jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I suspect the key software is in the firmware of the trackpad itself.

What your parent comment (the comment you replied to) said refutes the reply you made.

They installed OSX on a ThinkPad, and observed the desired OSX-like trackpad behavior. Apple does not write firmware for thinkpad pointing devices, so it cannot be firmware-specific behavior.
I read an article a while back ( not the story I read but the same idea http://wadias.in/site/arzan/blog/ikea-and-india/) that talked about how in India the new middle class want Ikea stuff but they aren't there yet. So these people will take Ikea catalogs to local craftsmen and have them produce furniture that looks just like the stuff in the catalog. I would suspect that the quality is much higher (materials and whatnot).

Personally when I am in Ikea I think that where things are headed is to make the stuff infinitely customizable using the website. I mean image if you went to their site and started with one of the basic notions like 'chair', 'table', or 'shelf' and could (w/in reason) stretch and distort the base product. Then they figure out how much it would cost to build that and ship it to you. Maybe even work out custom assembly instructions etc. It would be cool to stretch a table and watch the price change continuously then maybe jump up quickly. You could investigate and see that at that length it would require an extra piece of metal for support for example.
(2010) maybe?

Here's some more discussion and links from previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1600211
It doesn't. Use a real lambda. Why? See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2468038
The real gains in terseness come when you recognize that the entire navigation for your site can be generated from table relations.
It's also pretty rare to write a derivative function. CRUD and ETL--that's what a language needs to be good at.
This was in 2008. I can't remember the functionality of the app store in 2008.
Do you think gold still has value?
I think it's at least as useful to cry foul so that more people learn about it than to expect everyone to start appropriately redacting their information. You and I might do that, but a huge number of people wouldn't bother.
I've instantly identified this as a dnial-of-service attack on gullible pseudo-intellectuals.
Every Linux distro has been managing very well without those since forever, curiously enough.

But we all know why they want that data. It's not a technical necessity.
He shot himself.
... is the Java community really so isolated from Ruby, Python, .Net (LINQ), any Lisp, [EDIT: Haskell,] etc? I mean, Scala and Clojure really are nice, but they are hardly revolutionary.
so now the days of being able to use HTML5 targeting mostly Webkit to build amazing Mobile Web Apps are over.

Back are the days of ugly IE hacks, frustrating testing and rewriting stuff so it works in IE6.

A heartfelt "thank you" to Micrsoft for screwing over countless web developers who finally felt that they were able to really express themselves at least in the mobile world.

Also, dear customers, please understand that from now on any mobile work you are giving us will be much more expensive because Microsoft decided to release a phone OS in 2010 with a browser engine basically from 2001 (I hear it's not quite IE7).

And, dear end users, please understand that because of Microsoft, we won't be able to supply you with all the amazing new features in your mobile apps as quickly any more because, now, we developers will have to do additional work to make sure that whatever we are creating works in that new OS Microsoft released that runs a browser from 2001.

Myself? I'm off to hide in a dark corner and cry.
"I have personally put DKK 105 million into this project – money that I have been borrowing – VERY BAD CHOICE..."

According to Google:

105 000 000 Danish kroner = 18.57975 million U.S. dollars

Is that correct or a typo?
I think that if I'm taking the time to sign up for a newsletter and add to the costs of hosting that email account, then unsubscribing when I no longer need it is the right thing to do. I also find it to be the easiest thing to do.

In the few cases where I unsub and still get emails, I'd prefer the "Report as Spam" button would just block that sender's address in the future.
In my extended social circle there are two groups with observably higher computer problem frequency: the teens and the seniors. The teens are heavy gamers, prefer Windows and frequent all the worst places of the net. The seniors exchange an astonishing volume of PowerPoint presentations and click on every link they get by e-mail. Both groups have their computers rebuilt ever 6 months or so. Not only because of malware, but performance issues that appear to make the machines unbearably slow (maybe due to installing two or three smiley-making extensions to their IM clients)
Is it really a regular part of your workflow? How often are you unsubscribing from lists?

Maybe just archive them when you are in the middle of workflow, then have a weekly time when you work up filtering for the non-spam unwanted email you got that week.

The priority inbox feature seems like it was made for you as well.
I'd say go for it. $50 is chump change compared to the cost of hiring a designer or the time cost of relearning HTML, especially since you really don't need anything more than a landing page at this point in time.
Probably Virginia O'Hanlon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_Virginia,_there_is_a_Sant...
This article only hints at the reasons why the plant should be shut down. Is there a good resource for why nuclear power is not a good option for California and why Diablo Canyon and San Onofre should be decommissioned?
Not to mention that there are already two other similar projects with the same name:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21933983

https://github.com/kndyry/horcrux
This seems to be a rewrite of a Quillette piece - at least it's the same person?

