jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Honest question, is this worth it? I've noticed the same thing. Most requirements are simple, and can be done via upwork freelancer etc. What you can provide is extra customer service or maintenance. But that seems like a race to the bottom.

Whenever I come across these, it's in the territory of not worth my free time. But for the more complex projects they want a whole team, and I've found it's difficult as a solo person to sale that.
Very creative idea, I wouldn’t have thought of that.

So standard pressure at sea level is 29.92inHg, a 737 MAX can sustain 39k ft altitude indefinitely I suppose, where the exterior air pressure would be 7.66inHg. The cabin is normally pressurized to the equivalent of 8k ft, giving 26.63inHg. The fuselage could withstand a pressure differential of 26.63inHg - 7.66inHg = 18.97inHg (at least, possibly more).

That’s 63% higher than regular pressure at sea level. Not bad.

If you gave each patient a full economy row, that’s about 60 patients per plane, so 48k patients across 800 grounded 737 MAXs.
I'm working on a JS lib that makes zones in an overlay to any HTML element.
With two modes (edit and view) you'll be able to draw and store polygons without coding and then use them somewhere else. Like in your home automation's floorplan where you want to handle actions by just clicking to your night stand light, or zoom into a room, etc.
Note that this computer was out in 1991, when Windows 3.0 was 1 year old. In fact I had an Amstrad 2086 (a 8086 with VGA) that included windows 2.0 whereas pc1512 and1640 included gem plus. I think this interface was not meant to replace those but more of a light alternative shell to run dos programs.
the extreme case tivially falls victim to reductio ad absurdum, as shown previously.

you've positioned your overall argument as championing the community against an invading force (airbnb), but the claims so far seem to serve a very narrow constituency (and who is the constituency as you see it?). i'm eager to hear substantive assertions that favor the wider community, rather than a narrow constituency, regarding airbnb.

i'm open to the notion that airbnb is bad for the community, but the arguments haven't been convincing so far (note that scams and scammers reach far and wide).
Mobile supermarkets with base requirements (TP, Sanitary Napkins, Water, various Food stuff).
Drive around take requests through a perspex wall, stick items in a secure box and push through to outside truck.

This concept has legs if ask you me. Wish i had the capital and time to try it.
Why open-source? It is enough to license it so that they reap the reward for their work.

The next crisis will come. People need to know that it is rewarding to be prepared.
"Beyond those 24 nautical miles lie the high seas, where national laws have no authority"

That's not really the case. A nation's EEZ (exclusive economic zone) extends at least 200 miles, within which a nation has certain rights to regulate economic activities. The flag country has jurisdiction over the ship at all times. And, the flag country can make whatever arrangements they want with other powers. For instance, it's routine for the US Coast Guard to stop ships travelling in "international waters" because it has agreements with, eg, the government of Panama that it may do so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_th...
Literature teachers have hated the classics for the last 40 years or so. The "canon" has not only been under attack, it has lost the fight completely.
There are some concepts in hard sciences that are difficult to relate to using everyday analogies (monads, general relativity, particle physics, EC). In such situations, it may make more sense to look past the compulsion to find concrete (over?)simplifications and start looking at properties, behavior and utility. (Humans want to find patterns and construct conceptual models from these patterns... Even where there is no pattern and also where the pattern is far more complex than even the best minds could hope to imagine.)
I agree - there is a tremendously high risk of residual confounding in this study, even after adjusting for known/available risk factors.

One of the findings, for example, is increased risk of death from cancer. Since this is an observational meta-analysis, I am inclined to wonder whether an equally true assessment is "as people near death from cancer, they tend to be more sedentary".

I haven't yet logged in through the academic VPN required to gain access to this article and the articles from which its meta-analysis is derived, so I'll have to reserve judgment until I can do so. For now, it's a fascinating association but I'd be cautious about the interpretation of the direction of the arrow of causality.
Have you written any code?
I'm already living in a Faraday cage - we had to have AT&T send us a microcell because we had zero reception in our apartment. Plus, if my phone could place calls over wifi, I wouldn't mind if other signals couldn't get in - I don't even think we have a TV antenna, or anything that would pick up an AM/FM radio signal.
There has to be some equally cheap countermeasures that can be found.
I have to agree. Sometimes I think I'm not disciplined enough. But every now and then I start a book which is so interesting and vital that I'm compelled to go all the way through at top speed, with later re-reads. I'm thrilled and altered as a result. That's what reading is like for me now. Unfinished books no less than unordered books are part of the search and nothing to be ashamed of.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnRPZOUVhJ4
Math people seem a lot more interested in math than programmers are in programming. If you asked the same question on SO, the popular answers would be a list of things like "programmers don't deserve big monitors" or "the client is always right" or other such bullshit. (Nothing actually about programming, only about "the profession").

