jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The resentment of big capital is not entirely without a reason. Most money right now is "passively" deployed into pre-existing securities. This means it's used to extract existing value by market cornering / scarcity generation / rent seeking / monopolies / oliglopolies.

On the other side there is new value / securities creation. This is what people like Elon Musk are doing. He took circa $50mln of his own money, added a couple of billion from investors. Added 1000 highly skilled jobs and result is $50bn company.

Extractive capital alocation is offering much easier profits, but jobs working it are mostly the "bullshit" type.

As a democracy we have control of the laws, we can "nudge" the big capital away from rent seeking into new value creation by changing the tax code.
There is a significant difference between CLJS and Scala.js regarding their use of GCC (Google Closure Compiler).

In ClojureScript, GCC is a user-visible feature of the toolchain, so users are encouraged to use GCC-compatible libraries and the Closure Library in particular.

In Scala.js, GCC is really an implementation detail of the toolchain, and its constraints are completely abstracted away from the user. This does not really encourage using GCC-oriented libraries like the Closure Library.

The two approaches each have pros and cons:

* CLJS' approach allows tree shaking across the CLJS code and the GCC-compatible libraries that are used. However, it makes it more difficult to use libraries that do not comply with GCC's Advanced Optimizations requirements, as one needs to declare the proper `externs` files.

* Scala.js' approach means that you can use any JavaScript library out of the box, whether or not it was designed for GCC, and without having to declare any `externs` file. However, it means that GCC's tree shaking will not be applied across the Scala.js code and the JS libraries. It only applies to Scala.js' own code.
Which would be just another one of his own character failures if, due to not taking criticism seriously, he let that happen.
I am new to HN and it is already becoming addictive. I think I am going to visit it at least once everyday, if not every hour.
After authorizing with Twitter, I got redirected to an error page on the Dropbox site (Error (5xx)).
Hi Scott, I'm a co-founder of Synflow. You're right, the VHDL on our website is a bit overly verbose. I will update the website with the right version of the code that day.

And I also agree on your point. This is why we added properties to the language (http://cx-lang.org/documentation/properties) so one can either use the (implicit) default names and types for the clk, reset, etc. or explicit/tweek things for more complex systems.
See also the GeoHash, which lets you remove characters from the end at a gradual loss of precision:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash

In my mind the big issue with these is that while they're easy to transmit, you don't actually want to store them because then you lose the ability to do proximity or point in polygon searches.
I think you're right. That's why I posted to HN (long time lurker) - I hated myself this morning.
I know I've fallen into this fallacy a few times myself. It's easy to say to yourself if only I had enough data this decision/direction/risk would be obvious and I wouldn't be so worried about it.

But the truth is even with perfect data you still have to be willing to take risks and no amount of analysis will ever take that away.

Hard lesson to learn but a good one none the less.
Considering the number of young kids that now carry iPod Touches, and Apple's aspirations of overtaking the Nintendo DS as a kids gaming device, I think this is part of Apple trying to be careful about what it exposes children to. They don't want their products to carry a stigma with parents.
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How does this compare with Slinkset, Hotaru and Pligg?
I'd also be happy with this. Considering that Apple used to ship all their Powerbooks with IPS displays, but the market decided that TN would rule the day.

Now the only places to find them are extremely highend workstation laptops (aka. heavy, desktop portables)
That sounds a lot like basic Fear of Failure to me.
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It is absolutely not correct that Larsson did the lion’s share. What he did was implement a Go wrapper for libdevmapper, which exposes a very low-level API. It is the Docker team that implemented devmapper-based container storage, as well as the whole storage plugin system which was now required to support more than one storage method. The original devmapper lib is utterly undocumented and Larsson’s wrapper did not fix that. So getting that feature to work was an all-consuming task and it is the Docker team that did the bulk of it.

You can see all this from the early history of the devmapper directory: https://github.com/alexlarsson/docker/commits/a14496ce891f1f...
I don't think I've ever met a CTO who wouldn't benefit from a list like this - or who would deny that it would be useful.

The secret to getting good at management is to acknowledge that it is a huge, deep and learnable set of skills. The best managers I know are the ones who constantly seek to improve their skills, and "do the work" to improve.
I wish you well, fellow traveller: it sounds like you read a lot of things into my comment I didn't say, and they made you angry and caused you to lash out a little.

I'll point out the things you're mentioning were not only not said by me, and in fact, were things other people chastised me for not saying.

The weird meta-analysis may cut against your instincts, but you're going to have to deal with it at some point. It's weird to you because I _don't_ engage with the complex LARP you're living in. I simply noted that the comment was wrong at its face
I enjoy Pocari Sweat, but I do worry about all the pocaris that may be harmed in the process of sweating them out to manufacture the drink.
> "secure password"

Whatever that means.

