jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Are there are Darwin hackers lurking on HN? I would pay good money to get a brief summary of the kernel for kernel hackers such as myself who only know how things work in Linux. What are the big architectural differences or cool features not in Linux? Also, how hard is it to upstream changes/get drivers in mainline?
At the very least, this levels the playing field somewhat between US persons and corporations that do business in the US. US persons (aka US tax residents) pay income tax on their worldwide income, regardless of source, even if they owned the income-producing asset before ever becoming a US person. It's always seemed unfair to me that corporations can essentially say "Hey, we actually earned this income someplace else" and not get taxed.
That's writing the name backwards.
If you combine your two points together, you realize that to track anything with a non-changing orbit, you just have to have to detect it once. And since everything is strictly line of sight, if you've been overflown by a satellite (spied on), then you've also had an opportunity to track the satellite and now know when the next fly-over / where will be.

What the US has the potential ability to real-time track every satellite around the entire world. In fact, we're pretty sure that that capability exists because they've also tracked everything in orbit larger than a screw.

While the X-37 has the capability to make some countries nervous, honestly space does have its own (weaker) version of MAD. I mean, if anyone does something stupid, then the rest can ruin it for everyone. I mean, do you think the US would go about laying mines in space when Russia/China probably have (will have) the capability to knock down GPS satellites? I mean, everyone knows where they are, everyone has the capability to insert into the same orbit.

The US would be beyond stupid to use the X37 for anything other than recon (spying!), or grabbing it's own satellites/payloads. Anything else would been as dumb as co-locating satellite launch sites with ICBM silos.

Also, despite the lack of public information given out by the Air Force and government, it's entirely likely that the Chinese and Russians know a lot more about the hardware and its capabilities than Wired and the public. Spy agencies exist for a reason. Even amongst 'friends'.
Seriously? Passwords sent in the clear?! Why are simple security measures so far down on people's list of things to implement when launching a new product/company?
if i read one more title like this:

blah, blah, and blah, oh my!

or like this:

blah or: How I Learned to Stop blah and Love the blah

i'm gonna punch my monitor!
Copy-and-paste is your friend.
> That mythical man month is BS, there are lots of open source project with hundreds of contributors..

Non sequitur. Have you read the book?
There are three channels in 2.4GHz, so presumably Apple could have put Steve on one channel and everybody else on the other two. (This problem is not as bad in 5GHz, but AFAIK the iPhone doesn't support it.)
I had a strongly religious upbringing, but later in life I transitioned and acclimated to the secular world. When I began working at a startup, the fervency and intensity of the meetings—especially when the CEO or board addressed the group—gave me vivid flashbacks to my religious days. I definitely wanted us to succeed, but I think my background gave me some immunity to the pseudo-religious groupthink that so often characterizes startups.
Backblaze employee here - we're also going to release the raw data in a few weeks, which I believe will have every last drive serial number (that uniquely identifies the hard drive in the universe) plus a metric ton of other stuff, so hopefully you can mine that for the info you want.
Woah. That looks like a mashup of container-based structures you'd walk through in Mass Effect games, with Kerbal Space Program - the way that oversized solar panel is just glued to the top of the structure.

That is to say, I love the design. But I suspect my wife wouldn't.
1.57% is a lot compared to the ease of just leaving a couple grand in a high-yield savings account. Maybe it's just me but it feels wrong to take out a loan against my portfolio everytime I have to replace my MacBook.
> You can't build a bubble on boring, moored ideas, you need hype.

...except for houses
Resale value? Opening the box ruins that.
> An investor would not really care about the stock, but only about the behavior of other investors.

This sounds like the idea of a Keynesian Beauty Contest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest)

"It is not a case of choosing those [faces] that, to the best of one's judgment, are really the prettiest, nor even those that average opinion genuinely thinks the prettiest. We have reached the third degree where we devote our intelligences to anticipating what average opinion expects the average opinion to be. And there are some, I believe, who practice the fourth, fifth and higher degrees."
I guess they paid for that service and the reason they paid why they paid was the possibility to gather data. they had to gather the data themselves, but that is the difference between robbing an house and opening someone else door to robbers
Why lecture a subreddit called ‘wallstreet bets’ on gambling?
It's the same game theory behind dictatorship. In this case, the dictator can simply be an abstract profit motive, and its lust for blood tomorrow could always overrun today's principled moderation (especially once it begins to starve, which it will since all organizations, no matter how Ozymandian and grand, somehow crumble eventually).

