jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's very likely a bubble when suddenly huge portion of people you knew are leaving their jobs to do startups en mass. Lot of these people hardly have anything significant on table and still get funded anyway. This is very similar to mortgage crisis where large number of people who don't qualify can easily get mortgages anyway. Accelerators have mushroomed all over places doing dozens of meetups and networking events powered by "luminaries" that no one knows because they are literally now running out of even Class-C startup celebrities.

I believe it is well know that economic condition have been very unique last few years in that there is lot of investor money in market trying to find its home. Even if returns on VC is subpar many investors wants to give it a try because returns elsewhere sucked anyway and also there is a chance of winning the lottery. As the stock market and real estate continues to gain momentum and confidence, money would start start migrating back.

My prediction is that in next 5 years, investors are going to realize that it was a good try, VC returns sucks compared to S&P/real estate and they start pulling out. This will first cause shutdown of recently mushroomed accelerators/startup schools. That would then further spook VCs causing chain reaction eventually leading to meltdown. I think more prudent VCs such as Y and Sequoia would continue as usual but many other will simply shutdown because of lack of funds. This is not to contradict Sam's predictions. Lot of the companies in his list can go big and easily double the value but in 5 years that would have much less effect on how much investment money VCs aquire.
Museums in most cases do not own the copyright to the works in their collections, yet they often pretend they do to be able to charge higher processing fees.

http://copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/2011/06/27/copyright...

Of course they can ask money for the cost of for example photographing, scanning etc., it is just not correct to say it is for copyright licensing.
You can use iperf, for which many public server exist.

https://iperf.fr/iperf-servers.php
Steve Jobs would have been furious!
Idea for a weekend project: A social directory for copycat websites.
This has maintainability problems written all over it. I can't imagine a web page where you would actually gain something from this, that wouldn't be complex enough that you wouldn't need some language to deal with more complex selects/inserts. And that would mean that you would spread your logic (models?) across two totally different "platforms". One part in nginx conf file (brrr) and the other in your code. Add something like Sphinx into the mix, and you have your SQL all over the place.
And who are you to convince me?
In this context, it actually means a "non-routable meta-address used to designate an invalid, unknown, or non-applicable target" [1] - 127.0.0.1 is localhost, 0.0.0.0 is its own thing.

[1]: https://www.howtogeek.com/225487/what-is-the-difference-betw...
It's funny you should bring that up...

My wife and I visited the Guggenheim a number of years ago, and came across Robert Rauschenberg's "White Paintings", which even as I am a fan of minimalism, seemed kind of silly. All the while, we decided that we would one day duplicate the paintings for our own house. If it's good enough for the Guggenheim...

A year or so later, we bought four canvases, some gesso and some white paint, and made four white paintings, and upon hanging them up, found that it actually looked really nice. We did some research on the original "White Paintings" series, and discovered that John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg were friends, and that 4'33" was "a direct response" to the White Paintings.

http://www.sfmoma.org/multimedia/audio/aop_tour_404

It was doubly cool because while I've worked in the visual arts, my wife is a composer. These seemingly silly paintings have come with us to our new house, and hang in the living room, and I'm quite fond of them, even though they required fairly minimal effort for my wife and I to create. Hooray for minimalism!
While WebDatabases have a PITA async-only API for reasons which are entirely beyond my comprehension

That's because they want to support responsive applications. Javascript doesn't really have native concurrency operations, so the best (only?) way to do it is via async operations.

It's like XMLHttpRequest: Async only, which can be harder to program, but makes it a lot more robust.
Not that I am aware of, but the AWS team is big (and getting bigger) and lots of stuff happens that I know nothing about.
I'd just start FedEx'ing things and just take a book... Perhaps travel with just a SIM card and pickup a new phone when I landed.

That's about the only thing you could really start to do.
While doing such studies one should be careful when considering alternatives. The article refers to tofu as an alternative. Many Vegans (e.g. in India) do not consume tofu, so his comparison would fail there.
> Javascript doesn't really have native concurrency operations

Except for Web Workers, also part of HTML5. The way Google Gears handled this was to allow synchronous database operations only in worker contexts.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25060973, which points to something other than a press release.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
There's a large difference between censoring a news source for political affiliation and censoring something for (for example) counterfactual misinformation regarding vaccines and the pandemic, or for that matter unsubstantiated voter fraud.
It is not banks. It it credit unions and based on bonds.
(banks are sometime affiliated with credit unions with similar names)

The bonds have a 0% coupon but the value is now 96.725:
https://www.nordea.dk/privat/produkter/boliglaan/Kurser-real...

So the buyer of the house (seller of the bonds) would have to sell 3.3% extra bonds. And the buyer of the bonds gets a discount.

As for why anyone would buy such bonds:
The system is considered very stable (no US sub-prime mess) so if you have a lot of money, do not want to take risks (stocks and forex) and your bank charges you negative interest, it might make sense.

