jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Which is why GCP's decision last year [1] to encourage people to only use 1 cluster with GKE for all of your minor, internal, exploring, testing, side and hobby projects was so frustrating.

For your main production load at work, paying management fees for many clusters is not that relevant costs. So not an issue with my clients' projects.

But for my many hobby-projects, dev and few self-employed business workloads balancing them all on as few clusters as possible is a major pain.

Before that I/you scaled it out to separation of concerns, maybe only grouping a few workloads. And then quite happily scrapping whole clusters all the time.

Now any lifecycle issues with them affects lots of independent applications. They went from cattle to pets over night.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/fdgblk/google_g...
I think this one is hard to answer because it is hard to know whether the armed-to-the-teeth aspect was essential.

I'm more interested in the list of countries that prevented their downfall despite their civilians not being armed to the teeth.
Thanks for sharing! I wasn't aware of the test or I would have taken it.
Naive question: Wouldn't this make rendering of pages over slow connections much faster if compression is used?
Yes this does seem to be a popular choice. From a business standpoint, I like that the extra revenue flows in at the front end of the tier.

With this model, how will you do upgrades/downgrades? Would you prorate the portion of the month on the old plan + the prorated portion of the new plan? Then, continue charging on the new plan the following month?
>"what's the problem with insurers colluding to reduce costs?"

Collusion is problematic because, the insurance companies [legal] duty is to increase their profits. Their interest in reducing costs is to reduce their cost of doing business not the patient's cost for services.
I have not decided that yet either. Rollover does seem better option.
"What is clear is that some students gained access to a bank of tests that was maintained by the publisher of the textbook that Quinn used." Textbook publishers usually make these things available only to teachers. Some kind of hacking or fraud would be necessary for a student to gain access. There is a growing sense in our online culture that if I can figure out how to access some information, then it's ok for me to use it how I want.
IMO, this is one of the better discussed comparisons on the whole Lucene sharding business:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hbase-user/201006.m...

EDIT: Also, keep an eye on Twitter's Lucene branch - http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/10/twitters-new-search-a...
To get rid of the Fake Work, we would have to be honest about our current work. but upper management doesn't want honesty. They want to see consistent numbers always increasing. If you have 3 great quarters then 1 bad one they will be pissed, but not if you have 4 OK quarters
IndexedDB is an accepted web standard and can store images and files. If you try to store too much information the browser asks the users permission to do so. There is no need to use the local filesystem API because thats not a standard.

As for not storing things, that still doesn't require the phone to be logged onto the network. The web client could just be another "device". If you're logged with the web client then the data is pushed to your browser. If you're logged with your phone then the data is pushed to your phone. This hack of making the phone talk to the web client to circumvent the limitation of only a single device per user on the whatsapp network is just silly. Telegram for example allows you to log with many devices and you can remotely disconnect other devices if you want.

We have full IRC clients such as irccloud.com, we have full email web clients such as gmail.com, we have XMPP web clients. The web platform can handle instant messaging. We have desktop notifications as a web api. We have IndexedDB as storage medium. We have websockets as communication layer. There is absolutely no need for the hacks they did.
That hardly makes it 'the opposite', unless you presume only the most limited interpretation of the words.

The fact that whatsapp stores nothing has little to do with their cease and desist orders. 3rd party clients can still be built on a system that stores nothing.
i'm referring to true open-stack consisting of open-source software ie: language + database + web server + OS
they also did one on top of Mont Blanc (highest mountain of Europe): http://jaccuzzi.ch/html/affichjacc.php?id=112 and inside a cave where you need to dive to reach the spot:
http://jaccuzzi.ch/html/affichjacc.php?id=171
Boredom is the best way to boost creativity. Forcing yourself to sit in a really boring place without the stimulation of a cell phone or a laptop, and only a pen and a paper, works wonder. Intake of psychoactive drugs, makes you high or low, and thus can help you get started, but is not recommended. Note that I am talking about caffeine, alcohol and nicotine when I say psychoactive drugs. Stronger substances is of course not recommended at all for creative work.
Feeling sad can sometimes make some people more inspired. But then again so can everything else.

