jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
1000km (600m) is a long way to go in a metal box. And you’d need to carry fuel, spare parts, and ammo. Tanks are vulnerable without infantry, so better have them there too. Tracks are very inefficient (and can tear up roads), so it’s better to load them on to trains or lorries.

It’s not just a tank. It’s all the logistics that go in to supporting one.
I'm an Italian living in the UK, so I've been following both the stats and the debate in Italy (and elsewhere) very closely. My conclusion is that whoever thinks that this problem can be not stopped, but contained to a manageable level without very strict steps is in for a bad surprise. And, given the exponential nature of initial growth, the earlier these steps are adopted, the less harsh they need to be.
> Are compilation speeds an issue for anyone?

It really depends on what you're doing. An incremental change on a small project can debug-build in seconds on a beefy machine, syntax-check is even faster. If you're working on rust itself and do a full 2-stage rebuild to benchmark something and upstream changed the llvm revision in the meantime and you do that on a laptop it can take more than an hour.
Thanks for the math!

I did several estimations of How-Many-of-Us-are-Here and I got ~1M users by various methods (eg number of upvotes using Reddit engagement numbers), so I'll take your number with a happy confirmation bias.
> Put it this way: In only two countries do senior clergymen automatically get a seat in a house of Legislature: Iran and the United Kingdom.

Well, there's at least one other sovereign state in which people hold legislative office by virtue of holding particular senior religious office -- and which goes further in that there are no other legislators -- Vatican City.

But that's a bit different...
"Of the 153 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days...."

That's a small sample.
Yeah that's what I was thinking too, so this is probably DNS related.
That's how the vast majority votes already.
This looks nice but scrolling on Safari on Big Sur is causing weird artifacts. maybe if I scroll really slow
I guarantee you that there are 100+ people who could take Facebook down for 24+ hours if they went rogue.

For example the people responsible for the bootup scripts of Facebook infra could sneak in a "0 0 1 * * /bin/rm -rf ${TEMPDIR}/*" into crontab... They'd set the commit message as "clear out temp monthly" and it would get deployed across the entire fleet till in the first of next month every disk at Facebook gets erased because TEMPDIR isn't defined...

I guess they have enough pending stock to deter them...
> "Should we be worried that companies like Facebook, Neuralink, Kernel, and others — helmed by individuals who have previously launched paradigm-shifting technology — are working on capturing data from our brains?"

Who would be dumb enough to implant something from facebook into their brain?!
For sure, I understand that.

It tends not to be an issue when a developer is working on an isolated feature that only he or she cares about, that is reviewed in a timely matter, and gets directly committed to main.

Often this is not the case.
I'm not sure what the main reasons for segregating by bio sex were, but I can think of a few and none apply to gender identity.

Maybe the most important is you don't want prisoners getting pregnant.
It's not a windows thing. These are the codes that the hardware uses, on all platforms.
I would agree with the other commenters. g-2 has been a debate for a long time, but fundamentally points to something new if the result holds. The Higgs was expected, and given the mass and properties we've seen, doesn't point to anything new. "New" meaning not the Standard Model.
> It doesn't strike me as fair to dismiss studies like the ones quoted (from the article) as simple correlations.

I didn't see the particular studies and I am not dismissing them out of hand, but I've seen a lot of studies, lost a lot of battles against all sorts of unsound statistical analysis. When I taught Intro Stats, I had no trouble finding examples of what not to do to illustrate in class: Just look at the front page of the campus newspaper which seemed intent on filling pages with bogus "studies".

Again, I am not calling this one[1] bogus, but I am going to point out that study seems to consist solely of finding people who have Parkinson's and have worked around the chemical.

Causality requires (not p) => (not q).

[1]: https://hero.epa.gov/hero/index.cfm/reference/details/refere...
328 mb more than a complete OS.
No doubt they can EASILY trim 30-60%.
Asset optimization, stripping SDK libraries and you're done.

It's like graffiti.. the app is so big already, that the devs don't give a damn about optimizing.. why bother if they are just A/B-feature tests? 30mb for some unoptimized screens for example
Just remember that modern car electronics stress the hell out of a car battery during car use and they don't last as long as they used to.
"I just can't think of anything to make and when I try to join one, I end up thinking, "nope, too hard for me."

That's the problem there. Don't give up and just keep on trucking. Focus on solving problems and less on technologies. For any problem you tackle come up with SOME solution even if it takes 10 hours to run instead of a tenth of a second.

What's always helped me is to learn enough about a given domain that I can attempt a solution and then I double back and learn how other people solved the same problem.

For example, create a bit.ly clone, or a budgeting web app, or a way to track which books you've read and which you want to read.... etc.

