jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Being the Devil's advocate - does it still push up Boulder's home prices?
The link is giving me a 403 right now but you can find screenshots over at http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/12/22/when-is-design-inspir... .
> This is, in theory, why microservices with APIs mean that it really doesn't matter.

No it still really does matter, because if your company needs to deploy those microservices in different ways then you need more people to support the deployment infrastructure. If you need to test those microservices in more ways you need more people to support the testing infrastructure. For engineers it's the amount of friction felt when trying to move around and work on new and different problems in your company because they're one of five people who knows how the hell the Java infrastructure works.

If you have an existing testing and deployment infrastructure etc. your team gets those for free and doesn't need to reinvent (and support) those wheels.

> As long as there are sufficient hire-able engineers who know that technology, it can be used.

Yikes. Hiring and firing engineers is pretty hugely expensive and something you want to help avoid having to do.
Philip Larkin has been mentioned already in this thread. The following two poems by Larkin inspire me in a backwards sort of way.

This first one, "Next, Please" reminds me that we can't just wait for something amazing to happen in our lives, thinking that some day it surely will all on its own. We need to be proactive and make things happen.

Next, Please

Always too eager for the future, we
Pick up bad habits of expectancy.
Something is always approaching; every day
Till then we say,

Watching from a bluff the tiny, clear
Sparkling armada of promises draw near.
How slow they are! And how much time they waste,
Refusing to make haste!

Yet still they leave us holding wretched stalks
Of disappointment, for, though nothing balks
Each big approach, leaning with brasswork prinked,
Each rope distinct,

Flagged, and the figurehead with golden tits
Arching our way, it never anchors; it's
No sooner present than it turns to past.
Right to the last

We think each one will heave to and unload
All good into our lives, all we are owed
For waiting so devoutly and so long.
But we are wrong:

Only one ship is seeking us, a black-
Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her back
A huge and birdless silence. In her wake
No waters breed or break.

Second is Larkin's Poem "To Failure", which remindes me that I likely will not fail spectacularly, but slowly everyday, almost without notice, when I let the day slip away without achieving at least one small step towards a goal.

To Failure

You do not come dramatically, with dragons
That rear up with my life between their paws
And dash me butchered down beside the wagons,
The horses panicking; nor as a clause
Clearly set out to warn what can be lost,
What out-of-pocket charges must be borne,
Expenses met; nor as a draughty ghost
That’s seen, some mornings, running down a lawn.

It is these sunless afternoons, I find,
Instal you at my elbow like a bore.
The chestnut trees are caked with silence. I’m
Aware the days pass quicker than before,
Smell staler too. And once they fall behind
They look like ruin. You have been here some time.

Finally, as technical people, we can get so absorbed in what we are doing that we forget the importance of fostering the relationships around us with those we love:

Without Mercy, the Rains Continued (by David St. John)

There had been
A microphone hidden

Beneath the bed
Of course I didn't realize it

At the time & in fact
Didn't know for years

Until one day a standard
Khaki book mailer

Arrived & within it
An old

Stained cassette tape
Simply labeled in black marker

"Him / Me / September 1975"
& as I listened I knew something

Had been asked of me
Across the years & loneliness

To which I simply responded
With the same barely audible

Silence that I had chosen then
Some useful notes...

Designing switched mode supplies is hard. I've just barely started playing with them, but it's really tough choosing component values that don't ring like a bell, a loud bell, at pretty high frequencies. I've found these two series of web pages [0] [1] to be very useful, even for an electronics neophyte such as myself. Also, for simulations Xyce [2] handles the large current transients much better than Ngspice [3] (the default simulator for KiCad), and the Xyce docs gave me some really good guidance on how to tweak the settings.

One trick I stumbled on was to run the input voltage as high as feasable; for the part I'm trying to use the source/drain effective source/drain capacitance drops dramatically as the voltage goes up. It's the MOSFET capacitances that are causing me the most grief.

