jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm not the parent poster but this looks like it may indeed be just what I'm looking for. Thanks.
On the other end of the spectrum, Ruby blocks (and all the attached machinery) feel to me like a much nicer abstraction to work with. Go's goroutines and channels show giving a language purpose-built concurrency primitives is a really nice model (I expect Erlang would be another good example of the same, but never tried it), and the monadic approach in Haskell makes it so that you could almost directly translate node.js code and end up with something far more readable.
Why do I think you're being willfully obtuse, here? What you're proposing would require nothing short of a constitutional convention, and what we end up with on the other side of that process may not actually be the America we grew up in anymore.
The standard for success is not zero deaths, but it should at least be a system no more dangerous than human drivers.

Generally speaking, the average human driver causes a “ding” every 100k miles, a insurance worthy event every 250k miles, a police worthy event every 500k miles, and a fatality every 60M miles. Assuming an average driving speed of 60 mph, which is obviously an overestimation, those are 1.6k, 4k, 8k, and 1M hours respectively.

Evaluating a L2 autonomy system is somewhat challenging since in truth you are evaluating a human+autonomous system, so you should expect the overall safety to increase unless the autonomy system is actively making things more dangerous. However, for a L4/L5 autonomy system, which is Tesla’s goal, we can reasonably approximate the quality by miles per intervention as an intervention is a failure of the autonomy.

As a reasonable baseline based on video evidence of FSD, we can assume that each intervention prevents at least a “ding”. Therefore, we can evaluate the quality of FSD relative to a minimal L4 system as the ratio of time per disengagement versus 1.6k hours. Using those same videos as evidence, we see the FSD system requiring intervention every few minutes, i.e. <10 minutes, on average. That is 1/10,000 of the minimal quality expected from a fully functional L4 system.

So, for Tesla to create a minimal acceptable L4 autonomy solution that would actually usher in a age of safe self driving systems, they need to improve the core functionality of their beta product by 10,000x. It is that gap between what they are delivering and what they still need to achieve that is outrageous.
The whole NBOMe/NBOH series are notorious for that. Some people have incredible visuals and a gentle time, others go psychotic or randomly die.

There are other dangerous phenethylamines, of course. Bromo-DragonFLY caused vasoconstriction which resulted in amputations or strokes in overdose, many others including the 2C-Ts are MAOIs. And even LSD has catastrophic effects when taken with lithium. But there's something about the NBOMes, maybe off-target effects, that makes them terrifying.

...which is a shame because having a new backbone to play with would be super fun. we have phenethylamines and tryptamines and ergolides, but there's only so much you can tweak them. hopefully - eventually - Shulgin's style of gonzo pharmacology will be allowed again, and someone will discover more magic keys.
I thought summer started on the summer solstice. I've never heard it called "midsummer's day"

Spring: March April May

Summer: June July August

Fall: September October Novmeber

Winter: December January February
If I wrote the same HN article but said Cisco Webex would you say the same thing?

Despite them doing the same thing.
A public "beta" of a self driving car should lean towards failing safe. I would expect it to have sudden braking issues and be overly conservative. The kind of bugs we're seeing where obstacles are blatantly ignored make it feel more like an "alpha" release. But hey, we're not designing airplanes here, just thousand pound chunks of metal flying around roads capable of killing people.
A simpler analogy may've been a smoke-detector that doesn't actually activate when there's smoke. It'd be cheap, super-efficient (no battery needed!), light-weight, no false-alarms, and still usually work correctly 100% of the time for most people.

Another simple analogy may've been a regularized neural-network that's super-efficient because it always returns a nominal-result, not needing to do any calculations. It could work ~>99.9% of the time because the nominal-result is ~>99.9% prevalent.

The author was trying to point out scenarios where lazy-neglect may seem viable. By contrast, some readers may want to give those in the examples the benefit-of-the-doubt, as they might actually be taking no-action as a conscientious decision. While we often want to give folks the benefit-of-the-doubt, that's presumably not how the author intended those examples to be read.

The author was presumably trying to paint pictures in which folks might thrive through neglectful practices, rather than trying to characterize all folks who superficially resemble those in the thought-experiments as being neglectful.
This was absolutely not the problem during the 2021 winter storm. There was an absolute lack of power to be sold, at any price. Raising the spot MWH prices to 9 billion USD would have made no difference in what could be brought on-line, only how badly load serving entities were getting screwed.

Empty office buildings all over the state that were lucky enough to be on critical circuits were beaming out lights the whole time because no one wanted to be the manager that got a building service worker killed trying to navigate icy roads to turn them off. Industrial sites were still running the whole time, with the Samsung fab near Austin still running for days after the near-blackout event until the power company disconnected them after days of asking. Distribution providers could not even rotate planned circuit disconnections because ERCOT would not let them turn anything back due to how narrow the spare capacity margin was.

