jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Depending on your definition of temporary - as Keynes said “in the long run we’re all dead.” Eventually things will work themselves out, but how many years of self-imposed pain will it take? Employees are going to be much less likely to quit in a tight job market, especially if they’d be paid less at their new job (since, per your example, new hires would be paid less). If you’re waiting for employees to die (or retire, and they’re more likely to retire late in a tight job market), you’re talking about a price correction that happens once every several decades.
Reading this article and its sequel, I feel like the author is handwaving one key bit. I absolutely agree with his position on dependency elimination as a primary goal, but by saying "Oh, a class that operates on a dependency is hard, so let's not write those", and "We're not going to deal with interfaces" he's punting on the entire problem -- handwaving the hard bits and then ignoring the fact that they exist.

At some point, your code does have dependencies. The entire purpose of an interface is to be able to specify what your dependencies are -- to be able to say "This is the smallest thing I need in order to be able to work". When untangling dependencies, adding that bit in there makes it very clear what the seams are -- where you can say "I depend on something that does Foo -- Feel free to replace it", rather than "I depend on this thing that comes entangled in its own network of dependencies".
Thank you retroafroman.
I for one would like to see a discussion of why the decision was made to build AReL in the first place, rather than adopt DataMapper. Now that's I've gotten a chance to dig into AReL and it's integration with Rails, I'm less impressed than when I first saw its announcement.
Get an older phone like a mytouch or G1. If you can run it on that, you can run it on anything.
I also have dual citizenship and lived in Israel for 6 years.

The point about smart people & this being an attractive first job is a key one. It's also well-compensated and looks good on people's CV's. No one is looking at this as a career.

The other thing is that Israelis have more common sense about security than Americans do. We're used to having our bags checked at the movie theater and the mall and no one grumbles about it. We also don't leave bags unattended and report the ones we do see.
Various TSA agents have explicity said off-record that the patdowns are an attempt to force people to use the backscatters.
Last line of the article: "Who wants to bet on whether Facebook will replace Microsoft Word with a simple, integrated editor with built in sharing & chat?"

That's the sharing I was talking about. I reference the theoretical text editor in my comment saying it'd be awesome to target ads based on what the student was writing.
Not really. Trust me, there will come a point when it's phone or nothing, and that point comes sooner than you think. Like ALL mobile emulators, the android emulator is slow, buggy, and frustrating to use.
It's embarrassing because each and every smartphone on the market that has an accessible SD card slot can deal with removable and expandable storage without requiring special, non-existent, "WP7-compatible" cards and without destroying incompatible cards users insert.
Of course I don't support a crawler who steals content, it's immoral and should be punished by law and community. But the way they approached this in court, is overly dangerous and sets a precedent (for the anglosaxon law system) which could be very dangerous. It's way to broad.

An open bar to the public? At a bar you have a degree of physical contact which conveys info you can not have via internet, that's why the 'square' example fits better (imho). But example apart, I'm with you on this: the court case sets a dangerous precedent.
I don't buy it. Clearly it's simplistic to try to cast this as being "Alexander == the devil". But that doesn't make Alexander a good person.

I've yet to see any evidence of Alexander being an earnest individual. I have seen evidence that Alexander is good at convincing people he's an earnest individual despite evidence to the contrary. And that scares me tremendously.
We've got a "T" word over here!
I have only ever used X over ssh, at least as far as running applications remotely. Particularly when I'm on a windows box - putty + Xming is fantastic.
He knew they were cropping out the Tevas
> So why does ~25,000 deaths one year goes practically unnoticed, yet less then 5,000 deaths send the economy into a death spiral and the government to essentially strip all rights from the population?

Because Covid is not comparable to the 2018 influenza in terms of how many ICU cases it produces and how quickly. The common flu is also far less infectious. That combination is the problem.

The 2013-2014 flu season in Italy didn't collapse their healthcare system with intensive care patients. 10-15% of the people testing positive for Covid are ending up requiring intensive care. If four million people with flu in the US in 2018 were put into intensive care (much less just during the span of the flu season), it would have collapsed the US healthcare system rapidly. It would take less than a month of that onslaught to collapse the US healthcare system entirely. The majority of US ICU beds are routinely being used (meaning there would have been very little spare capacity at all for the four million flu ICU patients).

In that scenario, with four million ICU patients from the 2018 influenza, you're going to see several million deaths.
How were their false negatives?

(Edit: typo: just noticed I accidentally wrote false positives instead of false negatives.)
>It has not been normal until the last few years for people to typically have an Alexa-like device that is always listening for the "I'm about to make a request" signal, which frequently gets turned on by accident.

Google Now: 2012
Siri: 2010
Microphones in cell phones: longer than those two.

