jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wait a second, you are telling me that Elon may be trying to increase the value of his company through these product releases. Hard to believe, but I am coming around to it
I learned about it from her Twitter account, not sure if she talked about it elsewhere.

Edit: it is also right on top of the article - "her long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, was released, and she became something else entirely: a worldwide cultural phenomenon. The novel, set in a not-so-distant United States where fundamentalist fascists have gained power and stripped away women’s rights"

(Although I was referring to her comments before the release of the new book, but the new book confirms it).
Hey! Thanks! :)
Yay!

Also, we're hiring!
say google has 450k servers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform) so has 11m hours of commodity x86 time a day.

if google gets 2937m queries a day (http://searchengineland.com/by-the-numbers-twitter-vs-facebo...)

then each query would have to do 13secs of work to be equivalent.

of course this is total nonsense (in many ways), just wondered how it would compare.
I blogged about my experiences both in Apple Retail, and in "corporate" Apple for a number of years. Eventually I took it all down, though not due to any pressure from the company. I took it down because I was inundated with emails from 15 year olds who wanted to know how to get a job in an AppleStore. But I worked for Apple for 6 years in Retail and AppleCare, and interfaced extensively with hardware engineering. I'm not sure I'd have anything interesting to say, but if you have any questions, I'll try my best to answer them.
I doubt google - or any similar company who relies upon data aggregation and collection - makes a habit of deleting data.
well done, you can use whois.
Devalue our currency by some amount by printing money over time? I'm not being glib. The effects:

Makes debt and social security obligations smaller by paying the dollar amounts, but with less expensive dollars.

Force boomers to work well into retirement which is set based on a shorter life expectancy anyway.

Reduce our debt to china.

There are plenty of bad effects, but it seems the easiest thing to put over on the people, because all the other hard decisions would be politically unpalatable. Aside from this, the current course seems to make it inevitable.
The industrial products dilemma: where to put the lethal waste.

(Which doesn't even have a half-life, which means it stays like that forever!)

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For a long period it was against the law for an Irishman to own a horse worth more than 5 pounds. Englishmen could assault an Irishman with a horse worth 50 pounds, steal it, and throw a 5 pound note at the owner's feet, and the (English) magistrate would say that no offence had been committed. A young Catholic Irishman who converted to the Protestant branch of Christianity would get title to his Catholic father's house and could evict his family or charge them rent. There were also more systemic laws limiting Irish peoples' access to education and careers.

But the Irish remained the top ethnicity in Ireland and their population increased fast for most of that period, so I have no clue what the IRA were going on about.
I use an abnormally large ultrawide monitor, and find khronkite (another KDE tiling script) to be very useful. The three column layout works particularly well on the ultrawide, while the standard tiling layout works great on the laptop's built in screen. There is a little tiny hack to enable settings on the krohnkite github page: https://github.com/esjeon/krohnkite
This only works if the patent has not been applied for yet. Is this the case?
I don't think you'll see any traditional filesystem exposed on iOS. Apple seems pretty determined about this. But I'm pretty sure we will see more support for sharing documents between applications, perhaps with MobileMe integration.
Yes! I'm involved with a hacker space in Vienna, Austria (we're proud that Noisebridge cites us as inspiration) and I've long believed that on the floor above every hackerspace there should be a hostel. A "hackers in residence" program, if you will – complete with international exchanges and a "worldwide pass" subscription.
I haven't figured out how to cover the starting costs, but using Kickstarter is a really good idea.
You should start a mailing list/Facebook group/wiki.
It stands from semester to semester.

Typically, I create a fresh ubuntu server at the start of each semester, and I let it go unpatched for the duration of the semester.
The founders over at Missive also own a share of their company, which is likely worth 3-10x its ARR should they sell the company. So, they've made a nice job for themselves and created a very healthy amount of wealth. Congrats to them.
Nowadays, at least in the country I live, if you don't have someone in your family able to complete some tasks for you on the internet i'm not sure it would be possible to not have a modicus of internet access. I also think this is even worse than that, I would add that it becomes very difficult to not have a kind of smartphone with a way to install current apps, more and more some services are available only through apps.
> The court will not answer questions not put to it, and Google (I presume) felt they had a better shot at getting the court to agree it was fair usage, rather than arguing copyright should not apply here.

This is false; Google appealed on both copyrightability and fair use, and the Supreme Court agreed to hear both issues.
What are you going to do, when the addresses are SAAS and your blacklist is now impinging your own use of FAANG and DC cloud hosted services?

What are you going to do when the addresses belong to the US mil and are being promiscuously misused by lots of ISPs?

What are you going to do about politically motivated and other non benign influences on the blacklist like wanting to boycott China?

