jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A perfect storm. Intel had trouble with its 10nm/7nm engineering processes, which TSMC has been able to achieve. AMD had a resurgence with Zen arch. and ARM/Apple/TSMC/Samsung put 100s of billions to catchup with the x86 performance.

Intel is still biggest player in the game, because even though they are stuck at 14nm, AMD isn't able to manufacture enough to take bigger chunks of the market. Apple won't sell it to PC/Datacenter space, rest are still niche.
Yeah, I wonder about those weird languages with lots of clicks... (though they are probably not part of the next billion)
Wow, that's simultaneously the most innovative and useless thing I've seen in days.
http://www.appointmentreminder.org for the service. Should launch publicly in July. I will disavow all knowledge of comments about forthcoming features should priorities change during development ;)
I work for a large newspaper, and we're not very amused by the built-in "Reader" (removes ads and crud, like Readability): http://www.apple.com/safari/whats-new.html
... for users, it looks like a good feature though.
Soda taxes are also a regressive tax on the poor, as are almost all consumption taxes. Let's see, back of the envelope math: I drink about $5 of soda a week, stipulate a 3% effective tax rate, that implies I 60 cents of soda taxes a month, or less than .02% of my income. By comparison, a poor mother with two kids might well buy $25 of soda a week (three mouths plus they consume it more than I do), paying $3 of sin taxes per week, which could be over a full percent of her income.

The prospect of that enrages me, far more than my opposition to tax increases in general.
It's like being famous. As soon as you have any profile people want to take you down for whatever reason.

'Obviously squatted' - again back to a slippery slope. You clearly don't understand how the markets work either. The best stuff is the most profitable, price increases and such only reduce domain values at the margins. Requirements for registering is a pretty laughable system. Go develop kids.us or .mobi, last I checked they have requirements. Maybe .TV with super high pricing. Sure you can find something available.

You want something for yourself and think a system sucks because it doesn't suit you.

It's what we do. Uh-huh. It's no different than many forms of speculation or real estate investment. People can hate on it all they want, those not making money often do.

No shame or morals - another good argument coming from you. You have no idea what I've done or how I do it, yet of course believe yourself to be all knowledgeable and able to judge. You want to call me scum, but really you're just some disillusioned asshole who falsely thinks they are on some moral high ground . You are unhappy and want to bitch, I see many people just like you every day, incapable of actually doing anything or figuring out solutions. The author of the post takes a system and works with it to meet his needs. I entered this business long after people knew what domains were and were investing in them and was able to figure out profitable ways to invest. Instead of actually understanding the systems and making them work for you, they simply bitch it's unfair for them therefore it's wrong. They don't even understand it isn't unfair for them, they simply are too inept to take advantage.
Hopefully Google and the Android kit makers will get motivated enough to standardize Android a bit more, enough to at least provide platform consistency across brand implementations.

Also, hopefully they do it in collaboration with the hardware manufacturers, instead of in spite of them.
There's an interesting one which uses some of the less common country TLDs to come up with some unique combinations (i.e. bit.ly):

http://www.domai.nr
How are you doing backups of your database? How often do you do them?

How do you do full text search?

The other two GAE topics posted this week had quite a few reports about datastore time outs. Has this been a problem for you?
That's weak argumentation. I don't see HP or Dell deal with viruses or malware.
The package Apple(Hardware) + Windows(Software) could endanger MacOS ...
I mistyped my userid when logging into my bank today so the first thing I did was to write a blog post about how the bank had been compromised and everyone's accounts had been hijacked.
But... why is an organization of PhDs solving CAPTCHAs? Even if they are the most expensive service, it still seems to offer terrible hourly returns. That only raises the mystery.
I feel the hardest part is making it easy for users. Facebook has offered lists and groups for a long time, and it's fairly easy to post something to just a specific list. However, I found that the difficult part is the housekeeping of these different groups.

Even if you take the time to create lists for your different social groups, these groups will evolve over time, because of new friendships, fights or whatever; which means that you need to spend time maintaining who belongs to what group. That will generally not happen.

The other solution is to rely on intelligent systems that manage your groups (Facebook could do that kind of things based on who interacts with whom, and what kind of subjects, etc.) or who sees what (Facebook already kind of does that from the point of view of showing you what you will find interesting, not what other can or not see at all) but relying completely on systems like that is difficult and scary, and will still hinder sharing stuff blindly.
I follow NFTs closely and it seems like of the present crop of projects, Top Shot has the most obvious path to a sustainable future. Sports collectibles are already a thing, and official league-sanctioned digital collectibles are a natural growth. MLB dipped a toe in with virtual bobbleheads, but collecting video clips of plays makes more sense.

I don't know that the 5 figure prices will last forever, but the market probably will.

