jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I designed and wrote an entire CPU in Verilog in a couple weeks in college.

I suspect there is a large difference between wired OR interrupts and something that can inform all the arm exception levels, IPI's, direct injection into VM's, etc. AKA all the things required to run Linux on a modern Arm core in a reasonable fashion.
Completely agree -- How people don't look at this and delete their accounts immediately is crazy to me.
Well sure, even salt extraction can have an impact. Have you seen the salt extraction facilities at the Dead Sea? Someone could write an exposé about how our demand for salt is a “big problem” illustrated with dramatic pictures. But we need some perspective here, and anecdotes are way too easy to cherry-pick. The amount of lithium needed is minuscule compared to the amount of oil. 5 kilograms of pure lithium for a Model 3 versus like 20000kg of gasoline for an equivalent fossil fuel car. And the lithium can be recycled at end of use. But what’s 3 or 4 orders of magnitude between friends?
I've never heard of an engine light being a fail, even with emissions test. You could still pass despite whatever the dash says.

But, what some people have been talking about makes sense now. If you get a bad manufacturer who lights up the dash for everything then they're forcing you to spend money.
Would you also prevent counterfeit controllers?
There is a thing of value -- a tax subsidy -- which makes the house more valuable to the current owner than the next. That's the distorting power of Prop 13, the old owner has to give up not only the house but the tax rate.

(This is somewhat ameliorated by the fact we let people take the tax subsidy with them under many circumstances now, so people can move to a different part of the state and already pay less tax.)
It's very hard to find the kind of space they need anywhere else. And while working at Google I get the sense that they would prefer more mixed use, higher-density development near their headquarters, but local city planning officials make that almost impossible.
> there is some implication that these agents may have been responsible for theft of bitcoin not only from Silk Road, but from Mt Gox as well

I don't think this is true. Unless I'm missing something the allegation here is not that they stole from Mt. Gox but that they used Mt. Gox to cash out bitcoins stolen from Silk Road.

They did actually then steal from Mt. Gox, but it was "legal". They accused Mt. Gox of operating illegally and seized their US bank accounts. That happened a long time before Mt. Gox actually collapsed and is separate from the bitcoin theft that brought them down.

This whole thing reads like a conspiracy theory dreamed up by radical libertarians. If they really are out to get you, does that mean you're not paranoid?
Thanks for the tip, Tim! Happy to answer any questions folks have about my product.

Also, plugging: Swagger support in just a few weeks. And we can currently auto generate endpoint reference docs from your source code using a commenting standard similar to javadoc.

We get all sorts of excited by good API documentation. Weird, right? Apparently not, based on this thread. :D
Another less-vs-vi question:

As a junior programmer I got chewed out by my IT department because I was examining a (production) log file in vi. The sysadmin told me I should use less (actually more---this was on Solaris in ~2001). To this day I only read log files with less, but I've never figured out his objection. Negatives to using vi I can imagine are:

- I might write to the log file. That seems like a real worry, although I could also say `vi -R` to prevent it.

- Starving the production system of memory. I'm pretty sure he expressed this concern. Any insight into whether it is legit? Is less actually any better?

Obviously you really should have a log shipping & aggregation service so you can read logs offline, etc, but not every project is large enough for that, nor every org organized enough. So for the sake of argument my premise is, "Assuming you want to read a log on production . . ."
> Tesla's a little bit behind Apple right now

Are you saying that Tesla is behind Apple when it comes to cars?

When did Apple launch a car?
Are you giving digital copies to people who order physical books?
It is a little scary to me that Ben is basically saying the "Wicksellian interest rate" is the best way to steer our economy, so we strive to use that....

To rely so heavily on theory to guide actual policy is at minimum reckless in my opinion.

I hope there are / were other voices in the room with alternative opinions, not just PhDs giving him hourly ideal Wicksellian rate updates....
I discovered Manicouagan Crater [1] when exploring Canada via Google Maps. I thought it was some kind of mapping mistake!