And testing for EMI seems to be a black art. Hack-a-Day has listed some do-it-yourself projects for probes and testing ([4] [5] ...), but haven't gotten that far yet.

[edit.. toned down a little]

[0] https://www.powerelectronicsnews.com/the-dc-dc-boost-convert...

[1] http://tuks.nl/Mirror/SwitchModePowerSupply_smpstech_com/map...

[2] https://xyce.sandia.gov/

[3] http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/

[4] https://hackaday.com/2014/03/18/listening-to-electromagnetic...

[5] https://hackaday.com/2021/05/21/simple-probe-sniffs-out-emi/
That has definitely happened before in robber baron days.

I'm curious, has it really happened at a city level? Seems to me that it would get prohibitively expensive, since other owners would see the massive demand and push up the prices, but that's really just a supposition.
Uh... their staffers have been caught with their pants down on multiple occassions..

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/08/01/details-chinese...

https://www.eurasiareview.com/11122020-eric-swalwells-honeyp...

So yeah, pardon if I'm not full of confidence in the levels of discretion these guys exercise.
Depends who provides hosting for the site, and whether they can be convinced to stop providing that service...

(And with locked-down mobile platforms, the platform owners could theoretically start enforcing a site blacklist of some kind at an OS level if they really wanted to)
>Second, every case that I’ve followed up on has been denied on the grounds of standing.

Also laches.

One I followed because it was in my state and I know a lawyer involved was out right dismissed, but the judge was extremely forthcoming that this just wasn't appropriate for their court and issued an immediate appellate number and got that process going. Later in the media, I read how "Another Trump Fraud Case Tossed Out Of Court" which was at best disingenuous and at worst something else.

I still have no idea if the case had any merit! Probably not of course it was denied later a appeal, but that's the point. If you thought there was wrongdoing, from your point of view this doesn't help. I don't agree of course, but I get the perspective.
Yeah you can think in the corner and noone will hear you like you don't exist.

It's about having a voice. It's about the main argument being "it's a private company" then going and banning the alternatives.
Could you explain exactly what that line of thinking is, and why you're troubled by this?
> This what is happening in USA right now is nowhere near that

It's going to happen. These platforms are so large they encompass a signification amount of the communication market .. and I don't say that lightly. Look at how Facebook has literally gobbled up all its competition and now is pushing policies that make WhatsApp and Oculus useless without handing over full control of all your accounts and devices?

These companies ARE STATES! They may not look like governments, but the communication power they wield is stronger than many nations.

You can no longer just say "They're private companies" when you literally cannot buy a well supported Mobile device unless it runs Android or iOS, unless you have the skill, ability and time to run something like a PinePhone or PostmarketOS.
Agreed: Internet, like water, is a market failure and should be a public utility. c: That way, your DDoS protection & hosting is subject to First Amendment protections.
Ok, so ISP's shouldn't ban people but they're allowed to be monopolies in the first place!? Internet and critical infrastructure is not considered utilities, let private enterprise take care of the most important connection to the outside world - the internet. What could go wrong!?

Note clearly - I am not condoning ISPs banning people. I am highlighting the hypocracy in a lot of contemporary conservative principles. It's not the Lincoln party we know of.
We are thousands of years late, these forces had created these sites way before invaders have assimilated the ancestors of current day Turks.
How much do you want to bet someone will try to slip in a 2-way feature into these, e.g. a RFID like sort of thing that allows tracking. Probably as soon as someone says "congestion taxes!"....
The book Quantitative Methods for Business Decisions By Curwin & Slater would be a good start.
Point I didn't get to make: learn how to filter- you'll hear and learn a lot of things. You can't act on everything, so pick and choose what makes sense. If you tried to make every piece of advice you received work together, you'd become immobile.
...because most of our linguistic formalism is derived from written language, which is generally an artificial approximation of real language.

Remember grade school, with parts of speech, Conjunction Junction, and diagramming sentences? Well, think back to the last (non-trivial) sentence you actually said out loud. I challenge you to try to diagram that sentence.