The best foundation for good outcomes is to not trust a company and to reject its control to begin with.
The datasheets are under NDA because they give each volume customer a different datasheet. You go to a sales call and say you want X, and then their engineering department prepares a datasheet saying that their product supports X. (Obviously the hardware supports X, but it may be kind of broken, so it's easier to tell customers that don't ask for it by name that it's not there.)
It has the color and also says “text message” or “imessage” over the message. Its pretty clear.
1. This is pretty fascinating
2. Can we just add one more mapping layer on top of this for easier info digestion? Seems like a pretty light lift for a big processing human advantage.
Those are certainly fair points but I think getting bogged down in the ToS and details is side stepping the real issue here.

At the end of the day Twitter moderates its own service, which is just their managers and random team members. Twitter sets the rules and can find any justification to ban whoever they want. Do you really think Twitter constrains themselves by their rules? I don't, they will change those rules if they want.

As a major source of information, is that what you want?
Is getting bogged down in ToS details really the important issue here?

If we yell at Twitter and demand them to ban certain content, they are also going to exercise that power when it serves their interests too. You can't have it both ways.
The minimum for CME is 5 bitcoins ($200k). So I guess they are for the big dudes?
I doubt that the OAG goes by UN definitions or membership (otherwise the flight from China to Taiwan would be considered domestic?)
The fact that there are only 18 questions on StackOverflow could also mean that the language is that good that rarely you find something requiring further explanation. Or maybe Nim users use the Nim forum instead for questions (http://forum.nim-lang.org), where finding a C forum or Python forum is not that easy/direct.
In that case, Anne is unmarried
A regular coffee at starbucks in japan costs $4. And every starbucks is packed to the brim with people. Same in Korea.
Econtalk - deeply interesting interviews/conversations about economics

Radiolab - unique stories (often science-based) and great production values
XCB did never quite replace Xlib but these days Xlib is built on top of XCB. Also, the XCB code is automatically generated from the X protocol specifications, so at some point it becomes "complete", and only minor bugfixes and additions to the protocol need to be added. It might seem "dead" but in fact there may be nothing important to do.

XCB still has it's sore points, though. For example using OpenGL requires you to use Xlib, because GLX is defined in terms of Xlib (more info: http://xcb.freedesktop.org/opengl/).

I think that the *nix desktop world needs to get a kick and find a new direction. X is really old, Xlib is a horribly designed library and window managers are an afterthought. Perhaps Ubuntu and the new Wayland graphics stack will do it, but it might as well be nothing but vapor. The support of commercial graphics vendors is also required.
It encourages hatred for lawyers.
Sure, point taken :)
Really only two takeaways from an overly long article:

1) the diversity thing has more than a whiff of wish fulfillment to it. Repetition in this regard just makes the dubious sound downright desperate.

2) if money is really flowing to the next Netflix for Latinos, what stronger "sell" signal do you need?
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Yeah, they pass through the wholesale prices. Most providers do some work to offer fixed retail prices (gaining when wholesale is cheap, losing when it's expensive). Most markets in the US have some sort of system for matching supply and demand, often a wholesale market.

https://www.epa.gov/greenpower/us-electricity-grid-markets has a picture of the various wholesale markets.
Whoa. Wonder what on earth is going on. Can confirm here in Canada, FB and Messenger are both down.
To be a fly on the wall at Facebook HQ right now...
I guess it involves a bit of assumptions and guesswork to automatically replay your previous actions to files that in turn may have changed. It probably slightly increases the chances of Git doing something you didn't expect, and not tell you about it. Hence why it isn't default. Maybe?
Downdetector is a bit more useful than facebook.com for this: https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/
Shipping forwarding services exist.
I thought they banned me. Retried in an incognito window.

Time to enjoy a brief social media pause, thanks to the deity who might have been behind this!
This comes up from time to time and each time the comments debate the correctness/effectiveness of the title.

The contents of the post does shed much light on how git operates and introduces a view that can help in navigating how to use git.

Whether or not you want to think of a commit as a snapshot or a diff isn't material. It's best to think of it as a dual, since a diff on any base can create a snapshot, and a snapshot can create a diff from a snapshot.

This very much mirrors the idea of a transaction log (of diffs) and a 'current' state. The current state is convenient, can benefit performance, but is not absolutely necessary. It doesn't even have to be the most recent, e.g. key frames in video compression. These are all just ideas, getting used to them and being able to move viewpoints between them is better than clinging to any one of them.
It sounds like he's using photos others have posted. So no access to the lighting.
I got rid of my MacBook about a year ago but when I had it sleep never always worked for me. My current current ThinkPad is just as reliable when sleeping as my MacBook was.
I don't think procedural programming itself makes code unreadable. For example, take a look at the redis source code. It's clean and approachable.
People give different weight to tweets and articles, in a similar way they do to a HN comment and a blog post. In both cases, the former is less "official" than the latter. I agree that the line between these two types of responses can be blurred at times.
> Almost anything is toxic, even salt, if the dose is high enough.

