jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Would be awesome to see someone try this on Node or Akshell (http://www.akshell.com/ide/) and see how it performs on server side V8. Could even add a real time, multi-user console to it.
Any story about income equality that neglects the distribution of income and wealth within the top 1%, isn't providing the whole picture. If you segment that group by ~.1%, you'll see a graph that reveals more about the fundamentals of the problem.
> by providing liquidity, which has the side effect of causing bad things because it lets the rich accumulate wealth.

curious, what if the people driving that engine opted for wealth tax instead? Wouldn't that be a win-win and your phrase could have been instead:

> by providing liquidity, with no side effect such as causing bad things because it lets the rich accumulate wealth.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't imagine it pays well to be a coalmaker or someone who makes horse drawn carriages either.

Is the market actually shrinking or just shifting?
Can we do one for micro-services next?
I don't feel like "inequality" is a problem in and of itself. I don't care that there are a lot of people with a lot more money than me.

I would get upset if they don't make a fair contribution to running and maintaining our society.

I get upset when I read that there are some very large organizations that don't pay tax.

I get upset when our government hands out bailouts.

I get upset when polluters don't pay to clean up their own mess.

I get upset when wealthy people use their wealth to exercise power and manipulate public opinion, so that my opinions are in the minority. :)
You forgot the much more cynical (4) Tesla lowers the bar for success and quality diminishes across the industry in a race-to-the-bottom on price. ;)
Pounds, shillings and furlongs ...
It's my understanding (and if I'm wrong it looks like I'll be corrected) but Dutch English classes teach en_GB and you have to be an expat American child to have your en_US ways tolerated. So if Dutch people sound American they must not be getting it in class.
> Say everyone in an unstable economy were paid in usd.

Then that country would be paying the unseen tax of inflation as the US banking system prints more and more USD. Said country would basically be a US colony.
Rubbish. Perhaps you meant to say "Unless something is already completely safe, we should always be open to analyzing the benefits and costs of possible safety improvements, while being sure to spend the majority of our resources on areas that offer easier or larger gains".
And I suppose, since you've read Taubes, you believe it's all due to carbs.
I have a Galaxy Nexus (2011) that's stuck on 4.2. I wouldn't mind receiving bug-fix releases.
how did the FAA change things so that subordinates felt more comfortable?
There was an econ professor that gave a guest lecture early in my college years that said inflation is merely a societal disagreement about the distribution of income between the wealthy and everyone else. He explained why this is the case very well at the time, but I can't remember the details now. If anyone else has been told this and can explain it here, it would be greatly appreciated.
They don't. Teams have different powertrains.
Exactly. If that was the debt at the end of his practice, just imagine how much debt he bestowed during the 30 years it ran. I wonder how many patients went bankrupt... seriously, with the leading cause of bankruptcy in the US being medical. But that wouldn't be a story. That's just every clinic in the USA. And who wants to be reminded of that?
oh thanks for the good pointers and the YouTube channel!
"It may continue to cause severe illnesses for some years yet, especially among older people."

What's behind this being raised as a possibility? Is it just that some older people may not be suitable for vaccination, or not accept vaccination, or is there something else?
For example, Qt already has a port to wasm
this would be of interest for me too
> One, this tech absolutely could be used to fool someone.

The problem I have here is that it's already not hard to fool people. I don't think it's feasible for us to say that we're going to put something that could be highly beneficial on hold just because we don't want to deal with social education efforts that we kind of already need to tackle anyway. Per your example, if we get rid of deepfakes, it's not clear to me that Youtube is going to be any more safe. I already would not allow a child to browse Youtube unattended, people already generate the videos you're talking about.

And I know that people are putting this in a different category than general CGI, voice modulation, or consumer-grade apps like Photoshop. I'm not going to argue that it's necessarily wrong for people to be worried, but no matter how many times people tell me that this is fundamentally different, I still have not seen any serious evidence that this technology is going to be more dangerous than Photoshop, and I think it's going to be way easier to detect than a decent Photoshop job is. Photoshop's content-aware paste/fill tools are better than this example, and they arguably require less work to use.

And again... I'm sympathetic to concerns about moving too fast, but I just don't think there's any world, even if you could get rid of deepfakes entirely, where we don't need to be worried about media literacy and general skepticism. If people today don't realize that voices can already be convincingly faked, then that's a really serious problem, and if democratizing that ability causes society in general to become more aware of the potential of disinformation, then honestly that might even be a good thing that we should be encouraging.

So sure, concerns, but in my mind people are focusing on one particular implication that I don't think is particularly likely, and ignoring that responding to that concern is probably going to look the same no matter what our position on deepfakes is.

> If you train a model to mimic a performance given by an actor, then use that model and fire the actor, isn't that potentially really problematic?

