jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They didn’t make an appeal to authority but an appeal to commercial success, and they’re right on.

The fact that GTAO is so popular should make most HNers rethink what they know about the commercial necessity of optimization vs building a compelling product.
The helicopter makes up for thin atmosphere by rotating blades faster. Glider or a plane would have to move faster to get the necessary lift.

TBH in this environment I would make something that jumps like a flea instead :)
In footnote #6 you ask which devices are PMOS and which are NMOS. My guess is that the PMOS are at the bottom, so you have a NOR gate.

In typical CMOS processes the PMOS transistors have lower carrier mobility than NMOS transistors. Holes are slower than electrons.

So in standard cells the PMOS transistors are made physically larger to compensate. This helps the device output H->L and L->H transitions be more symmetric.
This is possible with PiHole too by setting some firewall rules. Example for Ubiquiti: https://www.derekseaman.com/2019/10/redirect-hard-coded-dns-...
Does this also imply lower energy consumption for running the ethereum network?
Quibble?

Fact is the vast majority of these contested repair scenarios are not necessary. Nor is the revenue they generate.

This is not a "you" thing at all.

It is about the necessary.

And that will drive people, who despite the mess our body politic is in right now, will ultimately see law changed, and with that the scope of permissible contracts change, and with that, be better able to accomplish the necessary.

Farmers, in particular, are necessary, and what they produce is necessary.

All that makes this a "we" problem.
We installed solar panels a few years ago. They take care of 100% of our electrical needs (and we live in Portland Oregon where it is cloudy 9 months out of the year). I haven’t had to pay more than $12/month, and that is the fee we are charged by PGE to be hooked into the grid so we can sell them our excess. One thing I’ve found out is that we no longer worry about electricity usage. I used to fret about lights being left on, but no longer. That doesn’t seem healthy, but when you are no longer worrying about paying for something you stop worrying about wasting it.
I still love using Arduino to this day, after first using it in collage many years ago. The simplicity is just great, and people without any experience in electronics or software can start using it very quickly. So I feel a little bit sad for this guy as he seems to not get the deserved credit, I certainly never heard of him before. I was aware of some connection between wiring and Arduino, but did not know Arduino basically ripped off his code/idea. That makes me feel a bit better about buying the cheaper Chinese knock offs, which I always felt a bit guilty about doing.
a lot of homesteading projects start by buying a RV or mobile home and park it on the land until you’ve built something. this solves the problem of throwing 50k in with your free land to get off the ground
31/11/2021 is quite ambiguous, I can’t find such a date on my calendar, by either notation.

I’ve scheduled cron jobs for February 31st, to have them tracked but disabled.
I'm not taking issue with the logic. If you'll read my comment again my problem is with the delivery.
Once again, the government fails to understand how the Internet works.
Once again Americans are or should be embarrassed by their legislators. This puts us in the same boat as China in that we are attempting to block bad knowledge by fiat rather than with education.

How can we decry repressive censorship regimes in other countries when we reserve the right to blackhole sites that we disapprove of on whatever grounds?
I hate to dump on someone's effort to motivate others, but this post is a dangerous extrapolation that combines Outliers [1] and the author's personal experience.

It promotes the idea of a magic number, and that hard work and time leads to returns (not true for the majority of startups). It encourages thinking like "Man I'm at the 950 hour mark, I'm almost there!", or even worse, planning one's product milestones around time spent.

One of the main attractions of the 10k hour rule is that there are few external stimuli that can negatively affect your learning/training.

If I decided to invest time in taking up the trumpet, I don't have to worry about competition with other budding trumpeters or whether BrassCrunch or Spitter News have effusive posts on my latest performances. I won't have to determine which percentage of the public 'gets' trumpets and plan how my playing should appeal to them.

With proper practice one hardly ever goes backward -- ability increases monotonically give or take a few plateaus. With startups you often go backward as you try to figure out your product-market fit and so on. Userbase size or revenue would not increase over time the way ability does when it comes to personal improvement.

1. I haven't actually read Outliers but I'm familiar with its thesis. If it's anything like Gladwell's other books, I recommend The Talent Code for better treatment of the subject matter. Norvig's http://norvig.com/21-days.html is also great reading.
Or write a tool that auto updates from a hosted blacklist and updates your local hosts file.
The whole blog reeks of a thoroughly muddled understanding of how people buy stuff on the web (or anywhere else). I'm not going to send you money because you're 'sexy'. I can just type "thong" into Google and look at sexy all day long for free.

However I MIGHT send you money if I thought you could improve my life in some way. And if you convinced me that you could make ME sexy, I'd probably send you a lot of money.

