jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In the most extreme conditions I used to visit building sites as the site offices tended to remain unlocked (there's nothing in there to steal) and they were unattended from 7pm through 5am. They also tended to have a kettle and some enamel cups... usually all dirty at the end of a day but with boiling water to hand that isn't an issue. One can sleep there and actually feel really safe and secure, not just from the harshest conditions but I never saw anyone else in those spaces so I didn't have to fear being mugged either.

The very worst thing to do is precisely what you see some homeless people do, which is to drink alcohol. It's temporarily soothing and warming, but your body loses some of it's ability to effectively regulate temperature. The people I saw in the worst trouble when I walked the streets were those who drank heavily.

Strange how I didn't comprehend at the time that my extreme hunger over winter could probably be correlated with the cold and burning more calories to deal with it. Thankfully compassion increases during winter and food is slightly more readily available.

The only other thing I'll add is shoes. If your feet are warm when you're walking your 30 miles a day (what I believe I averaged through rough calculation) then you feel warm. Cold feet and you feel freezing. Good boots, thick soles, are a blessing and felt more valuable to me than a heavy coat.

Actually, another thing. Wisdom says to layer, but if you're not actually mobile much overnight I always found fewer thicker layers to be better. i.e. a thick cable-knit jumper trumped multiple thinner layers. I suspect layers are really the solution for highly active people such as skiers, runners and so on, but if you're immobile in the cold a thick jumper helps more.
There is. In the UK you are seeing a huge spike in infections at the same time the percentage of coronaviruses attributed to the new variant sky rocket.

Look here for how one of the lines is not like the others. (UK)

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...
listen to his speech inciting his followers to go to the capitol. You can decide if it’s sedition or not, but the end result is undeniably an insurrection, and his words are what directly invited them to do this.
> maybe even more than on a "normal" machine of similar power.

To be fair, it has the added benefit of you not having to sell a cluster of PS3's on e-Bay after your number crunching is done... I think that could be the biggest change cloud computing brings to HPC.
Impedance mismatch between XML and JavaScript is killing XML.

What's next? HTML?
{"head":{"title": "JOHN"},"body:"{"div": "Javascript Object Hypertext Notation"}}
"If you experiment to make it 'prettier' then it's a fail. Experiment to make it more functional."

Such a simplistic point of view.

Designers take inspiration from other works. A beautiful piece of work doesn't have to be functional if it's largely just used to express ones creative outputs or to inspire others.

Concept cars and fashion shows often do the same thing: help inspire others and influence upcoming styles.

Saying that their experimental efforts are failures because it's not completely functional (a concept car that can't function, a wardrobe that few souls would wear, a website that has out of the ordinary behavior) is completely missing the point.
> Google issues 1099s to anyone that earns over 400 or 600 dollars so the IRS knows if you're making money.

Why do I feel like noting this could have saved more than a few words in the article; at the very least, how was it that this salient fact is never mentioned?

> Also, there are ways to avoid paying SE tax entirely. If you incorporate into a S Corp and pay yourself a reasonable income, the rest would be excluded from SE

Ditto. This one note seems a much more valuable takeaway than most everything in the article.

Not trashing the article, just that camz nails the important points with a greater economy of words.
True. But YC is team of advisors + a network of a few hundred other startups that got your back. (+$ & Events, Dinners, Etc.)
I second the Portable Allegroserve advice. It is an older project, but John Foderaro really put a lot of good functionality in Portable Allegroserve. That said, Edi's Hunchentoot project is very popular.
Why should you or I care how fast a company is increasing the pay of their CEO? That's an issue for their shareholders. If I'm not a shareholder I don't care, it's not my money.
My sense is the point of sale aspect of OpenTable is what makes them so entrenched... it's not easy to replace the hardware, retrain staff, etc, and the article doesn't touch on this.

Is there a startup competing in this space directly against OpenTable? Is Yelp the biggest potential contender (though i can't see them getting into the POS business)? Or Google?I could see google offering android-powered POS devices...
I used to work on the current #114 Palmetto

http://www.top500.org/site/systems/2938

When I worked on it, we were #64. I told lots of people :)
No, I'd make informed purchasing decisions and question them.

Then again, I doubt my current preferred brand[0] would be available with a branded button.

[0] http://uk.ecover.com/en/products/laundry/
I'm honestly curious - where is the line drawn between a service being used to do "questionable" things and it being removed?

We can all agree, for example, that the internet at large enables many bad things, but I doubt any of us would ban the internet (though in other countries this happens).

What about reddit? A specific subreddit? A specific post? A specific user? A specific post by a specific user at a specific time? Obviously Reddit isn't going to be banned, but is the mere existence of moderation enough? Or is it the outcome of the moderation, aka, certain content never being present, that is what's desired?

