jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"As one crypto analyst points out, as high as Bitcoin might climb this year, the long-term game is where it is at. The stock-to-flow model predicts a price of more than $1 million per BTC by the year 2026."
Modern CRDTs like Automerge and Yjs should be able to perform basically just as well as an OT based systems (like my own ShareDB) now. I ran some benchmarks using Kleppmann’s approach a few months ago[1] and I think a well implemented crdt should easily be able to do millions of edits/second. The thing that’s holding us back at the moment is the lack of good high performance native implementations of these systems. But that’s being worked on.

This has only really started being true in the last year or so.

[1] https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-are-the-future/
Funny you say that. I'm a long-time MacBook Pro user, that migrated to Microsoft (!) Surface Go (!!) running Windows 10 (!!!) recently. Not only is the OS tolerable (after I figured how to prevent crashes ... I mean, automatic updates) and the device more convenient than any I've used before (a real computer in the iPad form factor), the trackpad is amazing as well, I truly don't notice any difference with MacBook Pro trackpad!
I hope 80% of the returns are invested back in Afghanistan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
I guess my point here is that the things that I cited will very possibly give Android time to succeed. It might not generally succeed, e.g. Apple may be able to carve out a long term and large niche of the market, but it seems to me that they're near totally excluding themselves from many important ones.

E.g. a lot of people talk about the using the iPad in health care. That strikes me as a non-starter unless Apple is able to change that market ... which they just might be able to do by directly working with a few 3rd parties. But not as the market stands today.

There's a very good chance you're right in your near term 3 year prediction ... but I could see things swinging faster, although not much faster. 2 years at minimum.
Which is worse? A party with few minorities but many at the top, or a party with lots of minorities and relatively few at the top?
We're seeing some customers like Universal Music Group get 90% of their users login with third party accounts: http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/02/lady-gaga-facebook.... Other customers like the LA Times have gone with 100% third party login because they get much more complete and accurate user data than they do with site specific username/password approaches: http://blog.janrain.com/2010/04/news-sites-moving-away-from-...

If you'd like assistance with optimizing the user experience to maximize 3rd party login success rate, please contact johnb at janrain.com
Thanks for admitting that status is important to you.

I've always considered this, at least from my perspective, as less about status and more about how to judge your success.

I'd like to earn the respect of groups I, in turn, respect; for example I hugely respect the HN crowd and try my best to act in ways people here respect/approve of. This seems to me to be a relatively altruistic judge of your own success as an individual; after all if you are succeeding in the eyes of people you yourself feel are successes then that has to be a good thing :)

Earlier this year, I created a list of things I want to do before I die:

I hope this doesn't sound too critical; but I think you are aiming very high. There isn't a lot wrong with that as long as you know it is a high aim :)

I don't know if I still want to go for #2, even though I'm a Jamaican like Bolt. But one can live in hope, right?

I'd say of he list #2 is your most frivolous aim. There are years of dedication and work required to achieve that - and given your age I would say it is becoming less and less likely to be achievable. By 2012? Well I have no idea of your aptitude at running but that seems a steep aim (unless you are already working towards it).

I used to have a similar list before the current one; what you need to do is pare things down to what you really want and then break that down into meaningful goals (without being too analytical). For example: my one of having a successful company by 27 is somewhat mapped out. I have a broad idea of the field I will launch into, how I would run/build my company and which contacts I need to build to achieve it. These are all sub-aims that I can work towards on a month-month basis. Once you see those aims starting to be achieved the long term goals appear more achievable.

But, most importantly, just get working on them :D
but you have to remember the vast majority of trades are made by humans and the vast majority of humans are emotional not always logical creatures. So the technicals which don't account for human emotions are bound to be wrong a certain (usually large)percentage of the time.
Potassium in a banana: 400 mg. Recommended daily intake of potassium: 3500 mg.

Don't try so hard to avoid radiation sickness that you wind up malnourished.
Sorry, my bad. I tried editing the link, but was unable to find the editing page. Thanks to the person who put in the scribd link
Not too sure how to place this article. While I understand and have seen this fallacy widespread and know that people have a hard time dealing with it even if they know about it (I used to work for the lottery and casino industry). I am not too sure I have noticed the kind of site statistics analysis described. Sure there were many A/B testing related articles recently and I have not read all of them but is it what he is referring to?
It's hard to know what happened here, because the papers aren't available, and honestly, PACER is a piece of shit to get stuff from anyway.

However, I wouldn't believe random tweets.
For example, one says:

"Notable that though there's no evidence Barrett took part in the hack releasing credit card info judge is determined he did.
#FreeBB"

This is pretty unlikely, particularly if it was used as a sentencing factor.
Every federal judge knows that you can't use facts not proven to a jury or in a plea agreement, to enhance a sentence.