Cryptopunks is the only "native" NFT I feel will likely keep a market. Again, maybe not at present levels, but it's got enough of a cool factor to last.

And Beeple as the artist with the brightest future, obviously.
Really it would be more of getting the developers to settle since they wouldn't be able to make everyone adopt the new fork version.
THIS Brian again, nobody uses rubinius and it doesn't hurt anyone. This guy has a long history of promoting rubinius by attacking MRI, first time I saw him was on Baruco 2013, if you watch the video, his attitude is so annoying. Evan Phoenix's Ruby implementation was an interesting project, but now totally ruined by this childish guy.
Brian, my advise is to stop bitching about MRI and seriously improve the documentation of rubinius, the are many interesting topics on rubini.us, but most of them are WIP since forever.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kafkatrap
Death by cancer can be extraordinarily painful and drawn out. If it metastasizes to the bone it becomes intensely painful to make the slightest movement.
Interestingly, this question is still on the table 50 years after psychiatry/psychology realized that diagnostic criteria were a central issue (hence the Diagnostic Statistical Manual). Since all that is left once there is no genetic (in the wide sense) theory is a set of symptoms, there is a large number of ways in which to arrange such symptoms and therefore likely large variations among the categories thus defined. The vulnerability of a theory is being traded off for the certainty of a number or a range.
Nobody is going to be mad at you for giving such a ridiculously large number but you'll get blasted if your theory is wrong.
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An idea with great potential, I've been philosophizing along this same ways, separating the presentation and the core of the app you can architect better multi form factors with varying capabilities, get network transparency in post X11 world (wayland), allow compositionality of heterogenous UI-bound modules, skinning to death, automatic scriptability, easying look and feel evolution independently (without touching the functional cores). A GUI is that, an interface, capable of standarization, one example being the IFML of the OMG group, hinting some ideas, overbureaucraticed or not. So a presentation process has an interface to the user and there should be a protocol binding presentation and core app connection so could pilot the app with a toolkit or even a console REPL. I think this could decrease importantly the development effort of GUI user apps in long scale proys.
Isn't that bike shedding?
Yes, that makes things very clear!

The only confusing thing is that the open-source version doesn't even have "Single repository definitions and references" code intelligence? Trying to understand what would be gained by spinning up a Sourcegraph instance. What extra functionality does that bring to GitLab if you're already paying for a self-managed GitLab instance and thus already have cross-repository search, indexed search, etc. (provided via GitLab)?

Thanks very much for taking the time to spell it out.
Ahhh my 40" google TV was too big to haul across the country the most recent time I moved. Ended up in a dumpster. Really too bad.... That was a nice TV. Good picture quality.

On the bright side I bought a new TV and found, to my surprise, digital antenna works much much better now. I have two TVs, the flat screen from ~2010 gets 3 channels, the new one gets 30. They're connected to the same source.
> Just don't buy it if you don't like it.

You say that about a security issue that could blow California's power grid in minutes.
Approaching something at your own pace is a lot easier if you can know it advance where you're likely to encounter it.
Okay, so the page/statement is inaccurate, and not just because it's been spammed to HN three times before today (seven months ago).

Since I run Killed by Google, I feel it's important to clarify that the average Google product lifespan is much longer than four years thanks to flagship products like Gmail, Maps, Docs, etc. I can't actually get a solid number despite a lovely spreadsheet of products that I actively track because I haven't even compiled them all yet. Anyway, I made a choice not to draw stats in killedbygoogle.com for a reason, and it's because they're misleading to most people. When I'm asked about it, I say, "The products listed lasted an average of about four years." KBG is cynical view of Google's product strategy by any measure, but at least it's not drawing empty and misleading conclusions.
But there’s so many settings where you need to drill into the legacy control panel to change things properly. Want to do anything advanced with your network connections or adapters? Got to go into the old style network settings in the control panel. Want to change your audio output device (for example to output to Bluetooth headphones)? Got to go into the legacy control panel audio settings. Want to change your power settings to not go into standby when your laptop screen is closed? Legacy power settings. Want to enable windows features like IIS, hyper V, etc? You can add features in either one but the old fashioned one has a nice tree list with additional tooltip information, whereas the new Settings interface just has one long list that is clunky to interact with.
I think this post is being unfairly downvoted. The idea is that making money via stock market trading is hard and that doing it consistently is even harder.

Sure, one of us might be the next George Soros, but it's important to keep expectations curbed.
I visited Eric Migicovsky’s presentation in Hong Kong a year ago dedicated to YC China. He is a founder of Pebble, YC partner, and helped Qi Lu a lot in establishing YC China.
Although China VC investments have almost surpassed US, there were only three projects from Great China (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan) in YC. They wanted to find out how they can bring more local talents to SV.

