jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Today Silicon Valley sounds more and more like the old money club of Wall Street

... or Holywood, where VCs (producers) minimize risk by funding well-known formulas betting that a blockbuster will save the summer, while talented programmers (actors) get any job out there, stay a few months, cash in and go to the next gig. A bunch of other untalented wannabes (biz devs, MBAs, PRs) act as talent scouts, schmoozing at "parties" (meet-ups) trying to find the next fresh-out-of-the-boat programmer to exploit.

In that sense, I believe NYC and other areas provide a much healthier environment for true "indie" productions (aka customer-centric development)
How much should one have to scream at armed men before getting water?
I started off as a Rails web developer in 2007 and slowly moved to PHP and Javascript. A little before NodeJS got popular I was a full time JS developer mostly writing client side code.

When I started with NodeJS, I was like a kid in the candy store. Before I blinked there were hundreds of npm modules supporting everything including aws management to controlling robots.

I have tried a lot of nodejs web frameworks. They are all amazing and I wish them success but I have realized that there is nothing great to be gained by using JS at server side compared to using say rails.
Thanks, I hadn't considered that. I don't go to many sites with either, so I never noticed, but I think the NYTimes might have some.
Joke's on them, apparently.
Their FAQ says "Do 2D Glasses work at IMAX theaters?
Alas, no. IMAX uses a different technology than normal movie theaters so 2D-Glasses will not work at an IMAX theater."

Anyone know how IMAX is different?
Hardware - 27" iMac, Macbook Pro

OS - Snow Leopard

Language - Corona SDK LUA (http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/)

IDE - Eclipse

Source control - SVN

Graphics - GIMP

Email - Gmail
One example is Microsoft. They are often knocked for not being so innovative as others in the space. However, they do excel at execution.
I do it to prevent the autoplay of videos in almost all news sites and huge ugly flash banner ads.
I would agree that it isn't magic. Keep in mind that one man's pork is another's bacon. Pork is part of the political process.

In the modern environment, material pork barrel spending is at the corporate/national level. Most congressional districts due to gerrymandering or demographics are very secure... the era of political machines handing out turkeys is gone.

If the craven corruption around defense contracting was only 80% as wasteful as it is today, you could give every member of congress a substantial slush fund to waste and still save money. Plus you would have working fighter jets that are able to compete with countries like Russia, that has a GDP equivalent to Texas but seems to be able to procure weapons.
This is, uh, interesting:

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1364623600179765249

I'm not sure I'd be quite so critical, but it's a significant point in favor of TouchID over FaceID.
I am sitting at 10% after 60 days... so my drive will go readonly in 1.6 years.

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===

SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)

Critical Warning: 0x00

Temperature: 33 Celsius

Available Spare: 100%

Available Spare Threshold: 99%

Percentage Used: 10%

Data Units Read: 546,457,001 [279 TB]

Data Units Written: 510,545,911 [261 TB]

Host Read Commands: 3,130,642,888

Host Write Commands: 1,491,509,201

Controller Busy Time: 0

Power Cycles: 118

Power On Hours: 930

Unsafe Shutdowns: 18

Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0

Error Information Log Entries: 0
Because it is not actually a 1T market. If Satoshi's coins aren't on market they really aren't part of cap. Thus we are talking about 950B market... And then count out rest of "lost" coins and actual market cap start to shrink and that 50B is starting to be much bigger thing...

Yes theoretically it is 1T, but practically much lower...
Given what users Bitcoin and Ethereum appeal to (those that don't mine high fees), no.
> I like Bitcoin as a diversification for being a “better version of gold” - it has the scarcity ...

Why do we repeat the claim of Bitcoin scarcity when we all know it's just a promise and nothing more, there is no technical limitation?

All it takes to "print" more Bitcoins is for the majority of miners to agree to make a fork that will allow for more. And that will happen at one point.

As for Gold, good luck trying to mine an infinite amount of it.
The thesis of DigitalOcean was literally “this very established market needs a venture capital growth play because we saw Slicehost exit to Rackspace”. In the beginning the entirety of DO’s offering, tech for tech, was almost a direct lift of Linode and, as they scaled, made all the same technical mistakes and learning experiences that Linode did.

I guess you could call that a fantastic product idea. I’d call it applying an aggressive exit strategy to Chris Aker’s fantastic product idea from 2003 and further commoditizing said product in its wake.
> That seems completely irrelevant.

Safety is irrelevant for a payment system?
"brainchild of distributed ledger tech and crypto currency capitalism" sure sounds like they are implying Coinbase almost invented cryptocurrencies. But English is not my native language so maybe I misunderstand it wrong.
Miners have never had any reason to change anything in Bitcoin and will not change anything to this day. They make profit just by doing nothing and have been for a decade. They've held Bitcoin back from being much better than it is almost solely.
The biggest nag I have with tail is that it stops tracking a file once it gets moved and a new one is created in its place (through log rotation).
Worst case scenario, you wait until you're 24 and become a financial independant to the domain of college lending. This is how I did it (as a side effect - I started school at 24 because that's when I felt mature enough)
Don’t forget that for some businesses, ticket revenue is just one stream, and they’re trying to maximize total revenue, over a very long term.

