jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Thanks... I appreciate the advice. QandA is a big thing for us because (if you register) you can see a question at the top of your profile page that asks "What's awesome to do in NYC?". In the upcoming weeks, we'll pose questions ourselves/directly to users in that space like "What's your fave sushi place?". Eventually, other users can ask questions too.

Deal aggregation can get us some affiliate revenues to help pay for food and we've almost completed it. Integration with the social networks is just to help increase user sign ups and shouldn't be too difficult (at least for FB).
Thanks for the call!

I love the idea of sharing recorded calls to help more people.
Titles invariably fail to capture the entire content of the article they introduce; if they succeeded, there would be no need to write the article. Perhaps this particular title is problematic because it is apparently confusing outside its original context of presentation, as part of a corpus of Haskell guides on the haskell.org wiki, linked to (for example) by other articles dealing with prerequisites to this one, such as learning the language. However, in its original context it makes perfect sense and the meaning is clear.

If I had submitted the article here I would probably have changed the title in an attempt to impart some of that context. The purpose of the article, though, is consistent, and the execution is reasonably thorough. My confusion about your reaction stems not from the assumption that the title perfectly encapsulates the intentions of the article—it doesn't—but from the fact that you apparently made no attempt to understand the original context of presentation, instead going on about it putting the cart before the horse and generally making all sorts of (incorrect) presumptions about the goals of the authors and its place in the community documentation generally.

I agree it's not merely a set of guidelines; I said it had a normative aspect, not that that captured the entirety of its purpose or content. It's a guide: the concept could be summarised as "Here's the way we write Haskell programs, we think these processes and tools are broadly speaking a good idea, and if you follow them you won't go too far wrong."

In other words, it's "How to write a maintainable Haskell program", not "How to write your first Haskell program", or "How to write a Haskell program simple enough not to need a build system or a test suite or revision control or be made publicly available to anyone". Yes, one can write a Haskell program in a single file and then compile it with `ghc --make myprogram`, but that's not a good idea if one's program is thousands of lines of code, depends on multiple libraries, exposes an API, and so on. It's not "neither here nor there"; it's definitely there, which is not where you expected it to be based on the title, but what do you expect from a totally decontextualised link on a news site?
Love it. I'm a mom and I already know I'd use this.

Currently we use a combination of Facebook and email to get stories and pics out to people. So it would be nice if we could continue using them that way (ie. family members subscribe via email, and when we post something it automatically emails them the new text/pics AND it also posts on our facebook accounts)

My husband's response when I showed him the link: "thats brilliant / why didnt i think of that / damnit / its awesome" (over IM)
My family traces it to the '80s? when Sony moved a lot of their assembly to Mexico and the $$$ Trinitron TVs they then purchased were plagued with cold solder joints (which they could take care of but of course most consumers couldn't, at least not directly). For quite some time before they went all in evil as you note their quality went fitfully but steadily downhill.

Compare to e.g. my mid-late '70s Sony turntable, which due to it being direct drive is still fine (the auto positioning and end of record removal mechanism failed long ago but that's hardly essential). Built on a solid cast aluminum base ... they just don't make 'em like that any more.
Not to mention the set-top-boxes also show all the premium channels, and not just channels you pay for. They're shooting for the up-sell (or their backend is just that antiquated), but it's clear there exists a conflict of interest that won't result in better boxes from your cable-tv provider.
Downvoted by mistake. Sorry.
What's the best way to gain traction for new startup?
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How much of that is due to automation? Profit margins are also important, especially in a global economy.
It's also been less than 30 years.

10x over 30 years is just my baseline figure of what a reasonable investment looks like. Anything that gets bigger faster is probably risky as all get out, if not an outright scam or bubble.
Contrast can stay, for me "dark mode" or 'night theme' is about reducing the overall luminous intensity.

