jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I have been using laptops since 1997, many different brands, shapes and colors. The one that I had stayed with the longest is ThinkPad. Very simple lines, non-descript raw functionally, the TrackPoint, and up until recently IPS displays. I was forced to buy a new laptop a month ago and went with the ThinkPad SL510. Installed an SSD myself. Very nice build quality, even the slightly less matte casing is an okay compromise to get the price to $680 in my option. The only thing is the pure crap TN panel in the thing and 16:9 ratio is not made for getting work done.

If the reason for crap laptop panels is the big three (Samsung, etc) making crap TN panels then lets get together and do something about it. Lenovo said that if they had only 15,000 confirmed orders they would make an IPS model to spec.
It definitely turns me off to a job. But then maybe I'm just not a rockstar.
Have you seen or heard how (some/most?) illegal aliens are detained, today? The main difference between that and concentration camps is the illegals have good chance of relatively short stay.
We almost went there again with arabic Americans after 9/11 via census data.

Can you source this, please? I don't recall this being suggested by anyone serious.
> is that the right word?

Higher-order functions, or "combinators" if you want to sound all math-y. They're not really list iterators, because it makes just as much sense to map or fold over trees, arrays, matrices, etc. Whether you need structure-specific versions like maplist, maptree, etc. is just an implementation detail.
Sounds HFT to me. Plus functional programming. KDB like?

Quit teasing Out with it. Sounds like fun with lots of real hackability and responsibility built in. Would love to hear more of what you can share.

You mention a SQL db - have you guys put something together of your own or are you using a pre-rolled db?
Not unless they know some Oracle incantations I've not heard of.

I'm going to guess some home-rolled column store similar to KDB.

[EDIT] re: Oracle stuff I've not heard of - there is tons of Oracle scale/performance stuff I've never even had to think about. I've worked somewhere with KDB+ in place to handle streaming market price data and interviewed at another investment bank where it was used as well. So my guess is based more on what I've seen and read rather than knowing you couldn't build such a system on top of Oracle.
They are analyzing already-gathered data from 2010 and 2011.
For all John Doe knew, those events (road closed, rain + strong wind) were unlikely to happen, so planning for them would not have been rational. He did bring an umbrella when he saw a cloudy sky, which demonstrates good planning (even though it didn't work out in this particular case).
It's good to have critical reviews. But perhaps it could have been better if the tone were more respectful towards a free and open source project.

The approach of Hadoop is not my cup of tea, but I praise them for giving for free a working product solving such a hard problem.

Playing Hadoop's side, where are the test cases, the patches or bug reports? Or even some missing documentation blurbs, like you mention.
I thought you meant sneakers.

Again, it all depends on the maturity of the startup in question, the market and the need for highly-paid non-technical people whose contributions can bring home the bacon. If they don't, then they're just a drain on resources or could just be there to prop up the appearance of success in the eyes of the market or investors.

Did Dick Cheney actually run Halliburton or was he there to steer business to the firm? I think empirical evidence would point to the later. So when you do look around and wonder what exactly it is this person does in relation to their job title/description, there may be more than meets the eye and in personal experience nepotism has a lot to do with their presence as sometimes it's just hard to finding the candidate that's a perfect fit and you may have to just hire someone you know and hope they grow into the role.

I understand that a lot of people who read HN are young and tech-focused, but there's a lot more to it than landing a job at a hot startup out of school and the more one understands about their environment and how to apply their skills appropriately, the easier it'll be for them to succeed.
> This means that the Hadoop process which was using 1GB will temporarily "use" 2GB when it shells out.

This is exactly not what happens, the new process copies only the parents address mappings (now marked read-only), which represents vastly less than 1gb physical memory.

I think only a single 4kb page or two will ultimately be copied, representing a chunk of the calling thread's stack used to prepare the new child before finally calling execve() or similar.
OTOH, I am spending more and more of my free time at the local hackerspace. Talking to people and combining computer with real world stuff. Also, manual work.

