jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In an ideal situation, agreed. But surely that depends entirely on how many tables are being queried (how many tables already exist in the cache), the size of the rows, how much RAM the host has / how big the cache is, plus a few other variables most probably.

What I mean is: like all other things, it depends. And with assumptions like this, it is generally better to measure.
Logging data costs money, but selling data earns money. Also, if the parent company is known for malware then getting mitm-attacked by your VPN sounds like an actual risk if you have any unencrypted traffic passing through it.
> I wish there was a better word for this than pg's "disinterested" because it sounds strange to have an intense, all-consuming interest in which you're disinterested.

It's interest in the sense of "conflict of interest", not in the sense of finding something fascinating.
One also has the question the impact. Sure it’s a separate species of rhino. But it’s a separate species because humans designated it as such. Sometimes the difference between species is pretty marginal and one might wonder what the impact is of losing it.
Any TV ad that caters to older Americans--esp monthly pills, etc.

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/12/19/18148981/fake-free-...
Because it's actually a pretty nice climate for a lot of the year and it doesn't get snow. And I'm not sure the hot Phoenix summers are really much worse (if any worse) than the humid southeast. When I lived in New Orleans my recollection was that a lot of short walk from AC to AC went on, especially during the day, as well.

And obviously people can adapt (although the native peoples tended to be at higher altitudes in the summer). There are also construction techniques that mitigate the heat to some degree--but you're not going to see those in use at the local big box store.
I hope this includes gym memberships.
> I wish there was a better word for this than pg's "disinterested"

"Intrinsic motivation", perhaps?
You misunderstand. The problem isn't that 1V is too low, it's that volts aren't a unit of energy (nor of power). It's like talking about how many meters someone weight or how many liters tall they are.
Being a PHP + VMWare system (culture-wise, not the technology itself), I was not surprised about all the madness on DB level. They didn't use indices in Postgres but they added Redis. Its incredible how many, perhaps most, systems do crazy things like that.
Not to mention deployment. No JVM to configure. Or application server...

Minimally, just drop the binary and an init.d script. Feel free to use something fancier for manageability etc., the point was the simple option is available.
... and since you don't know how big the constant factor is, you still have to do the experiment a few times.

Also there might be factors (that you are not aware of) that differ between several executions of the same program (maybe address space randomization got extremely lucky or unlucky in one execution? Or your OS has a bug the prioritizes processes differently when the PID is a power of 2? Who knows?), or some background processes (cron?) woke up, so even if your number of in-process repetitions is sufficiently high, you still run the thing a few times and observe if the numbers are stable.
"what the fuck is IE doing that for ... ohhhhh, that's what's going on here"
Evacuate the civilians and just cordon off the area until the pressure decreases.

If you dress for going to war, a war you should find.
I like my sauna around 90C/195F. I can relate to that temperature. The coldest weather I've been in is -17F/-27C. I can relate to that as well, though I much prefer not to.

On the other hand, I grew up in Miami. In college in northern Florida, those of us from the south stayed up late so we could actually see what it was like when it was freezing outside. We left water outside to see that it actually froze! Back then I couldn't relate to temperatures below 32F/0C.

In other words, "we" is a rather nebulous definition.
"We know that's hot."

Beyond a certain age everyone has had the experience of suffering thru having total weirdo coworkers (weird even by my standards) who seemingly randomly oscillate the office thermostat setting from 60 to 80 thru the day because they "feel cold" "feel hot" so they turned the thermostat all the way up or all the way down. Nutcases.

I'm just saying if you create a hot and cold human scale, it'll have to be personalized for each individual and seemingly randomly vary over time. May as well use a magic 8-ball.
That made me try to find the remission rate of Hodgkins Lymphoma, and according to this 2005 paper [0] it is indeed very rare, the paper says that only 15 cases have been recorded. The interesting part: The patient in that paper had "complete remission during intensified care for interstitial pneumonia".

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2815821/
Because most users could care less.

Notice that you logged into HN by sending a plaintext password.

Edit: I totally agree with your sentiment though.
The product seems amazing, but they are somehow cheating in the video.

The signs (in Spanish) have grammar mistakes, but they are automatically translated to correct English sentences. I have a few examples:

- The third sign says "Lo traduce el texto", but that sentence doesn't make sense. It should be "Traduce el texto" or even "Se traduce el texto".

- 'Ropas opcional' sounds strange to me, although it may be accepted in some countries.. It should be something like 'Ropas opcionales'.