Unfortunately, it seems they haven’t succeeded much. I think the main reason is that Chinese entrepreneurs rarely want to target the international market. They don’t really know much about it, they don’t have the network and they have a huge domestic market, where they feel much more convenient.

The state of early-stage investment is different in China, compare to US or Europe. You won’t find here many events or meetups where angles or early-stage VC connected with entrepreneurs. They don’t actually like sharing events of that kind. For example, the largest community of such kind in Shanghai is founded by non-Chinese. The only way to reach a well-known VC fund is your network. A warm introduction helps multiples your chances for fundraising dramatically. Probably YC failed with establishing a good network among early-stage VC funds in China, and moreover, they don’t have a strong brand there.

The Chinese market is not mature enough. Maybe in US you eager to make a blue ocean project, but in China entrepreneurs mostly driven by higher returns. China is all about scale - even a bad product may have a huge IRR. However, never underestimate the local competitors. If the company managed to get a series A fundraising and got coverage in media most probably they surpassed 30-40 completely identical companies. Such tight competition brings some innovative ideas - WeChat, Doyin, VipKid. The western world can study these cases.
Unfortunately, there's been mostly negative coverage in media about China nowadays. I worked in Chinese startups and in Chinese academia. People are bright, high-skilled, and motivated. There are great visioners like Allen Zhang or Frank Wong. Only a few entrepreneurs take advantage of CCP regulations. Many of them claim that the party negatively affect the investment and business climate in the country.
cf. XKCD -- "Bury it in the desert. Wear gloves."
I find it interesting that many people go out of their to defend someone like Linus Torvalds, but with someone like Zed Shaw, go out of their to criticize Zed Shaw.

Sure, Linus has written and maintained an OS, but as others have pointed out, Zed's CV isn't too shabby, either.
It's run like a meritocracy, not like a popularity contest. The corporations are not in control there, the people are.
If your hostname is dual stacked it only checks for ipv4 afaik.
Well, OK, fair, but for practical purposes it seems like the same thing.
+1 for cutting coal burning, -1 for DDoS attack on GitHub. China is at par today.
Very VERY few cars are investments, most are tools.
Yeah, it was obviously a lighthearted comment, but the larger issue is that every web user is running someone else's untrusted code on every website they visit. Frankly I'm surprised these kinds of attacks aren't more common. NoScript helps mitigate this issue, and while it has lots of other incidental bonuses that a nerd like myself cares about, I freely admit it results in a worse end-user experience for almost everyone else.
Not sure, but it's native UI at least. The demos they showed prior to release were far more responsive than any WebView based solution.
As others have mentioned, I wasn't complaining on behalf of my own situation, which is exceptional.

Practices like "stack ranking" hurt all of us when they result in good people being fired or reprimanded, though.
This classic interview was discussed before in 2019:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20484547

and in 2015:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10145982

and in 2012:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4940918

I previously commented and linked to an article I wrote about Bill Joy's Law: "2^(Year-1984) MIPS":

Wow, an interview from Year 1 MIP!

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-mil...

>Bill Joy’s Law: 2^(Year-1984) Million Instructions per Second

>The peak computer speed doubles each year and thus is given by a simple function of time. Specifically, S = 2^(Year-1984), in which S is the peak computer speed attained during each year, expressed in MIPS. -Wikipedia, Joy’s law (computing)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%27s_law_(computing)

>Introduction: These are some highlights from a prescient talk by Bill Joy in February of 1991.

>“It’s vintage wnj. When assessing wnj-speak, remember Eric Schmidt’s comment that Bill is almost always qualitatively right, but the time scale is sometimes wrong.” -David Hough

>C++++-=: “C++++-= is the new language that is a little more than C++ and a lot less.” -Bill Joy

>In this talk from 1991, Bill Joy predicts a new hypothetical language that he calls “C++++-=”, which adds some things to C++, and takes away some other things. [...]

On Nov 8, 2018, I sent Bill Joy a birthday greeting: "Happy 17,179,869,184 MIPS Birthday, Bill"! (2 to the (year - 1984))
Read-only friday
Or your head catches fire?
This exact thing happened to me. I went crazy for a week straight testing every other component of my PC. I was convinced it was the graphics cards drawing too much power. Then it was clear that my OS was corrupted and needed to be reinstalled.

