jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Financial data (tick to EOD), network traffic data (TCP packet level sends / receives) and farm data (sensor + farm ERP data)

All of them are basically time series with some master data, none of them is more than a few dozen GB

So in any case, I think time series data is worth a look.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

hpmor.com

Reading the original helps and adds to the experience, but is not necessarily required.
When walking through Building 43 on Google's campus for the Summer of Code Mentor's Summit I saw a version of this for the Nexus One. It was powered off but it looked like it responded to touch as well.
"Adding fibers to v8: efficiency + clarity in SSJS":
http://asana.com/blog/?p=49
Ford is one of those companies where a logo redesign would be crazy. As a company it has followers so rusted on it's not uncommon to see 'Ford' tattoos.

While Toyota, Mazda and others have fiddled with their designs over the years, I think a long-lasting company like Ford should leave things as is. It's true, the current blue oval doesn't go right back to the start of the company, but the styling of the font is well linked to the original logos.
That is rather disturbing. Well, as PG says, there's still room to do to Wikipedia what Wikipedia did to Encyclopedia Britannica.
The article that we are discussing is actually saying quite the opposite: that the bulk of Wikipedia is written by many, many users. The bulk of the edits on the other hand, are written by the few.
Minimalist design: I'm a fan.
I shouldn't have to explain, but if Twitter is drained of conservative thought then it also becomes a political echo chamber of the left.

I'd rather see folks talking even if they don't agree than not talking at all. When you're talking you're not fighting.
Why? I've always found certs give a great grounding of what's available, even if you don't understand everything in great depth.
They say now they are working on letting people sign up without having to use a phone number.

I've hated this about Signal since first beginning to use it. Forcing everyone to use a phone number makes it so much harder to have a partially anonymous way to communicate.

I can't help but feel this was intentional to prevent use by those wishing to remain anonymous. I don't believe they'll ever actually do this.

If they could have they would have done so already imo. Perhaps they are fighting whatever restrictions force them to do this. We can only hope.

My belief is that various governments prevent Signal from allowing anonymous registrations and will continue to prevent them from allowing it.

I expect that what they will allow is something like "you can now register with a gmail account". That is the same restriction since you need a phone number to register for a gmail account these days.
There are a few companies around that have the resources to copy the product of any moderately successful hardware startup. Apple, Samsung, Xitomi, Microsoft, and others can just straight up clone the clever parts of your hardware and wrap it in a package that you could never afford to compete with. That obviously doesn't mean you can't have any success - building a $hundreds-of-millions company is definitely possible, but taking it to the $billions will be a few orders of magnitude harder.

[1] Fitbit did movement tracking well, and now there's Microsoft Band, Nike Fuelband, etc. Pebble popularised smartwatches and now there's Moto 360 and Apple Watch. And so on. And Fitbit and Pebble weren't the first movers in their markets, there'll be smaller companies who failed by being too early.
Prior to retina display Macs, OS X implemented resolution independence as an arbitrary scale factor, with most of the UI elements being vector rendered. You could test it out with Quartz Debug. TextEdit, for example, scaled very nicely and remained crisp at arbitrary scale factors.

They didn't end up using this approach because the 2x mode is so simple, and will likely be the last scale factor really needed (especially with the additional scaling modes).
But the quote would make such a great soundbite by both Liberals and Conservatives in media. The primary challenge would be amazing.
Sure, not saying that's impossible by any means. It's a shame if it's happening, though.
What do you mean by that? It was my decision to select the title that I did. I thought it was relevant to the audience. No?
It depends on how you define interoperate. The way you phrase this it sounds like the only answer is the JVM. In which case:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/java-bridge

However in the case where there is a lot of prior Java code, it might be easier to look at Scala or even Clojure.
> Related to that, double or triple the warranty periods.

I'm not convinced that this solves anything. When you buy a 50 euro/dollar vacuum do you expect it to have the same life expectancy as the 500 dollar vacuum made with higher quality parts? If the company is required to provide a 6 year warranty for a machine that they estimate to last 2 years, they will simply stop producing the cheaper vacuums, meaning everyone who wants a vacuum has to now pay 500 dollars. My knowledge of Vacuum cleaner economics is limited, granted, but I can't see how this works out well in the longer term for anyone, other than the people who would have anyway purchased the more expensive product (that normally comes with a lifetime/extended warranty from the manufacturer anyway)
There are all kinds of cases where calories in < calories out which could result in weight gain. For example, if you already have an excess of body fat and you are building muscle quickly, remember muscle has 4kcal/g while fat has 9. If you are building muscle 1-2x breaking down fat, you will gain weight while losing fat, and expending more calories than what you are taking in.

