jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Missed that one! Added to title. Thanks.

If anyone wants a fun side project, figure out how to automatically detect the year of a news article. We have a great corpus of data to test with. Sometimes I think HN should sponsor some community effort around this sort of thing...
part-2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl-W7_z3w3o

part-3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cohR7LAgWA
Wouldn’t it be better if all apps could read/write just one common interchange format?

As an aside this is what FBX is trying to be for the CAD world.

http://www.autodesk.com/products/fbx/overview
I don't know what to tell you. It's generally been a good experience so far. Some interested developers have certainly been less able to get involved, but some capable developers have also been more interested. The Haskell web ecosystem has been doing some great things.
> I am Korean btw, and shame on you for attacking me and being flagkilled earlier.

That comment certainly deserved to be flagkilled, but your comment would also be better without this.
> This is making finding people for our (large but non tech) company (not in a high tech area) very difficult; we never paid those kind of salaries (cost of living here is much lower) but now you no longer need to be local to work for us, so we have to compete with these high paying companies which our company cannot afford to

It's simple: Pay more.

Maybe it's time for a new funding round.
The structure itself does depreciate (ask any landlord!). It's the land value that's surging.
> The only thing new I learned from this article is a rough estimate of how much higher an ex-Californian's budget is on average, which was novel but hardly surprising.

My story related to this: Californians (and other comparatively rich people) moved to Dallas, TX in droves and outpriced an already saturated housing market. This was happening far before COVID but I think it was really mostly talked about in the circles of state to state income inequality which is largely ignored. When you have loans like the FHA or VA loan this means while you may be qualified for a loan, you'll never actually get a house near where you work in big cities. Instead, you're forced to buy in towns that are increasingly far away from these cities.

As someone who has been through this nightmare I don't think "Single Family Zoning is bad, but only a few places have been enlightened enough to limit or ban it" is the right conclusion or even near it. Generally speaking, remote work can help alleviate this problem because then you remove the problem that I experienced which is that I was driving 2.5 hours to and from work every day.

Some other things that I've read is that these people also destabilize the cost of goods in enough quantity. The outcome is that communities that have seen decades of development will soon price out the resident who paid for its development in taxes only to reward people who are taking advantage of inequality.
For those who are Clubhouse haters and don't get it - I did a 180 on it recently: https://www.swyx.io/clubhouse-hate/

Gotten some good shoutouts on this one, so it may help with understanding why it is doing well when other apps seem to be feature superior to it. I've made my own "code of ethics" when it comes to how I embrace this trend at arms length.
>Russian firm that once worked for the Russian government and a Seattle firm that once supported a neo-Nazi site.

They just can't give it up.
It took a true genius & visionary to see that the whole is better than the sum of its parts. A masterclass of engineering, economics, & philosophy. Very few still understand the importance
> but they're seeding the room with a number of pre screened academics, their grad students, postdocs, etc.

And only those that have iPhones?
> Stack space is virtually free on 32 bit systems as well.

How do you figure that, given we’ve had quite a bit of time wrestling with 2G memory limitations and how those interact badly with multithreading?
It was covered in at least one of my classes as well. (Graduated only a few years ago.)
To be honest it's impossible to tell without actually measuring it. The #1 rule of scaling a system is to measure the variables your trying to optimize, make a change, and then take measurements again. So without knowing the kind of software that's running on this we have to leave everything in terms of a theoretical workload.

If you aren't doing graph operations, then 50 dedicated servers can do a pretty impressive workload. Add in graph-ops and all bets are off :-). The same could apply for user-generated content (eg youtube, facebook, vimeo).

Stackoverflow is another great example of a company that vertically owns their stack. Check out:

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/server/

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/52353/how-many-serve...
mso-normal made me laugh out loud. Glad it didn't make the cut.
Biden and Kerry's kids got $1 billion of Chinese investment right after their parents' diplomatic mission to China: https://nypost.com/2018/03/15/inside-the-shady-private-equit...
Will that feature work if you drop your phone and it breaks? Or will you lose all your conversations and photos then?
Scrum Masters are basically secretaries with more steps
> Which is 100% better than the rest of the payment apps because they are closed, for profit, and sell your data

Riiight. A shitcoin scam is 100% better, than a banking system that has been polished to what it is by learning the hard way for the past 300 years. Got it.

EDIT

> I don't understand how UK selection is bad.

Because nobody needs this in the UK at all.
You could try https://microacquire.com/
Firstly, were the pro-democracy activists in the Soviet times not aware of this constraint, or did they choose to ignore it? Secondly, the Communist period only lasted 50 years. Before the Second World war Poland was a (post-feudal/capitalist/republican) European country like many others. So why was that 50 years extremely significant, but the following 30 years just barely time to get started with change?

