jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Assume that you're travelling 100 miles. The first 4 miles are in town, with lots of crossings, lights, etc. The middle 92 miles are on highways with a few turn offs. The final 4 miles are back in town with lights and crossings again. let's assume UK speed limits for everything (30mph in town, 70mph on highways). We'll ignore acceleration.

In an autonomous car you can do the speed limit for the entire journey. That's 8 miles at 30mph and 92 miles at 70mph. The journey takes you 95 minutes.

In the human-driven car you're slowed to an average of 20mph in town, but on the highway you travel at 85mph because that's what everyone else does. The journey takes you 89 minutes.

Obviously the 95 minutes in the autonomous car can be a productive 95 minutes whereas driving yourself you can't do much else for those 89 minutes, which is a huge difference, but until all the cars are autonomous (or there are superfast autonomous lanes at least) then it's probably going to be quicker to drive yourself because to a human a speed limit is a guideline rather than a rule.
Definitely agree about the community, there's all sorts! I've also encountered some very helpful individuals with immense patience.

I noticed during a large urban area mapping on HOTOSM, one person was going around teaching everyone how to map tall buildings, he'd track down each commit and comment there with feedback, it was very nicely done in a non aggressive way. I was quite happy to learn.

It isn't obvious the first time you do it, for tall buildings you need to map the part of the building that intersects with the earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAPiGntG6fs
Interesting to watch Kotlin develop.

It came in and filled the niche that i always thought Scala would fill.

I’ve been doing mostly Swift for the past several years, and i love it.

Scala 3 looks interesting but it seems to be moving slowly.

I look forward to having another Java option if I ever get back to that platform. Java was cool in 1998 but after Swift, I’ll need something nicer on the JVM
Is this always on? Or event triggered?

I have a use case and an iPhone 7 that stopped reading SIM cards. But I wont have a cord long enough to keep it plugged in all the time. And the battery doesn’t hold a charge very long...
I sincerely hope that the reason you are being downvoted is that people didn't read beyond the first sentence.
You have to consider not only the language but what the team working on it will look like. It is still a bit hard to find server-side kotlin devs. On the other hand in my experience, Java devs pick up Kotlin really quickly (as do Python devs interestingly whereas they struggled with Java).

I'm a huge proponent of Kotlin on the server side, less on frontend (JS) side.

If you go with Kotlin and Spring Boot, Micronaut or even just Ktor,you'll likely not regret the choice. (I have no experience with DropWizard).

Now if you choose Java it will not be a horrible choice either, and it is not too hard to convert to Kotlin later if you need/want to. I've heard cases of people going back to Java a few years back, mostly for compiler performance reasons, but there has been a lot of effort on that recently. And while compiling Kotlin is still slower than compiling Java, the fact that you can divide things more easily in multiple files and incremental compilation compensates in most cases (except of course in the case f a clean build).
I've been writing Kotlin professionally for the past 2 years. I'd highly recommend it as a worthy successor to Java. It's very powerful and thoughtfully designed. Java just feels so old and clunky after using it.

I've not had the pleasure but I hear Scala is great too.
"I would pay" seems to be the solution to everything on HN. Would you?
Sorry but I would not trust a company that brands itself using a mythical monster to give me funding. If I'm putting the future of my company in the hands of some venture-capitalists I'd want to know they're the real deal and a company that uses:

"Our goal, as Cthulhu, is to support initiatives designed to rise from the dark depths of R’lyeh (metaphorically speaking!) and end up destroying or at least disrupting, some market paradigm."

As its opening line does not exude professionalism.
there are dozens of threadripper coolers on the market, air and water
They are de facto standards as an application. As data formats, governments and large companies required them to become available under formal standards. After doing a lot of outright sleazy things, Office format (which is basically xml files wrapped in a zip file) is now a formal standard. When companies like Microsoft step around interoperability, they should be severely chastized and then punished, which apparently only governments and large companies have the wherewithal to do.
Glad to hear it. The Memory Palace is one of the most interesting podcasts on my (extensive) list. It's beautifully produced and wonderfully idiosyncratic in its choice of subjects.
Indeed the offering is more than an Office Suite. You + 5 family members each get

* Office Apps -- install wherever you want, including on web, iOS, Android and Android-capable Chromebooks to get native apps on Chromebook. You can install on as many devices as you want, around 5 per-person can be in use at the same time

* 1TB OneDrive storage (clients on Mac/Win/Web only sadly, no Linux client yet)

* 50GB Outlook ad-free email storage

* Bring your own custom domain to get @my-family.tld email for your family

* Priority phone support

All in all, for families it's a good offering that competes really well with Google One (one.google.com) -- quite irritating that Google One still doesn't offer that custom domain thing. The 50GB ad-free email per family member is a great offer for instance. All of this for about $100/yr, less with the revamped Home Use Program.
Have you seen https://www.whatsyourprice.com/ ?

