jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've been wondering this for a while. So few people I know use it now in contrast to just a couple of years ago. I think part of it has to do with how they now shove a bunch of generic viral video crap into your feed now. The other day I made a post in a small group of people I know personally(~20 people), and only 2 people even saw the post even a week later. I know that sounds trivial, but it's a stark difference from the recent past where I'd expect at least half the group to see posts.

On the other hand, tons of people use Instagram now, which is undoubtedly why Facebook is trying to further integrate it with Facebook.

As others have mentioned, there are products of Facebook that are doing really well. I think that the use of Facebook as a generic social media feed is dwindling, but it's still good for niche groups, classifieds, and probably other things I'm not as privy to. However, I believe this is because there isn't a sufficient replacement for what Facebook provides. Are there any alternatives to Facebook that provide similar features but aren't considered distasteful by the mainstream?
I'm kind of in the 'we already tried this' camp, because life is messy and things like fire departments and courts aren't usually felt to be 'core competencies' of corporations. The closest modern example I can think of is Disney's Reedy Creek Improvement District [0][1], but lots of corporations delegate their cleaning, cafeteria, security, even their real estate out. I'm interested in why they would choose to take them back on.

Do you think we'll get some theme parks out of this?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Creek_Improvement_Distri...

[1] https://www.rcid.org/
Your assertion that DNA is spaghetti code seems short sighted while the inner-workings of structures, such as human brains, which it can generate remain to be fully understood. There is more to learn. What you deem to be spaghetti may be the most efficient way to make one piece of code perform well under broad spectrum of conditions.
You might as well just torrent an mp3. It will be higher quality and an actual song instead of a music video.
Company towns were entirely opt-in too, at the start. The problems with concentrating power only rear their head down the road when conflict arises. Instead of worrying about getting fired, now you worry about getting simultaneously fired, evicted, jailed, and censored. Even if you are officially protected, how much can they do unofficially?

> "We already tried this, they are called company towns" is not a clever or insightful take.

That's not a clever or insightful dismissal.
If you used reusable plates as a base - basically a removable 3D printer bed plate - and just printed the raised parts for a plate directly onto it, that would seem like a pretty quick, filament-light way to produce plates that could be used to run off a few copies, before scraping the filament traces off and printing another plate.

I wonder how few layers you could get down to and produce decent results?
I am unclear of the article's target.

Your article implies we are reading about HW manufacturers that have prioritization & work load issues, but then you mention Apple, AWS, et al. These HW designs are all directed work to the HW manufacturer. There is no concerns of prioritization, or work load. They get paid handsomely for making the right choices.
It's faster to read text than to listen to someone speak, yet speech remains popular. There are aspects of communication which are not easily replicated in text -- sign languages do not lack the semantic information that is provided in speech by the tone, pitch, and rhythm of voice which is not, for the most part, reflected directly in grammar (in English, anyways). These components take other forms (expression and aspect, primarily) in ASL.
What if, and this is a crazy idea. We allowed people to form Governments instead of corporations that have a history of psychopathic behavior.

I am pretty pro-business and for small government but I think this is a bad idea all around. Why do we need this in the fist place? What is wrong with the old model of people getting together and agreeing to form their own government, why do companies need to be involved in the first place?
That, and a layer for Google Downloads, was the only real examples, and we've been given them 3+ years ago.

Not much since then, except some small stuff (a Google doodle made in Go, etc) and some mentions of teams using it.
well code academy has some program they say is for high school kids at home due to school closures - not sure if it fits but you can look:

[1] https://pro.codecademy.com/learn-from-home/
DX7s can still be purchased on ebay for 100 to 200 dollars if you are patient.
A similar concept that one might like: http://iwdrm.tumblr.com
blogs.law.harvard.edu also belongs to harvard.edu, so what's the problem? Many universities give blog space (and email accounts) to alumni, as a way to keep them engaged (and hit them up for donations...).
i dont like it....its not the normal twitter blue. takes away
I was a Microsoft SQL Server intern last summer. I got to know the SQL Server PMs very well. Every SQL Server PM had a technical degree.

One of my good friends also graduated with a computer science degree last year and is now a B2B PM.

Rudeness probably deserves rudeness back, but you're just so embarrassingly wrong that I don't think that I even need to say anything else.
I don't see any implication that YouTube/Google is throwing away anything. They stated that they chose to transcode a selection of videos that the vast majority of viewers view. They didn't imply that they weren't going to transcode the remaining videos, but that they feel the number of videos that they have transcoded is sufficient enough to declare WebM as being the default codec.

