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

I was thinking the other day, what I want is geolocation push notifications to my iPhone. For a trivial example, I have been meaning to ask my coffee shop if I could have some of their empty ice cream tubs. Every day I pull up at their drive through caffeine-deprived, pick up my coffee... and forget to ask.

Sure would be great if, while I was sitting there waiting for my drink, my phone blipped "Ask them about the damn tubs already" :-)
Speaking as a US resident, I know I'd much prefer to memorize general trivia than the US tax code!
Those who are already secure are unlikely to have the hustle and drive to create something innovative. The VC's may be out on the golf course but the people that actually make things are too busy.
I see your point. Will discuss with the team in earnest.
http://data.worldbank.org/topic/poverty
Propriety is not a strong point of his.
I wouldn't doubt the overall conclusion, but I see this is not a per capita measurement, A store's having more locations increases the possibility that at least one of them will have a failure mark. I see there are a lot of non-chain restaurants included in here, should we control for the number of locations?
I'm not being pedantic. Copyrights, trademarks, and patents are all monopolies, and most of their realizable market value is derived from that (more technically, the exclusivity is what enables the conversion of use value to market value).

Trade secrets are an even more extreme case of a monopoly that doesn't even have the expiration dates of patents and copyrights, or the active defense requirement of a trademark.
Keep in mind the average salary in Japan is about 66k. And only about 40% of Japanese clear that.
Someone already reported the same https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/56
That's not targeting. That's simply location based advertising.

Facebook and others have convinced people that they can do better than simple location based advertising.
I'm curious is gender identity and/or orientation [1] not already a protected class where you work?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13672
Personally I would find this really helpful when evaluating a domain purchase. I can't tell you the number of times I've checked for the availability of pretty high quality domain, seen it's available but there's no way to inquire without putting in a (non-binding) offer and wondered what a reasonable offer would be.
> Israel and China aren't invading foreign nations

Noone?
Resolution in this case is referring to layer height, as far as I can tell.
Not for long. The new Galaxy S6 has OneDrive pre-installed instead of DropBox, and samsung has indicated that the rest of their lineup will be going this way too. And of course, all new windows computers come with OneDrive pre-installed as well. I think HTC is the only OEM still pre-installing DropBox.
It's EXACTLY like fiverr...
Try https://www.insynchq.com/ . I am not affiliated with them whatsoever, but for work I am sorta forced to use Google Drive. And to my surprise I have found insync client to be far superior than google's own. Among many things, insync works beautifully on Linux.

One can easily argue though that, Google Drive may make a change which breaks insync - but for past year and half, I have had zero problems.
Yes, well I was hiking in 56 degree weather at 3500 feet in the Cascade mountains only a few weeks ago. It was an absolute record high. Now of course we're covered in snow, but we had absolutely no snow in October. (Which is highly irregular.) We usually shut down the Jacuzzi in mid-October to conserve power (our power is dependent on a creek that is fed by melting glaciers, and consequently runs lower and lower as we get into the depths of winter.) As of this writing the Jacuzzi is still running.

So, we can play the anecdote game all day.
I'd just settle for Swype.
Why was it rejected by ESOP?
Application for Tier 1 visas require higher education - masters are preferred, BA is a minimum. Tier 2 doesn't require this, only proof of industry experience.
"WikiLeaks has put at risk not only the cause of human rights but also the lives and work of these individuals."

This is ironic since one of the biggest contributing factors behind Manning allegedly leaking the documents was probably the fact that the government was kicking him out of the military for being gay. The fact that Obama literally can't even stop lying during his one sentence soundbite condemning the leak is pretty symbolic of why we need WikiLeaks in the first place.
How do you read them?

I've already found how to filter them: View -> Filter. (Althought it always times out, too much documents).
Good point. I was somewhat incorrectly trying to make sense of it with correlations. I stand corrected.
Overly clever or confusing to you, idiomatic to others (and vice versa).
100 million off the coastline??? China's shining jewels of modernity are right on the coast, or hell, a goddamn island. I think China would care very much if they lost half of Shanghai or Hong Kong (ok, probably exaggerating a bit). I mean, even if they were as callous as popular belief, it would still be a huge loss of face.

Its one thing for China to forcefully relocate its lower classes, but Shanghai/Hong Kong is full of China's middle and upper class, and they won't like it when they have to move.
It says software out of Anglosphere not software not in English.
His appreciation of painting and goal to make film as valid of an artistic medium as painting really exposes this. It also takes most of us a significant investment of time and perspective to engage with a painting as an object of contemplation rather than condensing it down to set of symbols and moving on to the next image in rapid succession.
Honestly my comments that have negative Karma have generally much more useful truths than my comments that have positive Karma, this is almost systemic.
This show how low quality the HN community is, epistemologically speaking.
There are much less lazy communities out there like lesswrong.com but unfortunately they don't talk much about computer science
I agree with you that it's mostly not good. However, I wandered into a conversation with a bunch of DC journalists late at night and they were openly gossiping (probably all slightly inebriated) and saying things that almost assuredly were supposed to be off-the-record. It was fascinating and eye-opening as well as very entertaining.

