jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Scaling isn't necessarily that hard, especially depending on budget. Can you explain more?

Ideally nobody should be in a job that is completely comfortable.
Serious question?
perhaps with a very high gear ratio?

it turns out there is a whole market segment for motorized blinds-- but all quite pricey and mostly focused on industrial applications.

How much would people pay for a low-cost kit to work with existing blinds? Will add these to my consumer products idea list the next time I meet with my product-development/manufacturing friends...
Exceptional marketing and advertising strategy as usual. They talk in the advert like they invented video calls. Even my old phone has both front and back cameras. Now that the resolution and technology has caught up with wifi and whatnot, it definitely looks more usable now though, no lag at all and full quality video in the advert.

I wonder about the contract terms of this device, otherwise for $200 it is affordable, and I will be upgrading.
Yes, steam isn't used anymore, it's too inefficient. The trend is towards lower temperatures in the district heating.
Well, a nonlinear demand curve for luxury goods comes into play. Also, $200 steaks are typically prepared (at which point you're paying for restaurant ambiance and the chef's time). Raw steaks don't get up that high unless aged or pre-prepared in some way.

But more generally, steaks just scale well to the high end. They keep getting better and better as cut, livestock, and preparation improves. That's not necessarily true for other foods. E.g., most pastas (while obviously delicious) will only get so good barring a virtuoso chef.

I recommend a test. Find a friend who's really good at preparing steaks. Have them cook a good cut & a regular cut from your 1/4 beef, and you cook one of each too. You'll taste the difference from cut and preparation quality.
In some ways, but not in others. For instance, many people on the left consider mandatory vaccination something they strongly support. Sure, the science supports the benefits to society, and most people opposed are misinformed or crazy, but it's still advocating for the government to mandate your body be injected with a synthetic substance against your will.

The left is more than happy to mandate everyone participate in social programs to help disadvantaged members of society, the individual mandate of ObamaCare is authoritarian: It requires people who are unlikely to benefit to pay in to cover those who are unprofitable to provide health coverage to. I am definitely in support of universal healthcare, but it's also arguably an authoritarian choice to implement it.

Democrats absolutely will be authoritarian when it believes removing individual freedoms will benefit society as a whole, placing overall wellness and equality as priorities.

On the right, authoritarianism heavily shows with enforcing moral values. It isn't enough for someone on the right to oppose abortion, it needs to be taken away from everyone. (If you consider abortion to be murder, by the way, this position makes logical sense. You wouldn't say "I don't believe in killing people, but I won't take away your right to do it" because that's silly.) Bans on gay marriage or drug use have less to do with societal well-being and more with the religiously-set values of what is "right" and "good".
Thank you for this -- I hope that the point (that I think) you are making is not lost in the large thread.
Only in hindsight. In reality looping is much more easily grasped due to the one to one mapping with human language. Looping should be taught on day 1, not recursion.
Other feedback would be:

* passcode protection, like other security features, are not good "pro" upsells IMHO. That should be in the free version.

* Maybe too expensive for a basic calculator, especially priced as a subscription. I have little appetite for more subscriptions.
I love this about the internet in general. It could have been possible for the person that implemented the change to be born after the request was even made. All the while the discussion thread was maintained alive, while that person would be going to school and learn to code.

Similarly you can post a very specific question on a forum and it's possible the person that will answer it casually many years later as if they were just continuing the discussion wasn't even born when you posted the question.

These extremely asynchronous interactions between strangers are something unique. I wonder what's the current record for longest lived discussion thread like this, or the question-answer pair with the longest interval. A bit like the open-ended questions in academia that are answered decades later.
The only third party js I have is disqus.

Is this a good alternative?

I guess it doesn’t allow comments unless you mention it from your site?
Your main error is a simple assumption: that both parties are honorable.
The movie was based on a book of the same name written by Colonel James Burton, highly recommended. It is a history of how and why the kinds of scope creep occurred in the DoD procurement. Eerily prescient.
I think it's a mix of the two. I think the reason that they want the cbdc as opposed to mailing checks is that it creates a permant channel that is likely to require less congressional approval on a per use basis.
You are trying to define tasks as "general purpose". They aren't and never can be.

The point is that the basic modern computer design works well (enough) for almost all of those tasks. For the most part all that you need is the basic operations on 32 or 64 bit "integers": move, compare, add, subtract, and, or, xor, shift left, shift right.

With this you can do spreadsheets, word processing, database, accounting, desktop publishing, web browsing, email, instant messaging, decoding MP3 audio and JPEG photos and MPEG video. And show it all on a GUI on a high resolution bitmapped display.