HN discussion on the quilette piece: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20486348
I hear that `terminal-notifier` is pretty much dead and a better replacement with new MacOS APIs is [0]. In any case, I opted against it because iTerm actually supports this natively, in addition to a few other neat features, and it will work over SSH. I wrote about my solution here [1].

[0] https://github.com/sheagcraig/yo
[1] https://cgamesplay.com/post/2020/12/09/iterm-notifications/
your link brings up an excellent point about multisig being a much better option for guarding cryptocurrency (because the shards don't need to be brought together on a single device.)

but sometimes you just have to write down passwords. you can use a password manager, but then you need to guard the master password. you can use a TPM with a PIN, but what if you lose the PIN or get hit by a bus or the TPM gets fried?

so either you write down the whole password in at least one place, or you write down shards. shards seem safer.
There's like... six millibars of pressure on mars? Admittedly almost all of those six millibars are CO2, but still. Turning all that into O2 might still not support ~photosynthesis~ bootstrapping plant life, let alone humans breathing.

Edit: also sorry to be a party pooper but I studied organocatalysis for a while and you must understand that these research papers about catalysts are almost always so incredibly far away from industrial viability. The ligands take long to prepare, the metals are expensive... and whilst these things might be solvable with enough money, the fact remains that they have turnover numbers that are finite.

(The TON is the amount of substrate the catalyst can transform before becoming deactivated)

Even with a TON of 1.000 (paper quotes < 10) you'd be able to produce 1.000 moles (32 kg) of O2 from one mole (has 100 g Ru, 2000 USD) of this expensive ruthenium gizmo. Oh and it's an electrocatalyst so better get some planet-scale power generation in place, first.
I make around $500 per month running a gaming VPN service - https://www.aussievpn.com.au

I initially built it to route PUBG players in Australia (myself included!) onto the fastest links to overseas servers as the Australian servers did not have enough players. It was strung together with OpenVPN and a Discord bot as I never expected more than around 20 people would use it... mostly figured it would be me and my squad mates. Within three months I had around 350 users by word of mouth paying $5 per month. Most of my users came from established competitors as my service was a lot simpler to use. The user numbers died down over the following year mostly due to competitors offering an aggressive referral system and I was focused on other projects.

Last year I decided to expand to other games and regions. I rebuilt it as a standalone Electron based Windows app using a kernel network driver that can route individual Windows apps through my WireGuard VPN servers. I built everything except the network driver which was done by a Windows networking specialist - https://ntkernel.com

I currently support PUBG, DOTA 2, iRacing, Apex Legends, Rocket League, Final Fantasy XIV, Super People in Australia/New Zealand and PUBG and Rocket League in North America.

The service is stable and relatively scalable so this year I'm hoping to focus on the marketing in between other projects. Part of that will probably include a name change as I figure it doesn't make a lot of sense to people outside Australia
You would, but it's slightly misleading to say that two dollars buy you an hour on a supercomputer. It buys you an hour on a tiny fraction of a supercomputer. Once you reach proper cluster size, you'll pay significantly more; maybe even more than on a "normal" machine of similar power.
What is the prerequisite for reading this book. Can I read this book effectively with basic knowledge of high school algebra and some calculus?
Why wouldn't you be able to get much done on this cluster?
It's still a considerable commute.. restaurants/bars/clubs are not nearly as good... then there's art galleries/concerts/other events... etc.

Not saying it's a bad place to live, just for 20-somethings those things matter a lot.
Each (cluster compute) instance has 2 quad core processors. The machine on the Top 500 list has 7040 cores. So at 8 cores per instance (880 total instances) and $1.60/hr per instance, that comes to $1408.0/hr to run this machine.

No idea how that compares to other machines on the list. You would really need a TCO analysis.

When I run our 250 node EC2 cluster of small instances (around $25/hr) I get nervous that it won't shut down properly. $1400/hr would be pretty nerve wracking...
I think the two big changes are that the nodes have 10Gb network cards and full bisection bandwidth. They're also HVM instead of PVM but I don't know how much that matters for this benchmark.
So far as being angry, Americans should be getting angry -- 30 years of conservative orthodoxy have all but destroyed the American Dream.

They should be angry, but at themselves. They were marketed an image of a perfect, prosperous future, and then acted all appalled when the realization came up somewhat short of the Dream. The American Dream you speak of is an ideal, but is nowhere near an entitlement, and certainly nothing other people are under the obligation to guarantee for those who didn't get theirs. On average, you will end up better than your parents through hard work and diligence; but shit does happen, and our attempts to counteract that are arbitrary at best. We can't make the world fair; developing an antagonistic attitude, and expecting payment for a broken marketing-slogan-turned-assumed-promise, threatens to drag everyone down. Which of these is more fair, I wonder?

I see a lot of complaining about my position in your comment but I'm not seeing what you say the root cause is... I'd like to hear that.

