability zone went down, everybody's apps started flooding the other availability zones"

If most startups implement this solution wouldn't the problem just replicate itself to regions instead of availability zones?

The problem is mathematical in nature and the dependent variables are uncontrolled by consumers of the AWS service. To be certain that you can failover and handle the load you need to run at 50% capacity. EC2 does not do this therefore you cannot solve the problem with certainty using only AWS resources.
>I think this is definitely the edge of a huge new market.

I agree. I also feel that we are going to see uses of this information that we haven't considered yet.

Urban planning seems a very low-hanging fruit. I'd bet you can predict crime to some extent too.

As I read this, I kept thinking about Roller Coaster Tycoon. Watching all those little people mill about.
You can find that salary for a "senior" position in Utah as well. California salaries are much higher than the average.
Thanks! I hadn't seen those, although I knew of 1.4. I think 1.1, 1.3, and 1.4 are actual bugs, if the reports are accurate; I'm pretty sure Dan disagreed with Wietse about 1.1. Three bugs in about 15000 lines of code doesn't quite rise to the level of less than one bug per 7000 lines of code, so maybe that's only been done once, in seL4.

What are the DNS-related bugs?
The list of improvements might be the most exciting I've ever seen for any software, ever. Seriously...great work!
> the 10ms is likely sufficient in 99% of cases

from TFA:

> the time is above 10 ms in about 8% of the remote wakeup events I've tested.

So 10ms is sufficient in about 92% of cases, barely more than 9 in 10.
>where nor developers of the software and users of the software have no say.

The Chromebook is actually worse, since the iDevices at least give you access to run native applications even if they have to be approved by Apple. On a Chromebook, native applications can only be made by Google.
This is really interesting. So, you are basically saying if you want to work on interesting projects, your options are:

* join a team (as a contractor or as an employee, and take the rate cut)
* build a team (and move from development to project management, at least part of the time)
* become a 'name' in an area and become a true consultant--specialize, but don't pick the wrong area, or if you do, be prepared to switch gears. (You didn't have this, but I've seen this work as well.)
I usually buy baseball tickets via StubHub. Not all seats within a section are equal (closer rows are better): the better seats are typically held by season ticket holders. Most season ticket holders don't go to every game. They sell the games they can't make on StubHub.

As a result, you can often sit in meaningfully better seats for less than you would pay to buy directly from the team.
This can't be about backwards compatibility. If it was, they wouldn't have been able to add 'yield, 'await' etc.

I don't agree the keyword "generator" would have been ideal. It wouldn't work when using 'enhanced object literals' [1], where you can declare a method without even using the keyword "function". In this case, if you want the method to be a generator, you can just put an asterisk in front of its name, so it's consistent with the "function*" syntax.

[1] https://babeljs.io/docs/learn-es6/#enhanced-object-literals
Along the same lines here's an interview with a guy who's essentially shaped my investment philosophy: http://www.kirkreport.info/2009/03/qa-with-less-antman.html
Much like "what is my fair wage?", this depends on negotiations, right? If you jointly decide to value the round at $20 million, then $20 million was the valuation. How about you ask them for a number, and then you say "That is too low, we're already break even so we don't really need your money, I suppose we might accept it if you were prepared to go up to $BIGGER NUMBER?"
As someone who is writting a Qt/QML desktop app, I can only vouch for that :)
I can imagine one practical reason is that a lot of stuff (e.g. type information, variable bindings) goes top-down, but bottom-up parsers reduce rules in the opposite direction and so it takes extra effort to make the mental model of programming fit with the reduction strategy of bottom-up parsers.
As a corollary to this, see also all the articles on HN about people rediscovering vi 30 years after it was created.

How many editors out there lack regex and multiple clipboards, both of which have been around forever in vi?

Know the past or you may accidentally reimplement a solution to a problem that has already solved in a better way.
Mathematica seems like a much cooler language than Python. Python is like a dynamic Lisp but with an emphasis on imperative programming.
Hi Charlie,

I enjoyed the book a lot, and I was only a bit irked by the slightly-off Bitcoin references and the countersigning etc.

I have a few pages written on the same idea of many disparate colonies but with the twist that quantum entanglement allows for limited FTL communications, which makes an interstellar blockchain feasible.

I'm looking forward to your next book.
I feel like I've just discovered the tool that the makers of all those "ironic t-shirts" use.

Iterate through this based on a random seed and you'd have instant profit by selling to freshmen.
At Forter (www.Forter.com) a big part is the screening of CVs. HR and RnD work closely to contact only relevant candidates, and when we a CV could be relevant the RnD manager or the lead developer calls the candidate for 15 minutes focusing on a key strength that makes the candidate relevant and why working at Forter is so great. The first interview is about the candidate's comfort zone. You would be amazed how many people don't know what they were working on about the past few years... plus a hands on algorithmic coding task that does not require experience (we hire also coders before college). The rest of the process (usually three more interviews) are mixed. Include technical, personal discussion. We try to fit all interviews into one day. Even though Israel is small and travel is non issue , there is a strong psychological effect if the candidate gets an offer after one visit. This might require in some cases talking with the candidates recommenders while she is interviewed in the next room.