jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's not that much money. You should do better in hourly contract work in Silicon Valley. That can be, at worst, dull. But not soul-sucking.
It's weird that you don't see the benefit of being effective while moving when your rebuttal includes 'run'. Not to mention that there are plenty of situations where stakes/hills/woods as a static defense don't apply - if you're attacking; if you're sieging; attacking a town, fighting in the streets; if you're not taking part in a large set-piece battle; so on and so forth. If you're part of a small patrol and encounter the enemy, you fight them then and there, no time to plant stakes or move the site of the battle.

Likewise, you need to be able to move around as the battle progresses. There's no point standing behind your stakes if the enemy you need to put pressure on is 200 yards away over a meadow. All the zen-like calmness in the world and impregnable field position isn't going to help you if the enemy doesn't come within range.
It was intended to be offensive. Although, the actual numbers are quite disputed and most of the ones we hear should be considered propaganda. Besides which; we're hardly ones to point the finger over genocide these days (Iraq, Pakistan, all those Afghan wedding parties).
Someone with spare time should be able to write a quick CI script to build a blog with any static site generator.

The structure is perfect for that, of course. :)
Note: In this specific instance, YouTube is using the automated system to monetize it for themselves and give a portion of the proceeds to the creator. This is an important distinction. Also, they are dictating rights with respect to distribution.

For comparison, Best Buy purchases the CDs outright from the Publisher/Label/Artist collective, and often sells below cost (first week release) to incentivize customers to patronize their store. In your mind, should Best Buy be taking a cut of the Publisher/Label/Artist agreement like YouTube is proposing in this case?
I think the fixed supply is what attracts people.
Something really cool about seeing the device sitting on a table and realizing that it is now on Mars.

Working on this stuff must be _very_ rewarding (assuming that the payloads land in one piece!).
Could you give an example? I am rereading your sentences but I just don't understand what you're saying. I feel silly, but I really don't get it.
What makes you think I'm "advocating" anything? My goal is for people to understand the state of things.

C and C++ have had static analyzers to catch "some version" of these problems for a long time now, so presumably anyone asking about borrow checker functionality would be interested in whether that functionality matches Rust's (i.e. is sound).
Huh?

> Cosmo could work as a wrapper of windows/mac/linux binary executables and then the cosmo app can decide which one to invoke.

It sounds like you misunderstand the reason for the project and that you're trying to add another layer of indirection to the thing that is already able to achieve the effect that you you seek to accomplish with that layer of indirection. No need for the indirection, just use the thing directly.

If you want to run $APP on platforms X, Y, and Z, then you'd use Cosmopolitan to build the $APP binary as an Actual Portable Executable, and you'd run that executable on any of those platforms.
As another reply mentioned QI is not connected to criminal liability (only civil), and it’s also a bit of a red herring.

In my opinion it’s vital that when an agent of the state (police officer) deprives someone of civil rights that the maximum possible restitution is not limited by their net worth or professional insurance carrier’s cap (which to my knowledge is not a thing for cops, but it is often suggested here).
Waaay back in uni I was taught that eventually computing will have to go reversible because of the mentioned “von Neumann–Landauer limit”. So, your program will run each instruction forward, then again as the stack rewinds (instead of stack pops). But, this 2X penalty will enable a >2X clock rate increase due to lower thermals.

Rewinding code also has the side effect of automatic garbage collection. The challenge becomes copying out end results before rewinding without re-introducing thermal waste.

In the meantime chips are utilizing partial measures against it like sending excess bits to recycling pools. So, A|B results in 2 bits in, 1 bit out as a useful result and 1 bit shuttled off for recycling.

Backing this up, I recently learned that quantum computer programs must be reversible if they are to function.
>> economic conditions do not change someones quest for knowledge

In my country science almost ceased to exist after the fall of Soviet Union. So economic conditions do play a role. The western Age of Reason in XVIII also has relationship to complex changes in the society - rise of merchant class, acceptance of usury, etc. And I would say that "whole population avoids science like a plague" would be a strong overstatement more echoing the modern view on Islamic countries with strong Salafi influence.
I'm listening to podcasts, audiobooks, watching twitch streams or TV.
It helps me a bit to feel less lonely while working from home.
Also taking walks in the forrest and lifting weights help me to stay sane.

BTW: Is there some kind of online co-working space yet?
I am very wary of FB. In fact I deleted my account about 10 years ago (God knows I had to jump through hoops for this). Still using Whatsapp but mainly Signal.

Truth is one does not need Facebook at all. Don't rely on it for getting news, don't rely on it for giving news.

> these tech companies should allow themselves to be banned

So you expect Big Corp to have a conscience? How cute :P
> Gmail's UI is pretty encouraging to the archiver vs. the deleter.