My own belief is that when a sea of white is removed the need for 'crisp black' to stand out against it is also reduced; this might relate to a different perceived contrast due to the lowered noise floor (far less photons being rejected, so it's easier to pick out the desired ones).
Dark mode is great when you're using a screen casually close to bedtime and don't want a painful bright light.

It's also great when you're doing image or video editing and need to be able to see full contrast in the dark areas, without being overwhemlmed by bright light surrounding.

But it's objectively far worse if you're reading significant amounts of text, for the simple optical reason that light bleeds inside of lenses, including in your eyes -- that white "pollutes" black but not vice-versa.

Thus with black-on-white text, letterforms stay separate, clear, and legible. Any light spreading simply makes the letterforms appear, say, at 10% brightness instead of 0% brightness. Zero problems with legibility, still plenty of contrast.

But with white-on-black, letterforms glow with blurry edges and connect into each other. Not on the screen, but on your retina. The same way streetlamps at night appear to have a halo. Words take more effort to read. Now granted, if you're 15 years old with perfect vision, it may not be particularly noticeable or objectionable. But the older you get or worse eyesight you have, the more it becomes a big problem.

So dark mode is nice to have, but for most apps going dark-only is objectively bad for accessibility, and legibility generally.
It has been extensively used to describe the current situation - expansion of government's role in business and diminishing of private enterprises.
Oh in that case, just drop a note on some of the surf forums and tell them they are not allowed to surf there.
> Is it normal for remote shells to have telemetry?

Well, tools that you wouldn't expect to phone home like text editors and compilers now do. See VSCode, the .NET Core compiler and even the Windows 10 calculator [0].

[0]: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/issues/148
You'd better post the code
By virtue of it happening, that's how I diagnosed it. Each time, OS came to a complete, absolute freeze, unrecoverable. Could not get the Force Quit menu to come up. Had to hard reset my MB Pro. Has happened several times.

Flash was not running on any of those hanging tabs, but honestly, does it matter? In what world is it acceptable for a process to freeze the entire OS?
> I'd have posted it myself directly, but xach.com is blacklisted from HN.

Looks like this might be the cause:

<html>
<head>
<title>Hacker News User Affinity Graph</title>
<head>

<body style='font-size: 89%; font-family: sans serif'>
<div style='width: 450px;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto'>

<h1>Hacker News User Affinity Graph</h1>

<p>What users on <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/">Hacker
News</a> have voting behaviors most similar to yours?

<p>[dead]

<p>You can fake votes on Hacker News if you know your visitor's Hacker
News username. An easy way to get it is to trick them into thinking
they'll get a pretty graphic for providing it. I don't know if this
issue will be fixed, but it's not a good idea to give out your Hacker
News username to random websites until it is.

That probably set off some auto-blacklist based on the frequency of the upvotes you received.

Maybe ask dang to unblock you?
> Medical drug patents are arguably the best use case for patents and there doing exactly what they are intended. Remember the advantage of patents is what happens when they expire and we have a huge number 'generic' drug options cheaply available.

What happens all too often when drug patents expire is that no one manufactures the drug at all, because the people with the capacity to do so get better returns manufacturing things that are still under patent (even if that's a newer but less effective treatment for the same condition, or even if it leaves no effective treatment for a condition available.)
Do you have any evidence to support this theory other than the fact that there's motive?
I'm no MechE or machinist, but I do bang out parts on a mill / lathe on a regular basis, and I've noticed a huge disconnect between the shop attitude towards Steel / Aluminum / Titanium and the public attitude.

==== In the Shop ====

Aluminum is the "newbie" metal: cheap, light, soft, weak, easy (to machine, to protect from corrosion).

Steel is the "adult" metal: strong and resilient, but heavy and requires more care to machine, heat treat, and protect from corrosion.

Titanium is the "pro" metal: as strong as steel and as light as aluminum. Expensive and difficult to machine, though.

DISCLAIMER: These are all gigantic simplifications. Alloy, heat treatment, mass/volume denominators, coatings, geometry, and economic considerations can absolutely upset this ordering.

