jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
After dealing with single-IP-owner computer infrastructures, it was pretty clear that the IBM standard was going to win as long as the industry prevented IBM from taking control again (like they tried with the PS/2)

A lot of people didn't want a single point of failure after watching Atari and Commodore blow themselves up spectacularly.

Also, the early 90s were when the IBM market started to be commoditized enough to bring prices way down(). The self-implosion of Amiga and a bit later a near-death experience on Apple's side just combined with the relatively cheap hardware on the IBM side enough to kill off nearly every non-Wintel platform for average desktop users.

This was also the point where Computer Shopper turned into hundreds of pages of sellers offering hardware at all price points, allowing easy entry into the market for a new owner. The internet sped that up further.
No I was simply saying that I can see why Martin's success with pharmaceuticals wasn't as easily replicated playing the stock market.
While not as extreme, I recently almost hit the same barrier trying to get a SDHC 16GB card to revive an old Nook.
I also live in a very rural place.

Basically you have to end up doing a ton of stuff yourself just because of the time to drive to town and back is very high, or the cost to get a repairman out is prohibitive.

One other issue is that there is usually a ton of regulations around building, and a county or state may not allow a developer to do at scale what it will allow an individual to do for themselves.

DIY is very much a necessary part of living off grid. It actually can be quite fun!
Here is an article and HN discussion thread that was posted two months ago that describes how one man retained his rights upon re-entering the US:

http://nomadlaw.com/2010/04/i-am-detained-by-feds-for-not-an...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1681721
..or catching cheaters. The students that cheated obviously don't care about learning or education, so why should he?
Well, your bookmarks and data are never shared with anyone unless you make them public, so we take very good care of your private data remaining private...
Pretty ridiculous and ballsy of Facebook, I think. Zuckerberg must be drunk with power to allow this kind of thing, with delusions that his burgeoning empire is invincible. He is practically daring someone to prove that Facebook can be taken out of its place by this kind of behavior. How blatant can you be that you have no regard for the public perception, no regard for those who depend on your platform for a means of communication, no regard for those who use your platform to deploy their own applications? I think that literally removing all content _just because_ you don't like someone is about as blatant and power-drunk as you can get.

I don't think anyone believes that the trademark litigation has any merit. They're just using it as an excuse because they think that Lamebook reflects poorly on their business, though I don't really see how ... I think it probably encourages people to use it more, in hopes that they'll find something Lamebook-worthy.
My major was Cognitive Science, so I always had to read excerpts of this book as part of course requirement, but never finished the whole thing.

Now I read it by jumping between pages and hoping the individual sentences/paragraphs could spark my own thought process (this is how I read most of the time nowadays).

For a much more concise overview on the similar subject matters, checkout this book by Andy Clark
http://www.amazon.com/Mindware-Introduction-Philosophy-Cogni...
My greatest success has come from sponsoring local user groups in the technology that I am looking to hire in. Great way to make introductions. Most recruiters are a waste of $$, unless you are looking for a very specific, hard to find skillset.
A friend with a Harvard MBA was selling his house and thought that the standard real-estate commission structure where the commission percentage goes down as the price goes up was absurd. He negotiated a commission structure where, up until the price point where simply slapping a sign out front with that price quoted would result in a sale, the commission was 2%. From there on up, it was 10%. So, the agent had a stronger incentive to find a buyer willing to pay a high price. My friend ended up selling for a low-ish price, but he didn't pay much of a commission.

The biggest difference between the standard real estate model and the standard headhunting model is exclusivity. A headhunter is motivated to "throw paper" at a hiring manager when multiple recruiting firms are competing to fill a role. I think that retained search may be a better option, but it's rarely used at lower levels for some reason.
He can explain it himself when he's trying to bargain a shorter prison sentence with prosecutors.
I just wish he weren't the default "genius teenage hacker" that people keep bringing up in completely unrelated threads. Let that honor go to any of the many humbler folks more skilled than him and who can actually work in teams with others :) (there's a reason why he's never been able been able to hold a job more than briefly as an intern...)
Because of the difficulty of seeing sarcasm on the internet, I think it's worth pointing out that it was a far-right Boogaloo Boy that murdered a cop in California during a standoff, and was in text communication with another Boogaloo boy that is charged with arson in the burning of the Minneapolis police precinct:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/23/texas-boogaloo...

They have been trying to start a race war and were performing false flag violence to further their aims.
The system investigated itself and found no wrong doing, is not the same as a third party audit. Its possible that Trump would continue to dispute after a proper third party audit, but that would have lost him a lot of support from reasonable people and republicans.