I have the impression that there has been/there is a society-wide phase transition, recently. More and more people seem to realize now that being in front of the net all day isn't really fulfilling, either.
Who appoints the tribunal?
Running a business is complicated enough; that’s why our solution is beautifully simple.

From one account users can have clear view of their interactions, contacts, finances, todos and sales pipeline.
"But you wouldn’t hire a consultant that only tells you what’s wrong but not how to improve it."

People do this all the time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_People,_Dear_Reader

I think the whole thing is on Youtube (as video fragments in a playlist) but is definitely also available as a torrent.
Tape is slow only when you need frequently to read some random part of it, because you might need a couple of minutes to go till the other end of the tape.

The reading/writing speed of tapes is excellent, better than that of hard drives, so writing a backup takes less time.

For archives that are accessed only infrequently, tape is more reliable and also faster.

If you want to have access in less than a minute to any part of your backups, then yes, tape is inappropriate and you must use HDDs.
I'm going to weight in because my partner is an environmental engineer who performs remediation of PFAS contaminated sites for the EPA and other Federal entities.

> Even though they 'stopped' using these chemicals in manufacturing 10-15 years ago, there's still an incredible level of contamination

They haven't stopped using them, the chemicals are still used in stain and water resistant carpeting and textiles. They're used in cosmetics and sunscreens among other things. One of the biggest sources of contamination is fire retardant foams used in fire suppression.

If you look at some of the sites in that report listed as having contaminated water, many are located near military bases, like Oceanside CA. These bases are the largest sources of ground water contamination of all sorts but specifically PFAS because they routinely practice fire suppression exercises.

> 26,000 sites listed by EPA [1]. But that's sort of irrelevant, because these compounds don't break up over human time scales.

PFAS is an emerging contaminant and isn't strictly regulated yet. Keeping track of these sites however is not irrelevant, it's extremely important that we know of and track these sites because they can and are being remediated.

The current method of remediation involves setting up hundreds or thousands of ground water monitoring wells around a contamination site to track the plumes and then using pumps to remove the ground water and filter it through activated carbon filters. The filters are treated as hazardous waste and incinerated.

> It's hard not to be alarmist about this, PFAS contamination is genuinely terrifying.

I wouldn't say you're being alarmist at all, if anything the current response to PFAS is insufficient and we should be treating it as a public health crisis at least on par with Lead.
Emotional support animal =/= service dog.

Service dogs are specially trained for a job and cost upwards of $25-30k to train and maintain their training.

Emotional support animals don't require any training and don't have nearly as many rights as a proper service dog.
How does it work for a bus or taxi driver with dog allergies? They have vehicles designed for separation of driver and 'self loading freight', not just some personal cozy ride.
This looks like a shift away from their old “editorialized” blog-style updates to a data-sharing-centric approach. I’m guessing that this takes less time for them and it allows various commentators and communities to create their own opinions based on the data.

I liked the tone and approach of their old blog posts but this is pretty cool too. It’s just good to see them continuing to share their data since it’s arguably relevant to a wide range of audiences.
If you will permit me some trite but genuine advice: I have been interviewing and hiring people for well over a decade and it's not much more fun as the interviewer. Just pretend you are having a conversation with a friend about a project you really enjoy. It's kind of like worrying about how you will perform in a race. The training is already done when you show up to the starting line. The race is the easy part. You know what you know, just demonstrate it. Let the chips fall where they may, as they say. If you fall short, so be it. It's kind of the Zen approach to interviews. Don't try to hard, just do what you know how to do and find that place where you can be genuine.
This looks absolutely insane. It seems as though someone just taped a pile of these crystal bricks to the top of the drone and let it fly. Astonishing.
can i share the personal licence in company ?
Yeah, the best way.
@math0ne @gknoy

