jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It would be great to see Julian Hyde's Morel [0, 1] on this list as well.

And also WebML [2], SOSML [3], Bright-ML [4] (had to refresh my memory from my 2020 post on the topic [5]).

[0] http://blog.hydromatic.net/2020/02/25/morel-a-functional-lan...

[1] https://github.com/hydromatic/morel

[2] https://github.com/KeenS/webml

[3] https://github.com/SOSML/SOSML

[4] https://github.com/elpinal/bright-ml

[5] https://notes.eatonphil.com/standard-ml-in-2020.html
Quordle, for me, quickly turned relatively stale. I'm quite convinced it's optimal (in terms of human play) to have a fixed set of 4 words to cover 20 letters, at which point you have 5 guesses to solve 4 words based on that information. Fun for a while, but not very deep.
It's really about reducing friction, not pumping up numbers. This is bootstrapped, not investor backed so there's no reason to skew the numbers.

As for the candy analogy, I think that's a bit cynical if all you're critiquing is the login system without looking at the actual application. Lots of quality applications provide login via Facebook: Spotify, Notion, Airbnb, etc. It has nothing to do with the actual apps itself, it's just the doorway.
You might be able to bake some preprocessing of e.g. HTTP into the NIC, doing incrementally more work using well defined standards before delivering packets to the host. Especially with an FPGA.
List of HN projects making $500 / month, might give you some ideas: https://lachlan-miller.me/articles/side-projects-of-hacker-n...
It’s fun. Lots of people like doing retro game dev and the like, but often you are stuck with ancient C toolchains that suck even if you like C itself. Getting Rust working is a great way to make it more enjoyable from a hobbyist perspective, I think.
Not with any sort of speed.
Finally! Although search engines have finally deranked Yahoo Answers, I still resent it for all the years when I would look up something and the top results always included a Yahoo Answer written by a 12 year old. It's pretty much a warehouse of misinformation to such a degree that it makes Quora look like Encyclopedia Britannica in terms of credibility.
No, undefined behavior is specified by the standard. There is also 'implementation defined' which tends to be both architecture and compiler specific.

The difference is that a program which invokes 'implementation defined' behavior can be well defined, whereas a program that invokes undefined behavior is literally free to do anything.
I would like to nuance that by saying it's nice if you have a good deal of domain knowledge, but my article focuses more on the case where you venture into new territory, and the architect is the person who needs to obtain the required domain knowledge.

In my 20+ years of work experience, I rarely worked on projects where I had all the relevant knowledge beforehand. Most of the time, it was 'learning on the job'. For example, I once worked on the software for an automated orchid greenhouse. Now how many software architects would have domain knowledge of growing, categorizing and shipping orchids?
It's the client who had the domain knowledge, and as an architect I had to extract the relevant information from them, and translate it to a software context.

I never did anything with flowers since, so that domain knowledge was never used again. It was like that for most of my projects.
It'd be fun as a side project - with tough deadlines in a start-up and having to continually explain why it's still not finished this sprint... not so much.
> The real class war is between the 0.1 percent and (at most) the 10 percent—or, more precisely, between elites primarily dependent on capital gains and those primarily dependent on profes­sional labor.

There is a sharp contrast here, but I don't think it'll be the basis for a war – figuratively or otherwise. But this divide deserves more illumination.
I know the feeling. Years later when you realize there definitely is a hole, but it might be in the second chapter of some pretty basic book, that you have skimmed several times without finding it, because it is so basic.
Do tell, how will the world look different without infinite growth? What is your vision?
There was a throwaway line in that film that stuck with me - something along the lines of "at that time anyone who could configure a modem could make a million dollars".
The whole point of this post is that such a debugger exists, and that you can use it, right now.
associate a fresh newly installed system / browser / ip
with a trace of crumbs you usually leave on the network

Again, I totally agree this is possible, but I haven't seen any evidence that they're doing it. If they were doing this they'd be using it for something, but it's not visible in any of the public products. For example, the company in the article you linked to, Drawbridge, talks about cross-device tracking as something they could sell to advertisers.

Everyone is doing it, Google, FB, Amazon all have acres
of server farms grinding such data.

"Everyone is doing it" is very different from "everyone is in a position to do it". If you have some evidence that a big reputable company, like the three you mention here, actually is "identifying you even when you are not logged in and browse in private mode with no cookies" I would love to see it.

Google even offers free DNS servers just to
collect more of it.

The privacy policy for Google's DNS [1] says "Google Public DNS does not permanently store personally identifiable information." Do you think they're not following the policy?

Amazon will give you different price depending on who
it 'thinks' you are.

Really? Some looking turns up Bezos saying "We've never tested and we never will test prices based on customer demographics." [2] (Even then, dynamic pricing is way less invasive than trying to connect User-A to User-A-In-Incognito-Mode.)