For example, if you take a sports business and raise ticket prices to a certain level, you will end up with businesses using it to schmooze. Families stop attending. You lose toy sales. Nobody buys bedding sets with the team logos.

And then one day, there’s a new hot place to schmooze, the businesses leave, and you’ve got nothing, because there aren’t any adults with fond memories of coming to games as a kid.
Does this require installing a software on your computer? Or is this purely browser based? Or is it Java?
Sigh. Yeah, that's a slow and sad death. Someone should write "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Fry's Electronics Empire." I'm sure there are business lessons to be learned, like not slacking off in brick-n-mortar retail or store-equivalent online sales. Fry's online sales were never good and they didn't keep up; honestly, I think they survived so long out of location and existence more than business acumen.
Isn't this a topology problem?

On an uneven surface, are there always 4 points that define a square of sides length x that are always [in the same plane]? That has to be no, right?
Have you tried the recently released v.1.6.0 of Julia? Precompilation is dramatically faster. Also, for serious numerical work, startup time is eclipsed by run time, so it tends not to be relevant. I did most of my physics simulations in Fortran, which is a great language for the task, but if I were writing a new simulation code today I would use Julia. It is the only language in the petaflop club that is actually better to program in than Fortran. (+1 for gnuplot.)
Thanks for chiming in :) Animation is a common request, and definitely still not-very-usable.

Thanks to the work of lassade, our resident animation expert, I expect we should have basic animation in place for 0.6. For skeletal animation in particular, they've been prototyping with a crate of their own [0] to hook into Bevy that seems like an excellent proof-of-concept.

0: https://github.com/lassade/bevy_spine
As someone born in the USSR, I am fascinated by this movie.

It's very German, but also very Soviet, it's almost surreal.
Huh? I'm confused about what the "test" was. (Also, the poster above wasn't saying never ask the police for help, rather you shouldn't answer them if they are questioning you without your lawyer.)
I do think that at least as of today, programming (at the level of doing so professionally working on a shared codebase along with 50+ other programmers, not making a mess of things, and doing so 4+ hours a day every day), does require a level of attention-to-detail, abstract thinking, patience, and fitting-concepts-in-the-mind that much of the population doesn't have the aptitude for.

I believe everyone who wants to train enough to program professionally can do so, but many wouldn't enjoy it. Talking to machines is really unforgiving.

It is getting easier over time though so the barriers to entry are lowering.
There are a lot of gradations between "guilty" and "not guilty" in our system, some of them very unpleasant.

For example, the author experienced involuntary exile while technically "not guilty." Many employers will fire an employee who is charged with a crime, without a conviction. A "not guilty" person can be arrested and held in jail until a court date which could get postponed repeatedly.

There are plenty of cracks people can fall (or be pushed) into.
That looks a lot like ructe [0], a templating language that I really love. It compiles templates to functions that you can call from Rust using a build script. The functions parameters are accessible from your templates. You can even import and run arbitrary rust code from your app:

@use any::rust::Type;
@use super::statics::style_css;

@(name: &str, items: &[Type])

<html>
<head>
<title>@name</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/@style_css.name" type="text/css"/>
</head>
<body>
<h1>@name</h1>
<dl>
@for item in items {
<dt>@item.title()</dt>
<dd>@item.description()</dd>
}
</dl>
<body>
</html>

[0]: https://github.com/kaj/ructe
This statistic isn't applicable to me.
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I once had to tell the co-founder of a site that had been handed over to my control "go back to lurking for a while".
Look at this thread: everyone has their “one weird trick” (substance) which they believe is the silver bullet. Including garlic.

I doubt that these people have financial stake in any of these products. Sometimes, the substance might be relevant to some opinion they hold dear. The guy recommending garlic might consider all modern medicine a conspiracy of the pharmaceutical industry. A significant number of people on HN and reddit have also been really into cytokines for the last few years, the reason for which eludes me (maybe it’s the one bit of biology they heard of at some point and they are still enamored by their smartitude and want everyone to take notice).

Quinine and similar might have just been popular for the funny Gin&Tonic tie-in. Then, the US president read about, called it “the biggest discovery in medicine” or similar on Twitter, and now the alt-right has a stake in its success.
For example Frama-C.
> lack of experience and expertise. Canada is a relatively young country with very few major infra projects under its belt.