==== In Public ====

Aluminum is the space age advanced metal.

Steel is obsolete.

Titanium is Aluminum.
I was very lucky that my first job out of school was at a Perl shop with older, senior engineers. It felt like I hit the jackpot in mentorship. I learned more with my two years with them than the next 5 where I cycled through all the trendy frameworks and devops tools. I’m hoping to find another small, experienced shop like that and where I can give my next 10 years; willing to relocate and take a pay cut.
If it means anything, my experiences are similar with perhaps even more mystery at the end re lack of reasons for rejection. It’s as if so many are happy to pass on a more than competent candidate on the off chance that the next one will be even closer to their Platonic ideal of perfection.
The router from my cable ISP has admin:admin. So do all of the neighbors that I can sniff.
Good. Want more people to understand how compression works.

Things like motion estimation, encoding the differences in frames, all that stuff is magic to the uninitiated. :) But this stuff is absolutely worth learning and every engineer should show interest :)
Barely a 16-bit computer? The IBM PC's CPU could address a mebibyte of RAM — that's 20 bits! In a single process! You could actually put 640 KiB of RAM in it, I'm pretty sure. A computer that was barely 16 bits would at most have a 16-bit address space, maybe less, though I don't know of any that took that option.
The problem is the performance of the new MacBook has taken such a hit. The Airs had started converging on the territory of conventional high performance laptops, but now they're back to ultra low power low performance Intel skus to make the form factor possible again.
I think it's safe to say the vast majority of HN readers (and myself) agree with you, but historically, the SC tries to make the narrowest decision possible.

When the SC makes overly broad decisions, they have been ignored by the executive and legislative branches. The most famous such case is Dred Scott v Sanford, where the executive and the legislature refused to enforce the broad judgement that slavery be protected, and popular sovereignty be disregarded, in the territories. [1]

Note that the court is also taking this gradual, narrow approach with regard to gay and lesbian rights, starting with the Defense of Marriage Act and continuing with the challenges of the constitutionality of marriage restrictions in the states.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford
Where do you live?

I found living in the northeast, USA -- so many were so focused on things they were told to do: Get education, work hard to start your career... that friendship building was not part of the equation.

Very different after I moved to Myrtle Beach, SC last year.
'Southern Hospitality' also helps: Its infectious.
And the fact there are so many transplants from the North that everyone is looking to make new friends.
Can't you use GitHub pages for multiple sites? Or create multiple GitHub accounts?
More than annoying, the site becomes useless.
They will just keep trying and trying and trying until finally they get what they want. Different language, different bills, different Congresses...it doesn't seem to matter.
Weeeelll ... we don't know what the seller paid for the tickets. And yeah, the claim that none of the losing bidders was at all interested makes this whole thing, while an entertaining story, a little dubious in terms of believability.
Interesting, however in Sweden I recently had to wait six(!) days for a transfer occuring during christmas + normal weekend. It would have been faster do post a letter with the money :P
If you want to download the PDF document (for free!), it is available here: http://www.shadesofgraylaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Vi...
Thank you!
Of course I don't mind and will be glad to get any help :)
For the confused, the above comment appears to be a reply to this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1412551
There are still quite a few companies in the valley doing actual silicon design. They aren't as flashy.
>Good governance and democracy makes a country and its currency strong. Not vice versa.