This would never have happened in the first place had they used an encrypted complex password and a simple password manager.

The whole company takes the hit with blunders like this. It's everyone's fault responsible for the infrastructure allowing this to happen in the first place. Those who pass the blame on others very quickly are equally to blame which means the CEO is just as to blame as the 'intern'.

Clearly the whole company doesn't train their interns.
In terms of sheer aesthetics, ternary computing is interesting because base-3 is the integer base with the highest numeric information density (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy) due to being the nearest integer to e. Of course, the second-best integer base by this metric is base-2, by a rather slim margin. :P That said, I presume this is the basis for:

"Donald Knuth argues that [ternary computers] will be brought back into development in the future to take advantage of ternary logic's elegance and efficiency."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer#Potential_fut...
You may be thinking of https://github.com/danrabinowitz/sshrc?
Two and four seem to be in blatant contradiction.
I'm genuinely worried about people with sensory oversensitivity problems. Personally I shudder to even think about spending time in a building like that one; those uneven lines painted in the common rooms, bright orange walls, breathtaking vertical spaces - I mean, sure, they do look impressive in photographs, but what about employees who get nauseous and/or dizzy just from looking at that kind of architecture all day long? This may sound silly, but considering how a significant portion of the IT workforce comes from the intersection of extreme introversion and Asperger's, this should be a genuine concern for any equal opportunity employee, especially in that sector.
this lawsuit is essentially it.
Wish Lego "reissue" old sets more, kinda feel like they are the same as Wizards of the Coast with Magic cards. I'll always regret not getting the Technic Mercedes truck (42043) when it was generally available. Argubly that's one of the biggest and most complicated set. Price is now ~400€ but it was 150€ before. Oh well
Absolutely, it's already end to end encrypted but good point on metadata...
I do love Chef John and Babish. I personally love America's Test Kitchen
What were your reasons for turning to zazen/vipassana? Was it to be able to concentrate better? Or were the reasons separate and an increased focus was an added benefit you noticed?
Meditation definitely helps a lot - I have seen it do wonders for a family member's depression where medication did little.
Aristotle had more or less the same observation.
(developer here)

Yes, there's an IP firewall too.

Apps can (and do) absolutely use DoH themselves. One way to mitigate is to block DoH IPs (RethinkDNS' on-device network logs are quite comprehensive). This isn't full-proof, and so, a feature we have been contemplating is, firewall would auto-block IPs not resolved by user-set DNS resolver.
Modern ones and designed for purpose go to -20C.
I find the author's direct expression of his egotism refreshing, and I don't need to worry about his hidden motives as much.
Expanding on (1) with few more ideas.

- Use social media personalities to present and spread news

- Informecials as a medium

- Run adwords
Google intentionally tamped down their reverse image search several years ago. They fundamentally changed how the product works, the results that it delivers, and did it on purpose. It's definitely inferior if you're actually looking to find copies of an image (Google is fully aware, they don't want you to be able to effectively search their image system that way).
Does your AC has not heating function (I assume everyone in Texas has AC)?
yep. CFLs and LED bulbs are available everywhere, but every store stocks extremely cheap incandescent bulbs right next to them
My attempt at abridgment.

Do not use more data sources than necessary. You can incur technical debt. [1]

Metaphor about dead bodies at the top of hill.

Be cognizant of the fact that in some use cases by making use of the information output by the predictive model you can reduce the effectiveness of the original data model. This is called a feedback loop.

The goal of ML is business. Not some new ML algorithm/technique or programming language paradigm.

[1] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43146.html
Lets reinvent everything in javascript no matter how badly...
Landing is (as you've already noticed) the least significant reason as to why we have a human piloting team in an airplane.

If I could afford it, I would love to make a $10,000 long bet as to when we will see a major airline routinely (1/day) fly a route with > 200 passengers.

I'm saying it won't be later than 2065, but also won't be sooner than 2050.
that's cool, cheers! :D
I'm curious what you would claim as evidence, if you are willing to share, even though, full disclaimer, I don't think talking about this sort of thing is within the realm of intellectual discourse.
Thanks to Secure Boot (AFAIK), you can't implement hibernation until you implement hibernation file signing.

Sleep works fine for ages. Works better on Linux on my 2015 laptop than on Windows (hint: if you have a KIRA laptop, suspend stops borking after you update the drivers for the touchpad to a ~2019 version).
well i deleted mine in october 2019 and i’m in.....
I would say yes, obligatory vaccination is a reduction of an individual's liberty. But, doesn't NOT getting vaccinated also diminish the liberty of all other individuals in society (i.e. The right to life), much like how the same principles of liberty are applied to outlawing murder? (The freedom to murder is diminished, but the right to be alive is increased)
One of the benefit of EPUB is that text can be reflowed, so the display size doesn't matter much, unlike PDF which sets a specific page size. I'm not sure about the MOBI format, but I assume it has similar features to EPUB?

