jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't know if it reads back to you the way I read it, but your descriptions sound like anyone less than a business superstar is a failure. They are either amazing or shitty with no in-between, which is not the case in the real world. It seems like your ideal leans more towards working with people who by your descriptions sound like they could just as easily hire you as partner with you.

Obviously you know your stuff and have been in the tech game a long time & have likely seen/dealt with some ridiculous shit. Conversely I've had a few crazy run-ins on the other side, including having a coder extraordinaire bailing halfway through a paid gig taking much of the code with him (lesson learned). The trick is to not let that prejudice one's views, which is often not so easy.

So I think perhaps I should clarify on my friend example using one friend in particular. This fellow made 6 figures for many years, opened restaurants, tanning salons, real estate ventures... things that are not technology based. He built himself up from nothing and eventually transitioned to an attempt in an industry which was new to him. He did well there too even though none of those years of experience, contacts or sales & networking applied to the new industry. He just had drive to make it work.

Regarding your VC comment, this same friend's story applies to that as well. He entered this new industry and within months had developed a network of investors by sheer determination and perseverance.

So I guess the question to you is would you discount someone who is passionate and works their ass off just because he doesn't have the network or background specifically in the tech field? Some people are ready to "hit the ground running" as you say, even if it isn't in their area of strength. I've found these types are usually great to work with and are go-getters in any field, and if the project is their baby, they work even harder.

So back to the beginning of this whole conversation. We all start somewhere, we all make connections from reaching out, so why do you find replying to non-technical business folk to be an exercise in "hand holding wanna-be entrepreneurs who can't contribute"? Sure it may go nowhere, but maybe it could lead to a great venture, you never know.
This is genotyping, not sequencing. You're not going to pick up on rare but highly penetrant BRCA mutations. In other words, you may miss important variants that aren't detected by 23andme.
The claim that professors neglect their teaching is always phrased as an econ-101 style argument about incentives, but I've never seen much evidence for it in practice. Quite the contrary - the social pressure of interacting with a class prompts most instructors to put in far more effort than the incentives demand.

Frankly, few people have the balls or sociopathic instincts to stand in front of dozens of people every day and tolerate looking like an incompetent, lazy ass.
Yeah, I saw that, too. It seemed to me that a lot of developers connected very strongly with their audience on the level of: "I am cash-poor and time-rich and should win, because I am willing to work for this. Victory should not go to people who are cash-rich and time-poor. I should beat their face in and people should be in awe of me, because I worked for my pixels."
Part of the reason they were much cheaper in the past is that government funding per student was higher in the past. When I went to college government funded around 2/3 the cost of my education. Tuition covered 1/3. This is no longer the case. There are other reasons for the increase cost in higher education but none of those reasons are faculty salaries.
Boolean parameter can be useful (for DRY-ness, etc.), but to prevent any misunderstandings, I almost always introduce descriptive constants in such cases:

const bool SOMETHING = false;
const bool OTHERTHING = true;

and use them strictly for such parameter.

When there is a default parameter value, sometimes even only one constant can be enough (for non-default variant description).
Absolutely, I agree with you there. I’m relatively junior in my team and my team is quite absent of clout within our organisation as we’re a new team.

Our correspondent teams are much more approachable when it comes to collaborating than I’ve experienced in the past - it’s something I find very refreshing.
No, Lisbon is a lovely city (as long as you can afford it, nowadays most Portuguese folks can't). I was merely pointing out the type of social tensions that can arise because of these politics.

>Returning to the first point, we've had a lot of non-english-speaking immigrants over the years and no plausible threat to the primacy of English in the US.

I want to start by saying that I'm very much an "open-border" kind of person so I don't really have a huge problem with immigration and cultural "melting pots" but as far as I know there are significant tensions in some southern American states when it comes to immigration from hispanophone countries. According to Wikipedia there are 50 million Spanish speakers in the USA and only about half of them declare speaking English "very well". There also appear to be large regions near the border when Spanish is a majority language. Again, I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing, but it's certainly significant.

Beyond that America has a huge advantage in that game: English is the de-facto international language nowadays. When the more educated Syrian refugees are interviewed on the German or French TV they generally speak... English, not French or German. I've never set foot in the USA, I must have spent a grand total of one month in the UK and yet like many Europeans I speak English fluently. Japanese and Portuguese don't quite have that aura...
Hm, so now I can go straight to the Google hosted AMP version without bumping through Google an extra time first? /s
I feel like there are so many holes in the UBI that Yang has offered, some extremely obvious. Reminds me of Josepf Goerbells "Big Lie," which could be summed up as

simplicity x scale of a lie == popularity + efficacy.