You are judging Soviet-era Poland on the society which actually existed, while judging post-Soviet Poland on what they claim they are trying to achieve. That isn't fair. If you judged them both on what they said the goal is, you would have to compare the democratic paradise with the equally utopian and unrealistic communist paradise which was supposed to be just around the corner. Or you could judge them both on the actuality, in which case the present day looks like just a newer iteration of a grim, hopeless and broken society.
You made an excellent argument for private offices. There, we don't have to share farts.
This might bypass your local disk, but it still incurs the extra network traffic since you have to pull all the bytes to your PC before sending them out to S3. If you're moving large files and have an asymmetric connection, then it is likely that you won't even bypass local disk since you'll have completed downloading long before uploading is done.

In any event, I don't think this solves the problem at all.
They were a fabless semiconductor company and they were bought by Apple in 2008. That kind of proves my point....
I don't know about Vancouver, but here in Australia you must wear a bike helmet when riding a bike. That stops many people riding bikes (please do not argue about this, it has been done to death), and unfortunately has - probably - had the unintended effect of worsening public health.

The pictures from the article show not a single person wearing a helmet... there is a lesson here I'd like the Australian regulaors to learn.
I'm guessing he put the board in and then started the oven which took a while to preheat. Industrial reflow heats up the board gradually based on the solder paste manufacturer's suggested heat profile or experimentation/trial and error (e.g. when dealing with small pitch BGAs). 250C for even a few minutes would do quite some damage even to the fire retardant laminate and smell horrible.
> Driving on a road also blocks other cars from driving on it at the same time.

Uh, no. You still seem to be missing the point.

Roads are designed for cars to be moving, and in some cases, foot traffic is explicitly prohibited except under specific circumstances (like highways). People are legitimately in danger if you have a posted speed limit of 60MPH or 100KPH, and you have a car simply stopped in the road. Or in this case, a crowd of people on foot.
Thanks for posting this. I should take this opportunity to say Giggle currently uses the non-site-restricted endpoint for queries but could easily be updated to use the site restricted one. Cheers!
I have written something similar on Semiwiki in 2016 arguing against Daniel how Samsung had problems. And my bet in ~2018 that Samsung wont be able to compete against TSMC turns out to be completely right. It wasn't because I had any technical or insider information. It was only because I knew Samsung, the company, its character and its culture far too well. Unfortunately Google and the internal search function doesn't show up and I can't quote myself back.

But the problem isn't internal communication though. It was Samsung Foundry's "sales and marketing" over promise and under deliver. To give them credit they were throwing insane amount of money trying to compete with TSMC. People on HN / Reddit / SemiWiki or whatever forum keep asking why TSMC isn't raising price. Well you should thank Samsung for that. ( But they are also the ones who HN / Reddit / Internet accuse them of NAND / DRAM cartel, guess where those profits went? ).

I also think the DRAM and NAND concern are overblown. It has been well known Samsung took the bet to move forward with EUV earlier than other industry vendors aka SK Hynix and Micron. It is not like Micron is going to go straight to EUV and enjoy the advantage over Samsung. Samsung are also not moving forward with EUV on their NAND product. The only concern would be if Micron decided to increase their capacity and build new Fabs. Otherwise, just like any other commodities ( Corn, Steel, Lumber, whatever ), they are Supply and Demand limited. So from a technical perspective they may be losing, from a business perspective things are still within control. In case anyone wants to compare this to Intel's 14nm, the two are extremely different and their market operate in a completely different manner. Hence why TSMC's founder and ex-CEO Morris Cheung famously said he will never enter NAND and DRAM market.
Has RMS commented on the frame.work laptop?
They were inserted. Previously the months ran from March to December and the remaining time didn't belong to any month.
I bought a cloud enabled printer for my Dad, who uses a Chromebook. The only way I could get it to print reliably was to connect it to my Windows machine via a cable and have my dad email me whatever he wants to print.

In other words, I now have two printers in my office to do what I was doing already with one.
Facebook/LinkedIn are not implicated in the breach at all; it was some random third-party data enrichment service. The Facebook/LinkedIn in the title refers to the fact that people's FB/LI accounts were one of the fields in the database. So were their Github, and basically any other public-facing account that these scrapers can gather.
It is easier for normal humans to read trailing commas, but difficult to change during development. If you are actively developing a query, perhaps you could just add a dummy column:

SELECT a,
B,
c,
0
...
That's by Peter Schweizer talking about his amazing book "Secret Empires" that came out in 2017. The book documents corruption on both the left and the right and has over 100 pages of citations.

It documents far beyond any doubt massive corruption and treason.

The Chinese deal was having Kerry approve a deal where China got access to restricted US military technology.