Maybe this is why nobody ever calls mathematicians "number monkeys".
Sorry, but I have to be skeptical about any show that declares itself skeptical. Skepticism isn't good science or good logic; it's just reverse religion. True science does not immediately believe or disbelieve. It investigates dispassionately.
"1. It would be pretty simple to write a computer simulation to test this, no? Would anyone care to do so?"

I'm on it. Results in a later reply.
Unfortunately, this is only true if you rather narrowly limit the domain(s) of startups.

I'm hope we haven't seen the end of e.g. neat foundational hardware tricks. Where's the next thing like the FPGA going to come from in a VC free world? (Heck, how about fast FPGAs (one company that I know of is working on them with an async core).)
I can't figure out if this guy is an ignorant clown, a troll, or both. Ridiculous arguments, like the one where he says startups don't get any special advantage from the weather. Just because you're slaving away in a cubicle, doesn't mean your family won't enjoy the weather... and the great traffic on gorgeous highway 280... and the low crime rate... and the great schools... and Fry's... and San Francisco... etc., etc.
How the fuck can a piece of software reach a two day compilation time without raising alarm bells? Sounds like a disfunctional organization where the only goal is just to ship features continuously.
While this is a really nice hack, stuff like this is also the reason I feel really uneasy when writing shell scripts. What works now may suddenly break in the future due to inadequate escaping of filenames.
Unless people are sharing access points, WIFI 6 doesn't really help with this use case. You wouldn't get to take advantage of OFDMA or MU-MIMO in this scenario. At that point it's basically 802.11ac with 1024-QAM.
I call it the modern Ptolematic system.
Yeah, I'd like this as well. When a long top-voted thread goes off on an obscure tangent, it's often hard to find the start of the next major thread because the indent levels are so small.
I think it's good to have a range of comments, cynical and positive. This one raised good points and is articulated well. Personally I think the app is great, but I agree on a lot of what the OP said.
I noted the same issue with round vs sharp sections. Honestly, what this needs is a blending function, kind of like how they do intense shocks in fluid dynamics, where it would use MS's algo in areas where it detected significant roundness, and then blend into the hq4x algo in areas where there's more angular sections, like in the treasure box.
I like ObjC. It's true that what people generally use it for are the Cocoa features, but it could be a really good server language too (particularly with additions of blocks, GCD, and ARC). There are a lot of nice functional features that would make server development fun. It's pretty clear why Apple doesn't push it this way, but I think it could be a good server platform.
Yup, saw it and looking forward to trying it (haven't yet). But just reading through the description made it clear it wasn't quite ready yet.
It is depressing that how US healthcare system is structured to bankrupt middle class people so healthcare companies can make more billions.

Can any of these things work for you?

1) Can your mother get medicaid? I believe there is almost no copay with medicaid.

2) Can you get any other medical insurance plan where you have lesser or no copay? May be something through Healthcare.gov?

3) Can you go to India and get medical treatment? Most treatments and medicines in India cost about 1/10 of US. There are several hospitals and doctors in India which can provide treatments compared to US. I can dig up some information if you want to do this.

4) A crowd funding campaign?
There's real opportunity here for Github and I hope they take it.

Why is the basic workflow of the modern-day programmer split over multiple tools and over multiple systems?

Aspects of Github could be modularised and added to the editor while still keeping the underlying tool simple and this could change our user experience for the better.

Imagine flipping through your pull requests in the text editor and then seeing your friends comments and code reviews appear on top.

Imagine an issue being created on Github and the file(s) referenced instantly glowing.

This opens doors to thinking about the engineering workflow in a new holistic manner.
'The money' was mostly imaginary, even beyond the imaginariness of bitcoins. Lots of the coins were bought at a much lower rate; they were ALL valued at the value of the last coin traded. Makes for a big, inflated, imaginary 'loss'.

But in fact only the money invested was lost, which I imagine was an order of magnitude smaller than what was reported.
Do I get the full benefit if I just run this in a background window?
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Reddit seems to act as a filter between /b/ and the SA forums http://forums.somethingawful.com/. Much of the bullshit and extreme racism/gore/child porn/other distasteful content is skimmed over, and the true amusing gems are pulled into the (more) mainstream reddit/digg worlds.
its not clear to me how the author has earned the right to this apparent condescension

Do we have to earn the right to be condescending nowadays?