Creativity, inspiration and quality of art are not quantifiable. This is pseudo science backed by anecdotal evidence wrapped in an emotional swaddling blanket.
The article’s title makes it seem like the person continues to upload her feet without her permission. I feel like that’s clickbait-y, but otherwise it’s impartial.

It otherwise could have been titled “An interview with the man who uploads my feet”, but I guess that one doesn’t invoke as much outrage.
> I sometimes feel like Mozilla knows exactly what features I love and then they go one by one and remove them [...] because "nobody use this anyways"

It sounds like the bus network reorganisations in the city where I used to work. They killed my usual route, by shutting down one line; so I had to resort to a backup route, where the travelling conditions on the last part were horrible at peak hour and during holidays. And 2 or 3 years after that, they modified one line of the backup route (the first part), so that the buses of that line also had to go through an horrible motorway interchange which is always locked at peak hour. After the second change, I had to wonder if they wished me harm :-)

Perhaps it looks better now on an organisational map. But they have suppressed lines and possibilities of transfers, thus possibilities of choosing a route that suits you, and concentrated the traffic on some main lines which were already heavily loaded. Yeah, there are definitely some common points.
Given that references are implemented with pointers, those special functions are really taking pointer parameters anyway. Syntax-wise things might look a little different, but I don't think it poses much of a real problem.
The traditional argument against this from Clay Shirky and probably others is [ADDED: mental] transaction costs. As soon as you're confronted with having to make a decision about whether the content behind a headline is worth paying for or not the mental calculus will often be "no."

The relative recent popularity of all-you-can-eat streaming of music and video vs. a la carte purchases would seem to support this view--although one could also argue that digital music and video purchases aren't really "micro."
my 6-year old just wrote/illustrated a 99 cent ebook for the kindle:

http://www.amazon.com/The-little-Bunny-ebook/dp/B004W3FYOS/r...
And a share of gross revenue, at that. I'm sure all these definitions are written in the studio's favour. Apparently, Stan Lee never got anything for his creations either (and Spiderman grossed $800M+).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
Part of the VA's problems stem from the fact that it was overwhelmed by returning vets from our wars in the middle east, and funding cuts to the VA.
However, corporations have governments in their pockets - and via these they can control when required the police, jails and armies of countries....

See e.g. war in Iraq. TPP itself. Also TTIP.
Though the idea on specs vs proof systems is good enough , one of the reasons type systems are being studied is to actually make programming languages themselves a good proof system , so much so that DSLs themselves become the spec.

Proof systems have their uses and then there are places where they are just too much.The best is in the mid!

>> "am the creator of the TLA+ specification language."
I think TLA+ is/was being used at Amazon [1]

Safety with Preservation and Progress guarantees of critical systems demand design audits at a larger scale however if the scale of the program is actually quite small , things like type-systems themselves are sufficient proof of safety.

Ofcourse there are cases where even typing is too much!

One of the middlepaths is actually using inspection tools on code/programs as another aspect altogether.

[1]:http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/tla/fo...
Page 184 looks like it has some of the info you’re looking for
Link to the study: https://academic.oup.com/jn/advance-article-abstract/doi/10....

“Diet and energy expenditure associations with adiposity demonstrate that only reported consumption of market-acquired “protein” and “carbohydrate” foods predicted children's body fat levels”
they are free like when a heroine dealer will give your first two needles for free.

cloud offerings are massively overpriced and their goal is to hook you up to their ecosystem and then eat into your margins once your startup lifts off
People are indeed unpredictable. That's what makes the game so fun... champagne and razor blades.
It's interesting that on the first page under the copies to section they reference Satoshi Nakamoto and the genesis block of BTC.
-We have applied to list our Class A common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “COIN.”