This is completely well-settled law now.
See United States v. Booker, 543 US 220 (2005), Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004) and Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000)

(Apprendi is a little different in that it says you can't enhance past statutory maximum, but Booker and Blakely make plain you can't enhance at all except using facts admitted by the defendant or proven to a jury)
As an academic, he has probably verified that the underlying algorithms are as sound as claimed. Problems like Heartbleed come from implementation errors. Implementations are very prone to error, so there are almost certainly still other, unreported vulnerabilities.

From the article, it would seem that side-stepping this, and going directly for the routers, or even the employees, is more efficient in actually circumventing encryption than hunting for vulnerabilities in encryption implementations.
There's nothing wrong with storing customer purchase data as long as this is processed and stored in a legally compliant manner. This data is crucial for other things such as returns and refunds.
Oh, sure ;)

I've got one of the little Orange Tiny Terrors sitting next to me. That's 7w on the setting I normally use.
* Portugal does not have full legalization. They have full decriminalization.

Not criminal does not mean legal.
Even then I would still consider it somewhat impractical as it means battery dead = computer locked. And depending on how it's programmed: forgot beacon/phone = computer locked.
Amazing, first time to their front page and I am greeted by a sign in dialog stating "She used Pinterest to roll her first Pasta"

oh I cannot seem to exit and see anything other than this dialog.

Why would I want to use a site that forces me to signup before it shows me what its good for?
I use it extensively. In my experience it is very reliable. Onle once or twice in two years of using it has something strange happened with JIT compilation of functions. All I had to do to fix was restart the Julia REPL and load things in again.
That link doesn't actually mention the US at all? It points to a single example involving Zambia and China, which is definitely bad. There are an awfully long list of those around the world.

That's what I mean - if you go looking for incidents where the Chinese are involved and build up a prosecution argument against them, that's a very different approach to trying to systematically and without favour deal with all human rights abuses of all scale by all parties. Which is a huge job.
An interesting article.

I was minded to write an Ask HN related to this. Why do so many new languages launch without what I'd consider to be essential functionality for any language; autocomplete, good IDE integration, intellisense, auto refactoring and navigation support?

I get that all languages are just text at the end of the day but are people really holding the whole API surface and type arguments of standard libraries and 3rd party libraries in their head? Do they remember variable names across files and directories. I feel like my memory must be absolutely terrible because there's no way I could work in a language without decent autocomplete.
Does the Rust Rayon library have the issue the speaker was describing, where parallel inner loops mostly get executed serially once an outer loop is parallelized? (I assume it does, from its Cilk heritage?) Are there workarounds for when that is a problem?

Edit: Dumb mistake on my part. I was looking at the video linked in the top comment (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdiZa0Y3F3c) and then I came back to this thread and thought it was the topic.
There are two aspects here: Interactive Development is incredible difficult. There is a talk of Anders Heijlsberg about that compiler building is no longer the same than 10 years ago. When you code, you need sub-100-ms reactions, the parser needs to be happy parsing incomplete, typically errorous code and then you need a code analysis engine dealing with that half-baked AST. Also traditional compilers are a strict pipeline and not a loop etc.
Microsoft had to rewrite the C# compiler for that. The PHP LSP had to create an own parser engine because no suitable was available.
It is essentially a lecture for future language creator: If you write a compiler, do not only built it for binary emitting but also for editors and analyzers.

And yes, the smart-asses of the 70/80s (aka LISP and Smalltalk) thought about that long time before anyone else. But hey, today's landscape is a bit more complex (think about CSS styles in a HTML embedded in a TypeScript enriched JavaScript JSX file).

The second aspect: LSP is great because it was a cross-vendor, cross-language initiative which had in its first year already two dozen languages on board in addition to half a dozen editors (VS Code, Emacs, Atom, VIM, ...). Emacs plugins could never deliver that because they were bound to Emacs.
Yes.

And for anyone wondering about the state of the Julia package ecosystem compared to Python, someone had already written the main two packages we needed in Julia (for Mittag-Leffler computation and Inverse Laplace computation). At that time there was no Mittag-Leffler implemented in Python or SciPy that I could find.

I could also add that we were computing integral equations with Mittag-Leffler function in the Kernels so in worst cases we needed O(n^2) calls to Mittag-Leffler function where n could be O(10^5).
> I'm a fan of Kim Kardashian. She somehow managed to build a an empire based just on her name.