I think that's a very complicated question. I would not assume that the loss of work for voice actors, who can shift into voice generation roles, is going to be a big enough downside that it overrules the upside of allowing ordinary people to start generating their own vtube avatars or commenting on and building on top of existing culture.
All those companies should be care about algorithmic runtime, it's part of performance and scalability. If you're not thinking about that then you're not writing production software.

I ask about runtime at every interview (part of "coding, data structures, and algorithms"). It is most definitely not a trivial concept - how do I define the correct solution to a problem when there are multiple approaches?

The requirements for a correct solution (even simple coding problems) include style, correctness, performance, and scalability.
Wow - I didn't even think node.js was that old. It will be interesting to see its genesis. The first git commit for node appears to have been on Feb 16, 2009:

commit 9d7895c567e8f38abfff35da1b6d6d6a0a06f9aa
Author: Ryan <ry@tinyclouds.org>
Date: Mon Feb 16 01:02:00 2009 +0100

add dependencies
So, what specifically did Matt Green disagree with?
It mostly filters for people who spend a lot of time preparing for interviews, practicing that problem or similar ones, from books of problems known to be asked by interviewers. In a more general sense it filters for people who want a job badly enough to do the goofy dance that many companies expect of candidates, and are savvy enough to know the dance exists.
Because restaurant owners are barely figuring out what email is.

How often do you go to restaurant websites vs. actual restaurants (not including Yelp or Google maps)? Truth is, they just don't matter. The cost of creating a website, even a $500 design over a CMS doesn't justify the cost. Also, a small business restaurant owner won't know how to operate a CMS. They just figured out email, remember? Worse, is that websites turn from beautiful assets to liabilities.

The nephew of some restaurant owner finally convinces him or her that the restaurant needs a website. The kid builds it for $100, everything is great. Until the business owner needs to change store hours.

"What's that password that kid gave me again? What do I do with that password? He mentioned logging in somewhere... Now that kid has a job at Google or is doing a startup and doesn't have the time to mess with $10/hr type of work anymore. Crap, now all my patrons are expecting me to be closing later and I am turning them down. What a huge pain, I have to go find a new web designer."

The solution needs to be the anti-CMS. Something that's not as simple as email, but as FAMILIAR ... Email is simple, but it was a huge learning curve for that small business owner. And learning something else just as simple will be a huge pain.
I found the primary benefit of graduate school is mentorship; this helps in dealing with the unwritten aspects of mathematics and computing.

Beyond that, I would say doing start-ups is more valuable. However, you are trading personal development for product development. You are trading hard intellectual problems for difficult business problem. To differentiate:

A hard intellectual problem is proving that a simple curve divides a plane into two sides.

A difficult business problem is figuring out in real-time why the machine isn't working with angry clients everywhere calling "our shit isn't working".

Either direction, it will be fun.
Most of the time you're right. But I've done a fair bit of tinkering with Haskell's OpenGL library. Trying to get GHC to differentiate between a Float and a GLfloat inside a Vector is pretty much impossible without resorting to explicit typing. This definitely qualifies as a special case, but it's cropped up often enough as to make me a little gun shy. You don't need to explicitly type everything, just enough to give the compiler a credible hint as to what you're trying to do -- such as the last term in your vector.

The sad thing about the original article is that the writer is throwing his hands up and raging over what is really a small implementation hiccup. I kind of like that the compiler withholds judgment on whether '5' is a Float, Int, or Integer. It means that I no longer need to type ".0" after every Float.
Note that he said: "low skill levels cause procrastination". Not: "low skill levels are the only cause of procrastination".

Avoidance is a well known coping mechanism. The author's reasoning is valid in that a person whose responsibility it is to solve problems, when facing a task that is beyond their skill level, will feel anxiety about delivering. In that scenario, avoidance is common. That is not to say that it is the only cause of procrastination.
All I want to see are the menu and the hours of operation.
August 1, 2010

also

http://cryptome.org/0002/vigilant-fraud.htm
Solution: Eliminate third-party drivers.

Apple solved this problem years ago.
That is more like an introductory tutorial. The docs are here - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference

The frequency at which MDN docs are linked in StackOverflow JavaScript answers shows that people are getting more familiar with them. PromoteJS took off recently and it has helped too.
The interest on the national debt would increase to very large levels if they were higher. The government would then have to borrow more. They wouldn't find buyers for all the treasuries they would have to issue, so the fed would have to print money to buy the bonds to make sure there wasn't a failed auction (a.k.a Permanent Open Market Operations). This printing would work, for a little while, but all the interest paid on the national debt would go higher than the magic level of about 8% of GDP in which case it's becomes unable to profitably reinvest itself and instead beings to flood into foreign exchange and hard assets causing severe inflation. If the fed did not print then there would be a failed debt auction and a debt default. That, or there would have to be an unacceptable massive federal budget cut or a likely counterproductive tax increase to cover the interest.
> There is absolutely no way the increase in workload of TDD doesn't have a cost.

