jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/b/direct2dell/archiv...

Similar concept from Dell, from over a year ago. Although Fortuna seems bit more conventional, I'm not sure if it's a bad thing.
There are no information about the chipset, memory specs and extension slots in particular.

It could be a huge bottleneck between CPUs and RAM, because of concurrent access of so many CPUs to the memory while Atoms have a very small caches.

It means that real-world applications, like a multi-threaded services (especially JVM-based, or simply MySQL) could not be used efficiently.

I'm also very skeptical about hundreds of KVMs which is a the only working virtualization technology I know. =)
When I worked in banking risk, accounting, finance, audit etc had very little understanding of the business, basic pricing & risking, market mechanics etc.
I understand that regions in Pakistan have offered refuge for the Taliban. What I don't understand is how one could be confident that this has been essential to the survival of the Taliban.
Oversimplifying a bit, CPUs are smart and can do a lot of different things, and a lot of their chip area is devoted to that intelligence. GPUs are "dumb" but their chip area is heavily devoted to absolutely enormous throughput on really big batches. Looking at AWS prices right now, I can pay ~4/hour for 50 4gHz CPU cores or 5,000 1.75 gHz GPU cores. That means the best case scenario for GPUs is ~2,000 times faster. In practice, you'll rarely achieve that, but GPUs can be tremendously faster for extremely parallelizable tasks (which graphics are.)
It seems like that the companies are trying to avoid the lawsuit. Let say our freedom of speech is X. In tradition, we have X<LAW. Right now, we get X<COMPANY<COMPANY<...<LAW which would definitely narrow down when the company chain increases.
You absolutely can automate GUI applications. The Mac had AppleScript and the Amiga had ARexx back in the late 1980s. Even iOS, which a lot of people think of as very obstinately non-scriptable/customizable, can automate a surprising amount of stuff using Shortcuts. What you need, as cle mentioned in another reply, is a way to decouple the data and core operations from presentation -- to wit, for applications to provide AppleScript "dictionaries," ARexx "ports," Shortcut "actions," or the like.

If you mean you can't automate a GUI entirely within a GUI paradigm, then you're closer to the truth, although Shortcuts -- and the third-party Mac utility Keyboard Maestro[1] -- are at least blurring the lines there.
Honestly if your company made a firm commitment to publishing the necessary specs, fixing reported bugs, and maintaining that stance going forward, then that would probably be a deal many open-source people would take.
This wouldn't "delete" Facebook or many much smaller companies. It would result in maybe a small outage and get restored immediately in most cases. It's also an infra change you'd need across many systems - this isn't possible as a single change "across entire fleet".

This is not how non-trivial services work.
I don't think it's oversimplified at all. The concepts are pretty simple, just rarely explained nicely.
Good. Wake me up when that happens.
A lot of people seem to compare the earnings from one listening on spotify to the sale of a single...

Thing is, you have no idea how often that single is played. If the customer are crazy about it the musician would most likely earn more if he listened through spotify rather than buying it. If on the other hand the customer gets bored of it quickly the musician would barely get anything through spotify.

Also, one listening doesn't equal to a lost sale. Especially considering how easy (and wonderful) it is to just be able try new stuff out when there is no barrier or cost associated with it.

Musicians get waay more money from me thanks to spotify than they ever would get otherwise. And I bet there is a whole generation where this is/will be quite common.

There are winners and loser though, those artists that make songs that only last two weeks probably loose on spotify. I see that as a bonus.
Actually using NSA in the title will automatically ensure your submission will be pushed down on HN ranking:
http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
Don't you ever just want to take an entire day to relax? Just sit around drinking beer, eating pizza, and watching TV (or some variation of that)? I think I am the exact opposite, since I can barely work 35 hours a week without mentally clocking out.
Title is complete biased linkbait. The actual content talks about companies being able to appeal to an international TPP tribunal, not being able to "repeal laws" themselves.
You are essentially attacking the person instead of his argument. But, the article never claimed STEM was about memorization. Perhaps you should re-read more carefully.
This is related more to the HelpBubble itself, but it would be great if the bubble can be moved around the page via drag-and-drop.
It reads like a poor attempt at computer-generated natural language content.
gotta love bday parties where the guests get the presents instead

-- happy Linode customer
I think this is particularly true of "fractal art," because every piece of fractal art looks like, well, a fractal. After seeing five or six high-quality rendered fractal images, they all start to look the same.