Sorry for answering late:

https://github.com/julienchastang/dotemacs

You'll need tangle/babel

➜ .emacs.d cat init.el
(package-initialize)
(require 'cl)
(require 'ob-tangle)
(org-babel-load-file "~/git/dotemacs/settings.org")

https://github.com/julienchastang/vagrant (still a work in progress)
That is exactly how i understand it as well. HGST, or all HDD from Hitachi are now basically under Toshiba. Those 2.5" HDD capacity that sold to WD are all under WD brand.
The definition of slope is an extremely basic fact from middle school math. This isn't exactly crazy trivia.
That or you can just listen for tire noise. Even electic cars are quite loud above 25 mph, or so, so it only really becomes a problem at stop lights. Even then, the distinctive power supply whine will let youn that a hybrid or electric is behind you.
Nintendo is not only a Japanese company, it is a Kyoto-based company. For people who aren’t familiar, Kyoto-based are to Japanese companies as Japanese companies are to US companies. They’re very traditional, and very focused on hierarchy and group decision making. Unfortunately, that creates a culture where everyone is an advisor and no one is a decision maker – but almost everyone has veto power.

If you read Patrick McKenzie's recent article on "Doing Business in Japan" you can get some better context of just how rigid these 'Kyoto-based' must be:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/
I'm a happy user.
The slides are interesting, but I'd like them in context. Is a video of a seminar covering this material available somewhere?
I was once locked out of some pretty important accounts while traveling overseas. Ever since then, I've been thinking about the importance of being able to "shard" both secrets and authority.

If I were to be imprisoned, for example, I might want my lawyer and family to be able to access all of my emails from two years ago up to one week ago. If I were to suddenly die, I would want my family to have full access to all of my accounts, with little hassle.

I would like to be able to tell my email provider (through my account settings) that if at least two people out of each of these three groups agree that such-and-such condition has been met, then these people will be granted this sort of access. The process would notify the other members of the groups I defined and have a delay to allow some kind of veto/vote if there is any disagreement. It may be a bit fiddly, but if a standard were defined for how the interaction works from a user's perspective (including steps to make sure you understand the consequences of how you've configured it), at least it could work consistently across all kinds of accounts.
Former Samsung head Lee Kun-hee had a heart attack in 2014, and his son Jay Y. Lee took over. I don't know if that had any effect on the alleged culture problems the article talks about.
Where would I suggest for you to get a real education in economics or where would I suggest you go to become another armchair economist like me? :)

Personally I'd stick with Boglehead type advice and focus on your career(assuming you're in tech). My day job is the only thing that's ever consistently generated wealth for me.

I am in a special situation having to make up for lost time being out of the market and being divorced, so I am trying riskier things that I really wouldn't recommend for anyone else.

Once you go down the rabbit hole of trying to understand macroeconomic trends and betting accordingly, well, it becomes rather distracting. I can't recommend it.

If you really want to 'go there' well... I don't know. I follow a random collection of FinTwit folks. Lately I like Doomberg and "The Maverick of Wall Street". I also follow folks like Mohamed El-Erian, Buffett/Munger and Jeremy Grantham
It's not an appropriate solution.

Chinese don't use Western vaccines and their own vaccines are not that effective.

Elderly are poorly vaccinated and there is no big effort to increase vaccination rates fro them.

Either Chinese separate themselves from the rest of the world forever, or it's constant lockdown with these new variants.
How would you go about enforcing the alternative? Force companies to charge the same as the their competitors? And how would you evaluate if the undercut is sustainable or not?
I contemplated building an airgapped secret machine that could only communicate data with outside machines via qr codes and a webcam.

The main reason to do this isn't that the airgapped computer isn't compromised, but that even if it is, I could monitor all data moving in and out of it.

Even a USB drive passed back and forth could secretly transfer data I don't know about. Secret data is so small compared to the size of modern storage that data could easily hide in too many places.