That is tremendously misleading. You body needs salt to function. Your body does not need, and has no use for glyphosate. There is no beneficial dose. If it's harmful, an incredibly minute amount can be materially harmful.

Moreover there are at least two ways to get a significant number of people developing diagnosed cancers from chemical exposure: A small population (ag workers) and a large dose, or a small dose and a large population - the rest of us.
No, the point of two pilots is the possibility for them to chose who is actually controlling the plane at some given moment, optimizing their performance, not that you don't trust one of them. The current systems trust both.
> If an additional $10B-$100B could result in additional production of mRNA vaccine, it would have been delivered by governments if not by investors.

No. No. No.

Not only is there no guarantee that it would have been delivered by governments, there is a major counterexample affecting hundreds of millions of people: the European Union.

The EU tasked a specific body, the European Commission, to negotiate vaccine purchases for the entire bloc at once. The commission approached vaccine negotiations like a trade deal, because they usually negotiate trade deals, and ended up extracting terms that would have been good for a trade deal. They refused to go easy on the manufacturers, and thus "saved" themselves many billions — billions that they would have been much better off sacrificing (to make the negotiations faster, instead of taking months) or outright spending (to speed up production).

https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/02/03/how-europe-dodge...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-europe-tripped-in-covid-19-...

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-coronavirus-vaccine-s...

Now they are tripping over themselves in an attempt to salvage the mess they made, issuing ill-considered threats to seize production that has been pledged abroad, rather than trying to speed things up.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/02/01/vaccine-...
Generally I am copy-pasting code out of a WIP package to test out an idea as I go.
So the code is already being written in a file.
Or I am using Juno/VS-Code/Vim-Slime to simplify the copy-paste.

Other times I have the package I am editing loaded with Revise.jl active and I am calling in and trying out the methods I am concurrently writing in my text editor.

It's more like TDD than anything else.
It's got that same quick back and for of run, write, run write.
But a but more interactive.
(Note I am not saying that is TDD -- it isn't -- tests are not nesc written or saved. Though I do often use this while doing TDD to run a test I have written)
Because interacting with students on the Internet is how he harassed people?
These sorts of fundamentals are glossed over or not mentioned throughout, though. For instance, both in and after the section on integration, the fact that \int (f+g) = \int f + \int g. No explanation or limitation is placed on that information. If I can do that, can't I also write \int (f/g) = \int f / \int g ? These are common tripping points for many.
This is a recent change, and as far as I know, not yet true for all new hires.
Who cares whether or not it works? Always-on surveillance constantly monitoring children will destroy what we think of as a normal development path. We could easily, accidentally, and permamntly damage an entire generation of humans with this kind of tooling.
> Surprising to see recent headlines. Who here is still maintaining this

Likely just a rendered RSS feed.
Thank you for all the kind words! I'm the creator of Runnaroo.

Runnaroo started as just a fun experiment, but it quickly became apparent that you could launch a meta-search engine better than just about everything out there (including DDG [0]), and I was frankly surprised how quickly it was embraced by such a large number of people (it's Show:HN reached the #2 spot [1]).

The challenge then became how to fund the cost of the site in an ethical way in line with the site's core principles. I started looking at different solutions [2], including becoming the first search engine to implement Web Monetization, but I never really even came close.

I believe Runnaroo will live on in some iteration, I just have to figure out what that would be.

Also, if you used Runnaroo and liked it, please don't hesitate to reach out (anything AT runnaroo.com). It has been a solo project, but I'm sure the future will involve more collaboration.

I would also be interested in sharing the story of how Runnaroo evolved over the last year, and the different experiences of launching a search engine if anyone is interested or has a platform for those conversations.

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[0] Don't take my word for it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24248666

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23771131

[2] https://coil.com/p/runnaroo/Privacy-and-Search-Engine-Moneti...
Possibly Sardinia:

The eradication of malaria helped Sardinia improve its public health programs and also paved the way for socio-economic development. But at a huge environmental cost that is incalculable. Some farmers accused the DTT of killing their livestock, bees and also fish.

https://totalsardinia.com/malaria/

Sheepherders, fish farmers, and beekeepers blamed their dead sheep, dead fish, and dead bees on DDT spraying.

https://www.wanderingitaly.com/blog/article/785/sardinia-and...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2819864/

Edit: Odds are good I read about it originally in Reader's Digest in the late 1970s or early 1980s if you want to find a dead tree copy at a library.
Doesn't look very simplified on mobile, that's for sure.
> Anyone remember the hacks for drop shadows and rounded corners?