Meanwhile rural electric cooperatives that didn't own generation went bankrupt and every generator that could be was already up and running. Any load serving entity that didn't also own generation is now going to be amortizing the costs of that through rate increases for probably the next decade.
Rough luck. Sounds like no real risk or huge loss though.

Imagine any other company on earth losing 40 satellites at a time and shrugging it off. That would bankrupt most space companies (except for maybe Planet).

SpaceX is really working at different orders of magnitude here.
I don't think you are disagreeing, necessarily. You can't make Teams windows small, but they also don't make good use of whatever space you give them.
Depends where you are (Coinbase hires in Canada now as well!).

Here you can write off the entirety of the space if it's used for business purposes, or a pro-rated amount if it's used for any non-business purposes.

Unfortunately, as soon as you step into "pro-rated" the value drops immensely.

If you have a 1000sqft house with a 100sqft office for which you pay $2,000/mo in rent, for a dedicated space you can write off `100sqft/1000sqft * $2,000/mo` = $200/mo = $2,400/yr

If you use that office for one hour once a week to join the video calls of your secret club or something, you can now only claim a fraction of the hours you used for work (160hours/mo) versus _total hours_ it exists (720hours/mo), not total hours you use the room. So the equation changes to `100sqft/1000sqft * 160h/720h * $2000/mo` = $44/mo = $528/yr

Since the denominator is the total hours available for use, not the total hours you use it you're no longer claiming any value for the time you're not using the room.

It's a little disappointing because I do have a spare room I could dedicate to an office, but I also have a nice desk with a nice chair and five monitors, speakers and mic set up for comfortable video calls, etc, etc. The extra tax refund would basically pay for me to re-buy a second copy of all this stuff after a year and I'd be saving money from there on out, but it's just so wasteful.

This year they offered a "simplified" deduction of just a flat $2/day up to $400/yr and so I didn't even bother with the paperwork for the detailed claim... this actually pays me more even though my rent is several thousand dollars a month.
The first pitch I ever heard for Beagle was 'it's like searchlight', so I always assumed it came later- but I looked it up, and it's hard to tell. inotify 0.8 was announced about a month after Steve Jobs started advertising spotlight, and Beagle grew out of Dashboard which certainly has design documents that indicate they wanted to do that. So... I think you might be right.

On a related note, are you Ubuntu's jcastro?
I'd bet a fair amount that your Mass General study used self reported calorie intake.

800kcals a day is typically enough for a 100 lb person to lose nearly a half a pound of fat a week. That's low calorie by most people's measure. Certainly mine at 200lbs

When most people are talking about 'losing weight' they mean losing fat. At least losing actual body tissue. Anyone can gain or lose 10% of their body weight in a few days by controlling for carbs. But its just water.

Try to ignore rat studies if you possibly can. Their metabolism, particularly their capacity for denovo lipogenisis is very very different than that of human beings.
The grandparent is talking as though Facebook has a legal obligation to do right by its users. This is not true, as far as I can tell. As hammock says, it can do whatever it wants with the stuff published, to the extent that it doesn't do something libelous with it.

Of course, it's not a good PR or long term business strategy to screw with lots of its users, but talking as though it must do things when it really doesn't have to is the issue that the parent is responding to.
This might work better where people have their own offices with doors that close. Where I work we are all in one room and so constantly sharing banter on and off all day.
This is the third post on HN that has had massive numbers of people saying that they use the karma for posts to judge for correctness and to add relevancy to the posts. I have stopped reading many comment threads because comment volume is simply too high and I have no filter. It's not so much that I need the ego as I get aggravated that false information is spread to anyone.
This is the testament to the reach of the App Store. Your app is targeting an incredibly small, niche market, and you're still selling hundreds of copies.
>You go to your customer's preferred method of communication

I didn't say not to have a presence on Facebook, did I? The social media/new media/online strategy for a great many companies and publications -- I wouldn't be surprised at all if it was >50% of the top 1000 companies in America -- consists solely of having a Facebook fan page.

They might have a website where you can buy their actual product. However, if, "Come visit us on Facebook!" is the extent of your online presence strategy, you're exposing your brand and your strategy to huge risks.

Have a Facebook presence. Make it part of your strategy. But don't be an idiot and make it "Our Facebook/Twitter Strategy." You might think that's silly, and no one would do it, but by god there are a LOT of idiots in the world.
MUDs have always had natural language recognition in the form of other players. The interaction is realistic because it's real.

That said, NLP could widen the already broad possibilities of interactions with NPCs.
I don't follow how that's hypocritical? (Am I preaching something I'm not practicing?)