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Manicouagan+Crater,+Rivi%C...
Many people have internet, but only on phones. So you could ask them to use the phone or tether a loaned laptop, but this will raise costs and other equity issues.
So despite referring to him publicly as an authoritarian, you want him to tell you that he hates him?

What about the parts of the article where McNamee is, according to the Brian Barth, persuading powerful people to rally against every surveillance capitalist.
The most detrimental aspect of Facebook is the scale.
What in "to decide what life you do and do not bring into the world" is not clear?

Someone checks for disabilities with their to-be-born child, learns that they have one and then decides not to abort. This means they conscientiously make the choice to have one.

I do not think this need to be debated further.
why not use github private projects? It's free.
No.

It's more about people not wanting to bother to deal with the nature of most boys.

Rowdy, inquisitive, can't sit still.

These are all traits that for the most part -- make one a good person later in life. Now most teachers just can't deal with them and label them as "toxic" that requires medication.
A better p5.js vscode extension.
ust inspired by https://github.com/ultamatum/P5-Project-Creator and add new features. You can specify the folader name for your p5.js sketch so it's move convenient for creating prototying and testing different sketches. Also you can specify the header tag of html, making it better for publish.
I've been doing a lot of research in the sudden increase in money supply and wrote this tongue in cheek. But in all honestly, I would love someone to steelman the alternative argument for me. I think the jump in money supply (23% increase YoY) has led to asset prices jumping 30% to pre-covid levels which I find strange given all the things that happened over the last year. I can't find an alternative explanation or see any way that this will end well. So if someone can actually point me to a counter-narrative as to how this is all okay, I'd appreciate it.
Maybe we finally found an application for Blockchain...
He wouldn't need to use his real number/name just to do product research though. It would just needlessly confuse any contacts who have his actual number and use signal.

Signal also has nothing he can emulate. Its most meaningful selling point is that it doesn't have an association or integration with a scummy social media company, and people using it for that reason are already lost to Facebook. This is a feature he cannot ever hope to copy.
If you read the bottom of the post, the complete phone number database has not loaded into HIBP yet. The results will likely change once it's done.
FYI -- this is for the 2014 model, not the just released 2015 model.
Wow, at $29 I'm going to get one for sheer curiosity.
libopus 1.3-26-ge85ed772 has a huge jump in quality on the 'noisy' sample at 9 kbps (CVBR or true VBR), because it moves from a 4 kHz lowpass to 8 kHz. In 2010 Nokia's listening test found [1] that SILK (at the time an independent speech codec, later incorporated into Opus) gained a quality benefit from reaching 8 kHz vs. the ITU-T and 3GPP codecs that would top out at 7 kHz for comparable modes and bitrates. So any gain in bandwidth in the 0-8 kHz range makes an appreciable difference, especially when there's distracting background noise in the lower bands and you can't filter it out so you have to encode along with your signal.

While Opus can go as low as 6 kbps, at that bitrate it very clearly sounds like narrowband audio we're used to from telephones. Frustrating, but not an unfamiliar kind of degradation.

Speex behaves like a classic CELP codec and will get robotic at its low end; 3 kbps is just a cruelly low bitrate for a codec whose advertised range is 2-44 kbps.

Lyra does sound richer and wider-band than both Opus and Speex, but there's also a peculiar style transfer going on that's most apparent to me in the chocolate bread sample. Opus clearly sounds like a low-quality encode of the original -- it would benefit from some background noise reduction prior to the encode.

But the Lyra version exaggerates the pronunciation of the phrase 'with chocolate' in a way that meaningfully differs from the speaker's original. It weakens the voiced 'th' to nothingness, and overshoots both the lead consonant and first vowel of 'choc', and then proceeds to wash the entire rest of the sentence with a peculiar brightened voice that's high, lacks consonant definition, and is close to ringing.