(I work in a regional internet registry so I should declare my interest i guess)
I meant "3-4 times of meson"
The flowchart you link to looks a lot like the workflow editors offered by no-code and low-code app designers:

https://docs.bettyblocks.com/en/articles/998093-what-are-act...
https://www.zoho.com/creator/newhelp/new-workflows/understan...

I can imagine that what your engineering team built is tightly coupled to a product, allowing its logic to be customized easily with no involvement from engineering. In order to productize the solution, I'm assuming that you'd need to create hooks allowing a different engineering team to integrate it with their particular product, before non-technical people could use it?

We're on a mission to do something similar, but using Excel-like formulas instead of flowcharts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25389963

These formulas are currently used by our app builder, but we will make the formula engine available separately sometime this year. The idea is that other engineering teams will be able to integrate our formula engine with their products, allowing non-technical people to customize products through the use of formulas.
Zed can come off as defensive and/or abrasive. If he disagrees with you he's not afraid to tell you you're an idiot, and if he feels like you're attacking him he'll tell you to go fuck yourself. He's also very, very staunch in his beliefs, some of which are somewhat contrarian.

In an industry as opinionated and "willing-to-call-you-out" as tech is, that doesn't always win a lot of friends.
The overwhelming majority of those "winners" fail. These funds aren't anointing the king, but rather are just trying to make a bet, and it's a bet they usually lose. As you said, their funding gives the entrant a leg up (usually if there's a significant capital cost), but in this case such funding provides astonishingly little advantage of scale.

This isn't an example of a bubble. It's an example of a really comically silly investment.
Don't ask questions in an open forum if you aren't willing to accept with grace answers to your question from others, use email instead. Besides, his answer explained his position perfectly.
I feel like the lack of an initial empty commit is really a failure to match the intuitive graph model. Clearly there should be an arrow corresponding to "adding the first files". And that arrow needs somewhere to go from and to. Hence, `git init` should always start by creating an initial commit object referring to an empty tree.

A side bonus of this would be that since the initial commit is empty it has a fixed id. Suddenly, all git repositories have a common ancestor, and you can merge any two random projects together without losing history!
There's another reason that no-one's mentioned yet: only rich people can afford to investigate and sue if they get scammed.

For example, a few years back there was a Ponzi scheme in the US called PermaPave which took money from a bunch of small investors on the pretext it was being invested in environmentally-friendly stone paving slabs. They didn't make a single cent in profit from the slabs - all the payments out came from other investors' payments in. When the whole thing imploded none of the small investors could afford to do anything about it. Unfortunately for PermaPave, they'd also taken a much larger investment from a company actually interested in buying stuff from them, and when they breached their contract that company had the money to investigate them, figure out that it was a Ponzi, and sue everyone involved.

Another problem is that companies don't want to deal with a load of small investors if they can raise money from a few rich investors instead: it's a lot more work and expense for them, the small investors don't have the same kinds of connections and expertise that the big VCs have, etc. The main reason to raise money from ordinary people is because you're a scammer and big investors have the expertise to spot you, the resources to investigate you, and the money to sue you if they do invest. (The less money you invest, the less you can rationally justify spending on due diligence.)

Ordinary people are at a fundamental disadvantage to the rich here no matter whether they're legally allowed to invest or not.
I truly wonder what kind of idiot downvotes this. Pure propaganda.
I assume Github could block it themselves if it were that simple.
> what are you expected to do when the service discovery system is unreachable, broken, or filled with bad data?

Different things based on which one of these actually happened!

I would assume the code that caused this issue was along the lines of:

var addresses []string{}
for k, el := range etcdEntries {
var element data.Service
addr, err := json.Unmarshal(&element, el)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("could not unmarshal service entry %q: %w", k, err)
}
addresses = append(addresses, addr)
}

And the issue is the lack of graceful degradation, in the form of not failing the entire conversion if one entry is broken. Instead, this should be something like:

var addresses []string{}
for k, el := range etcdEntries {
var element data.Service
addr, err := json.Unmarshal(&element, el)
if err != nil {
metrics.ServiceEntryBroken("key", k).Up()
glog.Errorf("Could not unmarshal service entry %q: %v", k err)
continue
}
addresses = append(addresses, addr)
}

Of course, this takes much more effort. But such is the nature of writing high quality, reliable software.

Naturally, if your entire SD service was down, you would fail the entire thing much earlier. That is indeed the thing about Go errors being plain variables - you are intended to write error handling logic (or at least are forced to consider it), not just pack the buck down by default, via either optional types or exceptions.
>Google is struggling with their cloud business. While what they offer is technically superior to all their competitors, they don’t have the sales team, nor the experience in building one. They are trying, but they haven’t gotten the hang of it yet, and in the meantime, Amazon and Microsoft just keep growing.