I am very much in support of software tools, especially because of how they limit you (like working with a limited palette), but you need to actually express yourself in how you use the tools. Somehow tweaking parameters and adding premade filters doesn't really do it for me.
Awesome hack!
Does the federal government really rely that much on the DC mayor's opinion when it comes to protecting federal buildings, especially the seat of government? That's fascinating. I realize the relationship between the federal government and DC is nontraditional, so I probably just don't understand the dynamics.
Spanish is one of the easiest languages to learn for a native English speaker.
" Rather, they would insist that it's a more organic experience of learning through teaching over time and experimenting with the medium"

Yeah, my anecdotal understanding of the profession acquired through similar channels would corroborate this. The sad thing is that in strict licensing situation the great teachers who lack proper licensing are locked away (e.g. when licensing requirements change).

I suppose university degrees work mostly as gateways to the careers that require them - i.e. it is thought the candidates who graduate are better qualified for the job than those that did not. I have no idea if the people filtered out would actually be the ones who would perform worst on the job.

"To me the ultimate effectiveness measure is if parents choose to send their kids to that school or students sign up for that class voluntarily."

I don't think parent perceptions kick in as a significant metric of quality until the differences in school quality have reached pathological levels.

And in the first grades kids are not really supposed to sign in to classes by themselves.
The study exposed 20 ash trees to various radiation sources for a period of three months

Sure seems like the evidence is a long ways from being able to make statements like:

Radiation from Wi-Fi networks is harmful to trees and All deciduous trees in the Western world are affected
The only thing I mentioned that requires root was the FM Radio. I intentionally didn't mention root-only apps, given that your average user won't be running a rooted phone, but if we want to get into that territory, SetCPU, JuiceDefender, and Titanium Backup are all incredible apps that have no peer in the iOS ecosystem.
This is a bad place to do customer research. This is not at all a representative sample of any large population, and any fintech product needs to reach massive audiences to be profitable.

First, some issues with your site:

- Credit card technology has changed since the 70s. All of my cards are now chip-and-PIN.

- Proofread your copy. It should take you a split second, which is how long it took me. "It + is" = "it's", "what + is" = "what's". It's not hard.

- Nothing is hacker-proof. Don't make that claim. You can say that it's safer, but you can't responsibly say that it's un-hackable.

> 1) They're expensive (merchants pay ~3% fees which makes items more expensive for us)

As a user, why would I care about this? Merchants should pay something, since they get a benefit out of it. I personally don't carry cash and don't buy things that require me to use it.

> 2) They're not safe-- anyone can read the numbers off your card and steal it. This also makes credit cards more expensive, bc the banks need to charge more in fees to cover fraudulent transactions

Again, the cost here isn't on my end. My cards have been stolen a few times, and my card issuer solved the problem immediately.

> 3) They incentivize us to spend money we don't have (and then pay fees on that money)

No, they don't incentivize us to spend money we don't have. They make it easier to spend money we don't have. And again, not a problem for people who are able to resist the temptation. I spend almost 100% of my money through my credit card, and I've never paid any fees (i.e. interest).

> 4) They're inefficient. Requires 4-5 different parties to pass money around.

Again, as a user, don't care.

> 5) Only works in one currency and in one country (without paying massive fees)

If you're visiting a country for a one-off trip, the fees aren't bad. If you go to that country regularly, it's trivial to get a card for that country. A lot of international travel is for business, so the user doesn't care about the fees anyway.
My feedback: your subscription model has completely soured me to your product.

I get that you have your reasons for choosing the economic position to support your own continued developments; I think you're passing the problem on to your customers though, and that just makes me think less of your effort as a whole.

I'll enjoy checking PencilCase out, but I definitely won't be purchasing it.
While your points are valid and I personally don't like the inefficiencies, the challenge is that credit card companies are good at hiding these details from consumers.

1) Rules are in place so merchants can't markup products when using a credit card so the standard displayed price already includes the markup and cash paying customers are typically not rewarded.

2) An annoyance for customers, but it is mostly the credit card companies on the hook. The credit card companies know this but calculated the money lost to fraud is still outweighed by consumer convenience. Also, we are seeing things like Apple Pay starting to address the credit card number.

3) But there is an advantage to people who do know how to stay within a budget and not overspend. First, if money is stolen or their is a dispute, then the credit card issuer is on the hook and they have a strong incentive to resolve the issue quickly and fairly. When money is taken from your bank account as in a debit and there is a problem, you may have liquidity problems as you wait for this to be resolved. Liquidity problems can cause huge problems for people.

4) Yes, they are inefficient, but banks deal with this (mostly), generally not consumers (unless you are talking about ACH or wire transfers). (The exception is 'what credit cards do you accept here' if the answer isn't all of them.)

5) Yes, though since currencies fluctuate, it is kind of a messy problem and credit cards at least made it convenient.