When you try to modify open source code screw whether or not anyone will take your commit, first just focus on a specific aspect of the software and learn to bend it to your will, even if that's just making it crash when you expect it to. :)

You're doing great and you're well on your way!
> Kinda a blow for Azure...can't give it away..

To be fair, the author did say this:

>It is important to note that these issues are by no means specific to Azure; similar teething issues affect other Platform-As-A-Service providers such as Google App Engine and Heroku. When you are using a PAAS you are giving up a lot of control to the service provider. The service provider chooses which applications you can run and imposes a series of restrictions.

So it's a "blow" to Google App Engine and Heroku as well.
I was in the US Army from 1968-1971. It happens occasionally that someone will say something like 'Thank you for your service' or words to that effect. My response is usually along the lines of 'If you really want to thank me then put some effort into ending wars.'
The waffles are also delicious.
I'm not certain anything could have been done differently. At least not at the late stage that the Fed had to act. Then again, I'm a programmer and not a central banker. I'm mainly complaining that the situation was allowed to get to the point where the Fed had to take these kinds of drastic and secretive actions and that they did it without any oversight.
> It seems among the web crowd it's the opposite - the app is the nucleus, with the DB and presentation layer the satellites, resulting in ORM among other things.

Indeed, this is one of the strongly-held "opinions" of Ruby on Rails. The database is more or less treated with contempt, a mere bitbucket.
:) Well, It does seem to have too much bold, so next time I'll make it just a few parts to avoid breaking people's flow :)
All money invested in this will be completely wasted. It's a nice dream. But flying cars the general public can use are at least 20 years away. There needs to be a completely automated pilot system that protects you from the 10 million things that can go wrong, windstorms, hailstorms, bird hits, maintenance checks, fuel levels. Pilots get formal educations on how to fly because one mistake and you die. It is no different with this device.
Judging from the examples, I think you should start charging at least 2 or 3 times as much, immediately.
The best hope humans have for space exploration is a space arms race. You want space exploration? Then go to China and get them put some weapons ready for launch on the moon. That will cause US military operations on the moon inside 2 years. And the units will hunger for services.

If the US is going to go broke with constant war, we might as well explore the space battlefield while we are at it.
Minor launch glitch. Fixed now :)

Definitely not related to scaling. Just couldn't connect to our redis server after we upgraded it.
In some sense, yes. However, PHP is a language + a giant standard library geared towards web development. In some sense it is a web framework or at least is often used that way. Since as a web framework, PHP's standard library falls short, things like CakePHP and CodeIgniter were created, but have their own shortcomings. But I consider Django a better framework than either PHP's standard offering or things built on top of it. However, the transition from developing web applications in PHP to using Python/Django is not as straightforward and I think a nice guide could be in order.
Then you aren't on the list of chosen ones.
> Make a plan with 2 or 3 servers of full monitoring for $30 a month

In that price range you have Pingdom and AlertFox...
The site's down. Does anyone have a mirror?
The ideas that YC funds are much more than half baked, and it's not just a "few powerpoint slides".
You're not selling to families. You're selling to sysadmins and developers. Crondom is a perfect name.
Wow, that much for changing the world?
This is extremely dismissive of the issue, which does exist to some extent, even if its often over blown.

The problem isn't "13 year olds being traumatized because they see sex on a screen" but "13 year olds developing porn addiction alongside their burgeoning sexuality".

Porn addiction is a very real issue and todays youth is especially susceptible to it. Today a 13 y/o boy can see more breasts in an hour than every one of his prior-digital age male ancestors have seen combined. Its an absolute stimulus overload.
My initial parsing is "than I have" -> number of times I've been to russia, so this'd be comparing the number of people who went to Russia with how many times I did.

Nonsensical, but that's my initial intuitive parse
This sounds horrid.
How do you know if you’re looking at a real honest archive, or someone that inserted libel (or even just reputation damaging BS below the threshold for libel) in exchange for money?

Although the phrase “fake news” itself is a used as a magic wand to dismiss uncomfortable facts, this can and does happen.
Shopify.

I agree with the case being different to Apple. And not sure why it is hypocritical. Not to mention Shopify holds no clear monopoly over e-commerce. Unless people want to argue the Shopify has a monopoly on Shopify App Store.
English is not my native language. Did I use the word "ambient" properly?
That (the add_header thing) seems like a bug that should be fixed.
So you left your homeland behind? Perhaps you should work on improving Gaza instead of abandoning it for the shiny blood diamonds known as FAANG.
Rule of horses. "Hippos" means horse. "Potamus" means river. "Hippopotamus" means "river horse."
A few of them in series could increase the voltage.
Sorry, I should have said the metric of a millionaire as defined buy $1M in a 401k is not saying much.

