jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think it's a misunderstanding based on the fact that Erlang was originally implemented in Prolog, so in some ways the language features are superficially similar - pattern matching and single assignment come to mind. Regardless of where it came from, though, it really is ugly. But it does get the job done, and the rules aren't that hard to learn. They're actually pretty simple, and with the right emacs mode it's pretty hard to mess up.

http://www.sics.se/~joe/pubs/prac_appl_prolog.ps
Don't know if these folks are the cheapest but they have a wide selection: http://www.wholesalesolar.com/
Before we colonize anything outside of our own self-sustained gravity well, we kind of need to have a working model of a self-sustained /ecological system/.

Which we noticeably lack.

Let's not forget that, under the criteria of self-sustainment, Biosphere II was a failure, yes? And that subsequent research in ecological systems indicate that we are, collectively, more ignorant than wise as to the mechanics necessary to sustain a fully functional off-world environment.

Yes, we could be wiped out by a kilometer-radius asteroid at any moment. That doesn't mean we actually know what to do about it. Colonizing other planets necessitates /self-sustaining/ colonization - it's utterly pointless, after all, to have a Mars colony doomed to a slow and painful death if its ludicrously expensive supply line to Earth collapses.

If that doesn't convince you, though, /you/ can be the first one to try out a Biosphere-3 on Mars. Go ahead - I won't take your place in line. I promise.
Let's use this article so that we all understand that querying more than you need has memory implications and close any future discussions on this as it's already general knowledge.
FWIW we [0] employ a lot of people in the EU working remotely and a large part of them earns SF/NY salaries.

Probably a strong selection bias to the types of companies that choose to work with us.

[0]: I'm the CEO of remote.com
That's not really a good reason for that as we have online banking, public tax records and other sensitive services available through the web for a long time.
The media is already decentralized; there are many news sources and they often do not entirely agree with each other. People understandably are keen to prioritise the accounts of outlets they believe to be generally reliable over those they don't. Those considered most reliable fulfil the informal role of "arbiter of truth" for their audiences.

I don't think further decentralizing so each individual has to carry out original research with primary sources to obtain any sort of picture of what happened in the world yesterday would represent a feasible improvement, and I suspect the conclusions people would draw instead of doing that research would be [even] worse.
> Most

That's still focusing on making components that will not fail, rather than a system that can tolerate failure.
It's a classic #firstworldproblem that many wish they had. I certainly wouldn't blame the employer for that.
Very interested in that as well
I'd just like to highlight the response to Andrew: https://twitter.com/A_Mitchell1966/status/136102436212456653...
That doesn't work. Now and always an independent investigator of truth will be a lone voice in a wilderness targeted by all warring dogmatic factions. Witness NYT seeking to draw HN to the fray with Saturday's piece about SSC.
Yeah and often, what makes state actors so threatening is not their untold leetness but the impunity with which they can operate. Common cybercriminals usually know better than to go after certain targets, but state actors can do whatever they please and will not face legal repercussions.
> I'm afraid I'm understanding this correctly:

> Near 100% of Mozilla users would agree to get the $36/year subscription?

No, not at all.

And I'm surprised at how many downvotes this is getting, but the basic concept is that at $36/y, each person paying that amount will assuredly be donating more to Mozilla than Mozilla would be making from ads on that user. I couldn't find any numbers on what Mozilla makes from ads, but I'd be surprised if it approached what Facebook makes per user.
That's a good point. anxiousThrowawy, where are you located?

If you're in the Montreal area I might be able to find a therapist willing to work at least initially for free.
At MetaOptimize, I am competing with Google and Facebook and LinkedIn and a host of other companies to recruit top ML + NLP talent.

But, the benefit of my recruiting model is that I hire people remote and part-time. A lot of strong strong people are in academia, but love their academic post and don't want to move. They just want build cool stuff on the side and make some extra money.

The fact that Google + Facebook + LinkedIn + friends must own you full time, asses in seats, creates a unique hiring opportunity for me.
Usually people talk about ROI in terms of percentage, but that does not mean much. 3x return on a $50M investment is much better than a 100x return on a $0.5M investment, but in terms of percentage, the latter soudns nicer.
Maybe they weren't thinking much, but the business in the application is

"Honest Achmed's Used Cars and Certificates"

I think the joke about "honest" comes from the used car salesman bit and the "Achmed" comes from the Iran hack.