Bonus) I'll also add that credit cards have both reward incentives and protection policies, which most people seem to forget about. (I usually have to remind people that if they used a credit card to purchase a computer and it broke just out of warranty, they probably have an extra year of extended warranty through their credit card.) And people seem to go crazy for frequent flier miles and such rewards, even though it may not be totally cost effective in the end.
Unless you also have your own physical network infrastructure connecting all the things it needs to connect to, and also control all those endpoints, having your own physical server doesn't solve the problem, it just pushes it around a bit.
Think of it as being a steward vs an agitator.

Kids are curious out of the box, but if you gently guide them, they are capable of asking amazing questions and understanding things that will blow you away. My kindergarten nephew and my two year old inspire me this way.
Nope, it just strips the DRM. All of that work locking down devices, and it's trivially circumvented. Of course, desktop Linux is still not allowed to watch in high quality - that would compromise the DRM!
And Toyota can sell higher "trim" version of their vehicles, which also has extremely good margins (as higher trim are not significantly more expensive to manufacture than base, just like software upgrades). But the issue is not about margin on some specific upsell, rather the question is about the entire margin on the whole business. Can Tesla make as good or better cars as competition for lower prices, and keep this advantage for a while? Very much possible. Will their advantage be 10x, like the current market cap suggests? In my opinion, highly unlikely.
To the left of that list I'd put "self-adjusting, without needing a regulator."

Hayek argued that a system of competitive privately-issued currencies would achieve that. I'm not qualified to say whether he was correct, but an economy built on cryptocurrencies would be exactly that.
The other video discussed (see my comment elsewhere in this thread) shows a vote counting coordinator telling re-counters/auditors to ignore duplicated signatures. They're literally asking her, when can we report this fraud we found, and she's telling them to just keep counting because it's "not their role" to ask such questions. So how much integrity did the recounts have? After all the video seems to show a conspiracy with multiple people involved to break the counting process: it's not like it's showing one person.

I dunno. I agree it seems unlikely that this sort of thing can have swung the vote by such a huge amount - Trump still lost, for obvious reasons. But the USA has a massive problem here. It's not sufficient for a vote to be roughly correct, probably, hopefully. Election integrity is critical. It has to be seen to be unquestionably correct for democracy to work. When there are so many people swearing formally in affidavits that they saw fraud, and there is CCTV footage of blatantly very suspicious behaviours running around online, it's not a big surprise that trust in the process becomes dangerously undermined. To many people from Europe, me included, it seems bizarre and crazy that something as basic as voter ID checking has been derailed by accusations of racism (of all things).

How can people trust the voting system if there's not constant efforts made to maintain its integrity? Trump is being blamed for his rhetoric now, rightfully so, but Biden's rhetoric that COVID made it too dangerous to go to voting booths and everyone should do mail-in voting seems equally dangerous to me. Everyone knows mail voting has much bigger problems with fraud than in person voting, and a quick glance at the US test-positive curves shows that the election appears to have made no difference at all, even though plenty of Trump voters turned out in person. His warnings of medical disaster if people voted physically were wrong, but have now created an environment in which Trump can convince many people that the voting process lacked integrity. Exceptionally dangerous and in no way worth it: regardless of how bad COVID is in the USA (much worse than elsewhere it seems), large-scale civil unrest would be far worse.
You say this after the president of the United States has incited a seditious, violet mob to attack the Capitol because he's a sore loser.

There are many examples you can pick if you want to point out bias in media, day before yesterday was not one.

For reference, conservative subreddits remain active, Donald Trump is the one that's banned.
Not the brightest of bulbs, I bet they closed it to carry it away.
I recently became a supplier to a megacorp. They'll plop a weekly meeting on eight peoples' calendars like it's nothing. I tried sending out email summaries on various projects, so they could just refer to that instead of having meetings, but they decided they would then just read through the email summary during the meeting.

I am discovering that I need to significantly increase prices to compensate for the additional navel-gazing inherent in working with a large company.

It's one of the reasons I still remain bullish on the strengths of small companies: large ones just begin attracting people who apparently enjoy frittering their education and talents away on pointless zoom calls.
That would be terrifying, but a squad of trained humans is still more terrifying. If you're worried about what a military is going to do, robots are mostly a distraction.
Irrelevant. Most of the original users of /r/theDonald migrated theDonald.win, which became one of the top websites in the US in terms of traffic.

They're behind Cloudflare and constantly DDoSd these days it seems like it.

Moreover, they've gotten threats from their ISP that they have to delete certain posts or be shut down. (which seems scary to me)

Also, please don't judge me, I just have a morbid curiosity to see what these people are talking about and how they think.
India has done a respectable job getting the COVID numbers down and keeping them down so far (~18k cases today) despite life having largely returned to "normal". Does that complicate the trials since it's a little harder to catch covid than other places?
> If you install iTunes, it shouldn't go around installing other software.

So iTunes shouldn't install software that makes listening to and buying music easier?

