jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I can only imagine that if you are writing a post about the book that you did in fact read the passages as recommended. I personally am curious however if you ever reached a point of skimming? I am not sure if I could see the benefit in re-reading the same thing over and over. Yes, it instills the point their trying to make, but at what point is it overkill? Not to discredit it, but it reminds me of the whole process people with anxiety take to calm themselves down..."It will all be fine", "I am ok", "Things are out of my control", etc.
Strange enough, I passed an Alphorn concert in a Berlin park the other day. Berlin is very far away from the Alps.
To the benevolent downvoters of parent post: please explain what is your point?

Don't we agree that compression requires processing input data stream in a window, which introduces extra latency?

(of course, overall transfer time may be lowered via compression, and thus compound latency of whole application can be lowered, but that's another matter -- and sometimes is not predictable without looking at a sizable chunk of the input stream)
This was discussed 5 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2473553

You submitted a variation of this same story 2 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2480376

The link you're submitting now is sourced from a BBC article which was submitted by colinprince 4 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2474285 and adds no new information.
Does anyone here know which of his proposals made it through? For instance: 80,000 users in 6 months - did that happen?

This is a brilliant document, by the way, and I'm grateful for this repost - I didn't catch it the first time it was posted to HN.
Seems that the default is "cubic", so users of a modern Linux are OK.
From your slide set, page 21 says Amazon receives a master tape from the studio then converts it to a high-quality format on s3, then stores in 50 different formats and pushes those to the CDN. The more times someone stream a specific movie, the more these "fixed" costs are recovered.

According to the chart you referenced, the CDN is still a part of the Amazon ecosystem.

Amazon Cloudfront is 3 cents a Gigabyte (once you're over 1000tb)
Sputnik was a Soviet satellite. The Yanks made contact with the Soviets, brilliant.

Did "Extra-Terrestrial" and "outer space" mean the same things in the 50s as they do now? e.g. We would not say that a communications satellite was extra-terrestrial, because it came from the Earth, but Americans in the 50s might say that it was, because it was not on the Earth.
Inaccurate headline and interpretation, if you ask me. One cannot simply equate "desired" and "targeted for next purchase." Simple reductio: The car I desire most is rarely the one I plan on purchasing, unfortunately.

There may be other factors at play (such as price and availability) that have little to do with Android being more attractive than iOS. Just to clarify, I'm not saying that iOS is in fact more desired, let alone more desirable. But the data as presented in the article doesn't support the conclusion as stated.
It says "anonymous". The answer is yes. If it is possible Apple was lying.
I had no idea there were 3 different map options available.

Are you going to compare performance?
> Are employees required to sign a non-compete contract?

Standard answer is Yes, which is fair because it protects the company from you hanging around for a month and then moving straight to their competitors. Non-compete prevents that by requiring a cooling off period of (typically) two years.

A more interesting question is if you are allowed to work on your own projects. It seems like an obvious question, but in some countries it is not. For example, EA (Electronic Arts) is in Canada and they explicitly told me at the interview that everything that I ever code while employed with them would belong to EA. And then added that I shouldn't really have time for personal projects if I am to work for EA diligently... at which point I collected my dropped jaw from the floor and left.
I've actually worked at Google and been certified to use all of the shops including welding and metalworking. And the industrial grade heavy duty plasma cutter. The shops are really cool and they serve a slightly different purpose than for example TechShop. At TechShop a lot of the tinkering is more social, the Google shops are definitely less crowded. We run a similar much smaller shop at Tinkercad and I hope to expand that one in the future as well. The only gripe I have is that the campus is large enough that the Pi shops are a short distance away so you might not drop down there as often as you would like. That said the EE shop was pretty close to core campus.

As for the certification and elitism. The cert process was very straightforward and relevant. People easily forget that metalworking and some woodworking machines don't let you learn by experimenting. These machines kill in seconds, sometimes for mistakes that are very unintuitive. Like wearing gloves has killed several people. Which is unintuitive when you are handling razor sharp pieces of metal. Or the recent fatal accident at Yale where student was pulled in by her hair.

As for the particulars of Ihab. He is a very smart and diligent guy but he had very little practical machine shop experience. He recognized it himself and took classes to compensate. These standards aren't high just due to Rod, but because most Googlers are smart enough to be critical of their own skills when faced with lethal equipment.

Re-posted from this earlier thread on the same subject: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2487979

Edit: s/MIT/Yale/ for the lathe accident. Thanks.
no you download them directly from the store and you can upgrade later like the apps with FreeAppADay
I think another interesting bit is how little other stuff we're buying now. I'm finding it's becoming harder and harder to find birthday and christmas presents for friends and relatives...once you have a decent computer and smartphone, so much other stuff simply becomes irrelevant.

