jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Because I don't want to add another website/API to the mix.

I've noticed now that they also seem to push towards a subscription model for the EC2 images... I don't really like that. TurnKey always looked like something odd to me each time I saw it mentioned on HN: it's open source-y, but for the one stuff I might give it a try (cloud image/AMI) they want to introduce some fees somehow.

This has kept me from trying them and sticking to the Alestic/Canonical base images.

BTW, just googled your name and found out you're one of the founders but I won't rephrase the lines above, the message remains.

I have one question regarding your open-source model: how exactly does one build one of your AMIs? Your FAQ mentions http://code.turnkeylinux.org/ and http://github.com/turnkeylinux but how does everything go together ?

What is your equivalent of 'make lamp' or 'make drupal6'? (Just asking, didn't dig too much but also didn't see it very font-center).
I see what you're saying... So you are saying that because facts are so hard to find, and bias is all over, it would be helpful to point out bias for the sake of clarity? I like the sound of that, thanks for the tip.
Yes, I knew about the "probationary period" etc.

But the unqualified "no leverage" of the OP seemed to imply at least to me that they thought that the green card would be taken away in a divorce irrespective of number of years of marriage (it doesn't after two years unless you got into a fraudulent marriage).

And I do not think the GP suggested getting a sham marriage. Yes, if you really enter into a sham marriage then the "wife" will have lots of leverage over you.
Cool, way to go. Is this much different from the free open source tool s3cmd? http://s3tools.org/s3cmd

Tell you what I do have a burning need for: automatic backup of my free, CPanel-based shell account. This includes my databases, my crons, my home directory... I want to be able to jump webhosts in a jiffy if necessary. I would definitely pay for that.

I would also just be comforted in knowing that ALL my data is backed up off site! I'm sure other people have similar concerns. I'd be delighted to pay $5-$10/month for such a service and I wouldn't use hardly any download bandwith so your variable costs would be low.

Consider it.. please?
the only time I've ever even seen a third party aptitude or personality test before an interview was when I was 15 and I worked for some temp agency moving things around in a warehouse. In the 15 years hence, working as a programmer or SysAdmin, I've never seen such a thing. Coincidentally, that was also my last drug test.

Now, I don't use illegal drugs; Hell, I could easily pass one of those 'hair tests' that see if you have used marijuana in the last few years. Still, as an employee, my assumption is that if you require a drug test or similar, you are not a company that will respect me as an employee. My assumption if you made me take a 'personality test' would be that your company is run by idiots.

The rest seems to be pretty good advice, assuming that you are a company that can't just hire people as a contractor, and then let them go if they don't work out.

this is what I do at my company: If someone looks good, I hire them for a short project. If they don't do well, they get paid for their time and sent on their way. Personally, I think it's more respectful than grilling someone for 4 or 8 hours without pay, and it probably gives me a better idea of how good they are.
The open source implementation, Rietveld [ http://code.google.com/p/rietveld ], sounds very interesting. Perhaps it could be used in programming classes and might also fit in with pair programming training.
This is really a matter of scale and reality. Let's think in survival terms. Some applications, oh, say High Frequency Trading depend on getting the calculation done first. We are talking milliseconds or less to do a calculation that leads to placing, cancelling, or modifying an order. Do they use assembler? No. Problems of scale requiring massive hardware or clusters, do they use assembler? Not generally. Often they use Lisp, C++ or C.

So in the context of real-world problems, compilers win, because none of us has the energy or attention span to write it in assembler, something the size of a real-world problem like, for example, a compiler.

We optimize small problems by hand, but problems of useful size we don't because the compiler does a better job on problems of true interest than we have the patience or time to do.

To put it another way, it is better to put energy into improving compilers than getting into a John Henry type of competition.
I don't get what you mean. Please explain.
> You cannot run a tolerant society without being intolerant to those that want to destroy it.

