jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In a competitive market long term subsides don’t actually benefit the industry’s profit margins. Suppose we subsidize toilet paper, suddenly prices drop and people might start using toilet paper for random other stuff if it’s cheap. However, the industry would simply expand until things stayed about the same.

Where farm subsides play a role is dampening the boom bust cycle.
> (It turns out if you want to write one-sentence essays, you have to attribute them to someone else.)

A concise summary of the use case for twitter.
> "the full transformation into "God" was only finalized with the Nicene Creed in 325."

The Nicene Creed is one of the clearest statements of the "Jesus is God" hypothesis, but (as I said elsewhere in this thread) there are plenty of strong claims made in the gospels themselves. There are also similar claims made in many of the earlier writings of the church (if you're honestly interested, there are 10 pre-Nicene volumes at http://www.ccel.org/fathers.html .)
I suppose replication and sharding over multiple hosts, as well as a key system for file indexing and serving.
It immediately grabbed my attention that they used images for the column labels. Vertical text should be doable with CSS.
Sometimes there are a lot of people that experience part of the story that there can be multiple versions of the truth, each seemingly different, but all still fitting in with a larger narrative.

In 2012 I joined Amazon in a a small data analytics org within the supply chain. We were tasked with reducing split shipments: multiple item orders that could not ship out on a single box. The top reason for splitting a shipment was because we simply didn't have the right combination of items in a single fulfillment center. By the time I had gotten there, my manager had already successfully implemented the first transshipment network, moving items from one warehouse to another so they could ship out with the right combination of items and reduce a split shipment. But by then we were reaching diminishing returns on transshipment, and splits were still rising nationwide, and I was given the chance to provide analysis and new insights.

I probably ran a million analyses that year, but one of the most salient was that the major reason for splitting shipments was because we we sold so few of one of the items that it didn't make sense to keep more than one or two in stock nationwide. Those types of tail items were typically stocked in one of three fulfillment centers, the largest of the fulfillment centers in three regions of the US. And the number of orders getting split shipments between those three fulfillment centers was massive...more than enough to cover the cost of daily cargo plane transshipments between the three fulfillment centers.

I ended up leaving that team and moving on, eventually leaving Amazon completely. Right about the time I left, Amazon made a huge anouncement: Amazon Prime Air (eventually renamed Amazon Air to distinguish between the drone delivery idea). The press releases made it sound like they were launching it to deliver packages nationwide, but a quick call to my former colleague confirmed that upon launch, the only items they were moving was unpackaged inventory ... cargo plane transshipment, as my analyses had pushed for a few years earlier. Since then, they've expanded to actually moving customer shipments, but the service was initially entirely justified based on an analysis of split shipments I had done years earlier.

I say this because all humans like telling stories about themselves and the oversized contribution they had on something that made it big. It's cool, and it makes us feel important. But I was hardly the only person that worked on that project. There were likely dozens of others who were pushing for cargo planes for different reasons and maybe the transshipment story was enough to tip it over the edge. There were many more who bought into a crazy idea really early and came to own it, at least far more than someone who did a throwaway analysis years earlier. And they all probably have different versions of the same story. And they can all be true simultaneously, at least true enough to matter. Because none of us have a perfect recollection of the past...we all have a history written into our minds that is colored by the experience that we lived.
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Everybody seems to be discussing the pros and cons of H1-B and it's various misuses etc. It's very clear to anybody who's gone through the process (as I have, both as an employee and as an employer) that this is an extremely flawed process based on a mid-20th century model of industrial work in huge factories.

But PG's essays is not about necessarily maintaining or expanding the existing flawed process itself. It's about the end goal of having a rational legal process to keep the tech ecosystem healthy. Some of the concrete ways I can think of that makes the situation better:

1) Right away, grant all tech degree holders from say, the worlds' top 200 universities immediate medium term visas equivalent to current OPT (Optional Practical Training periods which are short term). The current version of OPT allows about 18 months of work permit for jobs somewhat related to their degrees. An alternate, more politically palatable version of this might only include US universities and/or only post-graduate degrees. A very basic version of this idea can simply extend the term of the current OPT to say, 5 years.

2) Dissociate the granting of green cards to skilled employees from a particular employer. This is a major reason H1-B visa holders feel trapped with one employer (otherwise the mobility between jobs is pretty easy for H1-B holders). Let the skilled immigrant directly apply for permanent residency based on employable skills supported by, say, education, employment, compensation history so far in their careers. Make sure equity compensation is given weight here (to treat the startup ecosystem fairly).

