jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Dropped calls still regularly happen for people? I'm driving and on the phone fairly regularly and the last time I had a dropped call was when I went from the mall to the parking garage via the elevator two or three months ago.
Well, in a word, yes. Everyone has downtime. Rackspace's downtime just makes more noise because lots of well-known sites are hosted there.
I had the same reaction when I saw the on/off buttons. For a second I thought they were so advanced they had designed the site to work with the iphone/ipad. Alas, it's just a regular webpage which relies on mouseover to function.
If you're pleased to see that paper there, you'll be even more pleased with the required reading for Stanford's security class.

http://crypto.stanford.edu/cs155/syllabus.html
Indeed. Forward compatability for IE is groovy and all, but how does a fella go about predicting document.getElementById back in the days of document.all and document.layers?
Which makes more sense: simply accepting something that is needlessly weird (note the affirming comments in this post), or making a post to complain about something you see wrong and in hopes that it will change? Apple is a company that is supposed to be excellent at design. I'd guess they pay attention when people complain about something that could be better, at least I'd hope so.
Congrats paul & jazzy
You can always just use a pipe if you don't require shared memory :)
What the ...? Okay, at least that explains why according to wikipedia they plan to buy 1.7k jets... if they need 9 jets as "stand in" for every one that's been flying.
That doesn't work for newer accounts linked to a Yahoo account. In fact it's a real pain getting your data out in xml format from such an account.
In case you stumble across this and find it interesting, it was also submitted a couple of days later, and attracted some comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014182
This is a simple expression. How about writing (1+2) * ((3 + 6) / (1+2)) in prefix notation without losing readability?

When precedence is to be overridden, the infix form can be easily understood by anyone with basic knowledge of arithmetic. Prefix on the other hand can be confusing. This makes BigDecimal arithmetic in Java cumbersome compared to languages which allow operator overloading.
A late-90s playstation role-playing game I've never heard of. I like it when codenames trigger a Wikipedia binge.
Although this submission was first, a subsequent duplicate has got some comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2015471
It is not necessary for companies to under-pay immigrants in order to reduce labor costs through expanded immigration. Just bringing in more programmers of any kind at any cost will increase supply of labor without increasing demand for same.
I'm glad to see some reasonable views from Turks here. I personally dont think anyone should have to apologize for anything that happened during that era, but certainly there should be recognition of it.
I think you are missing the point of the parent comment. He is trying to convey similar message as you are. The difference is he is not being a jerk about it.
then don't use the extensions? Not trying to be snarky, I might be missing something, but does Flask actually make it harder to use additional packages?
A better page (Ironically?) is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004
A teaspoon is 5g, so a 12 oz can has 8 teaspoons of sugar!

If someone were to make some tea and drop 8 teaspoons of sugar, that would be a pretty clearly a highly unhealthy behavior. How come we don't bat an eye when someone drinks a regular coke?
so at what point is your personal gatekeeping threshold met?
That's called dumping it is a short term tactic to win market share but not by any means long term strategy.
Well, sure, but the farewell note isn't the only thing he's written or said.
Wish more folks saw this lecture about never talking to the police:

https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE
Author touches a number of things but two messages resonate loudly:

- accessible != easy

- having the hard work done for you != easy

The “easy” myth was largely started by bootcamps trying to make an easy buck (NPI). More power to them, because clearly a lot of graduates were happy with their program and the career it unlocked.

But working on hard problems- often the foundational pieces that make the “easy” stuff easy - is a different ball game.

I spent the last 15 years of my career as an engineering manager type role, and the people who shone the most were the physics PhDs, electrical engineers, mathematicians that had changed careers, and the people who had for example worked on early home computing (where your computer crashed multiple times a day).

We made it a point not to hire from bootcamps and rarely new grads - not because of gatekeeping, but we had much more success paying 50-100% more for a hard science candidate.
So your view is that the long run is a few decades? :)

When I say long run, I'm talking hundreds of years. Software as an industry is not even one generation old yet. There are countless advancements that will come.

That being said, I don't consider social networks to fall into the class of an area where your product is the main differentiator. Network effects come first, product second.

Database products are a better example. JIRA another. It's the most widely used now but extremely slow and buggy. I sincerely doubt JIRA will be the winner 100 years from now if they don't improve technically.

In fact, a lot of software companies these days are just competing with traditional companies, but with better software. That's the whole selling point. E.g. fintech replacing banks, uber replacing taxis, insurance companies that make it easy to make claims etc. The bigger the tech disparity, the bigger the advantage.

Lets see!
I was under the impression the issue with 10nm is frequency, which lead to the rocket lake backport. Unfortunately it seems that the 10nm node's efficiency point is lower on the frequency curve. The reviewed ice lake processor was 300mhz lower then the previous generation (though with much higher core count), despite higher power draw and the process node shrink.