The attraction of CH is exactly this: getting to hear things you would ordinarily not be "allowed" to hear. When it first started more of these types of conversations were happening and it did feel like you were part of the "in group" getting to hear things that ordinary people weren't privy to.

Making secrets explicit as a business model is not sustainable though. As more and more people file into the app creators are going be less and less explicit and all that will be left is the banal and boring (which may be enough actually, as the app is still addicting if you're a lurker).

Here's my prediction: CH is here to stay, but it will hit a ceiling. Additionally some people on the app are clearly playing with fire and we will likely see someone important get into trouble on the app and that will be the end of the (already dying) cool factor of the app.
he's not really talking about the performance of the DB though, focusing more on size of the resultant payload thatr gets sent over the wire. In the actual database which is traditionally very challenging to scale, projections aren't very expensive. The other things you and GP mention are way more likkely to move the performance needle.
Indeed, OpenCL runs on everything - if you can set it up... :/

Actually, at the time, what I did was a 3-way comparison between GPU, XeoPhi and classic CPU (was it 8 cores?) running the same OpenCL code.
Anyways, the "many-core" specimen, XeonPhi, benched at the geometric mean between classic CPU and GPU - so closer to classic CPU!
(we were using beta hardware, our intel specialist - nice, helpful guy actually - went mute after I got those results :D )
On top of that, reimplementing the same algo in CUDA gave ~10% advantage over OpenCL on NVidia hardware.
I wonder how it would fare on a FPGA of the same price/TDP?

And more relevant for 2021:
- I wonder if we would get the same kind of results using Vulkan?

- Speaking of which, does anyone know of any good books / tutorials / runnable examples of Vulkan in a compute-oriented application?

Cheers!
Once clubhouse loses its exclusivity and becomes generally available, where will they be at? It's essentially just a discord clone with better marketing and hype. Or, in its most common format of 1-3 people talking and 1000s listening, it's basically FM radio. Is that enough for it to be widely successful (the "next social media platform")? I'm not convinced.

The biggest features it's got going for it once it hits GA, are that it's ephemeral and that it's live. There are several other platforms with decent UX already providing these USPs, also for free. I can see this being a live-streaming broadcast service for celebrities and influencers who already have big audiences, but not much more than that.
The problem with IT security orgs is that they get to estimate the costs of not following their own recommendations.

Which trend towards infinity, because... well, they want the thing they're advocating for to happen.

This tends to attract toxic, political people who thrive in this sort of environment, and push out more reasonable, technical people who don't want to deal with that.

At some point, you get a critical mass of toxic IT security managers covering each other... and then everyone starts ignoring and/or hating security.

The real loss is that most IT security orgs I've seen are extremely deficient in developers. The kind of person you actually need to automate things, so that they're quicker, so that people use them, so that the organization is more secure. :(
Oh, where is Admiral Ackbar when you need him?

If it is about what people, not mostly corporations, need to do, then it is probably a trap/distraction. Or something that people must do that will destroy a lot of corporations, like full stop all international travel and most city travel. And those fortunes won't accept that peacefully.

I hope that there is a solution, even if is backed by him. But inertia is something hard to stop, both in economics and in climate mechanisms.

The situation by now is that we have a lot of excess of carbon in the atmosphere already, we are adding most of the produced 100 million/day barrels of oil, and a lot of positive feedback processes (like methane being released near polar regions, or gases released for the each time bigger/more frequent forest fires, or losing albedo). Going from that rate of emissions of long lasting greenhouse gases to effectively reaching negative emissions will be hard to plain impossible or just too risky.
I mean I said this out of appreciation. I suppose its just much easier to not get involved with the German software ecosystem at all since the impression is that they dont need attention from people who don't speak German. I don't see any reason why more people would have a professional reason to do so.
> when one salary was enough for a family.

One salary is still "enough" for many of the definitions of "enough" from back then.

Hell, even now my wife stays home and I feel like we live like kings.

Making enough money is important, but past a certain fairly modest income, avoiding stupid lifestyle expenses is more important.
Breast feeding can be difficult for many reasons. In traditional societies people with experience would take the time to coach a new mother. Sometimes a baby is slow to get the hang of it and will actually lose weight for a while before figuring it out. Allowing your newborn child to lose weight goes against mothering instincts, and without a supporting coach is really hard to accept. And if you "cheat" via bottle, the child will get spoiled and only take the bottle. Breast infections and soreness are also common. Coaching helps here also.