I kind of agree that installing plugins without warning is a problem, but sounds like the fix/interface should be in the browser.
I tried for about 5 minutes to find it, but I was unable: there is a startup that does this. It ships you things in a box, you keep them there, and when an item leaves the box, it will reorder that for you (so the box is always stocked).

Bummed I couldn't find it, though.
oh, it fills my heart with joy reading this
Ex-Googler here, worked with a lot of user data, including a project to collect more of it.

Within Google, data's collected primarily to build better products. Or at least that's what the majority of the rank & file believe, and personally I believe the executives believe it too. This has the effect of widening the moat between them and competitors, but it also has real, tangible convenience benefits for users. I can guarantee that the majority of folks are thinking of those benefits, not the additional ad revenue, when building new products. I worked in Search for 5 years and was explicitly told by executives to ignore Ads when making decisions; they have plenty of their own engineers whose job is to optimize revenue.

This may seem hard to believe for someone who's never worked at a place that improved a product based on data, but it's a really fundamental part of the culture. You see the headlines about the NSA or Google's threat to privacy; you rarely see any news story about the A/B test they're running or the new feature in Android/Gmail/Chrome/Search that you get to use because usage logs showed that it took you too long to accomplish your task and some engineer decided to fix it.
That’s … debatable.

More importantly, however, working on : OSes frequently is rare. The developer of the app does it. I, as the user, dominantly use a single OS and want apps to be standard for that OS…
I'm probably a bit late on this, but none of these points touched on a software engineer building a complex architecture for no reason. I have seen this so many, many times. Yes, they can handle point #1. They take all the tickets associated with it and solve them quickly because they built it and know all the connections. The implementation makes no attempt (or claim) at scalability so that's a moot point. For point #3, interestingly enough these are never about optimization of anything, but about abstraction over abstraction over abstraction. As for the graph DBs, those aren't allowed anyway by the company they work for (thank goodness) or they would find some way to incorporate them.

Yes, I'm being a bit glib, but over-engineering does not always mean there's some good intentions in there. It can just be really bad.
> He is well away that most programmers get paid at least median income, and often much more

Yes, by working on unfree software, an occupation which he uncompromisingly condemns. Programmers working exclusively on free software would be earning much, much less on average.
I guess, it is okay telling your interviewer depending on your comfort level, as most never change the question regardless. That said (and as another commentator points out [0]), if an interviewer asks you call out questions you know of from before, then you most certainly should (unless you can sell the bluff...).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31067269
It looks a lot like Theotown https://hi.theotown.com/
Notice that it's pseudo-realtime pricing... The price for a given half hour is set the day before. That means the price can't adjust for unpredictable events like a power station failing.
My experience has been the opposite, with Uber drivers displaying -- on average -- poorer driving skills than taxi drivers.

(Probably location-specific.)
"You cannot know ahead of time for which vaccines you should make a strong bet."

Actually you can. When dealing with a pandemic causing the level of disruption we've seen, you throw money at propping up production of every serious vaccine candidate, hoping that at least one of them works out.
Exactly, this is the main problem I have with the people who claim in comment sections across the internet that since I'm only paying for a license to play the content, I can't complain about owning it.

Nowhere on the iTunes store does it say, "Click here to purchase license to play video". Not on Amazon or Google Play either.

This is just a case of false advertising by content producers and distributors. If they can cheat me, why shouldn't I be entitled to cheat back?
This can't be serious! Seriously, anyone who writes code without proper indentation should consider another job in a different field.
It don't mean a thing if it ain't goes beyond swing?
To counter this, it is so easy to write YAML I don't get the fuss. And this coming from someone who took a long time to learn Python.
Speeds within many highway speed limits (like 75mph) are not 120-130mph however.
> if you want to commit major felonies

That's not how it works. Sometimes the police suspect people who are innocent, and they work hard to get them on technicalities if need be, and meanwhile, the risk of inadvertently and unintentionally committing obscure crimes is substantially higher than zero, so...
MAD isn't a doctrine. US doctrine is simply Assured Destruction. Russian doctrine is escalate to deescalate. Neither doctrine actually contemplates that mutual destruction is a good thing.
There was a long time when we made 'Put Kevin Back' stickers because despite his public proselytizing he is really a media-loving fool with minimal actual skill.

But mostly, we did it as a joke.
I've been part of a few meditation groups. You really have to find the right mix or it doesn't work well.

I personally prefer alone-time meditation to introspect and sift through my inner concerns and arrange my emotional situation.

However you choose to do it, meditation is a wonderful way to unwind and an app with nice calming music and imagery is one way to disconnect from the bedlam.

(said while typing on hacker news with the calm site on the other screen)
I'm using EUMX.net with large mailboxes and no problems so far. They seem to be quite a small company although very helpful when responding to email which they do with 24 hours.