jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Diversity.

I've had a conversation with a few bosses where at some point I stopped to say words to the effect of, "It's like you think I expect everyone a the project to be like me. I don't." <looks of surprise> A project with just me would have problems too. But every project needs at least a couple of people who think like me, which we aren't accomplishing.

This whole expert thing isn't tenable on a long term project. The expert will get bored and wander off, at which point all the mistakes they avoided will just be explored in their absence. Unless they built up people, documentation and processes to take over the work.

My read of Kernighan's Law, back-ported onto my own philosophy, is that most of the time you don't want the most capable person working on a solution. You want the 2nd or 3rd most capable person on it, have them reach consensus with the other two. Maybe 10% of your code should be as clever as you can manage. Most of the rest should be so boring that only the junior people find it interesting. The bottom rungs of an orchard ladder everyone is trying to climb.
Same, except I have to use Windows without an Admin account at work .. tho you'd be surprised what I can get done in that box!
> A feed is a set of algorithmically generated content provided to the user without explicit input.

Uhhhhhhhhhhh no? Wrong & harmful, out of the gate. Feeds derive from "RSS Feed", which are non algorithmically generated: they are each blog's, person's or site's semi-realtime "feed" of their individual content. They are not customized algorithmic content. Web feeds[1] are feeds of web sites.

There's some ok ideas in this article, but the very beginning is a hard-stop "no", wrong, incorrect. It uses an incorrect definition that dooms an idea (feeds) much older than what the article is scolding.

Feeds are wonderful things that allow users & their user agents to create views however the user wants. What the author is talking about is something different. Polluting the idea of the feed by associating it with this Big Tech walled-garden "personal feed" or what-not does injury to the remedy, hurts the chances of real actual & good feeds being able to counter-act the social-network-monopoly "feed"/ween that big tech has us on. This article is harmful.

If you want to talk about the consumer point of view, of someone consuming feeds, a bunch of RSS feeds when combined together forms a "river"[2]. That, too, is non-algorithmic, is an in-temporal-order view of all the feeds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed

[2] https://github.com/scripting/river5
I’ve read that is politically untenable and financially impossible.
I understand the problem you are trying to solve and if I was still working for my former emploeyer I would probably spend some more time to download it and evaluate it. However I don't have the motivation to do it now.

Having said that, the thing that is missing that would satisfy my personal needs is some form of quick demo so I can understand why it is easier to use your product over excel. Maybe a short gif or video, maybe a few screenshots of a workflow. Even though I don't need this software right now, I would be interested in getting more information on how it works without having to download it and test it myself, because I might need it in the future or I could recommend it to someone who has an excel problem. Right now I can't recommend it because I didn't really understand the solution by looking at the splash page
I had to do this by hand in the 1980s when I ran out of space in the ROM of the embedded controller I was working on for messages to be printed. There was no way to increase the size of ROM (2716 EPROM) at that stage in the development. The text was all 7 bit ASCII so I used the MSB as a flag to say that the remaining bits were a pointer into a table of frequently used fragments. This saved enough space to include the decompressor; it was recursive too so the fragments could also be compressed.
We recognize that Milvus is a strong competitor and we think Milvus is a great platform.
Like Milvus, Vald will soon be sending pull requests to ann-benchmarks to show that it is one of the fastest ANN engines available over the network.
> Zen 2 has has 8-wide issue in many places, and Ice Lake moves up to 6-wide.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25258985
What's the problem with Pidora in Russian?
Just a funny note: we have the exact opposite issue in French with the English word "bit", which sounds exactly like the French word "bite", a literal translation of the word "cock".

So I guess that goes both ways :)
Compared to the likes of Bezos, Musk or Gates, every sub-C-level FAANG employee is part of the underclass.

Of course it's a gradient rather than a clear dividing line, but there are people who make 100x, 1,000x, 10,000x or more of what the lowest of the low are making and there's no gradual progression from the latter to the former. There are massive gaps that are impossible to bridge.

If you consider that the average person's economic situation worsened throughout 2020 while all the top billionaires drastically increased their wealth (if not proportionately, then at least in absolute numbers), this only widens that gap.

I agree that putting a single dividing line at $299k or whatever is silly, but yes, even a person making $299k is economically insignificant to a triple digit billionaire (or just any billionaire, to be honest). The divide isn't between people making $299k and people making $300k, the divide is between billionaires and people making subsistence level or less -- everyone else just falls on the gradient in between.
ha nice! No I get what you say, I had changed the message just to take advantage of HN's front page feedback.

I have thought about this for a while. My experience is that if I sit down with someone and talk to them for a while, they do get it (as a few people on this thread have shown). The issue I have is that it's not a simple "here's your problem, here's a solution" type of situation, it's a lot finer than that.
There are two separate things here:

1. whether we will find a unified theory.