Right now millions of people still feel the election was rigged, even democrats and independents. They just chose to move on.
Reading a few of the blog posts, and the FAQ, I'm not sure you're getting to why engineers are bad at writing resumes, what the fundamental disconnect is when they try to do situation-behavior-response type stuff. It's not because "resumes are not written in a programming language."

I personally grokked it when I was writing up some peer review. I thought I was making a compelling case: I showed where he had solved a tough problem, how he worked through problems, resolved it and thought I was establishing that the guy was on an upward trajectory.

My manager kicked it back and was trying to explain what he needed. We went back and forth, and finally he said, "look, I'm going to be in a room full of other managers, and I need ammo to get Chris a promotion."

That was when it clicked. I had learned persuasive writing in an environment where it pays to spend a lot of time making your case. But on a promotion board, there might be a dozen managers trying to get a word in edgewise, so they need to make their case with simple, unambiguous facts.

So it's a matter of it being a writing style that meets a specific need, and which engineers aren't trained in.
Political leaders ending up in prison is not that rare [1]. The United States has historically had better leadership than the sort of nations where that happens, but it's been on a bit of a decline recently.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_government_wh...
I agree, and I think there's an even more charitable phrasing: that the "private property" argument could be neither totally negligible nor totally compelling, but "somewhat persuasive". When someone does something borderline it might change the calculus, and when someone does something unambiguously laudable or egregious it may not.

Making the argument even when it's not compelling (that is, even when there are other hypothetical cases in which it doesn't sway you) isn't necessarily hypocritical.
This is uninteresting as the engineers are only making a limited point that the superior character of the engineering organization has been lost, relative to the demands of buyers and the FAA. It’s not a novel theory to suggest a merger or acquisition can cause this to happen more obviously than a national or world event.
I'm a little surprised about the outpouring of love for Simple. I've been a customer for a year or two and have always been super frustrated with the performance of their web & mobile apps, and their customer service.

I only joined and stuck around because the 1% interest rate was better than anything else I could find at the time. Since their rate dropped I transferred all of my money away.

I'm with Yotta & Onefinance today.

Yotta offers >1% interest rate when you calculate it all out. Definitely not anywhere near the 2-3% the people are mentioning in the the comments. They also just recently dropped the # of tickets you get on deposits above $25k which doesn't help.

One finance offers a 1% rate up to $25k & 3% on an account that can be funded by diverting up to 10% of your direct deposits. They also have "Pockets" which I think is similar to what Simple did but tbh I never use any of that stuff...I'm just a rate chaser.
Well that’s the nature of asymmetric attack vectors I guess. It’s more expensive to protect than to attack.
Good idea, I'll let the team know that would widen the potential user base considerably. I think you are right for our needs recency is not as important as mass up votes.
Yes. MongoDB doesn't ensure a write to disk before returning on an insert operation (it is what is called "eventually consistent") in order to maintain high write throughput. Because it uses memory-mapped files, it can't address anything larger than a 32-bit pointer on a 32-bit system, and so you would execute an insert, and when the DB eventually tries to write it to disk, it would fail due to lack of resources. Because the write is asynchronous, the client doesn't realize that the data has not been serialized to disk, and you end up with effective data loss. Fixing this would require either a) not using memory-mapped files, or b) ensuring full durability on writes, both of which would massively slow down the data store as a whole.
The team was going to publish this on github as well but never got around to it, I'll see what I can do.
It might be part of the atmosphere of these games as played in SA, but it's not generally part of the game elsewhere, and it drowns out the slightly more subtle aspects of crowd noise, not to mention reducing the ability of players on the pitch to communicate - harming the quality of the football.
Yeah I just need to be able to add/update/delete records. My customers will be able to use their own domain for my app. I want them to be able to delegate the nameservers and everything else is automated.
One of the most important parts of learning vocal technique is learning what feels right and what doesn't. Good teachers will often work on this with students by asking how the student thought something went ("Was that better or worse than last time? What was better about it?") before offering their own feedback. This isn't easy, but it's critical.

When I'm practicing, sometimes I'm just doing something wrong. If I can't fix it or I can't even figure out what it is, but I know it doesn't feel right, sometimes I just stop that practice session. That's when I know I'll be practicing improper technique. I'll try again next time and remember to ask my teacher about it in my next lesson.
Oh, yes, you can. But I think its probably beyond the technical abilities of many authors.

If there was a cheap, e-book-only publisher around that could help with all of the traditional publisher duties (editing, typesetting, advertising, etc) without the overhead of actually printing anything (or at least with being able to print things on demand rather than buying a big batch and praying) I think there would definitely be money to be made.