Really, that statement isn't any more worrisome than the unstated fact that Google could potentially delete every video on YouTube and every single email in Gmail and Google Apps on a whim.
I have the opposite problem. I have too much time and nothing to work on. I just have "idea block". Whenever I do come up with something good, I google it and it is already there with a better design and a head start. Where do you get the creative spark? The ideas? I need some help.
Quite offtopic. But still I wanted to share this. ;)

Why working at home is both awesome and horrible - http://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home
So it's a reimplementation of data URIs, except it depends on two different sites being up and responding to replies, so it lacks even the tiny amount of usefulness data URIs have?

I can't think of a single use case where you would go, "Ah ha! Hashify would work perfectly for this!"
FAISS?
It can, and it is. One of the outcomes of the CERT C secure coding standard was the publication of TS 17961, which is an ISO document on C analyzability, which also went hand in hand with the Annex L (normative) section of the C standard.

Basically, the CERT rules all must be analyzable (though some require dynamic analysis instead of static analysis).
Interesting how many of these are founders. Seems like way more than in recent years. Startups have really hit the mainstream.
Here is a list of all music apps supported:
https://www.google.com/intl/en_us/chrome/devices/chromecast/...

I wish Spotify would integrate..
How does the system-wide workload of changing from UTC to TAI compare to adding the leap second? No idea about this stuff myself, just curious.
Hence my point... People use arrays like they would use ArrayList or Vector or any dynamic container created in the last 25 years and expect to be able to remove an object in one function call.
It rather depends where you are in the world. UK operators are fairly good at releasing updates - but a lot depends on how many units the carrier sold.

In the EU there's a trend away from bloatware. But, again, depends on your country / market.
I completely agree about Backbone. Backbone is a very simple tool. You can do a lot of damage if you're not yet a very good developer (or a very good Backbone developer), but if you care about your craft and the design of your application, it's fantastic. In fact, having the flexibility to make decisions about your application, forces you to make good design decisions. That is the mark of a great developer.

With these other frameworks, which might be very large or very slow or very complicated, they enforce that design on you. For most projects, who cares? Use whatever is fun for you to use. Learn 'em all. But at a certain scale, it matters deeply what you hitch your wagon to.
Corman Lisp is good as a learning tool for Lisp. I had tried it out some, a while earlier, and also corresponded with the creator, Roger Corman. Interestingly, some time ago, he was looking for Lisp developers for a project in Lisp.
Butterick is _awesome_. Thanks for calling this out!
no hacker?
sorry, can someone explain the point of this demo?

is the Nexus One producing output for the monitor on the left? what about the monitor on the right?

if so, why is he launching the video on the tiny Nexus One screen, instead of the large monitor screen on the left?
Why couldn't the spec just include the 'meat'. It's a simple protocol which can be summed up in a page or two. The current spec runs to 55 pages!

Be glad you don't study law! It's practically written in a different language to everyday, pragmatic English. Specs and math papers can descend to similar levels of readability, though RFCs, on the whole, tend to (in comparison) be quite readable IMHO.
there's already http://mindbloom.com
If such a result were proved, what would happen to the field of quantum computing?
Google doesn't index ... Google Groups?
What's a good way to sell a domain name?
Seems a little harsh, - it's written somewhat badly, but the comments about endianness are important - sure, a randomly generated 64-bit integer encoded as big-endian is, entropically speaking, no more useful than it's little-endian brother. It's also useless all by itself. As part of a system though, like a challenge/response system, it's important both ends of the system know how to interpret the data they are dealing with - so this is important.

At that point, defining the fact that you are sending a big-endian 64-bit integer It might seem trivial now that we write everything in Java, but endianness caused all kinds of portability problems in the early internet days when we started making different systems talk to each other, and made simple porting jobs difficult. It's how we ended up with network-byte-order instead of just using long ints and stuff like that - it's very easy to overlook.

In short, being specific about data formats matters.

And yeah, it would suck if they over-complicate things - let's not let that happen - we need simple protocols, but not too simple. It's okay if you can slightly abuse them if it means fast adoption (One can coax HTTP servers to sign into IRC and spam channels - but it's not a big enough problem to warrant redesigning the whole thing, right?)
>You have to turn the dial all the way to the stop and release it there. If you don't do that properly, you dial a wrong number.

I fail to understand why it's hard. You stick your finger in hole of the number that you want to dial. Then you rotate it clockwise until it hits the stopper[1] and release. None of the steps require any precise movement.