It's not like she did not come from a very wealthy family… That porn footage wouldn't have been news worthy if she was a rando…

One can still acknowledge her financial accomplishments yet, I wonder about her negative influence on young girls who will believe that a sextape or nudes are going to get them rich quickly like the Kardashian…
There are some commercial products such as http://pikture.logikit.net/Content

and there are lot of research papers if you are interested in implementing them :
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1021261
http://www.springerlink.com/content/e774824834226tv2
My mother's a public school teacher in Indiana and only some of these benefits are familiar sounding to me. Perhaps I just haven't been paying attention. Do you have any sources for these claims?
But there is no single "there" - that's my point.
> We're a flat hierarchy, and we encourage team members to be vocal about what they want to work on. The entire team plans quarterly targets and goals.

To be quite sincere, I've heard this before. And it ALWAYS ends like Animal Farm. Some are "more equal" than others, especially if your company has the usual upper management.
Psychoactive drugs are no joke. The psychedelic kind hold the potential of a life changing experience, LSD is one of those.

LSD is quite safe relatively to others psychoactive but this is not to be confused with the effects from the psychedelic experience. When you get to perceive things differently, be exposed to different views of the world and yourself, get a different outlook on things. Well yes, change can occur and last, sometimes for a lifetime.

And frequent abusers of LSD are known to develop a sort of holier than you personality as they develop the illusion of having superior knowledge and understanding.
Nobody is good at everything. But there is certainly a vocal contingent of maths/physics types who think they are.
Besides reposting the notion that timestamps imply a USB2 file dump, I am seeing only speculation in this article and no "new data on attributing".

I would like to point out that any skilled unix developer can create a script in about an hour that can make any set of files appear to have been transferred using USB2.
You guys both inspired me to write my own:
http://www.observationalhazard.com/2014/12/my-2014-in-side-p...
Interesting. If accepted, I am tempted to buy a few shares and see what falls out over time.
Agreed. Did he really buy this house with money from premium megaupload subscriptions?
Once again, musicians don't really earn anything on record sales. Theoretically they receive about 30% of the profit made on album sales but that's normally deducted by the record label as payments for the loan they have given them for recording their tracks, shooting the videos etc. so unless you're a very very famous musician it's unlikely that you'll ever pay back this "loan" or earn anything on record sales.

The two main sources of income for musicians are:

* Performing rights. They receive royalties for public performances of the works they composed. Which means not everyone in the band gets paid, only the ones who are registered as composers of that particular work. This is paid for public performances, e.g. radio and television broadcasts. If your work gets broadcasted (or played in chains such as McDonald's as background music) you can earn an awful lot of money.

* Live performances. Even for moderately well-known musicians, it's not unusual to get paid around $1500 per gig per person.

(I work in the broadcasting / recording industry)
As a fan of Nine Inch Nails, I'm often surprised at how well they pull off translating the least performance-friendly music into a five-person show. In a way, the best example is the track "Starfuckers" from The Fragile, which on the album, is a very studio'd/produced track, but when they play it live, they do it without any backing tracks, and it kind of destroys.

Having grown up on Warp Records, Nine Inch Nails, and Nintendo music, I've actually come to really appreciate a good live performance. I've seen the unlikeliest of artists doing live shows, and I've also gone to dozens of festivals which turned me on to music that I'd never appreciate if not for having seen the groups that played the music live.

Aside from that - it's too bad you have zero interest in ever attending a live concert. To me, that's like saying you have zero interest in tasting delicious food, or zero interest in having sex. You've got at least five senses, and only so long to live - make the most of what you have!
Buy enough RAM to fit the entire dataset in memory and any database will scream.
As a musician with a startup in this space, so I know first had these numbers are skewed.

First, a musician's online product isn't just their music -- merch sales like t-shirts make up a big part of their revenue stream. For our members it is 70/30 split in terms of music/merch, but the profitability of merch is a lot higher. And as others have mentioned, royalties are not in the picture.

Second, the data seems to favor CDbaby. I guess it was easier to just look at one source, but these days there are a lot more compelling options for musicians that have no fees (through sites like Bandcamp). Even the physical CD pricing with CDbaby is incorrect -- on a physical disc an artist selling an album for $10 would only make $4 with CDbaby, not $7.50.
The FairTax replaces all taxes and the prebate makes it progressive. The rich actually have no net benefit because in the income tax world, they're still rich and in the fairtax world, they're still rich. What progressive income taxation says is that you want to pull down the rich to bring up the poor. We need to pull up the poor and leave the rich alone. The rich have their wealth and will continue to maintain it. A tax plan should be transparent and it should allow the poor to save money and invest their way out of being poor.
Oops, messed this up (too late to edit). Thanks choochootrain for the correction:

>>> NestedDD = lambda: collections.defaultdict(NestedDD)
>>> nested_dd = NestedDD()
>>> nested_dd['a']['b']['c']['d'] = 'hello'

does the proper thing.
Most enjoyable languages for me are definitely GC'd (JS, TS, Ocaml, Ruby). But I have professional C++ experience.

