jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I say the following as a software developer so I'm one of the lucky ones in this new world:

When someone from the silicon valley uses the argument that "We need to do X to maintain our technological competitiveness." the "our" should be viewed as referring to those that have the capital to benefit from this increased "competitiveness". The Chinese are very competitive - because their labor is relatively cheap. This is the axis of "competitiveness" capital is aiming for with increasing H1B quotas, not "get smarter people". They could get all the smart people they want but that would require them to share more of the profits with those smart people - you know, the ones that actually create the value in the first place.

All this "disruption" has benefited a very few disproportionately and the "winners" would like the rest of the populace to give up a little more so they can make even more money.

"Oh but Chris, these new companies create jobs so we should cut them a special break - it helps us all in the end."

According to Chris Benner, a regional economist at the University of California, Davis, there has been no net increase in jobs in Silicon Valley since 1998; digital technologies inevitably mean you can generate billions of dollars from a low employment base.[1]

[1] http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/531726/technol...
> YouTube still uses Flash as the main player

That's odd; I just loaded up a YouTube video and it's the HTML5 player. Maybe I have it enabled in settings somewhere; huh, nope, in incognito mode it's still HTML5.

Must be a chrome thing - in Firefox it's flash. Probably something to do with the codecs available in Firefox HTML5.
Fear of heights was developed without wire guided falls. It's irrational to be afraid of that vs say, being unafraid of taking a car ride.

It's exactly because we've got this corrupted evolved hardware that we must actively seek out all irrationality in our minds.

After all, things like availability bias were also developed for good reasons. No sense being afraid of tigers and not going into the forest for good if no one you know has ever seen a tiger. That's just as good heuristic as "be scared when going to high places".
One problem with that is that if they can see your tax details, they will know what you were on. If they catch you lying in the interview you could be fired. So if you ever piss off your boss, or they don't like you, they can let you go immediatly.

In countries that aren't the USA, and don't have that "at-will" crap, giving up all the legal employment rights is a bad move to make.
The part that cannot be simulated by Kerbal Space Program is the fact that the Gateway is not technically orbiting the Moon. It is technically "following" an area of space which is a halo orbit (not really pure orbits in the sense of leave it and forget it, rather where you have to stationkeep (use RCS thrusters a lot)) in an area of 3D space that has nearly the same gravity influence as the L2 LaGrange point does.

From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5O77OV9_ek at 0:05

The red color orbit around the actual L2 point at 0:05 means that you don't need to stationkeep a whole lot to hold the orbit. As the video continues on, it keeps rendering orbits that are still L2 halo orbits that are unstable as you need to continually stationkeep more and more (the reason behind the color change as I understand it) up until the periapsis of the orbit approaches the moon, the last couple orbits turn red again. This means they are somewhat stable. This is the gateway's planned orbit.

At 1:05 it shows what the orbit looks like in 3D earth centered. Now you can see that the station isn't really orbiting the moon, it is in an earth orbit flirting with the South Earth-Moon L2 point.

This also means that craft going to the station don't actually need to circularize as you would in a traditional orbit to dock. As long as you time it right that both the gateway and the incoming spacecraft arrive at the gateway's apoapsis at the same time, all you have to do is match their relative velocities and dock.

There really is no simple english explanation out there as much as I can find anyways.
I love excel, it's fantastic. I also hate excel, it causes me so many problems. Usually in the way of proliferating "shadow systems" of this sort:

Them: "We need you to do X with our data."

Me: "Okay, where do you see the data in the (enterprise ERP) system, I'll find the tables from there."

Them: "We use Excel because the system doesn't have a place for this data."

Me: "We upgraded 10 years ago. There's a place for it. How is office X getting the data they need from you?"

Them: "Oh we just share an excel file each week and they add their own stuff to it. Here's 300 weekly files for the last 5 years. We really need the analysis in a few days."

Me: ::tries to concat 300 excel files, discovers 50 variations on column arrangements, names, data types etc., tells department--:: "You aren't getting this in a few days. The good news is that you don't have to use Excel anymore because when I'm done, your data will be formatted & loaded into the ERP and all you'll have to do is put new stuff there too, and all analysis & reporting will be automated."

Them: "But it's the full-time job of one of our staff to handled all of this stuff in Excel."

Me: "Have you ever though that you needed more help in your department? Well, congratulations, you just got one 'new' full time employee."