>You need to know that you have to let the dial return to its original position before you can dial the next number. If you don't, you dial a wrong number.

Might be confusing for the first time user, but it's not a hard thing to remember. As a whole, the instructions for operating it are relatively straightforward, on par with operating door locks and combination safes.

>There is no feedback regarding the digits you already dialed. If you're trying to dial a long number and forget which digit you're at in the process, you have to hang up and restart.

That's hardly exclusive to the rotary dial. I still do it with touch tone phones (usually the "dumb" ones without fancy LCD displays) and password inputs (since the characters are masked).

[1] The piece of metal above the "0": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rotarydial.JPG
Now imagine reading papers is your job and you try to skim through dozens of wannabe stand up comedians each day.
Letter: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2019/INIM-DP19005-76719.pdf

The timing and urgency seems interesting:

Letter issued: Nov 24

Due date: Nov 28 (Thanksgiving day in the US)

Extension can be requested no later than 5 days before due date (which isn't possible)

Is this normal for these types of petitions?

Edit: Oh jeez, I totally misread the Issued stamp (which is actually Oct 24). Ignore this comment.
Don't know about individuals anymore but in the East Coast area (NY/NJ), a family of 4 would cost you about $2000/Month for an OK plan.
— some lazy cynic
If India and China want to continue to export to the US & Europe than we have lots of power to make them.

https://issues.org/climate-clubs-to-overcome-free-riding/
We are spending more than $5T annually on fossil subsidies. All you have to do is divert that elsewhere.

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2019/05/02/Glo...
> Working memory has been likened to a mental scratch pad: you use it to keep relevant data in mind while you’re completing a task. (Imagine a cross-examination, in which a lawyer has to keep track of the answers a witness has given, and formulate new questions based on them.)

Isn't it weird that we have to use auxiliary,learned tools as an analogy to how an innate tool works, and not the other way around? It's not like we don't have a lot of experience with thinking and forgetting, ourselves.
No. Nobody will give you a refund. A replacement maybe, never ever a refund for the price you paid on the shop.
I believe the mystery is around the lost technology to build such things.
I wonder what is bill gates thinking or planning now. Or what happened between him and ballmer from his nomination.

Just looked after the reasons Bill Gates Stepped down, could not find a lot
Actually, he tripled revenues ($23 billion to $74 billion) and almost doubled profits.

Along with "what have the Romans ever done for us", Ballmer can also be forgotten for some billion-dollar business such as SharePoint and for making Microsoft a serious player in cloud computing ;-)
Sorry corresation, I should have been more specific that I wasn't referring to the current "Retina" era of screens since yes, all of the competitors (especially Samsung who makes the panels) have the same thing or are doing better.

I'm talking about when the first iPhone came out (2007?) and you couldn't find a multi-touch capacitive touch screen in any mass market device that was able to match the precision and responsiveness of what Apple delivered in v1 of their mobile phone. It was not for a few years that competitive devices came out with a screen that had the same level of responsiveness.
> Trying to impress people with your code rather than with your software is a sign of immaturity and bad engineering.

That depends on what you think is impressive. A project that has clear and simple code is impressive, in any way needlessly complex and difficult to understand code is not.
OH, yes, IBM started very early and veery "promising"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Congrats - some really impressive technology from a small team.
Ah, the secret cabal of computer scientists is at it again.
Please don't do this here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13174901 and marked it off-topic.
Yes. USA economy is not much better shaped than the same just before 1929 and in that case there is no Roosevelt in sight, instead a neoliberist gang that sometimes call themselves "world government" [1] they push a new New Deal that instead of pushing Keynesian economies (witch was not sufficient without WWII anyway) push even worst/stronger economic crush to maximize very few actors profits.

As always they need a war for economic reason, but that's just one aspect, there are also:

- China need of food who bring them to South America, the nearest and richest reserve for USA, and to reach their goal China need to expand on the seas where USA and UK base their dominance to a point some call them talassocracies;

- both USA and UK (and Canada, even if demographically can't do much and it's still under UK umbrella) are on the brink of a civil war due to neoliberst squeeze of prosperity. A war historically unite their populations accepting no matter what just to "help the Nation", typically against their own Citizens interests as a community, so "the nation against their Demos";

- EU was about to ditch from the anglosphere accepting one of the nth proposal from Russia fed. for a partnership with mutual benefits instead of the unfair one we have with USA and UK, again the war act as an effective excuse to stop such move;

- the war hide the covid scandal, at least postponed it and lowering it possibly to a level of the equal scandals from the recent past (see the press, just after H2N2 (1957), H3N2 (1968), SARS-CoV (2003), H5N1 (2004), H1N1 (2009), MERS-CoV (2012) to read them and the pattern of the "while" part);

- Russia itself is growing and aspiring to be back as an old empire, a very fragile but very resourceful, a thing both USA and UK can't accept, China is doomed by it's location and demography, Russia is not.