Again, it's an abstraction which mostly works but it is also clearly not entirely true.
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http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
HN Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6002544

Make sure localhost / 127.0.0.1 resolves to something though. A blank `index.html` in the root is lightweight enough. For the perfnerds, you can resolve it using lighthttpd
I have to wonder if there's a strong link to poverty or economic stagnation as well. With income disparity reportedly increasing by leaps and bounds, it's possible the crime of the last century and the recent violent uprisings in the US were all influenced by the economy.
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Yeah maybe. You can say “maybe” anything...

Are this person’s experiences not valid on their own somehow?
Haha, I'm genuinely intrigued to see the contents of that book. It could certainly be copy/paste from the Mozilla docs, but who knows! I was pleasantly surprised by this video about the JS event loop, although in fairness it is a lecture at a conference rather than a made for youtube video. Regardless, the length of the video made me question how necessary it was but I ended up watching the whole thing and enjoyed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGhZQkoFbQ
It really is that good.

Folks behind their content are motivated by creating good content for the kids rather than commerical interests.
Certainly kicking ass at your job helps. Sometimes you kick ass and the company fails or merges or changes directions and there is nothing you can do. Even when there are tough changes companies don't like to lose good employees, just do your best. But realize that you can pick yourself up if you fall.
That's one perspective, though you haven't attempted to demonstrate why politicals shouldn't be an aspect of unions.

Seems reasonable to me for unions to be involved in lobbying.
This seems like something I absolutely need, especially as a college student. I don't know how to cook good healthy meals, but I want to learn how (especially cheaply if I can).
I watched the whole trial, it's pretty hard to excuse. Even GOP minority senate leader agreed he was guilty of inciting insurrection (despite voting not to convict on a technicality he created). Sorry if it doesn't match up with your worldview.
No, my argument is that if something is impossible it's impossible. I said "the raw data isn't there", not that "the raw data is hard to interpret".
Tell that to people who are now without jobs because of witchhunts. Jobs which are required in our society to have food on the table, a roof over your head.

Some folks who have been dropped from Twitch thanks to mob justice - where there's no actual crime - can't find a job in the entertainment industry anymore. Imagine being completely blacklisted from your industry because you were reported to have made someone uncomfortable (whether it actually happened or not).

Google never forgets, and people never forgive.

EDIT: To me, politeness doesn't make up for encouraging vigilante justice. My state has a long history of vigilante justice, and it's not pretty.
Hehehe, self fulfilling prophecy really. And no worries I get it. 'Problem' is, I'm still on the idealistic agile train myself and thus I will predictably (and I told you it was coming) fall into that pattern. Can't do anything about it. On the interwebs it's obviously hard to impossible to distinguish this from other forms of this. E.g. the SAFe consultant who feels dissed ;)

So yeah if you see me in real life, I'm fighting for proper agile value implementation in the organization around me and living and teaching them in my teams.
> Everyone with unmaintainable COBOL has long since migrated to really bad Java code instead.

Sadly this is entirely untrue.
What's happening in practice is they're still running COBOL and they're paying some woefully underpaid and underappreciated developers to write PHP ("Zend Core") for System-i.

This allows companies to run web applications on these aging systems.
Public transit
> Doesn't it worry you to live in a city whose infrastructure is not compatible with global emission goals?

It does. I'm constantly pushing to rezone the entire city as multi-use and multi-dwelling. The city council has ignored me, and most of my fellow citizens vehemently disagree, as they believe that would devalue their property.
Geez, I’m glad I live in a society where that’s not seen as necessary. I don’t need to invoke the power of the state to take a vacation.
Audiobooks dude.
Just buy yourself a few and you'll never go back.
It's just learning without the hassle of staying seated and having books in your hand.

While I was commuting I listened to so many that literally changed my life.
My favorite being Never Eat Alone, by Keith Ferrazi

(You can also download a few mixergy interviews).
> The irony is that Gruber's fame originates from the outrage related to his app rejection.

Huh? Gruber's fame, such as it is, originates from the fact that for years he has been writing a blog filled with mostly-Apple-related stuff that lots of people (mostly Apple users) like reading. Daring Fireball has been a big noise in Apple-land since before there even was an App Store.
I am a programmer, businessman, designer, SEO, writer, salesman, account manager, marketer, recruiter, tech-support, sysadmin, HR, accountant and telemarketer.

And as soon as I can afford, I will hire a competent person to for each single task.
Or: run a website with articles spread over a dozen pages and have pop up ads on every one.
The phrase "jumped the shark" has definitely jumped the shark.
I used to have an hour commute back in the day and encountered the same situation. I finally ended up getting a "Learn To Speak German" audio series. Did that for a while and then just started downloading German news podcasts. Nothing like learning a language for a couple hours every day.
The point was about how things come out of the box - for the consumer, not the prosumer :)

And that's a completely valid concern... if I were engaged in platform advocacy or arguing these iPhone shortcomings are inconsequential or non-existent.