[1] https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy
[2] http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=119399
Yes, some of the guys that left our startup went working for them.

Our product shared some ideas with AOL Server.
Make sure you start high then request a 5% raise Every year!
If you wait five years and request 25% it's Never gonna happen!
If possible, try to get 2.5% every six month.
At its core, this piece claims "no life without death, no love without war" - and that there is no more intense experience of all of these than in the midst of war. This is one of the great paradoxes of progress. In the most peaceful age in human history (read Pinker's "The Better Angels of Our Nature" for a deep statistical defense of this fact), our deepest fear is no longer death of the body, but death of the soul. Most of us have no need to worry about death in the form of starvation, or bullets, or awful diseases. Their replacement is the fear of an inconsequential life: of dying without having ever really lived. The greatest danger for many of us is traveling the well-sterilized paths, starting on the carefully-monitored playground and continuing through the Ivy League education, the comfortable Google job, the eventual promotions and sensible marriage, the repetition of the cycle through our perfectly-protected children, that allow us to deprive ourselves of all experiences of true intensity or meaning.

It's a topic I often wonder about: now there is less war than ever, but also more depression and despair, even among those with peaceful, affluent lives. We humans have always been running from the fires behind us - what if, having outpaced them, we discover that what lies ahead is ice?
This is so true. I am mediocre developer at best, but because of my domain knowledge I can solve problems that developers 100 times better than me can't. Sure my code might be rough around the edges and some of my designs lacking in elegance, but they work. Working code is a million times better than elegant code that doesn't.

Edit. I have often thought that a good way to pair program would be to pair up a strong domain knowledge / weak dev with a weak domain / strong dev. I have had the opportunity to do this on occasion and the pace at which you churn out great working code is phenomenal.
You’re allowed to think it, it’s just patently idiotic.

Our hospitals would be overwhelmed, the morality rate would skyrocket amongst COVID and non-COVID patients alike.
http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...
You can think what you like as long as you wear a mask, work from home if able etc. Seriously, you have an absolute right to your opinion. But too many people think that stretches to taking their mask off in public places or having parties.
??? Is this not an extremely common phrase? I'm not from the UK (or the US) but... I've never considered this phrase is not known in America?
> How did we arrive to this point where a huge chunk of the population is in one reality and another huge chunk of the population is in another reality?

It's always been that way. We've been at war with each other since the very beginning. North vs South. Federalists vs Anti-Federalists. Nativists vs Pro-Immigration. Protectionist vs Free Trade.

Heck, just a decade or so into the republic a vice president and a secretary of treasury had a duel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burr%E2%80%93Hamilton_duel

The easiest tell is in the name. "United" States of America. If we were so united, we wouldn't have the need to put united since it would be self-evident.

The only times we've come together, briefly, is when we have a common enemy - whether it is natives, blacks, germans, japanese, russians, chinese, mexicans, etc. For a brief few weeks, the country was united after 9/11.

> Segregation of information sources? Politicization of media outlets? Self-reinforcing social bubbles? A combination of all of them and more?

Nope. You can have the same information and two people are going to come to two different conclusions. Forcing the entire country to watch CNN or Foxnews isn't going to solve the problem. It is just going to antagonize one side even more.

You can argue that it is impossible for a country as large as the US ( or china, russia, india, etc ) to be "united". Too many people across too vast a territory to keep everyone's interests aligned. Heck, you can argue that these aren't really countries but empires too. And all empires eventually crumble.

But the truth is that huge chunks of the population have lived under different realities in the US since the very beginning and has continued ever since.
Members of Congress have very limited access to secrets, and none of it will be on the unlocked computer in their front office.

That’s (mostly) because such information is the domain of the executive branch.
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For Battery Park you're thinking of the Wall St heliport (JRB). Mostly Wall Street types but there's also several tourist flights. The noise from this heliport on the Brooklyn side can be unbelievable in the summer.

The 30th St heliport is due to close...at some point due to its location in Hudson River Park but I suspect there will be some sort of negotiated solution to relocate it.
That's interesting, but I worry about safety. I saw in the news that the severity of Schumacher's accident was due to the support of the camera (GoPro?) he was using at his helmet at the time.

If someone could confirm this, please. But a rigid cilinder (as I imagine consists a cam support) on a helmet might be an issue.
Ubuntu even tried to make this concept real, but the effort did not reach its (ambitious) crowdfunding goal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edge
There's way more money in this than you think. I pulled in 2-4k/month from adsense from a little Pinterest traffic back in the day, and I wasn't even trying (proof - http://austen-screenshots.s3.amazonaws.com/Home_Google_AdSen...). If you can bump those numbers into the millions, you're really going to cash in. There are little kids selling promotions on Vine that make more than their parents.