Finally, I found an obscure forum post telling me about a firmware bug happening at ~5K hours of disk usage. I updated the firmware and haven't had an issue since.
> the additional step to make it ready for silicon is comparatively small

Yep, you just change the target platform and re-compile!
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AFAIK classification, deep learning, ML, etc. all are valid subsets of AI
Absolutely. In light of all this American antipathy Europe should form its own strong alliance. Relying on an overseas superpower when we could be a superpower ourselves as the EU will bite us eventually. And we will definitely achieve nothing as more than two dozen separate countries.
It's very close to normal GSuite Gmail and calendar.

https://gsuite.google.com/

Anything you can do with that is how our internal Gmail and calendar works. With lots of use of Groups.

https://groups.google.com/
If programming were about typing speed we should all write at least 5K LOC a day.
"In space, a single platinum-rich 500 meter wide asteroid contains about 174 times the yearly world output of platinum, and 1.5 times the known world-reserves of platinum group metals (ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum)." -- Planetary Resources, http://www.planetaryresources.com/asteroids/composition/ (take with as many grains of salt as you feel like)

But hey, I'm sure they can spare a mission to retrieve us some gold sooner or later. :P
After editing my code to use EOF == 0, I get :

19.55 user 21.49 system 0:41.13 elapsed

However, you're using 8-bit cells, so the resulting word count is incorrect. In case you're wondering, the file was generated with :

python3 -m faker -o words.txt text -r [large number] -s '\n'
Yeah, it’s winter time and we have AI.
Do tell. I’ve found dbus hard to understand, but it works reliably here.
My university used to have researchers offer to pay students for testing out new OS ideas, such as 3D visualization of file systems. Some ideas looked super brilliant, but I had to look over at the researcher and smile because I didn't know how to use it. Neither would my grandmother. Sometimes the simplest ideas win.
Rare earths are not used in the popular lithium battery chemistries.

They are needed for high performance electric motors though.
> it’s much worse than MySQL for operational footguns and performance cliffs

As wikipedians would say, [citation needed].

The post you link to concludes with:

> Operating PostgreSQL at scale requires deep expertise

and

> I hate performance cliffs

However, both of these statements are true for _any_ major SQL-based DB engine available, including MySQL.

As the post itself shows, psql is at least doing its job in guaranteeing consistency of the data, and has tools to figure out what is going on, which is absolutely crucial when 'operating at scale'.

In other words, yeah, you need deep expertise. However, no, it's not 'much worse' than MySQL for operational footguns. MySQL has a ton of footguns just the same.
They are project managers then, really.
The Economist is the gold standard, with unbiased, quality writing. Brilliant all round. However, it’s expensive (especially if you prefer print over digital). I subscribe on and off.

I also really like Foreign Policy. Despite its name, it’s not really a specialist publication, just a general overview of global current affairs with a bit of a policy focus.

The Guardian Weekly has great international coverage. Its editorial stance is also less overt than it once was (far more measured than the website). There are still occasional stories and writers that make my eyes roll, but it also covers really interesting global stories I don’t find anywhere else.

My daily newspaper is the Sydney Morning Herald. I’ve been based in Australia since travel restrictions hit, and I’m really happy with the paper. It seems to be just as good as it was a decade ago when I was last based here.

Contrary to popular opinion, there’s plenty of quality print journalism out there.

You just need to read an individual paper for a while to internalise the house style and (with the notable exception of The Economist) get to know the individual predilections of each journalist. That level of engagement with the paper and its writers is not something you get from skimming Google News, but I really feel it’s at the heart of getting the most from journalism.

Just buy a particular paper or newsmagazine for a month or two, and see if it’s for you. One local/national and one with a global focus is all you need. If you find them, you’ll hopefully be set for years.
I would imagine the microsoft ad linked in the article will resonate with a lot of people. Very well done.
The footage of the cop doing the dirty deed will be thrown out as illegal video recording. And the fact that you took the footage will be used against you to prove you are guilty of federal wiretapping getting you 5 to 10 behind bars.
RelaxNG would look something like this:

<element name="myElement">
<attribute name="myAttribute">
<text/>
</attribute>
<text/>
</element>

OK, it's not great, but it's better.
We're getting to a point where most people use at least two distinct operating systems daily for their tech devices. I think this really opens up the possibility of ditching pervasive software for cheaper alternatives. So what if LibreOffice has a few rough edges? If a company can just deploy it and skip the training, then most people will just pick it up as part of their daily work. My wife's company does this and nobody has had any trouble getting their job done.
I'm reminded of a George Washington quote:

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

In other words, government is, at its bare naked minimum, the monopoly of force. It must be contained, mistrusted, and treated as a necessary evil.

Despite the USA being screwed up in so many ways, I still thank my lucky stars for the anti-federalists, who gave us the bill of rights. Without them, we would be much worse off today than we are.
I think my favorite abuse was the use of anti-terrorism law by the UK to seize assets of Icelandic banks in the country during that country's banking collapse.

My comment (which I think I repeated here among other places) was, "maybe they are afraid of a second Viking age."
Do you really consider cockroaches and tits to be on the same level?!
It truly boggles my mind how scientists and engineers keep doing these amazing feats.