I'm guessing it's actually style transfer, because though the result sounds not much like the speaker's original, the result is reminiscent of the speech pattern and accent that people with East Asian and Southeast Asian ancestry adopt when speaking American English. It was surprising, given that the speaker doesn't sound like that in the original. Does anyone else hear this too?

[1] Rämö, Anssi & Toukomaa, Henri. (2010). Voice quality evaluation of recent open source codecs.
You would need to scrape data via the api
Or written by a sinister person (not pejorative)
There was an AI created the absolutely brilliant Tom7 on on his YouTube channel 'SuckerPinch' on April 1, 2013 that paused a game of Tetris instead of losing. In my opinion, Tom doesn't get enough credit for his work. He released his AI a full 8+ months before DeepMind released their Atari playing AI.

Watch the whole thing, it's delightful. The AI pauses Tetris right before it loses at around 16mins into the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOCurBYI_gY

I also recommend his other videos. Brilliant guy.

Edit: Here's the paper http://tom7.org/mario/mario.pdf
Bus and line speeds always used powers of 10. Different disk formats used different conventions.[1][2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte#Examples

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte#Definitions
I wish it were possible to be memeing more without being worried about lawsuits and stuff.
Disk and networking hardware manufacturers have used base 10 for ages.
As helium said, my point is not that there is a perfect record. What is not there - a sinister plot to monopolize the world's oil, destroy Muslim society, or assassinate world leaders - is more important.

That said, a broader point is in order - I don't think anyone expects perfect adherence to "international law" by the USA. Despite the weight of the phrase "international law," the actual concept is deeply ambiguous. There is no fully baked world government, so "international law" is not a direct moral parallel to domestic law in a sovereign state. As much as the UN can do for the world, it is not a proper law making body, it's not accountable to it's constituents or fairly representative of the world, and some of its most powerful members don't even represent their own constituents. It's a rough hack at providing a venue for diplomacy and world order - not a supremely powerful entity as many people would wish it to be. The phrase "violation of international law" tastes meaty, but it's just tofu.
Is it just me, or does this read like Steve Gillmor?
The lesson of "good enough" is an important one to learn, but when all your competitors are "good enough" too, you need a differentiator; if you're going to differentiate yourself with better design, that's where a designer who does think about things like incremental leading can make a difference.

The designers are the people who don't just tell you that something looks good or even tell you why it looks good; they're the people that make it look good.

If you're getting results from designers that you believe anyone could replicate, maybe the problem isn't that all designers suck, it's that your designers suck.
Neither of the above. Replace capitalism with geoism. Capitalism could not survive in a freed market, a market free of counterproductive taxes, addictive subsidies, and nigh unlimited license (the corporate charter) to wreak havoc. People need to feel enough self-esteem to demand a share of the commonwealth, of all the money we all spend on all the nature we use. Then we could lock the hood on the economy.
I seem to have taken the same set of facts and arrived at the complete opposite conclusion from you. Facebook is sitting on one of the most popular, trafficked web sites in history and what have they given us: IM, photo sharing, a Twitter clone, a FourSquare clone, a social bookmarking knockoff, and now, wait for it ... e-mail!! "A chance at being part of something revolutionary" ... talk about understatement.

Say what you will about Google, they have failed at more original concepts over the past couple years than Facebook has attempted over the course of its entire existence.
Why on earth would you believe billionaires at their word on a wealth tax. Keep in mind a good number of these billionaires have publicly stated they are close to as prosecuted as the Jews in Germany. I wouldn’t trust them an inch.
As a Turk, I'm glad that this issue will be most probably solved in 2015. I hope that, from the kids of 1915 to the kids of today, the darkness of 1915 on the hearts of Armenians to be relieved by the international community with naming those days according to Armenians' wishes. Based on the current ideological and political climate in Turkey, the idea of a genocide in our past cannot even be discussed but WTF, we will hopefully change someday and face whatever it is.
Did you stop reading after the third sentence? I addressed that specifically later on. A lot of Cygwin's behavior is no more acceptable in Unix than in Windows.