If you ask me, condescension should be the default posture to adopt towards anyone making wild, overconfident assertions based on flimsy evidence. Now, since evidence about the future is awfully hard to come by...
It was a very good game. A couple months back I found the original (Windows) CD and wanted to install it on my Linux netbook, but, unfortunately, couldn't find it. Gave up completely.
An excellent video short on the subject, by John Weldon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdxucpPq6Lc
where people have been able to vote with their feet, they do flock to places with great rules. I think Hong Kong under the British proved that. I think millions left mainland China to live there.

But I guess its all foreign armies and navies that people don't like, not just private ones.

Maybe the answer is to offer a massive cash incentive and hold a competition between poor countries as to who will receive this opportunity first. Countries compete to get the Olympics and that often leaves them with significant debt.
A good run in the evening and making a point not to think about code/sales/marketing 1-2 hours before sleep seem to work well for me.

The cold shower trick and its physiological effects sound really interesting. I always take cold showers at night but since temperatures always hover around 26-32C with close to 90% humidity (being 1 degree north of the Equator), that doesn't always help.
I would love this and think it would be tremendously positive.

95% of the information shared in an organization and put onto a task list is about milestones that need to be hit, progress towards those milestones, and information that needs to be gathered to make this happen. All of this benefits from more helpful eyes on it. If your investor happens to know someone at an organization that your salesperson is trying to sell then they should help. If they have another portfolio company solving similar engineering problems, your teams should get together.

Most people are intelligent enough to be able to use this information to help and not try and micromanage. If they do try to do that, then you tell them to lay off and stick to helping people do their jobs instead of interfering.

Put it another way -- if you don't think your investors can handle this extra information and use it to be helpful, why in the world did you take money from them?
The Dune miniseries was wonderful. I watched it as a kid and never got over it. It's a very nostalgic thing for me.

Maybe it doesn't match up to the book, but if I ever read the book it would only be because of the miniseries and comments that the book is even better.
"By testing and iterating one can determine sufficient detail to game the algorithm and produce better rankings. This is science. Hypothesise, test, analyse, improve, iterate."

The point of the article is that the people who conduct this type of research get the science wrong more often than not.
> Of course, without any treatment at all, the pain would also have gone away after a few days.

And if you struggle for years with chronic back problems and doctors don't really have an answer except to prescribe addictive painkillers and then you see a chiro and everything is cleared up in a couple days?

Telling me that's a coincidence is just gaslighting.

Sorry, I have no clue what confluence of political/cultural forces have led to the inability of science to figure out how/why this stuff works.

Maybe in another 40 years. Good luck!
This post was quite a surprise. I have an old copy of Paradise Lost (illustrated by Gustave Dore) on a bookshelf next to me. (Digitized version here: http://digital.auraria.edu/AA00006467/00001) The cover of my copy is green instead of gold.
Does RBAC not limit these by default? Does cert-manger not already give itself restricted permission on install? Do I need to fix up my cluster right now? If so, do you have any example RBAC yamls? :D

> And when building docker images in the CI, I use google’s kaniko to build docker images from within docker without any privileges (it unpacks docker images for building and runs them inside the existing container, basically just chroot).

You can also use standalone buildkit which comes with the added benefit of being able to use the same builder locally natively.
Yes, but a laptop not getting warm I cannot see as too much of a negative!
Bug report: Item retrieval is not functionally pure and may have side effects on the sorting of items in the bowl.
Industrial-age warfare has a different scale of opportunity costs associated with it than, say, agreeing to have dinner at the new Thai place down the street, to see if it is any good.

Invading someplace just to discover if it is or isn't invade-able hasn't been a workable strategy since Franciso Pizzaro tried it on Atahualpa.
> We have built everything ourselves, and it has worked out great so far, but we have put a lot more effort and resources into that, whereas we could have instead invested on the Product.

So, you don't use a libc, or a web framework, or any library that implements common logic that other programmers have spent ages refining?

If yes, erk, I don't want to be anywhere near that codebase. If not, I'm reminded of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKjPI6no5ng
I didn't took that into account, thanks! Still much more is nowadays possible then people realise. And it scares me how little some users care about privacy issues when uploading photo's/video's.

Of course it doesn't means someone somewhere is going to try to harm you, but it's possible. It seems like the days where your username was anonymous and it was hard to track it back to you are over. Not sure if that's a good thing :(
Kam started with us 2 days ago. If he didn't think it's a great idea and a great product, then I would be pretty sure I'd hired the wrong person.
I don't by that analogy. Copyrights don't constitute a business. They are pseudo property. Property with limitations. For example, owners are not allowed to obstruct, etc. shared resources contained within their real property.(air above, water running through, right of ways).

All creative output is derived from our shared culture, a shared resource. One requiring renewal. Copyright holders should only be granted their rights selectively and for limited times. Returning the shared resources contained within their works to the Public Domain.
Most of this follows from understanding (1) what kinds of things a modern core can do simultaneously and (2) how long it takes a core to do those things. On top of this, there are many additional rules regarding memory and cache access behavior.

