jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm European. I have never been in the U.S

That's Nokia's problem as well. The cell-phone market in the US is much different from Europe and the rest of the world. It is my understanding that in Europe and the rest of the world people by phones (usually in cash) and service separately (often prepaid), so cell phone makers have only one customer to please: the end user.

In the US, where we are addicted to credit, people buy phones primarily through the cell phone provider for a big discount in exchange for signing a 1 or 2 year contract. Since the selection of phones drives the profit for the cell phone provider (See AT&T and the iPhone for an example), the phone company has a huge stake in making sure the phones fit their image. So the cell phone maker has 2 customers - the phone company and the end user. Every carrier has a signature phone: AT&T - iPhone, Verizon - Droid, Sprint - EVO 4G. These phones become almost synonymous with the carrier, and less with the brand (iPhone being the big exception).

Nokia's problem for the last decade is that they have been used to pleasing only the end user, that they have not been able to win over the American cell phone providers. A good example is the late 90's, where Americans had moved on to flip phones, but Nokia was still pushing brick/candy bar phones. They are starting to innovate, but they still haven't captured the heart of the American cell phone buyer.

The other hurdle for Nokia is CDMA. I'm not sure if they have CDMA versions of their phones (this is probably because they'd have to work with Sprint and Verizon to do so). They'd have to retool most of their phones to work in the US, which might not be worth it if the cell phone companies aren't on board.
> the next step is to blackout commercial players

Yeah, my point is they have the order wrong. They're shutting down residential first with the associated health risks instead of shutting down commercial which will just send people home for a day or three.
>But one would expect that protection from days 21-41 without a second dose is comparable to protection from days 14-21.

I'm not sure that's enough for two reasons.

First, There's a study I linked to earlier, suggesting the 1st dose antibodies aren't good against the variants[0]. That would mean we need the booster ASAP.

Second, if the original efficiency is low, we're putting people at risk longer even if it stays about the same in 21-41. Imagine the 33% figure is correct. I don't think FDA would have approved the vaccine if efficiency < 50%, so should we keep people with such a low protection for another 20 days?

[0]
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-226857/v1
Yes! Me too.
Check this out: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~maxion/
I think that's a very charitable interpretation of events. Realistically the EU negotiated on behalf of the 27 member countries to try to get the best deal on price, and perhaps more importantly, to avoid the inevitable tensions which would follow from one member country securing more than another member country. This process slowed down the negotiation process.

Whether there is any truth in the EUs certification being conducted differently is a bit moot given they have approved the same vaccines based on the same trial data.
Agreed. But given the lack of production this was an easier deal to make for Israel than for say all of the EU, no matter what the price, those vaccines are not available in that quantity.
Companies are already hiring nation-wide. How many SFBay employees were born there, and how many relocated from all other parts of the country for a job?

As for global: global competition has been upon us for decades now. Most big tech companies have foreign offices in countries like India.

Finally, you are mistaken if you believe pay will drop so much. Maybe you won't make the $300k you used to make in SF, but $200k gives you a damn big home and high quality-of-life in most of suburban Texas - especially since you won't have to pay crazy California income taxes.

You also won't have to deal with crime if you can go literally anywhere in the country. There are thousands of small towns and suburbs that have effectively zero crime while not being very expensive. In general, most serious QoL problems disappear once you can choose to live anywhere.
I'd say if you can provide a better vertical search, say for java/scala programmers, that's s worthwhile endeavor. Also, many folks think Solr / lucene /sphinx is the only game in town, but Riak and indexTank certainly don't buy that.
Following our own advice is hard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil
It took me a minute. Apparently, I have a dirty mind...
Not if you know what you're doing. A good practice is to shutdown any switch interfaces that aren't in use. Once you've done that, you can implement a rudimentary access policy using MAC based ACLs. While a MAC based ACL won't prevent an attacker from gaining access to your network like a real authentication system (802.1X), it will help you notice the disruption. If you shut all ports that aren't in use, and you implement MAC ACLs, someone will notice the disruption. You'd have to unplug a network device in order to get an active port, and if you plugged in a hub, you'd have to spoof a MAC address, which would disrupt traffic to/from the device belonging to the MAC you just stole.

Even rudimentary measures can help secure a network to some degree.
I remember when I was in middle school and used to watch his show "The Broken". I wonder how many people on HN have heard of it.

