jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Man, it really seems like bowl-less is everywhere these days. This kind of thing is why I rage quit programming and went to live in a Vipassana retreat.

I heard this is extremely expensive for anything non-trivial. People are always like, scale, scale, scale. But 99% of people are not Walmart. KISS, YAGNI, premature optimisation something something.
I think even leaving aside historians - the idea of making everything posting transient by default would have robbed us of a lot of stored knowledge. I'm feeling quite bitter about the rise of Slack and Discord over mailing lists and Usenet.

The ease in which one can find clues and solutions to decades old technical questions relies on everything being stored.

And more than just technical issues - I'm no historian but I've wasted endless hours following fascinating discussions from the past that suddenly become relevent because of recent events or unforeseen connections. I love how much is preserved by accident. It makes me slightly sad to think that it might be otherwise and that others would wish it otherwise.
Did Neve have a recording career of his own? I thought he was an engineer.
Brushed stainless on the DMC-12. Although now Ford F-150s are getting aluminum bodies.
Chiming in as another one.

I live in Los Angeles. Four years ago, I bought a pick up truck.

In my case, I don't have a long commute. I can bike to work. So when I need a vehicle, it's to take my kids around, haul something I can't carry with my bike, or head out of the city for camping/adventuring/etc. The truck has been perfect. As it is, I use the bed of the truck at least once a week. I use it like all the other SUVs on the road, only I much prefer the flexibility of a proper truck, let alone the real offroad and towing capabilities.

Moreover, I know it's going to last pretty much forever and should I get a second, electric vehicle, there really won't ever be a time when having a truck on hand won't be useful.
My boss is one of the people behind the Pacific Fibre project. I can't wait, but it's still a few years away. NZ is stuck in the position of having a fair amount of international bandwidth and plenty within the country, but usage is hamstrung by unrealistic data caps. (20GB is the common premium plan for heavy users). With caps like that large-volume applications like IP-TV have been very slow to catch on, although the TelecomNZ-Tivo partnership is changing that, albeit only because TelecomNZ doesn't count that data when working out your usage.
I understand taking more resources to create two sites, but an iPad and iPod Touch can't really show the same page. So, just have the iPad show the desktop version and the iPod show the mobile.
> In summary, some of these private clinics (not to mention the hospitals and we have read about their b.s. billing practices many times) are billing patients bogus stuff on almost every patient encounter.

Do you think public clinics are any different?
Radiation is not a very selective poison. It will cause all kinds of cancers, not specifically rare brain tumors. In particular, leukemia is infamously related to exposure to fission products, which we know from studies on survivors of the attacks at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I actually checked the notes (hah!) I have from radbio and brain cancer didn't make the top 5 (resp. leukemia, skin, breast, bone, lung), though it certainly can happen.
`rust-analyzer` lets you find the trait/impl that provides a method, if you don't have it in your IDE you should get it.
Maybe I missed it, but is 80-100k the average or the median? Because you have people like CEOs of major companies making million dollar salaries, and that will have an effect skewing the numbers.
Though you seem to be disagreeing with him, each of your points indicate that OP is onto significantly more than a grain of truth.

You don't have to watch Fox News to know that Europe puts more obstacles in the way of entrepreneurs.
A 2006 article on implementing this machine learning algorithm.
You have never sold door-to-door?
I thought it was desiccating flowers.
If technology continues to increase at the current rate will global warming (if it is even caused by humans) and diseases caused by a westernized culture be an issue? Think about the ~1.5 degrees possible surface temperature change on the earth versus the possibility for space travel and colonization.
>the site still has a user on IE5.01 that orders every few months

Are they ordering new valves for their computer?
Related: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brain.html?pa...
Ah, but when there are more bottle blondes than real blondes, brunettes look more honest. It's similar to the curse of having an extraordinary bust: some men will assume it's fake and conclude that you were tacky and superficial enough to get a boob job.
The UN charter is a bit lacking in the force of law department, as has been demonstrated all too often..

That's unfortunately been all very true. But the only written international laws are those specified "there" in the UN Charter. There are also the Nuremberg Tribunal precedents. That's where the 'there' is, not in the countries who can make up any law they care to pass. Note that all countries have ratified the UN Charter, but still prefer to breach it shamelessly whenever it suits them.

But the 'rules-based order' is merely propaganda if if can't be examined closely according to what is written and World situations measured against what is plainly set forth.

Because nothing is plainly set forth, countries can make up their own rules and do, whenever they want to, hence the 'rules-based order' which means anything they want it to. As in this quote from literature:

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

By not having the 'rules-based order' down in black and white, the West has maintained being the 'master' and in control by pure military power. Unfortunately, that time has gone.