2. whether it is in theory possible to find a unified theory.

The comment you replied to addresses #2. They're saying basically that if the universe is constrained to some set of knowable rules, then it can be reduced to a set of formulae, which is pretty much the same as saying if the rules are knowable, they're expressible as a set of formulae.

Whether this set of rules is simple enough that we are able to is a separate issue.
As mentioned by AnssiH, this hasn't been true for a long time - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... was merged in 2007. I wrote up the reasoning back in 2008 at https://mjg59.livejournal.com/85923.html, but since then Linux should always have been behaving identically to the most recent version of Windows as far as OSI responses go.
> I'd assume you are not working in education?

Not right now, but I did.

> But as a teacher, you have a completely different problem: You need a really simple, easy to explain environment - no fuss, no unnecessary complexity.

Just tell them to ignore that complexity and only press this and this.

When I was a kid we were taught to code (simple games in C/WinAPI and C++/MFC) in Visual Studio 6 Enterprise Edition on Windows NT. Visual Studio (especially its enterprise editions) traditionally has tons of features which still seem extraterrestrial to me but you are safe to ignore them.

Just don't click those weird menu/toolbar items. Just create a project, write the code (with help of super-smart auto-completion) and press Run, use some conveniences (like refactoring and debugging) once you are told or read about those particular. Easy-peasy.
Maybe Twitch is just being tsundere and will reverse the decision soon:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-little-pogchamp
Seems you understand the pain point. There have been numerous people who have asked for help learning SQL, and they never see it through. On the other side of the problem, analysts at companies are not there for simple SQL queries, it’s an inefficient use of time as opposed to in-depth analysis.

Email me at DPublicEmail@protonmail.com and I’ll give you my personal contact information.
> I make more than enough to afford proper health insurance on the open market. Everyone at Gumroad is paid very well and should be able to afford the same.

This might be true for everyone at Gumroad, but I wouldn't be so sure. You also seem dismissive (probably unintentionally) of one of the biggest problems we have in the US right now: health care and insurance is ridiculously expensive–especially for people with families who want to be self-employed or contractors.

A family of 4 who doesn't qualify for ACA subsidies is going to pay $1,400/month or more out-of-pocket for health insurance. And it goes up every year. Imagine paying 10%+ of your salary just for health insurance.
Hi Tchalla, thanks for your comment.

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Interesting to know. Thanks for replying.

> Is fairly normal to work without internet in some industries / environments (including my current one)

Curious which ones?

Did you have to audit all the vendor code? If so, how much time was spent on that?

Do you think this kind of practices actually improve any security?

If there is no internet, how do you search for a solution to an immediate problem or look up documentation?

How is the testing culture like in these orgs?
Switch which sides of the bed you sleep on. Get more involved in each other’s individual pursuits and hobbies. Buy tiny canvases and paint together. Call friends and family you haven’t talked to for a while.
Yeah I'm not of fan of 'awareness' as a social mechanism. Its more of 'look at us; we're on the right side of this issue!' but doesn't move anything forward.
Can you delete a HN account?
Interesting article but the fact that the transactions are logged and can be tracked flies in the face of everything I understood about the anonymity of bitcoin.
At this point, I see the use of Flow-based programming to be analogous to something like Titanium (the JS framework that lets you build iOS apps).

It's interesting in concept, and will most assuredly open the doors to allow a larger swath of people to participate, but for anything of consequence, you've still gotta buckle down and write some code. The reason is almost entirely about performance optimization, which is something you just can't get from compiling from GUI.
What does that have to do with anything? The iPhone is still a consumer device as well. The enterprise isn't about mobile anything, it's about internal applications and B2B systems integration and .Net and Java rule the roost here, as does SOAP still. What works on the public net and what works in the enterprise are light years apart and probably always will be.
Is this site not completely static?
Be aware that those extracts are squares around the cities - they're not exact city border outlines.
This means that you can't just use the data without concern for whether the things you're gathering are actually within the city or not.

I haven't found a very simple way to get everything within exact city borders, yet. This is the process I've been going with so far: https://github.com/JamesChevalier/cities#cities
> I'd be more effective if I could just get at the underlying code

For something similar to MaxMSP/PureData but with writing code in a text editor, you may wish to take a look at ChucK [1]. Instead of graphical edges or links between between UGens ChucK provides the '=>' operator.

E.g.

adc => Chorus c => LPF lpf => Echo e => Delay d => dac;

[1]
http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu
> Why are we okay with polluting other places but by golly we get mad when it happens in our own country?