Don't forget the support. I used to work at a Series B startup, and AWS provided excellent support. We probably tossed them a few million a year, so I can only imagine what kind of white-glove top-tier support a big enterprise spender would've received.

We got responses for anything ranging from general UI questions to highly-in-the-weeds Redshift technical questions within 1 business day. >90% of the time, the issue was resolved upon the first response.

Google on the other hand, has very poor support. Facebook is by no means a support paragon either.

For this reason alone, I see a Microsoft-Amazon cloud duopoly with anyone else being a minor player as the only outcome. When shit hits the fan (as it is now) you need enterprise support capabilities.
In addition to noise and small changes, the same genome can contain multitude of mutually exclusive anatomical and behavioral traits.

For example, high stress environment might trigger different genetic traits than low stress environment, it's neither nature or nurture but both. In some animals you can get so different phenotype by altering environment that it's hard to recognize that they are the same species.

The idea that the genes just run the same process for the same set of genes and the environment just linearly modulates some traits is not the whole picture.
My gripe with open plan offices is that I spend a lot of the day overhearing a bunch of shit I have zero interest in.

I used to work at a consulting company, and I'd be in an open plan office with 5 other teams, working on 5 other projects. Everyone was working through engineering decisions that were unrelated to my own.

If everyone's on the same team, at least, there is some saving grace to the open plan office - you overhear stuff that you might be able to contribute to.
This is very interesting to see, lots of fun use cases with Clojure + Flutter.

> no REPL yet

Seems the most vital part is missing so far, but impressive enough with this first version released. Something I personally I do when hacking on my own lisps (happens too often maybe), is implementing support for the nrepl protocol so I can use neovim + conjure with it as soon as possible, to help further the development of course :)

From "https://github.com/Tensegritics/ClojureDart/blob/main/doc/fl..."

> When you edit your cljd file, the watcher recompiles cljd files and, on success, hot reloads the application. Sometimes the application may not pick up your change so hit the return key to get the watcher to restart the application.

Is this something specific to ClojureDart, is it because of Dart or because of Flutter? If it's because ClojureDart, it's alright as the project seems to be in early stages, but if it's because of Dart/Flutter it doesn't bode well. I have almost zero experience with either Dart/Flutter so interested to hear where the problem lies.
We have seven. Got the first five when the kids were 3, 5, and 7. We really enjoy them, but they do take work. Quality feed has gotten really expensive so be aware of the costs. We don't have an issue with rats, but we have a very secure coop.

Predators are our biggest issue. We've lost one to a coyote and have to be pretty vigilant when they are out because of the hawks in our area.
Seems like it would invite perpetual freedom fighting/guerrilla ops indefinitely, and Putin is not getting younger. How did 20 years in Afghanistan work out for the US, for example.

High level, Russia’s days as a superpower are over. People will continue to flee (~200k highly skilled Russians have fled the country, several million more Ukrainians as well), and the world will accelerate the transition off of oil to not be beholden to Russian petroleum.
The principle on HN is intellectual curiosity. Almost any discussion can gratify that if it's sufficiently uncorrelated with other topics.

(Edit: but this one is already a bit correlated with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31059524)

(Edit 2: also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31058636. Is this Chicken Day?)
Just be aware of the noise. I live in a neighborhood with a lot of feral chickens and wild birds. People who arent expecting it can be surprised by how much noise chickens make just scratching and doing chicken things. Roosters are a whole other thing.
Are these bootleg carts? Otherwise they had to approve of everything that was sold on the NES.
SSL does not protect against a variety of attacks, among them:

* breach via a compromised (guessed) password
* breach via a security issue in the service and/or the host

Hosting your own service may make sense depending on your knowledge and/or threat model, but it's not a silver bullet that solves all issues. Hosting on a .onion address buys you exactly nothing in terms of security - and in the case of a company/team chat server probably not even in terms of privacy.
The problem is that it depends on your definition of the sample space. In particular if the sample space remains constant.

If your sample space is "all words in the english language, capitalized and uncapitalized", then the second one has more entropy than the first one. But if your sample space is "all characters or runs of characters that appear in the passphrase", the second one has a whole lot less entropy.
I've thought about this myself, but never implemented.
> Shame on you; you should be ashamed of yourself.

Shame on me? I am no American. I don't need to be ashamed of the mess that USA has become. By the look of it you voted for Obama. So you should be ashamed of a President who had the gall to receive a Nobel Peace Prize and then went on to bomb foreign nations with impunity causing millions to die and be displaced. My country has never invaded other nations and will never do that. I don't need to feel any shame. You need to. On the contrary we fought back tyranny and created a new country called Bangladesh. Could have easily occupied that captured area after overthrowing a tyrannical, oppressive regime and re-integrated it back into our country. We did not do that. That is what separates us from the imperialist developed World.

