jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That sort of design is what motivated Magnus' post that has been linked here. We've been laying the uniSaaS groundwork with a new Xen toolstack daemon called Jitsu ("Just in Time Summoning of Unikernels").

Here's the camera ready paper that we'll be presenting at USENIX NSDI in May: http://anil.recoil.org/papers/2015-nsdi-jitsu.pdf

There's a lot more besides just the spawning to build a robust SaaS of course, but you can see the direction we're heading in...
Already exists for Erlang. Here is a demo:

http://erlangonxen.org/

Site is running on such a VM as well, press escape for a console to see stats.

Here is an example output from running their demo:

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300 sec : is how long it takes to launch a Linux instance to availability on Amazon EC2.

50 sec : is the time between power on and the lock screen for an Android phone.

0.4 sec : ago is when we received your request. Within this time we managed to create a new Xen instance, boot it, and run the application that rendered the page you are viewing. By the time you are done reading this, the instance will be gone.

---
Here's a free e-book on Haskell that I used in university:
www.learnyouahaskell.com

You can also support the author by purchasing a copy!

Edit: I'm new and do not know how to make that into a link. Sorry about that.
Cool! I would love to read it! When you release it, could you email a copy to me? (email in profile)
>Everyone can and should be forced to learn how to swim, right?

Is this such a controversial idea? I mean not literally everyone, there are people with disabilities who need help. But is it asking too much that if someone wants food, housing, and necessities from society that they put in effort, in some way, to contribute back? If someone values their lives so little they they would rather not work and die, why should we spend resources on them?

In reality, this doesn't work because we aren't going to have 100% employment and not everyone is able to work. But it doesn't seem to be asking too much that those who can work (and need support) should work.
This looks awesome. Finally a piece of tech I actually want, and by Intel of all companies.

The bigger consumer companies have been shuffling their feet, releasing arbitrary, very closed off pieces of tech that I don't really need. I really applaud Intel for making the tiny little PC I've been wanting for media and linux tomfoolery. The Chromecast was a no-go, and now with an apple tv, I'm feeling a little too enclosed; they don't have enough apps to satisfy all my media needs.

I've been watching the mini-pc market, chronically unsatisfied with what's been released up to this point. The Intel compute stick finally looks like the thing I've been looking for, mainly because they balance the size and low price, with just enough power for what I need. To top it off they're offering a Linux version, so I don't have to be worried about buying into a closed off platform.
I think he's just on to the broader concept that sometimes when you get stuck, a change of scenery can do wonders.
Unfortunately I think that eating would cause the opposite effect as your body would need more resources in order to digest food.
I get what you mean. Maybe I was inaccurate when I talked about the Xenophon/Fielding thing in the present tense. I think that if there was any idea of courting Fielding/Xenophon, it was attempted much earlier than the ETS business. I remember some months ago now, hearing that there was talk of adding gambling sites to Conroy's blacklist, without looking up where that talk may have come from, I could pretty confidently guess that it came from Xenophon. But not much came of it as far as I could tell, Conroy was too focussed on trying to demonstrate that his blacklist wouldn't suffer from any scope creep, and I'm sure this outcome must not have pleased Xenophon. As I alluded to previously, my feeling is that by now, the push for the "clean feed" is more ideology than political manoeuvring and I think you're right that by now the government would have given up on getting Fielding/Xenophon on side. I still think it's likely that they would have given it a go though.

I also think you're right that there is likely some bipartisanship on this issue and yeah that's pretty scary. But it's not really surprising is it? Considering the somewhat perfect storm of social conservatism that we seem to have all over the place right now. Conroy, Fielding, Xenophon, Abbott, Rudd, they all have that streak in varying degrees and must be only the tip of the ice berg. I'm just hoping that some of these guys maintain a bit of practicality and reason.

It's always the religious social conservatives who fret and worry that society is going to hell in a hand basket and it's their self appointed task to save the misguided and punish the wicked. That's the root of the push IMO and yep, it seems to be pushing up though both sides of politics pretty well right now.
Fair enough. Then, in all seriousness, I really am looking forward to your article on how you increased your productivity by starving yourself.
Reiss is saying: "some people call X the set of motivations which get called intrinsic, but actually there's no set X which is really shared between everyone". As an example, children can be motivated by curiosity or by grades and competition (an "extrinsic" motivator).

