jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
More direct perhaps, but not more efficient. So far nature has far outstripped us in the ability to collect energy from photons.

Using the sun to grow plants and then harvesting those plants for their chemicals is still more efficient than most photo-voltaic cells.
There's a pretty easy solution if that happens. Host your files somewhere else. Your use of Dropbox (and their decision to allow you to use their service) is on a purely voluntary, at-will basis.
You really think it will take 5 to 8 years? They have bet the company on Windows Phone 7 which already looked doomed.

I suspect in 5-8 years we will be talking about Nokia in the same way we talk about AltaVista, or at best they will sell the brand to some faceless manufacturing operation.
Given that

1) consular offices start with the assumption that you're going to overstay and can deny you a visa for no particular, objective reason,
2) similarly, immigration officers can deny you entry even if you have a valid visa,
3) you're not technically doing anything illegal by attending Hacker School on a tourist visa (as opposed to, say, working or attending a university).

I'm surprised that applicants volunteer such information.
Why not just say you're visiting NYC as a tourist?
You know I think I may have read that book almost 20 years ago and it really changed my life -- good luck w your project!
We have sustainable means of generating energy already developed. We only need to develop the political will.
On another news: most of the time I joined non-extremist groups, it was also Facebooks suggestions.

If I create an account and join 2 groups about dogs, facebook is going to start suggesting groups about dogs...
There are plenty of large groups that people derive social value from, maybe even most.

Unfortunately, Facebook mirrors human society and gives bad/profit-driven actors an easier avenue than traditional recruiting and distribution.

Most things are good/neutral, but scale means some things will go south
People still enter the private key if asked nicely by scam mails. Also paper backups can be copied without any visible sign and thus are super easy to steal.
There simply isn't a fool proof way yet and people who dont fully understand it are at risk of loosing everything trough simple mistakes.
Often the people who are doing the actual PR work have no idea about the story details and piece stuff together third party

I would encourage her to reach out to the marketing/PR department and have a conversation avail herself for interviews etc.

I would imagine that a young woman doing something this dynamic in a relatively dry field would actually be a PR dream.
Hypothetically, let's say you had perfect access to all internal communications, emails, etc. And after all of this, you never found a smoking gun - not anyone to blame directly for this. The Max issue was caused by a culture of stupidity, greed, cronyism, etc. etc.

What then? Should we shut Boeing down? Should we arrest the executive team out of principle?

I think a lot of enormous fuckups like this are not directed by individuals, but more likely a miasma of incompetence that cannot be directly associated with any one person. It's more like we should arrest Harvard Business School professors for teaching MBA strategy wrong.
Apple had no value to bring to music players in the early 2000s, they had no value to bring to mobile phones in the late 2000s, they had no value to bring to watches in the mid 2010s, they had no value to bring to audio in the late 2010s...

Apple sells an ecosystem as a brand. Whether you buy into the branding or the ecosystem is up to you. Their brand is about status, quality, privacy, identifying their customers as the people that buy their hardware and services, not people they can sell the data to.

Vehicles are about to become yet another electric/electronic device you own. In the same way that my mobile phone has a network of cell towers that someone sells me access to, I could see Apple doing that with charger providers.

If charging stations become self-provisioning, with local power generation and storage, then the cost of actual power transfer to my vehicle has a zero marginal cost.

So in the same way that my mobile plan is "all you can eat" in terms of calls (and data, mostly), I could see how vehicle charging could work the same way.

So buying a car becomes:
1. Choose a vehicle based on status, branding, equipment
2. Choose a vehicle "plan" based on usage

So in the same way as iPhones and iPads sell Apple Music, Apple Pay etc, iCar sells all the existing services, plus allows Apple to co-brand with electric networks. So think "Apple iCar and Shell EV, your safe and effective partners for travel".

When autonomous vehicles become available, you can integrate that autonomy into the Apple ecosystem, in the same way that Apple Maps learns your travel patterns and makes suggestions, Apple can use that data to send a vehicle to you when you "need" it.
We will know that after cooling of nuclear waste to background level only, which will not happen soon.
Serial to wifi adapters exists. You basically connect to the hosts with a fake SLIRP connection.
Regarding heat, the article says this:

Here, we expect to have a very low heat load. Instead of the light being absorbed, energy is stored in the magnetic moment. Intense magnetization can be induced by intense light and then it is ultimately capable of providing a capacitive power source.
http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html #3
Twitch has a reasonably thorough "community guidelines", a few pages https://www.twitch.tv/p/en/legal/community-guidelines/
Signal for Android allows backup. Signal for iOS doesn't.
I use Fastmail + a custom domain. Because fastmail is the provider, I am not on any spam lists. My emails make it through. My service is very reliable, so I always get my emails. If fastmail decides to hate me, I can just point my domain MX records somewhere else.