Originally it was kinda simple: just a 3x3 <table> with stretched images in the outer cells, then <div>-itis. Fortunately we rarely needed 9 nested <div> elements - a common trick was to create a 2000x2000px-sized PNG containing the top-left, top, and left-edge border and then another for the other side and make that a background image - the only problem was the lack of support for transparency and how IE would get PNG colors wrong for some reason until IE8 unless you altered the gamma ( https://salman-w.blogspot.com/2011/03/png-color-problem-in-i... )
It's called SYCL and no one uses it. It's been around since 2014.
>> many people don't know anything about the browser rendering pipeline

if you can recommend a good source for learning the browser rendering pipeline please post it here, everyone I have asked just shrugs it off and says that no one really knows.
Gold is backed by nothing but scarcity, high energy costs to mine it, and utility. That's no different than ethereum.
I think HugSQL[1] (Clojure library) has really opened my eyes to what DB interaction should be like. It’s not exactly an ORM, but it protects you from SQL injection and makes it convenient to leverage the capabilities of your SQL database.

Also, his name is Usain Bolt[2].

[1] https://github.com/layerware/hugsql

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usain_Bolt
Again, arbitrary. You could also argue a JavaScript bug on your site preventing a shop checkout is the worst, because you lose Cash by the minutes.
Is the pun of saying knowing “HAVING” is a good filter intended?
I think the point to be made was that if you screw up your browser rending to the point of it being unusable on old devices, that could be just as business critical as the data integrity issue.

Making either of those your line in the sand for what a developer should and shouldn’t know is arbitrary. I don’t know a ‘Scala’ full-stack developer that could do advanced optimisation on React render times, or a ‘React’ developer that knows transaction isolation.

Not knowing either of these does not make you an unworthy developer and unless you have a specific need for these skills it probably does more harm than good expecting everyone to know them.
> Can’t imagine my mind is always controlling iPhones secret CIA enabled Ouija board autocorrect troll mechanism.

If you're serious about any of this, and believe what you said is true, you're currently experiencing active psychosis. These are not the words of somebody who is rationally considering suicide.

If that's truly the case, odds are you'll be in a 100% different mindset after a few months of medical/psychological help. Seek it.
A simpler explanation is that some people will just "learn" (via googling) the basic SQL they need to get something done. This is not uncommon across all domains in our industry.
As someone that's recently joined a new team this was a fantastic article to read. I do sometimes get the sense that everything is broken—even though after waiting a few days it seems like super minor things.

One error though:

> he whipped out a role of blue painter’s tape

should be "roll"
This is not a useful article, at all:

1. unfair and uninformed comparisons:
Google: worth 800B+, 100K + employees
Cisco: worth 200B+, 75K+ employees
Hexagon Bio: worth unknown, 23 employees (LI)
Orca: worth unknown, 26 employees (LI)

2. Missing major contributions, such as those from Steve Quake, since he arguably lead to the founding of actually valuable biotech startups such as Natera and Fluidgm.

3. Leaves out Daphne Koller??

4. Finally, papers != patents/IP/new companies.

Would be much more useful to connect Stanford labs to patents/IP that are licensed to startups.

Maybe back to the drawing board on this one.
Are you serious with 'loaded exploitation rhetoric'?

Consumer marketplace apps are black-boxes which completely disregard all the workers rights battles of our ancestors.

To not see this is to put too much trust in digital tech as a magic fix to all problems.
Mandatory hours for most employees is "9am to 3pm". Opening hours for our customers is 10am to 4pm. Everybody is employed at 36 hours /week.

Most people get in between 7am and 8am, and leave between 3pm and 4pm.
That was the main difference pointed out in the documentation. I guess I'd have to try it out to see how it differs in practice.
Yes, what you find on social networks is frequently trivial. For that matter, what most people talk about at family reunions is mostly trivial and what most people talk about at the local bar is even more trivial.

Also, yes, you can overuse social networks just as it is easy to overuse the local bar.

Used in moderation though, social networks, facebook in particular, have helped me keep in touch with many of my more distant relations that I otherwise would likely see and talk to only at weddings and funerals. It has helped me reconnect with friends from high school and college that I probably would have forgotten about.

Overall, I have found that, used in moderation, social networks and Facebook in particular have helped to enrish my social life and help me keep in touch with people that matter to me, and if the price of that is dealing with some triviality, I will pay it gladly.
This actually is more about the skills necessary to be an entrepreneur: he says that being a jack of all trades is an important trait for people starting things, but people who can really focus and do one thing really well may be better to run it subsequently.
The environment has been steadily improving for the last 40 years. Less vehicle pollution, less industrial pollution, more conscientious consumers. Why not extrapolate in that direction?