It is perhaps unfortunate that they came together in a way that sounds like a stereotype about dishonest Arabs (I hadn't heard of this stereotype before reading the thread).
I only recently started telecommuting and I'm blown away by how much more productive I am. I actually attribute this to the fact that I do NOT work crazy hours. I take pretty frequent, but real breaks. I browse HN a lot less now and sit in the sun a lot more and when I do sit down to work I can pump out code amazingly fast because I'm gasp actually refreshed. If I'm exhausted I can take a nap, in an office I'd have to just push through and get nothing done rather than actually getting refreshed. Additionally the reward for getting work done faster is much greater, if I can get what I need to get done completed early in the afternoon then the day is mine, but in the office it simply means it's time to "look busy". I think the long term effect of this reward system is to be as productive as possible, the only person's time you're wasting is your own.

Also I've found that communication is better. In an office I find people often assume that proximity equates communication, but with distance you know you have to make an effort.
If I did the same thing sitting in a cube, I'd get paid for it.

Why? I bill for work done regardless of my location, I never thought it might be out of the ordinary.
>The entity that’s conducting the most extreme and far-reaching surveillance against most of the world’s communications—the National Security Agency—is bound by United States law.

This seems clearly wrong -- when people like clapper can essentially lie under oath to congress and not suffer any legal consequences it is rather dubious to claim the NSA is bound by US law. There are increasingly 'secret' courts, 'secret' laws, 'secret' budgets, 'secret' legal memos, etc etc, why would you begin your game plan with stating something so clearly incorrect. The reason we know much about what is happening is because of whistle blowers, and much of these people are either in hiding, on the run, dead, or being jailed by the US government. The eff is out of touch with reality if they truly believe the NSA is beholden to the law instead of those controlling and using it as they see fit.
One ex-colleague of mine is named Aurelia and I got the same reaction.
...could put officers' lives in danger from would-be police killers who can find where their targets are parked.

This is about speed traps and DUI checkpoints, and everyone knows it. At least be honest about why you want it removed.
More precisely -- it focuses only on public sector mass surveillance. Private sector is in some ways more insidious since they are not bound by any laws, and are also in some ways even less transparent than the NSA.
Office art departments that just made charts for people to use in reports and poster presentations.
We know how to make sf muni significantly faster and cheaper; it's just sf lacks the willpower to do so. Muni has the slowest route round-trip time of any major bus system, caused by the overabundance of bus stops. Recommendations from transport experts seem to be to get rid of 2/3 of bus stops. If this were to happen, bus speeds would increase leading to less need for buses and drivers.

Your Muni is slow. With an average vehicle speed of 8.1 mph, it is far and
away the slowest major urban transit system in the nation. While some of
this can be blamed on San Francisco's congestion and density, there are
myriad methods of speeding up service other agencies have adopted that Muni
hasn't. This isn't just an inconvenience for Muni's declining ridership;
it's a major financial drain on a beleaguered system. Slow vehicle speeds
force Muni to spend more money to provide less service. Muni's lethargy is
literally costing it millions.

For these and other reasons, Muni spends more to operate its vehicles than
virtually any comparable transit agency. For every mile Muni runs a bus in
this city, it spends $19.21; comparable agencies nationwide pay between $10
and $13. For every mile Muni runs a light-rail vehicle, it throws down
$24.37; comparable rail services spend between $12 and $22.

http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-04-14/news/the-muni-death-spiral/

That said, services like chariot need no public funding; they're actively destructive to public transport. Amongst other things, public transport requires temporal and service area ubiquity in order to be effective, particularly when the city goal is transport first. Cherry picking high demand times / locations and withdrawing them from muni damages the system as a whole.
First off, it's just a name, not really a big deal nor would it really be a sign of anything. Secondly, if your requirement is "not a competitor's technology" then practically every single word would be excluded because it would have been used, at some point or another, by one of the hundreds of thousands of competitors IBM has and has had.
I thought http://www.thebaffler.com/salvos/purple-reign was well-written and very interesting.
My initial idea would be to find some local design/web development firms and try to become their "default host" (maybe offering a good referral fee).
It looks like they plan to pull the Ark with a Jeep then do some autonomous roving after reaching a destination area.
I understand my own fault now: I deny all cookies by default, this might be the reason I had to enter the homeserver every time. Still, I'm not super comfortable with the idea of phoning home to someone else, even though "home" doesn't know what room I'm joining.