Popper predicated that right on the right to self-defense against people who use "fists or pistols" instead of words to argue.

Has RMS been out there punching or shooting people or using some other physical violence? Last I knew he wasn't even accused of intolerance at all but of some absurd defense of his now-dead friend who was accused of going to Epstein's island.
https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...

>I recall being told early in my freshman year “If RMS hits on you, just say ‘I’m a vi user’ even if it’s not true.”

>Richard Stallman told me of his misery and that he’d kill himself if I didn’t go out with him.

There are plenty of primary sources, and they're not "corporate lobbyists". RMS is toxic.
It's very early success (first 6 months) was because of VC hype [1]. You couldn't go anywhere online without hearing how Clubhouse is the next big SV social media bet. I'm guessing a lot of that hype has died down as users find out the app really isn't that useful.

1. You do know CH is valued at $1bn? I mean, the absolute insanity of this can't be understated. Their success is entirely manufactured https://pitchbook.com/newsletter/clubhouse-picks-up-new-fund...
How many people know exactly what was said, vs. reading some media report that "Stallman supported child rape?"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/richard-stallman...

After one person wrote that "Giuffre was 17 at the time; this makes it rape in the Virgin Islands," Stallman responded, "I think it is morally absurd to define 'rape' in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17."
Probably for the same reason he hasn't amended his website to include a denial of wife beating:
https://www.google.com/search?q=wife+beating+site%3Astallman...
A recent example of this for me is using Abaqus (an FE solver). When using it to set up models I usually set all of the boundary conditions and contact interactions in a script. It wasn't until I was helping a colleague (who was using the gui) with a problem that I realised some of the options just aren't available through the gui.
It's no coincidence the hull of the Starship will also be made of cold-rolled stainless steel.
Is there any reason they wouldn't just make those independant panels and weld those joints? It's a little slower than stamping, but cutting and welding panels like this is well within the capabilities of their existing robots.
Yip, I've also encountered "architects" who obsess on certain things, and make a mess in the process, at least something that is a "mess" to the majority of coders.

One is left with a dilemma of complain harder or leave. Unfortunately, leaving is probably the only way out. Often such people have "connections" and are thus not correctable. They have outlier minds and want a system that models their outlier brain even if multiple developers complain. Bail out.
To elaborate a little, "IPP Everywhere" / AirPrint, "Driverless printing" or whatever it's called, is basically having the printer run a CUPS server and broadcast itself on mdns/bonjour, and then clients can print to it directly without having to install manufacturer-specific printer drivers (the IPP protocol itself has the necessary features so that you don't even need PPD's). The only thing the client needs to be able to do is support IPP and a few file formats mandated by IPP (PWG-raster (a simple raster format) and JPEG, even PDF is optional IIRC).

(There's something called the "IPP sharing extensions" (IIRC) for supporting things like central print servers with auth, proxying and whatnot for enterprise deployments)
Image processing and OCR is a problem space that interests me and that I have quite a bit of prior work experience in. I can't help you with the scanning itself but I'd be interested in taking a crack at processing the images you get to see if it's possible to get high-quality OCR from the deformed images that you might get from a simpler scanning setup.

Having someone else who could benefit from my work might help with my motivation to pursue this sort of project, which I've been having a bit of trouble with lately. If you'd like to discuss this further my e-mail is in my public profile.
I honestly never cared much for his role in Pulp Fiction, just seemed forced and contrived. But I really enjoyed his scene in True Romance.
I've heard the theory, and I find it compelling, that what binds large groups together isn't a shared set of facts but shared exploration of some great mystery. Not sure it's so much an upper number as that not everyone is interested in plumbing the same mysteries.
Question is: is this extra income here to stay in 2022?
I actually agree with you, and FB. The YPG are considered terrorists by Turkey. Their content is no longer available - in Turkey.