Nonsense. Canada is a major engineering power, building large projects the world over. One of the world's top 5 engineering firms, SNC-Lavalin, is located there.
Ummm, so how is "Coq" pronounced?
A day later I’m still astonished that someone called me out, myself being a person who is autisc, for not being an expert. How dare you.
I don't see how it's a quid pro quo for someone like Moxie, with his background, to advise a project for years and then work with them to integrate it given the alignment with regards to privacy initiatives.

I find it conspiracy-theory in nature to assume otherwise; I think it could've been handled better from a server source code side but I don't really see why this has to be an assumed bad faith thing.
I have Nokia, where does that fit in the brand spaces?
Doesn't matter if you have one or not, you can just refuse to talk without one.
Keyboard layout doesn't matter for speed. Here's a guy typing 99 wpm with two fingers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mNu8WnFFa0 You switch to Dvorak for comfort, not speed.
Every incident will be used as an WMD excuse to increase the surveillance state. WMD as in Weapons of Mass Distraction. The Blind Spot argument is hollow as we already do domestic spying in many forms and then engage with 5 eyes when it suits us.
Politics is generally off topic. Things that are likely to give rise to flame wars are also generally discouraged.

You may agree or disagree on whether this particular one is worth discussing, but that's probably the general idea behind the flagging.
It seems clear if you look out long enough (assume high quality everything, and fast bandwidth) that these will replace smartphones (AR) and represent the next generation of the internet (AR & VR).

Curious who people think the biggest winners will be.

I'm thinking Facebook (huge headstart, unlimited budget), Apple (incredible at hardware+softare) + ??
* Bazel offer much more granular caching, because a Bazel BUILD target is often much smaller than a Maven artifact. For example: a Java BUILD target is often just a single package.

* SNAPSHOT maven artifact are not hermetic and not reliable for caching: Maven only re-fetch SNAPSHOT once a day by defaults, so you will miss changes if you do not explicitly update it. In Bazel, any changes in a BUILD target's input are detected immediately and will trigger a rebuild.
Holy shit, it’s mosh with native scrolling? Why haven’t I heard of this?
There's room for lifestyle companies which work a low amount of hours. I'd totally take 20 hour weeks for a 50% pay cut, for example.

I think this is really what the OP wants, but it can be hard to find because the 40 hour work week is so ingrained into work as a baseline (some industries go higher, some lower).

Instead of the inevitable back and forth that this view will generate, we should probably look for ways to support lower hour work weeks through innovative companies or changing company culture.
There’s also an Indian channel, T-Series, at 178M.
No I think when you get into the business of doing even very innocent things like ab testing you are doing human subject research and should be bound by the same standards as have been the tradition in the social sciences. We don’t allow pharma companies to try out fun new addictive pills that serve no purpose beyond profit. That’s unethical. Why do we exclude the brain from our realm of health concern? Why do we care more about our bodies than our brains? Dollarinos.
Since when is Android a "zombie" OS? It's going strong and numerous, with many people who outright prefer it to iOS. It's not just an OS for "the poors".
I've had to deal with the opposite problem, where we had a monolithic application running on infrastructure that hadn't changed in half a decade (except to keep increasing the size of the EC2 instances because the OOM killer kept sniping processes)

Too much monolith ends with abstraction inversion, which is a Bad Thing.
That's like saying you should swim in the ocean because you like fish, but just ignore the water. There are numerous ways to connect with people you care about that don't involve a corporate mediator (and many of them are much more fulfilling than Facebook!).
For many years my partner and I operated in the same way. I paid our rent, utilities and food while she spent on her hobbies and saved. I was not unhappy during this time because I didn't want much. A few years ago though, I became a bit more financially aware after having my first soul crushing job and realizing I couldn't rely on work to produce income in the same "easy" way I had when I was younger. The emotional cost had become too high. Managing this part of our relationship continues to be a multi-year process requiring ongoing discussions of what we have, what we want and what we'd be willing to do to get it. It feels like a muscle that atrophies, but I have made my peace with that because it works for us. I remind her what she wants and how she can get it by helping me now or spending less now. I even ask her to provide the same feedback for me. Her perspective on my spending is as important as my perspective of hers. I imagine we will regress in the future. Those moments will probably suck and cause a lot of stress. For now my only advice is to make a habit of these discussions in your relationship and protect the habit as long as you can.
You can get a dump of all your messages with someone pretty easily.
Corporations are eligible for donations to non-profits, yes, in addition to matching employee contributions. But at less than $250 total donation, I have trouble believing it's anything other than a match.
But it might also result in less efficient code compilation, because the runtime overhead of some types of optimizations (especially the extremely powerful global optimizations) isn't really feasible while the app is running.

AOT + PGO really is the best of both worlds, but from a devops perspective it gets a bit tricky. But it would be a no-brainer for something like Intellij.
You’re absolutely right.

Unfortunately a lot of people forget that caveat.

