jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A actually use one file per value!

I have to partition the ext4 filesystem with type small othervise I run out if inodes before diskspace!

Here is what it looks like in action: http://root.rupy.se/link/type/task/847068548006606746

The front end: http://talk.binarytask.com
I'm glad this has been done more recently, and even been expanded to other genres, like the upcoming Knockout City which will apparently feature some sort of rollback netcode[1]. I've been playing Lethal League Blaze, and playing against people with 80 to 150 ping is possible, and doesn't feel horrible which is wild, since in other genres that have to rely on dedicated servers to be somewhat decent like CS:GO or Valorant, anything above 50 or 60 ping (to the server, not the other players) is pretty jarring to experience.

[1]https://www.nintendoenthusiast.com/knockout-city-is-the-wild... (only mentioned in one sentence)
Some people upgrade to a new TV as often as every two/three years. You just need to find them on gumtree just before christmas. Thats how I got my big dumb LG.
I don't think people share your reverence for wall street.. or the oh so sophisticated financial risk management. The 2001 dotcom bubble was market wisdom? We're the 2008 frauds better than the "gamblers"? People shorting a stock more than a hundred percent thought through everything?

Its besides the point, but, infact the whole of the USD and the American economy is one massive ponzi scheme ripe a massive crash any decade... Printing and exporting USDs with nothing to back it except the military is not going to last forever..

Speculation vs Investment can only be determined on a trade to trade basis. It is just too simplistic and frankly impossible to judge the motivations of markets and claim to know intentions of all the traders of a given market.. so I'm not buying, markets are not speculation only these crypto guys are..
I think we are missing the main point: NFTs are all about speculation. You buy an NFT not because you want to own it (and hang it in your virtual residence in the meta verse), you buy it because you hope you can sell it later at a higher price. Marketplaces are taking a fee for every sell and saying who owns what (ridiculous because you can check that yourself... but not everyone knows how blockchain works).

It’s like art in the real world. The ones who own a Picasso, sure enjoy it by showing it to guests... but the real pleasure comes when they are able to sell it for double the price they have paid for it.
I really like the iOS version too. With a shortcut I back up all my photos straight to my own SFTP server.
One could look for good arguments to frame this in a better way, though I believe there might be a simpler way to explain: follow the money.

Companies and people in the West don't care what happens elsewhere, they're just in for the money. There's money to be made in Turkey as well, and Facebook doesn't care about specifics of how.

For the common people this all sounds fair and strategic on the surface level, though I'm skeptical of its sustainability. Just like how it's hard to be rich in a poor and sketchy neighbourhood, it could be hard to remain a free state in a planet where many of your neighbours aren't.
Not really. I can buy bitcoins on localbitcoins and it's pretty decentralized.
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Sorry :)
When I was homeless I met a guy also on the streets. He was given a council flat (as I later was) and moved in.

When I visited him some months later, his place was a tip. He hadn't managed to adjust to coming off the streets. His electric had been disconnected as he'd failed to pay the bill (he received benefits to cover this), and he cooked on a camping stove on the floor of the living room. There was trash everywhere.

He just wasn't ready to come off the streets.

He had gone onto the streets after a nervous breakdown, brought on by divorce from his wife (I think... I have some difficulty remembering who experienced what). He'd lost it all, and was no longer mentally equipped to deal with life. He remained charming, intelligent and good company, but just a shade of whom he must've once been. Never saw him again, but his struggle to adjust hit me hard.

I remember my own challenge with the adjustment. For a while I too lived in just the living room... a thin mattress on a broken tile floor, a camping stove and a walkman for company. But I'd seen that this wasn't what you do, and that you had to form patterns, new routines, and spread out in the space, compartmentalize living functions to different spaces and form new routines around those functions.

I used to have a calendar on the wall to tell me what day it was (since I no longer saw the rhythm of the world around me), and it would remind me when to pay bills, or run chores. It was the little things that I now take for granted that were difficult for me. Why go out? Why speak to anyone? The things I had needed for so long (a dry warm space, the ability to bathe when I chose, a safe place to sleep, food when I needed it) I now had in abundance, so why do anything? Why even pick up the trash? Or make the bed?