I tried both examples in Google, Bing and Babel Fish and the results were OK, so I don't think that Word Lens translator is very accurate.

"Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will
the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to
apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke
such a question."
I sincerely hope that the congress takes a good look at this in detail and pass the bill. This would help a lot of H1 Visa struggling with huge talent and obnoxious job fits, and their urge to start something in the states. Go Startup Visa!
You should register wordlensapp.com or something of the like. I'm not sure hosting nothing but the app promotion on a site with a completely different URL is beneficial.

With such a product, you should perhaps brand yourself more on your product than your company name. :)

Just throwing it out there.
Have you tested whether it leads to more or less sign ups?
I'm still angry that yahoo bought them. Since then they've let flickr stagnate while the rest of the landscape innovated around them (almost making them obsolete) and they've added the encumbrance of being forced to login with a yahoo account.
I've traveled to countries before whose offices of government are behind very large fences, protected by unfriendly looking men standing behind heavy machine guns in armored vehicles – and the guide books are very clear that you are not to take photos of them.

I much prefer the approach taken in the USA, where our offices of government are accessible to the people that the government serves. It's very good that I can protest out front without worrying about that unfriendly man with his finger by the trigger to the Browning M2.
F-Droid has a search box you could use to answer such questions for yourself:

https://search.f-droid.org/?q=facebook&lang=en
>Bitcoin's narrative has had to morph from "digital currency" to "digital gold"

The narrative around bitcoin has always been "It is digital currency. It works like gold". Hence the notion of "mining".

EDIT: downvote me if you want but you are flat wrong

Section 6 in the bitcoin whitepaper explicitly likens bitcoin to gold [0]

>The steady addition of a constant of amount of new coins is analogous to gold miners expending
resources to add gold to circulation

[0]: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Even has a hacker news hn! shortcut.
I enjoyed my time living on campus and I understand the authors point, but a college campus is the ulitmate elitist gated community.

Imagine a city that required you pass an IQ test, submit your high school grades and an essay, ask for the last 2 years of tax returns and credit history, scanned your social media posts and reviewed all your hobbies and extra-ciricular activities before they would consider letting you become a resident. Then, once you moved in, they would monitor your speech and other activites to make sure they were up to community codes and standards. College campuses make suburbia look like Burning Man.
MEMS based storage is a thing, though the most common architecture appears to be basically a magnetic system with a very large number of read/write heads (I think: the summary papers I read were extremely vague on the actual read/write/storage mechanism). The issue mostly seems to be the storage density isn't very good: the actual size of a bit is still quite large and the read/write heads also take up a fairly significant amount of space, but throughput is potentially huge because of the many heads operated in parallel. MEMS tends not to operate at the atomic scale, features of the mechanisms are usually a fair bit larger (and mechanisms which make break/make contact are generally difficult to make reliable and long-living in MEMS: surfaces will tend to stick together when they touch and rolling/sliding interfaces will wear away quickly. Almost all industrial MEMs use involves structures which only move by flexing, not the pretty looking gear systems which tend to get media coverage).
Pure democracy for uneducated voters and removing limits on campaign finance (hinging on the argument that money is speech) seem like different issues to me. Related but different. I don't think disliking mob rule means liking what we have.

Today we have unmitigated political spending aimed at manipulating and deceiving uneducated voters. We end up with voters less fit to vote and candidates less fit to lead.

Any change you could make to put candidates on a level playing field where they aren't beholden to campaign funders could only make this country work better.

The honest truth needs a chance to win over rhetoric.

You're right though, I shouldn't project my views onto the founders just because I think they did a good job on the Constitution in the context of their time.
For the most part you don't. Anyone with a space intensive form of recreation (arguably this included raising a family) has to slog out a commute from the suburbs.

Yes there are some single men in their 20s with table saws in their living rooms but they're the exception and not the rule.
> Mathematica wins, and will continue to win, because the language is functional and conforms to how Mathematicians think, rather than how programmers like to code.

Or maybe Python "will win" because it conforms to how programmers think, rather than forcing them to think like mathematicians (also, why capitalize "mathematicians" in your sentence?), letting them get their shit done.

More importantly, "win" what exactly? It makes no sense to talk about "winning" if you don't even properly define a victory condition and context first.
Wow, the map at top left when expanded looks awesome. This seems to draw nicely and fast on the iPad, but I can't get it to scroll around. Anyone figured it out yet?
They had no idea what they were letting themselves in for, had they? Still, without this day twenty years ago, we would not be doing this today.