I imagine he'd agree that individuals have primary and secondary motivations, where secondary ones are all about filling some combination of primary ones. He's just saying that the primary ones differ between people (and maybe between times of day), and thus trying to debunk the idea that some motivators traditionally thought of as extrinsic (e.g. monetary reward) can never be primary.
They aren't isolated of course, SV is expensive because SV has money. Rentals go up because people keep paying stupid high rents, property goes up because people CAN afford it. Rent seekers keep pushing their luck and it keeps working.

I have become interested with the real value of software, and how getting rid of stupid high wages could be a great thing for the industry.

As an analogy, if a country has reasonably priced infrastructure workers (laymen and engineers) it can afford to build the infrastructure it's community needs. If you blow your annual budget building 6 miles of train line, you'll never have high speed rail. Real world example: Australia, one of the richest countries in the world, notoriously high infrastructure costs. While the rest of the world is speeding away with high speed rail, we could barely afford a two stop tram extension in the CBD.

Now have a think about all the software that doesn't get written because it's prohibitively expensive to make it, lots of boutique applications for specific needs, or local communities that need software to help with problems in their community. There are probably a lot of companies that could really do with an inhouse software team, but would never entertain the idea on account of the cost.
Distribution does integration. It's better to use a bit older version, but properly integrated with other parts of the system.
Don’t forget rural roads frequently and immediately transition into roadworks projects with little or no signage! Just a piece of wood that says “diversion”
Yah, and what's gross is when your team-mates criticize you for leaving comments at all. Let alone a lengthy discussion on why.
Bitcoin decentralisation sounds great but must people don't need it. You just need a less evil and less corrupt government and better fintech.

your second sentence inadvertently convinced me I need bitcoin
Doing these things in julia is very different from doing these things in R or Matlab. The tooling and ecosystem for non-scientific applications in Julia is growing rapidly and is quite competent.

Julia is absolutely a general purpose language. It’s user base skews heavily towards scientific computing, but the demographics and ecosystem are broadening daily.
The link in the original discussion is dead, here is it archived:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200722155031/https://www.gizmo...
Yeah, I got fed up with Julia's plotting library and wrote a C++ Qt plot function that forks and plots arrays of doubles.

It runs instantly even with millions of points.
I've never seen that happen, and would never do it. Not doubting you, but I'd expect this to be rare enough that it's worth ignoring.

The closest I've seen was someone with wildly out of line expectations (a developer who asked for basically the whole employee option pool to himself). Even then we gave a counter-offer (that he declined).

Personally I'd see it as a sign they're not someone I'd want to work for.
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The funny thing is I paid about the same from my rig that people pay for a Macbook Pro. It is not really unaffordable and you get a great development machine.

Of course nowadays the combination of Emacs and rust-analyzer gives you a very fast and nice workflow. That and one terminal running

cargo watch -s 'clear; cargo check --tests --color=always 2>&1 | head -40'

works miracles.
The really strict lock-downs have only been happening for the last week. People love it because they imagine this is only going to last a few weeks. Tell them that in order to be effective we're going to need to stay shut down for a year or more. Then let's talk about how much people like it.
Probably just send them out, no? Do they even end up particularly close to other people even in normal times? People tend to avoid power lines that are being actively worked on.
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That's an answer that I can't help but respect!
Is there a good argument for that?
the Australian government made the usual argument that metadata needs to be retained for long periods in order to fight terrorism and serious crime—even though the German experience is that, in practice, data retention does not help

Which only goes to show that it's not about fighting crime, but supporting it on the highest levels. Civil rights and the rule of law are obstacles to the coming rule of institutionalised crime, so they have to be abolished.
400 miles wouldn't even get me to my brother's place in the next state over.