Having $1M after decades of working at or near retirement age is the bare minimum one needs for a “decent” retirement if they want to continue their lifestyle. I know 90% of Americans don’t come close to it, but if you want security of quality of life and not worry about medical expenses, $1M will not go far in many of the places in the US that are popular.

On the other hand, when I’m putting together a real estate deal and I need a few hundred thousand dollars, I have many doctors I can call who might be able to pony up, but no teacher is going to be able to come up with that kind of investment. I know a couple of outlier engineers and CPAs who can come up with that that, but nowhere near the amount of doctors, especially as a percentage of all engineers and CPAs.

It’s just crazy to me to hear of the profession where all members are higher earners that are at $200k on the low end be put in the same bucket as teachers whose median might be $60k to $80k, in high cost of living areas.
I'm tired of seeing stack overflow used as a place people go in lieu of actually reading documentation. However, I sympathize with the other point of view… Sometimes people just need something clearly explained to them and they can take it from there.
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I'll try to address a few points here:

-What's the core problem?

Evaluation. In this case, evaluating intrinsic difficulty of a certain task or group of tasks. There's no way to do so systematically, without inside knowledge about the task. Foe example, suppose you want to rank two mathematicians without a clue about the subject matter. One presents short proofs to many problems, while the other presents enormous proofs with great effort. There's no way to tell if the problems are really difficult or not and chose the reward without having knowledgeable peers evaluate the a) hardness, and b) usefulness intrinsic to the problem. In fact, it could be argued that simplicity is a good sign, but it's impossible to tell whether the problem is unimportant/trivial to begin with.

- Why do people think in this way, instead of more systematically?

Without insider knowledge, which management sometimes lacks, you cannot confidently rank as stated above. But there's one trivial thing you can do, which works, but not necessarily efficiently: if the solution works/is found, reward the solver, otherwise punish/look for others (and reward them more). Hard problems skillfully solved will go unrewarded and good performers will gravitate towards fixing crisis instead of doing good ground up engineering as they should. That's the aspect of inefficient, but it is possible with enough money to manage this way.
Yup, not from New York. Thanks for the note.
The first architecture using two ELBs has a long list of cons, most of which are solved by using HAProxy as your internal load balancer. May want to considering adding that as another option on the matrix.
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In Portland and Seattle this summer, cops gassed entire city blocks and started cracking skulls after a few bottles got thrown at them. But here they practically let the fascist mob walk into the capitol.

And some people say that white privilege doesn't exist...
If you look for it, just about every state has had some anomalies that were noted by the officials. It's all boring.

All of it has been on a scale that wouldn't affect the outcome of elections. For example in Georgia 2 ballots were submitted in the names of dead people. In Colorado they are investigating non-matching signatures on a few hundred ballots.

This kind of stuff is routine, and happens in every election. Of course it isn't perfect, but its a decent enough system that has worked well in 100s of countries across centuries
> DC's National Guard just activated. It took a few dozen minutes

The Guard was requested yesterday, in advance of the protests, to prevent this kind of thing.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/d-c-mayor-calls-nationa...

Took more than a few dozen minutes.
it ceases to be a burner with usage. gaze into the abyss and the abyss gazes back into you
Trump has called for everyone to go home. We will see if they listen to him.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13469288825958850...
Nowadays, passing bytes to any os function returns bytes objects, not unicode. You'll get string if you pass string objects though, and they will be using utf8 surrogate escaping.
> Just memorize your seed phrase and write it down.

The article mentions he had many wallets.
Haha, I'm glad!
Sorry for the delay! http://159.203.59.159/Dreamcoat/
Thanks for the feedback, there should be a fade-in when the text expands, and there's an option to click again to close, but IIRC it's not enabled on the demo. I think it's unnecessary, but it bothers some people to not be able to close them back up.
I have asked the medical folks to look into this.
Can you expand on what you believe is lacking?
Another thread showed his project that printed labels with QR codes that might be a good fit if you're willing to compromise sticker labels in your zero waste goals.

https://www.thingybase.com/

I use frog tape and a sharpie. After a year+ I'm still on my first roll of frog tape.

If you really want to go zero waste you could with a some sort of color coding system like bread clips use.
Thanks butz, have some community folks working on these enhancements now!
I don’t thinks hooks are a great example. Hooks are by definition effectful. Best compared to ‘Applicative’s in Haskell. (Not monadic unfortunately)

So a functional component in react using hooks is not pure. You can translate it into FP with a bit of magic, but requires a context. The line is not that distinct at all.
So what? Report him to the police, do an investigation, fire him if he really did what he's accused of, let the court deal with the rest... I don't know why removing him from the internet helps.
Any market is subject to risk which is most likely asymmetrical between market participants. "Wall Street" isn't some homogenous mass that's collectively conspiring as a unit. The most consistent victims of "Wall Street" machinations is "Wall Street". If there's an opportunity to screw the other guy, people take it. It's unfortunate, but attempts at riches rarely includes moral etiquette.
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This exactly. If they want me to live somewhere specific they should pay me more to live there. If my employer isn't requiring me to love somewhere, I should be compensated for my value and work, not judged for living where and how I choose.
It probably depends also on what you program. If the task is simple enough and doesn't need much revisiting, REPL is probably fine. But OTOH, just writing the code for a simple case and running it isn't too bad either.