At least it's possible to strip the DRM on Amazon books with the right set of tools, and Calibre is able to convert them to EPUB.
> it's just frustrating to watch many companies deploy it and go home when there are better options

I do agree with you there. To be clear, while I think the problem is of a smaller magnitude, I do agree with your general point. Other alternatives like very simple TOTP tokens additionally don't require a phone number and so you don't have this stupid "add your phone number now, we'll use it only for security, pinky swear!" prompts.

Heck, there could even be an argument that SMS OTP is now illegal with GDPR unless the user gives explicit consent. You can't use user data (PII) if it's not with consent, for a legitimate purpose, to fulfill a contract, for the user's own good, to comply with law enforcement, and I'm probably forgetting one or two reasons. Now that it's clear that stuff like TOTP is a better alternative, there is no reason to process people's phone number anymore for this purpose, making it impossible for you to send that SMS OTP. (Of course, you'd have to convince a judge that TOTP is better than SMS before we actually get case law on this specific use of a phone number so... *mumbles something about nine-tenths of the law*.)
It depends on the software. I've recompiled the R core with -march=native and -ftree-vectorize and gotten 20-30% performance improvements on large dataframe operations.

If it were up to me, the R process would be a small shim that detects your CPU and then loads a .so that's compiled specifically for your architecture.

The same improvements would probably be seen in video/image codecs, especially on Linux where browsers seem incredibly eager to disable hardware acceleration.
We rolled a simple repository pattern library that fit over the SQLAlchemy Table API (no ORM objects, only tables).

Actually writing the the tables was very freeing, no more separation and surprises in the translation between a single model and the multiple tables it can create.

For each new object, we wrote a SQLAlchemy Table object, a domain entity object, and optionally an adapter if you need to map field names between the two. The 300 lines of repo library code did the rest.

A little boilerplate, but no need for a ton of impenetrable, hyper-dynamic ORM code.

Alembic can autogenerate migrations from the SQLALchemy Table objects
>I think Facebook (rightfully, IMO) would argue the existence of that data dump is no proof that data came from Facebook’s servers.

Mark Zuckerbergs phone number was in the dataset. It came from Facebook.
Full agreement. A honey bee has ~1M neurons, yet is able to navigate complex environments utilizing visual, sound and olfactory information.
Assuming identical physical capabilities, just how much computer processing power would it take to make something able to function as a bee? A cat is two orders of magnitude away from the human neuron count, yet its ability just to navigate the world [1] blows all existing ai out of the water, not to mention other behaviors.

I don't know how to quantify it precisely, but it seems to me that linear increases in intelligence require exponential increases in computing power, both in digital ai and in animals.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGeN8jkt4UE
In case you don’t know, byte dance is BIG already, with Chinese market and capital back it really has no fear of those other giant who play catch-up
- corruption, especially in QC

If you think corruption is bad in Quebec, look at BC. One of the first things our current government did was to pass a law requiring that all government-funded construction must be performed by workers belonging to unions which donated to the governing party's last election campaign. A short time later, they changed the procurement rules from "lowest cost bid" to "best bid", with the rules for determining "best" explicitly including how many jobs would be created for members of the aforementioned donor unions.
All the firing of brilliant coders at WeWork makes sense now, after reading that Adam is dyslexic. These coders were asked to make something awesome. Given that vague direction, some of the probably did TDD, and tried to show kanban or project management burn lists or something like that. These coders would say the awesome was in the code, and the summary of features for product spec. He should just read it. That probably triggered Adam to no end. And that's why in the end he just bought Meetup.com, but even that didn't work. He ran into the same problems again. Reading about Adam is like reading about Hitler. The German high command was suckered into thinking a hateful person who couldn't stand people more brilliant than him knew it all.
I am skeptical of your "billions of dollars a year" claim. Source?
>We want to know if you spent 20 mins reading our "about" page and then looked at our pricing page, and then vanished.

I don't want you to know this sort of information. It's too invasive.
Unfortunately it's slowly turning into another Facebook content-wise.

That and the Business Insider links. Does everyone else pay for a subscription or something?
Sometimes you have to go all in, though. At least if you want to make a big jump.
Me too, at least it's still possible to drill down into the settings and use user.js to stop all the telemetry which verges on spyware. Chromium doesn't afford you that option.
No, that's her reaction _after_ a bunch of non-contributors whined that the project team was making different decisions than they wanted. This is a common hazard of visibly working in open source and it's caused a lot of people to decide it's not worth being involved in a project.
Correction: The 1% have manipulated the government to have obviously unfair political policies. They control advertising, media, and the government. I do blaim the rich, and it's from first principles. The only thing that ever puts a dent in it is grass roots efforts like BLM, unions, etc. We tried the gold standard, it is also a failure.
If the only metrics you are comparing is price and purification level, then of course you won't want a Dyson. But there are other important objective metrics such as size and loudness which deserve to be a part of any scientific comparison.