I've believed since coming off the streets that it is less about physically providing the roof over a head, and is more to do with providing the support to help someone or targeting only those who are ready to leave the streets. Both sound horribly ambiguous and no doubt would leave space for a truck to drive through if enacted as policy, but the essence is that a person who has spent time on the street needs help to have an epiphany about caring for themselves and their surroundings, about functioning in a new space.
“The ghost city of Dantu has been mostly empty for over a decade,” Business Insider reported. “In most neighborhoods of Dantu, there are no cars, no signs of life,” reported the Daily Mail. Both of these claims were made from looking at dated satellite images that showed the new district while it was still a construction site, not from reporters who actually went there.

Business as usual in the world of journalism.
> IIRC the Lisp Machines supported C in addition to the system's dialect of Lisp.

IIRC the Lisp Machines (well, CADR at least) compiled code down to some pretty high-level machine code implemented in microcode. How many standard C idioms could actually be expressed in that kind of code?

I'm also not seeing how it would give a speed-up, which is the usual reason to code in C.

Was the C compiled to microcode?
I question the motive for this .. I believe it'll be a social-engineering effort (propaganda) more than anything. I look forward to seeing what subjects get addressed in the new series, and what relation it will have to contemporary thinking on things like Snowden/NSA, global warming, etc. Lets see if, yet again, people are snookered into thinking what everyone else thinks, just because its popular on TV ..
When one makes the sin of going with a company like them, unfortunately, there is no escape from the karma that follows. What you and me can really do is pray for the poor guy.

Looks like they made it their official policy to force small/medium account holders to flee so that they can spend their quality time with bigshot organizations who can throw money at the beggars without second thoughts - my personal understanding based on what I read from users in various online forums.
Maybe management types see code as something you do for someone else, i.e. a task that is delegated to a worker. They might lack the capacity to see any joy in creating something. They don't understand how much fun it can be to code and create. (Pure) managers create only indirectly.

"The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. […] Yet the program construct, unlike the poet's words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separate from the construct itself. […] The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be." -- Fred Brooks
I want to browse every dark corner of the web to discover useful facts and build my own ideas on subjects, not limit myself to the few most popular websites, driven by the wealthiest companies, that 90% of the people see.

Between cookie banners and GDPR forcing newspapers to ban European visitors, I have to go through more hoops in order to see what I want.

Just because you care about a website tracking you, that doesn't mean someone else cares.

Legislation shaping the internet in this way and forcing everyone to think in a certain way is an authoritarian behaviour that I don't tolerate.
> If you have to resort to using a gun, then that leads to huge costs and lots of dead people.

Is that more true for you using a gun than it is for police using a gun?
> the American accent is actually how English was spoken in England until the 1800's

No, it isn't. American English has preserved certain archaic features once found throughout UK English (rhotacism is one), but it has also innovated heavily in other respects just as UK English has. Even within the United States, accents have evolved drastically since the advent of recording technology over a century ago. The standard introduction to this is the work of Labov et al.
When you say: The Fed Policies... who do you think influenced them? The same 1% the article is referring to.

You are violently agreeing with the article with the pretence of disagreement
~30 minutes; ~20 kilometers
How many knew about CDOs before The Big Short?
> He says the next step would be to add a flying droid that shoots lasers, a blind fold, etc.

Great, once they have a blindfold the rendering delay will not even be noticable anymore. Or the rest of the rendering, really.
How does the government find/enforce that?
It's called hyperbole. The point isn't that processes are like human lives, it's to point out that killing processes is the wrong strategy.
This really reminds of the 30 Rock episode about porn for women: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGcRz9jJJCU

Edit: before anyone questions it, I am not saying that in any derogatory manner. Just a similar concept in a way, though obviously this has very different value proposition.
Assuming the market does not tank. Plenty of homes have lost more than 50% of their value.
'shutdown -P now' is slow, maybe 'echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger' is more effective. Trick is knowing when that sync is "really" done.
Eben Moglen's response to that:

https://youtu.be/uKxzK9xtSXM?t=2m15s
>What is unjust about a software author charging for their work?

Nothing, but using a nonfree license gives the developer unjust control over you.
On the flip side of that, F# is the first language I've seen that has made me consider dropping python. It really is a work of art.
We use git and have branches designated as Dev, Test, Prod (etc) with webhooks or other scripts that automatically deploy the branches based on the workflow. At my last job (small webshop) it was automated, but my current job is more "Enterprisey" and we have separation of duties and other work flow constraints which mean that I never push anything to production myself (or test for that matter).
... or potentially pay for their own negative externalities.
You could look at the source for my titus TLS proxy server[1]. It gets an A out of the box, and an A+ if the application sends the HSTS header.