It hasn't only been a few years.
Of all the details, I particularly enjoyed the keying method with the half hex nuts. I'll file that away for future projects.
This week I replaced our weekly gathering with a great discussion on Hangouts Meet. Next week I will bring in my friend in Shanghai via Wechat, (it will be Saturday morning for her) and see if I can allow her to speak with everybody. The mood is improving there (while it is darkening elsewhere), so maybe it will cheer us up. Not quite sure how the audio/video will work, any suggestions to optimize this are welcome.
> The process of producing or using hydrogen does not pollute.

There’s no way this can be correct.

You can’t use hydrogen to produce the electricity used in hydrogen electrolysis, because that’s not permitted in this universe.[1]

Therefore the electricity has to come from some other source, which all generate life-cycle carbon emissions.[2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse-gas_emis...
Did you bother to read the articles?

There are over 200 different types of cancer. Not all of these are caused by contact with carcinogens. So, for these cancers it's pretty much "luck" whether you get them or not. Not smoking; sensible drinking; etc will not prevet you from getting them.
I asked a similar question here (http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/5887/how-do-you-choo...). Hope it can help.
Regardless of the legal and other issues here, this looks like a hoax or hack. The nameservers are now pointing to ns[1,2].seizedservers.com. However, doing a whois lookup on seizedservers.com reveals that it was registered only this past Wednesday!

In comparison, looking back at some domains that were previously seized by ICE (and verified by the NYTimes blog), they're all pointing to 74.208.15.160 without any weird NS changes or on-page analytics. (see
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/in-anti-the... and http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1006/100630losangeles.htm)
True, but there's 'learning fundamentals to know what the tech guys are talking about' and there's 'learning all the details and fundamentals and tools and techniques to be able to actually build a real-world live version'; and about 10 years between them (maybe 5 years if it's full time deliberate study and practice).
With internal applications you likely won't have concerns about domain name availability, trademarks, etc., so how about a simple, plain English naming scheme, e.g., "Timesheet," "Expenses," "Inventory"?
The 'iOS4 devices' listing in Flurry means the operating system is running iOS 4 or greater. It doesn't mean the device is an iPhone 4.
I know HackerNews has this generally accepted policy of not making 'frivolous one liner' type comments... but I just did a spit-take laughing at this one.
It's yet another case of people getting hung up on the first obviously different thing they notice about a language.

If somebody is still griping about the parens in Lisp, the significant whitespace in Python, the glyphs in APL, etc., they haven't gotten to the differences that actually make the language interesting - either they'll get used to it like the other X programmers (and realize it wasn't as big an issue as they thought), or they'll find deeper issues in the language design to complain about (and probably give up on it).
I don't think that right. He's saying you can expend 10 grams of nitroglycerine, but the 10 grams isn't enough to get the 10 grams up into the orbit how can it possible carry more.
The competition is limited to entities willing to break the law and deal with other people doing the same.
>Comcast actively prohibits you from doing this

I wouldn't call that 'actively'. They don't have any mechanism to detect this that they use. Source: shared network with neighbor for a long time.
This looks really interesting. I love playing football manager, and I always thought there is a niche for business oriented simulation games. I wonder though, are there copyright issues with using these company names, or do they all used with permission?
Also doesn't work when EFF's Privacy Badger is running.
Zombotv "Зомбоящик"?? You are obviously not from Russia, nobody is using such words here, I bet you are from Ukraine
I agree but there is just no way their recent series B investors (Greylock) let them sell at a valuation of 50M - their post-val on that round was $52M (http://i.imgur.com/9zOonad.png), would be tough to sell on a "cut your losses" basis this early. But I do think Facebook could see the value being well above that, so who knows!
This not how simultaneous side-stick input works. Conflicting inputs are rejected with a warning ; dual input is also indicated with a warning. Non-conflicting inputs are summed, to model the way traditional centre sticks/yokes would work, when both pilots are acting. Generally, due to procedure, only one pilot is controlling the aircraft at any time; and, there is a "hand-off" to pass the control between them. There is a priority override button on each side-stick to take control from the other pilot.

However, a potential problem with side-sticks arises because the sticks are independent -- the non-controlling stick does not mirror (i.e., no force feedback) the controlling stick movement, as would happen with the mechanically connected centre sticks/yokes. Meaning, the non-controlling pilot cannot tell what the controlling pilot is doing.

This was the problem on AF447. If you read the CVR log, one pilot was confused about how to handle the situation and, unfortunately, he took control several times during the recovery attempt. In the final seconds, he verbally states he is pulling back on the stick (attempting to climb), which revealed to the [then returned to the cockpit] captain what he was doing, but there was not enough time to correct (forward, nose down) to exit the stall before they struck the ocean surface.