If the West wanted to retain control, they should have initiated a War against China back around 2020. But it's too late now. In their hubris, that moment has slipped out of the West's grasp. And the West should have bent over backwards to incorporate Russia into the West, rather than push it forcefully into the Chinese bloc.

I am not optimistic about the future. I see the long-coming 'Really Big One' occurring in the next 12 months. It will affect us all.
I used this once to port some math-heavy Go and both amazed and aghast when I saw how int64 values were handled in the resulting javascript.
It even has Tank!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lx0cWwVr1w
That makes a lot of sense for automatic driving. DARPA's micro-PNT effort, to build a navigation-grade INS into an IC with an angular drift rate of 0.001 deg/hour, would be a huge advance. It's important to reduce dependence on GPS; the system is such an obvious target.

When, a decade ago, we did a DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle, our biggest technical problem was that we had about 3 degrees of heading noise. The AHRS system we were using weighted its magnetometer/compass too heavily and the compass was inside the unit, not on a cable where we could get it further from metal. All the stuff in the vehicle generated enough magnetic fields to mess it up. The heading noise kept the LIDAR scans from lining up properly when the vehicle was moving, and the vehicle had to stop, sweep the LIDAR, and rebuild a picture of its environment too often. Fiber-optic gyros were $20K back then, and back-ordered because of the Iraq war. We needed only about 1 deg/minute max drift.
It doesn't count toward your bandwidth either. The neighborhood line has much more bandwidth that is allocated to each individual house. So they just allocate double bandwidth to house, and you get 1 of it, and the wifi gets the other.
I was almost embarrassed to post that simple minded solution. So thanks for posting that one. I am prone to forget that sometimes, stupidly simple is best.

PS to OP. You might need to fiddle with /etc/sudoers in order that cron can be allowed to reboot the machine.
>> Many predicates are non-terminating or extremely inefficient when faced with goal inversion, but are often 'fixed' by simply reversing the order of some of its rules (but making it useless in the original direction in the process). This is disappointing when trying to maximize prolog's biggest potential: building true total relations that can project in any direction with a single definition.

I don't think that's a commonly agreed-upon "biggest potential" of Prolog. Prolog is a general-purpose language with the syntax and the semantics of the first-order predicate calculus, albeit limited to Horn clauses and with many other restrictions that are necessary to make for a language that can be used in the real world, for real programming tasks.

I cannot easily think of an example where changing the order of clauses (not "goals") in a predicate definition prevents the program from "runnign backwards". For example, take the typical append/3 predicate:

append([],Zs,Zs).
append([X|Xs],Ys,[X|Zs]):-
fappend(Xs,Ys,Zs).

Moving the first clause, append([],Zs,Zs), after the second, still allows three calling modes:

?- fappend([a,b],[c,d],Xs).
Xs = [a, b, c, d].

?- fappend([a,b],Xs,[a,b,c,d]).
Xs = [c, d].

?- fappend(Xs,[c,d],[a,b,c,d]).
Xs = [a, b] ;
false.

And complexity does not seem to be affected. Can you give an example where this is not the case?

>> IMO the root of the issue is that prolog has no way to declare a "closed" predicate, and then optimize execution based on their presence. I think cut papers-over (heh) the lack of "closed predicates".

I, like tom_mellor, am also not sure what you mean by "closed predicates". Could you clarify?
I'd suggest just adding a question mark.
I agree, but I would blame the host as well, any other host caring about their reputation would not have published this or at least done some reasearch on how PI operate in India.
We went into a seafood restaurant before Christmas and I thought they were closed and cleaning the floors, the scent was so strong.

We waited at a bus station with a restaurant serving the dish, and the scent stayed on our jackets for weeks.
They may not want to encourage it. Being able to run linux comfortably would make users less dependent on the ecosystem
I can stomach a long load time (but that's not to excuse how godawful this load time is), just as long as it's worth it. I need some kind of resolution/ultimate goal, but in GTA:O there really isn't one; it's just grind-grind-grind so that you can get yet another car, or another house, or another thing that you already have plenty of. Lather, rinse, repeat in perpetuity.

I just felt like every time I logged in I went, "So what's the point here?".
There is a Chrome extension named Ad Nauseam. Was arguably but ultimately blocked by Google extension store. I still manually install and use it.
If it's an item in limited supply that you know is going to sell out, does the conversion rate from click to sale matter?
Left-handed for those that need clarification. :)
Works surprisingly well!

https://myhr.tg/10yVgL9d
Pricing of electricity is confusing and very varried. Usually it’s business that pay the variable rates.

I worked at a power monitoring startup. We looked at states that had peak demand and tried to estimate commercial electricity bills and sent alerts if a business was close to its peak usage.