I do not believe the narrative Yang has spun about AI taking half of our jobs in 5 to 10 years, and I think that even minute inspection of his policies turns up a lot to be answered. Just two easy ones off the top of my head:

1) giving the freedom dividend to everyone effectively dilutes other programs. For example, my mother is on long term disability, and she receives $1200 a month. Under Yang's plan she would be competing against everyone else who just gained $1000 a month because the benefit does not stack. The same argument can be made about other single mothers who do not receive disability but other benefits.

2) He says stuff like he does not want to break up big tech because "nobody wants to use the fourth best search engine." To me this means he's not as informed as appears. The reason we would break up Google has nothing to do with Bing or DuckDuckGo and everything to do with information autocracy, influence, and monopolistic practices towards new businesses.

Anyways, I could list about 100 things wrong with his plan, and I am going to make a YouTube series on it because YouTube is obsessed with UBI; meanwhile, I do not believe his theory on AI or that we can afford his plan without increasing government debt.
Is there a problem with that? So long as your CORS headers aren't screwed up for your use case, passing JWTs around via cookie headers should be fine, right?
I learned LaTeX because that was the "Word" of Linux when I was installing Slackware from diskettes.

And I don't regret it at all.
It does seem quite similar to Haskell FFI code: https://github.com/bobfrank/hasqlite/blob/4e38801d969a43e88b...

The "neat" factor comes from how little type wrangling and unsafe code is needed.
I’ve tried getting out of gmail a few times with various sync tools which all seemed to fail before completion. I’m curious if it’s a mailbox size issue, or perhaps scripts have matured since I last tried (2 years ago). Any idea how many emails you synced over?
It's well over 10 today.
As if a den of evangelical blockchain shills would run the domain name system any more ethically, responsibly, and transparently than the current bunch of old school shysters running it, if only they'd hand over the reigns of control to the new blockchain shysters and make them God. Slapping the "blockchain" buzzword on everything doesn't solve any problems, it just makes you look like yet another con-man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin

>A 2015 study found that of the 120,000 domain names registered on Namecoin, only 28 were in use.

An empirical study of Namecoin and lessons for decentralized namespace design

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.698...

>Based on all the empirical evidence we present,
we are left to conclude that the Namecoin ecosystem is dysfunctional. The vast majority of registered names represent squatting and there is little
evidence of a secondary market for names. While
there could be many factors that explain the lack
of adoption, there appears to be clear room for improvements in the design to minimize squatting and
other problems. To this end, in Section 6, we explore the design space of decentralized namespaces
and make recommendations.

Why Namecoin Didn't Take Off: A Cautionary Tale

https://cointelegraph.com/news/why-namecoin-didnt-take-off-a...

>Cointelegraph: You used to be one of Namecoin's biggest cheerleaders. What happened?

>Michael Dean: So here's my opinion, which is really going to get me hated, but I think Namecoin as a decentralized DNS-type system is dead.

>[...] The biggest flaw is the clunky wallet that takes ten minutes to open. The other biggest flaw is that the near-zero expense of registering domains encouraged domain squatting. All the good names are taken. Someone registered every noun in the dictionary as Dot-Bit.

>And these squatters didn't even do it right. When you go to any of these squatted domains, they don't go to a place holder with a page that says "to buy your site in Dot-Bit, email me here and make me an offer." The sites just don't resolve! These people are unclear on the semi-scummy concept of domain squatting. In Namecoin, even that gets done wrong!

>Also, Dot-Bit is actually vulnerable to a hostile takeover from ICANN. If ICANN decided to support Dot-Bit and decide where things would resolve contrary to where the Namecoin wallet was resolving things, and corporate DNS servers sided with the ICANN (which they largely would), it would create consumer confidence chaos with the Namecoin system.
I am confident I can run the service, but is there any easy monitoring framework for it? What other learning experiences from people that run their own?
It could be done easily if deemed a priority. Defeatism is not a compelling argument.
Thank you for all your comments and insights. Very grateful to see the detailed responses which has given us a lot to think about.
I have helped setup 5 drobos for different people and they have all worked fine. My only suggestion is not to partition them, seems to cause problems when resizing the partitions with bigger drives.
Defiantly no problems with noise.
Rock on!!
You are a moron. I'm sorry, but it's true.
I think his problems with the Drobo are mainly the way he's using it. I've had a Drobo for a couple years now and have not had problems with it, but I have noticed a few strange things:

1. Regarding the fan noise - I used to keep my Drobo in a warm house with no air conditioning. Temperatures in my office would regularly reach 78-80 degrees, and anything in the high 70s would cause my Drobo fan to go into "vacuum cleaner mode," which is really annoying. Solution: Don't keep your Drobo in a hot room. This is a sensitive piece of electronic equipment with lots of spinning platters stacked on top of each other. Drobo is more sensitive to heat than other pieces of technology. Since then I keep my office air conditioned and at 72 degrees, the Drobo is silent other than the hard drive seeking itself.

