jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
lol culture at a big co...dont bs me plz.I've worked at big co's, and theres no culture there. Only places with any sort of character are small - mid sized startups.
> Signal needs to keep core feature parity to remain competitive with WhatsApp, Telegram etc. And that includes a payment mechanism.

This is thrown around a lot but I have difficulties to see how a wallet for an obscure alt coin might be in any way comparable to your standard payment app for the currency used in your region.

It's not that I can use it to pay in a shop (like I can with Google Pay) or on a website (like with PayPal). ... I can't even repay my friends for paying the round in a bar because it would mean their money is suddenly entangled in this obscure and completely novel network. The money wouldn't end up in their bank account and they could even suffer unpredictable losses.

I therefore think this argument is flawed. There's no upside next to the four payment apps I already have installed and none of my friends would prefer a messenger because it merged with a payment app for an almost unheard cryptocurrency. I would bet my social circle isn't a grave exception in this regard.
This seems to not be the consensus amongst all corporate America[0]. It does seem that Jeff Bezos and Amazon have ulterior motives whenever an announcement like this comes out. See $15 minimum wage. I get the feeling that this will hurt their competitors more then them.
I was in support of raising the corporate tax rate, but an announcement like this makes me rethink that.

The infrastructure bill is obviously needed, where should the money come from? It seems to me the 1% should be paying for it somehow. A wealth tax? Increase the capitol gains tax? A carbon tax? It might not seem fair to say as long as Bezos hates it I'm on board, but we shouldn't be letting the richest person in the world decide our tax policy.

[0]https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/06/corporate-america-b...
I agree with your point and let me forward it to the owner of this concept. Thank you for your time.
Here's the deal - we know it's 'chance' (not really luck) which part of your DNA is damaged by any given environmental effect. However, some DNA is more important than others. In general, a little damage is not a problem and is easily 'taken care of' by the cell which caries that DNA - either by literally repairing the DNA, silencing that DNA's function, killing itself, or asking other cells to help kill it.

We know quite clearly that cancer is (generally) caused by a set of mutations - not necessarily in an order, but some orders are not successful. There are four or five genes which keep social order amongst the other genes. If you silence all of these, you get cancer. Chance has it's role in the roll of dice for which DNA gets damaged, but all the other parameters can be changed too - how many sided the dice are, how often the dice get rolled, and whether all the cells in the same tissue have correlated dice-rolls.

Cells that deviate from what they're supposed to do are either (in order), repaired, silenced, voluntarily commit suicide, or are killed. There are proteins (genes) that are the final judges for each of these processes - and have 'go, no-go' power. Only if all of these judges are killed do you get a cell that can do anything it wants - like replicate uncontrollably to the detriment of the host ('cancer'). Thus the statistics of getting cancer roughly follow the idea that you have to get random DNA modifications of those exact 5 genes, in a single cell. Lots of things can increase your random modification rate (UV, smoke, radiation, etc). Some of these things correlate though - and again, what hurts one cell, might hurt its neighbor just as bad. They're not entirely independent events. For example, losing your DNA repair machinery (this is what HPV does - it silences your DNA repair machinery) amps up the baseline mutation rate and makes further mutations more likely (dependent correlations then arise).

The Brca gene that has caused so much controversy in patent law (whether a test for its existence could be patented) and indicates whether a person might or might be susceptible to breast cancer, is the master repair technician of the cell. In people who have this gene in working order, the Brca gene signs off on whether the cell is in need of repair. But if the Brca is not it working order, cells that are in need of repair might not get it, and instead are allowed to more freely operate under non-optimal internal conditions. If you are missing or have a mutated version of Brca, you are missing one of the checkpoint processes.

So again, we quite clearly know of a handful of genes which do most of the master regulation of a cell's job - and if these jobs go unfulfilled - by having their blueprints be damaged by the environment - you have fewer and fewer mechanisms to prevent that single cell from runaway growth.
Nobody's arguing that speed isn't important. What's more important is to get things right.