So Merry Christmas to you all, and Many Happy Returns to the WWW!
Interesting work that looks promising.

In general though, is it just me or are we yet to see an API/library/protocol that makes it 'simple' to add real time capabilities to an app?
>because there is nothing written down to refer to as a 'base

Except for 1000 years of legal precedence
30 dollars per hour for very experienced programmer, yeah possible but for a new grad with beginning project is too much.
30x8 (hours per day)x20(workdays per month)=4800USD per month salary? well I dont think this is the situation in the world.
To be honest, I'm not sure what to make of this. Wuff the library makes sense as a drop in for the C standard library, but the language, I'm not sure how it fits.

It seems to offer some of the features offered by languages like D and Rust, while staying more C like, but also removing one of the few actual reasons to use C, which both D and Rust also provide on top of the other features offered by Wuff.

It's cool and all but it seems confused as to whether it wants to be a library for C, an extension to C or a standalone language. As a stand alone language, I'm not sure I really see the benefits over alternatives as a C library, it does have some interesting ideas.
I had only ever encountered idempotence in the context of system management (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc)

Article made me think it's actually applicable to other management as well
Qanon didn't invent Operation Mockingbird. The CIA did.
Is that your first startup or have you done any other projects? If you can show some previous achievements O-1 could be an option: https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...
That's not really true. The copy-on-write filesystems just allow multiple files to reference the same blocks, and only allow modifications to blocks if the refcount is 1. At least, at its simplest, that's how copy-on-write works. To copy a file, you copy the block references and increment the reference counts. You won't end up with a diff or deltas stored anywhere.
Depends on what you're getting out of the exercise. I never found sports (except when I played soccer regularly) to get me the kind of workout and results I was after (even then I was in great cardio condition and could run for hours, but my upper body was weak). Even my friends who prefer sports still spend a few hours (2-5) a week doing other training, including strength or even just more focused cardio, often selected to support or complement their preferred sport.
But riding with training wheels looks miserable... it destroys the smoothness and joy of a bike. I'm surprised kids want to persist with it at all... My kids loved balance bikes (i.e. normal bikes with no pedals) because they don't have the resistance and weird balance issues of a tiny third wheel.
I am in infosec (primarily, there's a lot of similar work I do that doesn't neatly bucket into that including finance). No leetcode required (except for security engineering roles, possibly). This obviously does not apply to SWEs, so plan accordingly. The interviews are the practice/prep for each subsequent interview. Think of it like Toastmasters [1] but for your career. Leetcode polishing does sound like it might work for SWEs, but I cannot speak to it, and don't want to provide bad advice (which can be worse than no advice).

[1] https://www.toastmasters.org/
I mean, what is your brain doing if not that?
I've wanted this for a long time. Anyone know why they can't offer it on Apple?
Do you have weekly scheduled 1 on 1s? I have a few remote team members and make sure they pair up weekly just to feel connected and present. It's team member to team member, not like a traditional 1 on 1 with a lead. I know it's a very small measure, so I'm very interested in other comments here.
Essentially, colleges (and the government) expecting a family contribution to tuition meant I went into extensive debt on my own, though cosigned by my stepdad (who made it clear he would in no way take on any of the financial obligation of the loans) for college. Most of my friends' parents were the same way, and did not contribute to their children's college (and I'm not sure where all these kids whose parents are paying for their college are even going, really... or what kind of money those parents must be making to be able to pay outright for college tuition) -- at a top tier U.S. school. In an engineering program.

Working at a thrift store full time making minimum wage and going to engineering school full time for the first two years, then doing tech support full time and going to engineering school full time for the last two years was no joke, and I still have debt remaining, two years out of school with a good job.

Why should it be the parents' income that anyone cares about?

Students are expected to contribute? Don't make me laugh. It's their education, they are of majority age, they likely will be paying for it and then some. How are PARENTS expected to contribute at all? Mine honestly did not and do not make enough money to have any left over after taking care of my two younger siblings (ten years younger), and yet on the FAFSA right there, an "expected family contribution".