As for the house prices. Yes they are going up. But you still have to pay back the money in 20 years. Or remortgage, but then it might not be at 0%.

Another thing to consider is that property taxes are based on a public valuation that have some correlation with what you would be paying for a house (valuations is big mess now, but it will probably be fixed in less than 20 years).
It's uranium, you can't simply hide it in the matter of days. Not to mention 24/7 video surveillance, satellite images, and that IAEA released quarterly reports and every one of them until over a year after US withdrew from the agreement said the same: Iran complied. Hell, even a year after Iran let IAEA know that they're gonna exceed their limits. Here's the entire timeline for those interested: https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Timeline-of-Nuclear-D...

Nothing like the situation was with North Korea, where North Korea was uncooperative with the IAEA, mostly disagreeing on which parts of the plants IAEA can access. Not to mention IAEA had 20 years in between to improve their methods.

US absolutely shot themselves in the foot by withdrawing from the deal no matter how you look at it.
That's because interest rates having generally trended down from the mid-teens to zero in the past forty years.

Unless we're willing to go negative, that cycle is coming to an end.
Failure modes are fun when they get 80-90% of the way there and hit the uncanny valley.

Unfortunately many generations fail to hit that.
I disagree - it's not clear. I thought it was going to be some fancy machine learning to silence keyboard sounds while keeping the mic active for voice.
What about futures contracts?
What was your first account?
Officially they spec 1.4 GHash/J but in practice it measures 1.8 GHash/J: see the "0.57 watts per GH/J" quote in the link I gave. Only a few low-performing units bottom out at 1.4.

> But if you have to replace your hardware every year this makes the whole thing even worse

You used to have to replace your hardware every year, but not anymore. There was a big race to get the ASICs to the next fab node as Bitcoin startups progressively got better and better funded and could develop for more and more expensive processes. In 24 months we went: ASICMINER 130nm -> Avalon 110nm -> BFL Single SC 65nm -> Bitfury 55nm -> Jupiter 28nm -> Neptune 20nm. But now that we have reached the top-of-the-line 28-20nm, Bitcoin ASIC developers are just waiting for foundries to make the next node available (16nm), so the lifetime of a Bitcoin miner should grow from less than a year to at east ~2 years.

If a Bitcoin miner lasts ~2 years, its hardware cost is relatively small compared to electricity costs, so replacing them is not much an issue: a $1500 2kW Neptune consumes $3500 of electricity over 2 years at $0.10/kWh. TCO = $5000. The hardware represents only 30% of that. So not only it is affordable but it makes sense to throw that hardware away and replace it for a more efficient one after 2 years.
I think this is one of the most interesting software stories in recent years, up there with Stuxnet.

The software development process seems so staggeringly, jaw-droppingly incompetent and negligent, and it now seems clear that software flaws really did kill people despite the heavy layer of spin that it was driver error, floor mats, etc.

I almost certainly couldn't buy a Toyota ever again knowing this. But it also really makes me wonder: how bad is the QA and testing for the software components of other carmakers' vehicles?
Clearly you have no idea what "attenuated vaccines" are.
I don't think I would trust for very long any system spitting out those ATA errors.

The interrupts are also probably the cause of the abnormally high kworker CPU usage.
>80+% of variables were declared as global

This is actually important for safety-critical programming. It lessens the likelihood of running out of stack space, and it's useful for eliminating dynamic allocation.

Some safety-critical software has 100% global variables, without even using a stack.
AGI researcher & developer here ....

Yes you would immediately notice. An Artificial General Intelligence, "real AI", would be vastly deployable and replace human labor everywhere.

When AGI removes the limits of human labor to operate the economy, models predict the world GDP doubling every two weeks!

Someone living at the end of the Earth might overlook the event - but everyone else would be disrupted to say the least.

As we get just a bit closer to plausible AGI, expect a flood of VC money into this niche.
I was in the cable industry for over 20 years and am well acquainted with NTSC ... I suspect the audio quality at 6 MHz to be far better than an FM signal which is nominally 100KHz wide. The FM system is more resistant to amplitude changes (due to distance, etc) but can't encode as much data as the VSB-AM signal used by NTSC.

There are a few caveats and I haven't looked at the transmitter/receiver pair he purchased. If it's simply 6MHz of bandwidth transmitted for some specified distance, it will probably work. SPDIF is a digital signal and while it runs at 6Mbps, there are significant harmonics that can be passed through the fiber. Since we can assume the first harmonic will pass through the link, you can expect a signal which has more sinusoid pulses coming back out of the receiver. With a PLL to recover the clock and a good data recovery circuit added to the receiver, I'm guessing he could easily push this link to 50 to 100 feet.

