jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Uhmm, while that article has some useful advice, some parts of it made me feel genuinely uncomfortable. For example:

"Reward the self-styled “thought leaders” in each session by adding them to your Twitter “follow” list. "

Really? Part of the reason I barely use linkedin anymore is because the essays/thinkpieces people post on that site are so incredibly self indulgent and empty of content. Everyone there is so transparently trying to emulate the style and content of a Thomas Friedman column, while painting themselves in an amazing light. It's reached the point where if an article has the word 'leadership' in the title, I assume it will be garbage.

I actually despise the artificiality of networking so much I wrote my own tool to optimize it and automate it, and used it at a conference I helped organize: http://elifesciences.org/content/3/e02273
Hmm, I don't know if its just me, but the image of the female founder in their title image seems sexist.
So much anger
I meant that the argument "these words have meant the same thing for a long time" doesn't mean that the word is therefore okay to use. Similarly the etymology of the word doesn't mean it's okay either - 'nigger' comes from 'negro' which just means 'black', for example, but there's a hell of a lot of social baggage that goes with it.

No need to apologise, by the way, I didn't feel like words were put in my mouth by what you said. I just didn't see the arguments you put forward as meaning it's okay to use certain language - the same arguments work for slurs.

the second of which I don't recognize

It's a racial slur against Spanish folks in British English. Doesn't have the same impact as the other word, but it's still a slur.

Also, are you saying that the use of the word 'mann' at that time was sexist?

I am saying that at the time, women were second-class citizens and largely considered to be in the social background. There aren't a lot of women in the history books, for example. Saying that 'mann' meant all humans in an era when women weren't considered as equals doesn't give the word a lot of credit as a gender-neutral word.

It's a bit like how for a long time 'the UK' and 'England' were interchangeable. The UK had a couple of other countries in it that weren't England, but people frequently referred to the group of them as 'England'.

though, due to ignorance, _successfully_ avoiding all use of exclusionary language might be difficult

Difficult sure, but at the same time, still something to strive for. 'man' and 'mankind' are, at this point, purely rhetorical devices, both of which have plenty of alternatives.
you need to go walk with your pets on a daily basis?

Only for a very restricted definition of "pets"; my turtles never asked for such thing :)
http://imgur.com/r/futurama/bZNjJll
Must be something in the water?

It's a flood of NWU/Kellogg and UC/Booth MBA grads that continually stream into the market and slosh around the consulting firms before filling up the lobby at 1871 trying to catch the eye of a Pritzker.

I left a Chicago-area startup that ticked off about 90% of your boxes above. It was a nightmare. The company is still going and the CEO is still busy running around talking about being a startup CEO instead of shipping the damned product.
How are deadlines managed in that environment? Sprint ends or release dates or just "we will do it by Tuesday" all conspire against peer review delays.

Is the frustration level a constant problem if reviews can take ... X longer than thought?
Am I the only one wondering what happens to the poor young mouse when it gets the old blood?
You have to get a grasp on the scale of the cosmos to understand what I mean. To get to the nearest star system, alpha centauri, you would need a matter/antimatter reactor that would turn approximately 10 kilograms of mass into pure energy to approach .8c, where c is the speed of light ( and the assumption here is that we acheive near 100 percent efficiency in our propulsion mechanism, which is impossible). Any society capbable of doing so would be far beyond celestial scavenging for a few trinkets, in the same manner that our global economy is beyond scavenging for artifacts from brazilian tribal rituals, historical curiousity notwithstanding.
Have you tried putting linux on a zenbook? Easily as good or better than mac hardware and I've put archlinux on there with zero issues on multiple models.
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But it generally is, relative to the other forms of government. Democracy is the only form of government where you can prosecute corruption or end corrupt regimes without violence, and in my book that's close enough. For a simplified game mechanic, this is intuitive and makes sense. Anything more nuanced, and it isn't a game anymore.

http://blog.transparency.org/2009/11/17/cpi2009/

And Civ is not responsible for the CPI
Netflix models employment like a professional sports engagement, where performance is regularly reviewed in context and persons who no longer contribute to the "team dynamic" are "traded", i.e., fired, to go find a "team" in which their contributions are a better fit.

Everyone knows this because Netflix released a big presentation about it a while ago. They keep "top performers" only as long as they are top performance from Netflix's perspective, and then dismiss them with a "generous severance".

It's definitely an interesting way to do employment.
I copy/pasted the code in the article and compiled each one. I am getting very different ratios compared to the ones you posted:

tmp$cc -Wall -O2 test.c -o test && time ./test

real	0m1.041s
user	0m0.998s
sys	0m0.029s

nim-0.10.2$./bin/nim --opt:speed c test.nim && time ./test

real	0m1.943s
user	0m1.894s
sys	0m0.036s
Anyone who knows about Ray Peat and Terry Davis is alright in my book, so my email is in my profile if you're ever in Utah.
What scenario do you need to instantly send more than a credit card limit? Sounds like you're talking big money, $10,000+ type of transfers.