The neoliberist west actually live on "monetary constipation" entirely, Europe included, and in an era of scarce resources overthrown the table (Great Reset) hoping it suffice to gain a chance does dot work much. It might work against small and poor opponents, not against growing superpowers. That's is.

Oh, BTW that's a not much accepted topic on HN but since the recent opening to not HN-proper topics like politics: many USA and UK people fail to understand what socialists also from UK and USA have well understood in the past, witch means that their ruling class is not their country and actually it's acting against them, so try to be "patriotic" is the exact opposite of what most do, witch is supporting their clepocratic rulers, acting patriotically would be for them demanding the annihilation of neoliberist institutes, private-public cancers that devour their countries not only others ones. They fear if they are not united under their ruler they'll be lost not considering that actually is the exact contrary because no matter what people in the world suffer similar pain caused by similar criminals so others have no interests against them but against their rulers, witch means others have a common enemy.

[1] cfr: https://www.worldgovernmentsummit.org
Ultimately the problem of potentially missed opportunities for parallelism there in regular sync code too. If we take the author's point seriously, we should all be programming in a language that requires explicit continuations everywhere just to guard against accidentally serializing things.
I know even publishing the code for stuff like this is generous but it'd be so cool if the standard practice included publishing a little wasm binary blob as a library independent network with weights to play with without having to go through colab. (Many frameworks have a way of creating that automatically already, e.g. torchscript or jax jit.)
How is speech not a behavior?

Self-censoring is crudely how civilisation works. We accept some restraints on our biological urges for the safety and order collective society provides.
The article doesn't explain it well, but if you search for just `youtube-dl` (without the "site" prefix), the main youtube-dl.org site is still not present in the search results.
I worked in the advertising world for a few years and I would say about 50% of clients were confused by "lorem ipsum" text. (The number of clients confused by a UX mockup and an actual design prototype was around 90%).
And the environment is currently being destroyed with the current population of 7 billion. Add another half again, and you think its all fine?

And 97% of scientists agree that climate change is happening, and is probably caused by man.
I'm sure it won't be long until Google's self-driving car automatically sounds the horn when it detects an imminent collision with a pedestrian or car.
It depends, and there are factors which can make the usual rules not apply. The right team / the right story / the right moment / the right competitive dynamic among investors / etc means you can raise on, essentially, nothing else. If you have to ask whether this will apply in your case, it will not.

Anecdotally, the bar for a seed round in software is a) the product exists, b) real people are using it happily every day, and c) you're collecting proof points that it is a nascent business. (As distinct from a hobby project.)

If forced to put a number on it, for B2B SaaS, you've got either an LOI or contract for an anchor enterprise customer paying $50k+ or you've got thousands a month in low-touch revenue and it is increasing rapidly. Note that thousands is not tens of thousands. It may have been a while ago.

There are also huge X factors here. Location is one. Ask Matt Wensing about the frustrations of having the White House Situation Room as a paying client and being told that that was insufficient grounds to fund them because the TAM of WHSRs was 1 and, as they already had it, the investor didn't see the growth story.
I wouldn’t start with Two Scoops if you’re trying to learn “the basics”. Check out the MDN django tutorial
The mechanics are simple, but the effort is immense, and the product is wonderful. Seeing the little behind-the-scenes at the end made me wonder if there was some composition parser for laying out the glasses from midi arrangements. Did anyone here work on this?
Looking back at it, I used to pay factorio too much because my day job was not satisfying. I hated the office politics, and felt in a no-solution situation. After work, my understimulated brain needed a challenge, and this is where the addictive game logic kicks in.

In factorio, there is alway something to do to increase the efficiency of the project. No boss to tell you that your ideas were not selected for mysterious reasons, that you you should not be thinking about processes but only about your todolist, no favoritism or special privileges. You are in control.

Being convinced that all workplaces were the same and that efforts in the real world were useless, launching that rocket was my redemption. It was a way to send my excess brainpower somewhere.
In EU there's GDPR and right to be forgotten. If I forbid company to store my data they're obligated by law to remove it from their servers.