Most amazing spin ever. Here's the ad targeted at women https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK2MrUOfAPE and the one targeted at men https://vimeo.com/21179683

Also https://misstravel.com and their pitch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLSiy4nUvnc
I am a mechanical engineer by trade. By "heuristics nobody really understands" I do mean just that. Some of it may be grounded in experimentation, some of it might be grounded in data sets collected by god knows whom go knows when, some of it might just be "do it this way because the graybeards/application manuals say so". So on and so forth.

I find that a lot of software people have a highly idealized notion of how the "traditional" engineering disciplines work. Generalizing strict safety procedures found in some niche industries like aerospace to other fields where they don't exist. The truth is that working under time or budget pressures and without fully understanding what you're doing is extremely prevalent outside of software too.
It’s not the message that matters. It’s the fact that one is a First Amendment violation, and the other is not.

I don’t think a “websites can’t moderate their content” is a good road to go down.
Awesome! I'm currently working on the exact same thing (but with OCR added). Thank you for releasing this.
The reason google is evil in this case is they wouldn't deign to provide any information when it was requested to resolve the problem.
And how do you propose we solve it?

If there's a systematic financial disadvantage experienced by black people, possibly as a result of racism, then continuing to financially disenfranchise them will hardly help, will it? Access to liquid capital is pretty critical if you want to make money, isn't it?

Judgement is notoriously self-fulfilling. The best way to keep someone poor is to treat them like a poor person. The best way to drive someone to crime is to treat them like a criminal. The best way to keep someone ignorant is to treat them like an idiot.
A lot to unpack here, let me try. Are machine learning algorythms capable of stereotyping people? How accurate does a stereotype have to be before it's a useful predictor?

If these models lead to good data, then what's wrong with them? If people who follow the NBA do in fact default on their loans more, shouldn't they pay higher interest?

I agree that the healthy should not be compelled to subsidize the costs of healthcare for the unhealthy. Can you tell me why it's ethical to force my compliance?

It seems you primarily see things along racial divides, grouping people into black, white, and asian. There are, more nuanced ways to group people, which is exactly what these agorythms are doing.

Also, what's wrong with wealth inequality? I'd be much more concerned about absolute quality of life, which has increased dramatically for everyone in the last half century.
The mining equivalent for the USD would be when you sell securities to the Federal Reserve in exchange for new dollars.
The whole reason government intervention into the economy was introduced (creating your "crony capitalism") was that falling profit margins meant the only way to maintain or grow overall profit levels was to increase production, which led to periodic overproduction and market crises. This happened repeatedly and created (at the very least) massive amounts of unemployment and waste. Nothing intrinsic about free market competition or pursuit of private profit checked or balanced it.
Needs boating directions in this case
unsolicited advice- please pertain work to a desk/ one place of the house, and not spread it to the entire house.
This can help restrict resentment to that one spot and not your entire place.
Ah, of course. But opposite use case!

Lua is used at the very top level of a program, sometimes its even user accessible!

Wuffs is the exact opposite, it is designed for use in the deepest levels of a program!

Very cool idea.
Oh sorry, I thought they were doing A/B and the second was later for some reason. Nevermind.
This is a remarkably good metaphor for what executives actually do all day
If you check https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=insiderpaper.com all the submitted articles are from the same user. Seems fishy, should we alert the mods?
My wife is a teacher at Cascade MS!
I am just a layperson. But given the scale of these vaccination programs; I think the question of how vaccination can affect the natural evolution of the virus is one that at least should be allowed to ask.
The app also has an extremely enjoyable visualisation of the weather predictions, which is a nice bonus!
Sue them for what? Are trade secrets involved? Are the bitmaps directly lifted from RIM property? Because there is no copyright protection for the general idea of an interface!

Edit: Patent ≠ copyright, but nonetheless a patent suit would be interesting, damned weak, and unlikely to be resolved for years (IANAL)
One thing I've been trying to figure out about Diaspora is the implication of deleting a photo or redacting a comment. As far as I can tell this is done by "revoking a user's encryption keys at the seed" but this means that a user must connect to the seed every time content is requested. Surely there is a form of caching mechanism; if so do 'delete requests' get pushed out to the caches? The implications of this are telling: at least with facebook I can delete a photo and cross my fingers that nobody has seen it yet.
Or, perhaps more aptly in this case, it's like saying winter is here because it got cold for a week in April. Sequoia's infamous presentation always struck me as hyperbolic; "RIP good times", really? Forever? Long, long recovery? Anyone who is that certain of the future is probably got some hidden agenda. I don't know what Sequoia's was, but it was obvious that we shouldn't take it too seriously.
How about a framework like objectify? Is that close enough to the low level datastore to get good performance?
If he went to a software engineer position at Google, I would not say that's as prestigious as a Harvard professor.
According to some very sound economic currency theory, you're 100% wrong.

http://bitcoinsurvey.wordpress.com/

tl;dr About half the current value of a bitcoin is speculation. The rest is fundamentally supported by its trade volume.