But I'm not.

For the record: I don't like jailbreaking my phone. I don't like installing jailbreak software. I'm annoyed that Apple will neither provide this functionality that I enjoy nor expose a legitimate mechanism for 3rd parties to create it.

But such is the state of things. And given I have an iPhone, I darn well am going to make the most of it. And that matters. I'm not trying to affect software sales - I'm trying to help people like me. People who (for better or worse) have an iPhone, are hamstrung by some of the more valid critiques the article lists, and are looking for solutions.

As for the red squiggly text editing - let's consider that a red herring. I don't agree with your text editing philosophy, but that's neither here-nor-there. This wasn't meant as a dig on Android. I just assumed Android could do this, and was hoping to find out more.

Warfangle - I don't mean this to sound harsh. While I read your reply as assuming platform advocacy on my part, beyond that it was even handed. But golly, I shouldn't have to defend information. Opinions, yes. Information, no. :(
No, China emits more than the greener European countries so they should act, just like we should. The US being way worse is not an excuse for Europe or China to do nothing.
> [we] will do everything in or power to protect their data.

Cambridge Analytica and other recent events show this statement to be meaningless. Facebook could have done a lot more to protect customer data but chose not to.
> That would require batteries costing thousands of trillions.

Overprovisioning is a much cheaper solution.
link related:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon...
I'm an ex pretty sr level exec at a few of those FAANG companies (we'll add an M on there to make that true). I transitioned out in 2016 to redesign my path and optimize for my quality of life. It's been the best decision I could have possibly made, though I'm not sure I could have made it earlier since the hindsight afforded by being in my 40s allowed for a far greater understanding of what was important than if I had tried the same thing in my 30s. That's a data set of 1.

I wrote about this transition (9 min read): https://medium.com/@brandonwatson/designing-the-life-you-wan...

I ended up in a very unexpected work situation which I am finding is exposing many interesting opportunities related to the potential for ex-FAANG folks that they may never have considered. If we all agree that software is eating the world, imagine what an unbelievably unfair advantage a FAANG-capable tech leader (or product leader) could have working as a leader inside of traditionally non-tech, smaller companies in industries not yet assaulted by tech workers.

This is the entire premise of why I joined the private equity firm at which I now work. To find people like me and get them plugged into our portfolio companies as leaders and support the hell out of them as the control investor. To innovate with our portfolio to give their employees unfair competitive advantage in their industry.

Chasing unicorns is all fine and good. The growth equity companies we target are already making money and we want them to grow faster. The risk of company failure is much lower when you have profits, and the risk of dilution to the employees goes way down when you aren't constant chasing funding. Many of the companies that we would target for investment would have no idea how to recruit an ex-FAANG, much less fully utilize them. That's my role across our portfolio.

To any FAANG-capable mid and senior leaders who want to learn more, reach out to me. I'm easy to find, eager to talk to you, and have a very heavy belief in the notion that you can design the life you want while working on interesting companies and still achieving the financial outcomes that are commensurate with your potential in FAANG.
wongarsu is talking about actually mmaping the C structs in memory out to disk. There's no serialization involved: the format on disk is exactly the same as the bytes in RAM, and you rely on the OS to page them in on demand (notably, parts of the file that are never touched by the CPU are never paged in). You get around the invalidation of pointers by never using them: all data is stored as flattened arrays, and if you need to reference another object, you store an array index instead of a pointer.

This is a more common technique than most people suspect. It's taught in most operating system courses [1]. It's the basis for how SSTables (the primary read-only file format at Google, and the basis for BigTable/LevelDB) work, as well as for indexing shards. It was how the original version of MS Word's .doc files worked, and was also why it was so difficult to write a .doc file parser until Microsoft switched to a versioned serialized file format sometime in the 90s. I think it's how Postgres pages work (the DB allocates a disk page at a time and then overlays a C structure on top of it to structure the bytes), but I'm not familiar enough with that codebase to know for sure. It's how zero-copy serialization formats like Cap'n Proto & FlatBuffers work, except they've been specifically engineered to handle the backwards-compatibility aspects transparently.

It has all the problems that wongarsu mentions, but also huge advantages in speed and simplicity: you basically let the compiler and the OS do all the work and frequently don't need to touch disk blocks at all.

[1] https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kauffman/4061/lab06.html
Yep, there is even a talk on the Scala Infinity War which argues for one subset version of Scala that it needs in order to survive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8IQ-X2HkGE&ab_channel=Scala...