Whether or not you or your ads are sexy is of no interest.
"So, when it comes to WikiLeaks obtaining US diplomatic cables, either no one at the US state department had ever heard of cryptography, or they were too lazy to care, or –"

I think the author missed a fundamental point of encryption - if someone with access to the decryption key wants to leak the plain text, it is quite difficult to stop them.
I spent a few hours a while back writing up a reusable answer for this question, with lots of links from years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869.

The short answer is that not much has changed, including these perceptions of change (e.g. "HN is becoming 2005 Slashdot" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157485 - August 2013.)

If anyone wants to understand our thinking about political topics on HN, here are some links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902490

or you can search for "political overlap": https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

p.s. In case anyone's worried, no, we're not letting (or going to let) HN be taken over by politics. The proportions are stable and carefully regulated, although there is fluctuation, as with any stochastic process.
OT: What are some tips (or plugins) to be more productive on ST3?
I found this pretty fascinating (something like a mix of McLuhan, Marx, and Greenberg) and the comments here incredibly inane. There IS a substantial opinion being presented here about the reticence of tech critics to observe the more fundamental socioeconomic issues underlying many problems in tech, and the fact that people are complaining about $.50 words here would provide enough ironic fodder for even the shittiest tech critics.
Yes I believe the autonomy part is important and helps you learn stuff about managing expectations of all stakeholders in a product, getting work done in a distributed manner from other engineers is also an added skill (which IMHO is bloody frustrating to learn). Also I have learned a lot on maintainability and the cons of technical debts. But when something that excites you most is the joy of learning or building something new, the problem here becomes an ever growing chunk of time that goes into maintaining, supervising or corrective processes rather than creation process. Perhaps this would be true for most places... It's just that for quite sometime when you wake up in the morning and start wishing it was a holiday... something needs to be done I guess.
Thanks for sharing your experiences though. It helps to know I am not alone in a dilemma over such a situation...
And I suspect that you could combine video feeds from several lower speed cameras to give you an effective 1000FPS.
This article is about project management. It also utilizes the abbreviation PM, which in tech, also means Product Manager. Some thoughts:
- PM is more likely to mean Product Manager than Project Manager
- But Project Manager != Product Manager
- They are two very different roles.
- Please don't confuse the two (not saying the article confused them, but it is a common point of confusion).
- Project Management is about tasks, good Product Management is about leadership / product sense. Project Management is typically a small part of Product Management. But many Product Managers may not be Project Managers. Project Management can also be part of Engineering, and when that is the case, they might work with Product Managers, but they, themselves would not be Product Managers.
Yep, seems like fiction is having a harder and harder time keeping ahead of fact.
We use it a lot - we receive requests of up to 5 M size of .Net structures, and just wade through all the strange class-relations with Prolog :)

I read that in 2014, 1/3 of all flight bookings in the word went through (Sicstus) Prolog.

It has its uses, and I like working in it :)
My assumption is unbeatable "liveness check" at the retinal scanner[1]. Looking for iris contractions, etc. Can you present a functioning iris with a custom retinal image behind it?

[1] Which kind of makes the rest of the system moot. Also, good point about gait recognition.
I've generally sided with Balaji in his feud with the NYTimes, but that's a pretty damning thing to say. Even more concerning now that a16z has its own media organization and is basically trying to cut out existing media like the NYTimes.
Other earplugs could have the same issue, but cases are distributed over a wider range of distinct support cases.

Maybe this isn't down to something obvious with the audible sounds, but interference, or amplification of some other thing the Airpods radiate. See old mattresses picking up radio signals.

Maybe it's a hit-piece on the Apple stock.

Maybe this is just numbers and chance.

I wouldn't straight dismiss it, since it's not exactly unbelievable and Apple has a history of delivering innovation without paying due diligence to/testing the not UI details.
“BSD is dead, happynacho confirms it”
> "... complete archive of ... Usenet"

<sotto voce> Usenet postings were never meant to be permanent. I was there in its heyday and nobody expected their postings to live beyond the spool expiration lifetime.
Don't forget alcohol. There was a period where every single movie had the main characters sipping big round glasses of red wine every day. And of course all the studies and articles about red wine being good for you. This became so normal we don't even think about it.
> No ISP I have used in recent years does. They have all been switched off, with the ISP citing low levels of use.

The event that lead to a lot of ISPs dropping their NNTP service was when Andrew Cuomo, when he was the attorney general of New York, made a deal with several ISPs to block access to child porn[1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/technology/10iht-net.1.13...
Parent is joking with the meme of “but I could build this produc myself with open source libraries!”
If you're trying to cancel out a loud 100dB+ environment, that means the driver needs to be blasting at at least 100dB.

Any harmonic distortion in the headphones will be introduced relative this, as well as being in the higher frequencies where it's less noticable, but still may cause hearing loss.