Is that system a little paranoid? Maybe, but I haven't fully trusted any computer since heartbleed.
Most folks blame the culture shift on Paul actually. He was the cause of it all. Brian being a horrible symptom of what he created, and Brian definitely propagated it far.
I don't think any batteries marketed as phosphate last that long, although they may contain lithium phosphate.

The only commercial batteries I know of that can do that are Lithium Titanate/LTO, that you can mostly only buy on AliExpress and a few specialty places, and are almost unheard of in commercial products(Except maybe some wireless earbuds and capacitor-like applications).

They have like 1/4 the energy density or something, but they are still really amazing. I'd love to see power tools use them, we could run tethered on a USB-PD, charging during idle periods, and not wear out from cycling.
I think you're close enough here to the presupposition of both my comments above as makes no difference.

That's why I said the EFED recommendations were too weak; that's why I called it an 'inadequate response.' Let me say it again explicitly: A warning is not good enough. Let me clarify again the original point: The real scandal here is that EFED thinks a warning is good enough.
Exactly. It's one of those things that is generally interpreted as generous. Being nice to people can often back fire; Complimenting the barista on her earrings might be seen as a come-on. Applauding someone's work ethic is often seen as sarcasm. It's not something to worry about, generally, but I've withheld a generous comment before based on how it might have been perceived.

Helping somebody push a car (so long as you don't ask for payment after, or something) is hard to misinterpret, and has to completely make the recipient's day.
> electronic bandwidth these days is of necessity set up for music, and so should be ample for higher voices. (I have noticed that VOIP is much easier for me to understand than POTS

Then you give exactly an example where it is not ample (and matches the topic of the article):

POTS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service

"Restricted to a narrow frequency range of 300–3,300 Hz, called the voiceband, which is much less than the human hearing range of 20–20,000 Hz"
Great to see behind the scenes, hard pro remote work setup
I think I agree with you, BUT I will say that it's a problem I just don't have with JSON.

I think it's because JSON is inherently smaller, and the spec primarily focuses on basic types that handle data.

With JSON I can write idiomatic code, in any language, and the translation to and from my code is correct. I don't need to abstract away my JSON code for arbitrary reasons, it works.

I'm not sure why that is TBH, I just know that it's a restriction of Protobuf I don't find myself running into with JSON.
How are you even going to force a single way of formatting when JS devs can't even agree on including/excluding semicolons?
If you truly don't care, simply move on to the next post.. There's bound to be quite a lot of content that you don't personally care about being posted. You can simply ignore it and move on.
You gotta share this with us! Dont leave us high and dry.
Wash your mouth out with FROMs :)
Try using an early net of LCZero. You used to be able to adjust how many "rollouts" it plays with, and what generation net to play against. Since it's a neural net, it has the "intuition" of a 1000 elo player, or 1500, etc. I.e. it does not play expert then blunder. Hopefully they get the play.lczero.org website back up and running sometime. I didn't have too much success getting the other links to work... https://blog.lczero.org/2018/11/where-to-play-leela-online.h...

Let me know if you find an easy way to play "human" level LCZero AIs.

Edit: Main project website: https://lczero.org/
I love the bunch of rocks example and think about it a lot.

If a simulation cannot produce consciousness, what is special about life that makes it unrepresentable with physics? Where is the boundary between a conscious system and a non-conscious one?

Conscious minds certainly seem bound by their physicality, you can figure out how feelings and experiences are represented molecularly and electrochemically and affect those feelings and experiences experimentally. So far we've not found anything that cannot be broken down into physics (not to say we won't), but if we assume there's nothing else _but_ physics – then I think we're left with:

- The physics consciousness relies upon is fundamentally uncomputable

- Consciousness _is_ computable and all the weird consequences that follow (like sand computers) are true

I lean towards the second option, but I struggle to understand it in any intuitive sense.

What are your thoughts on why a simulation cannot be conscious?
I tried OSX on my Thinkpad. It was freezing constantly, sometimes it would not even start. Really bad experience.