This in itself will probably add a few billion in market cap...
“Not criticize” is again, one thing. People who want to just “not criticize” would keep their opinions to themselves and move on.

What Colonel Berke did in that video is quite the opposite of “not criticize”.
Even before this thing, there were a number of fire blogs that weren't super honest about the realism of their numbers. I can only imagine that there's more who are facing a ride awakening right now.

For someone just following a boglehead index whatever, it should just be business as usual. Treat it as any other crash. That is, do nothing except maybe rebalance stock/bond ratio to match once or twice a year.
You're right, this is the one that started it all. Sorry for being so jaded; I've been through two distinct efforts of "Spanner, but without thinking" in my recent career.
One could then argue that Java is owned by Oracle, and could be called Oracle Java, an Oracle technology. I tend to agree with you though, AWS is more of a company's interpretation of the cloud hosting technologies. It's too close for comfort, to be honest. I prefer to self host, but I tend to host in the cloud due to financial constraints.
Leaving the author's admittedly sanctimonious tone aside (which I find a little grating), don't you think that the topic of energy costs of these "fat" applications is worthy of exploration?
No problem. Wasn't mean to be sarcastic, but reading back it may come across that way.
Sealioning is a bad-faith discussion strategy where someone inserts themselves into either a semi-private, self-contained, or narrowly focused public conversation insisting that the conversation stop until a speaker justifies every point they're making to an arbitrary degree that the sea lion chooses.

It's considered bad-faith because even though sea lions act with civility, they're really trying to derail the overall conversation by preventing it from moving forward, or by forcing the speaker to apply a standard of rigor beyond what the current conversation requires. Sea lions selectively demand debate in inappropriate contexts, and demand that they be unconditionally given the intellectual and emotional energy to sustain that debate.

It doesn't just mean, "someone disagreed with me and asked a question about something I consider settled." A Hackernews thread is an appropriate place for civil debate, especially in the context of GP responding to criticism you raised on their post. It's good for us to assume the best of critics in this context, and not to be skeptical of their motives.
> Although I'd imagine it's probably an IP infringement

Content on Stack Overflow is CC BY-SA 4.0. It’s arguable whether DuckDuckGo shows enough information to consist attribution, but this isn’t generally impossible to do.
Or you can just use CIDER in Emacs and have a fully-featured Clojure IDE that works out of the box ;)
I go over it in a bit more detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21621592

But in short, Protobuf is inherently a language of its own. Like JSON or etc. But it's feature rich enough that it can cause a fair number of incompatibilities between a language's preferred style or usage of features.

Where the incompatibility shows up depends on the language. I found it to be very different between Rust and Go, for example.
I turned into a freakin' hermit... How about you?
Edit: One more thing I would note is that a big part of why we are able to support this codebase is because we have adopted a sort of "hive mind" developer mindset, where everyone tries to role play this ideal of a developer who would best be suited for the task. We acknowledge that our codebase is not a place for much "fun" and the best analogy I could come up with is its like doing something in a nuclear power plant control room. You just gotta do it by the book every time, and then you get to go home to a safe and happy community. It's not like we employ volunteers.
Entirely replacing estabilished languages doesn't really ever happen, it's just the nature of the game.

Server software for unixy systems used to be near universally written in C and it's still "the" platform language. And it can be certainly be said that alternative languages have come and gone.

But: C has become a niche.
“Refuse to compile” makes it sound like the compiler is able to but unwilling to compile the code. It could very well be that the parser doesn’t recognize tab as a valid token.
> Yes there was tons of content.... But they were all the same. Nobody was really saying anything. They were not allowed to.

I played along with Rhinehart's 'Sound of Silence' (Simon/Garfunkle) routine / experiment / message until suddenly: BLAM We are all being controlled by: the New York Times! OF COURSE. It's so simple. How could we have missed it until now?

All cultures have a dark side, as all we humans do. (See for reference:2020) Nature is beautiful, Nature is cruel. 'Best of times, worst of times.' But looking for a single source of darkness in some individual other is ... well, flippo.