Do I wish FB allowed the content? Yeah, kind of, but I don't actually understand if the YPG is a dangerous organization.
Windows can be made to behave like i3, with a lot of work. I've done a few different things over the years, but I never got into i3 so I haven't made my personal WM software work like that.

It's a bit of a curiosity nowadays, but Windows started out as a tiling system - if memory serves, overlapping windows were not supported until 2.1. But even then, it wasn't like i3.

- guy that worked on the Windows WM (USER & DWM) for over a decade
Taking that a bit further many startups have raised a traditional round before an ICO. Since ICO's are so popular I think one could argue that they don't need to do this. Are they loyal to the VC's or the token holders?
Any ideas on a mud experience that would work in a co-op after work setting?

Would be awesome to experience an interactive story like this with your colleagues!

Dragonrealms was awesome, however I didn’t have a CC so I had to restart from scratch every seventh day or something.
Couldn’t they run mrustc on the rust source code on another machine to generate C code for rustc, then copy the C code to their internal systems and compile that into a working rust compiler?

Or would that not count as “compiling from source”?
Or they fix it, see that their "in game time" average drops, and then back it out...
> The product is pretty much on parity with Dropbox on the Mac

In my experience, Dropbox is always faster and more reliable. The other big selling point of Dropbox is the wide adoption of its API. It's basically the de-facto cloud sync solution for most of the iOS/Mac app out there (some are moving to iCloud, but Dropbox is still the more reliable/popular one). If you are deep integrated in the Apple eco system, Dropbox is hands down the best you can go with.
Maybe long load times are advantageous? Because it creates longer user sessions on average? If you devote 10 minutes to loading the game you will probably want to play for at least 30 minutes.
As in - a single workload that can't fit on a single physical machine? No I don't, although I certainly could if I needed to. Most of my workloads are either low-traffic WP sites or bespoke web-based business tools for clients with very bursty traffic.

Most of the value I get from k8s is the hands-off nature of it - I get slack notifications (prometheus+alertmanager) if anything is happening I need to address (e.g. workload down, node down, API not responding, etc). Otherwise I can safely ignore my cluster and know everything's good. Spinning up a new WP site takes 10m with backups, TLS, monitoring, etc built in.
> Chopping and rearranging something that's the same spherical shape (but different size) is different from chopping a 2D square and rearranging into a circle.

As the other responses point out, the Banach-Tarski construction uses properties of 3D space that do not occur in 2D space. But I don't think the "spherical shape" of the original volume or the final volume is relevant; the point of the construction is that the intermediate pieces can't really be said to have a shape.
The Prime Directive is preventing first contact, just need a working warp drive.
Please use SSL / HTTPS
You're missing the point. He's talking about the passion for learning about computers. When was the last time you reversed engineered a binary that had self modifying code, just for the fun of it and to learn how it works? Play same code golf games or war games, purely for the challenge? There's nothing wrong with people making money. It's the fact that people are doing it just for the money. I think there is a video called the bbs documentary. Check it out. The culture surrounding computers has changed, a lot.
> There's a whole lot of value in that, and this attitude contributes heavily to the lack of human decency in our field.

That's a really good point—I hadn't made that connection, but I think you're absolutely right.
He said that the most beautiful mathematics were that which had no practical applications.

Not sure how he'd feel that now that his own specialty of Number Theory has turned out to be very practical.
Well, the other side is that home schoolers do have to pass the same kind of tests and prove that they learned chemistry, history, math, blah. And in my experience, I approached history, math, and english with the attitude of "Ugh, this stupid subject, do the bare minimum to get out of here", so an amazing teacher wouldn't have really changed how much I learned.
I hate selling on Amazon. Hate it. Ebay fees are 11%, Amazon fees are 40-50%. I've seen a seller almost cry watching amazon take over $140 in fees out of a $300 transaction. And ruetinely take 50% of gross receipts. Yes this is normal. I read the email customer service sent back about it. Sellers have started canceling large transactions and directing their buyers to the same product listing on etsy, ebay, or their own store. Don't get me started on the inability to control shipping rates like every other marketplace. Amazon is the dinosaur of online shopping.