TODO: need a non-fastmail backup of my email
> Memory requirements are as follows:

> Minimum 250 MB for product packages

> Minimum 2 GB of hard drive space for paging

> Minimum 512 MB for temporary files

> Minimum 2 GB RAM, with 4 GB more optimal

Ouch; this ain't your grandpa's lean and mean Cobol.
Okay, please cite the employee abuse you are claiming. I've yet to see claims that aren't hotly contested or that have ended up being traced back to various short seller campaigns.

It's a free country, employees can work where they want, and TSLA employees got stock. Guaranteed if they toughed it out it was more than worth it financially.

Martin Tripp being an egregious example, who was held up for years as some poster boy of David vs Goliath whistle-blowing only to ultimately have been ruled against in court.
Maven just hides the complexity in its plugins which are implemented in Java.

If you don't need any plugin - then, yes, it's simple.

But once you need specialized plugins it's no better than gradle/bazel. The latter two lets you add some logic in the build scripts - so at least it's visible to users. If you need special functionality in Maven you have to write a plugin or gather a few plugins. And when it breaks down (as all tools do) -- it's difficult to find the code and understand the problems.
Die harvesting is not perfect. If there is an error in a logic transistor, they can turn off that cpu core and use the rest of the chip. If there is a short between ground and power, the whole chip is useless because it will melt when you plug it in.

Yields on larger chips are still substantially worse than smaller chips, even with harvesting.
in Germany this is also extremely common. I really don't know what the commenter means by the west, I'd assume after office drinking is also normal in the US?
I have no hands-on experience with Clojure but it always appears to me that the language manages to get even complex computations done in relatively little code. This is because Clojure offers powerful abstractions, and this contributes to getting things done rather quickly once you've found the right way of representing data.

However, it also makes me wonder if this advantage for writing code might later on turn into a shortcoming for reading, i.e., understanding code - either someone else's or your own code six months later.

Complex computations that are highly compressed through the use of powerful abstractions seem to lean towards puzzle solving when you're trying to understand code that you're not already familiar with. Am I wrong?

You mention Python and Java at the end of your post, and I think Python at least definitely has a mindset where readability is valued as a means for greater accessibility / maintainability.
I’m pretty sure you have to take the size of the objects in mind.
i did see some people who believed there was a literal 5G chip in the vaccine that was injected

people who could believe that could believe anything
I don’t think informal means overhearing. I think it means unscheduled.
The biggest problem I see is the planner not knowing the cardinality of columns in a big table after a join or predicate has been applied. You see this especially with aggregate queries rather than point queries.

That is, it decides that a sequential scan would be just peachy even though there's an inner join in the mix which in practice reduces the set of responsive rows, if it just constructed the join graph that way. The quickest route out of this is disabling sequential scan, but there's no hint to do that on a per-query basis. The longer route is hiding bits of the query in CTEs so the optimizer can't rewrite too much (CTEs which need MATERIALIZED nowadays since PG got smarter).

High total cardinality but low dependent cardinality - dependent on data in other tables, or with predicates applied to other tables - seems hard to capture without dynamic monitoring of query patterns and data access. I don't think PG does that; if it did, I think they'd sell it hard. It comes up with application-level constraints which relate to the data distribution across multiple tables.
The problem with lobbying in general is that it's a one-sided information stream: politicians are generally uninformed about a topic and only get the information from the wealthy side (ie. the one able to pay a lobbyist). No need to bribe in general, just overwhelm the poor politicians with "facts" and they have no choice but to walk in line.
I think you may have the wrong person.
Thanks! Yes, formatting messaged up.

I did read your article but I felt that it buckets all hacks together as an unnecessary evil in education.

I think it's quite a nice confidence booster to know a method that would speed them up (usually in basic arithmetic). It also provides a future learning opportunity when trying to derive why a hack works.

I agree with the article, but I would really be interested in some in-depth examples of what the alternative to tricks/hacks are? I don't ever remember a case where I was only taught the hack, for example. We learn it the long way and then the teacher/lecturer might show us a quick version in passing. Is this not the case all of the time?
Every time I walk past the twitter building I think about how the people in that building enabled this guy
Did you work with sidekick devices? I've just learned about them. I find interesting that they were manufactured by Sharp which back then was manufacturing also the Sharp Zaurus SL series (able to run several Linux flavours)

I used to play a lot with those devices, we were an small but passionate community wanting to get a full Linux on mobile. I remember people running a full debian desktop distro in a Zaurus... crazy stuff for 2004.

I've always wondered if Android had the same roots as OpenZaurus or similar mobile distros. It looks like Sharp is at least a common denominator...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Zaurus
Funny how those kinds of previews of the future always include luxury perks (in the present case they highlight the 4K display; for flights in the 60 they highlighted
luxury meals) when the reality is obviously pragmatic.

