jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Is that cause or effect? When coinbase is down many retail buyers can't buy, so there's a lot less buying happening. AFAICT most selling is by miners to pay electricity bills. They're much less likely to use coinbase than buyers.
The WhatsApp network effect is strongly tied to borders though. Almost no one uses it in New Zealand for example, but a lot of people use Facebook Messenger but it isn't completely dominant like WhatsApp is in some places. I wonder if it ties back to countries that have good value cell phone plans? Even the very cheapest plans here come with unlimited SMS and it's been that way since smartphones were first taking off.
I'd like to know more about this. I always equated printing money to inflation. Why isn't this the case? Can you point me to some good books for the same? Thanks!
Efficiency is not just drive efficiency but controller time. The 4 disk RAID1_0 array may have the same drive space overhead as the RAID6 version, but it may be much slower due to the controller overhead.

One of the often overlooked aspects of RAID is that the more complexity there is in the controller the higher the risk of losing your data due to hardware/firmware/software error. The worst part is these errors often don't appear until your array is already compromised in some way, so everything is fine until a single disk failure triggers a previously unknown bug that causes the rebuild procedure to clobber all of the data on all of the drives.

I've known some professionals who use RAID1_0 whenever they can get away with it because they don't trust RAID controllers to handle anything more complex.
There's not a single reason why it should be worth anything at all.
Actually a lot of people like the tech behind cryptocurrencies. The blockchain has a lot in common with the inner workings of git, for example.

What I don’t like is all the scams they have been used for.
It's most definitely true, especially my biggest expenses of taxes, real estate, education, and healthcare.

Savings (for retirement or otherwise) is probably the other big expense, which you could classify as "stocks", but if you predict more volatility in the future, therefore needing to save more now, then that is also increasing in price.
Even better, keep them in a GitHub repository and include an installation script. All the comforts of home in a carpet bag.
You can't discriminate against protected groups - minorities, women, and, increasingly, gays. Anybody else is fair game.
It's not just that. Some countries inspect web traffic. Some of them disapprove of conversations on some topics.
I didn't see any ads, probably because of adblock. And given the nature of its conceit, I didn't expect an attribution. I just came across it and thought HN would appreciate it.
Sure, there is complexity. It's easy to make assumptions or forget real-world details too. But you DID tell it to time-out, because that's how the I/O library is specified.
Spotlight fulfills all those requirements.
If you want remote access, NX is much better than pure X (nomachine has some great tools), and is on par (if not better) than RDP (in my opinion, anyway). I prefer straight SSH, but this is obviously not the same use case as yours.
This seems like... total nonsense. I mean, I understand evolution, fourier series, closures, electron orbitals. But these words seem strung together in ways that make no literal sense, and the metaphors are so vague that they might as well be meaningless.

Once upon a time there were some molecules. Bumping into each other, these molecules formed into larger molecules. Some of these molecules bumped into other molecules in such a way that the other molecules formed into copies of the first molecules.

I don't see how this has anything to do with "periodic functions". And somehow closures "introduce this idea of 'time'." Time is merely the arrow that points towards entropy.

Conversations like these are why I transfered out of a certain college.
The materials used in PCB manufacture are normally specified exactly. Chemical compatibility still matters.
This is a really interesting concept!

I'm trying to solve the problem of creating space for people to share more thoughtful, potentially longer form content, while this seems to be solving for transient "what are you doing right now" type content. I'd say they're different enough, but both seem to be a reaction to similar concepts.
You're not wrong, but, the article is about high-level Apple employees discussing that they're doing it to limit switching to Android, not because they're worried about supporting different Android versions.
I would hope Apple would work something out with carriers to be able to mark this data not originating from your phone to be free somehow... but I haven’t heard anything about it.
TLDR: they run containerd instead of docker daemon to deploy docker images to firecracker VMs. GCP has a somewhat similar “container on VM” product (though not on firecracker VMs, just GCE VMs) https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers/deploying-c....
I wish I had this skill. I'd probably be twice as valuable to my employer if I could communicate technical concepts with this level of clarity.
You can watch a lawyer explain it.[1] There's an exception to the first sale doctrine when the goods are materially altered. And Nike claimed trademark dilution by tarnishment too.[2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuYd4RP0_qk

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_dilution#Blurring_an...
I have visited that specific baseball diamond in the corn fields of Iowa and it's pretty much a ghost town, so I don't think it works even then.
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I don't.

As soon as I start planning how to spend my time, or even bother to schedule when I go to sleep, there's a vague feeling that, somehow, "they" won.

