jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I started wondering how one would reliably store a bit in about a microsecond of audio in the 1960s in a device that doesn't require continuous tuning.

Google led me to http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory#Magnetostri.... It isn't audio, but a torsional wave, and Wikipedia claims a delay in the order of half a millisecond.
Were the Chinese spying on Nortel? Perhaps. Was this a proximate cause of Nortel's collapse? Seems unlikely that it was even a distal cause and more likely that insiders - such as the person quoted in the CBC article - are attempting to either deflect blame and attention to outside factors or are attempting to maintain their wilfull ignorance of the management rot within the former corporate behemoth.

I worked for several years at BNR, Nortel's old R&D division, then joined a group that spun out of Nortel. A lot of folks pursued that path when they could or simply left for other more entrepreneurial places, because of Nortel's culture and poor management. It was a sluggish dinosaur of a company with barely an entrepreneurial bone and a huge sense of entitlement, entitlement both to government assistance and to the old ways (the 40 year copper renewal cycle, etc.).

Why the diatribe? Because citing Nortel as evidence in favour of one's arguments in this case diminishes the value of those arguments, makes the whole thesis suspect.

Nortel collapsed due to bad management. End of story.
Not a book, but prof. Vincent Racaniello offers free courses[1] and has great youtube videos.

[1]https://www.virology.ws/course/
hahahah that was great, never saw that
This is a major project that the German government is heavily involved in. Major German companies are under threat of sanctions. The US is using sanctions in order to try to force the German government to change its strategic and economic policy. This is a bit more than the US sanctioning some random German company.
This is sort of the heart of my complaint, they are allowed to function as monopolies. The AFL-CIO has rules like "no-raiding" for affiliated unions that are anti-competitive in that sense as well.
One would come to the conclusion from that that "affordable housing" is impossible in L.A. when you consider total costs of infrastructure, overhead, etc. The city of Boulder, CO came to the same conclusion.

One is tempted to baseline this against competitive options such as duplexes, townhouses and similar moderate density buildings.
This tone is unwelcome on HN, which is probably why your previous comments have often been downvoted and flagged.
For me, at least, there’s a big difference between having the knowledge of how to approach these problems and having the practice fresh enough in my mind to solve them quickly under pressure. The latter is what the month (or whatever) is for, and it’s absolutely necessary for me personally. I think you have to be pretty dang smart for it not to be.
There is also millions of times more gold and platinum in there than has ever been mined.

Amusing thing about gold is that all the gold thus far mined arrived in meteorites, after the Earth's crust froze; and most has been dissolved in and then precipitated out of water at some point. (Strictly speaking it doesn't exactly dissolve, but it's hard to understand the difference.)

Also, gold telluride looks enough like fool's gold that it has been mistaken for it and used to make sidewalks and fill potholes -- that were later mined, after somebody noticed the fool's gold there was twice as heavy as it should have been. (Keyword "calaverite".)
>Could it be that you limit your perspective onto only the US at the current point in time? Otherwise what you say just doesn't make any sense and your points can't be generalized. And even in the US, health insurance is not mandatory (as you say yourself), hence I would still not call it a tax.

What I mean by insurable and uninsurable is that an entity can come in and sell insurance which can benefit the buyer alone, and is not an explicit subsidy to the other insureds in the risk pool. However, for health, it's a no brainer to opt out of health insurance between ages 20 and 40 (maybe not if you're a woman that's going to have kids). This makes the risk pool completely full of people experiencing losses and that point, it's just a cost sharing arrangement.

I.e. Auto insurance premiums reflect the loss the insurance company will experience from your driving. Home insurance premiums reflect the loss the insurance company will experience from damage to your home. Life insurance will reflect the loss the insurance company will experience from your death. But health insurance (as implemented in the US) premiums explicitly reflect the loss the insurance companies experience from older, sicker people due to the various stipulations I listed in my posts above.

>And to be honest, I think it's not good that the taxpayers are paying here. The nice thing about insurance is that it gives incentives, such as "don't live somewhere if you can't afford the dangers at this place".

I agree, and that's why I don't like using the word insurance when it's not really insurance in the conventional sense. It's a tax, which I'm not opposed to, but I think there is value in recognizing that health insurance premiums are explicitly going to pay for healthcare for other people.

This manifests itself every time someone complains about ACA causing health insurance premiums to increase, as if the law or insurers caused the premiums to go up.

What really happened is the law allowed more healthcare to be provided to more people, and the way it funded it was by increasing health insurance premiums and having everyone pay (i.e. the mandate to purchase health insurance), and I think we'd be better off if we referred to this as a tax and recognize that the increase in insurance premiums is going towards benefiting others by giving them access to previously inaccessible healthcare.
I've always thought it was odd that people got upset about homosexuality and not about adultery. Religiously they are equally bad.