I found episode 3 on youtube. I think there are only 4 or 5 episodes, but they are hilarious and informative. He even interviewed Kevin Mitnick in this episode. This was really before he was famous. I think he started Revision 3 after that, and then went on to start Digg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcWByfwkf4k
Even if he never does, we're lucky to have the source to many of his VMs available :)
I can trigger Google's Captcha simply by using Chrome's Incognito Mode plus a SSH-based SOCKS proxy. No automation at all. Which is probably against the "normal usage profile" build for data Google gets from me despite Incognito Mode. Well, for starters, dropping Cookies all the time is probably an indicator. Not sure if they can somehow see my SOCKS tunnel - I hope they can't, but am not basing my security on that.
I wonder if it's possible to do things that others don't like, but doesn't pay - that then ends up becoming something that does pay. I wonder why PG didn't charge his friends for writing papers.

Not sure where this is going, but imagine something like the first public musician. Or the first ever commissioned artist. It must've been valuable, because someone funded them to make it happen.
The study is specifically stating that of groups of mice consuming similar diets with the same caloric intake, the group that ate whenever they wanted became obese and unhealthy while the windowed eaters did not. That, I think, is scientific evidence that strict caloric regulation is not a complete solution as implied by you first commment. I think the researchers would agree that the difference between obese and healthy is not the result of a micro optimization.

The point I was making is that the equation isn't calories_in + calories_out = weight_loss/gain. It is at least x(calories_in) + y(calories_out) = weight_loss/gain where x and y are complex physical and chemical variables that we haven't completely teased out yet. One less than insignificant part of x seems to be related to the time window of consumption. A small change in x or y would result in significant improvements over the course of a life.
That's why Elon's plan is to let the endpoints move instead.
Somebody has to actually write the new functionality, and then many more people have to learn the new functionality.

Anyway, this thought experiment has basically been done. "Ditch the backwards compatibility, start with a new language, make it fast by design, and rewrite all the packages that make it super popular." It's called Julia. And it's popular among some people, but for a lot of others, the maturity of the Python ecosystem still makes it a lot more attractive despite the performance & multi-language issues.
It's fine in en_US too, but it means something like "X let Y smoke his crack pipe", not "X punched Y". Oh English.
CNN has one near the RNC.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/congress-electoral-co...
Georgia law doesn't require having a fixed address to vote. You need to maintain GA residence. The full text of the relevant statute is here[0]. Note section 15b.

The form requires an address for contact and precinct information. People without a permanent address can use a common place of residence (where they can receive mail), such as a shelter, or if they don't have one of those, they can register in the park they sleep in [1].

Ultimately, it is up to the district registrar to determine if the residency is legitimate, but this is decided not based on the existence of a conventional fixed address, but based on the demonstrated intent to reside in the state (and more specifically the municipality).

[0]: https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2010/title-21/chapter-2...

[1]: https://faq.georgiavoter.guide/en/article/how-to-register-to...
By relational data do you mean data that has no nesting or arrays? Or data that you always want to query with a join? Something else?
This column is 25 years old. It's surprisingly fresh. He mentions that he finds it shocking. I think it's a measure of societal language change that I don't find it shocking. Of course, race politics are very different in America today, and language has moved (in some ways) from the mid 80's. No woman is a 'salesman' in America today, but in the 80's this was not so, and in fact was the subject of vigorous debate.

I did find it fascinating to see race forced on a person by language as we force gender in English, and I don't think that element of his our language has changed much at all in the last 25 years.

Nr, Ns. and Niss where unbelievably brilliant language additions, Ble / Whe a little less so to me.

Also, "One small step for a white, one giant leap for whitekind" was just perfect. Sorry ladies; I wish the space race had some benefit for you, instead it was only mankind.
I worked on Wall Street starting in the mid 80s and with and on trading desks since the mid 90s. I've built the technology for equity trading desks and program trading desks. I was the business manager for a couple of program trading desks. I've created trading products (most notably a dark pool that mixed retail and institutional order flow).

I am a big believer that individual investors can't beat CAPM and shouldn't be picking stocks. I think the ideal portfolio is a mix of treasuries, equity and debt index funds, and angel investments.
I would say that Genovese was an important incident that helped develop theories about social proof. Certainly the popular presentation of the story makes a great parable about social proof.

But I don't see how the actual events are evidence for social proof. Generally the neighbors either did act, or else had no reason to believe that anything more was going on than a minor drunken argument. Neither suggests that people think it is OK to not act when they see others not acting.

A much better example would be something to do with crowd psychology. Like the bandwagon effect, or groupthink. (The Bay of Pigs fiasco may be a good example.)
It just launched today so it is in it's very early stages. Post some items you may have laying around to see how easy it is to use.