> I see what you’re doing - you point out someone else’s flaws but avoid the matter at hand and under discussion.

Well it is quite easy to point fingers at someone while forgetting that three fingers are pointing back at you. If you can criticize Trump I can criticize Obama. I don't need to follow your script of how to respond. I can respond in my own way. Thankfully, the place I come from isn't authoritarian where I have to respond in a certain way else I am shamed/cancelled/rejected/boycotted or worse killed.
Any non-Google examples?

EDIT: Nevermind, found a list here: http://gwtreferencelist.appspot.com/
Their e2e encryption only applies to 1-to-1 communication in the form of Secret Chats, which can be opened from a menu multiple clicks away. Default chats and group chats are not e2e encrypted and contents are fully visible to Telegram. This however enables lot of the features Telegram has that Whatsapp/Signal do not (seamless use with multiple clients, powerful search, history is retained after switching phones etc..)
on delicious, we had a thing that would serialize a user to disk for every day they were active. inactive users were not re-serialized.

this let us have day-to-day backups of individual users. this was necessary when broken clients would delete all the user's items. so we could easily restore an individual user (or do a historical recovery.)
Apart from the point in the first video when they click on a link and you can still see the smudge of the text column on the newly cleared screen. A close look at the text column while scrolling makes it look dirty compared to the rest of the screen as well.
This is absolutely a complete and utter tangent but you touched on something I've really been wondering about: Watching a lot of ken burns lately, heard him tell quite a few stories of German regular army officers going out of their way to protect enemy combatants/POWs from being killed/taken to death camps to the extent that there seemed to be quite the little power struggle from among the nazi ranks; naturally (but unfortunately) since it was an American documentary it wasn't the primary focus, but I'd love to hear of any german made documentaries that do justice to the "people" side of things from the non-american point of view. (maybe this is assumptive and rude but I figured a German on HN would be the best person to ask; hope it wasn't too out of place!)
"I have a sneaking suspicion that certain groups of people are just much less susceptible to ads."

Especially a demographic that is more likely to use ad blocking browser plugins.
The longsword portion of the martial art may be impractical, but it's not studied in isolation. A good swordsman needs to have a damn good grasp on footwork, grappling, and wrestling. And disarms. All of those come in handy if you're being attacked and you're unarmed. I know a few (other) HEMA practicioners whose training has saved their lives...
I would suggest to consider TiddlyWiki instead: It's open source, it is a super simple low-tech solution (it's just one self-contained file) and it comes with built-in encryption. You can additionally just put it in your Dropbox to have it automatically versioned and synchronized.
The fact that it is fiction does not mean the insights it provides are also false. Instead, insights are often easiest to glean and clearer when presented as an analogy or when separated by renaming from real-world organizations where yo have preconceived ideas about how the world works.

One might look at real-world international politics and wonder why the UN seems toothless. Dune explains how an organization with similar dynamics in a fictional world came to be, and explains the forces that keep it there.

You obviously can't find-replace Padishah Emperor<->UN, Landsraad<->Sovereign Nations, and Great Convention<->International Law. But you can think about the incentives and goals that are present for each organization in Dune, and start to imagine what forces are present in the real world.

The basics of international politics are mathematical concepts like game theory and power dynamics. These are true whether they're observed in history, read in a polisci textbook, or adhered to in a fictional textbook. True, some fiction is less consistent with its political worldbuilding (Star Wars and Game of Thrones are particularly absurd) and you do have to remember to account for the fictional aspects of a setting in "the real world, X years in the future/past, but with magic _____". Once you account for that, fiction like Dune can be rational and therefore educational.
You should write that up as a proper tutorial - I'm pretty sure a few people here would find it interesting.
I don't see what the big deal is. I should note that in professional soccer coaches also try not to win games by more than five points because that can cause fights, injuries, your players being suspended, or even in some cases riots.
It has a very poorly specified api.

Here is a plugin template: http://github.com/phausler/XcodeAPI/tree/master/Xcode%20Plug...

Here is a (pretty detailed) description of what API there is:
http://xcodeapi.versv.com/
I'm still genuinely perturbed that people think the integrated 3g here is a good deal. I got the WiFi iPad, specifically so I could choose the right data provider and get on-the-go data for my MeFi. (which would also support my iPhone, my friend's iPhones, etc).

I know integrated services are good, but i'm honestly not sure i want a device which packs several components each with a per unit cost of > $20. I'd much rather look for competitive deals. Same goes for GPS.

Now, if we couldn't only get them to talk better to each other....