Articles documenting the Biden kid's shady "equity fund", which is partially owned by the Chinese government, have been ongoing for many years in a variety of media. They were particularly popular in 2015-16 when the media was trashing the Bidens because they wanted Hillary to get the nomination.
The cure for that does exist: it’s called education. That’s why the Founders were very clear that public education and libraries were so important.
Thank you for your effort, and apologies for being a bit hot headed about this.

Like I said I am sure you just have the best intentions. If you could add some kind of geo restriction/verification so that people are not able to enter at least ZIP codes outside the country they live that would probably be helpful already
I was fascinated while reading this, but eventually realized it was targeted more at paranoid loons than secret agents.
Older, more experienced programmers are likely used to getting paid a real salary instead of equity, and eating more than just ramen.
Toronto - current open positions for Rubyists and/or HAML/SASS front-end devs to work on Hot or Not. http://www.hotornot.com/

Hot or Not is part of Avid Life Media http://www.avidlifemedia.com/ - we've got multiple brands and are always looking for smart people based in or near Toronto.

wilson at almlabs.com
The Ned Lamont featured in the article is the same Ned Lamont that ran for Senate in Connecticut in 2006 (beating Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primary).

Do note that the article is from 1996 - perhaps a "[1996]" in the title would be appropriate?
I do not know this language (Java?), but doesn't the line

int offset = (int) (((size - 1) * ((long) key - min)) / (max - min));

compute (max - min) as an int (potentially overflowing), and then convert it to long, defeating the precautions obviously taken against this kind of event with the cast to long elsewhere?
> "Why does it matter if "anyone cares?""

Because some people are obsessed with what is 'fashionable' rather than what works to solve a problem.
Would you also accept an application as a sysadmin coming from Austria?
Some of my Singaporean friends got almost jealous that I often coped better than them. I sweated like crazy, though.
If I had the power to change only one thing this year, it would be toward the prohibition of active incitement by police, to include:

- the tactic of first-move provocation, e.g., manhandling and other physical intimidation during routine encounters
- the playing of provocateurs during public demonstration
- shows of force and the deployment of light weapons and armored vehicles

These things are the antithesis of peacekeeping.
Veterans benefits should be accounted for as part of national defense.
"Think of the children" wins the day every time.

As it probably should, in this case, because we're not giving up a lot. People think that one child abused is one too many, which is hard to argue. But yes, you can argue that blocking entire domains instead of specific urls is overkill.

Accessing free child porn anonymously doesn't "incentivise" child abuse. But some think that it encourages abuse in real life. But that's a psychological argument, not a technical one.
The 'Do Not Track' proposal is a travesty, because it depends on the participation of the violator. Furthermore, it completely invalidates itself, because the only method of compliance is through tracking!

Privacy control needs to be in the hands of the user, before a tracking site is even resolved via DNS. A combination of extensions like RequestPolicy and BetterPrivacy go a long way towards achieving this (but new tracking techniques are always being developed). Browsers need to have some of this functionality built-in, instead of trying to protect the sheep by supporting a protocol developed by wolves.
Hm. A quick Wikipedia lookup show that 3 out of 4 conifer orders went extinct since the Jurassic; species diversity is centered in mountains of China, Japan, Mexico and California; many families exist only in the southern hemisphere tho fossils show them once worldwide.

And about leaves: we were talking trees - of course herbs existed hundreds of millions of years earlier.
I wish there was a convention on the order of classes on an element. Like height/width first, padding/margin next, idk what next, and then pseudoclass variants at the end, but in the same order?

I don't know honestly, I just wish there was a convention.
Why would there be a way to remove the obligation of the investment from the business? They are buying shares, once they buy them, they own them until they decide to sell them.

You would strike a deal of how many dollars per share just like any other investment.

The part that a few people in this thread don't seem to be getting is that distributing money via dividends is something a founder wants to do, not something they are forced to do.

Why? Because the founder gets their percentage of the money!

Normal VCs don't want you to distribute because they only want you to grow. Any money that you have they want you to spend on growth so that you can do a big exit. This is a totally different mindset then making a normal company that just earns money and gives that money to it's owners.
> Not to start a flame war, but it seems that Clojure/Rich's strong anti-OO stance is almost a selling point of the language.
> IMHO, OO just put some lipstick on the procedural pig.

<sarcasm>
Not to start a flame war, IMHO functional bigots just like to incite language wars rather than solving real problems.
</sarcasm>
Indeed, every time I hear advocacy of "safer" languages, formal verification, heavily-constrained runtime environments, etc., it's a rather odd feeling; on one hand I think there are definite advantages (e.g. I don't want government backdoors as much as anyone else advocating strong security), but on the other hand, I can't help but think that the strong security of these systems can often be used against the user. One of the most common examples of this is jailbreaking - which basically wouldn't exist at all if systems were built with strong proofs of security. There are also those who think the problem is at the policy level and strongly secure systems should be strongly advocated anyway, but since there has been very little in the way of laws protecting users' freedom to control the hardware and software they own (and instead the opposite has been happening), often the most practical way to freedom is insecurity. As that famous saying goes, "those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."