Interestingly enough, I find you can either get spammy and low-quality and cash out a lot now, or build a legitimate audience and following, and create revenue that lasts for a long time. The spammier you are, the faster you make money, but the faster it disappears.

There are four obvious ways you can make money from this:

1. Find a good affiliate program, hawk their goods every now and then, and make a small percentage. This is surprisingly hard, but when done right makes a bunch.

2. Drive traffic to a site with adsense. You have to drive more traffic than you would ever believe, but it's relatively secure.

3. Sell tweets/promotion to other folks. This is pretty easy, but obviously you won't have much control over what people are using your accounts for.

4. Create/license what blackhatters call a "panel," and write an automated way anyone can come and use your accounts for a fee. This usually requires a lot of really small accounts, not a few big ones, but even blackhat noobs can make $100/day with a couple thousand accounts doing this (you can buy accounts for cheap). This gives you even less control, and basically turns you into a giant spam bot.

Contact me off-list and I can explain a little bit more in depth how it's done and put you in contact with some good folks (email in bio).

Be sure to check out sites like instafluence.com and sponsoredtweets.com (even celebrities). Legit companies pay a lot of money for promotion from big accounts. I know candycrush was paying over $1/download, and a few people pulled in $10K+/month. There are even people making a few thousand dollars a month selling cheap tweets/posts to places like fiverr.com or seoclerks.com - generally lower quality, higher volume accounts. It sounds like you've figured out how to grow them though, and if you can scale that out you've got a money making machine.
Thanks a lot for your list. I only knew about The Culture series. I will try to check out all of them ;-)
Install either the WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache plugin. Enable static caching in either plugin and your site won't have any trouble with HN levels of traffic.
Work for free and don't get paid, because, hey! You'll get tons of experience and build your portfolio. Now on a crowd-source scale! Sucker!
This is ridiculously easy to solve if you accept:

- local optimum that are only 80% better (the choice may not be absolutely optimal and can locally be suptobptimal);

- shit will happens and planning have to be redone for each incidents;

- an infinite knowledge requiring infinite resource is impossible to achieve thus you have to reason with agent with incomplete global informations others than "thermodynamics global metrics"

- you still have to prove you do better than random,

- your improvements are costing less than the saving you will do;

- this results in a strongly distributed system that is adapatative.

All of this can be donne my having simulation with adequate utilities for the agent in the way of this simulation:

https://github.com/jul/KISSMyAgent/wiki
It also turned out to be a consensus language for Jews from around the world that moved to Mandatory Palestine and later Israel.
Are you saying that design is innate, and can't be learned? I disagree.
I had some success in my life and got to met pretty successful people, the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs of different fields.

I had never met any of them wanting to "save the world". Saving the world does not make sense. It is too diffuse, too abstract.

When you met someone like Bill Gates, you met someone who has traveled to Africa and seen people suffering, children and women spending hours a day to get water (that they can't use for other things like learning). Children dying of diarrhea(because of the water), Parents dying because of H.I.V and creating millions of orphans.

You see, this is not abstract but concrete problems. You can actually do something today to improve other people's lives, today. The world is full of them.

We love problems because we can solve them, and this is not a delusion. It is a gift. You can improve people's lives in lots of ways. Geeks have the opportunity to improve millions of lives.

Helping people is incredible rewarding, just by itself.
Reminds me of https://datacoup.com/
"we" ?
as in people in the West in cushy SV Tech jobs?

AFRICOM plays a huge part in geopolitical events across the region. Kick them off the continent along with European colonialists still deploying troops to the region.

Until today France still launders its war money in Gabon but it's chicken-shit and whataboutism to even attempt enumerating anything.

There isn't any solution (at least not a non-hypocritical one) that anyone from the West could suggest. Seriously fighting this and not succumb to hypocrisy would mean you're immediately crossing into "terrorism" territory.
Somebody hasn’t read Extreme Ownership.
You better make Zluda work well on AMD gpus then otherwise it will be irrelevant
It would be exceedingly rare for 1 child to be economically supporting 14 ancestors.

Presumably the typical period of economic support is around 25 years, meaning the 2 30 year-old parents and 4 55 year-old grandparents of the perhaps 5 year-old child would be supporting the 8 80 year-old great-grandparents (or the subset of them that are still alive).

6 adults supporting <= 8 seems much less dire than 1 supporting 14.
I think you could argue from the interop side which would make such a project legal in Europe. So Intel or AMD could funnel money into this via their European branches or some subsidiary?
Aren't NFTs just digital authenticity certificates, complete with blockchain protected provenance?