And no, incorporating speed in the specification doesn't make any difference. Suppose the spec says, "page must load in 200ms." Fine, if you don't care what correct page loading means, you're perfectly served with a blank one.

What's at the root of such intellectual capitulation? Complacency? Absence of skills? "Correctness is hard, let's just randomly perturb settings instead while fiddling with a stopwatch. Correctness is hard, let's just conflate motion with progress."

Whence the shabby treatment of correctness like porn: I'll know it when I see it.
I'd start with thinking a wee bit further back. True genius doesn't have a price tag, and if it does, it's only because this world has forced it.
Your email address probably already links all of your online accounts.

Unlike an ID card you can have as many OpenID accounts as you wish – they can be freely created just as easily as email addresses. The solution is the same as for email: Give a different account to each site.
Sorry about that! When the API servers go down (these interface with our windows servers) it tells everybody in the queue "time's up" instead of a more informative message since we're using connection drops as a poor way of passing along the session expiry event.
That's true - and the identifier token sent as verification can vary as well iirc.
On Linux there are also zswap with a compressed cache in front of the real swap. Depending on workload either zram or zswap may work better under the memory pressure.

Also, there is a matter of the compression algorithm selection. With modern kernel using anything but lz4 or zstd is rather suboptimal.

But then again I have Samsung 980 PRO SSD in my laptop and with it I just disabled memory compression and use the real swap. The read speed is like 2 times faster then lz4 decompression and while the write speed is like 3 times less than lz4, it does not tax CPU which is a big bonus when I compile a big C++ project that does occasionally triggers the need for SWAP even with 32 GB of RAM.
I live in the Mojave desert. Fires are a real problem here. I know people who have lost their homes because of them. We tend to have low humidity and high winds which are a bad combo. The desert isn't all sand dunes like people think. The dry brush burns really well. Here is what it looks like when it goes.

https://i.imgur.com/VJ7ENis.jpg
I've long found that Wikipedia article woefully lacking in generality.

1) The Kelly criterion is a general decision rule not limited to bet sizing. Bet sizing is just a special case where you're choosing between actions that correspond to different bet sizes. The Kelly criterion works very well also for other actions, like whether to pursue project A or B, whether to get insurance or not, and indeed whether to sleep under a tree or on a rock.

2) The Kelly criterion is not limited to what people would ordinarily think of as "wealth". It applies just as well to anything you can measure with some sort of utility where compounding makes sense.

The best overview I've found so far is The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion[1], which unfortunately is a thick collection of peer-reviewed science, so it's very detailed and heavy on the maths, too.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/KELLY-CAPITAL-GROWTH-INVESTMENT-CRITE...
Pretty cool reminder that calendars and time in general are one of those troublesome domains of fractal complexity. Even this seems to just scratch the surface of regional variations of certain traditional calendars, how people's ages can be determined differently, etc.
Edit: Better phrase would be: It is evolutionary mechanism so you don't have to think what to do every time* when you are getting hurt and your life is in danger.
I feel like this article does a much better job of reviewing Don't Look Up than the article that passed through here last week. As an allegorical reading, it calls out the major plot points of the film and hits on the ulterior motivations of both those using heuristics to naysay experts, and the experts who inevitably fall out of grace because of them.
> Where are you seeing the author suggest most people in the described jobs could actually be replaced by rocks?

I really think it's harder to get more literal than this:

> He could be losslessly replaced by a rock with the words “THERE ARE NO ROBBERS” on it.
Are there any video formats that allow you to stream additional data in auxiliary channels.
Try HNPaper http://hnpaper.forge.partlab.io (checkout the statistics: http://hnpaper.forge.partlab.io/statistics)
Volatility is not a reason to avoid accepting Bitcoin for payments. You don't have to hold any bitcoins at all if you use a processor like BitPay or Coinbase; it couldn't be simpler. If you want to get more complicated there are plenty of other options too, like Coinapult locks, Bitreserve, or hedging with derivatives on an exchange.
For all the software engineers who want to write: https://www.gitbook.com
Well - except they did not leave a standing army. Once they get up to Hungary they have thousands of km to get back.