The software is a layer over an in-process key value store written in C (LMDB).
Sure, here are a couple of resources, both for Russia and the U.S.

For the U.S. plan to attack Russia, the NRDC did an interesting hypothetical attack around 20 years ago to show the impact a U.S. attack would have on Russia. (It's hypothetical because the actual attack plans are classified to the point that even Senators on the big committees don't get to see them when they angrily ask for them.) The report on that hypothetical is here: https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/us-nuclear-war-plan...

For the Russian plan to attack the U.S., this reddit thread is a guy who did this for a living answering questions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/war/comments/trkfe7/three_hypotheti...

The submitter, https://www.reddit.com/user/dmteter/, has deep knowledge of the issue, and answers a lot of questions. He's kinda a hothead, though, if asked questions the wrong way. I chalk it up to the kind of stress that might come from realizing that the plans you helped to develop to kill hundreds of millions of people might actually get put to use in the foreseeable future.

He also answers some questions in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/nuclearwar/comments/tpa3ao/openriso...

The nuclear winter stuff is more interesting. Most recent papers are very much thinking it's a very big deal:

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/201...
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3155983
http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/ChinaNWrice8inpress.pd...
https://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/OzdoganNuclearWinterM...
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013EF00...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aay5478
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1919049117
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GL08...
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017JD02...
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JD03...

One paper that feels the nuclear winter risk is overstated is from LLNL: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020...

This paper talks a bit about the uncertainties regarding nuclear winter right now. Mainly lack of data for modelling: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25751654.2021.1...

A lot of the questions revolve around whether nuclear detonations would create firestorms in contemporary U.S. cities, and if they did, if those fire storms would be strong enough to generate pyrocumulonimbus clouds that drew the soot into the stratosphere on a widespread scale. If firestorms do start, based on PNW fire studies, it seems that pyrocumulonimbus clouds would be a very common thing: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax1748
> Trump and Putin tactics

The bias here is quite clear across all your comments
Houses also do not generate income. And many people also feel the urge to consider them an investment.
(Oh, and to put you out of your misery, a more recent comment by OP contains the clue: "Where I live (Aotearoa)", which suggests they're a New Zealander. So, you missed your guess by around 11,000 miles, and apparently 80 years or so in terms of English language usage.)
Oh this is entertaining. Thank you. Perhaps I will set one or two of these up.
Why should your company be in the encyclopedia? If mainstream news sources have written about you, you can probably get there. But why would you?
I hope he wasn't dumped by overwhelmed parents.
Depending on the config, the M1 Pro has 8 or 10 cores - and unlike the M1, the M1 Pro's 8 core configuration uses 6 performance cores and 2 efficiency cores vs 4 / 4
> Still think MacOS is crap overall though. Soon as linux is viable on M1 as a daily driver, i am checking out of macos.

This is a weird position to hold. You just argued why macOS does some fundamental things (at least memory management) really well.
I find this officespeak hilarious.
If the parent is referring to de Bruijn sequences then it should in theory be 100% reliable since the device will be traversing every permutation.

I suspect the 70% success is more to do with mechanical reliability, since the device must be compatible with multiple different mechanical combination locks that have different physical characteristics and may be far from in perfect operating condition - and also be able to operate at a reasonably high speed to be able to traverse all combinations in reasonable time even when using a de Bruijn sequence.
Ah, that's too bad then. All the tutorials used to be on the top of the results, so wouldn't they at least slip a few places down? I don't think they'd get removed completely if that were the case...
There is still a big 'market' in amateur fan sites - thefanlistings.org is a good start if you're into that sort of thing.
It's Windows all over again, with apps sticking themselves in the tray unnecessarily, coming bundled with popups, and wanting updates every 3 days. Google and Apple need to draw hard and fast limits on every one of these common resources and also consider banning apps that abuse notifications to deliver ads.

Because this isn't innovation, it is exploitation.
Does anyone know how to install it on Arch?
Thanks, and actually the "Ask HN" and "Show HN" threads were the original reason behind the newsletter... since those seem to not stick around on the front page very long.
A flattr button would be nice ;)
wow! that's a perspective you don't get from travel guides...
I think it is douptful if the phrases are facts or just anecdotes.
The language has very definitely moved on and lost ALL of the defining features of Prolog except for some syntax elements. It only resembles Prolog in a very superficial way, mainly that variables start with a capital letter. The semantics are completely different.
Whatever you do, enjoy every minute and day of doing it. Don't make it feel like a sacrifice, waiting for that magical future to happen. Worst thing you could do is run a startup and feel bad about it or that you are missing out on something. Happiness is in the here, in the now.
I think it's purpose was entertainment rather than illumination.
HA! voted down for insulting prius drivers? I can only assume the down voters are equally innumerate.