Thinking back 20 or 30 years ago, there simply used to be many more kinds of things that people would buy. As a child I had a toy closet full of games and toys of infinite variety. My friend's kids all seem pretty happy with a tablet and maybe some legos and that's about it.
When the boomers were small, you could stuff three or four people on the front seat of a car, four or five in the back seat, and if it was a station wagon some in the back. Nobody said, "How many seat belts?", because seat belts weren't standard until about 1965. If I found and packed a car the way they were loaded in the 1960s, people would call Child Protection Services. So a low-slung sedan or station wagon had a lot more capacity then than now.

I dislike sports utes--which during the rush hours are mostly occupied by a driver and nobody else--but I do understand why some buy them.
> your body won’t ever be the same after it - no matter how seemingly innocuous

Aside from antibodies, (citation needed).
What is a SPA?
Ideally, your ops complexity increases with the volume of traffic it handles, not with the number of people managing it.
I am not. This is first hand information for me. Nothing I have said contradicts your link either.
The last section is really interesting. The author presents the following algorithm as the "obvious" fast way of doing diffing:

1. Split the input into lines.

2. Hash each line to facilitate fast line equivalence testing (comparing a u32 or u64 checksum is a ton faster than memcmp() or strcmp()).

3. Identity and exclude common prefix and suffix lines.

4. Feed remaining lines into diffing algorithm.

This seems like a terrible way of finding the common prefix/suffix! Hashing each line isn't magically fast, you have to scan through each line to compute the hash. And unless you have a cryptographic hash (which would be slow as anything), you can get false positives, so you still have to compare the lines anyway. Like, a hash will tell you for sure that two lines are different, but not necessarily that they are the same: different strings can have the same hash. In a diff situation, the assumption here is that 99% of the times, the lines will be the same, only small parts of the file will change.

So, in reality, the hashing solution does this:

1. Split the files into lines

2. Scan through each line of both files, generating the hashes

3. For each pair of lines, compare the hashes. For 99% of pairs of lines (where the hash matches), scan through them again to make sure that the lines actually match

You're essentially replacing a strcmp() with a hash() + strcmp(). Compared to the naive way of just doing this:

1. Split the files into lines

2. For each pair line, strcmp() the lines once. Start from the beginning for the prefix, start from the end for the suffix, in each case, stop when you get to a mismatch

That's so much faster! Generating hashes is not free!

The hashes might be useful for the actual diffing algorithm (between the prefix/suffix) because it presumably has to do a lot more line comparing. But for finding common prefix/suffix, it seems like an awful way of doing it.
You don't have to obey the GDPR for users outside the EU, so as long as the central storage is located in the EU (and only replicated across EU countries, which is easily configurable), the author is most likely absolutely fine.

By the edge locations, I'd assume he's serving cached static files, such as his blog or tracking scripts from there using CloudFlare. Assuming CloudFlare is not falsely advertising their GDPR compliance, the author is also fine.
Or it is due to general uncertainty, anxiety due to the on going pandemic, having lost someone... Countless of reasons. So the article took a subset, Covid survivors. If it is a general problem, and if so why, can only be answered by additional studies. A conclusive answer might be difficult to get so.
what wallpaper is that
This assumes a one-to-one relationship between pieces of software and workflows, which is absolutely incorrect. Just because you design a piece of software to be used in a certain workflow does not mean that that workflow will work for everyone; software which allows users to configure it to fit their individualized problems and processes is infinitely more valuable than software that tells the user "it's my way or the highway."
Hacker News tends to want only comments that contribute to the conversation. Mere statement that you laughed does not count.
Well, the thinking is that once the division is profitable with profit graph going up it will keep bringing more money... Isn't this one of the basic presumption behind P/E's and stock market.

With so many xbox 360 users out there who will keep paying for Xbox live and buying new games and further innovation (Natal) and more features (Hulu integration) I suspect Xbox division will be profitable for some time.

Also, the numbers include money "invested" in kin and windows phone 7 so Xbox alone is probably making more money than the numbers suggest
Sorry, but you're wrong. The main magnetic field is always on. It's produced by superconducting rings that are "ramped up" when the magnet is initially installed and remains on at all times, even when the operator console is powered off. Basically, the ramp up procedure sets up a current loop in the superconducting coil via induction in a controlled manner. After the initial ramp up, the field can only be shut off by bringing in an engineer and special equipment to perform a ramp down procedure, the operator executing an emergency quench, or an accidental quench occuring due to a failure of the refrigeration system. Basically, a quench happens if the temperature of the superconductive rings exceeds the temperature threshold required to maintain superconductivity, the resistivity of the ring material becomes non-zero and runaway heating occurs because of the high current in the ring (lots of amperes), the runaway heating of the ring causes the surrounding liquid helium to go supercritical and rapid (and potentially explosive) boil off occurs.