As an aside, the NTSC signal is actually sending far more information as a whole and while it uses an AGC to overcome amplitude changes during transmission (the sync pulse is adjusted to be -0.3V), it also uses a comb filter to recover chroma information and the luminense is AM modulated above at the pixel clock rate. Your eyes are actually pretty low resolution compared to your ears and there are lots of ways to fool the brain's image processing (e.g. interlace makes a 30FPS system look more like 60FPS).

In any case, a very creative build!
This is a bit of tangent, but I looked up Idris since I'd never heard of it. I'm currently learning Haskell and they look really similar. What differentiates the two? What can you do in one that you can't do in the other?
I don't think an increase in sperm donor activity will necessarily make much of a dent. The growing demands of industrial society and the perceived diminishing value of having a family compared to life's other pleasures won't be so easily resolved through readily available sperm.

On that note though, perhaps relationships might be less common. Who knows, maybe we'll turn into bears.

Got a chuckle out of the Genghis Khan comparison. If I was an archer on a rampart, and I saw one of these guys on horseback dressed in Mongol armor, I'd probably laugh so hard that I'd fall right off the wall.
I'm happy that it's over.

My step-dad always posed with his fact-knowledge as if it was the holy grail of wisdom. It even led to this bullshitting in the link. If he didn't know something, he made it up. Or he would tell us about some (anecdotical!) evidence for this and that.

Today, I just flip out my smartphone and look it up and after that, everyone learned something.

Sometimes the facts are so ridiculous or shocking that knowing the truth can be funny or exciting too :)
> It isn't a restriction of free speech. It's a restriction on what the newspapers can print to deliver the speech.

It's a restriction on bus drivers refusing passengers based on what newspaper they're reading.
Nope. It shows the total number of deals, not amount invested. You fell victim to precisely the problem I mentioned.
Even better, popping up a JS alert stops further JS execution, so this was a clever way for Github to throttle connections (rather than them being made every 2 seconds as per the hijacked Baidu JS)
Yeah. You mention ECC, and I was previously thinking some sort of integrity-checking solution modeled on parity bits could work. Problem with that, of course, is I think something needs to have complete knowledge of the data structure to make it work, plus now you have yet another thing to update over network.

I'm not sure that ZeroDB will necessarily have all the answers here prepackaged. I'm still waiting to see exactly how intelligent their client modules are. I doubt they're just delivering a bucket store, so I assume they'll have client-side code that'll encapsulate the BST handling. The question is whether it's naive or accounts for some of this. If nothing else, I assume michwill is probably taking notes!

At any rate, my hope is this ends up being an interesting enough solution to build some degree of pattern or best practice over to handle some of these aspects. These might be as simple (and limiting) as "one table, one source of truth, period," or "Use for write-seldom; read-often applications only," or some other thing like that.

Even if so, this could be quite useful for -some- subset of applications, or at the very least a useful step on the way to figuring out how to do this sort of thing.

Certainly there are other challenges here as well. Beyond integrity issues, there's still the information leakage issues. It's already been mentioned that a binary search leaks order information to begin with, but if you know what kind of tree is being used you leak a lot of order information as the rotates happen.

But again, maybe surmountable. I'm eagerly awaiting the source implementation so we can dig in.
For people who want to find out how their components can be hooked up to Relay, checkout React Transmit: https://github.com/RickWong/react-transmit

It's basically Relay but using more powerful and generic Promises instead of GraphQL.
Agreed this was pretty lame. I kept on reading waiting for the inevitable 'this is on HackerNews because I wrote a program to flood them with fake analytics', instead it's literally just the one drop in the ocean. A marketeer will (not) see some silly name at the bottom of page 30 of their google analytics traffic and that's it.

This is the equivalent of writing 'poop' on a survey where your name or answer is supposed to go. i.e. everyone will do it once in their lives, but we really don't need to write blog posts about it and link to them on HN. The only difference is that it's likely someone will actually read 'poop' on a survey when entering the data, whereas on GA it'll be ignored on the bottom of the list.
Things will become worse before they become better.
I am a mechanical engineer as well that turned to programming. I only had Matlab and Fortran experience of all things out of school.
I would be very honest with yourself whether living in the US on the West Coast is your dream or being a programmer is your dream. These are two separate things and are not necessarily related. Assuming that you want to go into programming, then figure out what type of work you want to do. But if you are flexible and not in the goal is more to live in the US then I would suggest going the web development route. I learned pretty much entirely on nights and weekends doing small contract work what we call moonlighting. Then after several years of that I decided to go out on my own. I had never worked officially as a developer but was able to get my first full-time contract job without showing a resume at all. (It was from a reference.)
The thing that I love about the web development space especially is that no one cares what your degree as they only care about your experience and knowledge. If you can build a simple web app that does something and it can be simple and put it out there on a real site then you will have no problem getting a job.