Because we live here and not there?
> Here's how I might write that today, without using do notation: `getLine >>= (return . (++) "Hello, ") >>= putStrLn`.

Don't write point-free code here. Here's a fairly simple version:

getLine >>= \name -> putStrLn ("Hello, " ++ name)

The only novel thing there is the >>= operator itself. You don't even have to introduce return there; you can introduce return later.
Disclaimer: we got the idea from this project from this old HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2600650
You'd pay double for a guarantee?
It's definitely a problem in games, but there are plenty of people working 9-5:30 or so with regular lives outside work. There's plenty of SV startup that would have you work similar hours with similar pay as the notorious gaming studios.
What about them? The Inuit are at one extreme. Quoting http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-paleo-diet-hal... :

> Which hunter–gatherer tribe are we supposed to mimic, exactly? How do we reconcile the Inuit diet—mostly the flesh of sea mammals—with the more varied plant and land animal diet of the Hadza or !Kung? Chucking the many different hunter–gather diets into a blender to come up with some kind of quintessential smoothie is a little ridiculous.

Quoting one of the many counter-arguments from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet :

> recent understanding of the human genome has shown that modern humans typically have many copies of the AMY1 gene for starch digestion—suggesting widespread evolutionary adaptation to starch consumption by humans
Steam didn't disable LAN play.

Also: He focused on the Starcraft 2 features of Battlenet 2.0 because that was, you know, relevant to an article on Starcraft 2.

Additionally, how is Battlenet 2.0 going to "connect" Starcraft 2 to World Of Warcraft? How does your Starcraft 2 rank matter, at all, in World Of Warcraft? This is a genuine question, since I haven't played either game.
Fructose, which is in high abundance in fruits, is the sugar to avoid. Sucrose = Fructose + Glucose. So saying "don't worry about the sugar, this is not sucrose" is misleading. Glucose is the sugar that your body is designed to digest/process. The reason that fruits are better for you than sugary things is because the amount of fructose is smaller than in most other things, and most fruits contain a lot of fiber.
Yea their title, "Apple's Worst Security Breach," doesn't quite seem to fit.
Anyone can create a company that does that, and if they're successful then that's great.

Creating games in under 40 hours a week:
http://archives.igda.org/qol/IGDA_2005_GDC-QOL-Lecture.ppt
In case you read comments before stories, no, this is not the xauth you're likely thinking of.
only the text-only version works, sorry

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Fierce as in, it took 10 years to gain 10% market share?? Clearly not the same.
IBM's 9.0.0.0/8 is still IBM's, except for the 9.9.9.0/24 subnet.
> If the solution to a hard problem is that obvious and people aren't doing it then it's not really a solution and/or you haven't correctly identified the problem.

I don't see how this is compatible with the observed reality that individuals make choices that are not best for society (whether due to rational self-interest/incomplete information/behavioral factors).
The headline tells you everything you need to know: they've lost their license, but they'll continue operating. Uber doesn't believe that the government will actually stop them, and so far they've been right.
It’s not so unreasonable. I imagine there are plenty of users with HEDT workloads who also want to play games on the side, and want some assurance that their HEDT box can do both.
I see a net worth video.

How important is net worth? My wife and I had about $200k net worth until we bought a house. Now it’s probably the same amount but negative after the house purchase. We max out our 401ks and employee stock purchase. Our mortgage and car note is below the 30% suggestion.

It will probably be 5-8 years or more until it’s positive again.
I've noticed recently that Postgres is really gaining in popularity, especially as a MySQL alternative. Why is that? Is it because of Oracle's involvement in MySQL or has Postgres really improved in performance?
You dismiss in your calculation the radiative flux.
Soooo...raiding party to Africa then?

They're pretty low too though

>AFRINIC has no more than one /11 of non-reserved IPv4
I think it's path dependence. The kernel has a large number of compile-time configuration options; back in the 90s, it was common to compile your own kernel, after tuning these options to your own particular hardware. It was also common to get new kernel releases (as a source code .tar.gz, or as a patch to the previous source code .tar.gz) directly from kernel.org, instead of waiting for the next release of the distribution you were using. So the time it took to compile a new version of the kernel for your machine was something many Linux users had experience with, and it was clear when a machine was faster (perhaps as a consequence of having previously compiled and installed a newer kernel!) because it took less time to compile the kernel. To turn that into a benchmark was just a matter of standardizing on a kernel release and a set of configuration options.
"Statewide property tax revenues are estimated to increase 6 percent in 2018-19 and 6.8 percent in 2019-20" [1]

National average for property tax revenue growth is ~4% YoY [2].

TLDR, California sees a bigger Property tax revenue growth then the national average.

[1] http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2019-20/pdf/BudgetSummary/RevenueE...