The electromagnets which are only turned on during operation (used for the gradient fields and for shimming the main field) are insignificant in magnitude compared with the main field. The main field is powerful enough to lift a ferromagnetic chair off the floor if the chair gets close enough to the bore without the gradients being active.
Successfully in the opposite direction, up to 864 processor cores all with a flat SMP "mediocre" speed connection to up to 768 of gigabytes of RAM: http://www.azulsystems.com/

Hotspot hotshot Clif Click's blog is worth taking a look at: http://www.azulsystems.com/blogs/cliff/
If the restrictions were for security, this wouldn't work - the host could access the VM.
Gamma/colour temperature settings also affect this massively. It's nighttime here, and f.lux has dimmed my screen to make me sleepy. No chance of reading it. That said, I'm having severe trouble making it out even with f.lux disabled on all my screens. (30" Cinema HD, old 19" Iiyama - both with VA panels, and 13" MacBook - TN panel AFAIK)
That's an excellent litmus test on whether there is likely to be anything actually valuable there. On the other hand, I wonder how much more traffic they might get from the people who visit just to affirm, "I do too know them..." :-)
Yet another reason to learn ed: "Since the Kindle keyboard lacks Esc and Ctrl, stick with simple text editing tools like cat and ed/ex instead of nano and vi..."
The execs do know. They just don't have options that will make as much money for their shareholders. So instead they fight a slow rearguard action.

Their time is passing. But for how long? Times X billion dollars per year.
Here is your $10,000
Or just the number of countries that have more than 100 or 1000 personnel, which the prior Wikipedia article had a map of.
I've been getting up at 345am seven days a week and I haven't missed a single day.

For me it sounds like a solid reason not to touch this book, ever.
This seems like something so simple to set up that a typical hacker wouldn't want to pay for it, in my opinion. I'd be interested to hear what other people think.
More accurately, they did build ARM chips -- the XScale line. But they sold that division to Marvell in 2006, although they still retain an ARM license.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale
I kept my last car for 9 years, and when I bought my current car, I noticed an immediate and MASSIVE uptick in postal spam. Not just vehicle-related either -- I have a feeling that "registering a new car" feeds heavily into all sorts of "target this person" algorithms.

I wish there was some way to opt out of this.
I just want to point out that the first three items on your list are even more easily accessible through the voter rolls. You can buy the statewide voter list, usually in convenient CSV files (though every state does it differently), from the your local state government at a very low cost.
No, LXC does quite a bit more than static linking. An inability to recognize that likely has nothing to do with generation.

Can you launch a process in a chroot, with cgroups? Okay, now upgrade everything it's linked with (without breaking the host/build system)

Configure a host-only network for a few processes – running in separate cgroups – without DHCP.

Criticize Docker? Rootless builds and containers are essentially impossible. Buildah and podman make rootless builds possible without a socket. Like sysvinit, though, IDK how well centralized logging (and logshipping, and logged crashes and restarts) works without that socket.

Given comments like this, it's likely that you've never built a chroot for a different distro. Or launchd a process with cgroups.
"Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler."
I have a Google Sheet that lets me track items as

calendared, with a priority increasing as the date approaches

"done at this time", with a repeat timeframe, and again ramping priority

Set priority project / reminder, so I can get to it when all the other priorities above them are clear

I've added some extra features on top of that (a column that lets me do a one time +/- to the priority) and it just works the way I think now.

Plus Simple Notepad on my phone so i'm two clicks away from typing down anything that comes up.
How would one go about attending this course without being enrolled?
I wouldn't say bullshit. Diminishing returns should be expected, even in embarrassingly parallel workloads, because of Amdahl's law as well as physical limitations regarding power delivery and cooling when utilizing all the cores.

That said, I like your "real cores" metric. Looking at $/"real core" would be very informative. But even then, there's still folks for whom the time saved would be worth the price premium.

Also, I'm not sure about Geekbench's MC score when run on TR. They've had problems in the past.

If I run your bullshit factor analysis with the i7-8086K vs the Ryzen 9 3950X using the single-core and 64-core workload tests from User Benchmark (no 3rd gen Threadrippers there yet) both get a bullshit factor of about 155%. Even the Threadripper 2990WX only has a bs factor of about 192%.
I've read more than one argument that China's forced homogeneity may result in an ultimately better outcome for all concerned, if one considers the benefits of economic success and social harmony as offsetting the loss of freedom, etc. Measuring the truthfulness of such things is obviously problematic to say the least, but it seems like a perfectly plausible theory to me.
It’s the public’s network, funded by tax payer money. The fact that they KNOW that they are global targets for cyber attacks and maintain so SO much publicly routable area is beyond irresponsible. Even more irresponsible is I’m positive they IP addresses are hard coded in some of those old systems.
> I also did the MS 360 thing once about 3 years ago and will never do that again.