I'm not certain what the root cause is, to be honest. You have the tone of someone who feels severely cheated, and with a desire to take it to those whom you feel cheated you. You have certain expectations of the way things ought to be, and seem convinced to at least a certain degree that there is a group behind the curtain manipulating things such that your expectations don't come to pass.

In the words of the late Eric Naggum: if this is not what you expected, please alter your expectations.

You claim one of your prior employers didn't want to invest in your well-being or professional development in any way. Do you feel employers ought to do these sorts of things, and not just as perks to entice you to work there? Would you leave an employer that didn't for one that did? Is this not an option for people in general? Or do you believe that people are trapped in whatever jobs they land, and that, as a result, we can't reasonably make them responsible for their own professional well-being?

As for chasing young people away, they're chasing themselves away.

Not from what I've been able to gather from the youngsters I work with. They're scared shitless of the fire-and-brimstone accounts told to them by people who have spent the last thirty years cataloging every moment they've felt screwed, and counter-balancing that with an empty catalog of anything good. It leaves me with a lot of work to do, to be honest, because they are honestly as drawn to the profession from a standpoint of personal interest as I am, but they can't help but think that living as a fry cook at McDonalds might be a better way to go. I think this is a shame; I can't help but think you believe this is anything but.
Where in NJ?

Hoboken, Jersey City, Newark, and Newport are pretty crime-ridden.

What neighborhoods would you recommend that are within a 5 to 10 minute walk from a PATH train stop, that are cheaper than Manhattan, and also safe?
That guy is not a BLM activist, but a provocateur called out in November for trying to infiltrate the Seattle protest community. A detailed thread from November (so this isn't post hoc): https://twitter.com/RebellionBaby/status/1331902008765206528
This year when you go home for Thanksgiving, your mom is going to ask you to set up that "dark web thingie."
Here is a great link from downtrend:
https://twitter.com/EgSophie/status/1048634940169048064

It would be interesting to see exactly how often the capitol police have been overwhelmed and civilians have entered the building or chosen not to.
The Facebook server does 0=)
And yet, the mob continued to attack for another hour or two, while the DoD refused to send troops to help out.
I see what you mean, but I think it may be an illusion.
Suddenly half the population is realizing the cons of centralized platforms. Curious if this moment sparks renewed interest in decentralized tech of yesteryear ie the good ol world wide web.
If you find this interesting you may want to read about this more current research:
http://www.openmirage.org/

To quote from the vision paper http://anil.recoil.org/papers/2010-bcs-visions.pdf

Mirage is written in the spirit of vertical operating
systems such as Nemesis [17] or Exokernel [10], but
differs in certain aspects: (i) apart from a small runtime,
the operating system and support code (e.g., threading)
is entirely written in OCaml; and (ii) is statically
specialised at compile-time by assembling only required
components (e.g., a read-only file system which fits
into memory will be directly linked in as an immutable
data structure). These features mean that it provides
a stronger basis for the practical application of formal
methods such as model checking; and the removal of
redundant safety system checks greatly improves the
energy efficiency of the system.
Thanks. That is correct. Most of my "network" are researchers in various universities and academic institutions. I went straight from graduate school to a startup, which is not the norm in my circles.

"circles" above is mostly the life science modeling, simulation and informatics community
And if it does, it's your responsibility.

Your desk lamp doesn't emit X-Rays, you don't force droves of people to stand underneath it, and no oncologists ever told me to be wary of your desk lamp until it has received further study.

So, yeah. Not the same thing. Not even remotely. In fact, your analogy is a bit silly.
Does anyone know of an effect DHTML pop-over-content blocker. It would be useful on this site and others.

Didn't read the content because of the stupid pop-over.
I think you mis-parsed my Sneakers comment. Sneakers is an awesome film. Swordfish, while ok to watch if there's nothing else on can't hold a candle to Sneakers.
Indeed, it seems like some peoples' definition of "intelligence" is "what humans can do that computers can't".
A definition has no power to change the engineering feasibility of a task. If it is possible to build a strong AI from a series of weak AI steps, which is certainly not out of the question (one can argue that's how human brains work), no amount of definition will change that.
"A centrally planned economy could never match the efficiency of the open market because what is known by a single agent is only a small fraction of the sum total of knowledge held by all members of society (Hayek’s 'Local Knowledge Problem'). A decentralized economy thus complements the dispersed nature of information spread throughout society. Each company is an attempt to take the local knowledge that it has and create a good or service that ultimately is the correct capital allocation (aka profit)."
Yes, you could only obtain Scott Alexander's real name if you were a little bit interested in knowing what it was.
> Disclosure: I'm the Googler that got this funded.

> - We have some extra budget at the end of the year! What are some ways we can spend this to get results while giving back to OSS?

> - Hey PSF, do you have any ideas for what you could do with some funding?

