jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> my favorite place Ten Ren down in Chinatown.

Ten Ren is awesome - friendly folks who also educated me about how to prepare tea and let me know that you could steep it multiple times (which was news to me at the time since I only steeped once and then threw out the leaves).

Having since moved to Southern CA, I visit their store in Monterrey Park. Good folks still, but I miss the charm of the Chinatown store.
Aside: it's looking like Lamarck was right.
I agree with just about all of Matt's points, but I've gotten (and continue to get) so much value out of the people here that I'm not ready to walk.

PG's recent inclusion of "average karma" seems to me a shot over the bow pushing us to recognize the importance of thinking before we speak.

It is shocking to me to see a leader board populated with low karma averages - only 1/3 of the "top" 100 members by total Kamra average over 5 (including Matt).

If there's one piece that we desperately need it's the ability to downvote, tied into average karma which is how I've measured and meter my contribution (and others) to the community.
Oh by no means did I want to convey that you should give up the right to defend yourself. I meant that if you can defuse the situation in a non violent way in the case where you deem the assailant worthy of a second chance you might as well take the high road and try that first. However, if the risk is well beyond the benefit of helping the person, or your first advance towards a pacific defuse of the situation proved nill, go ahead and come out with guns blazing.

It's not that I'm going to stop protecting myself, but that next time I want to make sure it's not some scrawny kid that wasn't really even thinking of hurting me who really just needs 5 bucks to get a meal today.
This sentiment, which I would caricature as "the hoi-polloi are polluting our elite discussions" is risible. Enlightenment and insight comes from listening to a variety of sources, not all of them agreeable. Set up your own invite-only community and see how quickly the discussions become stilted and predictable.

It may well be true that the threshold for stories appearing on the front page needs to be revised, but if you only ever read the front page then you are also doing nothing to select stories of quality and relevance to appear there. Perhaps you should personally be doing more to raise the quality of the front page in whatever direction you feel appropriate.

And yes, I am a newcomer.
Thanks! Hopefully people find this useful as another point of view.
Did you read the grandparent comment? The point made was that politics suffuses everything. You can't exclude politics. Robert Heinlein once commented that politics is like peristalsis -- the result isn't very pretty, but it's necessary for life and you ignore it at your peril!
I just started using this recently and found it to be a nice little tool, it forces a number of websites to use HTTPS by default, such as Google, Wikipedia etc.

You can also dump your own rules in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/HTTPSEverywhereUserRules
> I have read the research and it's wrong. If you think otherwise you have not given an argument, you just appealed to authority.

You haven't explained why it's wrong. Surely the person who thinks that the almost-unanimous scientific consensus of the last few decades is "wrong" should be the person who is, you know, posting links to their crazy theories or whatever? I can't post them for you.
All meals - but our "hours of operation" are between 2pm-11pm PT every day.
Here are my few observations:
Break down by STEM:
CS,EE,Chem Engg, Mechanical Engg PhD's are much more in demand than Marine Biology PhD's.
Thus when Eric Schmidt talks about lack of students it about these fields.

I can assure you that if you are from a top 30-40 university and have PhD in CS,EE,Chem Eng. or other hard core engineering you are near guaranteed a good job (unless you have messed up royally)

However if you are not from top 30-40 University or did your degree in Chemisty, Marine biology, Physics and or some esoteric branch of Maths you are less likely to get an industrial job. Also i sadly see a lot students working in 40+ ranked universities for a PhD E.g. Syracuse U. and future is really bleak for them.

Thus the issue here is grouping of all STEM PhD's together.
However if you are from top 40 Schools in resp engg fields then you dont have to worry as much. If you are not and study marine bio (It sounds cool subject) sadly your job prospects are restricted to Academia!
Why not just use Wordpress with a few add-ons and a theme that looks like a news site?
You didn't get the whole story. Read the last comment:

Another topic people have commented a lot about is the pornography. Helen writes that we didn’t want to control his Internet pornography, but this decision came after years of trying to do just that. We fought to stop it all day, often every day, for years. But there is WiFi in every neighborhood and at every university. Finally we came to the conclusion that this was a battle we could not win and that the energy we were spending on it could be better used in other places. The original draft of this story had some explanation in it, and some description of how this battle unfolded, but it was taken out because Alex found it embarrassing. And this is his story, not a defense of our actions.
2. The Bridge on the River Kwai syndrome.

How is this counteracted by asking whether they would build the product the same way were they to start over? It seems it would do the opposite: Bring all the warts to their attention and make them rewrite the code even though it works perfectly well.
If you have read the comments, than you would have realize that her son was looking over at the whole things and deciding what to include and not to include.
Terrifying. But it doesn't sound that far removed from any other mal-adjusted kid who was obsessed with computers and porn.

