jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
* Because there are genuine legitimate questions about how this infrastructure can support a lot of fundamental web application work flows and processes? *

Sure there are.

But before they are answered why not give them the benefit of doubt?

Do you like what they attempt to do? Then why not suggest how they could improve it?
IIRC, sriramk from around here (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sriramk) had also 'rolled his own' web-crawler as a project in college about 5-6 (?) years back. He blogged about it fairly actively back then, and I really enjoyed following his journey (esp. when after months of dev and testing, he finally 'slipped it into the wild'). Tried to dredge up those posts, but he seems to have taken them down :( A shame really - they were quite a fascinating look at the early-stage evolution of a programmer!

Sriram, you around? ;)
I doubt this information will be helpful since for every character there are ~9 characters after encryption.
It gets much worse than this.

A lot of businesses are completely dependent on Google via organic search and AdWords for 90%+ percent of their revenues (without even realizing it).

What happens when you log into your AdWords account and you’re greeted by this cryptic message:

http://www.devside.net/images/adwords-account-suspended.png

Except that you've done nothing wrong, have never been warned, are not a spammer, and are completely legitimate.

What happens is that after contacting Google you soon realize that a monopoly with no customer support is the most dangerous one.
I apologized for causing the problem, fixed it, told them what I did to make sure it wouldn't happen again. and apologized to the worst affected clients personally (where the customer didn't ask me not to).
I didn't mean "religious" in the bad sense. We all have some topic that incites that part of our brain and makes us hold long speeches about our ideals. On a more positive level, it also gives us the determination to actually follow through with those ideals. His "itch" seems to be gathering data.

If one gathers data for no other reason than it's useful, you don't randomly start talking about the difference between man and animal or how all turns to wind. Those are more biblical sentences.
I honestly don't know how people use PC laptops without an external mouse. It's incredible that the trackpads are still so bad. Can you spend a ton of money on a PC laptop and get a decent one? I have assumed it has been an issue with just using cheap parts, and it being hard to get people to pay for premium parts on PC laptops.
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Were you being ironic?
>Psychopathic behavior just comes with power, it seems.

It's the opposite, psychopath are attracted by power.
Why not put a lever handle on there so you don't have to push so hard? Use mechanical advantage!

Y'know like a tortilla press: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortilla_press
Is the Docker image delivered with a current Qualys scan?
The day that is removed is the day I'm done with reddit. Just like Digg.
Not that it matters much, but I called them several times, and replied to the original email. But I think you're focusing too much on the specifics.

The problem is that your mail is crucially important to you, but rather less important to Google. In such a scenario, it makes sense to change your plan to something under your control, even if it's painful.
With Termux I run spacemacs on my phone and oculus go and quest, but this is neat as well. Now I could theoretically use emacs in Firefox Reality where I have all my other apps handy.
Swift's ARC implementation has a little bit of performance catchup to do in regards to tracing GCs.

https://github.com/emmericp/ixy
Not being 100% interoperable with python make Julia doomed.

Library ecosystems have a human workforce value of billions of dollars, available for free.
Any modern language that want to go mainstream must offer transparent and complete interoperability with an existing ecosystem.
TypeScript -> js
Kotlin -> jvm
C++ -> C
Elixir -> Erlang
Hack -> php
Crystal -> ruby

As we can see there are still Big ecosystems lacking a new modern language™
The python ecosystem
The C# (CLR) ecosystem

It could be said that's mainly because those languages are already mostly "modern"

There are also dying big ecosystem and there would be economic value to make their old libraries accessible.
Fortran
Pascal
Perl
Etc
Capital intensity has to do with net operating assets (PP&E, working capital). It’s capital intensive if you have to build a $1B plant in order to make a 1% margin.
This looks fantastic and gets me excited about where the field is going, despite the performance issues.
People have been punished here for answering a very similar question to yours (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19945640). Even mentioning Alex Jones is very risky. And depending on the answer to your question might actually get you sued, at least in europe.

It's become impossible to say things you're legally allowed to anywhere but very fringe places on the web. [inb4 "private company etc etc": Sites can police speech as they want. Still it's a shame.]
un-targeted

(Groupon employee speaking)

Not true. Before you even see the first deal, there's a popover asking you to personalize your deals. You can put gender, birthday, interests, education, relationship status, etc. G knows the zip code of every person that buys a Groupon, open rates on emails sent, deals viewed, purchase history, etc.
Pretty sure you're right. So following on what you said, if someone views the index page of a posterous blog that would count as a view of all 10 posts listed.