[2] https://www.bankrate.com/real-estate/property-tax-rates-us/
I disagree. Google is completely wrong and self-serving here. Even evil.

It is important for people to realize the idea of "conservation of government". There are many areas of life that will be governed by rules, like it or not. If government does it, they will be rules set by government, and therefore having some accountability to the people, in democratic societies.

If government declines to be the rule-setter, private industry usually takes up the slack. Their rules have no accountability to individuals. But either way, the amount of government is conserved, only the basis for it and accountability of it change.

If the U.S. decided to abolish the FDA, for example, there would still be rules governing food quality in the United States. They would be rules set by consortiums of grocery store chains and meat packers and the like. "Walmart will buy meat only of this quality and no worse", whatever that quality level might be. The food protection rules didn't disappear, they just became divorced from accountability to the public.

Libertarians (Vint Cerf certainly is one, and corporations generally are as well) pronounce that shifting governance from government to corporations is good. Certainly it is in the corporate interest. As for good, any given shift could be good (in the sense that you could have a benevolent dictator, for a time), but in the aggregate, divorcing accountability from governance certainly results in worse governance (the average dictator is worse than the average elected representative).

The unelected, unaccountable, responsive-only-to-money Chamber of Commerce is not in fact the right entity to be deciding internet governance issues. Elected governments are.
That's not the case. Internally, this intent was communicated shortly after the original announcement that leaked. It was just communicated to a smaller group of people, so it apparently didn't leak like the first announcement did.
There're two more interesting things mentioned in the article which originated in yandex:

https://github.com/highpower/xiva -- asynchronous web-server for server-side part of html5 websockets

https://github.com/khanton/NwSMTP -- they say it's a "nginx for SMTP", a proxy server they use for providing ssl, rbl, antispam and antivirus checks.
This doesn't apply to all countries, unfortunately.
I'm guessing he wasn't an economist by profession then ;-) Seriously, this seems like a great solution to the problem highlighted in the article - peer review is a slow process when left to non market forces. Seems analogous to hiring a consultant to review your code.
Percentage wise the total population infection rate even in the US and UK isn't actually high, something like 9-11 percent at the moment after a full year of the virus spreading.

Even with this faster spreading strain, it's possible that the vaccination efforts will win out and halt the spread before it reaches 50% of the population.
The person you're replying to probably meant MMS which can be used for group texting as you're describing.
They've now locked his account for 12 hours: https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1346970431039934464
I'm always a little bit fascinated by these sorts of attacks.

On one hand, I guess I understand (yet don't condone) the motivation for the 'vigilante' justice they're trying to do. On the other, I really don't understand what benefit you can get from attacking Xbox, then Sony, and finally Tor.

When I think of the people doing this, I tend to think of them as understanding the importance of Tor and the benefit of anonymity it brings. However, here are people doing a DDOS attack (obviously illegal) trying to bring down the biggest illegal goods marketplace on the internet.

Maybe I'm alone in this, but outside of attention, I really don't understand any logical reason for this happening, and that really makes me dismiss any message they may have. I can comprehend being motivated by anger or some event, or just being a douchey company, but I just really don't understand what anyone besides the US Government would gain by attacking Tor.
How can you take an international standard seriously when it is based on the number of years since some prophet of some specific religion was thought to be born?
This is silly when I think of the touch screen in my Model S. The "Infotainment" us 100% useful for the 45 minute charging sessions I occasionally endure. And while driving it isn't used.
A willingness to put in some time up front to tailor a technology experience to yourself is one thing that separates the average HN user from the population at large.

For a significant majority of users, if it doesn't work well out of the gate, it's broken.
Just bought a Tesla so kind of new to the whole touchscreen thing. The big thing I noticed is the bulk of what you need to use while driving is either on the steering column or exceedingly easy to get to on the touch screen. Wipers, cruise settings, basic music controls, are all right there. Climate control is right on the bottom and easily adjustable.

The thing which does bother me is it can be a rabbit-hole getting at some of the other features. If you want to enable seat heating on the back seats? It’s about 3 clicks in which is bad.

Since the car has pretty damned good drivers assist technology it’s very easy to let the computer do the driving while you poke at the screen. Which... is not good.

I love the autopilot. But it is very easy to lean on when you shouldn’t.
I find CarPlay + the BMW dial to be a useful level.

Trying to do anything touch related is a nightmare while driving, so it's still tactile, and CarPlay itself is pretty well optimized for viewing things at a glance and not overwhelming you with things to decipher.

I legitimately do not think that that touch screens and infotainment like this should be in cars, but I think the closer we get to self-driving cars, the more you're going to see this stuff pushed as it fits that model.
Out of curiosity: how can a YC startup take two years to launch a product?