Genghis' goal was always to return. Not occupy. They had to make sure they could get back.
"By establishing strong "fair" law they stopped long lasted inner-conflicts and "made life better"."

They established fair law for 80 years at most, and at the price of killing off a substantial percentage of the peasantry (who the Mongols, as pastoralists, viewed individually as less valuable than a horse) of conquered regions. In Iran, the depopulation led to the underground irrigation system, known as the qanats, falling into disrepair, which led to formerly productive agricultural lands drying up, and the region regressing from agriculture to pastoralism. In the absence of a productive countryside, some of the largest cities never recovered until the 20th century.
You don't have to provide details, ever. I have Spotify Premium. I go to a retailer and use cash to buy a card good for a year's subscription for $100. Then I enter the card into my account. The email address is @mailinator.com in case I ever need to check something, but otherwise they have no clue who I am.

When it expires, if I haven't been paying attention, I live with free-tier for a day or two until I can go buy another card.
The problem is that silicon dioxide is a solid unlike carbon dioxide.

I'm not a chemist, but by analogy with anaerobic bacteria we have on Earth, some of which produce methane gas, one could imagine something that expels silane gas.
I dunno, if you want me to come and help you out at 3am it's going to cost you. If you want to pay less, wait until morning.
I take it as someone trying to be extremely clear that they did not do what they are being accused of doing.
I did this once- it's a lot trickier to get that set up when you haven't got disk brakes, lemme tell ya. The chains wore out a lot faster than I expected, to the point that it wasn't a practical solution.
i'm not sure that's true, necessarily. IANAL (yet), but unless I'm mistaken, a patent still has to be novel. So if they had publicly disclosed what they thought had no value... they could invalidate any later patent that tried to make it illegal for them to use their idea.

As for the obvious comeback - no, you shouldn't not make public something which you think has no value. Either patent it or stick it out there to inspire someone with a different vision to your own. Don't hoard without knowing how to execute, especially without believing it's worth executing. As far as I'm concerned if you're doing that you deserve no rights to your 'invention' even if someone then comes along and patents it.
I'm not sure Twitter is burning money as furiously as you think. Last year they claimed they were cash flow positive[1] just on firehose deal worth $25M a year.

I'm not saying they are worth 3.5B but it looks like Twitter is setting themselves up for a really long runway before they would crash

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2009/tc200...
It's the standard conservative/libertarian line on what was wrong with Digg. As if 99% of the population is conservative/libertarian.
That's exactly why the "mute words" feature is great. Everybody you want to follow on Twitter is going to retweet some political trash sometimes. Curating the people you follow can't fix this, but "mute words" can.
Yeah. I'm a car enthusiast, have long dreamed of the day retirement approaches and I can have a cool hobby car.

But lately I'm thinking maybe it'll be one of those fast, 2 motor electrics. Probably a lot more reliable, and faster too.
"but a blockchain-like system could remove the central authority, the server costs, and the lawsuit risks" This already exists, check out [ENS domains](https://ens.domains/) running on the Ethereum blockchain. They can be mapped to [IPFS](https://IPFS.io) hosted sites
> with no baked-in assumptions about what you're building

This is probably the most underrated aspect of make that most other build systems immediately discard: it doesn't need to "support" your language or toolchain, which is really helpful when dealing with proprietary/in-house or otherwise unusual tools and processes.
I knew I'd heard recently about someone brilliant who had obsessed over bus tickets. Thanks for helping me recall it.

A recent episode of Radiolab, dated August 27, 2019, introduced a large audience (including me) to another podcast, The Memory Palace:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/memor...