TDD has both costs and benefits. Like most everything else.
cats make great poets
Omar Khayyam is wonderful. I have the first stanza of the Rubaiyat painted and framed in khatam style.

This quatrain makes me think Khayyam was a HN reader:

Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same door where in I went.
Here's the one big building that I always passed, and was always vacant. I never saw why FB or Goog couldn't buy this and the surrounding buildings, and tear down some of the lower buildings and build taller ones. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sunnyvale,+CA+94089/@37.41...
A related issue: in some cases the industry has allowed anyone to upload a copy of a song, and so you run into the issue that you're at the mercy of whoever the uploader was when it comes to the quality of your upload.

I ran into a case where there were reports that a specific release of a CD has a much better mastering than other versions, it was a Super Audio CD (SACD) as I recall. I looked up the release on YouTube, since differences in mastering are clearly audible even in a lossy encode. The one upload was by a random person who had put it up in an HD video, but the volume of the release had inexplicably been boosted to the point that the sound was heavily distorted!

Another case: the most popular version of the Eminem "Lose Yourself" music video (over a billion views) is uploaded by some random person, with one of those ludicrous "no copyright infringement intended" messages in the description. It's seemingly the one that the industry approved as the legitimate version of the music video on YouTube, however. I actually tried tracking down the official version on the artist's page, and (at the time) it had actually been taken down by the studio with one of the standard DMCA takedown messages YouTube shows!
As a paying Dropbox of many years, I’d love for this to be available on Linux. I’ve tried to use Dropbox as a backup backend (for example with reclone), but with a great many files, I’m always hitting API quotas making it impossible to use Dropbox for backups.

If somebody has a working solution, I’d be very happy to hear about it.
That billion dollars isn't going to last very long when folks start piping GPT-3 into the system for free coins
A couple of days ago, Per Vognsen said this document "rewired how I thought about programming forever" (https://twitter.com/pervognsen/status/1514872995956756484):

> I did math at university, but everyone in the sciences took one year of CS and the first semester was Algorithms & Data Structures. The course itself was not that remarkable (Gerth Brodal taught it and did a good job) but there was an excellent pre-course prep week. 1/2

> Everyone was straight from high school and weren't expected to know set theory or discrete logic, so it was mainly a primer on stuff like that, which I didn't really need. But one part of the prep week was this amazing booklet, which changed how I thought: https://cs.au.dk/~gerth/dADS1-12/daimi-fn64.pdf

> That was my introduction to Floyd-Hoare logic but in a general setting that applies to both programs and non-deterministic state transition systems. Totally rewired how I thought about programming forever.
Can it possibly be that the physical, material reality we all know and love is actually an illusion, and that we are really spiritual creatures, that we have a life review in death, as evidenced by the testimony of thousands of NDEs (near death experiences) and OBEs (out of body experiences)?
> One should never run untrusted applications.

Security through omniscience? Is that any kind of answer? This is a whole that can be plugged.
> This bet is open to the first VC who would like to take it (though it is not clear to me anyone who wants to take the other side should be investing in startups.)

That sentence misses a 'why' I believe.

As for the subject matter: bubble or not, who cares? Those that will not invest for fear of being in a bubble would do better to keep their money anyway, and those that look at individual companies rather than the market as a whole will always have a huge edge over the investors that simply follow the herd. It's the followers that really get burned by bubbles, not the originals, they'll survive one way or another on their own merits rather than on endless capital being poured into their corporate coffers.

Bubbles are bad, corrections are good news for the real movers. In a bubble you can find yourself with a whole slew of competitors trying to go after the same market polluting pricing and models by using investor money to prop up their essentially broken propositions. Right after a bubble pops is when the real fortunes are made, that's when all the nonsense goes away for a couple of years.

It's a saw-tooth like curve and even though we're not technically in what I'd call a bubble we're definitely no longer on the ground floor either. It's not a binary thing.
Exactly. He's using the wrong words to describe his point, which is that he doesn't think this particular mathematical language is useful. To someone who is fluent in that language, he makes it clear that he doesn't know how to use the language effectively (to stretch it, at times it doesn't seem like he even understands the semantics). But indeed, how could any sort of language be useful unless you know how to use it effectively?
Doesn't Facebook already prohibit all content (not just ads) that incites violence against groups?

https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/hate_speech
Paul Stamets has a possible solution to help the bees.

https://fungi.com/blogs/articles/bee-friendly-research-updat...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_lqIUlON1s

https://beemushroomed.com/

To truly save bees (native and cultivated) we need more variety of crops in range of hives to provide longer periods of food availability. Commercial pollinators have "fixed" the monoculture blossom desert problem by trucking bees in to areas that have a crop that needs pollinating.
> Silo it off and just leave it be.