I've used ANC IEMs instead of proper hearing protection around loud machinery before and although it may have felt quieter, my ears still "rang" afterwards so I was causing permanent hearing damage. People who think ANC "sounds quieter" and use it instead of proper hearing protection (or just turn the music too loud) will definitely suffer hearing loss, though not directly because of the ANC.

I am not an audiologist, but an interesting similar issue happens with our eyes. If you wear tinted lenses with no UV filter, your body will be happy that it looks darker, and open your iris more. Now since your iris is open more, you actually cause more UV damage to your eye without noticing.
I remember this being a big story when polarized 3D movie glasses came out and people were keeping them on outdoors.
It's a binary package manager vs homebrew that downloads the source, patches it and compiles it AFAIK.
> The multiverse hypothesis helps, by giving a plausible answer which avoids belief in gods.

But as long as there is no proof of the existence of these multiple universes it's still magical thinking.
The closet Chinese translation would probably be:

As relevant to me as fart (关我屁事)
Does anybody know where the founders come from? if they were known from before?

Asking because it sounds like Google was after the team more than anything… 5 months doesn't leave much time for them to prove what they're capable of, so I'm curious.
That depends what kind of a position he's after.

For a creative job in advertising, for example, it might be exactly right.
Thanks, It was helpful information. As said before IANAL.

That being said, I realize Dropbox(or Corporate entities in general) is not government and/or legal system and it is not required of them to follow laws, which are applicable for governments.

However, Laws are legal representation of morals/ethics, which are applicable for every entity in the society, for its effective operation.

While the law is codified as Presumption of Innocence, its underlying sentiment, from moral point-of-view, Judge/punish based on definitive actions not speculations, are applicable for all entities of the society.
What would they be able to do with their lawyers? There is no case.
> France has four times the population density of the United States.

Fair enough. But that doesn't refute entirely the idea that collective transportation could (not necessarily would) be more efficient / ecological.
Why does Bitcoin have to be something most people want or need to be successful?
No. The most cursory google search would show that Bitcoin is the best performing asset the last 10+ years.

Tesla, Square and Micro Strategy aren’t investing billions of dollars in a pump and dump scheme…
The job of their marketing team is to convince them to care
That’s an interesting take. What is the difference between building a social media bubble and hanging out with friends because of shared interests? It’s almost as if social media comes with this intent that you’re supposed to confront yourself with the world or you are becoming blind, while this can often be a very alien concept in the real world that few intentionally do.
> What can fit in the laptop without a SD card slot that couldn't fit with one present?

More battery.
Gmail does say they use image proxies. Is there some specific way those tools are getting around this? Just unique image names per sent email? https://gmail.googleblog.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.html
If this gets industry-leading battery power, it sounds like an excellent option. Would also be fascinating to see a wrap-around screen someday :)

Only one major request: reconsider the arrow keys to match the current generation MacBook Pro. That space above the left and right arrow keys is priceless!
Looking at the dev tools, auth.enombic.com/authorize is being pinged about once a second. Seems like an Oauth request gone awry?
That's because the game rounds the values to 1 USD, so for altcoins that stay way below 1 USD all the time all values get rounded to zero, resulting in a flat shape.
Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany just pledged to take intensive care patients from northeast France:

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/covid-19-baden-wuerttemberg-w...
There are true externalities in a car accident.

If you have to shut down your business, that's mostly impacting your business in a very direct way.
I am pretty sure I already beat corona. I never was at a doctor or tested for anything.

My symptoms were a bit unusual from what I read. I never taken my temp. but I do not think I had any fever, because I know what it feels like.

I had a crazy increaeed heart rate and I threw up like 6 times, tried to drink water, threw up again. I could not sit or stand up for just 5 minutes. It forced me to lay down and I felt powerless and helpless because it felt like I gonna collapse from just going 5 meters to the toilet. My head felt weird, I had no trouble breathing, no couth, nothing felt wrong with my lungs. But I had urges to take deep breaths so probably not enough oxigen in my blood. I constantly woke up because of my pumping heart, as soon as I only sit I had to lay down again. Slept about 15 hours without deducting wake up breaks. After that I recovered pretty fast.
Clearly easyJet play the dirty game of privatising profits and nationalising losses.
They have the right to have objective to give dividend. However no reason why the tax payer should bear their management decisions. If they need loan then let investors do their duties...or not.
He is not wrong. Investors balance their portfolio regularly irrespective to dividends or buybacks. Corporate dividend/buyback decisions don't dictate how much they own.
Those who joined in the American revolution were also traitors. Sometimes traitors are right.
I don't have an Archos (and actually have never seen one) so I don't know but it's possible it doesn't force you to organize your music yourself: the post you replied to says one option was to dump a directory hierarchy.
Great article, but repost from over a year and a half ago (and article is from 2003):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=561311
Yeah I guess you're right, looking back at this. I mean, why not just give the original drive back? There's no good reason. You're right.
Right, which is why he proposes spending money on developing legitimate business in the country directly rather than giving aid to corrupt local officials.
13 has pervasive cultural significance, but I agree that 19 seems as "rare" as 17. Perhaps at a glance 19 is less obviously prime than 17. Also note that 17 and 19 are both ages at which nothing really notable happens. 16 is driving age for lots of states and 18 is a big "legal" milestone.
It's good of him to remind us not to live in the clouds, I guess, but I think he's hitting a bit of a straw man here. I just finished teaching a CS2 course where a recurring theme is that big-O complexity isn't and can't be the only thing you consider when choosing an algorithm. My understanding is that this is typical---that this idea is usually covered somewhere in the first couple terms of a standard CS major. Admittedly, I didn't talk specifically about memory paging (since they won't really hit that until their OS/Networking class next year), but it's a fairly natural extension of the tradeoffs I did train them to consider.