From purely a support perspective it makes a lot of sense. You can't undo a delete but there is little hard from accidentally archiving something.

I find even my own applications that I'm much less keen on giving users the option to delete things.
Were Ivy Bridge considered to be OK? I have a 2012 MBP with the top IvyBridge i7 and it gets warm if you play games (in Windows) but I hardly ever hear the fan any other time (I compile C++ on it all the time). I just thought I'd ask as the "dead MacBook" stories frighten me.
That just means that forced updates are less frequent. The flipside of it is that you are now stuck with, potentially, ancient packages. No matter how you slice it, being tied to the release cycle of the OS has problems.

Don't get me wrong, there are definite advantages to sticking with OS-provided packages. I do it for all my personal projects, but it's not a panacea.
We didn't ban your account, Ryan.
I've started a HN stream, http://cliquefy.com/i6S4EC1n6oO - say hello from your mobile device!
The interesting thing is that the value of a typical home in Tokyo decreases with time.

This idea would be terrifying for most of the US homeowners.
I knew some folks at Google who were very content to stay an engineer at the bottom of the org chart and watch the people they mentored get promoted above them, because they understood that what made them happy was writing code and solving tough technical problems, not managing people or playing political games. I always respected them for that. Same reason that Steve Wozniak was always far more of a hero to me than Steve Jobs. It both takes more courage and provides more satisfaction to know what you like to do and figure out how to spend your life doing it than it does to become really good at what other people think they wish they were doing.

That said, I think startups will always be hard, for everybody, because no matter what you're good at, you will have to do a lot of other stuff to make them succeed. That's probably why the financial rewards for them are so high. Good partners can help at this, but maybe the sort of person who's naturally suited for a startup is simply "someone who likes to get good at a lot of different tasks".
Are they hiring? ;)
I don't think you can even achieve that kind of concurrency (multiple seperate VMs in seperate threads running in parallel) with Python, though. As I understand it the GIL really is global - it's shared across every single VM in every thread within the current process, at least in the CPython 2.x series, and that's not easy to fix because it's protecting global shared state.
So it's OK for India to do science as long as it's cheap? Define cheap. How much should it cost for you to be OK with it?

How high-cost is too high? How much impact is necessary in order to greenlight a project, according to you?

Your objections are particularly nonsensical because the article doesn't mention the cost of the project anywhere. You've reflexively decided that it's $BIG_NUMBER and it's wasteful. With practically no information. (It will cost in the region of $250m, FYI)

How do you even know it will be costly (relative to the magnitude of the project)? We did launch the Mars mission pretty cheap you know :-) (yes, I know it's easier to launch cheaper when you pay Indian salaries, so don't bring that up)

EDIT:
Big scientific discoveries haven't happened by the balance of probability. Many new advances come from unexpected places, by obscure scientists doing crazy-sounding things. No expert can declare with 100% certainty that something is "unlikely to yield a positive economic impact".

This is my last comment on the topic. It sounds like you've pretty much made up your mind and nothing can convince you to see the other side. Good luck.
Thanks. This might be the most compelling argument I've heard so far, that any thought on the topic simply distracts from building something people want.
It's called "Believing the first thing you hear or read on the Internet, and automatically rejecting everything you hear or read on the subject after that." It just means that some loony anti-vaxxer got to him/her first.

There ought to be a formal name for the fallacy of assigning greater credibility to earlier information, but I'm not sure what it would be.
Sadly, I think this is perhaps the only (?) reason to stay in academia any more (albeit a very good one).
A story full of lessons for designers of any new form of currency. Note the story about David Dean O'Keefe who introduced better tech to produce the rai stones faster. The economy adjusted to take this into account and the stones created with new technology lost value. Only if bitcoin could emulate that somehow.
... Which would include gift cards for amazon, indirectly paying Amazon doesn't change that.

[edit] - I'm not sure parent comment was replying to the gift card point. My comment was specifically about why buy Amazon Gift Cards from a third party ever.
There's some particulars in your story that sound awfully familiar- I think I might have been involved with the original installation. Was this company in New Jersey by any chance?
The article describes something akin to what a "spin-off" is.

Reading the article, the author seems to assume that you already are in a capacity to set up your own studio. Either by having an existing business or being able to acquire an existing business and redirecting revenue streams, or by raising external capital (VC).

But those aren't the only ways to acquire the funds to set up a "studio" that separates the operational aspect of product development from the financial rigours that come with founding a business.

Such "studio's" can be found in research environments (academic, military, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, technology,...) Bell Labs, Fairchild, Intel,... come to mind as examples that started out as studio's before spinning off as independent businesses. Other examples would be public funding e.g. via programs managed by departments such as DARPA, NASA, SBIR (https://www.sbir.gov/), or via licensing, procurement, research grants and so on.

Those examples are far from inclusive. The author already asserts that the idea isn't new either.