The issue with this argument is that good government is a very hard problem that in many cases has no clear immediate solutions. While things like crypto many not be a solution they are a vood stopgap solution for the problems created by bad governments - at least until we can get thw good governance problem solved
Finally a set of password requirements that's fun to try and beat. I hope the clients I work for agree!
In a way this reminds me of Kubernetes Virtual Clusters. Each virtual cluster has its own tenant control plane, namespaces. Multiple virtual clusters exist in a super cluster.

https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/multi-tenancy/tree/master...
.. as I recall the very first Adobe Type 1 fonts had software keys and DRM too. Installing Adobe Type 1 fonts on the disk of a Linotype machine involved license keys. So the various breaking of Type 1 had to do with the per-copy licensing, also.
Svante Paabo, who led the group that sequenced the Neanderthal genome and discovered we interbred with them, had to decide whether to give a species- or local name to the Denisovans. The argument that carried the day was that “species” is such an ill-defined biological concept that it’s a sterile intellectual exercise arguing over it; and if they’d gone with, say, Homo altaiensis rather than Denisovans, it would’ve been extremely hard to take it back (“Neanderthal Man,” 2014, Ch. 23).

Considering Paabo secured funding from the German government for a brand-new research institute in ancient human DNA and related subjects, including the right to decide what city to build the institute in and hiring authority over the initial staff, and given that he had an advance agreement with Science to publish the Neanderthal genome, I think some of these discoverers aren’t that exercised by whether they make it onto the cover of National Geographic.
OK, consider revoking, since we're talking about them, Let's Encrypt's R3 issuer. In a sense only they (ISRG, the organisation behind Let's Encrypt) can do that, since the revocation would need to come in the form of an updated CRL (Certificate Revocation List) from ISRG's root. So you'll be making a late night phone call to key people from ISRG to demand (persuade?) an immediate revocation.

How often do you suppose most systems examine that CRL?

If you guessed anything other than "never" you're wrong. Almost nothing you use will ever notice.

But that's not enough anyway - R3 is also trusted via a cross signature from Identrust's DST Root CA X3. So their organisation also needs to be woken and persuaded to perform an unprecedented middle-of-the-night revocation of some certificate they've seen no evidence is a problem.

Now, you've disturbed all these nice people, with your very urgent problem of... you want to stop something you can't discuss happening that involves some confidential things and a bunch of other confidential things and they must never speak of it to anybody - in the morning they're going to be doorstopped by a thousand tech journalists wondering why they broke everything - or they could just hang up. But we'll suppose you did that, as I said it doesn't have any effect. Oops. Rabbit will notice, no doubt, but it isn't disabled.

OK, so what can you do that will actually have some impact? Well, you can get Microsoft, Google and Mozilla to use their out-of-band "kill switch" functionality. Each works differently. Microsoft's has the advantage that it's entirely a closed door process, if you can get the ear of the right person you can make any change you want. Unfortunately the latency is one calendar month. Rabbit is causing you a problem today? By April we can fix that. Oh, you need something sooner? Too bad.

Google are more promising, they can tell most Chrome installs to distrust R3 without any independent confirmation and the updates will typically take only a day or so to have effect. Rabbit will be out of your hair before tomorrow's evening news can run the story about your resignation or arrest. They will probably tell everybody why though...

Mozilla likewise can react quickly, perhaps in just a single day. However unfortunately Mozilla deliberately makes these decisions in public. You're going to need to tell a bunch of random people who don't even work for Mozilla about your urgent need to shut down this issuing CA. They're going to have questions. You probably don't even want to read the questions, never mind answer them. Oh dear.
First, if you review the financials of the storage companies compared to earnings of all cloud companies they're abysmal.

Yes, razor thin margins - comparatively. The cost of buying physical storage is commoditized. I've worked in technology from the pre-sale engineering side for a number of years. Margins on hardware are fractional compared to software and subscription offerings.

Stack, Outpost and Anthos are not revenue drivers today. They're vendor lock in tools.

3-5 years is a horrible argument in the position you're attempting to make considering it's an eternity in technology. Consider that you sell the storage once in that 3-5 years. Your cloud provider bills you monthly and you don't own it. It's recurring revenue vs a singular sales event.

NTAP over 5 years is a decent return. 215% over that timeframe. Amazon returns 543% in the same timeframe. And let's use a hot space that's 100% subscription based, like Crowdstrike: 265% in less than a year. Software and subscription margins crush the legacy perpetual hardware model.