[1] In particular, these two blocks of code: https://github.com/AGWA/titus/blob/43ecf6889d4c5a61f58de5f8a... https://github.com/AGWA/titus/blob/43ecf6889d4c5a61f58de5f8a...
Can you elaborate on this? It sounds like it would be very useful for me in my current situation.
I have seen about "Hikikomori", but only in anime and Wikipedia. I am really curious. Do they really exist? How could they live without work? How do they make money?
Can anyone explain what's so special about FoundationDB? Why Apple would want to acquire it? Why exactly FDB and not some other *DB, which we have tons now after last… I don't know… seven years? Just why? I don't get it.
It's a question of whether the acquirer and/or the acquiree have a good faith social contract with the early adopters who take the risk and believe in them.
This is very common with towing, repossession, or "recovery" companies, who can drive around with automated cameras looking for "hits": cars with repo orders. Companies (ex: Digital Recognition Network [DRN]) sell cameras, provide a database of "wanted" vehicles, and collect the incoming scans—which they also turn around and sell.

DRN "claims to collect plate scans of 40 percent of all US vehicles annually."

You don't need to crowdsource because there's already a critical mass of users willing to pay YOU for the privilege of collecting information.

Read More: http://www.betaboston.com/news/2014/03/05/a-vast-hidden-surv...
Ah after you start broadcasting - me duh. But not very intuitive at first.

Thanks!
You need to be careful recommending LeGuin.

Personally, LeGuin bores me to tears because I like more action/idea driven in my reading and LeGuin tends more toward character driven.
These services always dock me for including RC4 ciphers. I understand that these are bad because RC4 is broken or near broken; I shouldn't be using it.

However, I'm simply using load balancering sevices provided by AWS and Rackspace; my understanding is that (since they perform SSL termination) it is their software on the load balancer that chooses the ciphers, and as far as I know, I cannot change this. Are they misconfigured? (why?) Is there any way to work around it short of doing the load balancing myself?
So where's the download? Where's the source? I don't want to have to join a Facebook group for updates.
I thought the way that sunspot counting works is that you point a magnifying telescope at the sun, and the image projects on the floor. You look at the image on the floor.

He did have a valid point. For the data to be consistent across a 300+ year data set, he had to use the same method as his predecessors.

However, you could use technology to augment the manual count. They could use the same k-factor adjustment they used to compare multiple human counters, and use the same k-factor adjustment when technology changes.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25648849.
Yep, I like Locust but been a while since I’ve needed it again.

It’s main advantage over simpler tools like ab or httperf is being able to simulate most any kind of user interaction. Whereas other tools tend to just spam static predefined HTTP requests at a server (which is great when that’s all you need), Locust is great at simulating complex user behavior, such as users clicking through different pages of your site, or clients that make common sequences of API requests, perhaps to a variety of servers at different urls.

In my case, I was load testing a RESTful DNS management api over http and, as part of the same performance test, simulating DNS traffic to nameservers managed by that API. Locust is horizontally scalable and incredibly flexible since you can write arbitrary Python code to make it do whatever you want.
> It turns out starving kids in Africa are of no value to anyone

Listen to yourself. This isn't normal, but on markets, it is.

> The "moral notion of value" is a nonsensical concept

No, it's the fundamental concept. Economic value should aspire to approximate it if we want the market to be a force for collective good. To the extent that economic value fails to approximate moral value, the economy fails to serve our collective interests.

In CS terms: greedy algorithms fail hard in predictable ways.

> [So why don't you give more through GiveWell?]

Because I'm stuck in a system that's designed to punish me for doing so above and beyond the intrinsic cost of providing for the kid. Here's a counter-proposal: I'd absolutely sign up for a wealth-proportional share of a tax for ending world hunger. I'm not poor, even by HN standards, so this isn't cheating, but the fact that this formulation of the solution wasn't obvious to you demonstrates how thoroughly you've been trained to see the world through the circus-house lens of wealth-weighted utility, and just how perversely that lens distorts the world.
You lumped all of Florida into one awful description. There is sprawl, spread, and desolation in every state. Crazy drivers exist everywhere, and to think they don't is naive. Sure, they have a weird thing in FL about breaking before signaling a turn, but I'd take the roads in FL over the interstates in Chicago or Atlanta. It just sounds like you're bitter about where you live now. I live in one of the large cities in Florida, and while the transit isn't world-class, the quality of life certainly is.
You might like some of the suggestions on this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts
And it's a Canadian (Quebec) production

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_It%27s_Made
Cover-up of a known flaw is not the same thing.