I haven't had the chance to attend your talk about Spaces, I'm waiting for the video. Can't wait to see how Spaces change the landscape :)
Liability.

Volvo has something to lose. Comma.ai does not.
Its not going to happen overnight. That doesnt mean that the products arent revolutionary. Just that the training sets, infrastructure, know how, etc are not there. Its not a simple case of importing the model and running it. You need a second data set to tune the model to your needs with. An analogy for this post is like coming up with a new piece of theory for electric cars and then asking why the theory isnt deployed on the roads six months later.
Circles are also simpler than ellipses. Maybe that's a clue. Maybe we need a more complicated equation that makes the phenomena more understandable.

EDIT: To stretch the metaphor a bit more. Maybe QFT is the analogous of the solar system described with epicycles.
This seems to be nothing more than a rolled paper napkin.

I’m surprised nobody mentioned it in the reddit thread.
> If 1,000 people a year die from software glitches, that's still a 30x+ improvement from the current situation.

This isn't true. The odds of me dying in a car crash is lower than the average as a result of precautions I take to be safe. For me 1,000 deaths/year might be a improvement (or it might not) but to say it's a 30x+ improvement just by looking at the total number of deaths is just false.

The focus on potential glitches is because it's something the driver has no control over. Is there a similar measure for number of completely accidental deaths (eg. someone swerving into your car or t-boning you at an intersection)?

Finally, until we have better laws that ensure companies are liable for their mistakes, companies won't take all the precautions to ensure vehicles are safer than a good driver (not just the average driver). Does anyone remember the Ford Pinto explosion issues because the company decided to use a cheaper gas tank and figured they would save more than they would pay from settling the few lawsuits that might emerge as a result?
> The vaccine manufacturers literally had one chance to guess what the right application schedule was, and had one chance to do clinical trials on them.

Couldn't they have done additional arms in the trial? Moderna could have had a trial arm with 1 mcg doses.
Amazon bought the upper floors of the Seattle downtown Macys building. I worked in there for a few days to get a feel for it out of curiosity (my team was in a dif building). It was awful, it was completely dark inside, almost no natural light, the building is old as shit and super janky as a result. It's also across the street from McStabs so once they moved in, every Seattle employee started getting emergency stay inside texts because of the street level problems outside that building.
I drink 4 shots of espresso in a latte each morning. It calms me and helps me focus on my coding tasks as I sip it through the morning. I’ve never had issues stopping or from prolonged use. It’s a net benefit for me.
I bought this on recommendation from HN.

I'd also recommend - Engineering Mathematics by KA Stroud. All three volumes are fantastic.
But unfortunately pop quizzes take place literally every day :(
I often work with quite large Word documents, and they can become a real pain once you start using some features, like automated table of contents. In fact, if someone edits the document and messes up the formatting, you'll have to edit raw field codes, with are a bit LaTeX-like [1]

[1]: http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/TOCSwitches.htm
I don't have money to buy a Porsche, but this never makes me a Porsche-hater...

I don't think financial reason alone makes you a hater of a product.
This is thorough and well done.

I'm curious why/how Instacart uses both python and ruby for their logistics. Seems like they could just use one.
Even though we know that the NSA does collect data on Americans, let's assume that they didn't. By using a network such as a VPN or a Tor Node that is located outside of the United States, would they "legally" be able to use the data collected on you received from those networks as if you weren't an US Citizen?
I use LaTeX a lot and nearly exclusively, however for presentations I try to use HTML. I rarely get to do it, because work usually requires me to use certain templates.

Handwritten HTML is just as nice to version control. I can embed rich media stuff easily. I can use transition and other effects (in the rare cases where they actually make sense). I can embed interactive things, which is better than alt-tabbing somewhere else. I can create a pdf as fallback as well.
Something like this: https://www.cloudcracker.com/blog/2012/07/29/cracking-ms-cha...
I don't think it makes sense to say this can't be done. I started my first startup -- and did the majority of the work on it -- while working a 40-60 hours a week job, and spending time (admittedly, not as much as I should have) with my girlfriend. It was insanely hard and stressful, and I slept very little around that time, but it was doable.

If you think it's impossible, it is.
After quitting coffee, waking up became easy for me.