In laptop processors they can easily show efficiency gains from the 10nm process and IPC improvement, It appears most laptop processors end up running a power envelope lower then the ideal performance per watt efficiency. Server Processors with higher core counts means you can run more workloads per server, again providing efficiency gains. However desktop / gaming tends to be smaller core count + higher frequency with little concern of efficiency outside of quality of life factors (i.e. don't make me use a 1KW chiller). Intel has been pushing 5ghz processor frequency for years, and rocket lake continues that push (5.3ghz boost), when they drop frequency to move to 10nm, its hard to see an IPC improvement that is able to paper over that.

However alder lake CPUs will have a thread count advantage, so at least with 24 threads it should be able to show generational improvement over the current 8c/16 rocket lake parts. That will allow them to at least argue their value with select benchmarks and intel only features. Those 8 efficiency cores will likely be a BIG win on laptop, but on desktop I doubt they will compare favourably to the full fat cores on a current Ryzen 5900x (i.e. a currently available 24 core processor).

Intel is going to have at least 1 more BAD mainstream desktop generation before they can truely compete on the mainstream high end, however there is a chance they have something like a HEDT part that would allow them to at least save face. That being said, given a choice, Intel will give up desktop market share for the faster growing laptop and server markets.
She probably wasn't worth the effort. Pretty sure if the FSB considered her even moderately worth pursuing they would have exerted far more (and worse) pressure than the FBI does...
I don’t see the assets on their balance sheets? I.e, they’re being expensed. Our disagreement is about the definition of intangible asset. Under current regulations, intangible assets are understated versus reality. This is my point.
A few things that can make walking HDDs by physical layout even faster:

* also do it when walking directories! on ext4 you can FIEMAP the directories while walking them.

* keep a readahead buffer that spans multiple files, that way you can keep X megabytes in flight even when the files are small

* do readaheads on directories (can only be done as root for ext4)

* do drop-behind to prevent page cache thrashing

* even when writing synchronous code you can use io_uring to batch syscalls such as statx(), open() and fadvise()

I wrote crates for some of those points: https://crates.io/crates/platter-walk https://crates.io/crates/reapfrog
Thank you Germanka. Hope you found it useful.
No, like toddlers we just need to match and retaliate.
Putting up with bullshit is also a desirable characteristic for FAANG
> I wore a suit to my very first interview for a dev position and very nearly didn't get the job because they were worried I wouldn't fit in

Yeah - I hate this. I had people at my last position give candidates negative points because they wore a suit and I went $%&#ing ape. In positions that I've held in the past it's been the appropriate action to wear a suit due to heavily corporate environments, and I see it as 110% normal that someone puts on a nice suit for an interview. The action of wearing a suit (or tie for that matter) to an interview should never be seen as a "cultural fit" problem - I'm looking at you SV...

Sorry that almost happened to you. That's some bullshit.

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Overall a nice well-fitting button down + a pair of well-fitting dress slacks is what I would recommend. Personally, I wear a slim fit brand new white button-down (ironed), nice dark blue chinos (ironed, not pleated), and not-scuffed brown wing-tips. Often I also wear a tie, but am considering not thanks to a derelict SF "big-wig" grilling me in an interview as to "why are you wearing a tie?" All I wanted to say is "does it matter?" (offender: you're reading this don't do that again.)

Also get a solid hair cut, ensure you're shaved if male, and yeah - sit up and be confident while you're in the chair. Body language does matter, and your interviewer will subconsciously notice regardless if they're giving you a "pass" or not.
Yes. Sorry. I asked before I finished reading the article you linked to.
I haven't seen any good studies debunking it, but neither have I seen any studies which prove it. That IQ is heritable and has a large genetic component however is "settled science" [a], and the current trend in behavioural genetics seems to be that a large swathe of cognitive and social behaviours are very heritable indeed.

[a]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270739/
Mechwarrior 3 is another game that needs a Windows 9x. I can never get it working in VM Player, excited to try it out on this.
The gold color in this case comes from the compound kapton, versus the elemental gold deposited on space helmet visors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_blanket#Manufacturing

http://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff1997/hm2.html
People get excited about things happening to Javascript because, if you want to run your code in a browser, there's no alternative. So it's not so much "Javascript", some crappy language, getting that feature; it's all-web-programming getting that feature.
I just finished reading the book released by Bill Gates titled "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster." In it, he described how tackling this problem will take an extremely difficult combination of technologic advancement, government policy, and market alignment. We need to do everything we can to be sure that choosing the green energy option isn't just the morally correct choice, but is also the rational choice for everyone to make.