All of this is assuming that you legally can get a job the US.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8843517
Did I really wake up early for that?
The mission has been postponed due to a technical issue. It could be as early as 9-Jan.
Aborted due to issue with stage two. Next launch attempt might be Jan 9th at the earliest. Via webcast for anyone who missed it.
The amazing thing about Turkey far back is the first "temple" there. I've read once people speculate if the first city was build to support the build of the "temple"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
And of course, apathy is the other big problem with US attitudes about government.
Tramp is outstandingly useful for remote editing tasks via ssh, telnet, ftp, whatever.

It's "smarter" than sshfs/fuse, because tramp understands which files are remote, and which are local.
I don't think this one is an old guy thing. No one I know in their 20s would know what a VTuber is. Thanks for the definition.
But it's a good idea to go to parties.

It seems you're plainly misreading what I was saying. Not only did I not say you shouldn't go to parties, I specifically said you should go to parties, at that age. My only point was you should go there to socialize, and not for the alcohol.

And I attribute everything I have to the nights I spent not in front of the books, but in front of the crowd, dancing with a lampshade on my head.

That's fine for you, I guess. Something tells me what might have thought the other a bit "square", and hence avoided each other, in that life phase. Which is also fine.

But again, I never said you should trade parties and friend for books; only that you should definitely trade alcohol for books, by and large, during those years. And I for one am definitely very, very grateful for those nights spent in front of books, and not on someone's back porch getting wasted, when I was 14-21.

The only other point I'd like to clarify is that while I definitely do advocate becoming intimate with your local university library (and yes, spending more than the occasional Friday or Saturday night there), at one point or another -- the best time for that is probably when you're in high school, not college. During HS most parties suck anyway -- as do most of your so-called "friends" -- so you might as well be an outcast, and do something constructive with all of those precious hours (in front of a laptop, on a keyboard/drumkit -- or in the book stacks).
They're non-profits and no way they're ever giving up that status.
Maybe I'm overthinking it, but couldn't he have written a shell script that did the uploading and dowloading to Youtube? How would we know if he did?
Isn't the fact she had an MBA incidental to her behaviour? Her job could have been filled by someone without an MBA who might have acted in exactly the same way. I've met many self-serving, selfishly ambitious people who don't have MBAs!
This is exactly the discussion I expect from HN. It's taking a very methodological approach towards an industry and I approve. I've been in the domain industry for 7+ years now and it's a breath of fresh air to see more people coming to the table with ideas like this (sorry, you aren't the first to use these types of ideas, but I am happy to see more people trying these types of methods).

As far as saying they are squatters and extortionists. I am going to have to call bullshit. Cybersquatting is infringing someone's trademark. Unless the author is buying something to infringe on a mark it is NOT CYBERSQUATTING.

As far as the extortion claim, it's also bogus. You think you deserve some awesome domain for registration fee because you have some idea? Sorry. The internet isn't about that. We all have ideas and there is no objective way domains could be distributed other than a first-come, first-serve policy. Any sort of 'use' based case is far too big a slippery slope to ever be considered.

This sort of attitude seems to be the exact opposite of the author's (which I admire) who has publicized an interesting way to try and find a good domain name on the cheap.
It's pretty much like buying land.
It's not like it's unethical to buy land if you have no plans of building an house on it, imho.
Does this story help the quest to $2000/mo?
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I was under the impression that both the Android and Apple multi-tasking implemntations were limited in various ways, but that the Apple one was more limited, so you could probably still count that if you wanted to.
Could someone elaborate on how Android's multitasking is better than iPhone OS 4's?

I was under the impression that the mechanics of each were nearly identical.
> Or maybe this is just for old DOS/Win games that'll sell for $9.99 in the appstore.

Maybe it's the start of an "extreme sandbox" model, where appstore apps are all virtualized.
I know a guy who works trucking the chemicals for the oil fracking. He makes a lot of money, and when on the job all expenses are paid.

Once his rotation is over, he hops on a plane to Thailand. He owns a house there that he paid comparatively nothing for, has a housekeeper that he pays a good wage to for the area - but really a pittance here - and he chills out drinking on the beach until his next rotation comes up.
Even things that seem like senseless "wow effect" butchering advance the state of science, if by nothing else than by establishing were our limitations are and are not.

In this specific case, this work with dogs would later play a role in inspiring Dr. Robert White to attempt the same with monkeys. This larger body of work would then play a role in the development of new surgical techniques for humans, such as the use of therapeutic hypothermia that improves survival rates by dropping body temperatures (something 'played with' during head transplant experiments to keep the brains functional for a longer period of time.)
I didn't see this in there but support and maintenance is a great recurring spend. For enterprise software this can be 20% of the purchase price, if you give a discount on the software (this can give the purchasing folks a win to take to their boss) you can often get the S&M at full undiscounted price. Get enough of these deals and making payroll every month gets a lot easier.