And the biggest insult is Amazon saying they make so little profit. Where is all this money going?
Why would writing a simple export feature set you back months? Sounds like something that could be done by one person in an afternoon.
It's a great example by far. You don't want even a hint of the Barbara Striesand effect if you're suing someone over something which is deeply and personally embarrassing.

Besides, just because someone let someone else get a hold of personal or confidential information does not give them the right to share it with the world.
Why bother putting it into a circular orbit? I don't see the point.

As I understand it the big drawback to EOR from an engineering standpoint is that the added complexity introduces a bunch of extra failure modes.
From pg's own remarks on the topic http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html:

They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter.

I get the feeling these folks can't tell the difference between the two. And I am thinking "naughty" is not necessarily the best word for this quality and is bound to be misinterpreted by some folks.
Inspired by the posting about android-locdump last week:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2471404
https://github.com/packetlss/android-locdump

I wrote an app to show you this information directly on your Android phone.

Looking at the market, it looks like I'm not the only one to think of and write the same sort of app over the past few days.
Do your users run 14day jobs with no checkpointing whatsoever? I'd be afraid of a bug in my code crashing the computation 90% of the way through. The MapReduce setup seemed much more resilient to things like this for example.
We may see it differently, from my point of view its much easier for Sony to blame this on anon as a) there is a known conflict already and its very simple to point the finger b) it hides the fact that a critical part of there system is on a 3rd party service with no contingency plan / backups..

I haven't read anywhere about security breached all I've seen is DDOS and thats exactly what anon are known for.
Thermal or depth map camera? Really depends on how you want to process and query it. At 16k per frame, I'd store each one sequentially. Do you need to only look at a single pixel across a million frames? Or do you process groups of 20-100 frames at a time?
I fell for this trick with twitter-alike url. 2 things did it for me. The link was from a friend of mine (of course he didn't know that was phishing site). And, it was a replica of Twitter. To make things worse it was shortened using bit.ly. I realized I made a mistake only after I entered password and hit submit. I quickly logged into twitter and changed my password.
Because we've weighed the costs and benefits? I don't use it for anything particularly important--it gets to see the coupons Borders sends me, the HN Monthly, and that's about it.
Is the solution to all this not Facebook Connect and Google Login?
Done. Sorry, didn't notice.
I'm so pleased someone else thought that was funny.
If you want to learn trig or calculus, it's set at such a
pace in schools that it guarantees that only the absolutely
best students will learn it.

The usual complaint against the school system is the inverse: stuff is set at such a pace that even the worst students will learn it. They can't have it both ways.
WOW, welcome to the year 1959.
Er...why was this downvoted ?

I'm not a lawyer, but I've worked in the financial sector and undergone FSA mandated training courses on what you can and can't legally do with equity pricing. What the OP was suggesting is an illegal practice in most equity markets.
"This software provided as is..." :)

If you are afraid of such situations, you shouldn't use open source software.
An entire article about the dollar losing value, but not a word about how this relates to US monetary policy? The article was singularly uninformative and misleading.
Yup, any language I've worked with, including Java and C, can do that just fine. They just spread the verbosity differently. Organizing large projects is a pain in JavaScript, trivial in Java. Using anonymous functions is a pain in Java, trivial in JavaScript.

(Not so) fun fact: The public MapReduce services by Google and Amazon do not (directly) support JavaScript.
This is possible because the algorithms running are still immature and the creators either didn't setup any sanity limits because they are inexperienced or maybe lazy.

I wouldn't expect this to last very long, but you could potentially take advantage of it while it does by simply identifying seller's who lack limits and posting products within their categories at super low prices then buying them out and re-listing.