“ Some utilities will charge customers based on their individual peak demand. The highest demand during each month or even a single 15 to 30 minute period of highest use in the previous year may be used to calculate charges”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_demand

It’s hard to figure out what the charges are going to be.
I wonder if things will get to the point (or maybe we're already there) that it would be feasible enough to set up something akin to a SaaS/PaaS for botting operations. Similar to how DDoS crews rent time and botnet resources for customers, such a service could auction off time slots (e.g. specific 'drop' dates in the case of sneakers) to users who want to buy en masse or ensure that they can at least get some amount of the product they want.
I got a lot of advice on how I should opt not to care yesterday too on HN. I'm tired of being berated for being a human, with senses, who perceives things, and tries to discern order. That I care is not a fault.

But yes, sure. I do try to allow others, to permit the flourishing, wild world around me. I don't take umbrage with this unreason. But it does feel like so many cycles have such poor self-correction, and that does cause a generalized concern.
Memory and Haskell's function calls being allocated on the heap doesn't seem at first glance to be tied to laziness. You could have a strict language with a growable stack that effectively puts function calls on the heap (I mean it's usually not actually the heap per se, but the shrinking and growing of the stack makes it similar from a performance perspective). That's usually not done for ABI compatibility reasons rather than any intrinsic reason.

And moreover I think the majority of programmers can immediately spot when something could lead to a stack overflow. I can't recall the last time I had an issue with a stack overflow that wasn't an infinite looping bug. It's not a difficult problem to begin with in strict languages. This is even more true when I think back to how many times I've written a recursive function by hand rather than use a higher order combinator in functional code. I think less than 1% of the code I write is even recursive to begin with.

Space leaks are a pretty annoying problem in Haskell programs though. There have been quite a few large, widely-used Haskell programs that have battled with them. Heck Shellcheck's author dropped multithreading because he couldn't figure out the issue with space leaks. I can't think of any large program that has ever been forced to a drop a feature because they couldn't solve a stack overflow from overly deep recursion (it is a purely mechanical transformation to take any recursive function's call stack and pass it in instead as an explicit stack on the heap).

And being able to locally reason about performance rather (i.e. only needing to take into account the implementation of a function) than having to take into account nonlocal reasoning (how your function will be called) is a huge win on par with the analogous gain of local vs nonlocal reasoning for correctness in functional programs.

I agree it's a matter of experience and changing your way of thinking, but personally I'm way more confident about what the performance profile of a program I've written in Purescript will look like before extensive testing than what the performance profile of an equivalent Haskell program will look like before extensive testing.
> At the end of the day demand is so high for these things even taking dissatisfaction into account it really isn't costing the retailer anything at all...

Well, the retailer only cares enough to look like they care enough so that they don't garner negative press.

The retailer really only cares that they sell. Yes, the retailer would like to capture some of that scalper premium but doing so without also alienating the customer base is difficult. (see: Ticketmaster--whose almost sole purpose is to serve as a blame repository for egregious ticket prices)
Spent half my life in Kansas, tornadoes never worried me. They're so ... focused. (Here I am in California and it's the earthquakes that freak me out, so widespread.)

You're correct about the thunderstorms though. Something I miss all the time.
Indeed. I certainly don't mean to defend the British empire.

The way i would frame this, though, is that the difference between the UK and India is only in how much the railway-builders and so on could get away with. They would have done the same to British people if they had had the chance.
Yes. It's to the point.
Terrorist that won 80 million votes, and from where I stand, plausible stolen elections. But hey, as long as Twitter and FB do what you like it’s fine?
I am strongly for taking over businesses which are de facto monopolies.
There's right-leaning and then there's racism. Additionally, Reddit has the right to block whatever it wants from its platform, just as the mods here can delete posts etc.

Freedom of speech isn't the right to speak wherever you like. I don't have to let you speak on my lawn, on my stage. You just shouldn't disappear for disagreeing with the government.
> But we don't get to choose when to be born, so we are not obliged to reach a yes/no vote.

I wish more people thought this way. We think we're so smart!

In off to bed, but thank you for the reply, I understand more what you meant now.
I am not convinced.

Some speeches are omens to terrible actions and they are usually supported by symbols.

I've seen the pictures of the Confederate Flag waving in the halls of the Senate, It was pretty disturbing to me.

If I am not wrong that never happened before, not even during the Civil war.

IMO if the flag entered the Capitol Building in 1860 it would have been normal, but today it has become the symbol of the resistance to the racial integration and the support to the segregation, hence it should be banned and people speaking openly about any "racial supremacy" should face consequences.

outside the contexts of "art or science, research or teaching" (quoting the The German Strafgesetzbuch (Criminal Code) in section § 86a) it is simply unacceptable.

After all it is written in the US Constitution that

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
I tried to run a branch of a charity without WhatsApp and Facebook for two years and it was impossible. I had to give in and sign up.