With that strong endorsement I began going through the whole back-catalog of The Memory Palace, and Episode 36, dated January 7, 2011, “six scenes from the life of william james sidis, wonderful boy”, talks about Sidis' obsession with bus tickets. Or maybe more precisely, streetcar transfers.

http://thememorypalace.us/2011/01/six-scenes-in-the-life-of-...

I think it said he figured out ways to traverse great distances on a single fare by connecting transfers. That kind of graph traversal thinking strikes me as ahead of its time for the age of streetcars, and could plausibly have led to some interesting places.
We had a difficult experience with Bazel as well using it for a Go project.
As mentioned it brings its own reimplementation of any compiler or package manager.
So if there is a new feature from the language, you have to wait till the Bazel rules for that language gets updated, only then you can start using it.

For a Go project which the whole build command is a single line of `go build`, it takes lots of config files and configuration, and tweaking till you get the exact same result.
Only till there is an update and the whole build crashes and you have to figure it out why.

To me m, Bazel is a great tool for Google or a project at the scale of Google projects. It is beneficial if you can benefit from distributed builds and caching layers. Only for a project big enough that those could make a difference.

But for all other projects, Bazel, felt like brining an 18-wheeler to go to grocery shopping.
The Pioneer thing, I should collect on some bets. I was on the side of "not a new force, it's some kind of radiation pressure that we're overlooking by treating this like a sphere." Not long after I mentioned that, I attended a lecture by a guy who spent a lot of time working over Casimir effects on strange topologies yielding equally unlikely results. He said something to the effect of "never underestimate the numerous small anomalies created by minuscule forces on complicated surfaces."

I've been watching people look for a fifth force (and sixth) force in different flavors for decades. Maybe there's more out there but we have to work very hard to eliminate all of the numerous potential sources of error. If I had to lay a guess on it, it might take centuries of work find an additional force were it present.
> With the ability to pull near infinite mass

Wait, what?
It looks straight from a 70s sci-fi movie.
What does a person in this type of position do on a day to day basis?
So you do this to nest temporary variables in another lexical scope inside of another outer function? (as vars have function scope rather than block scope)

I'm not sure I would use this much, though now that you have pointed it out, I had better well be able to read it when somebody else does it to me. Thanks, I think.
Do you have a source for your numbers? I've heard it being much more skewed towards Acrobat, so I'm curious if that's just old data or what.
Alternative HD Livestream from NASA http://www.ustream.tv/spacevidcast#utm_camp
Local Food, DIY, and Sustainability are not about inadequate price signals for climate change and peak oil. They are about creating consumer surplus via PR, and nostalgia for early 20th century farming techniques. Admittedly, most people in the industry have no idea that this is what they are doing, but thats the beauty of good PR and healthy dose of nostalgia.

That is to say the reason most people pay the price premium for organo-locavore food is that it makes them believe they are better people, not because they believe that futures contracts for degree days are mispriced. Walk into a Whole Foods and ask what the appropriate prices of a heating degree day is once climate change and peak oil are priced in and they will give you a blank look.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_derivatives Hell I bet you could phone up John Mackey himself and he wouldn't have the slightest idea.

Believe me there are a lot of guys in hedge funds trying to price in peak oil through futures contracts and in the pricing the long term value of certain stocks, various forms of insurance, risk swaps.

Both climate change and peak oil can easily be traded on the various global futures markets. People who believe that climate change and peak oil are mispriced in the market not opening organic rooftop urban gardens, they are opening trading accounts (and will make a killing if they are right)
Also, they seem to support the cloud pretty well coming out with ec2 versions and they integrated system tools for creating virtual machines.
But POSIX also claims there are 86400 seconds in a day, which is not always true for UTC. There are two ways of dealing with that - POSIX says that the correct way is to just count seconds, but reset every UTC midnight to (number of days since 1970-1-1) * 86400, which means that when leap seconds occur some epoch numbers are ambiguous (or in a leap-second-deletion, are skipped). NTP ignores POSIX and says that the way to deal with this is to vary the length of a second during a day which contains a leap second.