I'd forgotten how miserable puberty was. Ahhhh kill me now.
He's referring to Loopt (and others I suppose) when he says "The other companies built elaborate infrastructures: e.g they partnered with wireless carriers so that users’ locations could be tracked in the background without having to “check-in”."

This is the kind of mistake that burns so badly. You find yourself saying something like "You mean you just ask them to update their location manually and that works?"

It reminds me of when Ballmer was bragging about how sharing songs via WiFi on the Zune could get you a date. Then Steve Jobs recommended simply giving one earbud to the girl.

The differencing between trying to untie the The Gordian Knot and taking a sword to it.
I apologize for the self-reply, but am I wrong here? I use mostly OpenBSD and linux only lives on servers that I don't physically see booting. I remember when I first starting using Linux, there would be one penguin for each processor core. Booting it up for the first time on a dual xeon machine and seeing 8 of them, was kindof funny in a nerdy way.

Would this be different? If there are 512 cores...would it show a penguin for each core?

Sorry, like I said, I haven't actually watched the boot process on a linux machine for quite some time, and now I'm a bit curious...

Sorry if this question is juvenile or stupid or something.
I didn't follow the program exactly, but it was influential in my training (and quick improvement) during my teen years.

It's a shame you stopped playing. I'm sure it would've been interesting to see how the program would have to adapt as you aimed for 2200 and beyond.
Glad to hear, stay tuned
The core idea of capturing a child's imagination with a learning toy by framing it as an object from the universe of a beloved TV show is a great idea.

I can see some flaws in this particular implementation. The Doctor Who tie-in is very unevenly applied - the toy shares no visual design elements with the TV show, and I think the example project of "intergalactic weather service" would have strained my suspension of disbelief even as a child (while "Send and receive emojis" represents complete abdication of the attempt).

However, they do seem to have gone to a lot of trouble on the art side, with illustrated "story mode" lessons narrated by Jodie Whittaker herself. One can only hope the plotting is of a higher quality than recent seasons of the actual show...
Was restarting to handle the flood of traffic - retry.

A better 'sorry' page for these times is on my todo list. In fact I'd love some way for nginx to realize a proxy is down and redirect to a sorry page automatically.
OK, then add another 250 a day for double the equipment. Now he only needs average occupation of 25% and he's still at break-even, without discounting for the other costs savings that will show up once you start going into that much detail (like only having to have one guy swapping DVD's at night). Like another poster remarked, for $1000 labor a day, with the numbers above, you can get 5 times the amount of dvd players (eliminating labor completely if you have one player for each CD you offer, and I guess you need a help desk...) and still come out to the same numbers.

Maybe I'm way off the mark on some of these numbers, I don't know; I'm not familiar with this industry. The 'generic' parts of it are realistic though, I think.
Don't forget your exceptional humility ;)
Of course not. If I smoke, for example, I have a higher chance of getting cancer than if don't smoke; if I eat pizza all the day long instead of salad and don't exercise, I have a higher chance of becoming obese.

However I may also never touch a cigarette in my life and still get cancer. I may exercise and eat reasonably well and still be overweight. Some people can smoke 20 a day all their lives and live to a healthy old age; some can eat like pigs and have a size 10 figure.

My gut feeling (pardon the pun) is that obesity is mostly caused by the junk that goes into modern food, combined with a more sedentary lifestyle; but that's not to say there aren't a whole lot of other factors - genetics, environment, viral etc - that play a role.
Today, a couple of application developers can turn around a decent piece
of software for a BlackBerry or an iPhone in a weekend.

<rant>

Yeah, right. I think blanket statements like these are part of the reason many non-technical people think programming is an easy (& cheap) job, and their eyes spread wide when we tell them what it would take to implement their "awesome" idea.

"Oh, I thought we could do this in a week .."

</rant>

Related - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/209170/how-much-does-it-c...
I didn't, because I vaguely remembered reading that discussing CPC could get your account terminated. Now that I look at it, it seems like that applies to AdSense, not AdWords.

I did this a while ago so I don't remember the exact number, but it was on the order of 300 clicks.
Too bad. PPAs are still too esoteric for normal use and waiting 6 months for the latest versions which often include important usability and bug fixes is way too long a time. I know some people think apt-get is the holy grail of Linux software, and I agree it does have its pluses, but personally I think it's just a hack for the shockingly bad state of Linux software installation, which is also, I think, part of the rationale for 6-month releases.
Maybe it gets more votes that way?

Maybe it makes them feel good to have everyone know they have succeeded despite being rejected by YC?
I'm thankful for having the opportunity to chase my dreams, instead of being forced to steal or worse for mere survival.
In order for a side project to survive I highly recommend finding a business model, even if the income is just tiny. It could be as simple as being your platform to promote yourself as a freelance programmer, but still, money makes your side project stay around.
> you're stuck paying your own benefits (health insurance is the big one)

Eh, do.