Having no categories to browse in the UI feels a bit strange at first, but imagine if google had categories? I believe Craigslist built it wrong from the beginning, but people are very use to that structure.
I wonder if the continuous development/deployment model that they use is somehow responsible.
Are we talking about gross or net here? It isn't clear. But yes, most capital intensive ventures are going to get a big gross.
If you are interested in learning about finance and economics, hands down the best source of learning through osmosis is the Bloomberg On The Economy podcasts by @tomkeene_ Look into it. All he does is interview really really smart people from Wall Street and nobel laureates in economics... really good show where the more you listen to it the more things start to make sense. If you have questions about other educational resources shoot me a tweet @petoveritas
In legend and lore, a "hedge mage" is a magic user who learned hands on by trial and error, as opposed to the ivory tower education of "proper" wizards. As most of my techy "magic" is self taught, it seemed to fit.
I don't think the App Store is necessarily fostering a new generation of entitlement minded people. I think those people have and will always exist no matter what. IMHO I always prefer paying for apps, and I never complain about the prices that are in the App Store. I prefer to support the hard work that goes into the quality apps that I use. I also don't feel it's fair or right for me to complain about a product when it's provided for free. I think Marco made an excellent decision.
No. Ads in the notification area are unacceptable noise -- an abuse of the system. I would uninstall any app that did it, tell anyone who would listen to install it and probably scream at my phone for a while if an app started doing it.
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Now would you be able to forget your caffeine?

Yes, of course I can, and do. Why would you assume that I'm somehow dependent upon caffeine?
isn't herd mentality exactly piling votes onto something that's already popular? If so, then herd mentality has been growing while we haven't had visible votes.
The 100m figure and some of the facts in the article are simply not true or are already old news by this time. I will state as I have in the past - I'm an engineer at Myspace (correct capitalization now) but my opinions do not reflect that of my employer. I think it's public knowledge that they are in a sales process, but nobody is throwing numbers around here or company names. Mike Jones (the CEO) is doing a great job of internal transparency and it's pretty obvious that there is no set price. If it was as easy as just throwing down $100m as the top bid, somebody already would have swooped in and bought it.
Genomics!
Equity allocation is not about the VC's interests to a first approximation in the same way that getting VC funding is not a marker of success for a company, just a milestone. A founder's double digit percent of a $80 million exit is a good exit. And if each of four founders gets 18% or each gets 14% because there was an additional 16% allocated to equity for hiring doesn't change that qualitatively.

When a company is structured and run primarily for the interests of VC, shared interests have already flown the coop and it's about picking through the bones hoping for some meat.
Also, by the way, it's been quite obvious that nature doesn't care how long does it take to solve "nature's equations" in a computer.

Pick any topic: electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, even simpler things like fluid mechanics.

Try simulating a pebble dropping into a pool, only recently it's been possible to do it in real time (and possibly cheating a little).

The wi-fi signal spreading through your house and reflecting in walls. Nature just "does it"

Protein folding, instantaneous in real life, it's solving the Schroedinger equation in real time, for a very complex system. Now see in Folding@home how long does it take.

I'm not dismissing that there might be a computational complexity element in nature, but so far it seems that it doesn't. Maybe in LHC scales it does?
So why does Google need a PhD to be a manager? Or is everyone there a PhD? Seems like a waste of all that education.
"High Production Values" implies, to me, cameras that cost many tens of thousands of dollars, several cameramen, dozens of other crew, etc. One person working extremely hard for many years with the most expensive cameras available on a high personal budget speaks _quality_ to me, but I would still use the phrase "Low Production Value". So I'd use that phrase reverently in this case, not derogatorily.

It's pretty awesome to hear the backstory too, so thanks for sharing =) I think I have a new documentary to watch!

EDIT: In other words, at least to this layperson...

> "Production Value" is a very specific term - it is almost always used to indicate skill or attention to the final product.

... isn't true for me. I use that phrase to refer to budget and equipment, not skill and heart. I think the same is true of most other people outside of the film world.
How big is each event? How much indexing? How much infrastructure?
That is generally true, but not completely so. A number of android engineers develop directly on Mac, and all iOS app developers do so because there isn't an alternative. And there are some weird engineers like me who mount their linux disks on their macs via nfs and only use their linux boxes to do command line work (builds, running servers, etc.).
Thanks so much for the kind words!