I'm curious how nuanced these things are for Apple and other companies. Is there some sort of algorithm that says: if this app has a news feed, if X% of items in the newsfeed in a 24hr period are objectionable then it will be banned? Or perhaps Y number of days that fulfill the previous criteria before it is banned?
The current consensus about over-diagnosis (as I understand it) is that when there is a significant false positive rate and the cost of proving the positive false is high (in money, time, effort, worry), the screening program is not helpful. Some go further to say that low cost screening drives some of the high cost to outcome ratio in the US. I'll try to find a cite in my textbooks if you are interested.
I have a feeling these are going to be hard cases to convict because it just takes one to hang, and there are a lot of Trump sympathizers out there.
They are spewing a constant stream of hatred and disinformation. Nothing of value was lost here.
How is that great? On whatsapp everything you do is E2E by default.
Excellent points in the article about "top" (booting off top-level workers in Ractors) versus "bottom" (parallelization at the edges of the code where not as much state needs to be shared) cases, with the top likely to take more time to widely manifest as more Ruby code becomes Ractor friendly.

I know Ractors are still quite new, but I'm curious to see how much luck people will have in migrating existing parallel code over to them.

Relying on a lot of shared state is going be the major blocker. Just on a token reading of the docs [1], it looks like you should be able to share quite a lot of state still as long as you're able to freeze it all into immutability. You could then use message passing around the edges where immutability is a non-starter.

But this is probably easier said than done.

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[1] https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.0.0/Ractor.html
The MyWhirlpool website will also require the Silverlight plugin and you'll have to connect your washing machine with an USB cable in order to do anything.

Every once in a while the button will just randomly stop working and you'll have to go through the motions again.
> I don't know how you came to this conclusion, as the actual numbers and ratio of military vs. civilian personnel is still classified to the best of my knowledge. To the best of my (circumstantial) knowledge, the ratio for civilian vs. (usually US Navy) military personnel is likely somewhere around 60/40. I couldn't tell you which category is civilian vs. military, though.

I'm not saying this to be mean, but you didn't parse my comment properly, so I'll break it down.

>Although this department includes the military forces (minus the coast guard), the vast majority of its member agencies are all civilian agencies, and the person who heads it up (Secretary of Defense) is a civilian.

This department is referring to the Department of Defense. The next sentence refers to its member agencies, not the members of its agencies. The member agencies (the agencies that are a part of the Department of Defense) are mostly civilian agencies, which you can see listed out on the wikipedia page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Def...

In it, you'll see that there are 15 defense agencies, 4 intelligence agencies, and 3 military departments, for a grand total of 19 to 3.

> No, the person who heads it up is an Admiral in the Navy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Rogers
The SECDEF oversees the DoD as a whole.

The "it" in that sentence is referring to the Department of Defense -- which was initiated by "this department". The person you linked to DIRNSA, which has nothing to do with what I was saying.
You should try Amazon Mechanical Turk. Having used it for a huge amount of projects, I find it very effective. Cheap labour > expensive automations usually.

Edit: having seen your game, I don't think it's ready yet. You should have some tutorials, get social integration, and improve the look and feel before trying to get user traction.
I would actually say that pointer arithmetic and manual memory management are _easier_ than managing space by controlling evaluation order.

The real benefit of lazy-evaluation is that it decouples generation from consumption in a very thorough way. Unfortunately it often doesn't scale up as space leaks attest. I'm starting to think that in the large it should be feasible to replace it with CSP-like channels, though this is essentially boiler-plating the runtime code, it gives far more fine control.

I'd say also say that automatic memory management is similar. The downside to manual is not all the debugging difficulties per se, but the fact that you do have to decide who allocates, who deallocates, and that these decisions are highly coupled and can greatly impact the choice of feasible data structures.
typo on page 3: " Move the contents or Register B to Register A, "

s/r/f/ that string
There was something similar to this posted a few months ago, http://maprejuice.com/. I believe it also used node.js and web workers in order to do distributed map reduce operations.
Interestingly different (but still very attractive) in Opera or FF.
we criticize it for creating a "closed silo of content" in which information is not represented in open URLs, while simultaneously criticizing it for not providing and enforcing strong, simple privacy controls.

Good point - criticism of Facebook is confused and needs to become more focused. The "closed silo of content" point is key and the "lack of privacy" point is ultimately a canard. It's not one shouldn't have privacy but that Facebook promises an impossible kind of "privacy" akin to personal DRM, impossible like personal DRM, and serving merely as a excuse for Facebook's enhanced control and increasing it's "silo". See Facebook's ridiculous reply to Google on email addresses - as if someone giving you their email address via Facebook could reasonably expect to revoke that gift at a later point("DRM-like"/impossible).