(The stall warning itself was another disastrous UX problem as well, in my opinion.)
There are unfortunately more dimensions:

- When standing is allowed

- Different sets of rules for commercial or permitted vehicles

They could post two of the proposed signs, one for commercial and one for noncommercial vehicles, for example, but standing rules are going to be harder to add to that design without making it more confusing.
> issues within its special jurisdiction

How are those issues defined?
Nice models of Denver on the video, especially Union Station, City & County Building, airliner flyover. But the car is driving the wrong way on Broadway, even though the parked cars on the right side are pointed in the correct direction. Maybe a new GTA Denver edition is in the works? heh.
I would not say devastating but it does certainly make you think. My wife is a vegetarian and I simply don't eat meat myself most of the time (I eat it very occasionally but don't like most meat for simple reasons of taste; I am completely apolitical and non-sectarian about it).

I thought this gave us certain health benefits of course (I try to eat healthy) but I would obviously have to reconsider this if it was indeed true that eating more meat would be preferable with regard to health and mental performance.

The article is not enough to convince me (I already commented about its questionable editorial quality) but I might look at the study itself and keep the subject on my radar anyway.
This doesn't start with the plumbing commands, but it's along those lines and seemed helpful to some new-to-git folks at work when we started switching to it last year: https://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/

If you're already comfortable with git, the Git Internals section of the book may be better: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects
and only live on archive.org and other places
This doesn't appear to be a shift, to me?

It's just the central landing page that Backblaze has had all of their HDD stats and blogposts linked from for years now[1].

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20190707132216/https://www.backb...
I've seen several reports of pretty good performance improvements from the new JIT, but keep in mind a couple things:

It's included in the not yet finalized release that is currently only a release candidate. It's a little early to expect people to have experience with it. Some organizations might update quickly, but others will take quite some time. Also, the JIT isn't on all supported platforms; i think it's amd64 and aarch64 only at the moment, which probably covers most performance oriented servers, but maybe not everyone.

The other thing is it's not an optimizing JIT like Hotspot or v8; it 'only' turns the beam opcodes into native code as it's loaded. This eliminates interpretation overhead, but there's potential to optimize the native code in the future.
People weren't horrified about cruelty against slaves not so long ago, and look at where we are now. I bet most people of that era would not believe we'd ever reach the point we got now. I bet many would even be willing to die on wars for over their now-completely-unacceptable ethic standards.
I’m super conflicted because I think I side with Oracle here and I never seem to. Java had an established API. It had a license. Google could have licensed it and the end result would have been the same: Java apps on Android. Weren’t there even Google brass worried about this in emails? It seems to me Oracle is due license fees but SCOTUS ruled otherwise and I guess that’s overall better for the industry.
With mix of professional and personal curiosity I'd like to ask: what control do cheaper rice cookers use, and what does PID add? Super precise temperature control with no oscillation is the only thing I can think of -- is it that important?
From a friend: "The quantum mechanics stuff sounds very unlikely. Although if you wanted to try and go in that direction you would have to figure out whether circuits have a strong analogy to the Hamiltonian formulation of quantum mechanics (i.e. no discussion of forces!) - then you would be in business. You could then probably formulate a "quantum circuit" in which measurements of voltage and current obey an uncertainty principle"
One of the biggest reasons poverty stricken countries stay poverty stricken is because the money is never reinvested. Dubai is a modern example of the Lubeck model. There was great potential to improve the land and a supply of outside cash and free-trade/immigration laws provided everything that was needed.

Lubeck was subsidized by Henry, Dubai was subsidized by foreign oil investors. If we want to help African countries, we shouldn't be sending aid in the form of food but in the form of business.

Find an area where a suitable trade port could be established and where rail can easily be constructed to neighboring regions, add money, free-trade and liberal immigration laws and you'll have a major change in very little time.
Cogent publicly offered to pay for both sides of the peering upgrades in order to fix their congestion problem.

http://www.cogentco.com/en/news/press-releases/631-cogent-of...

Pretty sure Comcast didn't take them up on the offer. Doing so would have fixed the issue and Netflix wouldn't be writing checks to Comcast now.
There’s a lot of info there, what did you want to point out?
Here's an idea, what if the funds that go towards H1-B visas were parceled out towards training domestic workforces of the future.

There is a systemic flaw in this analysis (both the author's and PG's) in that we're comparing short vs long term solutions and problems and blending them together as if they were one.
At the beginning of the Second World War it was still an impoverished agrarian country. I personally don’t consider that a very long time.

This opinion is due to the longer tenure as tech “hub” of various places in the UK, France, and USA.