People at least then generally walk away happy, except for me as I stitch together 50 variations on 300 different excel files. That's a slight exaggeration though: Most of these offline shadow processes aren't quite that large, and staff turnover is usually fast enough that such a process doesn't age 10 years past its point of obsolescence.
Whether you serve 20 clients in one spot or 1 client 20x the size in one spot the problem is still allocating the same amount of frequency to that spot. You could get away with a single much higher end receiver which would help if you designed the satellites for it but there is still a lot of low hanging fruit Starlink needs to grab before that makes more sense than finishing adding additional frequencies and shells in the first place.
In principle, I agree.

Excel files in onedrive don’t work very well. Some features are disabled (even merging cells), so very quickly you now have various versions plus a version on onedrive. You may think there is one master file but there probably isn’t.

Google sheets are better (and plotting and pivot tables are much easier to use) but there’s always someone who downloads as excel and makes a new version. I almost think google drive with much more friction to export would be better.
A job being "too junior" for someone often means they can't get it even if they want it - the organization is looking for someone with little experience who is presumably young and can rise through the ranks.
Not having financial means to waste more time in college has no bearing on the person's motivation.
The US could not have won the war without the wealth that still remained within the "fully backed" dollar even after all the shenanigans that had been pulled on the general citizens devaluing the dollar up to that point.
You called it not "truth". Have you been to your local university to research this? Did someone give you an opinion you are repeating? What informs your strong opinion?
> Don’t spread conspiracy theories without evidence.

Have some strength to hear the facts
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Except that Windows 7 seems as polished to me as OS X. The knock on Windows is that it's all closed down and proprietary, which can't really be said about Android. OS X has less baggage than Windows, because it's newer, but in this case Android is the newer OS. I think if Android gets hardware acceleration and polishes a bunch of other little things up, it's going to be very competitive.
Yes, thinking that we have a ruling class with a keen interest in technological methods of counterinsurgency and anti-labor control is the same thing as anti-communist Bircherism.
>New York, in 2001, became the first state to outlaw driver cellphone use.

I live in Manhattan and walk to work. The amount of drivers I see using their cellphones while driving on during my daily commute is ridiculous. Sometimes the drivers are in plain sight of officers whom are standing on the crossing an at intersection. It's ridiculous.

Sometimes I feel like some sort of program should be introduced where if a pedestrian can obtain evidence of a driver on the phone or something, it can be submitted and the driver receives a fine while the person that submitted the evidence gets rewarded.
Would these zombie cgroups be able to be detected in any of the kubernetes statsd metrics emitted?
...that case supports my argument, not yours. Not sure why you are linking it.
Interestingly “Four score and seven years ago” is "4 20 7" meaning 87.
I get your point your making, but I think your reacting a bit harshly. We don't need one regulation that solves all our problems. We can have 'defense in depth'.

Current laws that put microdot detection in color scanners will not deter huge resources to counterfeiting like state backed operations. But they do prevent the local meth junkie down the road from making a bunch of fake 20's to get his next fix.

At the sametime, the paper that we use is also highly regulated. Its not impossible to get something that is similar, but its not easy. (and not cheap).

The points of all these layers, is to prevent the casual and common crimes. By doing that, you can spend your resources on the larger operations.
Is this a narco-submarine article?

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine
This does not really have anything to do with either kubernetes or networks. If your computer is busy, it won't be able to process packets. Accessing certain kernel stats via proc, sys, or other special files may be really expensive. For example /proc/pid/smaps of a running mysqld takes 2 seconds on a computer I happen to have on hand. Sometimes when you have many cores it is expensive to produce some of the fields of /proc/pid/stat because the kernel has to visit numerous per-cpu data structures. /proc/pid/statm is better for this reason, if it contains what you are looking for.

TL;DR reading kernel stats can take a long time and cost a lot of CPU cycles. It costs more for more containers, and more on bigger machines.
The stock price halved because WeWork failed, regardless of his payout.
yeah seeing spaces is kinda weird IMO
Before we get into - "Oh not this again!" and "Duh! but Linux Won!" and "Microkernels are still a better design"...

Remember, today's lucky 10,000...

http://xkcd.com/1053/

Actually, I always enjoy reading this whenever it comes up. I was just about to start a university computing science degree course at this time and was reading Tanenbaum in preparation. This was a debate that was alive for years throughout the computing community I was part of.

In the end reality came down to what always wins in computing (and in life too).

Running code beats design. Design is always 'better'.
I have attended iOS 5 course and skimmed through iOS 7 course, so I hope my comment would apply to this course as well (just looked at contents/chapters). I don't really recommended attending this class without programming experience and also one should be good, I mean with beginner experience also it will be difficult. I was beginner at programming and it was difficult. Lots of things didn't make sense and ultimately I gave up in middle. Now I have understood basics of programming paradigms, like loops, object oriented programming and other concepts like MVC, things started making sense. For me iOS8 class gonna be good experience, I hope. Plus swift is easy to understand syntax wise compared to Objective C, for me.

