jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Beautiful UI! Interesting that you've named your programming language Ink. My first thought on seeing the UI was that this would be perfect for my e ink tablet.
This so much. They'll ban you forever for a brain fart without blinking once. Unfortunate how many of these subs are frequented by actual professionals you can learn much from.
...and I haven't even mentioned writing tests for it.
I really regret using the example of a Tesla, as it conflates too many issues. I meant that it takes around 300Wh to move a car about the weight and shape of a Tesla, one mile.

It is a very interesting calculation to look at the energy cost of manufacturing any EV, and how long it takes to "pay it back" compared to an ICE-powered car, and under various sources of power for the electrical grid used to charge it. However, that was supposed to be beyond the scope of this conversation.
It’s strange to me that both you and I are getting downvoted… probably from people who haven’t actually used it? If you do, then it’s obvious how it’s not a conference call at all. It’s a panel that you might be able to participate in, which isn’t the same thing at all. Anyone can talk whenever they want on a conference call. The moderator chooses who talks in clubhouse.
>The NYT piece isn't about Scott, it's just a writing gimmick. The article is about the self-styled rationalists, Scott is just an entry point to open the discussion around these group of people.

Do you think Scott actually disagrees with this? Regardless of whether it's a hit piece on Scott or rationalists more broadly, he realizes that if he gets cancelled or otherwise has his livelihood impacted then it impacts the rationalist community as well. I mean, maybe someone with better anonymity would step up to fill his intellectual niche, but it would still representment a blow to the movement.

>The rationalists think they're better than the NYT, largely because they look down on examining the world as it is

Weird complaint, and one that I don't think you'd find many rationalists ascribing to. I'm not sure what the non-strawman version of this claim is supposed to be here though. That rationalists don't bother to check their theories against reality enough? According to whom?

>I don't think it's unreasonable for someone either from the Red tribe or the Blue tribe to say to the Grey tribe - "Sorry, but you can't be indifferent on the topics that you claim to be indifferent on".

You can say that, it's how you attack the other tribe that matters. Hence the Wizard of Oz analogy in Scott's post. Attempts at showing that they Grey Tribe really is the Red Tribe or is somehow empowering them against shared Grey/Blue values need to rely on more than observing that the Grey Tribe is less enthusiastic about cancelling the Red Tribe.
You might be better off looking up airway clearance techniques. Some populations use these daily to continue not dying from chronic, serious lung issues.
I haven't provided them with most of that.
Now imagine an entity which can literally print money outbid _NY_ and sent a substantial part of that capacity to WA (which initially was the epicenter, but where there were no new cases in the past 24 hours) and CA (which seems to have much less of a problem), as well as to the remaining 47 states where the number of cases is pretty low. Imagine what that'd do to NY and their case load a week from now. I'd like to also remind you that the three states hardest hit by the virus have some of the deepest pocketbooks in the nation. CA and NY have huge economies. WA has two of the richest people in the world who they could "ask" to "share their wealth" as it were.
Anything to back up your claim of him out bidding everyone else? I believe right now there are restrictions on price gouging for necessary supplies.
> Your comment, at face value, seems to defend the status quo.

The comment is observational, not persuasive. Few people are happy with the current situation we find ourselves in. I'm certainly not.

> The author alleges there was a deal made by Clinton to allow M&As in the defense industry - he says that politicians and financial industry are both to blame. Can you provide an alternate explanation?

The author's argument is that the lack of competition in military suppliers is due to relaxed regulatory scrutiny. I don't find this convincing. Even if U.S. regulatory bodies had aggresively enforced antitrust, many of these companies would have gone bankrupt sooner or later because demand for military assets collapsed after the cold war. This, combined with the fact that newer competitors aren't entering the market, means we'd still be in a similar position due to attrition.

It's silly to blame the financial industry because they're reacting to the incentives that the government created. It isn't the investment bank's fault iRobot is worth more as a tech company than a defense company. This is akin to blaming an engineer choosing to work for a tech company rather than a defense contractor because the tech company pays more.

> The author clearly argues that this is due to anti competitive business practices that forced Boeing to withdraw from the bid. Northrup purchased a key supplier, now refuses to sell to Boeing.

That's a fair point, but I think it's trivial in the larger picture. There were other SRM manufacturers lost in the decades prior to the Orbital acquisition. The fact that we allowed the the number of suppliers to decrease to two and didn't encourage any new suppliers is indicative of a much larger problem. We can't expect to place these companies in stasis for decades until we decide we're ready to buy from them again. People and companies move on without the proper incentives.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/9/22274376/audi-etron-gt-rs-...