There is some great tech coming out of Switzerland but I’m not sure there’s a really a connection between hosting standards organizations and having a technical infrastructure.
Maybe the use of "in"?
I don't think it's showing anything more than an entertaining bit of marketing. There are plenty of ways it could be terrible at towing but still appear better at this test.
It's not "everyone who disagrees with me", it's one very specific point: public intervention - be it healthcare, infrastructure, job training for people in dying industries, workers' rights, etc. - is the only way to stave off the natural gravity of economic stratification. But I've seen more Fox News than most people here probably have, I listened to hours of conservative talk radio in the car with my mom over the years, I've argued the points and heard theirs.

They think the solution to everything is faith and the free market. They vote for reduced taxation and deregulation when the only people it benefits are the 1%. They buy into the meritocratic view that the ultra-wealthy earned it, and that it's somehow immoral to try and redistribute some of that insane wealth. They do not - cannot - accept the idea that the meritocracy is a sham, and that they need help from their society if they want things to get better. And I truly believe that most of the strength of that entrenchment is from hours and hours of exposure, day-in, day-out, to the ranting and raving lunatics (or perhaps masterful orators) on Fox News and talk radio.
> If I urgently need to meet with someone today and I see they've blocked off the whole afternoon for a 4-hour meeting, it could make a big difference if the 4-hour meeting in question is "Critical presentation to the CEO" or "Weekly HR thing that HR spams everyone with but nobody attends and doesn't matter anyway"

Unless they are your subordinate, so that you are empowered to judge and direct their priorities, it doesn't. Nothing prevents you from sending them a message (or meeting request) acknowledging that you know they have som thing scheduled but you have an urgent need (and explaining the need) and allowing them to make a decision, or Maki g a similar request of their superior if organizationally appropriate. Your urgent need doesn't transform you into their boss.
Amen. Bought a pair of brand new disks some years ago, which failed days into the deployment...apparently from a submarine batch. Luckily the array had another, older disk, which kept it up until a replacement arrived.
Or at least for the cookie popups - those should be charged as war crimes. :)
I honestly can't understand how people think earning $5/h is worse than earning $0/h.

I'm not being sarcastic. It's such a bizarre mental contortion.
Musk clearly wants Tesla to sell all of their products themselves ala Apple. His stated reason was that car dealer's cannot properly advertise the benefits of electric cars without undermining their gasoline car business and so he doesn't trust them to properly sell the car.
No? (If it really is just writing down a bunch of zeroes, though, it probably doesn't take a whole hour.)
What are you going to do after you "cash out"? Work can be a source of purpose in one's life. I don't believe in this idea, that seems implied in your post, that bliss lies in comfortable unemployment.
In my mind, Apple has made a determination that such content may be sensitive to some parents. Its obvious that the iPod/iPhone/iPad platform (apps) is not a distribution channel for free speech.

From a business perspective, I understand why Apple is doing this. Agreeing with it or not is another matter, and doesn't help understand Apple's reasoning.
Most of it's based on existing studies and introspection rather than original research, but I find PJ Eby to be one of the best around at understanding motivation and akrasia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpS_cJP5nzs
I hear plumbers aren't too fond of that.
One problem is letter differences; so it's not quite universal. For example a surprising number of languages do not have the letter Q (slavic languages for example)
0mq is a great solution. But, as far as I know, it does not support persistent storage, while ocamlmq provides "strong durability guarantees".
You're only seeing the 1% that's bitching, the rest of developers are busy working.
The SGI machines are geared pretty heavily toward supercomputing applications. As such they're tailored for applications that need to share data between processes efficiently, and that also need to do a lot of computing.

The SeaMicro server probably would look pretty lousy when compared on SGI's turf, since Atom processors aren't designed to be performance-competitive with the current desktop and server processors.

What would make more sense is a comparison a datacenter for a company like Disney or Google or Amazon. I suspect that even though SeaMicro's rig would look pretty bad for heavy number-crunching apps, it would most likely do very well in web and database. Those apps don't need to share a lot of data between threads/processes, and they're generally I/O bound rather than compute bound. With proper caching setups, they're mostly network bound, rather than disk bound also.
> PS. Many people have pointed out that there are existing systems like this, and existing patents. As far as I am aware, none of them include a check digit. For example, there's the Military Grid Reference System, the Natural Area Code, this Microsoft patent and Geohash. The check digit is critical because it reduces operator error when entering a location on a GPS device.
No, that is Facebook right now :)
> No you don't understand, the plant didn't trip.

> STPNOC said in an event report filed with NRC that the unit tripped at 5:26 am

The feed water system has nothing to do with the turbines, and the plant shut down as a safety precaution.
There is some convergence, but CPUs are still latency optimized and GPUs are throughput optimized which makes for vastly different architectures.