Edit: they do, of course, make enough money combined that the government expects that they'd want to send their kid to college and could theoretically contribute something to it. They did what they could, but that wasn't what fulfilled expectations laid down by the Powers That Be.
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The point is that there exist cracks in that many people will fall through and society at large doesn't even know that they are there; society as a whole is in denial about the problem because they can look at utterly dysfunctional systems like the US and and say "we're so much better here". Part of the problem is that many of those who are aware of the problem blame the individuals themselves for falling through the cracks in the system (like you do, based on some notion of 'choice'). One possible solution (it seems you agree with me here), is to remove the division between public and private systems. The first step ist to accept the existence of a problem instead of denying it (blaming individuals is a form of denying systemic issues).
Beat me to it. And according to this report, London currently has 46 free ICU beds.
Almost none...and I have family members on both sides.
fun fact: they also collect data from apps they don't own but which use Facebook SDK. eg. Opera, Duolingo, Kayak and tons of others. So deleting Facebook app and Facebook account doesn't do much as you think it's does.
WhatsApp does not have multi-device, so technically it has no issues with it.

(for any sensible definition of multi-device)
SMS is not encrypted, iMessage is Apple only
You can't do group chats in the same way using SMS messages. People who receive an SMS have no idea who else the message was sent to, so they can't even "reply all".
What are you suggesting? That before, or outside, copyright law there was no creative production?

Copyright might assist production (though the evidence is shaky), but to say it is a sine qua non is flat out wrong.
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A similar set of properties can be applied to web startups as well: market is saturated, competition is strong, and the consumers are much more conservative than you think (unless if you happen to be in Silicon Valley). Keep in mind that the consumers of web startups have a very short attention time-span.

Sometime there's a good reason why web-startups are tiny part of the European ecosystems. Even if you want to have more, the market doesn't necessarily agree with your personal point of view (I don't mean to criticize you, I'm just pointing out that there might be bias in your view)
I believe trade secrets can be protected by traditional trespassing and contract laws. To violate a trade secret you've got to either trespass on a company's property to obtain information, or be an employee who violates your employment contract and leaks secrets.

Trademarks are a bit of a snag for my philosophically. I have a big problem with intellectual property, but I can understand the problem that would arise if anyone could market their products with another company's name or logo. One option I've come up with is that stores themselves could enforce trademarks.
Wow that design really brought back memories of late-90s web design with the rounded image+text buttons.

Too bad the site is incredibly slow. Here's a link to the cached "Travel" page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Well that is European winter for you.
Yes, I'm afraid I gave up reading it after a couple of clicks.

No, mysterious group hiding its identity, I will not invest more mouse clicks just to read your advertising spiel. If you want me to read something you can give it to me in plain twelve-point text, thanks.
I always enjoyed optimizing my items for the next branch in DCSS, plus worrying about dropping dangerous weapons, lest an enemy pick it up and use it on me. (Which has also been removed)
A friend and I were just wishing something like this existed. "pre-prealpha" is a bit too early for me, but I definitely wish you luck in this.
You overestimate how tech savvy the common population is and how much hand holding is actually required to achieve this drive through testing efficiency.

People would get in line with their car to ask the attendant questions or for IT app support. There are language, accessibility/disability, cultural, etc. barriers (to name a few).
I have used Jitsi. Last week I did a few pairing sessions where the both of us were sharing our screens and still had our webcams on in the corner and it was awesome.

We tried to do a standup with (I think) 8 people and it was terrible - people would randomly not get any audio for stretches of time, video would get choppy or lost completely, it was not pleasant.

I will keep using it for pairing since I haven't found another tool that gives me that kind of flexibility and it was in fact very good. I believe the whole experience is limited by the connection quality of the worst participant.
That would technically be an “Auto-PAP”. I have a CPAP and my doctor has specifically said that I should stick with this technology for as long as I can, because it will be better and more effective for me in the long run. He said that an Auto-PAP or a Bi-PAP would be the next step, if we get to needing pressure levels that a CPAP can’t deliver.
I would argue a strong case that tutors and social workers don't need to commute to work. What part of their job can't be done online?
Mitch Mcconnell, the person who sets the legislative agenda in the Senate, wrote this in his memoir:

It’s one of my life’s great fortunes that Sister’s home was only about sixty miles from Warm Springs, Georgia, where President Franklin D. Roosevelt had established a polio treatment center and where he’d often travel to find relief from the polio that paralyzed him at the age of thirty-nine.

My mother took me there every chance she had. The nurses would teach her how to perform exercises meant to rehabilitate my leg while also emphasizing her need to make me believe I could walk, even though I wasn’t allowed to.

I bet it left an impression.
Around Christmas in Michigan, the temperature hovers around 0C.

The person you're replying to is describing about 30 miles of travel, at a rough estimate.

So, there's your answer.
Please please please don't try to transpose behavioural models from slime molds (or any other species, really) to humans.
Haha, reminds me of the writing on a run-down gas station bathroom stall.

Why am I addicted?