So, these things should be regulated and operated like utilities. Phone companies don't have the right to mine my contact list, and neither should Facebook.
From my (limited) experience with individuals that I'd genuinely call "rich", is that they largely just want experiences.

Those experiences could be the thrill of creating a rocket and launching their car, that experience could be hanging out with penguins in Antarctica or going with your extended family, or helping an individual or group either with your connections or via no-strings-attached cash money.

I think people look at the rich, and the ultra-wealthy, and assume they're all some knob that wants to show off his or her fancy cars, fancy watches, fancy homes, while treating their employees like slaves and cackling maniacally. I think those types are far from the rule though and are in fact the exception. I think most people, that have self-built the bulk of their wealth, are much more 'normal' but just operate at a grander scale. Instead of paying the last 2 dollars of the single mother's grocery bill in front of them then going home feeling good they hand someone 10,000 for tuition or a medical bill or they cut a million dollar check for a charity/foundation/hospital and feel better but not as good as that person that helped that person in the checkout line because they know they've got far more money than they need but also know they can't just throw it at every issue because it wouldn't be the best use of the money - if John Trillionairington the First started handing out million dollar checks, you'd have a fair number of people buying 200k dollar cars and a Rolex for each wrist and going "come on John, give me more you cheap skate, this stripper needs more tips!" (see: many significant cash prize lottery winners).
Same was said for Vista, Windows 8, Windows 10 and probably many other times. Microsoft is not that stupid - they are doing these changes only after they are confident that they can get away with it and can easily change their strategy if needed.
I believe, after survival, the #1 human driver is prestige. It is amazing how immediate it manifests. People moments after surviving imminent death will jockey for positions of influence with their saviors. It is baked into the human psyche, and as long as we ignore this Orwellian Driver of Human Personalities, we are doomed to repeating civilization wide failures.
Cocoa was Java compatible, as a first class target.
Agreed. I'm very impressed with the screen, and haven't had any problems with the buttons. I had been trying out a myTouch (also Android-based) and like the Nexus S a lot better.
San Jose is a pretty skewed example as it has a very high Vietnamese population, where over California there is probably an order of magnitude more Chinese immigrants.
Because it's not just about my bookmarks -- it's about using the wisdom of Delicious' huge crowd to find quality links on any given topic.
It'd be interesting to have a clause stipulating that if the customer shuts down their instance of your code permanently, you reserve the right to start up your own. Do you think anyone could get away with that?
I've read a lot of reviews of tech. Basically, if the device breaks down during the review that is what gets written. Then it's up to the PR or someone in the company to get a replacement out right now. This is how it is at Consumer reports, Engadget or NYT.
Well.. nice thoughts.
But didn't gmail start off in one of those "wasted" 20% of time?
On the other hand, Apple didn't have a cash-cow before the iPod, if you regard it as their first cash-cow after Jobs' return.

And going from there to iTunes, to merging the iPod and mobile phone everyone carries around, to arriving at the iPhone and iOS, and then to expand the screen size to build the iPad doesn't represent huge deviations from their core business.

Ping might fit within what the OP describes though.
The key here isn't innovation, but useful innovation.

But the net result of cash cow disease is a waste of brainpower, and a decrease in useful innovation.

From what I can tell, there isn't as much of a contradiction as you imply, and the author is merely advocating a spin-off technique for investing in non-core innovation.
> no one would tell a senior engineer just a single sentence "please implement mult command"

It definitely happens (at least it did to me) to be given programming tasks without context. Maybe my comment wasn't crystal clear on this, but I was not providing advice for interviews to the specific company mentioned in the OP, rather general advice for senior roles. In this case the claim that "no one would tell ..." is hard to maintain.

> this would not affect my evaluation of this stage one way or another.

Same point applies here. We all know different interviewers have different ways to evaluate. Therefore it's helpful to cover your bases. Hence my comment to not skip that part. For some interviewers it won't matter, but for others it will be a rather important factor.

> and tell that [...] it is not a viable solution

Just for the sake of discussion: if I were the interviewee I would then definitely ask why it's not viable, and if I did not get a satisfactory answer it would for sure affect my impression of the process and, by extension, of the company I'm interviewing for. Not claiming that every interviewee is like this, just that this is the case for some (I am simply not pretending to be an exception on this).
Air fresheners should just be banned. Fix the source of the odors, don't expose people to more chemicals.
> Even people who don't care in the slightest about free software think anticheat is detestable.

Generally the people who are actually into multiplayer games accept anticheat software as a necessary evil. Yes, they're not exactly enthused about what amounts to game-supporting spyware, but playing a game that's rife with hackers is a miserable experience.
Very cool - thank you for adding them!