'Find a scapegoat and beat up on it' doesn't lead to truth. After a century of war, we're still working on this. And suffering for it.
It's cheaper and the lost benefits of private offices don't show up on any spreadsheet.

Which is not to say that they aren't there, it's just that private offices are not investable, so they won't happen any more.

I wonder if Eric Schmidt believes that great art will be produced by the most efficient market, or if he thinks that breakthrough science will come out of the most popular lab?
I've been there for sure.

I've given considerable thought to taking a 3-month sabbatical to focus on nothing but reading.
Would the Dobbs article be enough to get it reinstated then?
http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/nimrod-a-new-systems-prog...
To anyone who has had extensive issues with MBP's, I managed to get my 2007 replaced for free back in college with a new version by Apple after several unreasonable repairs (2x logic board, 3x LCD, 1x left IO board, 1x top case, 1x touchpad, 1x DVD drive).

Granted, it took a lot of "let me speak to your manager" and I believe needs to still be under Applecare in most instances, but it's always an option to pursue if you have the time and patience.

Thankfully the 2010 I received lasted until this year with no issues, and I finally replaced it after beating it to hell with a 2014 retina MBP that's been running smoothly so far.
English is not my first language so awful may not be the word I was looking for. It was intended to mean ugly but not as bad as PHP.
It's not like things have been better in the 90's, when everything was about Visual Basic, COM, OLE, CORBA and 're-using' application components. I'm not a big fan of JS, but the whole JS+browser+node.js infrastructure is a million times better then this whole VB+COM bullshit. Even the Darwinian framework situation in the Javascript world is much better then getting a incredibly complicated, over-engineered, designed-by-committee system like COM rammed down your throat. Don't like a particular JS framework? Pick a different one.
Much of what you describe may be unconstitutional. If you can substantiate these claims, and want to make a difference, I strongly urge you to find a lawyer. If you're serious, feel free to email me and we can talk more.
Then it's not spontaneous. Hell, if you choose it it's not even an interruption.
"Why can't an introvert put on headphones or simply disregard irrelevant conversations"

The whole point with the office (for me) is to provide an environment to maximize developer output of value.

I do not need to serendeptiously eavesdrop on every discussion on the floor with 40 people to provide maximum ouput. What I do need, is quiet.

Vice versa it is fair to ask why cant the people who yearn extra stimulus to install disco lights in their offices and play some bazar tape from their headphones :)
What would we do without HN's built in spell-checking auto-commenters :)
Exactly... There are lots of really nice locations all across the country that seem to be far more attractive options to a startup wanting to draw in talent.
How often does this happen and not get blogged about? If you want to help stop this from happening again, I suggest donating to the ACLU: https://www.aclu.org/donate/join-renew-give
It's not :) It is an app version of the same game. You're the first person who has made that connection in months of beta testing and showing people the app. I'm sure other people will recognize it as well, but I don't think it's as recognizable as was, say, Words With Friends was an app version of Scrabble.
In the last bubble, there was an exodus of nesters to Denver / Boulder that helped spur the startup scene there.
> (2) the star systems suffer from the same problems as contemporary game and movie reviews: 99% of all evaluated products land between 3 and 5 stars, where 3 then becomes the new horrible, compressing the already low entropy of a star value further.

That's not a bad thing. We wanted safer cars. We started measuring safety, and publishing the measurements. As a result, safety improved. Working As Intended.
Eh, I think it's a tad more complex than that. The US is a heterogeneous culture with lots of people of varying cultures, religions, and skin tones. Though I'm certainly no fan of the TSA, and wish the US gov't would reform the system in a direction more like Israel's, they actually aren't treating every non-white person as a suspected terrorist.
> IIRC GF(2^4) is actually used in practice. Long story short, the CPU overhead of rebuilding data is a real concern.

Interesting. I don't know about how these systems are implemented in practice, but I'd be surprised if GF(2^8) was "too big".