> expenses (such as computers, phone, electricity, etc..)

A new computer every couple of years is negligible.

> taxes

Not sure why this would be any different. Were you not paying taxes when you were employed?
For Android, specifically, that might be okay. I was speaking more generally. I am not sure if the compiler team has a specific "real hardware for tier 1" policy or not; we do use virtualization for some platforms, I believe. Probably a useful thing to clarify either way.

There's also second order effects; the CI has to succeed on all tests on all platforms, which means that if your PR breaks on a platform you don't have expertise with, you need help, and we need to be prepared to give that help to you in a timely manner. Again, probably easier on Android, but a general barrier.
That's an interesting article, and I agree that the 'gifted' label is somewhat pernicious. I came to resent, and reject it, when my impairments became a serious obstacle to me in the later years of schooling.

Not sure if you caught this when it front-paged, but here's another theory about why 'gifted' people may fail:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22901962
Interesting question.

Honestly, I've never had trouble finding problems to solve (in life overall). Maybe one day I'll have a problem deficit and will need to go looking.

I try and focus on my most high impact problems and attack them. I attack problems in the normal engineer way (break it down, solve, solve, solve, break down further, solve, move up the problem tree).
NCQ has a tiny limit of a maximum of 32 commands. The absolute best case would probably be if you could submit a request for all the blocks in all the files in the directory at once to the hard disk, and let it figure out the optimal order in which to answer. But we don't have such a thing.
According to the wikipedia article you cite, the bill was neither voted on nor passed.

> Both bills were never put to a vote, although a significantly altered version of the House bill became law as the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.
This is what we have to fix, or the American economy will be doomed in 20-40 years, when even the carcass of our "service economy" has been gutted by more nimble players.
Sure latency ends up being 40 ms but that's a function of needing to wait to send the encoded data + network headers at 6 Kbps not a function of the encoder being slow holding everything up.
The author actually addresses this in a reddit topic.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/mk2nz8/ordering_reque...

"NCQ does it's best to order all of the outstanding commands at a moment in time (so maybe 32). This is instead submitting the commands in the optimal order to start with."

The thread contains more details.
While fascinating, that’s not the same as a codec failing silently by literally changing one word into another, equally clear word instead of getting fuzzy or unintelligible.
If you want to understand what a standup is and how to do a good one you need to read the original paper that documented the daily standup Borland Software Craftsmanship: A New Look at Process, Quality and Productivity (https://1pn8a8ult4o2bls5f2jxuel1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...).

The standup is a planning meeting, not a status meeting. If you feel your standup meeting is a status meeting, you are doing it wrong.

The reason the standup became popular was because the Borland Quatro Pro team was EXTREMELY productive and it seemed standup helped the team be productive.

Here is the relavant quote.

The core architecture team met daily to hammer out C++ class interfaces, to discuss overall algorithms and approaches, and to develop the basic underlying mechanisms on which the system would be built. These daily meetings were several hours in duration; from what I heard,the project was made more of meetings than anything else.

That's right, they had a 'standup' that could last hours. Yet they were extremely productive.

I hope this sheds some light on what the daily standup should really be. Maybe people should sit down.
>it is harder to paint abstracts like Picasso

I agree with this. It's harder because you have to have all the technique before you start picking and choosing what to leave out. An abstract painting becomes at least in part a story of what the painter decided to try, some unique combination of choices, at several levels of zoom. This is dangerous stuff because its easy to alienate a viewer this way. But done well you find a (substantially) new path to beauty and wonder.
At a guess they are ordinary people thinking they are doing something good and working hard for the cause, be it a love for their country or genuine sense of protecting their own or some concept ('freedom'). On average they'll be very intelligent and working harder than their counterparts in industry for less money.

True believers with good intentions.
This is old news already. And this is the second shoddy C|NET article on the front page today (the other one being the quantum mechanics article). Seems kind of fishy to me!
I don't like it when computers are used to program people. Your password must have exactly 10 characters etc. is a salient example. Compare that to a better UI like git--really, tell me users don't interact with it--and you'll notice that git lets you make terrible mistakes if you want to, but provides a way to recover. It's interesting that this better approach to passwords[0] resembles the "I forgot my password" feature.

[0] http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~tpc/cwi/Teaching/MASPPapers/EmailA...
That hedge fund manager that took the bet surely mustn’t know what he is talking about!
If your current approach to get them to get their code better doesn't work, why don't you a step back and see what's wrong with it?

Sometimes, the more direct and assertive you are to people that tend to get defensive, will make them more defensive.

Maybe break down their barrier by making them trust you first?

Make them see what they do wrong indirectly first instead of pointing it to them?

Maybe try to understand their thought process first and see if you can learn from them? Maybe his intention is sound but he couldn't communicate it clearly to you out of nervousness? Or maybe you can get to the basis of their logic, the root cause, and tweak it from there!

