jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I wonder if we'll ever see on-demand assembly of stuff like this.

That is and has been done. Like for the Moto X, which is custom assembled if you do a custom order.

However, there is a substantial ongoing cost to keep a manufacturing line up and running for a product. If you're not currently running phones (or whatever product) every day, then you'd want to use the line space for other products. This implies setup / teardown costs and (re)training.

In general, the manufacturer would prefer to start running the product at some given volume per day, be given plenty of notice to scale up or down the volume, and then cease production and be done with it. That minimizes their costs.
I don't think they'd be too happy if you just started unpacking and assembling random pieces of furniture in their store.
Uber covers you while your driving, that does not prevent insurance companies from denying claims or dropping coverage on former or current Uber drivers because they don't have commercial insurance on their now-commercial vehicle.

If you're ever in an accident while not driving for Uber, the insurance company will ask you if you've ever used this car to drive for a ride-sharing service. This could be grounds to void your policy. And Uber will not cover you in this situation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/uberdrivers/comments/44vuoa/insuran...
Yes- my impression of their list of things that characterized the past decade had a very young/city/liberal focus. I probably understood about half the list. Sometimes the NYT can be very local.
Ok. Honest question. What do you suggest then? Teleportation?

The "but its cruelty against animals so lets kill them instead!" card is a random and really worn out argument nowadays. We have enough of real problems yet.
Is the Cybertruck 4wd? That F-150 certainly was not.
Funny you would say that, because if you read the indictment, these people did actually deposit Monero on one exchange:

> VCE 4 Account 2 was entirely funded by approximately 13,200 XMR via approximately 21 transactions that took place between in or around November 2017 and March 2019.

> Another account at VCE 4 (“VCE 4 Account 3”) was created on or about November 20, 2017, and was registered in the name of another Russian national and under another Russian email address. VCE 4 Account 3 was entirely funded by approximately 6,870 XMR, via approximately 10 transactions that took place between in or around November 2017 and April 2019.

> The XMR deposited into VCE 4 Account 2 and VCE 4 Account 3 was all converted to BTC and then withdrawn, consistent with chain hopping. The same method was used to liquidate the funds from the VCE 1 accounts as described above.
How about removing the nazis?
Spacex couldn't afford to launch Starlink if F9 wasn't dirt cheap. So either it's cheap or some financial strategy is hiding money? EASA has underestimated SpaceX from day one.
I'll second the suggestion to get a Dobsonian. I'm not any kind of astronomy expert, but they seem to be the cheapest, simplest way to get a large-aperture telescope.

Besides aperture, the other thing to look at is focal ratio. Generally, you'll want a low focal ration like f/5 for looking at large, dim objects like nebulas and galaxies, and a high focal ratio like f/9 or so for looking at small, bright things like planets.

I'm in sort of a weird telescope situation in that over the years I've collected three garage sale telescopes of various sizes, and they're all right around f/5. I also live in a city, so they're all optimized exactly for looking at the things I can't see unless I travel pretty far out of town where the sky is dark.

My two bigger scopes are made by Coulter Optical. Coulter is an interesting company. As I understand it, back during the 80's or so, you just couldn't buy a large aperture telescope for a reasonable price. So, Coulter came along and figured, "why don't we make a telescope where we put most of the manufacturing effort into a high-quality primary mirror, make the rest as cheaply as humanly possible, and sell the result? The result was the Odyssey 1, with a 13" primary mirror. It looks like large home-made waterheater, and is about as portable. Later on they made the Odyssey 8, a smaller version with an 8" primary mirror. The tube is made of cardboard, and the focusser is just a pvc slip fitting. The base is made of painted chipboard. That's the telescope I use the most, and it works great. I wouldn't recommend the odyssey 1 unless you live out in the country somewhere where you can set it up and use it without having to load it into a car and drive somewhere else.
> with the same single point of failure issues

Well, with different issues. FDIC insurance is probably better than whatever Coinbase has. You are also open to technical f-ups on Coinbase's end, which can move the price down if they are bad enough.

On the other hand, Coinbase cannot print BTC. This characteristic is what draws a lot of people to Bitcoin, beyond just "nobody can take my keys".

Agree it's a false equivalency, disagree that holding BTC in Coinbase defeats the purpose.
Right. They wouldn't need that much money. That's my point.
Wow, it really irks me that truthful comments that add something to the discussion gets down votes as soon as it is stating anything that could maybe be construed as negative against the US.
Lifestyle creep dontcha know
> For us, ‘extreme’ was the sleep deprivation we experienced with baby number one as we tried every ‘no cry’ method in the book.