Just get supported hw, and you will be fine, applies to all operating systems.
I'm a mentor at a program kind of similar to this (except it's 1 evening a month for 6 months or so).

I see this all the time. Everyone comes along with their own idea 90% of which are mediocre (and the 10% that aren't usually have their own team sorted out)

The real solution isn't to try and sell your idea, it's to change your expectations.

It's very unlikely anything you build on one of these programs will be any good unless you were already working on it with an existing team prior to the start of the program

But it is likely that you will meet some people who - at some point in the future - might be interested in doing some - as yet undefined - project with you.

Treat it as a learning experience, where your expected outcome is to learn something and to hopefully meet some good people.
I'm all SSD now. I've been telling my friends "This is as big as the floppy disk, get one".

Corsair SSD are like $250. And don't tell me you need 1.5TB in your desktop! You'd be a lot smarter to have 180gig hdd and all externals.

When I jump on someone's machine who has spinning disks and do a build in visual studio, I feel like time stopped. I keep moving the mouse "is it frozen? What's wrong?"
Oh dear. This is like some kind of sick, twisted Rube Goldberg machine...

Take entire text of Bram Stoker's Dracula

Chunk into 123 parts

Data URI encode each part

Generate a TinyURL link for each data uri (thanks for having an API guys)

Embed the TinyURL links in the Hashify Markdown editor using object elements

Curses! Even just the objects takes it over the limit. It has to be done in two parts. Create two Hashify pages.

Part 1:

http://bit.ly/havNYE

Part 2:

http://bit.ly/feoYrR

Works in Firefox and Safari. Chrome, Opera and IE9 don't like it.
See also Python's recently added odict
Unfortunately it's no as simple as just plugging a solar plant into the grid and standing back. The biggest difference between a solar plant, and a coal plant, is the ability to balance supply and demand through the day (or more specifically, through the night).

So, in effect, energy has to be stored during the day, and used during "unsunny" times.

Where I live we already have a pump-storage scheme in place. During the night, when demand for electricity is low, water is pumped uphill from one dam to another. During periods of high demand (typically early morning, and evening) water is released generating hydro-power to supplement the grid. It generates about 400MW of power - suitable for supplementing a city, but not for taking it "off the grid". It also doesn't scale particularly well - a 4GW plant would take a lot of water.

However, all is not lost. With "free" electricity it's fairly easy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen isn't the easiest, or least damaging substance to work with, but it is certainly clean, storable, transportable and so on.

A power plant burning hydrogen as the fuel can run day and night. And a "hydrogen reservoir" would act as a natural capacitor - able to smooth the supply of energy to the plant.

Of course there are lots of uses for electricity which are not time-of-day sensitive. Desalination for example allows dry coastal regions (which usually get a lot of sun, and hence why they're dry in the first place) to become irrigated.

Solar power is a lot more useful than just domestic use, and I for one look forward to the day when it's cheap.
I'm not; the site's first userbase was .NET developers. Some percent of people looking up those answers are doing so from a company pc that may not allow anything else.
Plausible? Entirely. Likely in this case? No.
But they do form a a large proportion in those areas where they do live.

The previous poster's comment that black descendants of slaves may have a different point from modern economic immigrants - many chinese immigrants on the west coast are the descendants of similarly unfortunate C19 workers.
Or old customers who've been with them for years... You can't please everyone, I guess.
Oh, my bad, I thought the figure meant $100,000 (interpreted as 100 dollars + 000 cents) each customer.
As the parent says it's the unit price (with quantity of millions) so the end amount will be rounded but all the steps before that need to be able to handle fractions.
And If someone is smoking a hundred yards away you can totally smell it.

Therefore I suspect that this article is true in that there is significant dilution, but its conclusion that the dilution means you needn't be worried about COVID depends on the exact disease charactistics.
Social media has brought out the worst in us.