Note that I am still a noob at Objective C, however I have learnt bit of Python and things still make sense. Hope this helps you.
Swift on Security tends to be surprisingly on the pulse with respect to this sort of stuff. Of course check a second source but don't write Tay Tay off right away!

I'd love to know who runs it.
I intuitively understand what you're getting at, but I think it's difficult to draw a legal line between a name sign and advertising.

I guess plain signs reading "bakery", "clothes", "cars", "hipster coffee", etc. could be allowed if you try this.
I can't see this becoming a consumer product.
Agriculture can do DAC:

https://terraton.indigoag.com/
Abhijit Banerjee was her doctoral advisor. He tutored her not the other way around. If you get any chance to read their famous book Poor Economics, you will find almost 70% RCTs were conducted in India. Classical Indian bias.
Please stop using HN for nationalistic flamewar. It's not what this site is for. We've already had to ask you this, and ban accounts that won't stop, so please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> It’s understandable it’s a touchy subject. Why piss off China if you don’t have to? Only something to lose and nothing to gain.

Because that's pushing the line further and further of what the CCP can make people accept.
Is this a surprise? Sadly it seems like the professor emeritus must be having a neurological issue in progress.
I am in general skeptical that statistical experiments will give use much insight into complex behavior. I think building theoritical models is the better approach to study complex systems, since then we will can explain why a certain behaviour shall manifest.

Do astrophysicists use controlled trials to study the universe?
Obviously we ban accounts that break the site guidelines like this, so please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I hate this for the laid-off employees. Especially at this time of the year, this sucks.

I feel enraged for stockholders. WeWork's management wasn't 'sticking to the knitting', as Buffett would say. They seemed preoccupied with trying to shape the world (see link below) and not so much providing value for shareholders or security to employees.

Hoping for a better, smarter, focused new company to come along and build the business.

https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-bans-meat-2018-7
I love that they came back to downvote your appeal to good netiquette.

HN needs a learning option for downvote external validity -- consitent upvotes on something a user downvoted should degrade the weight of their downvote for all articles.
"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men." Thomas H Huxley
That's really generous, thanks!
I'm sorry to be a pain, but by not punishing the cheating 'free riders', you are pushing the cost of those free riders onto the good students.

The value of of the good students' education is eroded by poor quality of the cheaters.
2.8.1 was mostly a bugfix release.
http://www.scala-lang.org/node/8102
Most webapps don't fall under your definition of "serious software project".

Personally, I wouldn't be able to stand Heroku either, and would rather just boot up an EC2 instance. But I also recognize that I'm old-fashioned.
I would guess that the source of department donations would drive focus for many universities - and not many startups are dropping seven figures for new buildings or fellowships.
libel: n. A false publication, as in writing, print, signs, or pictures, that damages a person's reputation.
There's very few companies out there that can take a standard iPhone built application and have it replaced with something in the App Store. tap tap tap has built a product that has replaced the default Camera on my phone and my wife's.
Yes, people are also running faster than they used to, they play chess better than they used to, we've been pushing the limits (not me personally lol) of what is possible and it stands to reason that portraitists are also getting better.

The only objection to this I can imagine is rooted in the misconception that it's somehow irreverent to see today's students as better than the old masters. The brilliance of the past heroes consisted in pushing the needle of what was possible, and today's heroes are pushing it even further.
I really like salar.ly -- it's a collection of salaries of people with work visas (they have to report their salaries) that acts as a decent proxy for salaries as a whole.
I got nervous with Ubuntu releases when 9.10 came out, and it was really buggy; definitely shouldn't have been released in that state.

This time round I upgraded a couple of nights ago from the repos, and I'm pleased to say there have been no dramas.
rST > HTML is less likely, but CommonMark > PDF could definitely be a thing.
Earlier today, someone told me that I've "drunk the kool-aid" of my employers, Pivotal Labs.

Well, it happens that I decided to work for Labs after visiting the Facebook campus. Literally while I was driving back to SF from Palo Alto.

At Labs I work for 40 hours per week. Not an on-paper 40 hours -- actually 40 hours. When I was new to the company I found myself one night on a train to Philadelphia for a personal trip. I was bored, so I opened my laptop and answered some emails from a client. The following week I got a mild dressing down from my colleagues for working after-hours and I was told by my manager not to do it again.