This is very much so like the entire cargo/freight "Hyper-Loop" thing, or Rocketship cargo/freight, or even the Supersonic Aircraft thing... a solution in search of a problem.

There are very few scenarios were someone legitimately (and more importantly, frequently) requires sending a package to the other side of the world within minutes. Would it be nice? Perhaps... but just as Concord found out, after the novelty wears off, few actually want to drop $10K on a one way ticket.

With huge amounts of money being transferred, the delays are in fact a feature. It gives you time to cancel if there was a mistake... and it gives banks opportunity to sniff out fraud/laundering, that the money is in-fact real and not pending other transactions, etc.

I've just never heard of a scenario where someone needed $50k instantly sent anywhere for anything. When dealing with that amount of money, in a non-reversible/permanent system... being careful, deliberate and slow is pretty much what you want.

Even Bitcoin transfers are not instant...
They meant Mozilla having revenue, not GitHub.
Highly recommend the work of economist Emily Oster, [1] who digs into the data around popular/important questions related to pregnancy/childhood.

She looks at the 'popular wisdom' and then analyzes the relevant data. Her goal is to give parents information they can use to make informed choices about relative risk. Should you drink at all while pregnant? Is sleep training terrible (or amazing)?

Dr. Oster gives nuanced answers to questions that are too often addressed as categorical imperatives.

https://emilyoster.net/
I would pay for an ad-free experience so they have a stable source of income.
Unless the post you're replying to has been edited or I've overlooked something, I've a bit baffled by your reply.
You're overlooking that these were addressed in the parent comment...
Microsoft SQL Server on Cloud SQL is quite laughable in terms of feature sets, it currently doesn't support exporting your tables as JSON or CSV, you can only export as a .BAK file which is some MSFT proprietary trash and this bug https://issuetracker.google.com/u/0/issues/170026117 was open for months with no ETA for resolution.
Here is the original HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1579015

And the source code:
https://github.com/ezl/hnofficehours
App Engine used to support caps. They're no longer supported, because for every customer pleasantly surprised, there were five customers incandescent with rage that their service had gone down at the worst possible moment due to a spike in actual demand.
It may be difficult for a beginner, but try to read and understand Tornado and Flask's code. (They are written in Python)
Value to humanity is not highly correlated to economic value. Value to humanity is but a small, often inconsequential segment of demand.
> Constantly accelerating systems are not natural or sustainable

You know, all of technology is one giant constantly accelerating system.
In a similar vein:

"No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree. The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law" ~~ Frederick Bastiat[1]

[1]: http://www.fluxneo.com/llbarnhart/bastiat.htm
My terminology is likely not correct!

AFAIK, a pull-down is a menu
that usually starts near the top
of a Web page and 'pulls down'
so that its items cover much of
the page and let the user click
to pick one of the menu options.

I have contempt for pop-ups and
also pull-downs so use "ups"
for one and "downs" for the other.

Instead of such controls, I prefer
a better considered user interface
(UI) that doesn't have the screen
jump around. Basically
for a good user experience (UX),
I never want the screen to 'jump'
in a way that surprises the user.

A screen that jumps has a UI
that is difficult to document
succinctly and, thus, usually is
not documented well or at all
and, then, requires a user to
experiement with the UI,
assume some truths from some
really thin hints, and waste
effort. Instead I want the UI
to be easy to understand
carefully and thoroughly without
experiments or guessing.
Just a regular HTML link to Amazon which includes `&tag=whatever` on it. Ghostery will throw up a warning if you've asked it to block affiliate links (and rightly so).
One of the most interesting aspects of this story for me is that the guy was single and living with his mother. His risk profile should have been ideal for keeping his stake in the company.
If you "deleted" your account, then the number associated with that account BETTER DAMN WELL BE DELETED too.
They're different mediums with different expectations of ephemerality. Chat history sits somewhere between speaking IRL and sending letters (but to be clear, is not a simple combination; it's its own thing) and nobody burns their letters when they move to a new house.

People do burn their letters for valid reasons (or use more naturally ephemeral media like phone calls, talking IRL, or Signal's disappearing messages) but those reasons are orthogonal to moving house or getting a new phone.

In any case, if people want to save chat history, the appropriate response is to support that requirement rather than to tell users that no, we've decided that they actually do not want to do that.
That would be politically inconvenient.
Just curious: what's wrong with Cloanto?
Update for your interest I'm meeting a patent attorney and if there are any valuable findings or lessons learned I'll share them here.(EDIT disclaimer purely for interest - not as actionable legal advice for anyone to use!)
.org is definitely a different site and organization, they intentionally blur the lines to make people think they are associated with Sci-Hub.
I’m not sure we’re talking about the same thing. What you’re talking about is the difference between value-added processes vs busy work disguised as risk mitigation. Both are processes but of differing value.