Eventually all of these scripts will have guards in them for upper and lower and probably limits on the percentage change over time.
Thanks for your suggestions. These are all very good points. Regarding "appwork", it's my company name. Originally I wanted to call the product Appwork Sketcher but probably no one will know what it is. So now I call it App Sketcher. I will remove appwork except for the company name in the footer.
I tend to feel that the two often go together. After all, "the key to making a program fast is to make it do as little as possible".
Parler problem was not all the things you listed, it was simple hosting and the blog provided very clear steps to go about it
Isn't any ML model "just a bunch of weights," if you look at it right?

So, where does "modelV2" come from here, in the part that plans the lateral steering action? https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/4ace476f14bb73c354... . It's a model. A video frame goes into the model, and somehow the desired path comes back out. That's the core of the driving system!

Here's an analysis of one of the closed parts: https://medium.com/@chengyao.shen/decoding-comma-ai-openpilo...
> Ergo pulling 1 metric ton (10^6 grams) of C02 per day

The CO2 footprint per capita in the United States is 15 metric tons [1], so at 300M population, that's 4.5e9 metric tons of CO2 per year.

At 1 metric ton CO2 removed per day per tower, we would need 4.5e9/365 = 12.3M such cooling towers. Even if the efficiency increased 2 orders of magnitude it is still not enough, and I doubt there is a need for even 123,000 cooling towers.

None of this is to say that it shouldn't be pursued as a business opportunity to sell CO2 to commercial customers.

But realistically, given the scale of the CO2 problem, we still need to dramatically reduce the amount of CO2 we are emitting per capita as a primary measure, with any carbon capture as secondary.

1. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?location...
> by convincing doctors to use them.

I don't think it's patients the ones that need to convince the doctors of what to use. If anything, patients demanding solutions without any knowledge of whether they're useful or not would make treatment much more difficult.

> Smoking cessation products

A lot of smoking cessation products are over the counter. Here in Spain I see ads about them, and we have the same prohibition of adverts of prescription meds.

> What about PReP? It's prescription only

Sexual education covers this, no need to monetize ads. Not to mention that the return on investment on an anti-HIV medication is probably not ideal

> Lofexidine

Again, I doubt the market for opioid withdrawal meds is high enough.

> Of course promoting drugs that work are a great outcome. Like what are we even talking about?

Doctors are the one that prescribe drugs, not patients. Why would you need to market a prescription drug that one takes only after a doctor visit to patients? They are not the ones making the decision on the drug. They do not have the information required to evaluate whether the drug is appropriate or not.

At best, ads for prescription drugs will be useless because it's the doctor that makes the decision. At worst it encourages self-medication and forces doctors to make non-optimal choices due to patient pressure. The only ones that stand to benefit from prescription drugs ads are pharmaceutical companies and ad agencies.
Are you familiar with termbases? There is in fact a whole industry with standardized data formats dedicated to solving exactly that problem.
If your API goes through a CDN you don't fully trust.
Mosst everyone agrees that defaults matter, but not what the defaults should be.
> If the stock was at $100 that month, we paid $20.

and

> So it had to go up 20% to break even. But if it went up 40% you doubled your money.

Are contradictory. If you paid 20% of the stock prices you made money instantly, you made a TON of money actually.
This is going to be a repeat of that stupid submarine isn't it?
An established manufacturer of lab tests actually has quite a lot of incentive to produce tests that work.

I also wonder how different this approval is in terms of meaningful scrutiny from a normal approval.
As you say pathogen transfer and other complications like GvHD are rare, but that’s also in normal situations. In a pandemic things change. This example is using plasma from China which is very much outside of normal channels.

Further, in a pandemic when staff are overworked and possibly sick, mistakes are going to increase. Viable in a life threading situation, less so: “for prevention of infection for people who are being exposed.”
Iirc Denuvo's gimmick is that it's integration is tangled with the gameplay code (maybe encrypting some of it) so it's not simply a matter of patching out an if check.