Quite a strange methodology. I wouldn't call it dishonest, but its certainly unorthodox.
I agree with what you're saying, but I'm not entirely sure this is a totally conscious reflex. I'd be interested in seeing a study where comments are rated with one set showing a low or negative score, the same comment with a high score, and then again with a neutral score. Given to three different groups of course.
>I think if you've done something unique like come up with a cure for cancer you deserve a patent

even in this case i'd say it depends on whether it was done on your own dime or public money
Please do explain how taking 400mg of caffeine per day constitutes an addiction.
I also take a daily multivitamin that contains ginseng, and a 'super' vitamin B pill. The latter makes the biggest difference in energy levels. I guess I'm 'addicted' to vitamin B, as well.

I would say the difference between addiction and supplementation is not in what you take, but rather what happens if you do not take it.

I'm supplementing with Vitamin D but I often forget to take it, sometimes for days.

Now would you be able to forget your caffeine? If yes, I'd say there's no addiction. If you'd start feeling cravings in a few hours, that's a different story ...
The one I have here on HN is named as it is because I kept forgetting my username here.
It's just not as self-selecting as it used to be. What worked for the community in the past doesn't necessarily work now or going forward. At least a bit of regression to the mean in the community is inevitable if it grows (which it has, by a lot).
I heard the burger lady on npr this morning.

I can't get that article to load, so I'm hoping they address how she knows that 90% of her business comes from facebook, and how hyper targeted ads are more effective than just geo-located tags.

It seems like ads for her business would be good for users within 'x' number of miles/blocks/whatever of her business, and not necessarily based on their interests, correct?
(I think you meant antagonist?)
They may not "sell" access to user data, but they certainly allow access to it:

"In total, it said the social network had special arrangements with more than 150 companies to share its members' personal data. Most of these, it said, were other tech firms, but the list also included online retailers, car-makers and media organisations, including the NYT itself, among others."

source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46618582
We achieved a near ubiquitous consensus with the x86 PC. Then APPLE said, Behold, the programmers are one, and they can build portable binaries with one machine language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their machine code, that they may not run each other apps across platforms. So APPLE scattered them abroad with M1 processors from thence upon the face of all the Internet: and they left off to rebuild their open source.
"You're Apple's customer and Facebook's product" is often repeated but completely true in this case. It's all about incentives.

Apple makes money by selling more products which means they innovate by making Watches, Earpods, M1, etc. Facebook makes money by selling your attention and data, which meants they innovate by extracting data from every experience they can (Oculus, Whatsapp, ...), using more complex technologies (Facebook AI), and encouraging whatever behaviors create more ad spend (hint: outrage).

Add in the fact that Apple has made privacy a core part of their brand promise and it means that Apple has strong incentives to protect their customers in a way that most companies, especially Facebook, do not.
Amazing concept. I will definitely look into opening an account, and wish you great success.
Isn't the purpose of cued speech not to replace ASL/other sign languages, but to add some support for a person who does not know ASL to speak clearly to a deaf person?

If you're a teacher or a police officer or someone who needs to talk to all people, including deaf people, wouldn't learning the eight cues be a useful tool, even if you're not going to fully-learn ASL?
I don't think that is the reason.

The main reason is that there isn't enough competition. Video Game Companies are pretty much in a monopoly. No one is making a game like GTA. No one else is making a football game (You need the license), No one else is making doom. No one else is making Counter Strike.

Games became brands. The only thing that drives you out of business is your own greed of recycling your franchises/ideas.

Oh and also many of those companies do not need that many of the "expensive" devs because many of those video game companies are using middlewares like unity or unreal engine.

With more competitions better video game companies would hire better engineer at better salaries. that will lift everyone else.
> If there were 100 qualified surgeons for every patient needing an operation, and would stampede each other for a chance to work and get paid, we'd pay them $25/hour too.

The number of surgeons is artificially low because of limits on the number of residency spots in this country. So I agree that prices can probably come down, somewhat. However, attorneys are not limited in the same way but can still cost a fortune, because people are willing to pay a lot for perceived value when there's a high stakes outcome. Some things just aren't worth farming out to the lowest bidder.
What if we put the regulations and enhanced standards on to the people who we are most worried will abuse our trust? We'll never be able to stop a malicious actor from Deepfaking our leaders and spreading disinformation, but at the very least we should have something in place to make sure our leaders aren't the malicious actors using Deepfakes and react accordingly with punishments when they are.
I'm in the same boat with my blog. I'm not paying $7 for a single dyno when it's footprint is no-where near 512 mb. They should offer a smaller dynos at say 128 mb for $1.75, that I might be interested in.

I'll be interested to see what they do to my existing apps.
Both repos are still up and accessible from my end (India).
You honestly believe that people think "Don't tax the top because that's me (or will be)"?