You can increase the efficiency of some of those tasks with hardware and special purpose instructions for floating point arithmetic (though spreadsheets for example hardly benefit) and SIMD processing for media. See my other (top level) post.

But you don't need them, especially if you have many general purpose CPU cores.

Don't forget the original Macintosh did basically all of those tasks with just a simple integer-only CPU running at 8 MHz. No FPU, no GPU, no media instructions.

A modern multi-GHz CPU can do all those tasks acceptably using only simple integer instructions as long as you don't insist on very high resolution video (and games) at high frame rates.
Being too rational - over thinking, ruminating, are real things. I think more and more people would answer yes.

"Rational = good" is the opinion of just one philosophy - the Enlightenment. And it has been rightfully criticized by all the other philosophy schools that came after it.
I've been living in China for over 4 months now, using a simple VPN I setup on Digital Ocean has been the most stable (tunnel stays open for as long as the internet connection is available)

Tor is semi-blocked here, you won't be able to establish a connection to the network without a tunnel.
There was a talk by Matz about ruby 2 and how they were tweaking the runtime to improve garbage collection. I don't remember the details but a lot of work went into seeking the best collection behavior to match the language, optimizing for the most common cases, checking the patterns favored by the language and tweaking the behavior to ease these cases, etc.

The intersting thing is that there's jruby for the JVM, and it makes the different tradeoffs surface better. Looking at this benchmark for instance [0] it's easy to see how the tweaked runtime gives a very different performance profile from the generic VM.

I have a feeling the highish-level intermediate layer you are talking about would be equivalent to have only some specific tradeoffs despite the optimizations that could be done on a language per language basis.

[0]http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/jruby.php
Yeah it's a subset of what he is talking about.

scvngr.com is just the sort of platform that could enable a real life achievement app.

I don't think that real life achievements necessarily imply location. For instance, an achievement where you "Watched every episode of Friends" is interesting and something people may enjoy finding out about you... but it didn't happen in a single location. Or necessarily a single time.

But that is my take on it. I may be wrong. scvngr.com definitely do it right and it's more interesting to me than foursquare. scvngr.com is ideal for city councils, the smithsonian and universities to create great user experiences in certain locations but focuses too much on location. In my opinion there is room for an even broader application.
My first thought after reading the frontpage: this is my “liberation” from Facebook and all the things that FB is doing wrong. I click on “join today” and I see “continue with Facebook”. Why?
I just tested, it works exactly this way. You start editing and do it over time until you publish it. It is not obvious from UX though.
So routine that the phrase occurs 29 times in the English Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%22was+accused...

Using such language is against editorial policy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WEASEL
Oooooh! So it's like email, but worse? Worse because:

It doesn't scale to infinity like email does.

Someone else centralises the data and you have to trust them to keep it safe. Email doesn't have this problem because I can take my emails elsewhere and/or change my address, something I've done plenty of times.

You don't know what they're doing with the data and you don't now who can access it. The same applies with email, except I know who Google are and I know they're "reading" it. I accept this cost. I don't know who "Slow Social" are.

It's a whole new system for elderly (and even not-so-elderly) relatives to get to grips with. They get email today. They use email right now.

It's another website that needs another login for my mum to remember, except she'll just use the same password again (and again), until one day it's breached.

I think growth, innovation, and ideas are important, but I also wish we'd focus on building on and improving the systems we already have.

So I guess I have to ask: why not (better) email? Why not a new email system that's interoperable with the existing system, but offers a better UI focused on sharing stories with each other?
Here’s a similar DIY project (at an earlier stage) with a motor drive https://www.instagram.com/p/CTF1_fyNLtz/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
That small calibre thing is fascinating. Any readings on it? How do they even validate that does happen?
If you need to transmit it securely you’d need a shared secret. A password that everyone already knows. You would also create a Whatsapp group that is E2E encrypted (or any of the other chat apps that have the same security) and share there.
For it to be available in EU at all I think they will have to list all of them anyway.
Nobody has yet noticed that it’s only wrapped in TWO Promises. I take it nobody really understands the syntax, author included.
From the page linked in the article: "A man has died and his wife is under critical care after the couple, both in their 60s, ingested chloroquine phosphate, an additive commonly used at aquariums to clean fish tanks.". Did he literally just consume fish tank cleaner? That seems like a really easy way to mess up dosing.
I have a good friend that works as a contracted lineman on traveling crews.

Usually, they are given a hotel or motel room, and a per-diem for food in cash or a Visa giftcard.

For food, it is usually buying whatever at the local Walmart and heating it up in the hotelroom microwave.

It is mostly brute-force and there is alot of money paid out, but you work alot of hours.