More than 400 miles in a day is common in US roadtripping. On the other hand, breaking up those long driving days with a reasonable recharging period would be more than OK.
At Automattic we do. It shows that a company isn’t remote just to offset office costs.
There are two major problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors. (Twist on the Karlton quote.) I blame the foremost for this issue. Note though that very few of the users needed actually complain about it; the vast majority of the discussion is, predictably, off-topic.
personally, i don't owe it to anyone to release my copy the source code as long as i am using the product of the source code privately. for example, let's take a point of sale. at the broadest possible sense of imagination, my pos operators have a standing to demand to see the source code. at no point in time does a customer, who does not directly interact with the pos except in handing my operator their money have a right to look at my source code. richard stallman would, i hope, agree that he does not have a right to look at it either.

free software to me does not mean free for all. a person and an organization can still keep its secrets. (corrections welcome)
It may be trivial, but it's also often forgotten.
Yes, it was a commercially sold game which William Rowan Hamilton attempted to popularize, and yes, it was a flop in part because it was so very easy to find a solution by random messing around.
> for now anyway.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/17/jeb-bush-2016_n_634...
I like the new name! another reason that I would consider: try to explain to the immigration office that you are going to "Hacker School" first of all, they will freak out and then ask for your student visa.
I've heard claims that it is only so because you come from an established imperative mindset, and that it would be as easy(or difficult) for a person with no programming experience to learn Haskell as a traditional imperative language. It is an interesting point, though I've seen no actual examples that verify it.
Microsoft might be cooking some Midori into C# 7 as well.
> Are there not instructors? Is there not some form of curriculum? Are members not evaluated in some way?

There are no instructors, there is no curriculum, and members are not evaluated. It is not a bootcamp.
1) I would definitely implement a cap here - but something reasonably high... maybe 2GB is free, pay for more?

2) An app I wrote allowed this. We put a limit in that prevented more than 4 changes to occur within 10 minutes. If the user attempted a 5th change, they would get a message asking them to wait a few minutes.

3) Implementing a public/private key here is relatively trivial - any reason not to do it?

4) Hardware firewalls will help with a large portion of this. I had a server that would get brought to it's knees about twice a week from that fracking SQL worm. Added a hardware firewall instead of relying on the "non-standard" port and hard-to-remember password, and problem pretty much solved.

For applications that I write or control, I would put reasonable effort into "shaping" the worst possible abuses. For example, point #2 above - there's no real reason the user will ever change their plan more than a few times in a few minutes, so introduce a delay once a certain limit is reached. It won't cause any problems and will prevent confusion at the administration side.
This is an artifact of first past the post electoral systems, which reward polarization. You can't demonize the other parties if there's more than one to choose from and your governments are coalitions that may require you to genuinely work together next time.
Seems almost like you are talking about static vs. dynamic analysis of programs.
You missed the part where I said each resident would get a trillion bucks. Patently absurd, I know, but it's more fun to imagine than today's actual news.
Fox News was specifically designed and built to be the media arm of the Republican party. This was by design, created from the ground up as a long term play. In its case, it was not a natural shift of narrative influence or a trade-in for the viewer numbers.

Rupert Murdock called on Republican political strategist Roger Ailes in 1996 when creating Fox News. Ailes launched and then ran Fox News as its CEO for decades.

This is the same guy who worked as a media adviser to basically every successful Republican presidential campaign.. Nixon, Reagan, Bush.. and even Trump (before Ailes died, and after a sexual misconduct scandal finally got him canned at Fox).

Ailes was so influential as a strategist that he was even credited for one of Bush senior's wins back in the day. And he built and reigned at Fox News for 20+ years.

So we had a major republican political operator put in charge of a news network by a global political operator (Murdoch) who only got US citizenship as it was a requirement for US television station ownership. And who had a history of using his media empire to shape political narrative for influence.

The frustrating thing is that Murdoch's influence shaping has always been more about accumulating power than towards spreading specific ideology. In Australia in the 60s and 70s, he backed the faction pushing for universal free health care, free college education for all Australians, and public ownership of Australia's oil, gas and mineral resources.

Sounds very un-Fox-like, doesn't it? It was the in-road to political power, the faction that would get him the most influence by supporting. There was a write-up some years ago in the UK that delves a bit more into his history (as he has also been peddling influence in the UK for decades as well):

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a-man-of-selfish-lo...

But tying this back to Fox News.. he came to the US, built a TV network and used that foundation to build a news station. This was a push to become a major political controller by building and embedding Fox News as the media arm of the Republican party.

They used this to condition their base. The lead-up to today is decades of people turning on FOX to watch Geraldo, sticking around for the news, then wandering off with talking points stuffed into their heads by influencers with an agenda who were presenting the news.