2. Filesystem support - This is a problem with any "cross-platform" storage and the fault is not Drobo's. I use my Drobo on both an OS X 10.6.4 system and a Windows 7 system. The only filesystem I can use that supports both seamlessly is FAT32. Unfortunately, FAT32 doesn't support some character sets that Mac does, which I found out when I was trying to back up my iTunes library there. Another limitation of FAT32 is that your filesystem can't be larger than 2TB, and you can't store files larger than 4GB. My other option was to go with HFS+ or NTFS but either of those solutions are Mac or Windows only.

The two main issues he has: Heat and filesystem compatibility, can be solved by simply using the Drobo differently. Drobo is not without it's limitations. The speed is slow, and it's sensitive to heat. But if used properly, it works fine as a large data storage device.
I read and enjoyed (the complete) the article as well, I guess that I should have added that note.
I've actually been thinking about similar things (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1424209). Would love to chat with you about it if you have the chance. vladik at rikhter org
You get AOL to add support for apple's push server into their Oscar protocol chain and I'll concede.

My battery lasts fine and I'm generally logged into IRC and/or meebo for most of the day in addition to the Google Talk that I leave signed in and my three email accounts that get updates. etc, etc. The battery woes are simply unjustified for the most part.
Is intuition always a literal gut feeling (or rather, an embodied feeling, in the robotics sense), such that having no interoceptive awareness would be a hindrance to developing it?

I always figured people were speaking mostly metaphorically about "gut feelings." Certainly, some kinds of intuitions
(e.g. ones involving disgust or fear) are held onto as "physiological state" (i.e. written through motor-cortex commands; read back through pattern-detection in embodied cognition.) But I would expect most intuitions to present as e.g. sudden emotional states, or other weird purely-mental qualia.
Thank you for going to the effort of letting me know that. I will be checking out the book. Knowledge can definitely be power when healing.
I've never seen so many people who feed their dogs corn.
Do people have any expectations about the quality of their BEVs?
I really like the level of that documentation. Very beginner friendly, with a reasonable level of completeness mingled within. A short diversion for basic std::env::args() access, with a quick switch to using clap for decent common behaviour.

Having worked on a project written in nim today the contrast is huge: The documentation isn't great, the stdlib argument parsing is odd, if you use argparse¹ then nim-using devs expect different behaviour, etc.

1. https://github.com/iffy/nim-argparse
This is part of the reason why I decided not to include stats at killedbygoogle.com . When you included flagship products things like Gmail, Maps, Drive, Docs, etc the 'average lifespan of a Google product' rises significantly.
I have found this option to be surprisingly inconsistent, both with built-in windows apps and with third-party apps. Many UWP apps don’t honor this at all, in addition to many electron apps.
>determine if a driver has both hands on the wheel

Wait what?
You could set up your own VPN on a server you run.
But that's assuming the organism/thing can move.
easy counter-example: a paralyzed human being.
Nope, that answers the question. I was asking about cases where the space is, for example, a triangle or something non-cuboidal. Think constraints like x1 + x2 < 1 or something like that.

What I’m wondering is if your library converts the search_space to an enumerated list of candidate points somewhere in the backend, and if there’s a way for me to just construct that list and pass it directly for more complex cases.
I'm wondering the same. I'd be concerned that Random Restart Hill climbing would essentially chase random noise.
The "standard electron horror" is why I can't really commit to signal. None of the Good Guys have a good desktop messenger yet.
Hey, I've been to this Tesco! (My company is a km or so away)
By using that analogy, the author puts himself above his subjects. He understands various perspectives (reporters, editors, rationalists, SV "decentralization" fanatics), and that they are mere perspectives, while also acknowledging their relative validity.

This entails a meta-perspective, a perspective-of-perspectives. This kind of consciousness is why people like Scott Alexander: he makes an attempt to understand other people's perspectives and rarely dismisses anything out of hand.

The questions is...why is this sort of consciousness, that understands the relative validity of virtually everyone's perspective, so uncommon outside of various internet blogs? Is it too much to ask for editors and reporters with this kind of open-mindedness?
Thank you very much, I will update the article accordingly!

Edit: Updated! – Now a legit HN success story. :-)
I certainly would object if Facebook, like, handed over his location to a hit squad. This seems like it’s very far on the other side of the spectrum. If Facebook second-guessed an order from a duly elected government to remove purportedly terrorist content, I’d question whether there’s anything meaningful a government can make Facebook do if they don’t want to.
and that's perfectly fine when you're deciding to pay with your data for value you're getting.