It is not uncommon for my friend to work a 70 to 80 hour week.
A bit more info:
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/man-dies-after-in...

Also happening in Nigeria:
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/23/headlines/two_nigeria...

Note that there doesn't appear to be any evidence yet that chloroquine is effective in COVID-19 treatment. So far it has been studied only for other types of coronavirus.
That's what I get for blindly copy and pasting. Thanks for the comment, fixed.
A relevant data point. I don't think this is a good way to share public health information.

@realdonaldtrump 7:13 AM - 21 Mar 2020

HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine. The FDA has moved mountains - Thank You! Hopefully they will BOTH (H works better with A, International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents).....

....be put in use IMMEDIATELY. PEOPLE ARE DYING, MOVE FAST, and GOD BLESS EVERYONE! @US_FDA @SteveFDA @CDCgov @DHSgov

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/12413672399007785...
I'm inclined to argue about the title "most powerful nation on this planet". It's a nice tagline, but the metrics for which it applies are narrowing rapidly.

But still, let this be a lesson to those who would follow bad leaders to their own demise; or rather, let it be a lesson to their offspring who watch them follow the bad leaders.

I suspect humanity follows cycles of enlightenment, complacency, and self-destruction (or irrelevance, which is equally damning depending on the individual). We appear to be between stage 2 and 3 at this point.
...except that, in said dark ages, that got people executed for treason or witchcraft or what have you.

Here, it could very well save lives. Many democratic governments have tried voluntary restrictions - some people are complying, but others don't seem to care. What else is there but to enforce those restrictions via previously existing channels (e.g. Quarantine Act in Canada)?

IMHO, this is similar to reporting someone for smoking near a public building, dangerous / drunk driving, or any of a number of public health / interest infractions.
The author is specifically talking about higher-margin back-end infra beyond compute/storage, just like Parse was:

“... a hypothetical ‘Facebook cloud’ could offer very attractive, differentiating services beyond the basics of compute, storage, and network.”
Those are just grid fins which are used more for steering than attitude control.

If I kick the rocket over those fins won't do any thing because they can't correct the force I applied to kick the rocket over. An active thruster (an attitude control system) can recorrect the force of my kick and reorient the rocket vertically.
I think it is hyperbole, and I searched and can't find any comment on HN where he claims that he is Rachel Whetstone.
Does anyone know whether this initiative will provide wildcard certs? Or will this be restricted to single domain certs?
It's a reply to a poster who said,

"Imagine if Google found the Kaminsky DNS bug. The internet would have melted on day 91 when google told everyone, "Sorry, too bad."

Given this, if the Kaminsky bug was fixed in 31 days, that seems like a very bad example to use.
That is precisely what TypeScript has implemented: ES6 string templates. Remember, TypeScript is JavaScript + optional types.

One nice thing about the template strings in TypeScript is you can use those and still compile to ES3/ES5 for today's browsers.
Welp. That's cause it's not. She would not be their target audience anymore then Grand Theft Auto is.

They have other comics for her: http://www.kidscomics.com/Home/1/1/60/1046

Breaking Bad is also pop culture, the problem comes in when Lego makes Lego Breaking Bad figures, then your daughter wants to watch the show.
"Nobody is suggesting no vaccine would be an improvement so that isn't relevant."

There are lots of people doing so. Probably very few here on Hacker News, but there are many in the real world. Many people who read the linked article will use that as an excuse to not get the flu vaccine next year.
> I also find that JavaScript developers love their spaghetti code. Bad code proliferates in the JavaScript world. Many may disagree with me, but the empirical evidence does not.

It's the world's most popular programming language - a lot of people use it hate it (often with good reason, often not - how often have you heard "JavaScript isn't object oriented" from developers who should know better) but don't spend any time learning it.

The people who actually seek to learn about JavaScript don't write spaghetti: they have arguments about their preferred flow control mechanisms - the JS world is quite famous, in fact, for this. And they get excited about yield in ES6.
I personally really like RDF graph databases, because while they look like graph databases such Neo4J they might be implemented completely different. For example Virtuoso is one that is fast for some query types and underneath it is a columnar relational database. GraphDB by ontotext is a custom only SPARQL implementation. Queries that work in one will work in the other (bugs excepted :( ) the only thing that changes is what are they fast at :). Side benefits is that you get a decent JSON api for free with JSON-LD and JSON-SPARQL.

When ever I try Neo4J and Cypher it just feels slow and limited in comparison to the semweb competition.
Not mentioned in the article (and perhaps Legere will change his mind) but TMobile is aligned with AT&T and Verizon in opposing Title II reclassification.