And the strategy was so successful that it generates mimics to the model. The most evil I see is Sinclair Media buying up local news stations and putting the same talking points into the mouths of local pundits across the nation. There's a creepy video compilation that highlights the tactics of this influence machinery by showing clips from each of these local news outlets with different talking heads each repeating the same points.
> Plus, gas fees. It's currently cheaper to wire money than to send some ETH.

Wrong. If all you wish for Christmas is to send some ETH, look no further than into ZK-Rollups such as zkSync & Loopring.

1) A transfer costs around $0.01 in fees.

2) ZK-Rollups are not sidechains. These are layer 2 solutions that settle on Ethereum with a novel trust model of 1-of-N: you only need to trust that a single node is honest!

3) Exchanges (such as Coinbase) would eventually support depositing/withdrawing to a rollup, which means most folks would never need to interact the expensive base layer directly.

Sending money across countries has never been cheaper, faster & as secure as it is now on an Ethereum ZK-Rollup.
Probably more like 50% of the time for me. Copying code with formatting from an IDE to Google Docs is amazingly useful.
You don't even have to postulate education being dangerous to people in power (something that I personally find to be more conspiracy than not).

It's enough to notice that there's near zero economic incentives for providing actual education. The market settled on an equilibrium of baseline operational knowledge + filtering through standardized testing, and then advanced operational knowledge acquired through voluntary higher education and on the job. And it continued to optimize accordingly. The only thing that makes people try to teach beyond this minimum is humanistic values, belief in importance of education. Against it works the entire economy, forcing individual teachers and schools alike to find savings, "cut out fat", make lean.

Free market is enough to explain the disaster education is becoming worldwide (because it's not just an US phenomenon; we start to see the same problems over here in Europe).
I assume this is based purely from his experience. I wonder how much research has been done on this. Surely Microsoft has tried to do some studies on it?
I went to protests all summer where the cops were beating the shit out of people for standing on the street outside an empty building. They sure as hell weren't removing the cordons and taking selfies with people inside.
I would think that the secret service has the funds to purchase a specimen of each released printer model and test it themselves.
Hmmm, nobody seems to care:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/1057...
Wikipedia (emphasis mine):

"The Great Deflation or the Great Sag refers to the period from 1870 until 1890 in which world prices of goods, materials and labor decreased.This had a negative effect on established industrial economies such as Great Britain while simultaneously allowing incredible growth in the United States which was just beginning to industrialize. Deflation has historically been more associated with recession, than growth, but this is one of the few sustained periods of deflationary growth in the history of the United States."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Deflation

This clearly refutes your statement:

"Deflation is almost invariably a sign of economic distress."

Perhaps deflation isn't traditionally associated with growth, but it clearly can be and has been in history. Note 'one of the few'. Deflationary growth isn't that rare of a phenomenon in history, though its rarity will be inversely proportional to the prevalence of central banking, monetary expansion, and economic authoritarianism. The market's had an uphill battle.

In general, deflations associated with recessions will also be associated with reckless monetary expansion. Including this form of deflation in statistics can be misleading. Its cause is entirely different from the cause of gradual, moderate deflation as the natural result of an expanding economy with limited currency.
Ghostbusters :)
I down voted you because the parent post was below zero and yours not. Usually I don't down vote comments which I disagree with but in this case I just wanted to counter balance whoever down voted the parent comment. I wouldn't have down voted you otherwise even though I disagree with you.

Now, let me explain why I disagree with you.

> Don't want to wear a seatbelt? Fine by me; it's your life, not mine!

What the guy really means is that he doesn't think government should protect people from themselves. The seatbelt example might be a bad one. But even then, I strongly doubt that wearing your own seatbelt can save someone else's life. I'd be curious to know how many lifes were saved because the driver was wearing seatbelt (except his own).

>> What's sad is that people like Ron Paul, who TRULY believe in limited government, are still seen as on the political fringe.
> He believes in limited FEDERAL government.

Ron Paul is clearly a libertarian and a libertarian believes in limited government, whatever the kind of government.
I agree with you completely, but want to know how this can be fixed in git? Surely there has to be something about the merging algorithm that can be changed to fix this, and if that's the case we can just patch it and move on.

What is the specific problem with the algorithm that causes this?
Not only not dead but almost done:
https://developer.blender.org/T78710

It'll prolly be in the 2.93 alpha soon.