If the box fan is bigger and 4x as noisy, it's not a valid comparison for many situations. Instead should compare fans which are similar sizes and operating at similar noise levels.

I have a Dyson fan and a box fan (not air purifiers), and the Dyson fan is significantly quieter, smaller (same height but about half as wide), while having a similar power (not exactly sure which one is stronger).
Could be but the clout I'm talking about is how easily they're let off the hook after repeated blunders. I personally doubt Toyota could get away with Tesla's QA for a few years. Hard to judge in practice though.
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/best-cars/electric-cars-b...

Its not just Edmunds who are reporting lower range than expected. Also autocar (of UK) reports lower Tesla range.

> In our tests, the Model 3 Performance achieved 239 miles of real-world driving.

> Tesla Model 3 Standard Range Plus, 181 miles

> (The Model S) is now available in a choice of different battery capacities, with the current entry-level 75kWh model managing 204 miles of real-world range

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All tests have their flaws. But real-world testing by 3rd parties is far more reliable than the government-mandated tests.

Its like they say: any official benchmark will be cheated, gamed, etc. etc. You really only figure out who can beat the test, as opposed to figuring out reality. A series of trusted 3rd party tests (by magazines and smaller communities) is small and unique enough that no major automaker can really "gamify" the tests, leading to more realistic results in the aggregate.
It's probably difficult to build a laptop with mass market appeal if it's only trying to sell to vi people.
I’d buy a well built machine even if it was 3x as thick and 3x as heavy as other laptops, with 1/3 the battery life. I just need a movable machine, not an actual “laptop”. Many of us from home with our machines plugged to the wall 98% of the time, yet the thermal and power design is for a thin battery powered device. I want a 150W laptop with a 120mm fan.
Then they should really think about how they phrase their intentions.

To me, this read like someone at a congressional hearing asking "Why are you against protecting children from predators?" to a witness opposing something on totally different grounds (ie. being needlessly confrontational from the get-go).
Bitcoin was created with the use case currency in mind and it was used like that by the earlier adopters. I think this is what OP was pointing at with "Many have forgotten why we used cryptocurrencies in the first place" and certainly with the qualifier "many", I think OP is correct: That's how we initially used Bitcoin and other cryptos.

_Now_ many (most?) people use bitcoin as a store of value. But I think this is more out of necessity: Bitcoin as a currency is semi-dysfunctional.

> the westerners that seem to be almost rooting for their own society to collapse just to have another reason to use Bitcoin

I have not met a single person in my life with that motivation. However, I have met people who want to see the current system collapse, but mainly because it's not working for them.
We're really interested in making the index editing dynamic. E.g. as you modify the weights, all metrics update in real time.

Additionally, we're interested in side-by-side comparisons as well, similar to a code "diff" on Github. So you can see how your modifications changed performance relative to a past version.

We'd love to get your feedback on this. If you have more thoughts, feel free to reach us at hello [at] enombic [dot] com
Option sellers don’t need to buy shares, they can just buy back the options they sold.
...but various balances of power change greatly.
Got it, this helps. Been leaning towards Paddle/FastSpring etc.
In case anyone is curious: I checked and the PTR record for my mail server (168.62.161.121 -> mail.studer.dev) is valid. mail-tester.com also gives me a 9.9/10, but I just tried sending an email to a Gmail account and it went straight to spam :(

I suspect it's probably a volume thing? As in I'm not sending enough email for Gmail to make any judgements about my mail server, since I'm only an individual. Of course there's not really a great way to resolve that...
Are you sure you want everybody know all the truth about you? Every fine detail, including your bathroom routine, your most secret thoughts, your dreams and your secret wishes? Does the word "privacy" mean anything to you?
Yes, knowing the whole truth sometimes hurts. Some truths are not meant to be known by everybody.
Have you come across any DACs or close?
One reason that people buy and use Apple devices is because they want to use Facebook. If this ended in a situation where Facebook was no longer on Apple devices, or somehow crippled on them, Apple could significantly damage their own revenue.
For me it's not about what suits who. For me it's about what philosophy you put into design of a portable computer as a tool and what it can allow/encourage you to achieve/create.
> at least we have books :)

Agree! I admittedly put on my "critic hat" writing that post so maybe it came off a bit contrarian.

But you're absolutely right. If it's a choice between dealing with some shallowness, or not having books in the public consciousness at all? I'll gladly tolerate the self-help crowd slightly overselling the promise of reading.