You do eventually have to ship something, no test is ever going to uncover 100% of all possible problems. I guess you'd prefer to just never release anything? Then, certainly humans will live forever.
> Worked:

> A Texas Instruments programmable calculator. He read the manual, played with it a bit, then found out he could automate some of his homework. Then found out he could make simple games. Then fairly impressive games.

That's pretty much how I got into programming, except rather than homework it was coding automation for a very repetitive video game I was playing at the time. Although in terms of time spent, it was a net loss as I spent more time combined programming and playing as opposed to just playing, but there was a significant net profit in terms of skills I learned which has had a far more practical and positive benefit to the real world as opposed to if I just played the video game all the time :)
I'm pretty sure the real Glados voice effect is mostly pitch correction and formant shifting. You can do it with Melodyne at least (which, to be fair, is also computer magic-- just a different kind than this one!)

I just found a video on YT with an example of recreating this in Melodyne: https://youtu.be/1oQn66gvwKA
> We DO have a good understanding of the human immune system...

As someone who is an active researcher in this field, I can tell you that this is just not true. The immune system is VERY complex and we know very little about it. We have only had the tools to begin to systematically probe it for a few years.
nvm i just found a good list of places around
http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces
I'm curious. What part of the list is a tall order? I actually felt bad in the opposite direction; everybody in my field has read at least 3 of the top 4 there, and _The Practice..._, _...The Good Parts_, and _SQL for Dummies_ (only sort of a joke) are pretty basic.

_Windows Internals_ and _Internetworking with TCP/IP_ were, in a different form, on every Unix sysadmin's bookshelf in the 90s --- as "TCP/IP Illustrated" and "The Design And Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System" (both of which are also great books but are now very dated).

The only rough things on this list are _Network Algorithmics_, _Computational Structures_, and _Surreptitious Software_. None of them are required reading to get started.

I really wanted to add books on signal processing, RF, linear algebra, program trading, and compression, but I thought (a) it would sound self-aggrandizing and (b) there's no end to the domain-specific books I might inevitably end up adding.
If you were in Lamo's position, how would you have handled it?
So the moral of the story here is it's your fault if someone else mis characterizes you?
We need one of these in the boston area, or are there any im not aware of?
"But they add another layer to transportation security."

That's not the point. The question is whether the efficiency of that layer in any way justifies the cost and hassle.
Either the shareholders revolt, or the company slowly loses customers and talent.

It seems it's been a long time coming :(
Given his view on the government's role in Silicon Valley, why didn't he endorse Ron Paul? Did he just ignore him?
Am so.
This argues for a system of copyright where holders can pay a steadily-increasing amount to renew their works past an initial period of automatic protection. Stuff like Shawshank, which is still in demand, would be reregistered. Everything else would enter the public domain more quickly.

I still haven't heard a decent argument for keeping the unpopular stuff protected as long as it currently is.
Broken Link.
The most productive office I've been at was also an open office layout, and I absolutely agree that the main reason open office layouts don't work is that people are doing it wrong.

I'll just give a +1 for small pods and breakout spaces, since those were a big part of what worked for us.

Here's what I would add to what you're saying:

1. Being respectful of flow has never worked for a team I was on. Instead, what we did is that at all times we had a pair (or the odd person out) whose job it was to field questions. If you needed to know something from a team, you went to the assigned person or pair. A corollary of this is that everyone on a given team was expected to be able to answer questions as a representative of the team.
2. Pair programming: I definitely am prone to distraction, but it's much easier to stay focused when you're working with someone on something. This also contributes to information sharing, which contributes to everyone on the team being able to answer questions.

Many people mention that introverts have a hard time working in an open office layout. But what I haven't seen mentioned on this thread is that extroverts might have an equally hard time working in isolation. I'm an extrovert and I've definitely been in situations where isolation hurt my productivity. And I think that points to the core of the problem: your office space needs to meet the needs of your team, not some romanticized ideal of an Agile™ team. It's unlikely that any processes or procedures are going to make an open office work for an office full of introverts. If an open office doesn't work for your team, that doesn't mean open offices don't work, it just means that your team needs something different.

This points back to the agile manifesto[1]: "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools." An office is just a tool. If you're still looking for a one-size-fits-all office layout, you're prioritizing that tool over the individuals who are using it. That's not agile.

[1] http://agilemanifesto.org/
That suggestion defeats the purpose. The thing is schools are supposed to provide meals to students (at no cost), so if you're bringing your own lunch you're not saving your money, you saving the school money.