For me, Scala is a multi-paradigm language with tons of features. The community just needs different types of style guides for different apps. vars are horrifying for the functional crowd, but cool with me for example.
[author here] Getting 5 engineers was actually a huge ask. Just a year earlier the entire Ads Interfaces org had 5 engineers in it (I was #6). That was 5 engineers for all API and front end code for a $4B/year revenue company. Facebook has a history of using tiny teams to lift impossible mountains - e.g. FB Photos was originally written by two engineers and overtook Flickr, the current leader, with just that investment.
Just like how x86 disrupted the mainframe market decades ago and ushered in: client/server, desktops, laptops ... I feel ARM is doing the same to x86.

It can see a future where x86 is the modern equivalent of a “mainframe”
There are levels. Individuals may need something that seems like "entertainment" to accept and make individual change.

Politicians need something else, eg science and studies, in order to conduct politics and change/form laws and regulation.

Both are needed.
You don't "have to" use the examples, you can read them as get a feel, and read the captions to find the one that does what you want...

Which is faster and probably safer than scanning the documentation for individual flags and hopping you got the nuances right...

See, the two cases aren't:

(1) Thoroughly study man page -> (2) Become expert at the command's options (3) try command secure in your mastery of it

vs

(2) Check tldr examples -> (2) try command

They're rather:

(1) Open man page, (2) scan and skim the man page and the dozens of irrelevant flags, caveats, and obscure options, until you find some flags that look to do what you want, (3) half-read them, (4) try command

vs

(2) Check tldr examples, (2) find an example that does what you want (which is usually one of the covered use cases) (3) try the command using the example syntax
Hang on, any Rio? Like the 32MB Rio PMP300? Is there a Rio product that competed directly with the iPod in the era that it took off? Remember that iPods only worked with the Mac (and its tiny market share) until the latter half of 2002 and only really took off in 2003. Rio aka SONICblue went bankrupt in March 2003, they barely competed head to head with Apple in mp3 players for a few months.

Apple Marketing was pretty overwhelming, but I'm afraid the Rio line was already doomed by the time the iPod began to dominate.
Growing up, my uncle had every Jazz book in the world. He was world-renowned Jazz Educator. Because I was just a kid, I had no idea how famous. I remember seeing shelves upon shelves of realbooks, etc. I appreciate this article so much. Thanks for sharing.
Hyperbole is counterproductive in the realm of science, but in the realm of public opinion and policy-making on catastrophic unaddressed problems, I would argue it is a necessity.
Maybe you should have watched to the end then your comments may have been very different
If the configure tests were part of the dependency graph for parallel exection then any unneeded checks would simply not be run because nothing depends on them.
I was curious about this, the idea that Manchester has fewer bike thefts than surrounding cities is just patently absurd.
You are familiar with the Articles of Confederation, and their abandonment?

The Federalist-Anti-Federalist debate has been going on since the Revolutionary war. It is neither a settled debate, nor is it without precedent.

The branches of government do block and check each other's powers, and to assert otherwise is just false. The fact that the Federal government doesn't do what you want isn't a sign that the US system of government is broken.

The fact that the government can't pass policies is a sign that US politics is broken (although i will grant that each branch of government has been complicit in this individually). But that's hardly collusion.
If you continue with this line of reasoning you'll come off sounding an awful lot like Monty Python's "What have the Romans done for us?" Skit.
PSN really isn't on the same level of service as XBox Live, though. A lot of features(both for end users and developers) aren't included in PSN that come standard with the 360's SDK. This includes things like cross-game voice chat(free for one on one communication, pay for a larger party on the 360), system-level friends list integration(free), and matchmaking(technically a pay service). None of that is included with PSN, but is present in Live, which means that the individual developers are generally left to implement those features for the PS3.
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I'm struggling to understand why you need comment scores to know what to think about something. I can make up my mind about a comment's quality using the info available to me right now.

Let's take the oft-repeated example in other comments: two comments on MySQL, one with a handful of points and the other with a lot of points. There are a number of indicators of comment quality:

>> comment sorting works very well

>> if a low-vote comment is controversial, you will surely find spirited discussion below it--the volume of discussion would be an indicator of community disagreement

>> hit up Stack Overflow and find out if MySQL works as stated in the low-vote comment or if it works like the high-vote comment describes.

The arguments for visible points boil down to "I don't know how to think about this statement, so I need external confirmation." Indicators of comment quality still exist, and karma gamesmanship looks like it has decreased a lot. Finally, you really want to avoid groupthink--hiding scores accomplishes that pretty well.
I'm pretty sure programmer productivity is a normal distribution
Crap. How come it didn't dupe? because I have urlwith/ ? Sorry.
I agree but then why salaries of top mgmt. is not decided using the same criteria.
I agree. I had assumed it was a reference to Right Click>Open in New Tab, and the the whole idea was the a user would open your call to action for after reading the current (something I do constantly).