In a efficient-consensus conscious world where optimization is the end of everything, the last thing I want to optimize is how I spend time while I'm here, lest I want it to pass by me
Fixed widths and heights....it is amazing that [as it seems] no one in the entire w3c or building the browsers know people that write applications for multiple languages, different directional settings (right-to-left vs left-to-right), and even verticalization (replacing terms within the product depending on the customer). Things that are trivial in native applications back in the early 90s still can't be done easily in 2014. Honestly, it is pathetic.
It takes time man. Understanding is a process. You have to start somewhere. Good for him, it was all greek to me.
It's your right to complain about Youtube quality these days (from what I understand ISPs tend to throttle them mercilessly), but it was clearly an extremely good buy for Google, and Google makes tons of money off of Youtube ads.

When was the last time you paid Google for search results? Meh, can't be making that much money.
Do not --- DO NOT --- thread long-running Rails applications. By doing so, you expose yourself to every possible runtime bug, every possible C-code extension bug, and every possible concurrency bug in all of the above plus the whole Rails stack.

We had exactly the problem this post describes with Playbook, even without using threads. We suffered random MRI crashes for weeks and weeks. In particular, the SWIG bindings for Subversion (two great tastes that make me want to throw up in my mouth) would randomly corrupt memory, but only when hosted in a process servicing Rails requests.

We solve this problem --- remarkably easily --- by creating a shim class in front of our SVN code, hosting the "real" SVN code in a sidecar process, and remoting the requests. In no other mainstream language is it as easy to remote requests; you can literally just Marshal.save({method => args}) and chuck that over a socket. It's even easy to pass exceptions back and forth.

If you have a task-based architecture, there's already a Rails best practice solution: use DJ or Resque to factor tasks out into worker classes that run off job queues. Both DJ and Resque are extremely easy to set up. There's no reason to overthink this.
This reminds me about Americentrism: https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2021/02/americentrism

America first!
It absolutely is what the parent is arguing. It's impossible to say "Evil people would use this technology for evil!" without implying something should be done to stop them, otherwise you're tacitly condoning evil. The thing that should be done is stopping the evil people from doing things, regardless of what they use, rather than questioning morally ambivalent technology just in case evil people use it.
Same here. I only use it because it has lower resources consumption but it annoys me when it blocks Disqus even though I have added their domains to the white list.
Reading the article, I thought this might be a UWB (Ultrawideband) device. But going through the tech specs, I'm not sure. It just might be, but it doesn't say in the specs.

"...of a stepped-frequency continuous wave (SFCW) radar transceiver...The RANGE-R cycles through a sequence of 120 frequencies in 2 MHz increments from 3.18 GHz to 3.42 GHz. At each of the frequencies, it transmits a maximum 32mW power level with no modulation."

UWB would work with 500 Mhz or more spectrum, here it's only 240 Mhz, but why not.
And UWB would be a pulse-based system.

I thought that there were already UWB Radars deployed with firefighters. Can't find any right now.

If you're interested in UWB:
(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-wideband
(2) http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/ultra-wideband
I'm not sure about Neil Armstrong - although I can't find any evidence supporting the view that he believed in UFOs.

Buzz Aldrin doesn't though:

On Apollo 11 in route to the Moon, I observed a light out the window that appeared to be moving alongside us. There were many explanations of what that could be, other than another spacecraft from another country or another world - it was either the rocket we had separated from, or the 4 panels that moved away when we extracted the lander from the rocket and we were nose to nose with the two spacecraft. So in the close vicinity, moving away, were 4 panels. And i feel absolutely convinced that we were looking at the sun reflected off of one of these panels. Which one? I don't know. So technically, the definition could be "unidentified."

We well understood exactly what that was. And when we returned, we debriefed and explained exactly what we had observed. And I felt that this had been distributed to the outside world, the outside audience, and apparently it wasn't, and so many years later, I had the time in an interview to disclose these observations, on another country's television network.[1]

I'm not sure it can be much clearer than that.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2a5vg8/i_am_buzz_aldri...
The obnoxious and spying nature of ads.
Very cool, I was wondering where the clock was.
I have a few friends that work no-skill jobs and the stories they tell me...
Can I just get Windows 7 with 10's added network and security features?
Multiple boot floppies? Never had to do that. I was very excited by the new version of DR-DOS that let you build a menu system in CONFIG.SYS to load a different set of drivers and memory managmemt at start up.

Also the wierd IRQ issues. Simpler when you had to set them with header pins on the card in question. When early plug and play came in it was awful, automatic IRQ conflicts and sometimes no way to change them. Was a real pain when the knock off sound blaster clone I had would auto assign itself anything other than IRQ 5 and some games would stop making sounds!
They do it because all the successful social apps need to make contact discovery easy. The ones that don't use this trick - ethical - we don't hear so much about, maybe they don't succeed.
Setting up of SkypeForBusiness, Zoom, Teams, Webex conferences based on that and on times that are coordiated with the users calendars - THAT would be awesome.