The number of submissions that large publishers get every day has got to be staggering - what if a small company could dedicate their extra resources to actually reading through more of them than Random House can? The beauty of the novel that it is pure content, especially on an e-reader.
I might just say that for O to come out so late in the piece with his long-form is in my view, poor character on his part, especially being a constitutional law professor.

I'd refute you but, like your comment, it would be off-topic for HN.
It's more correct to say that their speed scales with the number of flash chips. The larger drives are faster because more of the controller's channels are populated. A larger drive that has fewer flash chips because it uses a new fabrication process can be slower than a smaller drive built using previous-generation chips.
I agree the comparison was not valid, but the MBA's value is more than just a built-in SSD. It is significantly lighter.
Send a page to Instapaper. Then send to Readability. I guarantee you will like Readability more. Try it.
Interestingly I requested this very account deleted* a long time ago but never get any answer back nor, as should be evident, had my account deleted.

I don't know if it actually works, or I just got unlucky and/or did something wrong.
I will be working 48 hours a week (excluding break; mon-sat 10 am to 7 pm) for less than $100 per month.

Move.
The real problem is money in politics, legalized bribery. The government is not really working for the people.
A "bare below the elbows" policy makes sense and there indeed are studies corroborating that pathogens can accumulate on wristwatches.

However, having worked as a paramedic I'm wondering how you would actually measure a patient's heart rate without a watch and with no additional equipment around.

Not every patient will be on cardiac monitoring, after all.

Yes, there are those nurse watches you can attach to your shirt or white coat but in order to take a proper look at those they have to be touched as well, which kind of defeats the purpose.
> I first joined Mozilla as an intern during my change-career journey mainly because I had taken one Android class, knew some Java, and applied on a whim at the right time to hit the recruiter’s inbox.

Is it that easy to become an intern at Mozilla?
Why buy them yourself? Just pay the people who already have them to find hashes for you. Pay noticeably better than the existing pools and they would line up at your door.

Miners are motivated by profit. They won't necessarily even know that you're trying to do a 51%, just that you're buying hashrate and are willing to pay them more than they're getting elsewhere.

edit: In fact, you could run a legitimate mining pool at a small loss for a while to build trust. Participating in your loss leader mining pool would be attractive to miners since the other pools, that skim some profit for themselves to support their operations, can't compete on price with one willing to lose a little bit of money. If you want, break it out into 3 "different" pools that you control so that it even looks to the naive like there's no 51% control. Then spring your trap.

51%ing Bitcoin is well within the resources of a motivated hedge fund, major corporation, or country. The motivation just isn't there right now.
I'm mostly backend myself so I feel your pain. Writing Litestream was the easy part; setting up litestream.io was the real challenge! ;)
Especially given the words for the coffee you order are exactly the same.

Koffie <-> coffee

And the rest is Italian, French or English anyway

"Mag ik een >koffie< en een >croissant<?" - why do I have to repeat myself in English to ask for a >coffee< and a >croissant<?
To put it bluntly: we don't need more context. The author has graciously shared a story about her private decision-making and intimate details about her emotional well-being. Even if some readers may want to probe further into her private life, she ultimately owes us nothing. We are reading her blog post out of passing curiosity, and not assessing the merit or evaluating the truth of any claims she is making.

Sorry to single out the parent comment. I don't know what the true intent was, but there's a trend on HN of commenters demanding to know private details they don't have an actual need to know. It's nice when the author answers questions but we should be happy with what we're given.
All businesses have accountants to figure that out.
The "one size fits it all" notion of malloc/free/realloc is just wrong. When you want optimal allocation performance, you can't get around specialized allocators of various sorts for various needs.
That is a cool title. But i'm not sure it's actually cooler than 'Planetary Protection Officer':

http://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov/contacts

Particularly given that her job genuinely is to protect the Earth from alien life. Well, and also to protect the rest of the universe from Earth life - which, predictably, is the more difficult bit.
For how long? What do you mean by open? What do you mean by entirely free - do you mean there will never be usage limits?
Is it just me or has anyone else been waiting for multi-room audio, I don't understand why I can't 'cast' to two locations at once?

Seems like they'd take the Sonos market pretty easily if/when implemented
Couldn't agree more. It's definitely a function of the extent to which you're guessing, which is a function of your experience solving very similar problems.

I do think we (programmers? people?) have a tendency to avoid inspecting the experience we already have. We thought hard about some pattern a few times and came up with some instincts based on that experience, which is great, but we should make sure to double-check those instincts from time to time.
Awesome.

I was lucky enough to see Andromeda with the naked eye while doing a transatlantic yacht race. Believe it or not it took me a couple of days to find Pegasus but then it was obvious each night as I gazed up at the sky.