The best part of this message is that if you were someone I knew and thus could trust to only say nice things about me you would offer to buy me gin instead of beer. ;-)
at this point I am so invested in it that I can already not sleepy over it!
Google is an international company and in places like Switzerland (where Google has a large engineering presence), under applicable law, trade unions have the right to visit employees at their place of work and to inform them. Be it in offices, construction sites or other business premises. This also includes access with electronic means of communication such as the intranet. So at least for Zooglers, the American dog-eats-dog mentality has no bearing on their contractual relationship with Google.
Wasn't NordVPN hacked recently?
Deleting legacy code you don't understand is the best way to remove fixes for bugs you didn't know you had.
I guess ideally this should be a tradeoff in the hands of the developer right? I should be able to produce debug builds quickly so that I can iterate quickly, and if I want a super-optimal release build it's fine if it takes longer.
I'd wish that not every other article I read these days feels the need to focus on detecting misogyny or racism. It is absolutely important to identify the ways in which outdated world views led to injustices and move towards a brighter future but there's a fatigue setting in with it taking center stage in every discussion. Particularly troubling is the tendency towards wanting to separate the art from the artist whenever the artist held problematic views. It's a result of a cognitive dissonance setting in when you can see value or beauty in someone's work but don't agree with some aspects of that person. But the person behind the work is an integral part of it and vice-versa. If you hold someone's output in high regard but find objectionable fragments in it or in their life story you can't just go dissecting it into those pieces you wish to keep and discard the rest. I guess what irks me is the classification of Lawrence's essays as "indefensible". A view can be troublesome, even reprehensible, but to deny it representation by calling it indefensible is setting up a dangerous precedent where anyone can be silenced or their opinions simply cherry-picked to find what fits our desires. And that's no different than the biases that are railed against.
Google is a political entity. Anyone controlling info flow is.

There are lot of people in Google deluding themselves that this is not true, while taking decisions that effect millions of people. Who elected them? That contradiction will always create political tensions.

If they don't want to be political they should stick to tech like phones and browsers and sell off Search and YouTube. Until that happens don't call polical objections and resistance wrong.
Simple solution: go work for someone else and let them worry about all the infrastructure so you can write code.
Thats a good point. I suppose you could use your taste as a guide to what you may be good at. But, like you said, there is that gap between investing the time and discovering if you are skilled at it.
I wonder if the thin cylinder shape is to blame and if it would be easier to land if it sported a stabler shape. Can aerodynamics be compatible with something like a tetraedron mesh?
Having to remember & type a timestamp has much more mental overhead (planning & memory) than "scan/scroll back to last block of vertical whitespace".

That's why suggestions of either named-marks or back-searches aren't considered equally-attractive alternatives to marking the scrollback with a batch of <return>s.
Kayaking at least (not sure how much concentration pottery needs) would give you a _lot_ of time to just stare at the beauty of nature and think. Now this may or may not result in anything, but if you are reasonably intelligent and trying to improve yourself but you are lacking the 'downtime' to just let your mind wander then kayaking might do the trick for you. Best combined with a good book for when you're in camp, so that you can read some other bright people's ideas and incorporate them into your thinking process, the pros and cons of what they're saying for your own life etc.
I think the following helps:

1) Start with earlier form-based poetry. Free verse is a hard place to start because it's difficult to even know what to look for if you're starting somewhere that open.

2) Find subject matter that interests you. I know that I associated poetry with the subject matter of romantic love for the longest time. There is a lot of that out there and I find it repetitive. I enjoyed epic poetry and more philosophical verse more and this really helped.

3) Read it out loud. For all the theory, poetry is written music. Reading it out loud helps to find the rhythm and to "feel" the pacing.

4) Short pieces often lend themselves to multiple read-throughs. Almost like a piece of code. I seldom read code starting on line 1 through line N. I usually take a few passes looking for different things. Short form verse is a lot like that.

5) "How to Read Poetry Like a Professor" by Thomas Foster is a good crash course if you really want to have a starting point.

Remember that you're inundated with poetry. Nearly every pop, rock, rap or metal song you've ever heard in your life is poetry with musical accompaniment (music + poetry is a combination as old as history, near as I can tell).
x86’s instruction decoder suffers from its inability to parallelize some things. Because instructions have no fixed boundary,[a] something has to process the bytes sequentially. Even if they can be read from memory in massive amounts, something still has to sit there going byte by byte to find the boundaries.

The good news is, once those boundaries are found, uops can be generated. But that ~5% or so of die space is always running full tilt (provided there’s no pipeline stalls).

I’m sure Intel and AMD have put a massive amount of work into theirs to make it as quick as possible,[b] but it’s still ultimately a sequential operation.

With RISC-like architectures like ARM and RISC-V, you don’t need that boundary detector. Just feed the 2 or 4 bytes straight into the decoders.

[a]: Unlike ARM and RISC-V which have fixed 2 or 4 byte encodings (depending on processor mode), x86’s instructions can be anywhere from 1 through 15 bytes.

[b]: Take the EVEX prefix for example. It is always 4 bytes long with the first one being 0x62. So, once you see that 0x62 byte after the optional “legacy prefixes”, you can skip 3 bytes and go to the opcode. But then you need to decode that opcode to see if it has a ModR/M byte, decode that (partially) to see if there’s an SIB byte, decode that to see if there’s a displacement (of 1, 2, or 4 bytes), etc. And then, don’t forget about the immediate (which can be 1, 2, 4, or (in one case of MOV) 8 bytes).