I was more generous in how I interpreted the article: the need for sleep-training is a consequence of the child having a whole different room to themselves. Parents in other cultures who share the room (or the bed) do not get the same level of extreme sleep deprivation and, as a consequence, will not need to sleep-train.

To me, the article is not questioning how good the parenting in the west is - it's contrasting it with parenting elsewhere (and tracing the roots of the parenting practices)
Thank you. I guess it is a good start. But, as a solution - develop new protocols and standards, and declare that military does not buy _anything_ that does not interoperate on these standards, no matter how advanced your shit is?
Energy isn't being wasted, that's the point. What proof of work and the blockchain allows is a monetary network that (a) does not rely on trusted third parties for verification, whose (b) unit of currency does not rely on states or central banks, which cannot be trusted to avoid inflation.

Whatever else you may think of those features, it's a bit weird to call it pure waste when clearly millions of people find this incredibly valuable.
Say everyone in an unstable economy were paid in usd. If that country has foreign deficit, if that country has high government debt. What happens? How can the government keep paying its own employees? How does it pay retiree checks? How does it subsidize farming when needed? As long as a country cannot print usd itself, this is a fast shortcut to unemployment, hunger, etc...

Strong currencies are not the solution to poor governance. Good governance and democracy makes a country and its currency strong. Not vice versa.
If it is only for GPU... the drivers are already pretty good.

If it is for their Ryzen processors... please hire more. I am thinking about going back to Intel laptops after the pitiful support in the current Linux kernel.
This covers some of that. https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/refs/heads/sandbox/j...
Semi off-topic, but having just come across this project, I just started looking back at some of your stuff and saw a comment about an ape chibicc fork. What's the state of that? Is it usable yet?
Honestly Ethereum tech does get me quite interested. The idea of being able to create custom ledgers with tokens on the chain for bookkeeping that's maintained by an independent third party seems useful, as does the idea of smart contracts (dynamically & automatically executed transactions based on pre-defined conditions).

That would put the value of Ether at the value of being able to make transactions though - and at the moment transactions are clearly way too expensive for it to be particularly useful. The only value from these high transaction prices is extreme replication (many miners confirming the transaction) but I don't think anyone cares much about that level of security.

A heavily digitized financial system can also allow micro-transactions that can enable new things, e.g. to give a random example it would become much easier to pay $0.005 for every action you take on a website which could create entirely new business opportunities.

Edit to add - One way that I can imagine this developing is that "regular" currencies start moving their currencies onto a blockchain like Ethereum. I think that would make a lot of sense from a technology perspective and it would avoid the oddities I mentioned above (about wealth being mostly related to time of currency adoption). At that point the price of Ether would really just have to go to the value of making transactions and that doesn't make it look like a buy currently (at all).
Or they want to be more platform-agnostic than rust and llvm.
We need goatse anycast address
Yupp. Magnet is the best alternative.

Also wtf does pressing the maximise button go full screen? Can't we have two buttons, one for maximise and one for fullscreen?
Don't we kind of need to stop using oil though?
This was voted the UK's favourite poem IIRC, and has been famously quoted in court. There have been few truer words spoken:

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.
There are hundreds (thousands?) of years of discussion on positive versus negative rights, and not everyone is convinced either way. It doesn't seem particularly fruitful to open that can of worms here.
> if you're not able to easily spot such a candidate without attempting to make him/her to jump through the gimmicks (brainteasers, contract-to-hire, etc..) ell, it indicates the issue with your company and hiring practices in particular are deeper than just what gimmicks to apply.

I'm not sure if this is a joke, but I'll bite.

The entire problem with hiring is that no-one, I repeat, NO-ONE is capable of determining who are the best candidates. If they could then everyone would the same formula and this would be a solved issue.

GOOG and MSFT have tonnes of hiring data and they admit they can't do this very well. It seems very presumptuous of you to assume you can and anyone who can't is somehow an outlier.
You have not stated something that's mutually exclusive with the statement you are replying to. It's possible for military law to be used precisely as the person was claiming it was - to support the implementation of questionable policy through enforced ignorance of the people. Indeed one could argue that to a great extent that's what military law in this regard is for in the first place.

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Personally, I think there's only room for one law in a country. The minute you start splitting off separate courts for special interests, in which civilian juries can't intervene, you make a mockery of the idea of civilian control - separate it too far from the issues for it to be meaningfully applied.
I think that was a good thing because it established the principle that joining an organization does not absolve you from higher duties towards your fellow citizens or humanity at large.