If the people want to vote for such politicians who want to vote for such judges who make such rulings, that's the people's right, is it not?
Growing up, we even saw some of this behavior in park district youth softball, which had no tournaments, tiers or scouts and even had a mission statement of not being a competitive environment.
> Isn't Warren himself proof that you can?

He's not really an "active" investor in the sense he uses the term, I think - his ethos is to buy and hold for a long time - almost the polar opposite of the "managed funds", isn't it?
I used to wake up at 4-5am to play DiscworldMUD before school.

I had at least one character in every guild and each time waking up fresh in the mended drum was like being born again.

Doing "The Run" as an assassin was just the right amount of stress and excitement and when your Wyrm sword finally stops being limp as a warrior.

Having player-character witch friends you could call to fly in on their brooms and drop off healing potions for you was old-school-cool.

I've been a gamer all my life, but nothing will, or has ever compared to the experience of playing the Discworld MUD. It's been 15+ years since I played so I don't know if it's still there, or what it's like now, but I'll never go back.
Which design system did you use as a starting point?
The amount of embarrassingly bad claims around this is... impressive. But I guess it sounds scary and dangerous, which was the goal.
thanks! i just wanted to confirm your permission before posting on the repo. :)

on a related note, do you have a command for converting HTML5 animations into webp or mp4 videos?
Either commit completely to the vision or don't bother. I don't see how you start a company half way.
I randomly got a nginx bad gateway error a couple times in a row. Don't know if you were resetting/restarting but just FYI might wanna tail your error log.
If I have a contractor come and redo my kitchen, and I am quoted a certain time frame then I will blame him when things do not happen on time - even if his supplier couldn't deliver the cabinets in time, or the hardware store was out of joint compound.

It's a sucky situation, and I feel for Heroku - and I blame AWS personally - but when it comes to the final customer, then as a service provider it's only right to take blame.
And I've found that those who mostly consume mostly busy themselves in getting themselves put in charge of the ones who mostly create.
Agreed. This narrative that entrepreneurship necessarily must be this ascetic, consuming lifestyle really bothers me. I think it can also be done in a more measured way that's less black and white.
Generally great, but I disagree with "get there an hour early". (15-30 minutes, sure)

Actually, I got kicked out for being there too early. I got in around 0800 (I was staying nearby), and figured I'd eat free YC food (which YC alums lied and said was present in large quantities and of exceptional quality; in the morning it was just some bottled water and sodas...). There were only construction contractors, and so I internetted while waiting for my cofounders to arrive (from SF and RWC).

Kirsty suggested politely that I go to downtown castro street so I wouldn't be bothered by the noise as they were setting up; I went to Hacker Dojo (nearby, a great place, 100mbps internet!) for a bit, then met up with my cofounders for out interview.

(apparently showing up too early doesn't get you banned or anything; we got the call from pg in the late afternoon and accepted, so we're in S2011)
You need an experimental license because none of the (still prototype) devices have received FCC approval yet. In theory, the use of the whitespace frequencies is already open to the public - if you had approved equipment. The rate that the FCC is approving experimental licenses has accelerated a lot in the past 9 months, and new deployments are rolling out much faster as some quasi-commercial gear has started going to trial. While it is difficult to say for sure when the first generally available radios might arrive, I've heard a vendor suggest the second half of 2012. That would be for enterprise gear though, it might take a couple of years before it was hitting consumer price points. The database issues shouldn't be a big deal.
If you replace Fiber line with Power line, I was in this exact position in real life once. The power went out in our Data Centre, and our backups all failed - UPS's, Diesel Generators etc.
The customers who had their servers in our Data Centre didn't blame the guy who cut the power cable, or the power company. They blamed us, the company who ran the data center. The power outage wasn't our fault, the catastrophic failure and lack of disaster recovery planning was. Banks and Hospitals are not forgiving when you break their SLA's.
To be honest, I would trust HealPay more if you charged a fee. As others have mentioned, the fact that you don't charge makes me question where you will make money and how you will survive. If I'm going to trust your site with my invoicing, I want to be sure you will stick around.

Invoicing is an interesting domain because your users are receiving money as a result of your service-- thus charging a fee only means slightly less money coming in (so cognitively it's treated as a smaller gain than an actual loss).

My suggestion would be to offer a free account that gives a taste of your service but leaves your users wanting more. FreshBooks is a good example-- you can only have three clients before you need to pay. Other options might be only paying if an invoice is above a certain amount.