And we're talking about JSON here, so isn't the ECMA-262 standard for dates more relevant than the POSIX standard? ECMAScript has some very fuzzy ideas about dates.
Thanks for posting this. I remembered seeing a similar project before, but I couldn't remember the name.
Why is this on the front page of HN? This is, like, 15 minutes of work...
It'd be helpful if you would explain your point, then use the link as a support, rather than expecting others to deduce your argument.
> Typically, in a mature company the salaries of the dev team are a rounding error on the total operation.

I don't think that's true at all. From small startups to large successful no-longer-startups, often dev salaries dominate spending, from what I usually hear.

Perhaps my experience is limited? Or perhaps the author means something specific by "mature company"?
This is very well done, especially the fact that the generated articles are not just headlines, but actual real articles!
> "If killing large numbers of civilians does not have a military impact, then what, Wilson asks, is the purpose of keeping nuclear weapons?"

I just was reading about this [1]. Unguided weapons miss their targets, almost always. As a result you need to mass together and fire large numbers of them to hit even one target with any reliability. Also, because of the large numbers needed and the need to fire them near the target (because accuracy decreases as distance increases), they become a valuable target, vulnerable to the enemy.

Nuclear weapons solved these problems (with a some serious drawbacks). One weapon will do the job, and its blast area is so large that accuracy is unimportant.

(Modern guided weapons also solve many of these problems).

[1] http://www.cnas.org/20YY-Preparing-War-in-Robotic-Age
I suggest you build the sequencer in Max[1] or Pure Data[2]. Their advantages are:

1. You don't need to write any codes for UI objects

2. Simple things are faster to accomplish in these software.

3. For common complex tasks (fft etc.), Max or pd have built-in solutions that are likely better than the ones you build on your own.

4. You can script Max using js/lua/java. Hence if you want to build something complex and unusual, you can still fall back to programming.

5. You don't need to worry about timing in general. For example you can generate complex rhythm patterns in advance using lua/js/java and trigger them using Max/pd in real time. It will definitely perform better than some random web technology.

[1]: https://cycling74.com/
[2]: http://puredata.info/
https://github.com/bsansouci/fuzzbeed via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8908323
I'm guessing that the overall costs to use them as power sources is somewhat more complex than "What if I put a bunch of coal in a pile and lit it on fire?"
Yes! Abstraction allows for law, art, science.

Also religion, witchcraft, the lottery, nationalism, politics.
> Not only are they ignoring these things they actively bypass the security control on the host-system where it is installed

What we're seeing is the constant balance between easy-of-use VS privacy/security and people making the choice without really understanding the consequences.

In the end, privacy/security is so invisible and hard to understand for "normal" people that easy-of-use and performance always seems to win in our current system.

> Stop using this shit and stop justifying it's use just because your employer makes you use it.

This seems a bit simplistic. We're all humans and navigating what's almost a political situation regarding Zoom and it's issues can hurt you individually, while not gaining a lot globally.

I'm not saying you're wrong, ideally we should all stand up for what we believe in. But sometimes the contexts and environments prevent us from doing so, and not all of us are ready to die on the hill that is privacy/security.
Regarding “Lizard people”, there might be an explanation for the phenomenon:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8600
It's actually about 15 devices, one of which is Apple's, and the remaining 14 belonging to other companies. For some reason people were always quick to illuminate this important detail when it came to comparing other mobile platforms in the past (BBOS vs Symbian etc.), but in this particular "battle" no one wants to touch the fact that Apple are entirely alone on the iOS side, facing all of the other giants on the market.
Sounds like a plan: we can cue up Amazon a bit over the sinister threat horizon, although Amazon is kinda mid-nineties by now. On the other hand, Jesse Jackson, Jr. seems to be making a go of making Apple into American's next Great Enemy, so who knows? Hope springs eternal.