I suggest people believe their jobs and technological innovations we all enjoy are on the line if the rich are taxed more. If that is true or not is a separate conversation, but I don't think it's 39% of Americans think they will reach the 1%. That's absurd and the kind of thing you hear in mass media sound bites.
The article mentions those old timey company towns cutting pay but keeping rent and food prices the same. What's to stop a company like Facebook from doing the same? Sure, they have no reason to do that now while the cash is rolling in and everything is gravy. But what about when the market turns and profits start to shrink?

I think it's very dangerous for the same for-profit company to control both people's pay and their rent and other living expenses.
Why is that a problem? Maybe Jacob should be doing enterprise development, or maybe he should be a chef. We aren't saying Jessica is a 10x human, just that she is 10x at the assignments that she has been given, or made on her own. When I assign projects I think about a person's ability. Not just what they know, but what I want them to know in the future, how quickly they might get things done, how much technical debt they will either create or retire, and so on. It's inexact, but roughly, yes, 10x people exist.
Fakes don't work for luxury items. Wealthy people still prefer mined diamonds to their synthetic counterparts. The whole point of buying a real one is to demonstrate your wealth.
Guess i'll be moving my stuff off heroku then (no free custom domains!)
Nobody denied it. Laurent went looking for evidence (to reinforce it, as a matter of fact) and found there isn't any strong evidence to back up the number 10, he found out that it's mostly a narrative that has been repeated over the decades. He reiterates that he sees a wide variety of programmer performance, and that lots of people are confusing what he's saying, that there isn't evidence, for saying that all programmers are roughly even in productivity.

How do you measure productivity on your team? How do you arrive at the factor of five?
I understand why they're doing this - companies have to make money - I get that.

I'm still annoyed with Heroku though. Cachet (https://cachethq.io) supports the "Deploy to Heroku" button. My experience is that their support is terrible. I've contacted them several times via; Twitter, email, GitHub and had no support from them in regards to this bloody button.

The reason I support Heroku in the first place is because of the free tier. It makes deploying your own instance of Cachet much easier. However, we've been having issues supporting it with Laravel 5's environment configuration anyway, so this is the last drop in the bucket before I pull native Heroku support.

Our demo (https://demo.cachethq.io) and our own status page (https://status.cachethq.io) are both hosted on Heroku with the "Auto Deploy" function, but only because it's "easy" to do.
Location: West Sussex, UK

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Can you be more precise to what you means? That sounds like targetting.
I've had a much shorter frame of time with Rust and I have to say I really enjoy the learning experience, and that is to say that learning the language is a pleasurable experience. Other languages with larger more established communities are often unable to replicate this same feeling of inclusion and value as a member of the ecosystem of contributors.
I did not know BNS was publicly known so apologies for playing stupid.

Of course BNS is at least designed for this specific use case. So this particular error, which imo is schema validation related, is not likely to occur.

I am sure some seasoned Google SREs have a good grasp on what would happen if BNS was spitting out junk, but my guess is it would at least cause outages of some kind if not crashloops.
Not sure that the statement about him getting little support in Britain is correct. The British Army was fully mechanized in 1939, even infantry regiments had plenty of Universal Carriers [1] to help move supplies around. The German Army was still using horses in 1945.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Carrier
Dang, impressive. Also, it honestly sounds kinda nerdy. Which means the people interviewing you might be kind of nerdy? In which case, include it. (I would go with the other's suggestion though, of presenting it Briefly and with an emphasis on the skills.)

I volunteered for a presidential campaign and put that on my resume-- I scrubbed the paragraph a lot to be very broad and not contain any hints about which presidential candidate I was helping, and tried to focus on the actual skills. (Lots of customer service and communication with a very tired and over-campaigned Iowan voter population.) I think it helped, I got some opportunities in interviews to talk about the experience. I would have a good "story" about your item ready, some kind of EVE-online HR dilemma that is easily translatable to the real world.
Signal only backs up messages on Android - and requires a thirty digit key to be provided to save/restore. Is this not the encryption key then?
I've been using this model keyboard for probably around 10 years now. I even have a couple spares sitting in a drawer since they don't make them anymore.