There is no way a bitcoin can crash unless its use in trade crashes.

The paper money I use every day, which can burn instantly in a flame, has no intrinsic value either.
Please don't do this here. Nothing good can come of it, only ideological flames that engulf this site.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11796698 and marked it off-topic.
Viruses do have treatments.

There aren't as many as for bacteria, for a number of reasons including that viruses don't really clearly fall into "alive" or "dead" in the same way. They hijack your cellular machinery to produce more of themselves but they're not much more than a strand of genetic code wrapped in a bundle. It's hard to say they're more alive than any computer virus.

However, we've studied the way in which viruses do this hijacking and are able to disrupt the process, for instance by blocking their mechanism of entering cells, by blocking their mechanism of exiting cells or by disrupting their ability to replicate their genetic information.

There are even some (albeit new) broad-spectrum antiviral medications such as Remdesivir which was explored in COVID-19. It does work, well even, though as the COVID-19 infection is primarily in the lungs it's difficult to establish a sufficient concentration to be hugely effective.

Hydroxycholorquine is interesting [1] both as an anti-inflammatory and immune modulator. The Azithromycin probably does nothing against nCoV-2 but may well help control secondary infection.

[1] https://watermark.silverchair.com/ciaa237.pdf?token=AQECAHi2...
Nonsense argument. What’s the point of securing anything if THE KGB can cast a hack spell and get root on my server?
While this is absolutely amazing, and I'm still trying to see if I'm even able to grok the how..

But, the paranoid in me is now curious/afraid if this approach can/will lead to multi-OS malware?
I've got an M1 MBA that work sent me for debugging, it spends most of it's time collecting dust. Granted, I'm not a big fan of MacOS, but this computer isn't doing much to change that.
Clubhouse raised money at a billion dollar valuation. Hacker News specifically and Metafilter aren’t in the same stratosphere
Take your pick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religions_and_spiritua...
It’d be fun once they’ll have EU presence.
No product activation either. Those were the days.
From their website: You need to be an authorized e-file provider (1). I'm guessing that if you're approved, you'll get access to their API. And you'll show up in their list (2)

1: https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/become-an-authorized-e-...
2: https://www.irs.gov/filing/e-file-options
Zoning a house built with a 1 zone system is very expensive, and zoning doesn’t do much when the house looks like this:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/94/7b/67/947b6734e9ec93809b2c...
It also says that telegram is hosted on AWS, which is false. telegram has their own network with 4 ASNs.

https://bgp.he.net/search?search[search]=telegram
It's not the most sophisticated, thats a bad usage of terms, however, it is most likely one of the largest of it's type and severity just on pure scale.

My take is that this is mostly on the heads of all the many gov orgs (I'm ignoring corporate land right now), who have become so dominated by gui-ninjas with stockholm syndrome for MS and other black-box closed source systems that they honestly just don't think about the underlying system fundamentals at all. Not only have I contracted and seen some of these systems first hand (and the bad management that engineers them), but I have a family member is is the head of IT for a state gov org, and I've heard about how lackluster the response has been internally. There is just a response to update systems. No fundamental reconsideration of sourcing practices, no fundamental reconsideration of security practices, just lazy hope that it doesn't affect them. I highly suspect most of these orgs are completely compromised already on the tech side (and other ways too, cough Epstein cough), and because of lack of accountability, nobody really gives a fuck.

Then at the very high levels at the federal level, those "leaders" don't care because they are playing the classic good ol boy backscratching contract and bid game, and they get their cut, so they could care less that a few years down the road something like all of OPM is compromised. Congress, the one entity that should be in a position to start passing legislation to address these issues, is instead completely compromised on both sides of the isle by the same kind of realpolitik, where K-street writes the legislation along with a few staffers they will hire later for their "help", congresspeople don't even read the bills, but vote according to donation dollars and influence gained. The whole system is completely disconnected from reality, and the number one thing that is lacking is the largest four letter word in DC or in any government org...

Accountability.
That's not an argument against gay marriage, that's an argument against gay parenting (and to stop that, you need a national ban on turkey basters). Except it's kind of a rubbish argument against gay parenting:

That some state of affairs X in a family is best for children is not an argument that not-X should be forbidden.