More seriously, I wonder how automated cars deals with our road traditions. In France, if you leave the officially required distance with the front car on the highway, another car will insert in between. Then you'll have to slow down, and another car will insert, and so on. Cars can't be programmed to perform something illegal, so I guess they don't deal with "competitive situations" efficiently.
While not a "great success," I disagree with the failure narrative. She survived for 5.5 years as CEO of an F20 company and led the Compaq merger, which in retrospect, worked out.

Compared to the Apotheker era, Fiorina's a godsend.
It is misleading; it's meant to suggest that courts are, extralegally, doing the will of the government.

In actuality, common-law systems draw from additional sources beyond a national/state constitution and statutes. And New Zealand (home of the NZ Herald) is a common-law jurisdiction, so the concept should not be completely foreign.
I could make the argument that source is the blueprint for a program. You use blueprints to know how to build a building, and you use source code to know how to build an executable, or rather, have a tool that automatically makes the program from the blueprint (source code).
Those haphazardly slapped on stickers push the point home how much we don't need these slapped things on computers and pushed in consumer's faces.
> at what point do we stop calling it an "age"?

Pessimistically? How long did the Bronze Age last?
Yeah, and that's cool. I get being consistent with other browsers. I also miss being able to invert the choice with an about:config toggle.

I also know that I'm in the minority, and that maybe the size of my cohort is too small to add yet another thing to check during regression testing.

But I'm still mad about it :) Firefox always seemed like the browser for people who want to configure weird things, or extend it in all sorts of crazy ways. More and more it's becoming a me-too browser, and the only reason I'm sticking with it is out of a sense of duty to fight a Chrome monoculture.
You can also have SVG sprite sheets if you use the `use` tag.
>I’m surprised that they didn’t include Azure.

I'm not. Nobody likes Azure.
Hey Raphael, Colin from Clerk here. Alex popped into our Slack and we've been looking into whether an integration is possible.

We haven't found a way to wrap the entire WeWeb application with a <ClerkProvider> component (which is a React context under the hood and informs our other components). Is that possible?

Or, in lieu of that, is there a way to hook Javascript into the rendering lifecycle of a page/component. Behind our React components is just vanilla JS, so if there were a way to control rendering based on window.Clerk.user being null, we'd be off to a good start for simple authenticated pages. (You can play with window.Clerk.user in console on https://accounts.clerk.dev to see how it works)

Would love to collaborate on an integration! You can reach me at colin@clerk.dev
We all know minecraft was secretly bankrolled by the coal lobby </joke>
I think the authors description of this being one-in-a-million must be pretty accurate then!
Maybe for the newest hardware things are fine and dandy, but even for a laptop I bought 2 years ago, I have some pretty basic linux driver issues (mainly graphics cards). Battery management issues as well. If 50% of the population were using linux this wouldn't happen
Yeah. Like, how embarrassing.
And the same thing happens on science and tech...
"If I produce something and you want to consume it, and I ask for money, then I deserve to get paid."

This is a common misunderstanding of the payment dynamic. The reality is it is actually a power dynamic. I make something that you want and I can keep it from you until you pay me.. is more approximate to the truth.

there is no inherent value in work, but only in supply and demand. Digital goods have demand, but no natural limitations in supply. Un-natural limitations (social acceptability, guilt, lawsuits, criminalising, etc) are being attempted but it seems likely they will all fail eventually.

"You can consume as much media as you want for free"

The corollary to this of course is, artists can make as make media as they like, but to make a decent living from it they need to show appreciation and respect to their patrons. If, on the other hand, they want to be stinking rich, or they want to bet big and spend hundreds of millions of hollywood dollars on expectation of a payout, they have to understand and manipulate that power dynamic. Just don't try and make out there is any kind of moral right to get paid.
We have no plans to use mozjpeg in Firefox, it will continue to use libjpeg-turbo. The decoder that comes with mozjpeg is unmodified from libjpeg-turbo, mozjpeg is focused on compression for those serving up images.
This seems like a pretty good compromise on integer overflow. I'm happy to see the Rust core team taking the problem seriously after seeing so much discussion about it.
They'd notice the lack of device drivers.
"PFS might be next, who knows"? What does that even mean? OTR and TLS PFS are closely related.
Ok. Just confirmed that.
I don't understand what problem you think she has that would be solved by "getting over it". She seems like she's doing fine to me. Getting stuff done. Supporting herself. Writing stuff other people want to read. What's the problem?

> How can you even know you're biased?