3) Remove the per-country quotas on green cards. India and China having the same quota as say, to pick a random small country - Latvia, is ridiculous and quite possibly mirrors the old style racist immigration policies from the previous centuries.

(1) and (2) will pretty much mitigate most of the issues foreign engineers face when participating the startup ecosystem. All three changes together will take away any motivation/power employers have over skilled employees in today's H1-B -> green card pathway based system. This should also assuage any valid wage suppression issues raised by some people on this forum.
No, but the relatively moderate notion of "criticising Islam" has provided an unfortunate opportunity for neo-nazis to present themselves in a more socially acceptable light. Just like "criticising the EU" did last year.

EDIT: Okay, seriously, what the fuck with the downvotes? The EU does have a nazi problem and the contemporary problems with the financial crisis and Islamists are very convenient vehicles for it. Ever heard of the demonstrations against Islam we had in Germany? The organizers are blatant neo-nazis. Heard of the interest groups like PEGIDA? Plenty of neo-nazis and even Holocaust denialists among their leadership.

Criticising Islam or the EU is perfectly valid and acceptable. Anything can and should be criticised. But don't be misled to believe that all these protests are orchestrated by liberalists and constitutionalists just because that's how they present themselves. The "Euro-sceptic" AfD we voted into parliaments have strong ties with other nazi organisations. Same with PEGIDA and its various offsprings.
I hear you - I really do. Violence in any form cannot be condoned, especially death.

One thing I don't see mentioned is scale of death vs. scale of demonstration. There was a relatively small number of people in Washington, and in one day, much damage was done. 5 killed, O(100) injured, and the capitol overrun.

The demonstrations this past summer were on another level. It's estimated that 20 million [0] people were involved. Yes there was violence and people acting in bad faith. But as a percentage of total protests it is _far_ less. I believe this says something about the intent of both demonstrations.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter
Why? Fumbles are rare and highly variable.
One thing I've noticed is that FAR more sites do video backwards – using Flash if present, falling back to HTML5 if not – than actually do not support it. Spoofing the iPad user-agent gets most all of the remaining sites.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't one of the founding / influencial "cholesterol is bad" studies found to be bad science, and that ultimately it was the result of "financing" by Big Sugar? They were Harvard profs / researchers I believe.

The point being, much of collective knowledge on this subject is based on misleading / false assumptions. That is, you're going to struggle to find results that align with conventional wisdom because that wisdom is flawed.
As long as it's possible to do this and there aren't serious high-level repercussions for it, it will keep happening. This is why people flock to e2e systems, because we don't trust corporations or governments to protect us.
Erasing history and demanding others follow your lead is bad manners.

Posting something and deleting it after it has been seen is basically gaslighting. Imagine the kinds of harassment people could get away with if they said rude things to coworkers on chat, then edited the messages to appear benign after the coworker responded to their hostility.

That is why people quote the text of comments to which they want to reply.
Might as well not have any laws or regulations ever, then.
Why would you collude when you have shared incentives? Capital is perfectly capable of shutting out smaller competitors without it, and in fact we've seen this for decades now.
All these platforms,..., they all realize that the data they have is extremely valuable to everyone from API partners to marketers .... I think all these companies could see that there's more money in data services than there could be for them in advertising.

The value would be back into the API and not into weird sponsored trendic topics. Twitter seems to go back towards Alex Payne's vision (data hose platform) and away from Biz Stone's (twitter as a media with celebrities etc...). They could also set up separated Twitters Hoses: like there could be automatic sensors data input for the Internet of things for instance, separated from human input. Any link where Twitter guys are speaking of this?
Ugh this obsession with AI is annoying.
I think we'll see human and machine languages get more alike in the future. We're already seeing a huge increase in the amount of nonfiction written and the level of literacy of the public. English spelling has become more standardized over the past couple centuries. We could say, humans must always communicate by grunting, because they are dumb animals. Or that speech recognition is impossible because machines lack a soul.

Dykstra is brilliant, but he's also a curmudgeon who never likes anything.
TCP doesn't use a CRC, it uses the algorithm described in RFC 1071 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1071.txt) which relies on ones-complement summing of 16-bit word values. Thus the position at which Connection appears does matter, as does the swapping of characters.
Cool site, it would be nice to have a Google Map for each climb.