The short story of Facebook privacy is that you shouldn't post anything that could get fired etc, using your real name, whether it's on your Facebook page or elsewhere.
The 3G never got the percentage battery meter or iOS 4 folders. There may be times when it's a hardware limitation, but it often feels like an attempt to nudge you toward an upgrade.
BC = British Columbia. It's pretty remarkable that abbreviation isn't spelled out on the front page of Bootup labs, nor BCIC. Maybe I'm on the wrong coast to understand it intuitively.
I was thinking more of the VMware approach of storing disk images (e.g. VMDK files) on NFS; that's not much different than using iSCSI.
I wasn't at Dropbox particularly early, so that is more of a question for someone like Drew Houston. The first time I used the product, I knew it was awesome. The first time I talked to Drew about the big ideas, I knew it was going to be much bigger than what most people might think.

The Cloud™ is one of those mega trends, and Dropbox is right in the middle of it.
One of my primary motivations when I started this (a few years ago now) was a straight forward representation of graphs of data (including bits of data without dedicated URLs), rather than trees of data.

Consider the case of a blog. Each blog post has many comments. Each post has an author, and each comment has an author. Some of those entities may have dedicated URLs, and others may not. Additionally, the authors are highly repetitive; you want to refer to them by identifier, not by embedding them.

Because a tree of data can be represented easily as a graph, but not vice versa, JSON API provides a straight-forward way to provide a list of records that are linked to each other. The goal is simple, straight-forward processing regardless of the shape of the graph.
Why would you work if you don't need the money?
Full ACK!
One of the primary ways in which JSON API is different from HAL (or JSON-LD) is that it specifies both a format for data as well as a full protocol for fetching and manipulating that data.

Most of the trouble in building a JSON API comes not from deciding on the format, but in nailing down the precise requests and responses that handle common kinds of interactions. This became very clear to me as I worked on Ember Data.
What's your idea of BIG ? This is not at all helpful if you don't state the amount.
Peloton has pretty expensive products and induces the same reaction folks had to iPhones before other companies released similarly priced flagships. Generally I think it's easy to hate on these products if you don't have one. I was pretty skeptical myself. "Was", because my partner picked up the Peloton Bike and subsequently the Peloton Tread.

Like some other comments here, the almost cultish following is quite fascinating to witness in person. Would I get one myself -- probably not, but there's something to be said about the intensely passionate users Peloton has. This passion comes not from the hardware itself but from the trainers who've become celebrities themselves.
Fundamentally these types of questions are a tacit admission that the organization in question is incompetent at the task of identifying qualified employees.

Can you imagine hiring a surgeon, or a civil engineer, or, hell, a mechanic or carpenter based on brain-teaser questions? Nope. The interviewee would look at you like you'd grown an extra head, and probably start trying to figure out a way to bring the interview to an early end.
>>But there isn't enough rational evidence for one

From a Lutheran perspective this is entirely correct, as we hold that faith is a gift from God that works in us despite our reasoning.

The Bible recognizes this, as we Christians are 'fools for God."

The world should think of Christians as being nuts: We're told to reject power to become meek, we're told to have one spouse when we want to dominate, we're told to give our possessions away and share in the suffering of others, and that we are to love our enemies.
Oh, I see. That is definitely a lot deeper in the stack that I was thinking of. Thanks for the comment.
Of Mere Being

The palm at the end of the mind,
Beyond the last thought, rises
In the bronze distance.

A gold-feathered bird
Sings in the palm, without human meaning,
Without human feeling, a foreign song.

You know then that it is not the reason
That makes us happy or unhappy.
The bird sings. Its feathers shine.

The palm stands on the edge of space.
The wind moves slowly in the branches.
The bird’s fire-fangled feathers dangle down.
Be usable
I kind of wonder - how much of the valuation is actually in cars/car sales vs. the charger/battery infrastructure and expertise that they are building?
The first link in this article is about switching from fluentbit to fluentd.

Me too. I have issue with fluenbit. Especially around their JSON processing. As in this issue: https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit/issues/1588

If you want a simple log forwarding, fluentbit is really good. But if you found yourself started to tweak fluentbit config, or write custom plugin in C and (recompile yourself) then it's time to move to fluentd.
I wouldn't call it a myth. High income earners both then and now have a lot of ways to avoid paying tax, so they don't pay nearly as much as the top marginal rate. It's also true that the top marginal rate used to be much higher.

> Meanwhile, the proportion of taxes paid by the top quintile earners has increased from 55% in 1980 to 70% by 2013.

Isn't this exactly what you would expect with growing income & wealth inequality, so long as your tax system maintains some aspect of progressive taxation.
This is a good article on some recent new revelations about the involvement in Hampton's assassination: https://truthout.org/articles/new-documents-suggest-j-edgar-...
They were hit with a class action lawsuit for that
It's not really worth citing a duplicate post unless there's an interesting discussion attached. I know it's annoying to be first with something and not have it recognized, as it happens a lot. But if it's important for you to get eyes on something, consider the time of day when posting, and what else is trending that day, eg if there's a huge story dominating the front page you might want to wait a day to post.
Using their fillable forms or through tax-prep software?