Disappointed with that stance, since otherwise, I'm thrilled with TMobile from a customer standpoint.
Thank you. I feel the same way.

I vote in every election. There are problems with many elections, especially ones for US President. Those problems are baked into the system we've established as a nation. States run their own elections. States elect US Presidents and not citizens.

I don't think states could coordinate a conspiracy to change citizen votes to steer elections one way or another. Too many moving parts, too many people. It is fair one state has one set of rules that differ from another? Yes. It is the way the USA is built.

It frustrates me to no end that a group of people say, "The election had no issues" just as it frustrates me when someone says, "The election was stolen." Those thoughts are always perpetuated by those who lead political parties.
We might like to think that by virtue of of being technically minded, logical, and by following the scientific method that somehow biases can be eliminated. And yet, there are those here willing for example, to espouse a spiritual belief that has no basis in fact or science. That alone should put paid to any hope that any of us can truly shake biases and beliefs and operate solely on the basis of fact.

Further, very few information sources are truly factual, and without bias?
Here’s a “fun” thought: if you were running a foreign intelligence operation in the USA, surely you’d try to get one of your agents into the mob that got into the Capitol building and given free reign over all those computers, computers that were not locked properly before the legitimate users fled for their safety?

I’m not just talking about Russia and China here, I mean all the intelligence agencies.
>but every commit will replace entire module(s) flawlessly

That's big commits, you're not supposed to do that. Masters commit individual characters that replace entire modules flawlessly.
Yes, but because the radio used public airways, the courts found that the FCC can regulate them. It’s why you can’t swear on the radio (the FCC says so) despite free speech allowing swearing.
Family is meaningful.

Being responsible to provide for them is meaningful.

Friendships can be meaningful.
> I don't have the impression these are enough people for a coup.

Still, being saved by the ineptitude of the "protestors" is still a damning indictment of the country.
> my asshole friends have ordered me 100 boxes of [...]

Also my curious little-one, my playful and naughty cats, my ...

I believe that Amazon would place in some security features, like not processing the orders when they come in at a rate that is too frequent to be normal, require confirmation via email/SMS/etc. But then again, why make sth. like buying detergent which is as simple as going to the nearest market and giving them some change into a technological action that involves the postal service, an internet company, a bank, the internet, and electronics?
While technically true, this seems like it would be computationally infeasible, or at least impractical, given that they were not just hashing but also salting the passwords.

Of course, I barely know anything about computer security, but at least it should prevent attacks using rainbow tables I think?
> There is no reason why you can't take 10min to setup a IRC with SSL on your own

For the VAST majority of people this would not take just 10 min. Not only would I first need to research the different IRC servers out there but I'd have to get a server to install it on (which is not the fastest processes where I work). Then I need to get an SSL cert (which is like pulling teeth here) unless I want to use self-signed and listen to everyone bitch about dealing with that (and some aren't tech people and I've have to walk them through that). Then I need to find clients for everyone (Windows/Mac/Linux) also now chat is only accessible from inside the company unless I want to expose it publicly then I need to worry about security.....

OR I could pay $X/mo and have it up and running in seconds... Slack is not the end-all-be-all but I quite like it and use it with friends as well as public slacks. IRC is great but let's not pretend it takes seconds to set up everything you need...
Remember kids, it's 2FA before the fact, not after. 2FA is not a magic bullet though, and neither is salting. Salting makes it _expensive_, but not impossible for pass recovery. Always aim for impossible. You want to be able to throw away the key during an incident.
Are you sure this is right? There must exist more than 25 coal plants in the world? Do we expect to hit this budget w/in a year? Is this coal plant much bigger than most others?
The warrant canary is not a solution to the problem of secret legal actions. It's merely a protest.

As we see the warrant canary idea institutionalized - with companies like Apple and Twitter adopting them to a certain degree, and cataloguing them on sites like canary watch[1] we are falling down a rabbit hole of speech about speech (and speech about speech about speech, etc.).

The real issue is NSLs and other secret warrants. These are older than you might think. Look up PRTT (pen register trap and trace, for telephones, which can be served with a gag order) or the All Writs Act. This is what we need to be working against, and this is what falls to the background as we find new and better ways to run our warrant canaries.

I am guilty of this.[2]

[1] https://canarywatch.org/

[2] http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt
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I have recently been working with DevOps and Cloud environments as an assistant cloud solutions architect at my university. I have gained a lot of experience with creating and maintaining CI/CD workflows and in house APIs. Most of what I have written is not public as my University has a policy against open source, but I’d be happy to discuss my work there with anyone. I also enjoy working with hardware on a firmware level, which is something I have not been able to do at my current job.