Also on http://www.lakesbloc.com (a site which focusses on Bouldering in the Lake District) they have guides showing various routes and their difficulty, something which would be really handy to have!
Note that wattvision is the cheapest stand-alone wi-fi networked energy monitor out there. ;)
the psychological concept behind what you're describing is called "diffusion of responsibility"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility

apartment buildings have burned down because nobody called the fire department, assuming someone else would do it the entire time.

when i was on a recent trip talking with a tour guide, the guide told me that they limit each group to around fifty people not because they can't handle it, but because they actually make less in tips in larger groups. the same applies here -- nobody tips because everyone assumes that the others will tip.
"Please give clear references when you say "Fundamentally insecure protocol". That's pretty much totally unfounded. What type of security are you talking about?"

Directly from the article: "introduces nonce-based challenge-response to protect from cross protocol attacks." In my experience, when people identify a possible security attack it's usually correct. (The solution can be another matter, but I'm not looking at this enough to have even an uninformed position.) The problem the sort of people working out a protocol like this have is missing ones that are possible, not pointing out ones that don't exist.

If you're comfortable with unnecessarily insecure lower layers, more power to you. Don't expect plaudits from me. Or expect me to be taking security advice from you after casually disregarding things like "security in depth".
One year means he could have spent 364 days learning how to program and do all the 1000 uploads on the final day of the year...
Yes, I think you're right there will be a large set of medical vendors who will do this.

Then again, there are a LARGE subset of technophobic doctors who love apple and will clamor for that instead.
I threw a similar project together for our Lightning Talks at work. It takes a specially-formatted Markdown file and generates some html5-slides. Code highlighting and a few other feature should be coming soon.

http://github.com/adamzap/html5-slides-markdown

I'll try to put a sample presentation up tonight.

Slippy seems more feature-rich right now though. Great job.
$1000 for $1300 in sales seems high, is 75% ad spend normal for the industry ?
And the iPad appstore app is hideous for browsing, so you have to wade through all the crappy apps to see anything, and whenever you look at an app, you get put back to the beginning of the category.
Or extrapolating from his story to infer that failing to take risks in an early-stage venture is a mistake.
The process reminds me of this post:
http://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/355-How-I-M...
Surely individuals who age slowly all the time would have an evolutionary advantage over those who only age slowly in times of starvation? The longer you live the more offspring you can have.

This leads me to suspect that our bodies can't just turn off the aging process.
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> Why would Amazon behave less profitably? Simply because we perceive it to be more moral?

Yes. Why is this so controversial? Why are we okay with profits being more important than ethics?
Instant 'dark mode' bookmarklet / scriptlet:

javascript:(function(){body=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];body.style.backgroundColor='black';body.style.filter='invert(100%)';})();

If only I could work out how to stop it from inverting the images too....
Were they following that when they closed all < 4.4 Android bugs?
I second the idea of tracking ingredients. It would be good if price could also be tracked.
Disclaimer: I work at DISQUS.

Aside from content and traffic, it's important to lower the barrier for people that may want to comment. I'm not sure what you're using now, but nobody wants to make an account, and people generally like being e-mailed if someone replies to them. DISQUS is a very easy win there. The list goes on, but I don't want to turn this into an informercial.
The idea is to be able to basically shop out the translations and be able to easily flow them into the resulting document. If he wants to change the layout, then it's easy to regenerate all the various translations, too, rather than going in and changing it for each and every one.
Nope, that doesn't stop lots of people. Ever heard of Duke Nukem Forever? Or any of the people here on HN who talk about their social network for dogs-type startups.
Seems like the target group of this blog post are teenagers, not even students. Some street slang would look well near the size measurement in ipods. =)
Any automatic update check would classify as "secretly spying" according to this report. This is nonsense.
My guess is upward of 500k
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Judgement and criticism of others is a way of distracting one's self from your own life struggles and personal failings.

It's very common, and a big business too; it's what drives much of the media.

But a caution: criticising others for being too critical/hateful can be another version of the same tendency.

I used to do this a lot, and have worked hard to learn not to worry about others and focus on just being/doing good myself.
It’s quite a good marketing line for the company.
Relatively few companies can sign TLS certificates, and you have the security of the domain name as well. In order for an attacker to steal a TLS session they need to compromise both the certificate system and the dns lookup.
Could you please reference the specific studies you're referring too?
> Government imposed costs on labor don't necessarily scale proportionally with productivity.

Not necessarily, but they correlate very strongly. It's the rich countries that tend to have strong labor protections, mandatory pension schemes, high healthcare costs, etc.