And no, I don't use Cygwin to "escape" Windows. Windows is a perfectly functional GUI for casual daily use. I use Cygwin because it provides useful tools and utilities that aren't available in Windows.
I'd like to see it as well (screenshots would be fine, a demo better, of course) but I'm not going to bother taking the time and trouble to sign up just to be able to see if I might like it.

I realize I'm only a single person but I would think many others are the same way so it would seem that you're unnecessarily putting up roadblocks to acquiring customers.
Actually a lot of the services that are now "big" existed already for a long time.

I still can't believe that back in 2001 we have been building something like a german Netflix.

Also my colleague who sat right next to me thought it would be a great a idea to have something like youtube for music in 2002 (Soundcloud) And he actually had a working service but he gave it up :)
I've downvoted you because the basis of your arguments are factually incorrect.

> all the real world examples people are actually familiar with are the worst kinds of abuse

> there are virtually no legit hidden services

Did you even bother reading the article or any of the content it linked to?
Not a fan of handling it that way. Shift-reduce conflicts don't correspond to people's intuitive understanding of the grammar because good shift-reduce parser tables are highly non-local as they're constructed from fixed-point dataflow iteration over the whole grammar. It's not like top-down parsing where it's easy to understand the compromise of making a non-backtrackable decision based on k-token lookahead. If you force them to manually resolve shift-reduce conflicts in the grammar, it's likely they will be surprised by what happens, and not in a good way.
This sort of pedantry is why people get annoyed with our kind :)
Your user sessions should be short, preferably. If I take a long time to find what I need, you have a badly designed website (or an uninteresting one).

Unless you're trying to make a time-sink website like imgur, that is.
> That reflects the fact that something everyone uses a little bit every day is generally worth more than something used by very few people, intensely.

Yup. Toilet paper is a massive industry, too, worth a lot of money.

No snark, just reality.
Huh, really didn't realize they had so many employees. What do most of them do? Surely that's not mostly engineering staff...
Finally, a comment that makes sense. Thank you.
What else could one possibly expect when an industry has succeeded at convincing the government to make buying their product mandatory?!

I know the EFF focuses specifically on informational issues, but stirring outrage over one abuse of a captive market when such abuses are by design is a disservice to general sanity.
$8/year, for fun. Why not? Probably took an hour to do.
I mean SAP gives them a pretty good run for their money.
Most NFTs are just a link to the content, or a hash of the content. They’re not literally storing the data.
So much bitter.
This made me think about Oblique Strategies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies
BTW, in the past the site had an, ahem, Easter egg for visitors coming from Reddit, and maybe for HN too. Seems to be gone now, but this might be temporary—so perhaps in a few months it can be enjoyed again.
I’m glad I’m not the only who felt that the interiors in a Tesla were cheap feeling. I used to be in the camp of “I want to buy a Tesla one day”, but a test drive two years ago burst my bubble. For the price tag, I was expecting a little bit more quality of interiors than what felt like rickety plasticy parts put together.

There were some parts like the window buttons that looked of higher quality, and it turns out, those were manufactured by Mercedes.
Yes, you can load practically any dataset into Cesium, so you are not locked into their paid service and can self host. You might have to do a format conversion. I do think Ion is a nice service, and 3D globe data is going to be expensive no matter who you license it from.

I'm using the web version of Cesium in https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/ and I'm self hosting everything including the globe imagery, for free. (I don't need high resolution imagery for the whole globe because I only show a zoomed out view, but you could store and serve it all yourself in principle).

In addition to the nice 3D graphics I'm also using a bunch of Cesium functions for the actual satellite visibility calculations. It's a great library.
I don't think you understand the impact that government controls have on the development of science and technology. (Just look at the decades of failure in the public space program and compare it against the progress made by private companies in the last decade!)