In some artworks the certificate is the only non transitory asset (e.g. banana taped to wall, or the famous lawyers dot painting)
There could easily be a tax for eliminating someone's position entirely. i.e. Incentivize having way more people than needed to watch the machine do its thing.

Ok radical idea - I'm starting to think of these ever larger/automated companies as having "won" the capitalism game or discovered a fundamental solution to some problem. But the economy doesn't have a great endgame scenario for such entities. One option might be regulating them as public utilities instead of corporate entities. i.e. The point of making a huge corporation changes from eternally extracting rent to becoming so ubiquitous that society adopts it as a fundamental exercise like Fire Departments or roadways.
Agreed. All this statement does is reinforce the speculation that there was a failure of process but adds to that that there is a culture of blame rather than a culture of improvement.

If a mistake happens, don't blame the individual, blame the process then find a way to fix that process. If a company has a blame culture people spend more time covering their own arse instead of building safer processes.
I seriously doubt that most laypeople think that.
I would look into acquiring a service on sites like microacquire.com that generates monthly income for you. There are a few listed there that requires little to no work. Sometimes it's just 3 to 6 hours of replying to customers questions.

Of course, it doesn't come free, you have to pay for the service. But this guarantee little involvement with the product, fully remote, no boss plus you can do whatever you want the rest of the time.
They should but rarely do and even if a tiny victory like GDPR is won, it's immediately dismantled by big corps. Facebook hasn't been fined any significant amount yet it violates GDPR every day. As it stands right now, the average user has no privacy.

Just try this: Use a default browser without adblocking/tracking protection etc. for a week and look how the ads are targeting you more and more. That's the internet for the average user. We just don't see it as much because we default to protect ourselves.
I pretty much never call anyone out of the blue. I'd almost certainly message them and ask them if we can have a quick call.
This is not an issue of concentrated private wealth. Most schools are run by governments.

You are right, citizens need to be empowered against their governments. But regulations give governments more power, not less.

And if you say the majority of consumers doesn't care about some issue, what makes you think democracy could provide a solution?

You also don't need that many feet to create an alternative school. You just need enough children to justify an extra building and teachers, or supplement the home schooling.
> https://mudongliang.github.io/x86/html/file_module_x86_id_82...

Just for your reference about x86 and BCD.
> "knowing how each makes their money"

Probably gave it away?

> "their values when it comes to repairability and labor force"

Apple obviously doesn't have any positive values about labour force and repairability, but both of those have about 0% to do with privacy, so they aren't relevant in this case I'd think.
Here is another way to think about it: reset the Cloudflare bank account balances to $0 at the beginning of the month. They provide services and collect payments from customers. At the end of the month when bills come due, all the hand waving and "functionally free" in the world doesn't change the fact they spent more than they made.
At least German drivers are predictable when it comes to Rechtsfahrgebot.

Contrast with American drivers, who will stay in whatever lane they want and/or pass at high speed in any lane they deem open.
> * a Digital Audio Workstation

Woah.

A little bit ago I went to write a little tool that mucked with the FL Studio FLP format. It was easy enough to guess out the bits that I cared about, so I pretty much just did that using a couple quick projects with specific things in them. However, I did check to see if anyone else had mucked around with the FLP format, and couldn’t help but notice your name. Was pretty surprised as a very curious onlooker to the Zig programming language. You certainly seem to get around :)

That’s a little tangential, but I guess I mention it because I was actually wondering if this was ever something you planned on doing given the fact that it was clear you had dabbled with DAW stuff (forgive me for not knowing if you have a more rich connection to music production than just that; I never bothered to check.)

A DAW in Zig sounds like a kick-ass idea. I tried to write a sort-of DAW toy with friends in Rust and it was a lot of fun even if it mostly made me realize how challenging it could be. (And also how bad at math I am. It took me so much effort to feel like I could understand FFTs enough to actually implement them.) It makes me wonder if your Zig DAW would be open source? It would be a fun project to attempt to contribute to, if or when it ever came to fruition.

Exciting stuff. Congrats on the Zig milestone.
> abstract art that is arguably easier to paint than his earlier work.

Strong disagree. Expertise often looks easy. He had to understand the rules on a fundamental level before he could break them as he did, to express not just pictures but the underlying form and composition.

In my opinion it is harder to paint abstracts like Picasso did than it is to paint realistically.
We hire F# dev. You can work on whatever OS suits you need as long as you can maintain it. If most of my colleagues are windows users, more and more are switching to tux. (mandatory, I use arch btw). Thank you dotnet core.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30165023
There is risk in job swapping. If you enjoy chasing trends, as in an expert beginner, that may be the way to go. If you want to build products or become any kind of actual expert your career will stagnate.
... and then explains that the effect is small enough to not be a problem, so no, it does not confirm that "you shouldn't drink distilled water".