It woud be a true serendipity experience - meeting people in your company you do not know.

I will have to discuss this tomorrow with HR.
As far as I am concerned, this constitutes a good read for the VIM pro. It's a shame that critical comments tend to bubble up to the top on HN
It’s an SEO thing.
NFT art is worthless imo, but NFT for digital goods as a whole is very valuable.
I think we should have a chat. Our two websites need each other.

Mine: undercoversanta.com (also early early beta - too late for this year's gift season).
I hate that sort of advert.
So, let's say I take that and I create an engineering specification. Build a service that does this, this, this, and this, duplicating cloudkick, right down to the screen layout of the dashboards, if you're so inclined.

Isn't that...illegal?
Do people really believe everything they are told in an advertisement? (the video itself is clearly an advertisement for the advertising technique)
Chucks, it has been cancelled due to the snow here. Sorry about that ...
I'm curious: how do you know how long it takes writers of successful blog posts on HN to write those posts?

Your number feels right—I've written a number of "successful" HN posts myself, and they've all taken about 6-10 hours to write—but I wouldn't want to make the kind of statement you've made, that "for the most part this rule seems to hold well," until I've seen lots and lots of data.
In general, I agree with you. However, the NY Times is not just some random site on the Internet. It's one of the best sources for actual, meaningful content. So I make an exception for them, and have for more than ten years now.
I'm not sure if I would agree with categorising the field as a race. I absolutely agree that the number of people using Machine Learning within the atomistic simulation community is skyrocketing. But everyone is just exploring the range of possibilities and trying to see what the essential elements are for it to be successful. I think having more people working on it is a great thing!

Regarding LAMMPS, actually the GAP code is now also easily usable there with this plugin : https://github.com/libAtoms/QUIPforLAMMPS

The bispectrum is indeed a very powerful tool, but is not the ideal feature vector for representing the atomic environment. You should have a read of Bartok's more recent paper on this: http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.87.184... . One of the issues is that the bispectrum starts with an approximation of the neighbourhood atomic density as a sum of delta functions. Trying to represent such sharp features in a basis set expansion is actually very slowly converging. So the idea behind SOAP is to build a covariance kernel by directly comparing a smooth measure of the similarity of environments, which is also invariant to all physically relevant symmetry operations.

I would also like to add that in addition to GAP and SNAP, there are people like Jörg Behler doing this with Neural Networks and Francesco Paesani/Greg Medders with a different regression schemes. But in addition to making potential energy surfaces there are people like Paul Popelier `learning' atomic charges for building force fields and people in Vijay Pande's group doing machine learning on MD trajectories, which is something that excites me a great deal and I would love to understand in more detail.

It's a very exciting time to be in this field!
(47 choose 39) * 0.5 ^ 39 * 0.5^8 = 0.0000022, so that'd be about 1 in 500000 of all who traded for this long.
Yes, it is a stretch. As others have pointed out, there are way better incidences of his rulebreaking than the ones they chose.

This reflects poorly on Twitter.
This is total bs. I grew up in the 90s when tolerance was the word of the day and the exact logic was that the idiot with a microphone and a klan hood is only a problem if they're attacking people at which point the police handle them.
Patriots historically refer to citizens who have taken to arms to defend their country.

When has he ever used this term before to refer to his supporters?

It's not a good time to begin to refer to your supporters in the context of using weapons to defend the country on the heels of the capitol building being stormed and four people dying during a final election recount.

The thing about manipulation is it always claims plausible deniability. We all know this.

"It's heavily taking advantage of the moment." Umm yes. Regardless of whether you are a republican or a democrat, storming capitol hill during an election recount diminishes the validity of either party and the country as a whole. This country is the center for innovation and generally the most sought after democracy in the world. The entire world is watching. Taking advantage of the moment is exactly what he is doing. If you read about coups in the past there was never an explicit sentence that drew the line between now I am and evil dictator and now I am not. It was building an army of radicalized supporters, patriots, if you will while government officials around the person in power dropped like flies as things escalated much like what is happening now. We do not need to repeat history to say we proved he did it because by that time it will be too late.

It is clear for months trump has been warned of how this kind of inflammatory behavior will impact the people at large and potentially radicalize either side and he has been nothing but inflammatory.

If he really cared about securing democracy at large as opposed to his own power in office he would be taking extra precautions at this point.

He is doing the opposite.

I get what you mean though. Unfortunately both sides have significant radicalized sides now. And looting storming buildings and murdering law enforcement and lighting fire to buildings has been normalized now by both sides in 2020.