One of the most useful references for me is Agner Fog's instruction tables, which are updated regularly and you can download for free. They are genuinely an excellent resource. If you roughly understand how C or C++ is translated into machine instructions (not a big leap) then you can understand how bits of code will interact with the microarchitecture and what surrounding instructions can be executed concurrently in the same clock cycle. Basically you can have multiple 'threads' of execution running in a single core at the same time per clock cycle on a modern CPU. Good CPUs will try to do this for you but have limited ability to find this concurrency if you do not make it 'obvious' to the CPU with code idioms that make it impossible to miss. The amount of concurrency you can extract depends on the specific instructions your code is being translated into. Haswell has 4 ALUs per core but each ALU has different capabilities in terms of the subset of instructions it can execute; for example, some basic instructions can only be scheduled on two of the ALUs.

http://agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf

Additionally, the architecture docs from CPU vendors is always insightful about the topology of the silicon, how everything is wired together, and the tradeoffs that are never mentioned in high-level marketing docs.
This guy seems like a crappy prof to me. He essentially got caught taking the lazy way out and is now acting surprised and trying to blame the students.
Network operators have different transit deals with other operators, at varying prices, so that's why calls to different operators may have varying prices.

Disclaimer: I work in the carrier/service-provider facing side of the VoIP industry and have done a lot with inter-carrier reciprocal and access settlement in the US.

Be that as it may, passing the vicissitudes of such cost structures to the end-customer is a form of intentional obfuscation. It reflects a desire to bamboozle the customer, and also shift more risk onto them. For some reason, it works elsewhere in the world, but doesn't work in the US from a marketing perspective; your cell phone air time costs the same irrespectively of the jurisdiction you are calling, which can range from standard NECA tariff metro RBOCs to ultra-expensive rural ILECs wielding huge access charge forebearances (e.g. ye olde Iowa free conference calling scandal), and therefore, regardless of what the IXC hauler charges the mobile operator to get the call out of the Bell tandem and to the terminating LEC.

My point is, the variable cost structure of any non-trivial business has thousands of variables that can change on a monthly, daily, hourly or even per-minute basis. It is the job of any reasonable business to digest that through a risk management formula, statistical forecasts, etc. and arrive at a set of assumptions that can be presented into a standardised pricing structure accessible to the customer. The price can fluctuate based on market segmentation and salesmanship (airline tickets, enterprise software, etc.) but it cannot possibly involve a set of thousands of simultaneous equations that are up to the customer to (very improbably) mentally solve in an (improbably) adroit fashion. That is something only healthcare gets away with, as well as inter-business settlement regimes that have well-oiled processes for dealing with complex assessments.

Can you imagine if the bus fare changed hourly based on the precise availability of routes, drivers, who is out sick that day, how much overtime was owed last night (if applicable), etc?
thanks, fixed. What did I learn? Do not make landingpages when it's late :)

Thanks.
> required volunteering

So, uh, not volunteering, then? :)

I know what you mean; my school had that too. It's compulsory but you at least get to pick where you work, right?

Anyway, yeah. I'm talking about actual volunteer work. The kind where you volunteer.
That's a nice thought, but how would ATC determine what needs to be done? We are only finding out that this was an intentional act long after the plane has hit the ground. For all ATC knows, opening the door to the cockpit could be the WRONG action. If no one is responding from the cockpit, they have no clue what is going on other than the telemetry they are getting from radar and the plane's systems (which in this case wouldn't tell them much).

In fact, pilots are trained to communicate AFTER they have gotten the plane in a state to where they can either continue the flight or ditch safely if communication would distract them from the task at hand. ATC knows this, so even if they saw the plane dropping like a sack of rocks, they would probably assume that there was a problem and that the pilots are in a position in which a steep dive will help mitigate the problem (which can happen, such as depressurization).
He doesn't mean independently from the university he works at, he means independently from the other researchers who also discovered the technology.
And the action that prompted it to the action of the other side that prompted it before.. ad infinitum. The only way out of this loop is to ask yourself "who's occupying whose territory? Who's preventing the others from becoming a state? And who does the most killing"? And for all three questions, the answer is always Israel.
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All of the syncing is done via ec2 instances, so moving the backend storage offsite would cost a ton more, and be a lot slower :(
My bad. I meant Gitlab.

Cloudflare reached 212 in November. Now it's down to 109.

Gitlab reached 125 in November. Now down to 73.

Coinbase was at 342 in November. Now it's 203.
Is Wordle too easy? Right now, that’s a benchmark for these kinds of games.