Anyway, I am actually curious what do they mean by your PR comments crossing the line? In what way? Is there some mistake made due to cultural differences?

Maybe bring the discussion to a more public channel, a common ground, and get help from an expert from a neutral party. But this approach will need you to make sure you don't have the slightest bit of intention to bring them down ad hominem. At least, if you want to change the person, you would want the person to acknowledge first why they need to change.
It’s interesting to see that a number of these cities failed to respond with data whatsoever.

If you wanna take a look at some day today operations of an attorney whose focus is suing agencies that refuse to respond to FOIA requests follow Beth Bourdon on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/bethbourdon

Often the threat of a FOIA suit is enough. It’s funny to see some agencies say, “this would be way too burdensome” or “your cost will be several thousand dollars” until they realize they’ll have to explain that to a judge and then the data is suddenly trivial to provide in a few days.
Yes it does. The parachutes are unable to slow down the probes to a soft landing - they would have to be extremely large, which would make it even more heavy for landing. The large parachute on Perseverance slowed down the entry module to about 200 mph (321 km/h) which is not enough. Perseverance has a weight of 2,260 lbs (1,025 kilograms). The Mars Exploration Rover (Spirit) used parachute + retrorockets + inflatable airbags, but it weights only 408 lb (185 kilograms).
As the name RAD750 indicates, that processor is designed to be radiation hardened which matters for longer missions. I doubt the Snapdragon 801 will survive as long or have as few errors but it also doesn't matter since Ingenuity isn't aimed for long term usage.
"Designed at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory largely as an experiment in transistorized design and the construction of very large core memory systems, the TX-0 was essentially a transistorized version of the equally famous Whirlwind, also built at Lincoln Lab. While the Whirlwind filled an entire floor of a large building, TX-0 fit in a single reasonably sized room and yet was somewhat faster. Like the Whirlwind, the TX-0 was equipped with a vector display system, consisting of a 12" oscilloscope with a working area of 7 by 7 inches connected to the 18-bit output register of the computer, allowing it to display points and vectors with a resolution up to 512×512 screen locations.

The TX-0 was an 18-bit computer with a 16-bit address range. First two bits of machine word designate instruction and remaining 16 bits are used to specify memory location or operand for special "operate" instruction. First two bits could create four possible instructions, which included store, add, and conditional branch instructions as a basic set. The fourth instruction, 'operate', took additional operands and allowed access to a number of 'micro-orders' which could be used separately or together to provide many other useful instructions. An 'add' instruction took 10 microseconds."
Not that it would have changed the outcome, but it was also a notoriously bad decade for hedge funds. They usually say it's because of a lack of volatility. It'll be interesting to see if it stays that way, and if the Robinhood crowd will change things.
Damn that's quick! These guys are fast.
For that talent, it might even be that the work is too boring regardless of the hours or pay.
For some people, battery life is more important than features. Other just don't like android
Not sure if sarcastic, LG G3 already has 5.0.1 released.
Considering it's on github.io, you can make a pull request with recommended changes here:

https://github.com/stribika/stribika.github.io

:P
its only used as part of the authentication process. Terrible design I agree
I've been out of the states for 10 years and haven't bought a car since '98. You don't normally see these on an intercity bus, but it was deemed important enough to have on the bus to harbin in winter, like a Chinese bullet train bragging about its current speed.
Kudzu vine doesn't want to take over. It just does.
You can actually specify the application as well, IIRC. I will verify all of that later this evening when I'm in a place to do it.
Exactly. Even a couple of nights ago, I had a dream about going through airport security on my return trip (even though I returned over a week and a half ago, with no problem).
There is an infamous book called 'Hitman' published in the 1980's I believe, published by Paladin Press, that claims to be a manual on how to be, surprise surprise, a hitman. It recommends using a .22 for its ease of suppressability. It's a rather stupid for the rest, but what made it famous is that someone committed a murder in the way described in the book and after that the published was sued and the book got taken off the market. See http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/archive/oldnews5/... .

I don't know anything about hit squads using .22, but in the (rural) area I'm from, .22 rifles are known as poachers rifles because when used with subsonic ammo and a homemade suppressor, they are very quiet.

That said, I'm not sure that hit squads are very concerned with being quiet. That Iranian virus expert that got killed the other week was blown up, the Israelis that killed the Hamas leader a while ago didn't even wear disguises and were filmed full frontal. From the targeted killings that make the news, being 'subtle' doesn't seem to be a consideration.

Oh and drug dealers who kill people don't care about being silent, either. All high profile shootings of the last few years in my area were with heavy caliber weapons.
Family households, especially ones with kids who aren't old enough to have a cellphone but need to use a phone. If you have a five and seven year-old in your house, a $30/month landline might make more sense than two cellphones that would never leave the house anyway.