The point with GA is you're paying with other people's data. Without explicitly asking them for permission. (And no, cookie permissions don't count as "asking them for permission").
I purchased a new car in 2014. Having a familiarity with Diesel engines, I wanted to buy a Diesel. Even better- one of the cars I was keen about was available in Diesel form.... but in the UK only. The american version seemed to get about half the gas milage!

The reason we can't get Diesels is the environmentalist "anti-smog" campaigns of the 70s and 80s, produced emissions standards that prevent Mazda from just importing that car they sell freely in the UK.

Mazda is has been trying to get their Mazda3 Diesel version imported to the USA for a couple years. It's becoming a bit of a joke because they keep thinking they are going to be able to do it and then not being able to get the permits.

Environmentalists really hated diesels in the 70s and the 80s because "smog" and the particulate matter that diesels produce was the big scary thing.

Now gas milage is the big desire but the emissions standards make that nearly impossible.

When I was a kid I had a Toyota Tercel station wagon. That car got 40MPG Highway! And it wasn't an econobox- it was 4WD and a big old station wagon (well big for japanese standards.) Meanwhile, I just bought a 2014 RAV4--- 30 years newer with 30 years more advanced technology-- it's about the same size and weight, also with a 4 cylinder engine but much more efficient computer controlled shifting and the like-- yet it only gets 20mpg highway.

MPG and emissions are a tradeoff-- and the regulatory demands of environmentalists don't seem to take this into account.
That seems fair. If you are looking to go ahead with the sale feel free to send me an email (fraser at username dot com). I have brokered a few deals for companies making 100k+/year.
I just keep my config files in git. Having to commit changes is a good thing, not a nuisance - being able to track changes is hugely useful.
Ahhhh, I missed that. Sorry - I read your whole post but I guess I just didn't catch it.
The upside from a corporate standpoint is that this will be more technical debt that the OSS community has to deal with, which can help you compete with them.
just ordered the samsung series 9 from costco 1549 free shipping. read some ubuntu forum pages that said natty works great on it.
I think what Myspace needs most is a well-defined (and worthwhile) vision that its employees will want to work for, and that will also produce "what people want" (i.e. will make users happy).

I wouldn't do anything to it until I was sure I had that figured out.
My Verizon iPhone has both a public IPv4 address and a public IPv6 address.

They certainly could be using CGNAT, but that seems like a weird way to do it.
Bisect runs a binary search - one of Computer Science most iconic algorithms - to quickly locate a point of fault. Guava developer Matheus Santana brings us the full rundown of how it's done.
Meaning, a lot of money to be saved by stopping petroleum subsidies and retiring oil- and coal-fired generators in favor of renewables. The massive savings on medical costs from reduced pollution will ramp up slowly.

But there is way, way more money immediately available from the people still getting the petroleum and coal subsidies.
Not quite. I wasn't talking about how the backend communicates. I'm a big fan of zeromq too but there are many types of messaging and it is a must once you start adding more than a few servers. As I see others have mentioned, you're going to have problems with parsing speed at some point. What happens when you need to scale out to handle all the requests on the front end?

How is HA going to be handled? WIll it be easy enough to have an Active/Active of the mongrel server? How do you get away from a single point of failure?
Facebook isn't the only site with that language. In fact I think you'll have to look hard to find any major site that doesn't have it. Not that it doesn't suck.
Youtube is awesome in it's UX simplicity, the ui just keeps getting simpler. And this editor looks like another great example of that. Looks great.
how many domains? I have a nice setup going on with rackspace Cloud:

- One DB server
- The application server (wordpress install)
- Cloudfiles with CDN enabled for speed.

Adding in multiple domains isn't hard either. Email me if you need help: j@jasonlbaptiste.com
I wish Google will address this, and soon.

I wish anybody would address it, and if they did, I would switch all my searching to them in a heartbeat.

There is no doubt in my mind that search quality has gone downhill in the years since Google first came on air, and these pseudo-sites have a lot to do with it.

A lot of people switched from Altavista (remember them?) to Google overnight - because of better search results. They can do it again.
For me, the most important point here is about how difficult it is for existing companies to change directions in product vision and yet investors will shy away from innovation based on the flawed "what if <huge company> decides to do this?"

The tech landscape is never fully conquered and all it takes is one inspired, and sometimes obvious, innovation to open the field back up.
That doesn't bode well for the rest of us if someone this accomplished can't land a Haskell job. This makes me wonder if it's been worth learning functional programming. I've put hours and hours of my free time into F#. I'm not sure that it was a wise move. That said I love F#.
Fascinating article! I did a phd in neuromorphic computing and after skimming it I haven’t noticed anything obviously wrong.