My parents are trumpers in the deep south and these are the things they have said to me in the past couple of days:

Mark Zuckerberg is an abusive dictator not Trump.

My mother condescendingly whispered to me poor thing noone told me all the protestors were antifa who knew if they didn't storm the building and steal the ballots that trump would win. So they were all actually secret democrats.

They both believe trump is the rightful president for the next term.
I'm scared for the inauguration. Already lots of chat on the same forums/parlor/etc

The scaffolding and wooden structure they were on is the JCCIC built platform, and that disgusting video of the tunnel is where POTUS walks out...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJOgGsC0G9U
Yeah, think he means techno_fog. His claim that it only tweets lawsuits is definitely not true, as well: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vnAQV4...

I imagine whatever actually got him banned isn't caught in the cache, though.
Your right to shout doesn't override my right to not have to listen to you.

And it so happens that most people don't want to listen or give their platform to a sore loser looking to overturn a democratic election by force.

Actually sore loser is a rather generous term. In Europe we call these people fascists.
Or "dog whistles", which the left seems to be able to hear, rendering the term utterly illogical.
You know that Capitol Police found and detonated two pipe bombs, right?

A number of them also brought guns, many were wearing body armor.
Most of the "smart" ones that support him do so out of political expediency or for grifting, not because they have good points to discuss.
I don't disagree.
But sedition isn't protected speech. So if they didn't ban him they're opening themselves up for lawsuits.
In no country on earth is it legal for anyone to publicly advocate the overthrow of their government. And there's already decisions on the books proving this, as well as the legal precedent of cold-war anti-communism laws.
I'm not going to get into the over-arching point on a board inhabited by subscribers to scientism, but don't you think the jig is is kind of up if you're told someone has a scar through their right eye and they actually didn't, or that someone had a favorite shirt that has a tear in a certain place (that both of those things didn't exist, etc).

In other words, a level of specificity that is not so easily dismissed as a scammer interpreting the information they've been given.
I agree. Gruber is full of shit. Forward facing cameras on Nokia phones have been working on non-3g telephony networks for a while.

Saying that "it works right" between two iPhone 4Gs and limited to a wifi network, is like saying the AMC Gremlin is the greatest car in the world on a local track.
I'm not sure why this was downvoted; there are tons of things I think will be easy before I start doing them.
I think the best thing to do is to sit down and come up with a list of parts of the app that need to be touched to complete what they are asking for. When you lay it all out, even at a skeletal level, clearly there are a lot of moving parts right? We sometimes get the taunt that "oh come on, it's only another if statement", but besides the shit code and maintenance nightmare that kind of thinking/implementation causes, when we lay it out for a few minutes the complexity becomes apparent - add a column to the database here - oh crap that migration will take 20 minutes to run - oh crap, we need to make sure that field is going to be indexed properly, create the frontend to modify it - oh crap, it has to work for the clients still using IE6?, oh crap! they need it to print nicely too? etc...

There's no need for anger or to become irate - it's a matter of education. I'm sure there's many a HN reader who has poo-pooed non-technical business types for the perceived easiness of their jobs, and for some posers it's deserved, but you don't really know that until you take the time to understand the other person's reality.
Java schools don't make money from the students by "formalizing existing knowledge", though. It's more of a prisoners' dilemma: they make the most money by relying on other schools to formalize knowledge, and then delivering it to their own students as cheaply, but with as much implied authoritativeness, as possible.

But I meant to indict here more than just what you normally think of as "Java schools"—virtually all Universities are receptacles for students who go to them to get a high-paying (and high-status!) job, and thus virtually all Universities cater to those students. Java schools are just more upfront about it.

How Universities actually make their money is a combination of convincing students to study there, and receiving grants. Both of these rely on the status of the researchers in the employ of the University—even though the researchers (the Ph.Ds) are very infrequently the students' lecturers. Students pay not to learn from high-status people, but simply to coexist in an environment with them, and have the "status" of the institution rub off on them.

In order to reverse this process, we have to remove "has studied at high-status University X" as a judging criterion for high-status jobs. That may well be impossible, though, given how embedded the idea has become in our culture.
I wasn't actually thinking of novels referencing novels, but rather non-fiction referencing novels. Like, Christopher Hitchens referencing Orwell, for example.
There's a difference between working with what you have, and blaming people for using the 'wrong' characters in their name. From the post I was replying to:

> And I am not even going to say sorry.

With comments like this, one comes off as a douche, which isn't exactly going to engender trust with potential customers/clients. Whether it's 'your' fault or not, how you deal with your potential customers/clients is what really matters.
I had never heard of canola oil.

The ratio is ~1/2, which is pretty good to know.
Could you point me to the "good bit of evidence" that shows this?