Put another way, if presented with this article, I'd expect my students not to say "ZOMG what have I been doing??" but rather "Ah, another thing to look out for!" And I suspect this is typical of modern CS2 courses, not to mention more advanced algorithms courses.
I found this article massively disappointing just because it drowns out the central, important question (is technological progress really accelerating and to what end?) in all this human-interest nonsense about the quaint fervency of futurists like Kurzweil. Fervent belief doesn't always mean false belief, and its not clear to me how the author has earned the right to this apparent condescension. The article gives people who don't care to think about the future consequences of present developments an easy out, which, when you think about it, is a good way of helping to ensure that the very people we're laughing at, and are slightly worried about, are left to follow their own agenda.
I skimmed some of the articles and found it disappointing that some people feel so strongly against sports.

As a child, I also didn't like sports - mainly because I was asthmatic, unable to (or so I thought), and therefore apathetic to it.

As a teenager, as my asthma receded, I came to enjoy sports. Now, practising martial arts, I really see the value in always pushing and analysing oneself, and likewise, pushing others, competing, and analysing them to see how I can overcome them. Meanwhile, I hope and expect they are doing the same.

Experiences like those that the gay high school football player suffered ( http://www.sportssuck.org/gayfootball.htm ) do make me understand how some people can come to dislike sports though... however, it's not the sport to blame here, but a cruel culture of intolerance.
Data is indexed to Greplin's servers
fun to read profiles, and to compare with you friends :)
Ah, I thought it was a direct contract with the government, not a contracted person from an agency, my mistake.

Of course, I guess I should have assumed that, there aren't many direct government jobs for this type of thing anymore, it seems.
Historically, I've been accessing documentation as an administrator rather than a programmer.

There are a couple of documentation habits that have driven me half mad over the years.

* Broken Usage Examples:

It's bad enough when an example demonstrating some now deprecated feature hangs around in the introductory text that every new user will cut their teeth on. It's an immediate vote of no confidence when typos or plainly busted syntax makes it into the docs.

* Confusingly Abstract Examples:

Please no ./foobar -f foo -b bar -i foobar.foo -o barfoo.bar. Just paste an actual usage example, explain it and be done with it. A cousin to this is the use of overly complex "Look how clever I am!" examples.

* Explanation By Analogy / Google:

Saying things like "configuration files use ____ syntax" without summarizing or at the very least linking to a definitive reference for "____ syntax".

* Insane Defaults:

This is really a design concern, but if we're already past that point and destructive / poor performing default behavior is the chosen path at least clearly document that fact.

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On a related note, when I'd just started to augment my sysadmin background with code I saved time by writing scripts, small utilities and general automation.

As I've learned more, my savings increasingly come from being able to jump into the code to diagnose the odd behavior of poorly documented programs instead of endless profiling, searching and experimentation.
Who said you have to reveal that you were spying illegally?

Just saying "we have this on you", this being something that can stop a career of a politician, or break his marriage, for example, will paralyse most people. And of course they make psychological assesments about who are most vulnerable and most likely to respond well to blackmail.

Second, you don't have to reveal anything. It's not like the agency himself has to do the blackmail and declare who they are and what they did. They can delegate that to some associate, who might not even know who is giving him commands. Or they can do it with anonymous messages ("We have this picture of you. You don't know who we are, but vote that on this law").
Boeing bought Narus in 2010 http://boeing.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=20295&item=1294

That same Narus was who enabled the NSA to illegally spy on telecoms last decade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

Would you trust a "secure" phone from people like that?
Links to another 24ways post about using RGBA, which I wasn't especially familiar with - worth checking out: http://24ways.org/2009/working-with-rgba-colour
I didn't realize Energy Bulletin had such a sense of humor. All they're missing is a RickRoll link.