Nor are you acknowledging the fact that resources are finite for any a single instant in time. Every dollar you take from someone in taxes is a dollar they are not free to put toward their own values. Even more importantly, they are no longer free to guide that money with the information they uniquely have.

If you want meaningful change, you have to think about this at an individual level. After all, it is individuals who think, make scientific discoveries, and make business decisions. Groups don't think.
The same happens with poor management of cloud services.

So many companies got 'hacked' simply by having open S3 buckets with customer data hanging around.

A cloud service doesn't shield against incompetence.
>Let science do its thing - which is inform and educate. Let policies be made by those with more full understanding of the system into which changes need to be effected.

But what about when scientists collaborate with the policy-makers to shape public perception about how to inform and educate people?

One prime example is last years long and detailed study on how there was no "gay gene". In effect, homosexual activity and inclinations could not be shown to be the result of any specific gene expression after many trials and searches for such.

The scientists, worried about how this result would look to the public, worked with LGBTQ advocacy groups to shape how the paper would be released to the media and explained to the public[1].

Now, a sizable portion in HN's demographic will feel this is all well and good, but how far should this go? The uncomfortable truth here is that people are not "born gay" as we have been told so often. And that has been a very important talking point in the past two decades when debating about gay rights. Many people were convinced to support gay rights for this reason alone (however we might feel about that, it's true). They very well may feel duped by scientists and no longer "trust the science". How far should scientists go to shield the public from uncomfortable truths? And how much will the public continue to trust them when such veiling of the truth is made known to them?

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02585-6
France, Spain, and England all abolished slavery in their colonies at least 30 years before the American Civil War.
> Even if 1 client per year buy it

What about the people who try to sell it after buying it? If they have to sell it for 10^-32 $ before someone buys it then that immediately drops your market cap to just about nothing.

> And yes, we both agree, marketcap has 0 value

No, I just explained why marketcap correctly values your coin as absolutely worthless.
I'm confused by the corrected diff in the README... isn't that cache recreated on each function call to fib(), making the cache pointless?
Basically select * loads the entire row at the DB end. This has no effect on disk load times when data is stored in pages but since this is result of query it might get cached, might lead to more cache eviction and adds transfer overhead. Bottom line query what you need. Article is worth reading for the experimental setup used.
Which one?

That's a serious question. Last time I looked at expensive vacuums, e.g. Dyson discontinued parts after 10 years. It might not break, but you can't buy a roller for 10-year-old models. Shark was way shorter. I found no long-term brands.
This whole article looks like an ad for authors' book and Chord PRO library.
The comment that got flag-killed linked to the wikipedia of Marek's disease.

A disease that resides amongst chickens for which there exists a vaccine that prevents the disease but not the spread of the virus. And is an example of a scary story (told by antivaxxers I assume) where the introduction of a vaccine allowed the virus flourish and turn itself into a much deadlier form it otherwise would not have had.
Aurora 4x is a great example. It's a highly niche game developed by a single programmer that models variety of systems and is completely free.

It's hard to get into, but the systems it implements compliment each other really well to create a realistic space empire building game.

Examples you mentioned above are all "mass market" (except DF) in comparison.
The same could be said about the science behind lockdowns (as very little was knows about the effects of attempting to control a pandemic until this incredibly costly experiment went underway), but it doesn't stop experts proclaiming this is what is needed to help.
C'ya around. You'll make a fine educator - sure taught me a few things this time.
> There is a lot of "I" in this story.

It's a personal blog. That's what personal website are. People reflecting about their own life and thoughts.
Just in case anyone is about to miss this detail:

That heater probably doesn't run continously.

For a well designed shared system you can get away with less than n x what an individual unit needs.

(That said, I too guess 2.5kW is too small for what GP mentioned.)
That one's widely considered the worst, by a lot. I wouldn't judge 160 podcast episodes by just that one.