> at least some of the people affected by the displacement of manufacturing jobs in developed countries do not have higher productivity.

Some of them don't, but overall, developed countries have moved on to higher value-added sectors. Moving large numbers of American workers into things like mass hand-assembly of smartphones would not make economic sense.

> That doesn't mean these communities could not adapt to the changing economic landscape

Government could much more strongly redistribute the overall gains from world trade to those who lose out to trade. That would make a lot of sense, though it would go against the right-wing economic thinking that has dominated American politics since Reagan.
Oh, good point! Although, that wouldn’t have helped the article author running VMWare, as the specific kext he needed was Apple-provided and closed source.
Thank you for alias support!
There are some quirks when you need to call Kotlin code from Java, so it is not as transparent as the other way around. But still, the JVM interop from Kotlin is mostly transparent (if you remember that platform types can be null).
Have you worked in anthropology professionally or at a graduate+ level? My experience is exactly the opposite. The views typically espoused by 'racists' (like the concept of biological races itself) are extraordinarily far from modern anthropology. Is there something you're specifically referring to?
I think that the problem with text is that the basic operation you want to do is inserts. The way memory works in computer makes that an inherently inefficient operation. I'm a bit fascinated by how bad computer are at text give that that is what we use so much of them for.

As a C programmer I think that its not really possible to implement an efficient text processing library, because there is no good universal way to store text. So much depends on the pattern of the processing functions. If you want to avoid allocating new memory and moving a lot of text for each operation, the implementation needs to make speculative choices about how text can best be stored. How you store text depends so much on your access pattern. Do you need to be able to get to a line fast? or know how long the text is? Or insert something? and if so how much?

A C style string would for instance be terrible for something like a text editor, because every key press would cause a complete copy of the document to have to be allocated, and then copied over. So maybe a linked list? But you dont want just one character in each link because that trashes the cache right? but then its still slow to just skip forward fast, so maybe an array of pointers to snipets? or maybe a linked list of pointers to snippets? So many possibilities that all impact performance differently depending on what you do with it.

When I see higher languages with nice easy to use string functionality, I always consider, the impossible choices that had to be made under the hood.
By the time recourse and other modern financial conveniences are built on btc it will lose its luster for the hucksters
In my last startup, many investors regularly scheduled meetings without investing. A company newsletter could be a more productive way to keep them and early customers in the loop.
If you are really committed, you should be able to go up to at least 20 :)
> Inversely, in my career there's only been a handful of times where cryptographic randomness was too slow.

Yeah, that's the opposite of my experience. Often the libc random is too slow and limiting performance and I need to substitute something even faster.

But I agree that using something that is securely random by default is a good idea. People can substitute faster thing fit for their purpose if needed.
Not the first study of its kind. See the intro here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3155846/#S1titl...
I'm a function over form kinda guy, and a filter (cleanly) duct-taped to a $20 box fan has functional, eco- and prudential beauty. The money saved on the Dyson will buy MANY houseplants. And replacement filters.

But then I'll never live in a $3M home or entertain guests wearing tuxes. No need for a whisper-quiet fan because in-house string quartets. Like Apple, Dyson's selling 'purdy'.
Use Notifo. I don't recall whether it notifies you about all comments on links you submit, but at least you can get notified when you get a direct reply to one of your comments.
I can see how a statistic like that could apply to someone's first business, where they don't know what they're doing. After a while you learn to suck less at running a business, hopefully before the money runs out.

When I first started I hated sales, hated salespeople, hated marketing. That is not healthy for a business person looking to succeed. I had to become the salesguy and the marketing guy early on. Later I had learn how to manage people and conflicts (internal and external). If this is something you can't or don't want to do, then maybe starting a business isn't for you. If working long hours, not necessarily getting paid, having a fairly stressful job and worrying about being able to pay the mortgage in the beginning don't phase you then ignore the phrase completely and go for it.
Maybe just whitelist any site using MathJax? Probably a reasonable policy.

I can't really tell the difference in the LaTeX logo, but I think it's silly to actually typeset the logo that way when talking about LaTeX. I'd refuse to do the silly camelCase thing as well except to make it clear I'm not talking about latex as in rubber.

Anyway, who cares about the logo, the important thing is that the math looks freakin awesome.
I think the site would benefit from a chart of place vs. type of restriction (total, commercial, fees, etc.)
That also sounds suspiciously like the description of a Ponzi scheme, where the first people in make all the profit, and the people at the end get shafted.