> - Looks good to me!

Was this also the process with getting a board seat over at the Rust Foundation, and the Kotlin Foundation?
> The issue with that theory is that height is significantly more correlated with labor market outcomes for men than for women.

How about cognitive abilities? You'd need to state that there is no (or less) difference in those between the two genders in order for this to be a valid counter argument.

> correlation between height and cognitive ability existing in a world where children suffer poverty/malnutrition/exposure to lead does not imply

The paper uses UK and US data.
I've seen papers from several scientists who believe that SARS-CoV-2 had laboratory origins. You can find them on Google Scholar or similar search engines, but you cannot post them to HN or Twitter because they get instantly censored.

The evidence against laboratory origins seems flimsy to me as well. The most cited paper says because the virus infects humans suboptimally it must not be lab grown in human cells. Also they examined the "only" 3 relevant features of the virus and determined they evolved naturally from other SARS strains. Not exactly convincing.
The biggest reason why most people prefer to live near the rivers in this region is water. A lot of the villages up in the mountains do not have running water and you have to hike a few kilometers down the valley to get water from hand-pumps and small streams. That was the case when I last visited my grandparent's village in Uttarakhand. Even my hometown which is one of the largest towns in the region has water problems. It gets worse the higher you go in the Himalayas.

Landslides are also a major factor as the mountains are extremely fragile. I've witnessed several such small landslides during my trips that often block the small mountain roads. They are very common.

There is pretty much no usable agricultural land and most villages rely on money from people working outside the region or small scale cattle domestication. Upper Himalayas is a rough terrain and so not many people live there. Living closer to the rivers is much better. Even better is living closer to the major roads that often are closer to the rivers.

Things are slowly and steadily improving these days. The regulations are also being more strictly enforced. Though I'm quite concerned that many similar disasters will happen in the future due to climate change. :/
Oaw! Just oaw! This is fucked up on so many levels. Once in a lifetime opportunity wasted completely. Yeah, in a hundred years, when current generation and its thinking would completely eradicate from the economics of the world, maybe then another Sisyphus effort like this one would succeed.
Respectfully, I doubt a lot that any of us know what this article was "supposed to be about".
Somebody already wrote a library for client-side JIT TailwindCSS. and tbh I really want this taken to the extreme and see how much is the overhead compared to shipping + parsing CSS. https://github.com/matyunya/headlong
IMO as long as there is a healthy CI pipeline which people can check to see how to build/test things, ultimately it doesn't matter much.
Yes, they clearly mean process spawn time:

> It runs a bunch of separate git commands
So if you said "I'm taking Jan-March off to go skiing" you just get to go chill in the alps for 3 month with full pay? Where are you working? Are they hiring?
Please try to stay civil.

In response to your assertion that the courts don’t work:

> If the laws that protect us aren’t good enough, then the solution is better laws, not to exempt some classes from the law!
The natural rate of unemployment is 6%.

Inflation is 3-4%.
Are you doing anything to incentivize adoption besides feature set? I see two problems here:

-Not everyone has iPhones

-People are complacent with their current social networks, if not overwhelmed.

I don't have an iPhone, so I can't check it out but doesn't it work with any social networks users might be a member of? Just using Facebook/Twitter for member profiles and Treehouse just keeping track of who you give access to within Treehouse?
> Where's the value?

Lasts a lifetime. Which means it:

- acquires sentimental value; it can be passed on to children, and then to grandchildren

- doesn't tie you to the economic system that much - you bought it, you have it, you don't need to go and buy a new one every year

- doesn't generate so much waste; lets you refuse participating in the waste-generation system

- still a much better value store than diamonds
hah. I'm trolling for customers, not employees. I serve the price sensitive, you see, but I do it in part by providing less support service, so I need people who know what they are doing as customers.
Maximizing equity for the remaining founders (and current and future employees) is the primary objective. Doing so fairly is important also, but to quite a degree, fair is subjective.

Agree that the best thing is to focus on the business and maximize the pie.
This is not about the browser "fixing" the issue, but rather helping developers find the issues in the first place.
But that's a question for neuropsychology, isn't it? The question of what is good for an individual person won't be solved by conversation and introspection, because people are, on average, very bad at understanding themselves and the reasons for doing the things they do (they indeed have reasons to give, but these reasons rarely stand up as falsifiable hypotheses for predicting future actions, so they're mere rationalizations and should be discarded.)

Instead, the question of what an individual cares about will be solved by coming up with a technique to look at a person's brain and tell them, definitively, what values they care about at that moment in time. Anything said about individual ethical belief until then is just sophistry.
Huffman coding was one of the required projects for my Data Structures and Algorithms class and I thoroughly enjoyed writing that code.

Understanding the Huffman coding helped me further understand various different compression algorithms and how they worked.
In our case it's the opposite. Whole company is WiFi. No wired.