Taking the high ground on soldiers just following orders in the context of WWII is bizarre. American soldiers killed a startling number of german soldiers and citizens during the post-war occupation. I imagine those American soldiers were just following orders too. The only reason the German and Japanese soldiers were demonized for following orders instead of the American soldiers is the fact we won and they lost. Morals are decided by the victor.
Felt like extortion? To freely post your video to their free hosting service, which allows you free distribution and marketing of your brand to the entire world. For free. And this felt like extortion?
you can go with yandex, but it's all very much a case of pick your poison.
There are several reasons:

- Google has a lot of experience running containerized services because of Borg. Google Research says that they have been running these workloads since 2005.
- The above gives them insight into how to do this well. They would have the internal infrastructure, logging and monitoring already setup.
- They are the creator and still a major contributor to Kubernetes itself which means they can insert their influence on it.

To be fair, my only experience running Kubernetes is on GCP so maybe they are all this easy to use and run. The internet tells me that other offerings are not as good. Compared to running workloads on EC2 instances and ECS, using GKE is amazing and pain free.

Note: I am responsible for 5 clusters, 300+ nodes total and several thousand running services. Not huge by any means.
Imprisoning unwitting employees... that's a new low
you want to cite your sources on this one, buddy?
Tesla might be on the right track to solve the issue.

Having no spare parts available and repairs only available at select service center means they could potentially refuse service to anyone who used parts with stolen serial numbers.

That would make them worthless to steal.

As for banning a video game, if he can get the first amendment repelled, sure. Good luck!
> anyone reasonably clever which spends months studying CTCI, EPI and Pramp and whatever else and doing mock interviews will pass the interview

Spoken like someone who has never interviewed at Google.

I have 6 years experience, a M.S. in CS, have worked at SV unicorns, and studied for 2 months for my Google interview and still failed. Am I an idiot? Possibly, but more likely that the interviews are hard and there is a lot of randomness.

Until you actually study and try yourself, don't talk about how easy it is for anyone "reasonably clever".
I'm not saying there's anything there but it does come across as a bit ominous when someone w/ that connection is essentially working for a guy who openly said "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."

It at least makes me wonder if this selection was intentional & what the relationship between the two & the intelligence communities of both the U.S. and the U.K. are
> This sounds like a chicken or egg argument.

I don't follow. I also don't see how it is different than any other industry be it bricks or CPUs. Buy a few and the per unit price is high. Buy millions and the per unit price is low.

> Of course you'll give me wholesale pricing on volume in any market.

Yes.

> But are product creators scared off when a big part of each unit's cost will go to license the screen technology?

I keep seeing this claim. I believe it is wrong and asked for evidence. In response to which OP has promised to correct the article. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26247268
I love excel but it feels like it's UI based abilities have been left in the dust. It's like development of excel and VBA stopped and even reversed to make things function worse. A few new features, forms, buttons, etc. would be a god send for more complex systems.
Do you feel the same way about Nancy Pelosi telling people to “come to Chinatown” during the start of the pandemic?
You can write however you want to. But don’t be surprised if you write something that could be construed as sympathetic to race science, and people go “hey, this person might support race science”. You seem to be saying that you can be as ambiguous as you want and that people shouldn’t try to fill in the gaps, which is ridiculous.

And no, it’s not “thoughtcrime” to form an opinion about a person based on things they’ve written.
Look at how other cultures solved this issue. Arabic has a dialect known today as Standard Arabic. It's what official documents, books, news, documentaries, etc. are written or spoken in. Arabic speakers in general are able to understand, but in case their dialects are significantly different, they can always switch to Standard Arabic to get the point across.

Also, some people do pick up the local dialect in the country they're living or working in and attempt to speak it, it's not seen as somehow an inferior move or putting oneself down, on the contrary, it's showing a form of flattery.
This whole series of events went down with such a stink. My ordinary perception of the NYT is that of a beacon of journalism. They publish hundreds of pieces a day, and while the newspaper is left-leaning, it is also known for its high quality going back at least 100 years. My question is, does their utterly childish reaction to Scott Alexander's wish to be anonymous invalidate the whole newspaper's integrity?

Don't get me wrong, I don't completely agree with the whole 'liberal MSM' disillusionment, but does this mess point to deeper problems specific to the newspaper? I have no idea, and would appreciate it if somebody clarified this for me.
I wrote one for Tcl years ago, as I started working on a really complicated product with around 50k lines of code (or more, distant memory).

Maybe I should give it another crack for modern languages - there is an even greater need for it these days with dependency injection and microservices being common.