It's a lot like learning any other thing. As a young programmer, how can you even know you're using classic anti-patterns in your coding? The answer is you can't. When you are just starting out you don't even see the playing field, let alone how to shine on it. But you start with what you know, practice, and keep trying, and you get good as it. Learning about bias is no different than anything else.
I believe the HN headline is in error. This proposed amendment appears to authorize a wider range of magistrate judges to issue a warrant if the jurisdiction cannot be determined because the computers in use have had their location concealed (via Tor or VPN, among other technologies, is the inference the original poster appears to make). How do we leap from "Feds can ask more magistrate judges for warrants" to "Automatic warrants?" It still has to pass someone's sniff test, right?
He's my boss, so I'm super biased, but I can still share a primary-source perspective. I knew him for years before working here, and would say that both as a manager and a general human being, he's one of the genuinely best people I've ever known. From when he started Fogcreek, his and Michael's whole philosophy was to create an environment and mission that makes smart people actually love working there, and then get the hell out of their way. Here at SE, we've grown a ton since I've been here, but I can tell you our exec team spends a lot of time discussing how to ensure we maintain an environment where employees are actually excited to work. (I know that sounds goofy/cheesy/like BS, but talk to any of our devs or other employees; I think you'll find that just about all of us take great pride in what we do.)
Comments on SE are meant to be temporary( in their value, not duration ). If you had to raise an important issue about something, you should have instead asked a question about it, where you could leave a link to the problematic answer/question and explain the problem. In fact that is the usual procedure in case of conflicts. There is no restriction on that. If your point is valid, the community does the rest.
You're right. I was responding to the title. Sorry I wasn't specific on that.

Can anyone explain if the changes do what the headline suggests?
I actually pitched that exact idea at Launch48 earlier this year (and registered the domain adynam.com for it), but ended up building something else instead.

The main problem is getting the initial ad inventory, I thought about using affiliate links to start with, but my back of the napkin calculations showed that they were unlikely to bring in enough money to be competitive.

Although last week someone posted on HN saying that they'd built an adsense competitor using affiliate links and they were getting a decent CPM out of it, so maybe that is a viable route.
Well, everybody was pretty civil and evenhanded- for example, prematurely heading off any static/dynamic debate. If you want passion and drama, you also need more people butting heads.
That is supported. Usually people target one major market with each site, so you could segment sites based on country, which defaults to the main language in that country. If you have multiple languages in the same country, all on the same site, you'll be interested in some upcoming features. :-)
Just like 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007...?

Yet, yet, yet again - I seriously doubt it.
>Beyond that, the insanity virus (if such it proves) may challenge our basic views of human evolution, blurring the line between “us” and “them,” between pathogen and host.

Oh, I think we're already there. Given that there are ~10x more microorganisms in your gut than cells in your body[1], and the more you learn about the lymphatic / immune system the more it seems like a symbiote rather than a part of our body, and that mitochondria share many characteristics of symbiotic bacteria[2]. It's another wrinkle, and a very interesting one at that, but that's far from a revolutionary concept.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut_flora
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrion#Origin
I agree. A better model is "articles" or "essays" like PG does.
There is no Dark Side of the Moon. The _far_ side receives as much sunlight as the other hemisphere.
I'd imagine that World of Warcraft (and StarCraft II) updates account for just as much bandwidth via BitTorrent as do 'illegal downloads'...
Yes, I'm aware of Which? -- my parents used to get it when I was growing up.

It was only ever able to cover a tiny part of the market for a few selected things, though. (And of course only a small minority of people would ever see it.)

I'm not sure how well that would scale.
Every central banker is basically required to publicly keep this opinion. Otherwise they would be undermining their own authority and autonomy. The thing that eats you is always initially dismissed as a toy.

Ironically, central bankers are the best informed about how broken fiat and monetary policy is. Cryptoassets must be something they spend a lot of time thinking about.
This happens all the time to my app. Our marketing team littered iframes all over our app, but they constantly push broken URLs for the iframe src. So what happens is the iframe defaults to loading the parent frame, which then loads iframes, which fail to load and again load the parent. Repeat.

Ahhh, enterprise software development...
I worked for Cox when one of the first cities in Louisiana voted for municipal broadband. We had terrible service in the city and were not going to spend the few million to fix it. After the city had that vote, in one day they established a 2 million dollar legal and advertising fund to stop the city. And they did hold them up in court for years. I got out of that industry pretty quick.
Matias makes some modern USB clones of the original Apple keyboards you mention, all the way down to making a modern clone of the ALPS switches.
Yeah a good part of the reason those countries aren't Chinese, German, or Russian provinces right now is America.
You’re getting downvoted because our current system of government, no matter how flawed, is very different from feudalism. The comparison is poor for all the reasons I listed and more.

There are better ways to critique our current system without such hamfisted comparisons.
Completely anecdotal, personal experience. It wasn't Accutane but when I was a pimply teen, in an effort to remedy the acne, I was prescribed doxycycline and another topical antibacterial ointment; in any case, I never had heartburn or experienced depression prior to that but a few months after starting those meds, both started.
It's likely unrelated but whenever I read how crucial biomes are - I can't help but wonder. For the record, I preferred the acne.