How do you persist and document your code with REPL-development? Do you log the commands to some separate file? How do you recreate the REPL state if it crashes or you have to reboot? How do you make sure the REPLs state is what you think it is?

These are (some of) the concrete problems that I see with REPL, and that don't exist for program based workflow. And I think these are fundamentally impossible to solve for REPL, and very important for e.g. reproducibility (and IMHO sanity).
the moment one random internet guy posts "this could go to $1000" there is an anchoring effect. It's the oldest boiler room scam on the books.

"this could ten bag!" someone cries..... and suddenly you've got people not taking profit at 2x 3x 4x 5x and so on, because they're anchored to 10x.
https://youtu.be/hWLjYJ4BzvI
Neither is RSA. Most present day asymmetric crypto has its strength (amount of computing required to break it) significantly reduced by quantum computers. The solution is quantum safe algorithms which are a developing field.

Symmetric algorithms such as AES can have their strength reduced as well, but (I have no sources to cite) I believe this reduces it from 256-bit to 128-bit. At 128 bits of security it is still widely considered safe to use.
That's pretty much what https://www.modulo.app/ provides. Small groups online (1-5 kids) with each kid doing apps/videos at their own pace, and getting help from the tutor as needed. Works great for our daughter. She's made a lot of friends thru it and accelerated academically a huge amount.

(I have no financial interest - just a customer.)
Well, it's the exact opposite for me. I don't do a lot with Gimp but I can only remember one time I needed to google how to do something, I just find it very intuitive to use. Sure it's not the most polished software and I've seen one or two bugs but overall it does everything I need with an easy to use interface.

> Changing it in the filename box returned an error

I always do it like that and it just works. Though in current versions you have to "Export" to jpg/png and not "Save as". Afaik the intention is to prevent overwriting the original file on accident.
There is no <explicative deleted> way I’d put my home automation in a public ledger. We have enough problems as a society with cloud enabled security cameras being used as bot nets and to harass people. A permanent ledger of what happened in your home is a mind bogglingly awful idea.
Obama talked about human rights and the oppressed. He then went on a war/bombing/drone/genocide spree on muslims and non-whites in more than 7 new countries ranging from Libya, Yemen (see his memoirs for the justifications on killing children), South Sudan, Somalia.... In addition, he embraced alleged anti-muslim leaders like Ang Syu Kyi (Nobel Peace prize winner) and Narendra Modi.

His genocides, actions and killings of non-whites and muslims are considered to be the hallmark of American liberal democracy and Nobel Peace prize material.

Trump the white oppressor failed to bomb one NEW muslim and non-white country.

So how would the author address this “anomaly”?
does anyone know why skype picked German as the only translation of this message?
Getting the API right would be the only way a hosted CMS could acheive the flexibility that developers love about non-hosted platforms.

This is so true! We've also developed a SaaS CMS (decalcms.com - still pre-release) and one of the major things I've noticed while looking around at other hosted solutions is they all have a pretty sharp "cut-off" past which you just can't do what you need to.

VerbCMS solves this by letting you run your own code on their servers which we didn't want to do because it makes things less secure.

Webvanta solves this by just saying "we'll build it for you" but that's just not scalable at all.

A cracking API and integration model is the only real way that a hosted CMS can become a serious "platform of choice" for a lot of web developers/designs/agencies.
I've developed this habit, too. One problem I've run across (which I'm thinking you also might have) is I end the day with a whole bunch of notepads open and it is a pain to save/close them.

If you have that problem, too, you should check out a program I wrote called Notepad Consolidator (https://github.com/jaredsohn/NotepadConsolidator) that writes the contents of all open untitled notepads to an autonamed file.
> Does the story generate genuine debate in the comments about the core idea in the story?

Well, I would have liked to see some debate about the nature of police states and what sorts of police actions make a population as a whole more rather than less likely to go to the police with their problems...

...but everyone was too busy arguing over whether the story belongs on HN to get that far. Um, my bad, I guess.
Actually, unpublished works are still copyrighted. The issue here is that you have to show that you created the work if you want to make a copyright claim, which is difficult if the work is unpublished and not registered.