I posted this the other day. I think most people agree the Germans make better interiors. But nobody can deny Tesla has a superior charging network, and for the vast majority of people their battery technology is superior (longer ranger, but more prone to overheating from aggressive driving).

I think Tesla is just riding the underdog wave extremely well - they're new, they're different, they're trendy, and they're eco-friendly. And honestly, if you're not a car person, their cars are fun and different (if you are an enthusiast you will likely have very mixed opinions of Tesla). Combine that with a CEO that can bend the laws of reality while he talks, promises for full self-driving which will absolutely never ever materialize, the fact that the competition is really quite slow to show up...and you get a ridiculous stock price.

I don't think Tesla is going away, but I think in 10 years they're going to be just another car company, especially if they shift their focus towards energy which is where the real money is for them.
the future is wireless

the everything soldered together makes sense, not only for portability, but also for energy efficiency, also help save costs

reparability is a non issue, since you sacrifice everything above as a result, better focus on making the "board" as cheap as possible to produce, and recyclable
The creation of a trueRandom function certainly seems to solve this problem more than taking away a useful tool for cases where pseudo-random is good enough.
Why don't they want to hear this? It's not really a secret, I'm pretty sure they know it.

I'm not Dutch, but a near zero-tax policy (for the big players), with a stable low-corruption government, easy bureaucracy, EU and NATO member, a huge harbor, top infrastructure plus a highly skilled workforce and easy immigration policy is bound to attract every company out there.
> It's impossible that Tesla is 3X the market cap of Toyota Why they didn't stop buying of Tesla the same way they stopped GME is criminal.

...what?

- GME trading wasn't halted. some high profile platforms like robinhood went literally insolvent and had to put a stop to some volatile stock trades and borrow billions in cash to stay legal. other well-capitalized platforms never restricted GME.

- related to above, GME wasn't halted on some platforms because of some market-cap vs actual value mismatch. this is not a thing.

- as for the market cap, well... prevailing wisdom is we're in some kind of bubble. something bad will happen eventually.
I have/had an account there and they actually responded to every email I sent and it did not feel like canned responses. So, I was positively surprised by the level of support I got for the money I paid.
I still use Firefox. I’m sticking around. It’s becoming more annoying to use, but I’d rather support Mozilla than anyone else.

The window into the internet shouldn’t be controlled by big companies. It’s a principle thing for me.

To the author, thanks for your efforts.
It would be less painful but still a problem: SPDY / HTTP/2.0 allows you to send more traffic over a connection but they can't do much for round-trip latency if you need to do something like ask what sizes of an image are available. That's particularly painful on cellular networks with a delay measured in hundreds of milliseconds – SPDY's ability to ship many things in parallel would only come into play after the browser knew which resources to request.
It's for research, specifically at an FFRDC. I don't believe there's any sort of "establish your technical skills" portion. My hiring process was a bit unique because I had already worked as an intern for 3 years, but as I understand it the usual process is 1) hiring manager finds the best resumes, 2) hiring manager does a phone interview with those people, and 3) hiring manager invites a few of the best prospects out.

The real technical skills part is the presentation. If you can give a good, 40 minute talk about what you've been working on, you've already put yourself in a good place.
why aren't there more women ironworkers?

roofers?

plumbers?

auto mechanics?

machinists?

coal miners?

underwater welders?

oil riggers?

merchant marines?
There has been a lot of discussion about various heuristics to invalidate block chain reorganization. The developers have enough real problems on their plate that I don't think they're interested in working on it.

Also keep in mind that a 51% attack may not rewrite history at all, in which case it wouldn't cause deep reorgs. It would cause some orphaning, but that would be mostly indistinguishable from the normal orphaning that goes on normally.
I had a friend who joined the National Guard long before the Iraq War. When the push to invade started she expressed grave reservations about the impact on the world. One thing she said was "if we go to war, do you have any idea how much history will be lost?"

She was called up to serve, and served in a war she honestly believed was unnecessary and wrong. She never was willing to talk about her experiences over there. A year after she got back, she hanged herself.

It is easy to look at the military and assume that these are people without a conscience. It is harder to recognize that people can join the military for a large number of reasons, many good, and when duty calls, the conflict between political opinion and duty is not always an easy one to resolve.