Although there's quite a lot of research that's been done, surprisingly little of it deals with the way most of us really communicate.
2,646 sites per month visited. What? That's 88.2 per day! Did they get this figure by including RSS aggregation?
You can run less.js from the command line to precompile if you have Node.js installed, and it's much faster than the Ruby gem.
I think the person making the claims about all this terrible fallout left in the atmosphere needs to read this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1429524
Which is an absolutely perfect way to go for a luxury company, just think Porsche, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, Rolex,Breitling etc. here. Apple never really compromised on price and image and they try very hard to keep a great overall product quality, if you ask me.
The bulk of his issues seem to be binding Lua to C/C++, in which case there quite a few helper libraries he could use to simplify the process (like LuaBind and toLua).

As for the language itself, I love Lua. The syntax is easy to learn and the concepts aren't too difficult. Plus, the (relatively) easy binding can lead to a lot of interesting opportunities, like scripting NES games with FCEUX. I actually starting working on a genetic algorithm in FCEUX a while ago and I had a lot of fun doing it.
That's what the SETI Institute thought: private fundraising was intended to support the telescope. But they had a massive shortfall relative to their expected donations.

Edit: just read the letter to donors; looks like the near-term problem was cuts by the state of California to the UC Berkeley budget.
|Apple will not cut into those margins to make market share. They never have. That's not to say they won't do whatever they can to gain market share. But deep price cuts is not one of those things.

Then where are all the $200-$400 tablets that should be killing Apple like in your reference previously: A brief look back at the history of the PC clearly shows this.

So why isn't this happening now then? Also yes, AT&T or whoever the carrier is subsidizes the price, I thought this was obvious and didn't need clarifying.
Start writing about the topic before you launch. Presumably if you're passionate enough about the space to spend N months slinging code you can at least write a few pages about it. (I need to be better at this.)
I wouldn't say the iTunes brand is so strong - I think the iPad and iPhone brands are strong, and Apple forces you to use iTunes to use those products. I've never heard anyone say they love iTunes, either. I'm surprised Android and Microsoft haven't exploited this weakness more - I don't have faith in Motorola or Nokia to create good desktop integrations, but a software company could do it.
This is awesome. From the things I've seen Alexis do, he seems like a genuinely cool person, and it really makes me happy seeing people like him succeed at things (advisor to Conde Nast seems like a pretty serious position).

Congrats, man.
Sort of agree, except for the time value of money. Someone who puts cash in is putting it in up front. Whereas someone who forgoes earnings is foregoing a smaller amount periodically over time.

Of course the time value of money is near zero right now anyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

An ad hominem (Latin: "to the man"), also known as argumentum ad hominem, is an attempt to link the validity of a premise to a characteristic or belief of the person advocating the premise.

The accuracy of the list doesn't stop it from being ad hominem.

The misleading part is suggesting that $612k of donations is decisive in a budget of over $24M.
Clearly enough laws will solve the problem. Clearly.
Did Peloton ever have a real business. They were competing with $200 bikes on Amazon and an iPad.
Tracking who clicks what links in emails. Sometimes it's done automatically by mailing tools that don't know any better. They probably "automagically" track all the analytics for overzealous marketing teams, which is a security risk.
You are making my argument for me. The hypothesis "unicorns don't exist" has zero proof. You can never ever prove that unicorns don't exist. Therefore, the statement "unicorns don't exist" is just wild speculation and outside the realm of science. Therefore, until someone shows proof we will assume that unicorns do exist.

The idea that our universe is the only universe is just as crazy to me as saying unicorns exist. The laws of physics are incredibly arbitrary, and the probability of a random set of laws of physics supporting intelligent life is ridiculously small.