What happened or was the key issue?
I ran mailinabox for like 5 years and there were no major painpoints, some quirks while setting up which I don't even remember. And it's best to keep it up to date, updating to new releases if you're far behind can get messy. Essentially it all boils down to reading instructions and reproduce the commands in them and hope they don't fail. If they do, standard search internet-try something-cyle. Normally if you've ever touched linux or similar and/or ran a server you know the deal. Also if you don't know much about email on linux it all remains a black box which isn't necessarily a problem.

So in the end it depends on what type of work you like, I guess. Personally I don't really enjoy fiddling with things to get/keep them working anymore; I've done that more than enough in the past, building your own linux from scratch and whatnot, but in the end it's just not my cup of tea and turns out I just don't want to waste time on it, no matter how little, so I siwtched to fastmail. Honestly, no clue if that makes my mail more or less secure.
I had a similar issue w/ Paypal, but one phone call w/ a very nice lady later, everthing was fixed.
Where's Jack Slocum in all of this?
Well, basically if something goes wrong (e.g. server goes down a few times in 2 days), then at least someone I can talk to, ask what's happening instead of a wall of silence? I don't need phone support, even email is fine as long as I am not ignored.
> No its not.

it is. It might be reborn later using iOS, but the current system is dead, it's not even featured in the store's front page anymore.

> I should imagine these cost more than most people's TVs.

But it's far more flexible and useful than the Apple TV (it's a full HTPC, therefore able to stream e.g. Hulu or Youtube), and the addition of HDMI out removes the last big issue it had as an HTPC, compared to an Apple TV. The TV never found its place in the Apple ecosystem and with a smaller, more efficient and more powerful Mini that place just shrunk a bit more.
My biggest concern is what happens to jQTouch as a result of this acquisition. Will it continue to sit on jQuery or will they switch it to ExtJS?
I love side projects, even the ones that feel like work. And sometimes, I really only need one day to relax and do nothing, every few weeks. It's cool to work on something you love through the weekend if you can stay focused on it.
Yep, but the interesting thing is the banner on top... "Discover how to make $10k per day!". I'm subscribing now.

Seriously, he "earned" 1 million with this "innovative" method and now he is publishing a scam site (or at least this is what it appear to be)?
My company had some big performance issues to the point that the original decision to use ExtJS for all future JS projects will be revised.
The original idea was very good and inspired many clones idea. Then the creator got lots of praise and hype. I remember reading articles about investors offering him lots of money. Not to punish his original creative spark, but the story of milliondollarhomepage always reminds me of this english phrase: once you are lucky, twice you are good.
Believe the quote is Wayne Gretzky, an ice hockey player.
you still have the problem that the thumbnail stays the same. if you change the url you could just hash the thumbnail binary content... pixel colors or whatever you want to use. its still no help to jzst change the user id.
Why is everyone, including NYT and HN doing exactly what that scumbag wants? This disgusts me.
Maybe the fact that I'm the only one mentioning this means I'm a little less intelligent than the rest of us, but...

Isn't a 'real' illusion one that causes you to see something that isn't objectively there? For example, The Grid illusion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_illusion).

If you find an alternative way to create an identical image, then it's forgery, not an illusion.

Put another way, the Grid Illusion is to "worng sleplnig" what the Hollow Mask is to "conversation" (a word in both the English and French languages)
They also have a newegg account, http://www.newegg.com/Mktplace/SellerProfile.aspx?SellerID=A... it should be canceled.
how many users do they want to store in their db with a unique md5 string? its just a really bad bet.
thats a script kiddie for me, assuming that a hash never collides within a database and than chosing md5. there are better, even very simple, ways to store hashes without forcing collisions.
TC needs more shoe-leather reporting. Ex: Interviewing a Google rep for this report would add a lot of value.

Arrington's reports are high quality. However, I tend to avoid reports from other TC writers since they just re-hash news highlights from other outlets.
What about this statement:

"“ICE office of Homeland Security Investigations executed court-ordered seizure warrants against a number of domain names,” said Cori W. Bassett, a spokeswoman for ICE"

from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/technology/27torrent.html? Seems to confirm that at least some of the seizures actually happened.
There was a project to do this at the DNS level:

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

I don't know the history though or why the project was abandoned.
Simon Armitage. Lovely northern English rhythms.

http://simonarmitage.com/

My Party Piece from Book of Matches

My party piece:
I strike, then from the moment when the matchstick
conjures up its light, to when the brightness moves
beyond its means, and dies, I say the story
of my life -

dates and places, torches I carried,
a cast of names and faces, those
who showed me love, or came close,
the changes I made, the lessons I learnt -

then somehow still find time to stall and blush
before I'm bitten by the flame, and burnt.

A warning, though, to anyone nursing
an ounce of sadness, anyone alone:
don't try this on your own; it's dangerous,
madness.