Not really possible. It's an internet service that talks to large number of different printers from different manufacturers.

Besides the code management issues others have mentioned, services like this require a great deal of product and partner coordination and testing effort to ensure that even small security patches don't break the heterogeneous ecosystem of devices.

More importantly, CUPS and driverless printing standards have solved the problem (os-specific print drivers) that cloud print was designed to work around.

Disclosure: Google employee but not on cloud print, though I use it on my personal printer.
3 of the 5 companies they tested are really the same company.

"Endurance, who runs Bluehost, iPage, and HostGator:"
its discussed in limits on that wiki page
> If someone advertises something illegal or in an illegal way, it's not the publisher who is punished, but the one who posted the ad right?

Not true, there are laws that govern what can and cannot be advertised, and how. The reason cigarette companies don't publish TV or print ads is because the government made it illegal to do so. Publishers would face legal action for running illegal ads.

> Why do people want to give the authority to Facebook to decide whether an ad is within the acceptable range?

They already have this authority, and they choose again and again to exercise zero discretion. The fact that we're arguing over whether or not FB should have the right to choose whether or not to run these types of ads is so absurd.
It's not an easy feature to test. A lot of magazines have used really fake looking inflatable or cardboard people. Radar systems are going to see those really well. Machine vision solutions may correctly classify the objects as non-human. You don't want your emergency breaks to go off every time a plastic bag floats in-front of your car.

Then you have far more complex real-world situations like this one. The emergency breaking works correctly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3rmevP6XVY

I'm not sure what statistics are available for pedestrian collisions. Probably nothing short of deaths are reported reliably at the national level.
>Why do people want to give the authority to Facebook to decide whether an ad is within the acceptable range?

Do they currently not hold such power?
I feel better about a comedian doing outrageous stuff to make a living than I do about journalists doing the same thing and people presenting other similarly outrageous stuff as legitimate scientific research.
FigShare has funding from not for profit agencies. Storage is cheap. Linking data avoids the trawling.
Why are Google using a centralised and closed piece of software? Does it bring many benefits that haven’t been replicated in open alternatives? Or is it just that the cost of switching is high enough to become prohibitive?
My knee-jerk reaction to 'made' was of course not. And then I thought about it. We 'make' children learn how to do fundamental mathematics and it doesn't seem do them harm (yes there are serious arguments about when and how we should do that, but setting that aside...) I have always been in favor of chess being offered in school. I've always thought that if it is good enough for West Point, then it is good enough for the local school system. Even out here in the 'sticks' of Idaho, we have a thriving academic chess program with no apparent damage. This is merely an escalation of elective to requirement--- still no harm. Obligatory admission; I regularly play tournament chess as a rated player (silly addiction :) ).
(hint: list of issies which can realistically hurt you in
Russia if you're an ordinary person does not include
mafia, not at all)

Hint: this kind of behavior affects ordinary Russians very directly, in two ways.

1) Foreign companies are not investing in Russia because of this behavior. Billions of dollars and euros could be flowing into Russia, but aren't. Such investments would reduce unemployment significantly and a normal share of the money could reach the ordinary Russian.

2) Every ruble extorted from a rich Russian or foreigner by the mafia cannot trickle down to poor Russians. Corruption cannibalizes an economy. Poor or unemployed? The corrupt government officials and their henchmen mafia are directly to blame.
It also doesn't explain how if they don't trust EBS they are going to replace their MySQL on dedicated servers. Sounds like they are considering the Cassandra route. Which gained a query language last week.
The rules are based on the OS version. There are some differences for 3.0, but in this case 2.1/2.2 doesn't officially support tablets at all so there weren't any exceptions. Froyo did require a camera, and the four android buttons - I don't think the nook has those either.
Thank you for good links. What is also somewhat scary is font enumeration. It is somewhat uncommon to find two computer with the exactly same set of installed fonts. I have noticed that especially on Windows platform many applications bundle their own fonts, and the resulting sets are very good for fingerprinting systems.
"you don't see a lot of chubby kids in a smaller household, and vice versa -- I don't see a lot of skinny/smaller children in a household that has obese or overweight people in it."

That's liable to be the case whether it's environmental or genetic (or, most likely, some sort of combination - though one may well dominate).
Conversely, the first one I saw was support for calendar attachments (.ics files). Which:

a) GMail sends

b) Google Experience devices still can't recieve