GF(2^8) was small enough that it was implemented in 1977 on the Voyager probe project. Yeah, it took a literal supercomputer to decode that RS-code in the 1980s, but modern computers are basically as fast as 1980s-era supercomputers.

Modern papers are talking about GF(2^32) to GF(2^128) these days. (https://www.ccis.northeastern.edu/home/alina/papers/tos-gf.p...). Most implementations don't need anything near that size, so GF(2^8) is sufficient.

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I mean, I've done GF(2^4) RS codes by hand. That's a very, very, very small system, human calculable with just pen and paper. So you're right that its far easier to calculate. I'm just kind of surprised that anyone would bother with a computer RS code of that miniscule size.

Ex: RS(15, 9) is a 9x15 generator matrix and a 6x15 check matrix over GF(2^4). Its on the large-side of hand-doable calculations, but absolutely doable by pen-and-paper (I recommend graph paper). Every symbol is a 2^4 hexadecimal symbol, so a single hand-written character (0123456789ABCDEF) is stored on a single cell in graph paper.

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Are you sure those systems are working in GF(16) fields? Not GF(2^16) AKA gf(65536) fields? GF(2^16) is more of the size I'd expect a computer to do, more so than GF(2^4).
Apple does support (and contribute to) open video standards.
Nah. At that point probably one of the 3 letter agencies would get involved.
Many answers! What I think the GP is saying is this: A system of handing out benefits needs a class of administrators to actually hand it out, keep track of who should get it, who's already got it, and so on. For sure it's good for these people.

Aid to the developing world is often criticised on these grounds. It can be pretty hard to figure out which programs have how much benefit for the intended recipients (some do, but some send the wrong things, or out-compete local businesses, etc). But what's easy to see is that any place with lots of aid has quite the fleet of white toyota 4x4s, with foreign experts driving around, and all of their jobs depend on these programs.
Yeah, I mean, it's a slippery slope, but one worth sliding down. Is autopilot AI? If so, it was invented in 1914. Are speed governors AI? That was James Watt. Are if-then statements AI? That's the basis of human laws, dating back thousands of years.

Are corporations AI, or rather superintelligences, because they are groups of people bound by bylaws? If so, the whole damn world is AI through and through and machine learning is really just the tip of the iceberg.
I think i recently the support for "IN" queries. So let's give credit where it is due.
Good questions are even harder to find than good answers.

When you come up with a good question, make sure lots of people hear it.
I haven't used it at all.

Do you host it yourself? What about backup, replication, and availability?
Yeah, I'm not a fan of the word "disinterested" either. "dis-self-interested" might be more accurate, but also not good.

Maybe "impersonal"? Still weirdly contradictory but closer to the meaning maybe.

"detached" or "impartial"?

The limitations of English are weird.
> Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories

"Crippled epistemology" is an interesting name for being unable to distinguish opinion from fact. What is the name for being unable to distinguish the essence of a fact from its doublespeak explanation?
It seems like he wants to force people to be exposed to diverse/opposing views... isn't that kind of the opposite of authoritarian?
I think we should compare MSFT against other companies in enterprise space.

So lets take, for example, ORCL.

From 2000 till today, ORCL become the clear leader in enterprise: they acquired PeopleSoft, Siebel, BEA, Sun, etc.

On the other hand, MSFT position in enterprise space is in much weaker position comparing to competitors such as ORCL. Enterprises will replace their Windows with tablets, but I don't see them replacing Oracle Database or Oracle Applications (and Siebel and PeopleSoft apps are not so bad).

So Balmer gets B- for his enterprise work. Larry, on the other hand, gets A+.
"A CLUTTER FREE ENVIRONMENT FOR YOUR PHOTOS TOO SHINE" indeed...

Grids can get pretty cluttered, and by "the web" they must mean "not mobile" as the site is a mess on my phone.
Hi, thanks for taking the time to do this! I would agree with you and we'll consider it. It's great to get the feedback, thanks.