Children do better if they have rich parents, who can afford to buy them a wide variety of toys, give them a better education, buy them private tutors and books and plenty of other resources to give them a head-start in life. That doesn't mean that the rest of society shouldn't be allowed to raise children even though those children will be raised in a suboptimal fashion.

If - and it is a big, complex, still-being-debated-by-social-scientists type of if - parenting by opposite-sex biological parents is the gold standard, that doesn't mean that people who still get to silver or bronze shouldn't also be able to parent.
Lights by their design will stop traffic and reduce road capacity (they are ostensibly for safety rather than road use).

The point about a roundabout was to keep traffic moving, not stop it. If there are lights, there is no difference between a roundabout and a circular intersection.
> One of the most useful things to come into a discussion with is a set of clearly-defined terms

Agreed. And it is why in part I dislike talking about philosophy or religion with most people, especially in a live face-to-face exchange. Because most of the problem is going to be from having each person use a different definition for each important word being tossed around (love, hate, good, evil, "God", free will, etc.)
It was an arbitrary choice for an example. Obviously one would choose a key not being used for anything else. (This choice can also vary from session to session, depending on the task at hand.)
I can't speak for nowadays, but my experience with early non-hybrid CVT vehicles was negative. I test drove a Nissan Versa and the engine was sitting at around 4k RPM doing 60 MPH on the highway. It was very loud for a small hatchback, and generally unpleasant to drive.
No different nowadays. /biz/ runs endless P&D schemes.
> In the longer term we'd (well, I'd) love to make it work well with freeform KV data

That would be great for a decentralized forge based on matrix. This is an area where i think matrix decentralized rooms would shine, as they would effectively prevent DMCA takedowns for software projects.
I was told by recruiter that getting paid in Bitcoin was an option as well.
Sure and I guess we get home the next day I suppose. There's being safe and then there's being paranoid. The OP quoted a pile up in Texas during one of the worst winter storms in history as example of not following distance, while the right thing to do on that day would have been to _not drive at all_. Even on normal Christmas mornings which are typically one of the iciest days of the year in Dallas I used to take a bus ride to see how many cars I can count in ditches. Just don't drive in Texas if the roads are icy.
why post this wayback version?

Post is still up here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterman...

and anyways, (2005)....
here's plenty of other discussion from one of the previous posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3723355
these are penny stocks, not surprised. actually most of them are sub-penny stocks. surprised they are still listed for public trading.

very easy to do a "pump and dump" scheme especially in the digital or social media age
Sorry about that. Honestly, nothing in Blender has helped me with anything related to software. Making 3D things and making software are two largely unrelated interests of mine.

I like that the UI shows me Python functions that I can use to invoke the menu item, and I have written some Python before (read an STL, do some transformations, write an OBJ; Blender was easier than cobbling together other tools to do that). My main takeaway that I apply to my own software is that if I know how to do something in the app, the apps should tell me what API method to call to do the same thing. (Google's Cloud Console does this!) And, that if I know the name of the command I want to run, I shouldn't have to poke through the menus to find it. (Blender fixed this with F3 global search. It annoys me to death in other apps like Fusion 360, where things move ever release and I have to search through every menu because the YouTube tutorial I'm watching is a week out of date.)
I live in a relatively small apartment. From everything I've read, levels between 1000ppm and 2000ppm seem to be quite normal indoors, e.g. in an office. Not healthy, but normal.

One of the reasons may be that houses have become more air-tight in an effort to improve insulation, while the cognitive effects of high co2 aren't quite as easy to detect as a high energy bill. That afternoon slump may be a biorhythm / digestion thing, or maybe nobody in your office bothered to open the windows since yesterday.

The concentration also rises pretty fast. I think I could make a (slightly delayed) intrusion alarm just by reading CO2 values... or a window-open-detector for automatically turning off the heating...
M1 became a meaningless category on April 24. The change to Regulation D meant that banks can now offer unlimited checks with savings & money-market accounts, which means that they're effectively indistinguishable from checking accounts, which means that they're now reported as part of M1. With that change, there's no difference between M1 and M2, so why report M1?
"@GoDaddy suspended your domain BECAUSE OF AN ABUSE REPORT?"

Well, when we stand and allow tech companies to shut down customer accounts because of accusations on the internet, that's what we end up with...
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You can also request maintenance from your landlord/ property manager. We are working to bring Cleaning and insurance so you guys can do it all from the same portal.
This is really great, I hope more startups follow. In today's funding environment startups that are angling for an IPO can stay private for a very long time. Many companies are raising billions of dollars over 5-10 rounds before looking to the public markets. That can mean a long time before employees may choose to exercise their options.

Pinterest seems to recognize that if you put in two years at an early stage of the company you deserve to share in future financial success.

I wonder why they made this move now? Specifically, I wonder if it came from the executives, investors, or both?