* they're very durable (talking normal usage + spilling drinks a few times a year — no stuck or broken keys)

* the key labels never fade

* there's 2 low-power USB ports (I think USB 2.0?) which aren't good for much, but good enough to plug a mouse into

* it's not the easiest thing to take apart but if you get crumbs under a key, it's pretty easy to pry it up and then click it back in
Do you still plan on tackling it?
It shouldn't be novel. I dive into this topic when I interview data engineers.
It's amazing. Could you add a layer to see the "normal" satellite view overlaid?
sometimes the process of making a decision is just as important as whatever decision ultimately gets made. sometimes a tough decision has to get made and the tradeoff is that your ingroup takes a hit. the impact is the same either way, but it doesn't feel as bad if someone from your group was at least involved in the process. people already segment themselves into many different in/out-groups. institutions sometimes take this to a ridiculous level, but we have to account for this somehow.
Yeah. That could be resolved if the ML teams only had access to the aggregated, anonymized data or the output of the models. And if a privileged access token (for example, the one the model training flow ostensibly uses) is logged as querying specific subsets of the raw data or ferrying it out of band, that should throw an immediate alarm with an audit trail.
Yandex is not russian. It is developed by a company in switzerland and primarily targets the russian market.
I think keyboards could be more powerful. I remember apple had a keyboard with usb ports[1] and sun had keyboards with speakers[2]. I don't why keyboards can't have some inexpensive useful features.

[1] https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/imac-aluminum-faq/im...

[2] https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_sunsparcSPationVer11999...
Police and corporations have a special relationship. The corporations sell things and concentrate wealth, the police prevent other people from breaking the rules and redistributing it. This is one reason why the right talks up respecting the police and the sanctity of private property.

Suffice it to say, corporations are happy when the police find ways to let them exercise additional power that doesn't directly threaten their interests. What do they care if there's a fun song going on in the background if it lets police rough people up at their behest?
Ok I've seen you other comment one afterwards. See my response there.
Great article. I have personally have been working this way for years. The author mentions that this has been successful in the last decade, but I think the best example of this approach is much older with Edison and General Electric.
Very cool to see this. Just tried it out. It's a great visualization.
For RS232 connected to a PLC I would assume it to be comparatively easy. Maybe it is not, but it is probably easier than for modern usb or network attached devices, since you can easily spy on transmitted data.

I would also assume that the PLC just gets some commands from the master.

Granted, these might be too many assumptions.
> Does anyone know if pro/business accounts with Google GSuite have better privacy than free accounts?

Yes, the GSuite data is separated from non-GSuite and is goverened by a different ToS. This includes this data not being used for advertising, conforming to different deletion requirements and more. Check out the GSuite ToS for details, we looked into this awhile ago.
I was able to get most of my family and friends I regularly message onto Signal. It has worked great for us. But then -- my circles are small and few, so it wasn't too hard. I saw no advantage of WhatsApp after getting them to install Signal.
Sorry, my caffeine uptake seems to be a bit slower than usual today.
How fast do you walk when you are:

1) exploring
2) a new place
2a) which also happens to be dark
2b) with potential safety hazards
3) whilst your buddy is filming the potentially interesting things you point at
Nick Bostrom's "Superintelligence" is a sober perspective on this issue and a very worthwhile read.
You can submit text or url mate. I would love to have given you context. I'm not going to cram a companies history into the title, it wouldn't have got any upvotes :)

In simple terms it was a self hosted Heroku. It got massive attention here and raised a load of cash before kubernetes etc were a thing
If you don't care, that's okay. Other people are allowed to care and state their opinions.

You may want to notice that the author, Justine Tunney, was also chained to her "FANGs master" Google during the period described.
Amazing, I just finished writing a program to do the same thing, with a smaller subset of polyhedra, specifically for printing or CNC work. If I had found this a month ago I might have saved myself hours.
> I have an X220 from 2011

Sounds like you're in good company. The author recently upgraded from a 2015 Mac to a heavily modded X230[1].

[1] - https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/everything-but-the-kitchen...
There are lots of different MD flavours, though.

And even with Pandoc extensions you cannot really have an image inside <figure> with <figcaption> and alt text and title text.
I'm not sure if I'd feel the same today, but back in the early 2000s, that was such a great feature. I was pretty sad when our company decided to move from Nextel over to a traditional carrier without push-to-talk.
Yes, and I remember having fun in those after school as a kid.

Sounds terribly unsafe now that I think about it :S
Frameworks will give you a lot of learning to do up front, but it will pay off in the log run. PHP will be easier to get started with, but you will probably create a bit of a mess if its your first application. Maybe a microframework (like Flask) will make you do to enough things correctly, without being to much of a learning overhead.
What are your thoughts on Al Jazeera America? I've been liking them as my replacement lately, but there seems to be some hate floating around for their main(?) brand Al Jazeera
>>For many beginners, W3Schools has structured tutorials and playgrounds that offer a decent learning experience. However, it would be a mistake to continue your education without learning from more reputable sources, so when you're ready to level up, move on.

Oh thank god, I thought I had stumbled in some kind of developer flamewar there.