Storage is an old, stable, and commoditized market. There's no huge growth (any storage earnings report show that very clearly). And while the demand for storage continues to increase, the NetApps of the world aren't capturing where that growth is.
You are only permitted to own real stuff to the extent that other people can be somehow dissuaded from taking it, and instead of working against you, can be convinced to work together and to trade instead of taking things by force. It’s all trust or the lack of it, just agreements to keep moving society forward instead of reverting to more competitive models of subsistence
At most companies that deploy enterprise phones, employees get a "choice" between Blackberry and iPhone now. Well, iPhone is not always available as a choice, but at my company it is now in the beta phase. Guess what people choose when they actually get a choice?
I was actually talking about the VS debugger. If you get even a little fancy with templates & metaprogramming, the whole thing is just terrible.
At least in western society. On for example a classic Mongolian diet, it is possible `by accident'. (That is, lots of diary products and meat. Mongolia doesn't have a lot of arable land.)
Are we ever going to get an Android device (preferably on US T-Mobile) with comparable power to the new iPhone, that has a gorram slide-out keyboard?
Agreed. I am so tired of this notion that software (and other things too) need to be free and supported by ads. What the hell is wrong with with just paying for something so that you don't have to get bombarded by psychological warfare designed to cause you to purchase shit you don't need? I am worried that this is direction the internet is going. Its starting to just be a huge system to drive consumerism. Really though everything is being designed around designed around better advertising. Even the holy grail of the internet, real time search, is really just about better ads.
I found this to be a brilliant idea! Pushing the "I'm a Mac", I'm different and cool thing to its logical conclusion. Tells a lot about how Apple has created a subculture. Think about coming up with a Windows only or, god forbid, Linux only dating site.
The best one is the Conan/Leno story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y04H5mFUFM
I've seen at least a few Elixir jobs where they explicitly specify that you don't need to have experience specifically with Elixir. Don't know how common it is though, and it's true that finding Elixir work can be difficult to begin with.
“Can I be spied/tracked after I’m vaccinated”

The answer to which is obviously yes. You don't become invisible after taking the vaccines, for example.
Musk takes away with the other hand: by backing Bitcoin and the large-scale waste of not-yet-zero-carbon electricity. https://www.ft.com/content/a9bd5b42-272e-465c-9284-9fe2a7906...
No, the intention of the program was to give Tesla (or any other company that qualified for the program) a competitive advantage against incumbents. It definitely succeeded in doing that. In fact, it was so successful Tesla paid back the loans early.

Ten years from now when people look back they will definitely say that the government played a critical role in Tesla's success. And that's a very good thing.
Sorry, winking doesn't help here.
> Was there any pre-investment indicator

There were several:

* The business argument for electric cars has been there for a long time. It's obvious to anyone who looks at it that there's an efficiency to using electricity instead of gasoline, as evidenced now by Tesla's incredibly low cost-per-mile. That of course doesn't explain Fisker....

* Many of us started believing in Tesla almost immediately after hearing the 3-part business plan: Build a ridiculously fast, desireable sports car (which they did, and brought it to market long before the DOE loan), then build a luxury car, then build a mass market car. I had a sense Tesla would do well with this plan, for the same reason I think Square will do well where others will fail: You need more than a viable destination, you also need a viable stepping stone at every point between zero and profitability. Tesla always had this plan. It was a good one. It's proving itself to be a good one.

* Did I mention they already had built, brought to market, and made real revenue off a car? You can't say that about Fisker.

* Musk had a track record as a successful CEO.
There are other advantages, too. Colombia spends 3.7 per cent and Guatemala 0.4 per cent of their GDP on their militaries. That money could be put to use elsewhere, in development, education, tourism, conservation.

I suppose the large, organized communist insurgency that's trying to overthrow the Colombian government, that issue would sort itself out?
Without shipping charges!
I've also used private ETS tables for this.