More formally, via Solomonoff induction, the hypothesis of multiple universes should be more likely by several orders of magnitude, since it can necessarily be expressed with fewer bits of complexity. E.g. "all computable programs" vs "one specific program", or "all possible laws of physics", vs "one very specific set of laws of physics."
The article says they're paying about $500K to refurbish a Huey. Northwest Helicopters sells refurbished Hueys for around $500K, and that includes many new parts, new wiring, and modern avionics. They also have an upgrade version, with a more powerful engine, carbon-fiber blades, and a longer-lived transmission.
It was difficult for me to get past the self-referential (and reverential) tone of the writing, which felt more like an advertisement for the author's cleverness than a real discussion of the pros and cons of SSH, but it could be I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
A question to copter engineers: why does a copter have to be ripped apart and reassembled after just 125 flight hours? I don't think that an airplane with far more complex parts needs such short full-maintenance intervals...
I live in California, and just because something is a menace and has no redeeming qualities, if it is a mammal it is "illegal" to kill it without a license. The best you can hope for is to have vector control (the department that picks up various animals) euthanize if if they see it more than a few times get caught.
Use FreeBSD or illumos. Increasingly Linux is a fine option too.

OpenZFS is the mantle. It's the umbrella for ZFS projects across operating systems: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Contributors

Dead it is not: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Features

Indeed, there is some fragmentation, but that's being cleaned up thanks to the OpenZFS initiative.

Why does OpenZFS need a "tier one" development platform? Historically illumos lead the way, but I rather think a cross-platform filesystem is more useful than one limited to a single OS.

In any case, none of this changes that ZFS has been in widespread production use for nearly a decade. HAMMER? Right.
"Not sure I understand the % biomass issue."

It seems like more cells = more risks of mutation = more risk of cancer. So, I would presume it's something that needs to be accounted for in their model.

However, based on the wording that seems to be total cell divisions and I don't know enough about rates of cell division or cancer to tell from that chart. In the end a gall bladder weighs less than 1/4th of a pound where the small intestine is ~3.5 pounds so it hardly seems like they can just ignore it.

Though, if it's really just cell divisions and not organ weight that matters then that's a much stronger finding IMO.

PS: And no I am not paying 20$ to read the actual article. Though if it's free somewhere I would like to read it.
I host directly with HE in Fremont1 and just experienced the power outage. I've had equipment there for 4+ years and this is the first power issues I've had with them. HE isn't perfect, but up until now I've been perfectly happy there. Yes, HE runs a fairly relaxed data center there for better or worse. HE hasn't communicated about this outage--which I find very disappointing. I would guess this power outage was a result of attempting to fix whatever broke Saturday.
For high-volume, low-margin embedded applications (like cellphones) FPGAs are not cost-effective. They also don't offer the circuit density or the power-savings of custom chips.
And now we criticize the TSA for using "inadequately trained, low-paid employees for something as essential as security."
Family Systems is fascinating! I've looked at it briefly and I like how it's very holistic while being grounded in research. Thanks!
The cause would likely not exist or at least be much weaker if not for Stallman and the FSF and GNU. Ubuntu isn't going to stop what they are doing because of Stallman's ideas.

Love your username btw.
title should have 'Satisfactory' capitalized, as it's the name of the game here. slightly confusing otherwise
Docker largely entered Enterprise (regulated & security conscious markets) like utilities, us gov, banks, etc. via rhel 7 / centos 7 . A lot of people doing a lot of compliance work everywhere, from approvals to infra to audits, invested serious time, $, and social capital to make that happen. With RHEL 8, IBM / RHEL bet on podman (or, "not docker"), all the way from marketing to M&A to repositories to where developer hours go. On its own, I think that's great: tech should keep pushing, and good pressure on docker for things like rootless. But, that's not the issue here.