This feels like an over-engineered solution to a problem that's easy to fix: switch to decaf. There's a reason you feel horrible in the morning, and it's not because of "sleep inertia!"
And hashes with symbol keys became a bit nicer in 1.9:

Account.create(:firstname => 'Bob', :lastname => 'Smith') # old

Account.create(firstname: 'Bob', lastname: 'Smith') # new
I hear this more and more lately - and sure, competition would be good.. but, what's wrong with textmate at this point?

I bought a few copies a few years ago, and I've been using them ever since, lots of extensions, still nice and light, still awesome to use... I dont' find myself sitting around thinking "Man I wish this guy would hurry up and bring out a new version!"....
like, it's not minecraft....
The web was much different back then. People now would just post Twitter updates or blog posts describing what was going on. In this case, he posted the story and got some readers, people checking back regularly to follow what was happening. Each page is a new update for most of the story.

There were a couple months where not much was moving forward, but his readers were still interested in what was going on. What you see is his periodic updates about a very unique experience. Fifteen years later, parts of it aren't as interesting to us. Back then, however, to read the details and background of an ongoing story that you're seeing on the news was a very unique experience, like being part of a secret club.
touched $1 million and I'm happy!

I bought it and influenced another friend on twitter to buy it :) Also Jeff (@humble) tweeted that he has a surprise for all buyers and that it'll be up in an hour or so. I'm curious as to what that surprise would be.
Very neat idea, but good luck with getting FAA approval.

This will probably count for a whole new type of approach: an automated mostly-hands-free 0-0 landing.

Even if it's just for an emergency, and even if you make all kinds of disclaimers and have folks sign all kinds of documents, you'd have better luck teaching monkeys to play in an orchestra than you'll have trying to use this legally in an airplane.

Of course, you can always sell it and say it's for "demonstration purposes only" or some kind of silly shit like that. But still, anything to do with certificated airplanes has this crazy no-risk bar that makes it almost impossible to implement.

There's a reason why planes work pretty much the same now as 50 years ago, even though technology has vastly changed. The industry and government regulators are almost (but not totally) impervious to change. Lots of lawyers filing lots of lawsuits for doctors who bent their Bonanzas have seen fit to that.
I guess the point here is that I won't even bother bringing in/phone screening candidates without the CS degree. (Sans those who have referrals.)
Racism was already codified into the American institution of slavery before the revolution.

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

At the time of writing the constitution, slavery was expressly racist.
Nobody has suggested it directly, yet, but I want to take this opportunity to remind people that the "Stylish" extension for injecting custom CSS onto your favorite websites has a history of abuse. It's owned by an advertising company that consumes all your browsing data. [1]

You should instead use "Stylus", which has none of those problems. In spite of all of that, Stylus has only 400,000 users according to the Chrome extension store, compared to 2M for Stylish. There's a lot of people out there accidentally using malware.

For example, here is a nice-looking dark mode for HN which can be installed into Stylus. [2] (I can't personally vouch for it, as I don't use it.)

[1]: https://robertheaton.com/2018/08/16/stylish-is-back-and-you-...

[2]: https://userstyles.org/styles/157400/hacker-news-bluish-gray...
In this tweet he says "death to American politicians":

https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1093791374204420097
Alternatives exist. Look at the fediverse.
Anime memes on HN? Now I've truly seen everything.
If you are in Michigan and a mother names you as the father for welfare benefits, you most likely will be forced to pay it. There have been many instances of men being declared fathers by default.

One man had won a court settlement when he was young and the woman applying for benefits remembered reading about him in the paper, so she put his name and address on the application to get the money. The court ordered him to start paying child support. He tried to fight it in court with a DNA test, but you need to serve the mother and neither the court nor the social welfare agency would release her address.
Your tone is extremely patronizing and your message is incorrect. At a minimum, the protests were anti-police. Protestors were chanting slogans extremely hostile to the police. By creating an unsafe atmosphere after months of quarantine lockdowns, people rioted which resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage across multiple cities and these deaths. Criminals and people with mental disorders were emboldened by sharp rhetoric/opportunism to break the law. I see this as very similar to what happened this week.
See https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/8/22221683/trump-tried-to-ev... for screenshots of various tweets Trump made from other accounts that were quickly deleted by Twitter. One of the tweets talks about building their own platform. Another talks about Section 230. And another about the "radical left" silencing half the country.