Pointing out bad processes does not refute the point that processes exist and they exist because somebody is trying to mitigate a risk. It’s just a comment about the effectiveness of the process design.
> There's not a lot of French newspapers in that list, for example.

Which isn't that surprising considering that English sources are preferred for the English-language Wikipedia.

Usually, if there's something important in a French newspaper then English-language ones will report it as well, through their local correspondents.
The report you linked to has been disputed by a lot of respected people: professors, the Michigan State Department, non-profits on fair elections, the former acting director of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s Voting System Testing and Certification Program[0], and even Krebs, Trump's former chief of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency[1]. The last affidavit written by the author of that report was also disproven and had entirely wrong numbers[2].

[0] https://www.factcheck.org/2020/12/audit-in-michigan-county-r...
[1] https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/12/...
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-michigan-voter-...
May we have Indianapolis, Indiana please? :)
> But they still need to be read in and re-created in memory for each cpp file.

This is just mmap for Clang. For GCC it... isn't.
The other one you mentioned is called a compile server and nobody seems to have cared enough to implement it.

> If they ran the profiler and L1/L2 cache misses are really the problem, then I have nothing else to say.

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2011-04/msg00315.html
My question is, how can we (normal people, inside the US and outside) take advantage of the situation?
I definitely look forward to the day Righthaven shuts their doors, no matter how much blog-friendly case law is being created by their ridiculous lawsuits.
http://code.google.com/p/plblocks/
Rightshaven reminds me of the Demotivator: "It might be that your purpose in life is solely to serve as a warning to others."
Previous, related discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=490851
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Right I understand the reason. But as my question says, I don't understand how a rocket inserts it into that orbit.
Here's the main reasoning for placing it at L2: http://jwst.nasa.gov/orbit.html
First, if you ask someone about government surveillance, you have to assume that context in evaluating their response. People don't parrot back context that's already part of the conversation.

Second, I think you have to apply the principle of charity. Instead of assuming that people mindlessly parrot an opinion, think about what sorts of reasonable assumptions might render their positions self-consistent.

One of the most powerful ways to persuade is to figure out someone else's reasoning to the point you can articulately argue their position, and then to refocus the disagreement on the assumptions underlying that reasoning.
Attached to a text message? WTF (Recursive).
I just read a review for "The Free Press." http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/18/opinion/18tue4.html

To me it seems like they share some commonalities, but also have significant differences.

Belloc's main thesis seems to be that the Mass Media is "the true governing power in the political machinery of the State, superior to the officials in the State, nominating ministers and dismissing them, imposing policies, and, in general, usurping sovereignty — all this secretly and without responsibility."

I believe Manufacturing Consent somewhat agrees with that thesis, but Manufacturing Consent goes further by explaining how business interests align with mass media and government, and how it results in propaganda.

I haven't read "The Free Press" so perhaps there are greater similarities than what I could glean from the short NYT book review. After all, both "The Free Press" and the Propaganda Model predict that NYT aren't incentivized to give a fair review of "The Free Press."
ThreatMetrix has been working on a way to identify people's browser without the use of cookies. They have some proprietary solution which probably does a combination of magical browser hashing and incorporating with their existent fraud database. Thus they built a service that allows companies to better track fraudsters without the user of cookies. Me being a bit paranoid, it creeps me out.

I wish I knew more, but as the technology is proprietary and highly secretive you get stuff with marketing speak. However if they are doing browser stuff, they have to do something with JavaScript which could be investigated, but will probably be well hidden and obfuscated.
it was a pretty quick google search:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Financial_reports
Can you be more specific - do you mean so you can learn to play the tune yourself, or extract it via software?
Apple has been far from low risk. Their ditching the floppy, changing ports, switching processor families (more than once), all those iMac form-factors, moving to LCD while they were still quite costly, replacing the operating system... are all examples of them being willing to make major transitions to move forward. Some say dumping Flash is risky. There was risk getting into phones, a market that already had many very well established players, and starting with a product that cost MORE than what was out there. It's kinda funny how now people act like Apple had some early entry advantage. Apple took a risk offering a tablet that DID NOT have binary compatibility with their desktops.

After the 9/11 attacks, Apple was still working hard on development while others cut back. Many thought Apple was crazy to build fancy retail stores at very costly locations. Many said that targeting the high-end of the market was doomed to fail in a weak economy, but Apple kept expanding.

Maybe the choices Apple has made just don't seem so risky after seeing them being so wildly successful?
The Gateway stores are long gone. I haven't seen details of the revenue per square foot at Microsoft stores.
> This past summer, 1460 days after starting Wistia we crossed 350 customers.