I used the online form a couple years ago and the process was so annoying compared to freetaxusa that I will gladly pay the $12 to avoid dealing with the Oregon.gov site.
> You come along with a not completely polished and thoroughly tested Lego mind storms usb driver for Linux today, you'd get laughed of the mailing list

This is simply not true.
Even the new N64 port got merged even though it's not very practical.

> because security

As long as your module is not enabled by default, there is little security concern with it.

> who will maintain that?

Well you of course.
Having someone who maintains it is the biggest factor in deciding whether code will stay or whether it will go.
The ridiculousness of their demands is impressive but I found Sony to be the most amusing of them all. Sony worries that users will visit each others houses and download MP3 collections from their clouds. Honestly, if I visited someone in their house, I could simply copy the mp3 files from my laptop.
Firefox unfortunately has an explicit whitelist on Linux for drivers it allows for WebGL, because they didn't want to hit driver/GL bugs that crashed the browser. More unfortunately, the whitelist in Firefox 4 doesn't include the Intel driver, even though it works fine and doesn't crash. I worked with upstream to provide the necessary information about the driver, and Firefox 5 should have the Intel driver on the whitelist. In the meantime, try running "MOZ_GLX_IGNORE_BLACKLIST=1 firefox" from the command line.
I totally agree with your comment about the SLA penalty as an incentive to the provider to take reasonable measures to ensure service.

But that's just in general.

When negotiating bespoke SLA penalty clauses, it can be very illuminating for both sides to discuss lost profit + lost confidence + additional costs to the customer and suggest that these be factored in to the penalty clause.

My experience: both the customer and supplier tend to take a deep breath to evaluate whether this deal is a good one for either of them and begin to reassess their level of risk.

In a off-the-shelf service like Amazon, you as a customer are welcome to suggest a change of penalty to your Amazon account manager, and unless you're something like the US government, you will probably be directed to other cloud providers or your own internal IT organisation!
What about approaching some charity? (1) You learn to listen to real customer (2) and should be a good networking
With the suggested combination, it is just as easy. When you receive a SMS, it will be notified on the desktop as any other IM you receive. Simply typing your response in the text input, will reply to the last received SMS.

I really like the UI of texty, e.g. threaded conversations. That is, as far as i know, not possible with GTalkSMS.

Overall, any seamless interaction with my phone from my desktop is greatly appreciated.
> IE9 is looking pretty dated at this point.

Just some retrospective: Microsoft introduced DirectAnimation in IE4, which can do JScript/VBScript based hardware accelerated animation. They abandoned it in IE7 for their Silverlight.

For "No Comply", yes it's cool, but it's far from pushing limits. Tons of ogg and webm have to be downloaded to play this demo.
What are you talking about? When people say "information wants to be free" they are (obviously) not talking about physical objects.

The idea that information wants to be free stems from the market principles of supply and demand. Price is determined by supply and demand. Digital information can be duplicated at almost zero cost, so there is a pressure on it to become cheaper and cheaper until free.

The idea that information wants to be free is also contradicted by the idea that "Information is power" etc. The less people you can restrict information to the more it is worth. Also, timely information can be very valuable (like in insider trading) that information can have value (i.e. no free as in beer).

But just because information can be duplicated infinitely, it doesn't mean that it will be duplicated infinitely, meaning that the value of the information will be determined by the costs of production and demand. Will this value of the information be enough to cover the costs? This will be the determining factor as to whether people can continue to make a living from producing information. On the flipside, the costs of making quality information are rapidly decreasing, so it should be getting easier and easier to make a living from information.

In the end, I think that information will always have value. The key will be for the producers of that information to find a way to connect with people willing to pay for it.
TdR's opinions, even thought controversial, often turn out right, even thought others thought otherwise. See for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20865492
It's crazy how so many red flags are showing up already. I mean like super simple stuff that anyone can catch and they are the love of the VCs right now. It goes to show that no one cares how the sausage is made.
Sebastien Marie wanted to make Zig work on OpenBSD. I don’t know why Raadt then respondend by saying that Zig hasn’t proved that it can do what it claims to do. But maybe I don’t understand this mailing list’s culture (or what “import Zig” means in this context other then to port to OpenBSD).
I'm not sure what problem Cosmopolitan is trying to solve.

I think it's an interesting research project, but from a practical perspective - there are significantly better (and more mature) ways to achieve cross-platform compatibility that don't involve many of the compile-time and run-time hacks required to get Cosmopolitan to work.

"Actually Portable Executables" are not any more "portable" than a statically compiled .exe running natively on Windows, or using Wine[0] on a Linux, as an example.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)