I can understand the rationale behind it, that an average Joe needs protection from the heavily complicated magic box in front of him. But for those who understand and know how to use that magic, security means less joy, less flexibility, less power.

This might be an issue of societal attitudes - there seems to be much emphasis on systems being "easy to use" without any knowledge, which ultimately leads to systems in which the user has absolutely no control; after all, the easiest system to "use" is one that makes all the decisions for the user. And as users start making fewer decisions because of this automation, the "advanced features" that they would otherwise use get used less, leading to their eventual removal. The decreasing motivation of users to learn about and control their systems causes systems to allow less control (and consequently become easier to "use"), feeding back to decreased motivation of the users in a vicious cycle. The biggest concern is that the developers of the future are the users of today, so the increased "automation"/decreased flexibility feeds them too.

It's hard to find a solution to this, but I think it's one that will need to involve a huge shift in societal attitudes - from "I don't know how to do X but Y will do it for me so I don't care about learning more" to "I don't know X so I'll learn how, then find a way to use Y to do it better".
You should look at a RUM(Real User Monitoring) solution. It involves putting a javascript tag on your web page, and it captures your end users load times, and usually their location.
Intimidation? She is also wearing a mask and is extremely creepy.

I agree with the OP, this is creepier and more personal (being his home) than getting drugs mailed to him. Or continually DDOS'd..
I think that most people file I-140/I-485 concurrently and apply for employment authorization at the same time. At that point they are not tied to their company exclusively, and theoretically they could even leave, if they are confident that the company would not maliciously retract their application. The risk there, of course, is that as soon as EAD is used to justify employment, H-1B is no longer valid, and if the initial application is denied, the applicant is automatically out of status.
No law has been passed yet, this is a "proposal for a parliamentary resolution" (þingsályktunartillaga). Which basically means that parliament has expressed formal interest in getting legislation drafted to implement this.

How that legislation will look will depend on a lot of committee work down the road, and what parliament actually ends up passing is another open question.

Still, this proposal has the backing of several ministries, so there's a large change that something good will be passed. But whether it'll fulfill all the promises of the IMMI plan remains to be seen.
If it is possible to share the results with us, I'd like to see it when you are done. I recognize that may not be possible. I think I have a good bead on the general results, but specifics are nice, and concrete charts could even be helpful for talking to college-bound seniors about what it is they need to be doing in a way that "here, let me share my intuitions" aren't.
I can't give you feedback on your specific API. However, I will say that if you're not already about 80% sure that it's correct, it's probably wrong somehow.

Allow me to explain. An API is a pretty abstract thing. For it to be useful, you need to have a use-case for it. Generally, once you've defined what the problem is that you're solving, you know about 80% of what the API needs to look like. The rest is just a matter of iteration and trial and error.

The best way to get at this is to write an application that uses the API. This should give you a pretty good idea of what kind of interface should be provided. Alternatively, your customers should give you an idea of what they want the API to do. Don't be afraid to ask probing questions if their needs are ambiguous.
It sucks that Apple's secrecy makes it difficult for legit third-party developers to have access to proper testing hardware and infrastructure so their apps, which Apple touts as one of the reasons to have an iPhone, are ready to go on the day of release.
For RabbitMQ you mention:

No message delivery guarantee in face of RabbitMQ server failure.

Wouldn't that be solved by using a persistent queue and high availability clustering (i.e. the queue is duplicated over N servers)?
but really - and I'm sure this is your `secret sauce' so you don't want to give away too much - how do you get hypers which just work out the box? was this some kind of meta-regression on the hypers? Or did you do a bayesian optimisation?
I know it's a classic book title, but TFA's title seems obnoxiously sexist, given the content. Otherwise a nice piece. I like how 99% Invisible has a comprehensive page with all the main points of its reporting, but then the audio goes into more details.
Bold to assume I have a mic jack in 2021.
I certainly trust the unnammed petroleum engineer more then BPs PR machinery. Especially since this is not the first time I learn how bad those dispersants are.

In addition; you can think about Salon what you want. But it's certainly not "some guys blog".

Your mileage may vary, of course.
yes, great point. i've seen policies where salary information is to be kept confidential, and it makes sense. in many instances, the job-seeker will shift to a competing company. it is wrong for them to divulge confidential business information (i.e. salary) of their former employer to competitors, and it's crazy how divulging such information is standard practise!