Perhaps it's because it's not really a religious issue (just using that as an excuse).

Biologically people are repelled by homosexuality and attracted to adultery. That affects their state of mind, and they look for a reason for that and catch upon religious arguments.
The jury's out on whether MtGox took the money and ran or lost the money and hid, right?

I'm not saying we should rely on mob justice. I'm saying that the risk of reprisal is a perfectly understandable reason not to commit certain crimes. These guys are public figures and would be easy targets for people who want to harrass or harm them, unlike for example a mask-wearing bank robber whom nobody can identify and who stole only the bank's money.
I can definitely see that now, I look like an ass, my bad

Yes, you should absolutely do whatever it takes to support the family, including selling the Benz.

I misread that original comment as "Benzes are only for rich people, not for peons that make $120k or below" and made a Jackie Chan face
> "no reason you can end up with a solution"

Should be... "no reason you can't end up with a solution"
Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincas_Mykolaitis-Putinas

Goethe is fine too, and some Russian poets.

I'm from England but I gladly concede that the best poetry tends to come from countries east of my own.
We did, we made several of them.

Lockheed, Boeing, Northrup, etc...
Is it speed of establishing a connection or does it affect pooled connections? What database engine are you using?

We abandoned cloudsqlproxy partially because the sidecar in Kubernetes caused random disconnects, but also because it just had bizarre network errors sometimes. (That was mostly when connecting from outside GCP though.)
This is one of the sweetest stories I have read in a while. Congratulations, and best of luck ahead.

Love your innocence -- “I’ve never been on an airplane before.”

Btw, how do you setup your username to be a sub-domain on Medium? `https://daliaawad28.medium.com`
That's not in any way an accurate description of "today's climate". It's cherry picking quotes from a very small - but very vocal - minority of only one side of the overall political spectrum that is "today's climate"
> You have an obligation to do the best that you can

The problem I have with this attitude is the pronoun. If you have some standards, great but please try to keep them to yourself. There's a lot of toxic "you should do this, you should be like that" type of talk in parenting circles, a lot of which is frankly condescending and non-actionable and add a lot of unnecessary stress, especially for insecure people.

People like to armchair-coach about what a parent ought to be doing, while completely ignoring that the parent's emotional well-being is a pretty big component in a healthy relationship w/ their kids.

This is exactly why others are saying to ignore unsolicited advice: because a lot of it isn't actually advice.
If you think back 25 years, Jobs has been here before with Microsoft, and it nearly killed his company. After all, Microsoft started out selling software, including on the Mac, and did a good job of it, and got what Apple was doing! And then they made their own platform, and the rest, as they say, is history.

I'd say there is a clear parallel here, and consciously or subconsciously, that is why it is war -- because it was war last time, and they almost lost.
Oh. I thought that was your notes after reading that book. Didn't realize you were copying out passages of interest.

My bad.
I understand that fans that excited but for those who are not in the stadium and watching on tv, I am even ready to pay my broadcaster if there is a way out to mute the honking sound or atleast keep it away when the commentators are talking!
Mine too. My first thought is that these guys need to take a style lesson from Matt Drudge.

I like checklists, but I really prefer plain text that I print out and check off manually. It's just easier.
Photoshop does that too. This method is different because it uses the data URI scheme to encode the (small) image as base64 data in the <img /> tag. No tables here!
I always end up wondering how can a company have so much of the market and so little of the buzz? (Of course, if you can maintain that level of market share, it may not matter.)
My best idea in this vein is a multi-user todo list for small companies, where people can assign todos to each other, and mark their own todos as depending on someone else. That way you could always see what you need to get done, that isn't being blocked by someone else.
There's something more tragic than the shareholder's losses: 346 people have died in two Boeing 737 MAX crashes.
Here's a rough video demo showing a simple "hello world" component: https://www.loom.com/share/ffe3fb6d23264cc7ad458f6b856ddc49
It's still fission. Just natural decay without management to speed it up or slow it down. In reactors the fuel rods naturally decay slowly and can be sped up with neutrons. So they can be turned 'off' and adapt to changing electricity needs. But RTGS are very static. Principle is still the same though. Both decay, cause heat which is made into electricity.
This is almost my stack, but I added PHP for rendering Markdown files (via Parsedown) and use include statements for common components like headers. I use an Apache server on a 512mb VPS and deploy by ssh and a git pull.

The only downside I have notice is that I can't easily put JS demos _within_ my rendered markdown, but I can work around it by stitching together multiple markdown files. Not pretty, but it works.
Don't forget about the regulators. Homicidal negligence.
Not to mention the floating nuclear power plant "Akademik Lomonosov" just got commissioned as well.
I would recommend micro editor then (https://micro-editor.github.io/). It's like a souped-up and much nicer to use nano.
It supports syntax-highlighting out of the box, auto-indents, etc.
I think you might like it :)
I'm in the exact same boat about my name. I have literally gotten up and left a physical bank when they refused to issue my debit card under "Middle Last" instead of "First Last". There's usually some BS about "the law requires that...", which prompts me to stop them mid-sentence and show them my AmEx and Visa that are titled "Middle Last".