A compromise is to purchase human breast milk, perhaps mix it 50/50 with formula if your budget is tight. Still, you are often viewed as a failure for doing such.
> ...it's just one of those words that had kind of drifted off into obsolescence after Richard "I am not a crook" Nixon.

https://news.google.com/search?q=crook&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=U...

Excluding Crook as a name, it still seems to be in pretty common usage. It seems far more likely there is just regional variation. Most of the articles seem to be either from England or from the east coast. I heard the word in the Midwest all the time, although I can't say I've ever heard anyone on the west coast use the word.
Sure, but the history of the term matters in this context & maybe should be taught a little more. Like when we grow up these days, we sorta get the idea that White or Black are these inherent traits that people naturally have and have always had.

We rarely get the chance to see that the idea of whiteness comes from a need of protecting an in-group from exploitation, while excusing and justifying the exploitation of outsiders to that group.

The census is an interesting example because for the first 70 years or so, starting in 1790 the US census had just 3 "race/ethnicity" categories. You could be "Free white male/Free white female", "All other free person" or "Slave". Which is part of the reason for creating the category of whiteness. There's also some really gross stuff right through the 1800s where the census was tracking people with various percentages of "black blood".

https://www.pewresearch.org/interactives/what-census-calls-u...

I suppose I'm just saying that the census, as part of the machinery used to implement and maintain white supremacy, is not necessarily the best authority on race.
I also remember PixelUSA, JDR Microdevices, and NCA Peripherals.

In high school, I was an assistant manager at the Egghead Software store on Blossom Hill Rd. until it shutdown (killed by CompUSA and other big stores, which were mostly killed by BestBuy, Newegg, Amazon, and the internet). The model of tiny, local software stores selling plain cardboard or plastic bag software could never compete with hypermarts like CompUSA, BestBuy, or Walmart, or the internet (Newegg, Amazon, etc.).

Central Computer and MicroCenter are still in business!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8807651
Religion now speaks of something beyond measure. It used to be much more specific. This changed once people had the tools to investigate and discovered that none of the specificity was actually correct.
What would Steve Jobs or Larry Ellison do?
Better use statistics. Most of the people on HN are male (including gay males).
Well, not for me :-)

I cracked a few games, looked at someone else's code but I can assure you that at the ASM level, it's very hard to understand that phong-shading routine to the point you can actually re-code it yourself...

(yes, I've tried :-))

stF
While I'd tend to agree with your larger point, when looking at decades- or centuries-old wars it's worth keeping in perspective that the falling death rates have much more to do with improvements in evacuation time and trauma care. Even beyond the obvious improvements in things like antibiotics, soldiers are now living through wounds that would have been fatal to them as recently as twenty years ago.

The cynic in me says that the way that this continues to be reported--as military dead instead of military casualties--is meant to deliberately obscure this fact. How many people returning from these modern wars will need full-time medical care for the rest of their lives?
There is a lot of common ground between religion and science, both attempt to explain and both originate from man. Religion goes one step further than science and sees itself as an end-run around all requirements for evidence by being 'self evident' and 'self proving'. Science sees limits to its power and that alone makes me more comfortable with science.

To see Maxwell and contemporaries trotted out to try to prove some point in the present about these men's dedication without letting them speak for themselves (they can't, they're safely dead) is to me just as much a heresy as claiming that Johann S. Bach would have composed all his works if he had been an atheist, rather than that he took a lot of inspiration (if not most of it) from his deeply religious nature.

It's really not fair to put words in the mouths of men long dead and gone, we can not know of their motivations if they had lived in the present because they didn't so all we can do is see that work within context. So I suggest that we just be grateful for the work they did, whatever their motivations were.

Keep in mind that priest-natural philosopher was a pre-cursor to our current day scientist and recognize that evolution of thinking is pretty much a given taking into account the march of scientific progress (if we can call it progress, I wished that that was more clear cut but it unfortunately isn't always, perhaps in a few thousand years or so we can answer that one with clarity).

So, being religious isn't a primitive flaw in anybodies mind, great or not. But it can be detrimental, especially when it counteracts the truth with great (but ultimately misplaced) authority.
We do care. The problem is: What can we do? Using technical method to get through GFW? Well, it works now but technically, Chinese government controls all Internet facility and they do not even care to block thousands of IPs, even if it means block the whole Internet (It happened in Xinjiang and Tibet.) Moreover, ISPs constantly throttle the international data which means connecting to a server outside GFW may be very slow or even randomly disconnected. In short, any technical solution does not work on a government who controls the country's Internet facilities and does not care to pull the plug. Other solutions? You cannot turn to traditional media like newspapers and TVs, because they are, as well, controlled by the government, which is in turn controlled by a single party. There's also no way to make any meaningful non-violence political influence. The government is not voted by the people so they just don't care whatever their people say. The only possible way is to use violence, but we do not have guns.
Sadly, it's not always that easy. A large amount of swiss property is owned by pension funds, which are legally limited in their possible investments. So increasing the supply of housing will also defund the pension funds.
It's not only about minimizing total infections. If it were, priority would be given based on social sphere sizes, eg priests and postmen before old people.