I believe that the majority of those who join the military do so out of the belief that they are doing something good. Those who eventually realize they are not pay a heavy price one way or another. Either like my father they go to jail (my father went to jail for refusing to go to Vietnam--- he was a First Lieutenant in the Army Reserves at the time), or like my friend end up taking their own lives.
How do you return to the HN UI after clicking a story when there isn't any browser chrome / back button? That is the only downside that I have seen from adding it to the home screen.
Bradley Manning is not a criminal. He's a prisoner of conscience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_conscience
This is why we should not rely on businesses to lead the vanguard of social progress. A recent example is BLM. If you actually think most businesses that aired an ad or have a BLM webpage on their homepage actually care about advancing black interests in America, then I've got a bridge to sell you. These businesses only jumped on the bandwagon when it became untenable to say nothing, and saying _something_, anything really, is just cheap way of earning some social credential.

In the Saudi example, the dynamics are even more atrocious. Every dollar received from the Saudi sovereign fund allows that government to stave off collapse by allowing it to diversify its income streams away from fossil fuels. Every dollar returned to the House of Saud allows a regime that would've been considered repressive two centuries ago to continue repressing women, homosexuals, foreign workers, non-Muslims, etc. And those dollars were invested in companies who likely pitch themselves as trying to make the world a better place through some SaaS product. Give me a break.
Weird, productivity was the reason I quit Linux. I spent nearly half my time 'tweaking' things to make it run the way I wanted, instead of getting things done. I honestly love Yosemite. Still searching for the "iOSification" people talk of though.

Meh, to each their own. It always amuses me though that people have to tell the world why they're going to switch to a different OS.
> you won't be able to carry your laptop around the city because there is no concept of "hot spots"

As a white European, I wouldn't carry my laptop around many parts of Medellin full stop!

I ended up going to Medellin for a bit to oversee some outsourcing back in 2012. We outsourced because one of the co-founders of the company had moved their and set up his own offshore team. To their credit:

* The team in Medellin were smart and capable
* The quality of the product was no worse than any other offshore work we'd done elsewhere (conversely, it was no better either)
* I never felt particularly unsafe, although you needed to take standard precautions

I agree with you that nobody speaks English, and my Spanish is appalling. I found that quite hard. That said, all of the team I was working with had excellent English skills: from what I can tell, most engineers did. The biggest problem I had was around the availability of current technology. I would imagine this has changed a lot since I was there in 2012, but smartphones were not hugely prevalent, and as you mention, internet speeds were somewhat slow.

For me, it wasn't a real success, but only because the experience and the final product was no better than outsourcing elsewhere. I loved working with the team (I imagine they'll probably come here and read this, so hi guys!), and I was somewhat sad it wasn't as a resounding success as I'd have hoped. Like you, I definitely wouldn't have called Medellin a tech hub, although I would hope it's come a long way even in the two years since I was last there.
Even ext4 has an online defragmenter these days.
We have a web application out in beta (free) that integrates with Gmail, called Funnel http://funnelnow.com/ aimed exactly at people like yourself (and us, since we developed it for our own needs primarily).

We've finished the integration of the complete new UI (take a look at some screenshots on our portfolio http://sprawsm.com/project/funnel/) that we will be releasing in a few days.

We've been using it for over two years now for our design company, worked wonderfully.
Fully agree on that.
Awesome, thanks! I actually meant to link to a couple CDNs that support it, but completely forgot to add those links to the article.

The problem with most of the CDNs that support gzipping are that they are much more expensive than Amazon CloudFront, and usually not pay-as-you-go. For instance, according to SimpleCDN's pricing page, the lowest tier for HotCache (their service that supports gzipping) is $500/mo. It's cheaper than cloudfront at the large scales it's meant for, but for most people it's overkill and too expensive.
It's more important to be just than consistent.

Edit: Are there many cases of misguided whistleblowers that caused significant unintended harm while doing what they thought was right? It seems that in most cases the whistleblower feels strongly that something unethical is happening before they come out. I think that shows there is a strong enough deterrent against whistleblowing to prevent it being done casually. The administration does not need to punish this man for doing what was obviously the right thing to do.
I don't think that delegating to Exxon would be the smartest idea. The big reason this happened was because excessive interference by high level BP executives.

The president could demand all engineering information be made available, and let the Coast Guard/ACE/DARPA manage the operation, without "repossessing" any real property.
ComScore's data is absurdly inaccurate and subject to considerable bias (usually composed of less savvy internet users that have shady software installed).

Anyhow. Kudos to Yahoo!
I first started buying Kindle books once I was confident that I could trivially rip the DRM off them via Calibre.

(EDIT: And I'm very glad I did, as just the other day I bought a book that in its original format causes the Android Kindle app to go back to the main screen if I remain on the same page for more than a few seconds(!) and lose its position in the book - thanks to Calibre I know I have alternatives, including converting it to other formats and/or reading it in other readers, if Amazon doesn't manage to figure out what the issue is; that's within the first dozen books I've bought from the Kindle store)

I will start buying video online when I'm equally confident I can do the same.