Finally, a huge reason I use FreshBooks over email or my previous company's proprietary system is because I can give my clients a clean, professional interface where they can log in, view their invoice, and pay it online. So integration with Authorize.net, Google Checkout, (and I suppose PayPal, though I dislike them) are key. One thing you can do right away that is a step above FreshBooks is to allow authenticating against an external url using a REST API. This would allow me to give my clients ONE password to use on their sites as well as for billing.

Hope that helps.
I've used http://wacchen.com/
"In the cases such as Google, they also tend to create a monoculture which probably feels right at the moment but I think really hurts the company in the long term"

I would agree with you about the monoculture aspect where they tend to hire new college grads from mostly the top colleges. I thought it's a little bit too inbred, but they also buy a lot of companies and get a much broader set of employees that way. Although, they might dump a lot of the acquired employees instead of keeping them on permanently once the acquisition goes through.
I was hoping for a how-to
This would have been a decent article if Freud wasn't sourced.
Or you can use generators, fibers or core.async if you use clojurescript and have callbacks without all the pyramid
of doom.
Windows 8 shipped 3 years after Windows 7. That's a very typical upgrade cycle.
>the idea that kids who learned to type a magic command to launch games on C64 have more useful knowledge than kids brought up on Mac/Windows is frankly stupid.

>children that used Commodores or TRS-80s or DOS knew a lot more about how their computers worked, on average, than those of the same age that use Windows or MacOS

He said they know more about how their computer works, not that they have more useful knowledge. Would you disagree?
My cynical take: 56,000 out of how many samples? This number is meaningless without context. I'd expect that an audit would be over a small sample of the total data collected.
The sub grew 10x in days. Whatever culture and jargon existed previously has been blown over and replaced with getting rich and populous rage.
Apple isn't a trust either.
I don't type "somesite.com" into the CEO's address bar. I type it into my browser's.
Excellent design. Big question: how will they make money?
Works great

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Traditional upload by 'browse' is enabled for Internet Explorer + Opera at the moment. We'll make it available for all browsers this week, it's definitely good point !

Thanks again :)
That is coming this week :D

John
What I want is to receive phone calls on my phone at regular time intervals. Something like a reminder service.
This is a feature I truly do not desire. Seriously. I like (or rather love) the division between the Social web (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) and the email. The previous technology to try to cross this (Buzz) wasn't very welcome. I know its widely different what is being proposed, but I truly I'm not interesting in any form of intercommunication between the three, and I truthfully cannot see who would.
There's a bunch more here from trappy.

http://vimeo.com/trappy
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Tachyons cannot be used to communicate FTL even though they have v > c. See http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/ParticleAndNuclear/tac... for a cool explanation.

Regardless, neutrinos would seem to be a viable communication medium. SETI is considering how they may be used: http://www.seti-setr.org/SETI/neutrinos.html
If the comment quality has eroded, is that because the standards are too lax (in which adding a new rule will theoretically fix it), or is it because of an Eternal September-type issue? If it's an Eternal September issue, then you have an enforcement problem: the upvote/downvote system is democratic, so the community would be unable to police itself against the new rule. The obvious solution would be to have people "more equal" than others, but then there's a possibility of groupthink forming and/or resentment against perceived "censorship." These are classic problems of Internet forum governance.

With all due respect to pg, one data point against the idea that it's just the standards being too lax is that this article was posted on Hacker News in the first place. The Hacker News guidelines state that most stories about politics are off-topic unless they are evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. I've never read tech news sites where the H1-B debate wasn't going on (I've been reading since 2001 or so), and based on the mountains of H1-B rhetoric I've read online, the arguments raised in the article are not new.
>> The only practical application is to allow recursion in languages that don't do recursion which is pretty much none.

Above is a very hard sentence to parse for non-native speakers, just saying ;)
It will be maintained until IndexedDB becomes viable.

Perhaps someone will write JS library that implements IndexedDB on top of WebSQL (or vice-versa).
i'm also a musician and some years ago a myspace page was absolutely necessary and even back that it looked like crap. i'm glad that soundcloud came into the market - focussing on its main feature: music. Only minimal social features - i guess they know that this stuff happens elsewhere.
Because they do, indeed, fail quite often.

Examples abound in the last economic downturn.
Since 2001 I haven't had a programming job. I did not finish my engineering degree (got a Finance/Mandarin degree instead) I work in an unrelated industry (real estate) so I placed a caveat on my story for the OP who requested 'Professional Developers'. But, I have done part-time/freelance work and got paid for it.

Nice site and portfolio, BTW
If you're on Windows or Mac, there's no official binary download for chromium - you have to download it from a third-party blog or build it yourself.

The situation is better on Linux, as several distros include chromium packages.
The origin of that story is Charles Steinmetz, and it involves Henry Ford, a $10,000 invoice and placing a X in chalk. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-steinm...