It's also about giving people a vaccine they can believe in, which allows them to return to some of their normal activities. If everyone is 50% safe, no one has any real expectation that they can take any risks without being infected. If half the people are 95% safe, that half can do more things (travel long distances, go to school) while the unvacccinated half can continue to avoid risks until more vaccine is available.
It's fine/great on dotnet core.
You willfully misunderstand the parent. If you are more interested in scoring points than contributing to the topic, you might consider whether your time is spent more productively outside of internet forums.
ADHD people:

- loose track of things more than the typical person

- get distracted by new things more than the average person

- have significantly higher openness to experience

- tend to forget more things

- are more impulsive

So it's basically having an extra management structure or labor that is willing to put in extra time to mitigate the issue that come up with this, and to harness the benefits of them too.
A: "we grew to billions of dollars without ripping off our customers"

B: "it is a failure as a business. If you employed underhand tactics you could be even bigger!"

This is the phylosophy that gives us DRM on cars, 100 page lisence agreement with TVs, and fraud on wallstreet.
I am very much an "outsider" here -- not a programmer and not male.

My take is that if you identify with HN and many of the "hacker" standpoints and pursuits, you're not an outsider here. At least, I would hope one wouldn't feel that way. More than most other communities I've experienced online, HN isn't very cliquey nor very focused on one's vital stats - there are people from all corners, all genders, and all races here but it's already anonymous enough that it's hard to tell. Being a geek and taking an interest in new things are probably the only prerequisites to be "in" here. I think that's a great thing.

I will note that many of the benefits you cite could have occurred even if karma were not the means by which pecking order is tracked here.

Sure, but from different people. Without my side goals, I probably wouldn't have spent as much time on my comments or "contributing" here generally. Of course, I wouldn't dare to suggest HN would be any better off with more people like me ;-)
> n. Frankly I was not able to fund any speed difference between both the servers.

That is because of this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2037060
Totally agree with you. You dont really get 1000's of reqs/sec in a real world environment. All you need is a good server which is fast and memory efficient. Rest of the efforts should be focussed on the webapp side, more importantly DB. If you can work on your IO you will have a fast and efficient application.
People have no idea what they want or need, or even what they like. Observe the following empirical evidence as presented by respected marketer Malcolm Gladwell:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIiAAhUeR6Y

Also, that bit about a heart valve is a sly reference to a famous polymath-type who invented a revolutionary kind of heart valve as just one part of a long and incredibly varied career. Can anyone remember who this is? Google is giving me nothing.
I am also surprised that a company as large as his, uses Skype instant messaging for their communication.
My only point (in mentioning that I am an "outsider") is that I don't expect to make it on to the leader board. I think the fact that I am not a programmer is definitely relevant to that expectation (or lack thereof). (If you really think I'm wrong in that regard, perhaps you can list several people on the leader board who are not programmers? Or even people on the leader board who are openly female?)
Exactly, tons of different technologies are POSSIBLE. But it's a matter of what's economically feasible (what consumers will pay for, etc.)

We could have had Web TV in 1995 if it was really economically feasible... but no on figured out the business model. And it looks like it still hasn't been figured out, although Google is trying again with Google TV.

That said, I think Kurzweil, while grading himself overgenerously, did a pretty good job, and no one else is making these kinds of predictions. I actually did the same thing back in 2009, since I am a Kurzweil fan. It's a little interesting how many things came true in 2010 -- he cheated by a year but it helped him a lot!
Yes, you probably have a fragmentation of topics, i.e. the startup stuff will be posted on the European site, but the "hacker" articles of general interest will be posted and discussed here. Which seriously restricts the user base and thus the helpful answers on the Euro site.

I could imagine something that works, if you're willing to fragment even further and make language-specific sites, as this way you could post articles in languages other than English and you'd get discussions from those users who don't feel that comfortable in English. But that further restricts your user base. Might work for French and German, but beyond that? (Spanish, too, of course, but then you'll run into problems with the country/law specific stuff)
will be there yet again to watch the amazing waiter take orders from dozens of us without messing up. that takes some goddam talent, man.
Or even worse "Run-of-the-mill megacorp seeks rock star IT guru to work on pointless death march projects"