This is interesting for me. I am somehow a little competing with with Wistia's service. It makes me re-thing my target market. 350 x $100 avarage subscription is like $35k/month. Minus cost of hosting and streaming all these videos - cost of tons of ads i see for wistia on youtube. Are these guys makin any money with their product?
> However, note that the PIN is useless without the card, because the crypto chip is on the card, and it can't be cloned by a reader.

Ahh. So then the merchant could only really make use of a pin (which it would have to do by compromising the pin reader--a tall order for small time crooks) if he also stole your physical credit card. I agree that this isn't much of a risk, and retract that criticism.
AGPL would make VoltDB unattractive to most, I'd imagine.
The total increase in CO2 levels over the last couple hundred years is about 30%, from 280 PPM to around 400 PPM.

By contrast, the total increase in the ocean's radioactivity from Fukushima is about 0.000002%, give or take a zero. While "trillions of Bq" sounds bad, and probably isn't good, the oceans contain something like 14,000 exaBq worth of Potassium-40 alone.

The problem with radioactive releases is more about concentrating it. There's sort of an anti-goldilocks situation. If a radioactive release doesn't spread very well at all, that's kind of OK. The radioactivity at the point of release is extremely dangerous, but hey, it is well contained and you can clean it up. If the radioactivity spreads extremely well, that's kind of OK too. It freaks people out, but realistically if you dilute radioactive materials enough they stop being dangerous. You're pissing in the ocean.

But if the radioactive material spreads JUST RIGHT, you can contaminate too large of an area to clean up while still leaving the radiation levels high enough to be dangerous.
The cost/effectiveness ratio is much higher, though.
I don't think cynicism is justifiable here. Let's use Occam's Razor:

1. Dropbox staff hand-crafted oddly-worded DMCA takedown notices and purposefully sent those to specific individuals after having already sent them polite requests to remove certain content;

2. Dropbox staff hand-crafted oddly-worded DMCA takedown notices at some point in the past as part of an automated system, which fired incorrectly when staff removed content.

To me, #2 makes a lot more sense, and is the simpler (and in this analysis, the more likely) case.
> If there's life out there, we'll probably find it eventually.

That's quite possible, but you'd want a highly-advanced technological organization - some bacteria-type things in Martian ice would be a scientific breakthrough, but unlikely to be massively profitable.
Well, Amazon has control here. They could enforce that the consumer has the option to change the brand of the ordered item.
AFAIK a big chunk of productive Haskell developers have no understanding of Category Theory.
Nope, that's 25 petabytes per year - under 1 gigabyte per second.
You keep positing invalid distinction between biological and otger mechanisms. There is nothing limiting generations to biological mechanisms. Consider von Neumann's universal constructors or, for purely software mechanisms, the agents within Avida.

We do, in fact, now have machines -- in the software sense -- that have all features necessary for Darwinian evolution to operate. We don't yet have that for hardware devices, but we're fairly close, and we certainly don't need to understand intelligence do build such self-replicating hardware/software systems (though the universality of computation suggests we don't need hardware/software systems, since anything they can exhibit, pure software systems can as well.)

The problem isn't that you haven't explained yourself well, it's that your argument rests on a fundamental distinction between natural biological organisms and all other machines which does not exist.
Traffic that spiky is extremely unusual. But you don't need to maintain all that hardware capacity for 10% of the day.

There are a number of colo providers that also provide managed hosting and cloud services (even if you for some reason couldn't deal with the latency of simply tieing EC2 instances into a colocated or managed hosting stack via a tunnel).

In fact, combine, and you can cut the hosting costs even more than with colo services alone, since you don't need to plan for a low duty cycle for the hardware - you can run things on 90%+ load (or wherever your sweet spot turns out to be) under normal circumstances and fire up cloud instances for the spikes.

That method handles the loss of servers etc. as well just fine, again further cutting the cost of a colo/managed hosting setup because you can plan for less redundancy.

Personally I've yet to work on any setup where the admin costs of an AWS setup has been nearly enough lower than colo or managed hosting to eat much into the premium you're paying. You have 90% of the sys-admin hassles anyway, and you're left with far less possibility of tuning your setup to what works best with your setup.

Most of the setups I've worked on come out somewhere between 1/3 to 1/2 of the cost of running the same setup purely on AWS. Sometimes the gap is smaller if you have really spiky traffic or have lots of background processing or one off jobs where you can e.g. use spot instances extensively.

I do understand people wanting to pay to not have to think about these things, though. But you're almost certainly paying a steep premium for it, even with your traffic spikes.
just like ... Skype?
For anyone who doesn't remember, Riot.js used to be a 1kb MVP library, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7036274
Hey, let's apply the same standard of evidence you've been demanding from others to your post! Can you provide evidence that's admissible in a court of justice that support the core points of the article?