The free videos via Prime I'll be more lenient with. Even rentals. I don't mind DRM on that per se. Except that the DRM generally prevents me or make it hard to access it on all my devices. If they won't run on my Linux laptop (they might, as I understand it, via Pipelight, but I've not tested), or on my Android TV stick, or on my Android phone, they might as well not exist.

In that case the value of Amazon Instant Video to me is arguably negative: I receive zero value, and there's a an added negative value in having it shoved in my face knowing they're choosing to artificially limit my access. I'm less happy about my Prime subscription today, knowing the amount of potential hassle might be involved in trying to get access to these videos than I was before I received the e-mail saying they'd added Instant Video to the UK Prime accounts last night...
You can't do this here, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. We ban accounts that do it. Please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: a large proportion of your most recent, say, 10 comments to HN have been breaking the site guidelines really badly. I don't want to ban you, because you've been a user here for a long time and you've posted many good things. But if you keep doing this, we're not going to have any choice. Having something like this be your first comment in months is extremely dismaying.
This is actually a business style I worked on describing[1], but it wasn't well received[2].

[1]: https://smaslennikov.com/posts/industry-and-workers/
[2]: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/R4djofDLGRsYx5wqf/industry-a...
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. We're trying to avoid the hell we're all sinking into. Comments like this are a sharp push hellward, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The header makes it seem like Facebook said this themselves, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
I live in a pretty large city Chicago and I'm not concerned about additional traffic from autonomous vehicles (though I don't count myself as average either). Widespread usage of autonomous vehicles will have so many large and wide-ranging effects, that it will not simply be "more traffic in cities". Another possibility is a large portion of city dwellers will get weekend homes hours away since driving that distance will be trivial when you can watch Netflix or play videos games on the way. Tourism may also increase as people from smaller towns will come into the city for nightlife since their cars can drive them home drunk. Even with twice the cars on the road trips may be much faster without cars blocking traffic by making late turns on red. Electric cars are interesting, but super-human autonomous drivers will be revolutionary.
Simply because that's what they agreed to.
It haven't been 50 years after CCP got HK back.

Although obviously CCP is just a bunch of liars, people still like to trade with the evil.
As a person who has spent a great deal of time in rural areas, I don't think I would be happy in the long term living in cramped apartments. Too much noise and too many people.

In the suburban sprawl in which I live, the 10-12 feet between houses seems too close. Yet as much as I long for space, I will always be tied to some metro, with access to healthcare and cultural outlets.
There's a difference between "mask mandates aren't making a difference" and "masks aren't effective." Take a look at Japan, where the government has done fuck all to deal with the virus, but people wear their masks.
When I see that phrase I think: "We take your privacy. Seriously."
Thats fair. I did not mean to misrepresent the numbers but plainly I did. A significant fraction of women have continuing pain, but not the majority.
Government enforced 1 acre lots is a good proxy for "keep the poor people out".

Also contributes massively to sprawl and thus carbon emissions because you can't have a more traditional sort of neighborhood where people might walk to the park and corner store.

Nothing against people owning a 1 acre lot if they want - that's fine! Imposing it on everyone is economic segregation.
At a tax rate of 1.3% the jump in monthly taxes for a house valued at 400k to 1.2M is about $433 to $1300. It's not nothing but it's also backed by a house that's now worth $800,000 more - allowing them to take a second mortgage or a HELOC. In no way am I dismissing the concerns here. It probably affects some people more than others and we can talk about specific targeted exclusions. Right now, even the proposal to eliminate this for commercial buildings was rejected.

Like rent control, this is indiscriminate welfare. Qualified welfare reaches the people who need it the most.
No, if the entire population of the United States, except the members of the Supreme Court agreed on something they can and would override all Supreme Court decisions. The Supreme Court does not function the way you think it does.

The main reason the Supreme Court appears to have so much power is because our Legislative Branch has been slow to actually pass new laws, meaning the interpretation of existing laws to new scenarios is becoming more and more important.
It shouldn't require re-writing adjacent tracks or sectors. Heating up a portion of the platter makes it easier to change the bits, but the magnetic field doing the actual writing is still pretty narrow. If MAMR/HAMR has any significant effect on nearby data, I'd guess it would be similar to DRAM rowhammer: repeated writes (and thermal cycles) to one location may cause nearby locations to have increased error rates, but that's not the same as SMR directly clobbering adjacent tracks.