They also forget that in an environment where capital is fairly cheap (which hasn’t been the case in human history until extremely recently) the margins shouldn’t be compared against other industry players, etc, but rather against the overall cost of capital on the market.

Comparing margins across industry is useful because if your margins are lower than your competitors then it could indicate inefficiencies or mistakes you might be making. But one needs to understand why those margins are lower. Apple, for example, can enjoy much higher margins than Dell, because although they are in the same industry, the brand and value proposition Apple brings is very different from Dell’s. Dell could try and chase the margins Apple has, but it would have to then become a very different company from what it currently is.
On a related topic - I can recommend the new movie Ex Machina:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_Machina_%28film%29

About the only thing I feel safe commenting on without fear of spoilers is where the outdoor scenes were filmed - Norway - which looked stunning.
That's what I've been wondering for a while. I've cringed my whole life when people say "I'm not good with computers..." or display fundamental misunderstandings. However, that made more sense when the average person didn't use a computer as part of daily life. Now that they do, I thought this would subside... instead, it's gotten worse, and we have legislators who are barely at the "You've Got Mail" stage making critically important decisions about the internet, software patents, and so on. Every day I deal with people who have businesses based on the internet, but don't understand what an IP address, a pixel, or a server is.
Depends on the country. Whenever I visit Belgium I get IPv6 in random guest houses. Google sees nearly 50% adoption. https://www.google.com/ipv6

In Finland 2 out of 3 mobile operators give you IPv6 by default (and mobile data usage is very high).
No, it's there, not too early. Best guess is that you have an old cache. This happens sometimes, from what I hear from release team folks. Should sort itself soon.
How cute and simplistic.
Have a look at the M365 Power Platform and Microsoft Dataverse.
Honestly, why?

My credit card pays me 2% to use it.

If there’s a problem with my transaction, I click some buttons and the card company reversed the charges.

If I lose my card, I call them up and get another one overnight without losing all my money.

Why would I give all of that up, pay exchange fees on both ends of a transaction, pay transaction fees (however small), and wait longer for my transactions to clear?
I think you’re being intentionally disingenuous like Nic, but at least he was clear: “ Any energy comparison must take the above into account – including the externalities from the extraction of oil, which implicitly backs the dollar.”

I factored it in with my calculus and you and nic are wrong. If you believe otherwise please show your work like I did not gut feelings.

TPS is a means to an end re disproving the thesis not a talking point about utility.

I am not looking at value in terms of TPS. TPS an intermediate step in my calculation. I am looking at total system usage. Sorry bud, your system is the digital equivalent of rolling coal and no amount of mental gymnastics will change that.

But by all means show your work and let’s talk about it, don’t just say “nope try again” haha that’s what people who have no leg to stand on do.
Sometimes he's not involved at all, but people still try to blame him because they've got an ax to grind. There's no indication social media had anything to do with his actions or the ensuing punishment.
Care to explain what is wrong about him? This is a genuine question.
I think another reason the DF advertising model is so successful, for both the publisher and the advertiser, is that the advertisements don't distract from the publisher's content. And in this case it plays really well with the primary means of publication for DF, RSS.

Consider "traditional media": radio, television, and print. Yeah, we all love to hate commercials, etc.

But compare it to the Internet, which is a complete cesspool. I use my hometown newspaper as a example (http://www.ajc.com/). Many websites are completely unreadable, and/or require a supercomputer to fully render and execute the CSS/JS. And I believe it's fairly common knowledge now that these types of advertisements are hugely ineffective for the advertiser.
Hmm... I guess Rock, Paper, Scissors game is non-associative so it does not meet all 3 laws, but I feel like that's more of a detail. Perhaps a different game would be better for an example.
Light meaning illumination and dark meaning darkness are universal proxies for good and evil or life and death around the world, including many and quite possibly all African mythologies. It's there in Voodoo in spades. It's got nothing to do with skin colour.

Personaly I think the idea of shining cities holding out (and some falling) against the forces of evil is an echo of Byzantium succumbing to the Turkish invasion and subsequently Vienna standing against further Turkish encroachment. However the Haradrim are not really Turks, and it's not as if discovering that LoTR is largely inspired by European history is a shocking revelation. Plently of 'white guys' are seduced by evil as well and Tolkien never suggests there's anything fundamental about Haradrim or other 'furriners' that make them any more susceptible to corruption.
What about Safari's Webkit nightly releases?
I discovered soma.fm a few weeks ago and it's been on ever since. It has a lot of good ambient stations with no lyrics and good variety. It's good for leaving on for long periods of time to concentrate. Also check out musicforprogramming.net.
I wrote a library to handle mixed configuration values by using asymmetric RSA encryption [1].

[1]: https://github.com/jacobgreenleaf/greybox
Interesting. It is not supposed to do that. I will look into it. Thank you for bringing it to my attention!