If I am at a computer more than 10 minutes after 6pm, co-workers start wandering up and saying "you're not working, are you?". I've only worked late twice, and the latest I've worked is 6.30pm (because I thought I'd broken Golang support on Pivotal Web Services and wanted to be sure I hadn't before going home).

Meanwhile, at Facebook, after being shown all the cool workspaces and the free food, I asked what the hours were. "There are no hours, you set your own with your team". On my drive back to where I was staying in SF, I remembered that on their campus, I'd seen a barber's shop.

It struck me that, so that you don't leave for 30 minutes, once a month, Facebook has a barber on the campus. Someone later pointed out to me that the buses they run have wifi. So life becomes: wake up, shower, get on bus, work, get off bus, breakfast, work, lunch, work, dinner, work, get on bus, work, get home, sleep.

Frankly? I prefer the damn kool-aid.
Is there some sort of group out there complaining that callbacks are problematic because they make things slow in Node? It certainly has nothing to do with my objections. This seems to verge on a strawman, while meanwhile doing nothing to address the problems of code comprehensibility, maintainability, composability, testability, proper error handling, or any of the other things that break when you are throwing away your entire stack information every 5 to 10 statements or so and basically programming with something just one tiny, tiny step above the Gotos that Dijkstra Considered Harmful.

Further, the performance argument is trivially discarded by observing that in real languages like Go or Erlang, the speed of real code is just as fast if not faster than Node. You only get slowdown in Node because you have to pay to implement abstractions at the wrong layer. In the general case, callbacks are slower due to the need to keep creating stack frames over and over, instead of leaping into already-existing ones in progress, and things like Go will always have an advantage there.
The people who say that the "callback haters" hate it because of indentation miss the point.

The problem is readability and flow. async makes code flow (and perhaps more importantly , data flow) harder to grok without knowing the code well. closures don't help with that, but renaming doesn't help either. Especially if your thing is going to be named things like WriteToDiskAfterOtherFileRead or something.

things like yield and whatnot are embraced because it allows us to build things with clearer patterns. Callbacks have their place as well, but when you think about how most people reason about IO (even in async fashion), a better expressive tool would be appreciated.
Is there a bubble in the tech/startup/web business scene?

Probably not, this is where we're at with modern day services and business making use of modern infrastructures and newly developed technologies.

Is there a bubble specific to San Francisco / Bay Area startups? I would assume so, granted all it takes to run a startup is a sensible business plan, talent, and an office space.

There's a lot of factors at play. Advertising and data mining analysis seems to be fueling the value of services like WhatsApp/Facebook. SV has attracted a lot of talent because it's a great area to live around, there's plenty of fresh blood from the good schools in the area, and SV is where a lot of big companies have set up shop.

There's always been charlatans and swindlers in the business world, and there will be many interesting innovators to come. There's an excessive amount of cash flying around [1].

It's not a tech bubble, it seems like a San Fransisco/Silicon Valley real estate bubble.

[1] https://xkcd.com/980/
"I would much rather read about what companies are doing than the state of the markets."

This statement rings true for me when applied to much writing that passes for journalism. "Horse race journalism," is the word for it when talking about political journalism.
Financial Independence Retire Early

Short version is organising your finances and life in such a way that you can retire as early as possible. Things like maxing out the right kind of investment (not sure in the US but in UK it's things like ISAs), controlling outgoings, being frugal, ...
Thank goodness startup founders aren't as determined as terrorists.
I realize this may come off poorly, but I intend this as a serious question: What is stopping you from trying a career switch now?

I get we all need to pay the bills, but hear me out: could you explore alternative options slowly?

One piece of insight I received from my advisor: “How do you know someone really wanted something. They DID it.”

If you are serious about wanting to try something else, start doing it. See if it is something you get excited about. Maybe you can’t do it full time right away, but you can do something toward that goal now, regardless of your age.

My 2 cents...
At this point, the only thing I use it for is to get tour dates of a few bands.
You're right, it was part of his opinion filed with the Rogers Commission:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Commission_Report#Role_...
tbh my criticism was more directed at PG's essay and particularly his linked earlier than anything you had to say. I mean, I largely agree that absence of convincing counterargument is a point in favour of the suppressed idea [though even Lysenko attempted one, and I'm not sure anyone's ever disproved TimeCube ;)]

But I'm not convinced that the suppression is correlated with whether the idea is remotely worth exploring or not, still less that it's positively correlated with it being a good thing. And I think that's where 'is there a good reason why people researching into this are ostracised comes into question, which is where there's a less obvious case of a risk to society from heliocentrism than sympathetic takes on Naziism