The way I see it the need stems from needing to understand what is REALLY going on, as opposed to what the code is saying should be going on.
That's not really the same as producing binaries that can function on original hardware.
"Syrian man denied asylum killed in German blast"

That one was Reuters, mind you, but does the same thing. The actual story being a Syrian man died from a bomb he was planning on using in a terror attack.
Sound travels differently underwater. A diver senses every sound as if the source is from their own head and all sound sort of blends into one. A whale has a much easier time distinguishing different auditory signals underwater then a diver does. Furthermore, a whale can probably sense the direction the sound comes from and how fast it is moving. A diver failing to notice a giant ship is no evidence that a whale will.
It is on the Wayback Machine at least:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070223091507/http://www.cs.bell...
I think that one of the most important parts of this analysis is the naming of variables, so I guess it still be possible (though probably more difficult)
Yes. It's the same library, but with a new (major) version.

It's inspired by React so the views are build differently than in 1.0.
If MS threatens something like that, you'll probably see a large scale migration to desktop linux.
The government most likely paid the other two thirds via PBS.
For me, it would be Ratpoison, Vim, Xterm, and Firefox.
Maybe, but it wouldn't take much to improve on Windows 8.
Sebulba for the whales, 100€
It may well be that it makes cycling seem more dangerous.
Yes, we plan on making this open source.
nano website for download: http://www.nano-editor.org/
Ditto. I cannot find a good source to learn VBA either.
Things like this are the seed of new ways to learn in my opinion. I have this belief that everything you'd ever want to learn is out there on the internet, but it needs to be curated + bundled together. In this case, the entire course is on Fred's blog, but even then, I bet he references a lot of outside sources.
Two men enter, one man leaves...

...hatless. ;-)
Massage may still feel worthwhile to the majority of people if it were also customary to drink a poison beforehand that makes 1% of customers deathly ill and just makes the other 99% feel a little weird. Most people will report "wow, that was a nice massage, and I definitely felt different afterwards", but how could you say there are any benefits beyond a simple massage, except perhaps a much heightened placebo effect? Chiropractic is risky, and strictly worse than massage or physical therapy. That's what you have to compare it with.
How about holding people accountable for what people do?
Amazon seems like the Walmart of internet services. Amazon will find a niche that is profitable then, drive down the margins in that sector and bankrupt companies in its wake.
IANAL, so hopefully someone more knowledgeable will chime in, but if you can show in court that a witness has comitted a crime you can show that they are not trustworthy and essentially impeach their testimony.

There was so much evidence against Ulbricht that it probably wouldn't have changed the outcome, but the fact that this is only now being brought to light is very suspicious.
All: please avoid gratuitous negativity in Hacker News discussions.

Angry venting against someone you think wrong is gratuitous negativity. So are generic dismissals like "This whole article is just a bag of fail."

If you think someone is wrong, please say why substantively, or say nothing.
Of course "the fact that you are using Chrome does not cause Google to receive any special or additional personally identifying information about you." could be true.

But Agreeing to sign to the history sync feature is something different , not covered by "using Google Chrome".So now Google is free to use your history.

And let's be realistic here. Most people don't think about the implications of login into Google(even if it says sync of bookmarks , history etc) and probably don't read the instructions. Many even don't understand what it means. And realistically most people see a Google login box which they filled a million times, and fill it once more, as a sort of a pavlovian response.
Does unison still have the problem that it refuses to work unless the exact same version of the program is installed on every computer? Also, I've found it extremely hard to install on linux boxes where I do not have root access.
Is there an example of a successful economy that ran without a central bank?
absolutely. instead of leaving a movie download overnight i leave it for a shower. i hope it never hits mainstream, especially since it's subscription based
You need to contact Lenovo in your country (US?) directly, and inform them of the issue and misunderstanding.

That said, your warranty may require you to provide them with defective hardware. You may be on the hook whether you realized it or not. They may eat it, but unlikely.
On reddit 'TIL' means 'today I learned'.

P.S. TIL some people automatically downvote any post containing the word 'reddit'.
This speaks very closely to my own development as an educator. Being a 'fonte of knowledge' is only engaging to student who're already intrinsically motivated to learn. With the expectation that every student be engaged and successful in their learning (regardless of the baggage or apathy they carry with them into the room) I've found myself actively attempting to improve the performance aspect of my job. It helps that my partner is an improv comedianne, but when I began this work (as as natural introvert) I didn't imagine that a daily self-review of my "performance" would consider timing and delivery as significantly. In any case, it works and because it works I try to improve this skill.
> Another key to Last week tonight, besides its length, is also that its not on cable and doesn't have advertisers.

It is, in fact, on cable. Do you mean not on basic cable?
Unless the different hardware providers agree upon a standard for their applications, so that 4 or more code bases don't have to be maintained simultaneously this is fine. However, to have to support a device in an unfamiliar language is a ridiculous assertion.