We're on a collision course with Andromeda, right? Those trillion stars crashing in are going to make for a wonderful fireworks display :)
I'm writing a supervisor / init system in Rust, called Horust (from Horus "the one from the above" + Rust). It's inspired by supervisord, you define a service in toml with a bunch of properties (like start delay, restart strategies, start after another service and so on) and then you just let horust manage the system.

I've designed it with the use case of running multiple processes in a single container in mind. I know this is not a nice thing to do, but still people do it. I've not tried using it as an init system (yet) but it should be possible with the current features.

It's not released yet (https://federicoponzi.github.io/Horust/) but I hope to release it this week (MIT license). If anyone with some knowledge in Rust / Linux want to join the fun, feel free to hit me with a message @federico_ponzi.
If the entire legislative branch went on holiday for a year I don't think the average American's life would be significantly affected, save voting for a new debt ceiling.
Apparently not relevant enough to be worthy of even a small blog status update.

So it has an installer now.

Pity that it lacks the eco-system of libraries available to .NET, Java, Julia, and respective IDE support, on Windows.

So now besides import glibc on Linux, with platform ifdef, should we do import mvsc as well?

ST4F team having future plans for Android is meaningless, regarding what Android team actually puts on the SDK, NDK and Android Studio.

When I see Swift listed on https://developer.android.com/guide/platform, I will consider that Google actually wants it on Android.

Otherwise it is just like Flutter and Go, third party tooling, with various headaches and Android integration issues.
https://archive.md/8zX7h
>A lot of friends went to do enterprise Java at banks

Perhaps I'm projecting but I think that cloud skills will be the enterprise Java/.Net of this recession. There is a trough of skills and a pretty clear line, it reminds me of desktop apps to web apps around 2008 as well.
I would think that spitting droplets can get stopped by any piece of cloth that you wrap around your mouth.
In fact, one of the motivating applications of PageRank was to bridge academic citation analysis to the web:

http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/1/1999-66.pdf
Are the risks and consequences comparable?
The asteroid belt, which is positively TEEMING with possible collisions... billions of objects... yeah, we don't even bother. Ninety-nine (point nine nine nine...) times out of a hundred you won't hit anything. Space is big.
That would be like a company withdrawing from the US because of its killing of a million people in Iraq, global kidnapping and torture program, or instigation of coups in Latin America. It's not a likely reason.
I used to love playing 3D games, too. Then I got older and my eyes stopped playing along with the fallacy of 3D/VR.

This is normal, and imho is one of the biggest challenges facing the VR industry: as people age, they are less and less able to do VR.

Its because you're getting older and your eyes are not as level as they used to be. Our brains are wired to correct the differences in horizon that each eye sees, and applies a filter to the 3D inputs so that we don't get motion sick. As we age, our eyes physically change position, and the brain has to do more work to make this horizon correction - with 3D games, it no longer has all the inputs it needs to do the correction (because 3D games aren't really 3D but rather an imitation of it on a flat plane), and thus you start to feel motion sickness more and more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_perception#Disorders_aff...
It's unclear to me how MuZero was able to use less compute to achieve AlphaZero level performance on Go?
It will ultimately be limited by it's cooling, as all Teslas have been. Can it manage long, steep grades while towing? Downhill, ICE motors can be driven by the wheels to preserve both fuel and brakes.
I have the same experience with tinder. They build shadow profiles on you, and they're not even discreet about it if you look at their traffic. I get whole phones with sim cheap.
I pity anyone that ever had to write concurrent code for it though.
In what way does this contradict my comment?
Generally it's a very confusing initiative, very much like asking that text in screenshots could stay editable and buttons clickable. Why?
Most of these types of vehicle will be owned by a suburbian parent driving his/her kids to some variant of organized recreational events. The rest is just marketing.
I'd be surprised if they didn't focus on a moon landing first. You could put up a small space station pretty quickly, but it took a great deal of effort to create the ISS.
Don't know. They haven't built a practical contraption yet, hopefully it's some piece of their experimental setup, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's math. After all, they do issue patents for what some describe as "8th grade algebra" in software.

Don't worry, I understand the semantic distinction when the case is clear cut. Lead is a discovery, lead pipes are an invention. Addition is a discovery, arabic numerals are an invention. (by today's standards)
"He didn't mention "companies that build web sites" or call anyone superior."

You need to practice reading between the lines. That's pretty much what the entire post was about.
Geekdesk, standing 90% of the time. 10 year old Aeron when I must sit. The Aeron is still like it was new, it was very expensive but will clearly last 50 years.