Where this gets problematic for a commonly "single-sourced" infrastructure technology in regulated envs is IBM/RHEL also prevented docker from making it into the RHEL 8 repos. Podman was obviously technically deficient as a critical infra replacement due to immaturity like many unimplemented compatibility APIs, yet it was marketed as compatible and instead of offering both until the community could prove it out etc, RHEL8 didn't include docker. NBD for people doing redhat at home or whatever easy environments, but if you're doing something like bringing AI to important societal problems at big world-reaching orgs, having to go outside the main repos can be a major drain on time, staff, budget, and even an existential risk. This is the kind of BigCo malfeasance we're supposed to be moving away from by promoting Linux, OSS, and containers.
I have the exact same line of reasoning.. and unfortunately I think it’s often near impossible to know how laws may be abused (sometimes it’s completely predictable).

I think people have already touched on it potentially pushing certain companies out of PA.. which in theory reduces competition which is bad for consumers. So that’s one example of how this legislation that’s designed to protect consumers could end up hurting them from another angle.

Another thing I’d wonder about is: if laws like this were to catch on.. does it start to disincentivize subscription-based business models? We’ve seen such a shift towards subscriptions.. but would that potentially change dramatically?
Aside from being a lot simpler to use, a dedicated "multiply" command could end up being dramatically more efficient.

If multiple clients are simultaneously trying to update the same value, then locking allows them to take turns with relatively little overhead. With compare-and-set, all but one of the clients would fail at the "compare" step and need to retry, requiring additional network round-trips.
counter point, wouldn't you have assumed that scans/surveys had been done? This is a famous church after all!
This was also the case in eastern Europe during the Cold war - some countries came quite close to being classless societies, but people there nevertheless made up a bunch of status symbols out of fairly ordinary items - like jeans. Young people didn't flinch at spending one-month worth of income for a pair of jeans, while scoffing at nearly identical non-denim trousers, at 1/20 the price
Put in a raspberry pi and a huge battery.
Freerice is great, funny thing is I came across it a few months only but I loved the concept and had been thinking of doing something similar. Helping people improve their vocabulary 5 words a day is an idea that's years old for me. Hence the app is a combination of both.
Sorry, I meant Python. I am familar with Algol syntax based languages and prefer C/C++/ObjectC/C#/Java/PHP/JS/Go/Rust/Lua/Basic/Pascal/Ada/Smalltalk/Scheme over Python/Ruby/Haskel.
I agree with you. But she's saying things which are, in my opinion, untrue.

It's easy to say "good job, you're stronger than that" and it is helpful. For everyone else that is not in a better mental state there should be an objective discussion from a wider viewpoint.

Anyway, the submission has been flagkilled so I guess HN is not the place for such a discussion.
"Back in the day" Steve Wozniak used his blue-box to call The Vatican, and was almost able to talk to the Pope by doing an impersonation of Henry Kissinger. So there's some history behind pranks like this.
Maybe just watch me on Github.
..and cancer drugs will cure cancer. Unless they start charging $1000 a pill. Which they did.
Dawkins would probably damn any genetic basis of this as group selection, but it does make everyone better off.

You contradicted yourself. Dawkins, at least in "The Selfish Gene", is much more subtle than most people give him credit for (subtlety makes for terrible sound-bites, like "Dawkins would damn...").

If an individual is part of a community in which there is a diversity of genes and a division of labor so that every individual in that community is more likely to reproduce their genes than individuals not in that community, then for each individual their bundle of genes will thrive. That is straight-up Dawkins. There is nothing to damn.
Nice story. The comments devolve logarithmically.
The WakeMate is a comfortable wristband that you wear when you sleep. It measures subtle body movements—a scientifically proven method ([link]Actigraphy[/link]) to map dips and peaks in your sleep cycle.

I was reading through the Tour page and clicked the Actigraphy link. I supposed to get more information about it, as it matters for me a lot to see the technology which the product is based on. However, it took me to the About page and I fail to find any useful information.

Is this a mistake or am I mistaken?
I gather the checks are to ensure he is conscious. I would guess they simply go into his cell, pick him up and check he is healthy and he is not attempting suicide.

When you have so few forms of entertainment, I am sure the loss of TV or your books and magazines are a BIG incentive to follow the rules.