The bigger problem I have with the article is that it's unclear who it's intended audience is. I don't think it's founders since the very essence of bootstrapping assumes spinning up a new business as fast as possible.

Investors then? The author claims how studio's "de-risk" by being able to diversify and rapidly pivot between ideas compared to independent start-ups. For instance:

> Because studios become experts at rapidly generating and testing ideas, the cost of each attempt is much less than it would be for a normal startup.

The author doesn't back up this claim. And what about other risks which are innate to studio's? Setting up a studio is still a sizeable investment in time and resources. And creating spin-off companies is never a goal in itself, it's only something that happens if there's a clear strategic advantage or incentive in doing so, depending on the relationship between the different stakeholders.
Too true. I have Safari with 1Blocker / Wipr, through a PiHole that uses NextDNS for DNS resolution. All other browsers feel like wading through treacle. Whenever I'm forced to use Chrome on someone else's device I'm gobsmacked at how anyone could put up with something so slow and clunky.
I want a Gundam made of ice.
We had a Windows 95 machine running our boiler. I was about to go your route, but luckily, we got together the money to put in a modern control system. I was understandably a bit worried when the age of the machine was greater than many of our students. Also, dust and old hard drives are not good for the blood pressure.
Are you implying that lying to get into Harvard is the same as stealing a car?
I guess that begs the question, what should you put up when your business is stealth!

You should be working on your product instead of futzing around with a placeholder web site that you don't actually intend anyone to see.

If you actually want to gauge customer interest and collect e-mails, then put some content on that page and worry about the presentation (and I actually think that's a really good idea). As things stand, if you won't give any real info on the page then you're just dicking around, and it won't make a bit of difference to your business whether you put up the site you have now, a text only "Under Construction" page, or a trollface with a hand drawn penis chewing on its ear. Even any e-mails that you do collect are essentially worthless because they're not targeted at all to your product, so any signups just indicate that some people will inexplicably sign up for anything at all...
This flowchart might clear up the rendering differences: http://typophile.com/node/70216

It's not so much that rendering a whole bunch of text takes a while (though it might, but it probably has more to do with the time it takes to download the font), but more that the letters look different depending on who looks at it.

After that, it's up to the designer to decide whether or not the difference is acceptable. I'd say it works out fine in pretty much all cases. Your site doesn't have to look the same in all browsers, people.
Projects like this never take off. Code first then announce. Also, it solves a problem no one has.

Also the idea of owning a social interaction yourself seems silly and inconsiderate to others. If you don't like facebook just delete your account
27th-29th works for me (I'm in Green Bay, WI, but I'd love to drive down)
I vote that you roll with Heroku until you feel so comfortable with the Passenger/Nginx/Capistrano that you're frustrated with the amount you're spend at Heroku because you feel like you could do it yourself.

Point is you have enough to worry about, don't get a VPS till you HAVE to.
Found the message, it's exactly how you described it:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4558666583_fe0d50604e.jp...
A "full stack programmer" will be able to look at the whole and see what should be done differently, but a database performance person (not a generic DBA) will be bring a much deeper knowledge of that one area (just as a GPU programmer will know more about GPU optimization then the application developer). Sometimes you need that specialist to get you over the hump. An "inch deep and mile wide" sort of knowledge will not get you the fastest performance.
I think they are a benefit to HN, and I think that allowing comments would be even more beneficial as I stated in my comment below. You may be right, but the people wanting comments may also be right but we'll never know unless the experiment is actually run and I thought a large part of HN was experimentation.
All this means is that Sprint thinks it is on the losing end of some deals made by competitors.
I have no issues at all (but had issues with the 3GS a few years ago). Which issues do you have?
It's great they're so robust.

That article is a bit irresonsible and might lead people to think they don't need a back up or an archive store.
No, this isn't great advice (at least according to writer, even the ones you list, interviews I've been investigating for tips).

Yes you should write a lot and constantly - but you should also rewrite consistently. There is very little point writing a 15 chapter novel (with a couple of versions of each chapter) and then trying to shape it into something - you will end up having to write the book 10 times over just to get it finished.

The way I have always seen it is that you need to assemble a set of raw material and then refine it into a piece of prose. Then assemble all the prose into a book.

> The problem is, you spend time rewriting during your session.

I'm currently writing about one chapter a month (this is pretty productive for me). I write for around 4 or 5 sessions a week (when I get time). That breaks down into, say, 3 sessions of pure writing in which I will complete a couple of sections - but end up writing each of them up to 5 times. Then a session refactoring/rewriting, then a session building it together (this is a bit vague - I tend to get to the end of the month with lots of rewrites ready for a "build" in one go). What I want to do is cut down the amount of pure writing I need to do.