I recommend the book BTW. Though it tries its best to be optimistic, I finished it thinking "well shit, I don't know if this is possible." He is right in saying that it won't be easy.
The only thing embarrassing about the F-22 was the decision to terminate production at 187 aircraft. The F-22 was and is an excellent aircraft, perhaps a bit ahead of its time in terms of need, but to call it an embarrassment doesn't have much accuracy.
Hey HN,

I'm Davor, the author of VBA Telemetry.
In my company, we mostly create .net apps for the financial sector.

From time to time we also create VBA projects (Excel workbooks and Access projects) for our customers.
One of the most helpful features (that we use) in .net is the ability to track the usage, performance, and exceptions (errors) within our projects with Microsoft Azure Application Insights in real-time.

I was surprised that there is no such feature in VBA because we are working with other people's money and big numbers.

So I decided to create a small agent that connects VBA with Microsoft Azure Application Insights.
There is nothing to install, one needs to just include 1 class module in his VBA project and call the methods from this class.

You can download this class and examples from https://vbatelemetry.com

At the first start, this class downloads a small agent that does all the heavy lifting of connecting, preparing, and sending the data to the cloud.

And yes, the Microsoft Azure Application is free with the data volume that we need to track our VBA projects.
If you know anyone that works with VBA, I think that he will be thankful if you tell him about this, so that he can stop using the old methods of logging into text files or sending emails and similar outdated tactics.

So go and test it out and any feedback is greatly appreciated!
Davor
I always wondered if they would eventually make a deliberate attempt to take over the "shared Cpanel hosting" market with a non-shared-host, non-cpanel model. It seems ripe for change...lots of little players.
Spoiler: No, but it can help.

I'm really tired of this technology vs. policy vs. behavior changes discussions. It's a false dichtomy. We'll need all of that.
I got some pyrite for sale, great deal at $1600/oz! don't miss your chance to get in on the ground floor.
Thanks for sharing this post.
On a related note, I wonder, what would it take to have 100% continuous observational coverage capable of detecting planet-killer asteroids a few years in advance? How big the optics would have to be? Could we put them on a satellite? How many would we need? If and when SuperHeavy/Starship cuts another zero off launch costs, could we afford to run such a system?
It definitely isn't. I do a lot of searches at Bing now just because just entering one character will bring up a whole list of my previous searches, so I can re-use them. This is incredibly useful.

Google used to do that too, but killed the idea so it could provide crappy "instant" results.

Another thing that makes Google's search dramatically worse nowadays is the way it prioritizes "freshness" and de-prioritizes quality. It's now almost impossible to find any high quality results because the majority of the first few pages are taken up by rubbishy blog posts. Most of which are 5-line knock-offs of other blog posts.

The display of adverts on top of search results -- which deceives a lot of people -- is another example. When you look at the adverts and results that promote Google's own properties, there's less and less room for the organic search results that might actually be useful.

tl;dr -- Google search is significantly worse than it was three or four years ago.
The point is that consumers are still able to bid down prices despite having no choice but to participate in the market. Individual sellers still have to convince individual buyers to buy their products, and to do so they have to price their goods competitively. It doesn't matter that there is no alternative to participating in the food market because there are alternatives within the food market.
And feel free to down-vote me.. I don't really give a fuck.
> and jeopardized the lives of people in foreign nations employed by or cooperating with the US.

Didn't independent studies/orgs show that this wasn't true, and was just a phrase paraded around by the government to get the public against Manning?
There’s something to be said about noticing that things are different after making a change, like going vegan.

I’ve been vegan for nearly 12 years, but I’ll never forget experiencing all of the same feelings the author described.

And when friends go vegan for some period of time, even a little as a week, they report the same sorts of things.

Until the iPhone app with the required hardware attachment is available that provides realtime nutritional and well-being analytics, people reporting that they feel better when they don’t eat meat and dairy products is going to have to suffice for now.
Another way to interpret "nobody has the right to stop them" is that officially a "nobody" stops them i.e. a nameless shadow organization with everyone involved having the highest level of clearance and a program having a high degree of compartmentalization.
I don't think there were any forks as a direct result of the Oracle acquisition, but that's probably because there are several other prominent forks already and many of the MySQL people were displeased with the state of affairs under Sun, let alone Oracle. So most of the exodus had already occurred.

Check out MariaDB and Drizzle as starting points. :)
There is even a javascript implementation out there somewhere but it only runs at 4khash/sec.

Oh here's a variation https://github.com/progranism/Bitcoin-JavaScript-Miner

But what we really need is some code with true hash throttling because limiting it to one CPU just makes performance unbalanced as it still runs at max cpu.
it seems there are quite a few: percona's XtraDB, OurDelta, MariaDB, Drizzle are the first that come to mind, plus HailDB that is a fork of the single InnoDB
My fear (hope?) would be VirtualBox. Aside from Java, I use that the most.
What's your suggestion? That they should have been more restrictive with the OOo community? Oracle screwed the pooch, not by "allowing" TDF to fork, but by driving them to do so in the first place.