No. Your setup may require me to go by an alias, but that's a quirk of your own shortsightedness and not a regulation.
Just go with an actual known bank or credit union, to much gamble in these 3rd party entities. I caved in and went with Bank of America, I will eventually switch my business to Navy Federal credit union when I have time to actually go to the credit union
I find it odd that there are several people who were tripped up by this, and then seem exclusively to concentrate on the whole "married/unmarried" thing.

The answer, of course, is C, because Anne might be Jack's pet dog or something and therefore isn't a person at all. :-)
This was a really entertaining post. Well done! 👍
And yet look at the demographics of any service/app that has a slightly more complicated sign-up process.
So that the rich have more control than the poor, under the guise of protecting the little guy mostly, nowadays.
Any signed language? Or a particular one?
It's important to remember that almost the entirety of Nevada is uninhabited.

Any jurisdictional zones so set up would be green-field projects, entirely opt-in from the start.

The county mentioned in the article where this seems to most likely result in a project only has 4000 people in it.

I'm excited to see what, if any, experimentation results from this.

("We already tried this, they are called company towns" is not a clever or insightful take.)
Sometimes text lacks the context that we need to feel and see as humans. IMO debates and discussions via chat will always be terrible. People misread texts all the time assuming it was said in a way that was meant to be insulting.

Once we can manage our emotions and misinterpretation of text then we can start debating in a healthy fashion.
If anyone buys any Facebook hardware after the whole "each Oculus is tied to a single Facebook account" debacle, then quite frankly they deserve what they get, at least if they were aware of the Oculus debacle in the first place.
You missed capital /S in my post
I would guess that the range of such a device would be horribly short. The smaller the aircraft, the worse the range, in general, and the smaller a gas turbine, the worse its efficiency. Those should combine to give a truly awful range, but surprisingly somehow enough to be useful in this situation.
And even if you give ZFS enough memory, its access pattern becomes so randomized that it's impossible to get decent throughput on hard drives.

Hopefully this system does not suffer from that.
> Rough guide is about ~2 hours per minute of video.

That makes sense, given the high quality result. A 2003 thread estimated production cost for training videos at $1000-$3000/minute, http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=254620 and that range still seems relevant, https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/17/871420

> here is a basic dump of the tools I use

Great that you were able to achieve this level of quality with FLOSS tools. Have you considered pay-what-you-want pricing, with a suggested anchor? Or creating (for pay) screencasts for commercial software? I've often felt that training material should be included in the marketing budget, as it increases the size of the market. E.g. a portion of donations/fees could go towards the OSS project.
So...we're all upvoting this hoping someone else understands networking at this level, right? And that maybe they'll do something awesome with it.
I feel like this applies here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGo5bxWy21g#t=1m19s
This seems like a much looser interpretation. Most industry leading companies (P&G, Google, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Accenture, etc) have strong cultures. It allows them to scale people.
> That's pretty much how I feel about the Fox-watching population of the US.

It's how I feel about everyone who gets their information from TV.
If unknown includes the military, yes.

I wouldn't extrapolate that to aliens. Too much else would be going on. (Technological advances, invasions, who knows what?) As much as I loved the X-files, Snowden would have outed this secret project. :-)
I am fond of alliterative poetry, and I think this poem is relevant to HN:

http://alliteration.net/poetry/website.htm
she looks like 4 year old child.
Maybe these communes can be run like social networks, so you don't even have to worry about how people smell, as long as they contribute and don't screw up big time.
It's like Cthulhu instead of a groundhog…
I designed something similar while writing scoutcamp (an express.js competitor). I made it so that it could parse both normal queries (eg, `?age=12&cards=visa&cards=mastercard`) and JSON (eg, `?age=12&cards=["visa","mastercard"]`).

I'd argue that design is easier to read and allows graceful degradation: someone using an API with fields `age` and `cards` can rely on the traditional way to work. They can easily reformulate their query when more complex structures are required. Yet Ajax scripts can use a simple shim to make XHR calls that send arbitrary JSON data.

https://github.com/espadrine/sc/blob/master/lib/camp.js#L82
Ikiru is one of the few movies I bought on DVD. Such a special movie, I don't know any other movie like it.
Primer

Antitrust

Rocket man

Office Space
Exactly. The grandparent's comment is anything but relevant.
While I do agree with it, it is clear it has nothing do with this.
Seems like a flaky architecture that depends too much on the internals of the web server.