One successful thing I have done is get a three big whiteboards. One tracks the story as a whole (this is somewhat redundant because I've had the story in mind for about 5 years :)), One tracks the chapters I am currently working on and the last one I sketch out the current section/chapter.

At the start of the session I review the first two boards (and my memory) then start drafting ideas/timeline onto the third board. I deliberately pick points in the timeline that are "fixed" and start with them - drafting out a quick list of how it will work. Then you fill in the blanks with writing sessions.

This avoids the major problem with "just writing". In the past what has happened is I would sketch out a couple of chapters. Then I'd want to change something and it would mean that a whole lot of the chapter had to be reorganized. Or something had to push back into the previous chapter to make sense. Or.. You get the picture.

Writing a novel IMO needs one of two things: extreme natural talent (King et al) OR planning :)

(good discussion!)
I would say pick one language to begin with and spend about a year trying out beginner material, building small things, and learning how to find information for yourself online.

I suggest Python, check out these resources:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers
You can figure out the ethics by thinking about the question : "Does the leaked stuff pose a national security risk or does it pose a national security embarrassment over basic human rights violations, waste, carelessness and so on?".

> But leaking 260,000 state department cables just seems like leaking for the sake of leaking.

The original leak was probably just a leak for leak's sake. They already caught that guy. However if any of these cables point to any embarrasing stuff that is secret just to avoid the govt. from appologizing, and Wikileaks picks it up after it was already exposed, then this becomes a whilstleblower issue.

I know legally they've sent the dogs after him because "if it is classified it is classified and we are not the department to ask why it was classified", but everyone else should automatically side with the govt.'s point of view if the data points to some serious moral and ethical problems inside Pentagon.
No argument there. However as you start cutting things from the 15", driving the price down, it gets less and less compelling when compared to the 13" Air. The upgraded specs are the only reason to prefer the 15" over the Air at the same price, the Air is 1/2 the size & weight. Of course this is only my opinion, and it's merely a coincidence that I share it with this particular author. I'm not sold on the Air yet though, I think it needs a couple of iterations before it'll be a great Pro replacement and not just a passable one.

If you take the base 15" and add a 128GB SSD to make it as cheap as possible it's $1999. Unless you really care about the CPU, graphics card, optical drive, or FireWire (which I don't, but others do) you're paying $200 more for a larger, heavier machine. With less storage. If you add the 256GB SSD it's $2399, which makes it even less compelling. I'd rather put that $600 towards a 27" display and still have a 256GB SSD.

The only reasons for me to prefer the 15" are greater resolution or memory capacity, without those I only benefit for the faster CPU. Again this is very much my opinion and I don't expect everyone to agree. I'm not baffled that we disagree, people value different things based on their usage patterns.
They overpaid by ~$240 million when they bought it and should consider themselves lucky if they get what they're asking now.
Based on the title, I'm surprised this doesn't include more drugs.
The last time I tried it the results weren't great. That in itself isn't a problem but most of them were plagiarized from other designs (from the web). It wasn't easy to track all of them down, so it is probably reasonable to assume that a lot of the designs are rip-offs, and most people don't notice.

99designs refunded anything that was paid, and apologised, and it felt like something that is so common they have a well oiled process for it.

Given the risk of this, and that it is up to you to find if it is a rip-off - I wouldn't use it ever for anything that may be seen publicly (I expect you as the "owner" would be responsible).

(this is ignoring designer objections, which are another topic).
Does sleep deprivation count?
For me, this further confirms the value of usability and design. Facebook did a better job, and so people used their service.

I can't help but draw a parallel with what is currently happening in the tablet market. There was a quote posted on daring fireball yesterday from Jim Dalrymple: "There is no compelling argument that anyone can give that says that comparing an operating system to a hardware device makes sense. None."

I think he's nailed it, we've entered a phase of computing where software counts for more of the value of the device or service.
Clojure is a big language, and pretty deeply tied to the JVM; I'm not sure how you'd put it on V8. Scheme is pretty practical, though, once you get used to it.
I answered no, but sometimes I drink alcohol during marathon coding sessions to make sure I don't stay up all night and also for fun. It always seems to help me program actually.
already read that article about ILL, did not make much sense to me.

Where do you explain why the vector is slower ?
Fascinating stuff, will delve more into it as I'm able, but kudos to Jeremy and Matt (and JC for some of the programming work) - all outstanding former colleagues! Congratulations, you guys!

A while ago I briefly mulled over a loosely related question (e.g., "Could sentiment analysis of social data discover trends in experiences with various substances?") about whether user reports of drug experience on social media could be useful or illuminating:

http://apps.keithflower.org/?p=344
The startup industry and the game industry both share traits with the Hollywood casting couch in terms of filling positions. Which is not to deny that so long as everyone is an informed consenting adult, there's nothing wrong with it.