If there's a lesson to be learned here, it's that you need to consider community management a top priority if you're planning on relying on open source for a core business product. Sun managed to annoy the OOo community, but it took Oracle to drive them away.
In their end-of Weekend pitch, they said that they were Twilio-based (in the interests of getting this done over the weekend). Over the longer term, they plan to move to Asterisk/trunks if/when call volumes picked up (since Twilio pricing is not very aggressive for long multi-way calls : but the service/pricing is excellent for knocking something together).
I'm not sure what kind of system and network admin you can do with no network, but presumably that'd be a problem with any other computer.

For offline tasks, use offline apps, like Google Docs.
This one line

"The General seemed convinced that if only I knew what he knew, I would agree with him."

Makes me think back to that Daniel Ellsberg article where he's briefing Kissinger for the first time about having access to the whole of the USA's intelligence banks:

"First, you'll be exhilarated by some of this new information, and by having it all — so much! incredible! — suddenly available to you. But second, almost as fast, you will feel like a fool for having studied, written, talked about these subjects, criticized and analyzed decisions made by presidents for years without having known of the existence of all this information, which presidents and others had and you didn't, and which must have influenced their decisions in ways you couldn't even guess. In particular, you'll feel foolish for having literally rubbed shoulders for over a decade with some officials and consultants who did have access to all this information you didn't know about and didn't know they had, and you'll be stunned that they kept that secret from you so well."

[1] http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/02/daniel-ellsber...
Do we need more of these?
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I am interested in what behavior you expect from the app vs the behavior you are observing.

(I've used iBart a few times, but not in a few months and not to route trips in Oakland.)

Are you saying that your train arrives at 12th Street at noon and iBart tells you to board a train leaving 12th Street at 12:01? Would you prefer iBart tell you to board the next train? (Not sure about schedules, is that about 15 minutes later?)
Are these WhisperSystems apps going to get desktop clients anytime soon?
from random import random
sum([(random()*4+1)**3 for x in xrange(1000000)])/1000000
=> ~39

Weird.
It would be nice if GitHub added better support for column-oriented data in diffs, too. This article shows how it could work, with an example implementation in a fork of GitLab: http://theodi.org/blog/adapting-git-simple-data
So you're anti-government and cynical. Welcome to about 99% of the online community.

There are people who actually want to blow up planes. There have been a number of attempts. These machines detect the things that are found in bombs.

There are a lot of examples of "security theater" (moreso in the private industry, it should be noted, like the ridiculously useless badges and disaffected employees at most office buildings), but explosives material detectors most certainly are not. One day we'll walk down a Total Recall type hall and it will know who we are and everything on or about us, but until then we have some inconveniences.

And groan, good old Orwell makes a cliched showing. Yes, we all read 1984 in grade school. Pulling it out as a trope to anything the government does (even where entirely rational and related to an actual threat, and overwhelming painless and transparent) is boorish internet pundit behavior.
I really think far too many people are missing why Stallman and the FSF are so valuable. It's not that everyone should behave exactly like them; it's that they provide a useful extreme endpoint such that there can exist a reasonable "Overton Window" of Free/Open Source/ Whatever Software.

I 100% support what they do and preach knowing FULL well I will likely never 100% do as they recommend. That's not actually a big problem.
I didn't try to handle it out of context. I don't understand what is the problem with releasing digital version early. There are mostly 2 groups - people who will go only for the media in the format convenient to them (either CD, or a download) and those who will get more products because they're more involved fans.

How does releasing one product early affect any of those groups? How does it affect sales in a bad way? Maybe I am missing something obvious, but I cannot imagine a bad result here. Fans will want to go to a gig anyways. Amon Tobin is bound to fill venues - it's not like they're fighting for customers there. If the worry is that people will buy only one format and not both, they could always offer pre-orders.
He added, he continued... These are press release words. I wonder why they're showing up here?
You know, when I first read this story years ago, I thought it was great and quite clever. I must confess that rereading it now, it strikes me as really dumb. Not only does Clarke spend the interminable first part of the story in crude exposition—'Surely you mean two!' 'I mean three. But that's not important right now.'—but the very premise of the story—there's these Tibetan monks, who have invented a special alphabet and are writing all the permutations of the name of God in order to bring an end to the universe—is completely at odds with any fact about Buddhism you care to mention. Which is particularly depressing considering that three years after the writing of this story, he would move to, and spend the rest of his life in, one of the most Buddhist countries on Earth.

It might seem like I'm nitpicking, but when you have a little story like this whose basically only propositional content is, 'What if a computer made the universe disappear after it completed a mathematically intensive religious task,' the specifics that you overlay become awfully important.