I would launch a stand-alone ruby process for the communication and connect to it via Drb to get results. Note that this will not work if you have greater than about 40-100 things trying to connect to the object, but it is simple and will work pretty well at small scales-it is less hairy than threads.

Alternately, you could put rabbitmq or a messaging queue in the middle, and look at EventMachine for the communicator process. That will scale nicely.
"Dying Well" by Ira Byock. It shows me every time that nothing in life is important if you walk alone.
Ok, so basically I'm right about the few million part. Attempts to say it could be otherwise, but isn't, notwithstanding.

And if your wife and children inherit 3.5 million tax free and half of everything else, they will be fine. I'm more sympathetic to the wife argument, if she was spending time with the kids instead of developing a career - the children have presumably had a good education, they should be able to make their own money if 3.5 million isn't enough.

RE: compound interest, if you don't understand that, then you really do not understand inherited wealth.
I'm not convinced by Cyc either, but this argument is a bit off. A system like this would need to define axioms and inference rules. But it wouldn't need to collect upfront a database of every possible inference which might be made from them.

(In mathematics you don't technically need very many axioms or inference rules, although you do need a large body of heuristics and hints if you want a proof system which confines itself to proving inferences that are actually useful in some sense of the word, rather than proving a combinatorial explosion of trivial theorems. Dealing with the body of elementary arithmetic problems, however, wouldn't necessarily be particularly intractable -- last time I checked software proof systems can already deal with proving theorems in areas of mathematics like this and a fair bit further.)
Think about stackoverflow badges. It's more about getting individual users engaged, less about comparing users with each other. It's about making filing bugs more fun, which should result in more testing being done by more people.

This link explains this better: http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/social/people/reputatio...

It's not about comparing yourself against others.
One of the best "hacks" you may not be aware of is industry trade mags. Almost every industry has a bunch of little targeted magazines that are always struggling for content. You can often get away with submitted a massaged press release as an "article", and many times they're happy for the free content. It doesn't necessarily get your name and product out to the public at large, but it can get you some exposure that you can also leverage into an "As featured in the Pacific Northwest Log Home Builders Landscapers Guide".
In our case, the prototype was written in PHP with the kind of architecture you'd expect from a prototype. There were 45 .php files in a folder with one file called class.main.php. No templates. No classes. No consistent database access. No MVC. No ORM. No tests. [...] it was still obvious that moving to Django was in the best interest of our company (and my sanity).

Isn't the entire point of prototype code to throw it away eventually? It's okay if the code is messy, because it's just meant as a quick proof of concept, right?

People think programming in PHP _has_ to be messy and insane. But what I find even more amazing is actual PHP developers perpetuating this somehow. Case in point, I just spent the night doing maintenance on a website where a simple contact form was one monstrous 3000 lines copy-and-paste spaghetti code disaster written in PHP by a very well-known, respected and well-educated programmer. In the end I threw it away and replaced it with 50 lines of sane and maintainable code, also written in PHP. The point of this anecdote isn't to show how cool I am but to illustrate that there is something about PHP that makes people switch off their brains. Which is kind of sad, because it is possible to write very elegant things with it.
Ah yes, let me go live like a hunter gatherer because modern society is full of sin and evil.

That's the logical conclusion of 'don't use goods and services that have 'evil' behind them'.
Yes, for shame! When will America get to hear the side of the employer?

Mabye the executive of Amazon could be allowed to post a little column in paper like the Washington Post. Maybe the owner of that paper wouldn’t object to that idea.
It varies because different industries and corporations have different power relationships with their employees and potential employees. If you work in tech, for example, then your statement of 'happy workers are a good long-term strategy' might be generally true, and you will work harder to retain talent both because supply of people who have the required skills is below demand and both losing an employee and taking a new one on is expensive due to the value of the institutional knowledge they hold. These workers hold a lot of power over their employer (both individually and as a whole), and they know it, so they can demand good compensation and treatment and get it.

However a corporation which has a large amount of jobs which require little skill or job-specific training but a lot of effort may actually find the opposite is a good long-term strategy: they have a vast supply of potential employees and hiring and firing is cheap so they can work their employees hard to the point of burn-out and then fire and rehire the next batch. These workers have basically no power over their employer individually. Unions are effectively a way for these workers to exercise some power over their employer as a collective, to get what some workers essentially have automatically due to the labour market in which they work.
You can powderise oils using maltodextrin, it's a trick that a lot of gastro-chefs have been using for years. Turns back into oil in the presence of any liquid.
> , there's no question that immediate mode UIs also work well

I sincerely hope no one looks at the screenshot on that page and thinks "this is something that works well". This UI screams "I've been made that way because that was the easiest way in the tool I'm built with" (which is bad - good tools should not dictate the form of the resulting product)
Used to be in tech. Rage quit my last tech job when I was past my fresh date.