jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Try it out! Maybe you can incorporate it into your sentiment of solving this goal for a broader population

I know some people whose lives it changed by not being able to curate their images they post during their 1 minute (a prerequisite to viewing others images in the 1 minute). They realized they were sitting at a desk every time and didnt want their life to be that way so it was a catalyst to taking more drastic steps to doing something else.
It's super common to run older server versions due to mod support. Unless there's some new mechanic in an update that people want to use, not using the latest version isn't really a big deal. Easiest to grab the mods you like and just freeze it.
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I mean the built-in serialization. Outside of the classloading and security hacks required to make it work, the fact is that it performs at its worst if you don't do things like provide a no-arg constructor and non-final fields. In those cases, the amount of reflective hackery required behind the scenes is absolutely dreadful, and in benchmarking a simple graph of objects recently I saw that 99% of the time was spent doing reflective access. That's absurd.

Rewriting to use Externalizable was a painful process, but it was orders of magnitude faster than builtin serialization. The default serialization mechanism is basically unusably slow for any high-throughput purposes.

I have not seen the hooks you describe for user-driven initialization of classes, and unfortunately most of the resources I consulted online while trying to write fast deserialization logic recently didn't mention them either. Got a link? I'm certainly willing to learn what I'm doing wrong.
I just got this email from Posterous:

ATTENTION: We noticed you're sending this from a different
computer or location, so it won't get posted until we're
sure it's you. Please confirm that you sent this.

So, it looks like they've thought about this problem already.
Yep, my welcome email has the same box suggesting I add a password.

I think they're going to end up just as safe as every other blogging service out there.
Posting by email makes complete sense

Yes... in hindsight.
While this is great data, can you include some data about the makeup of the sample pool? Specifically, I am wondering how much of a conclusion you can draw about worldwide, or even US broadly, versus what could potentially be very a highly technically adept audience, thus skewing one way or another.
Those helped, but no, posting by email was defn a win. You could attach any type of media or put the url of the youtube video in the email, and it'll make it look nice for you. No more embed codes.
When I read the headline, I thought they had created a pattern that would generate an endlessly increasing population of clones, but as far as I can tell from that video, it's just a big ship disassembling and reassembling at another point on the grid.

Is it really replication, or just an obfuscated form of movement? Perhaps it should be called a transporter?
> I found that overall however, learning Haskell made me a better programmer,

I definitely had that experience, too!
I think it really depends on the students and whether or not you are finding these coasters (taken from other comments) in the classes or not. Cheating is probably the least likely in the harder degrees near the end of the program and most likely in the easier degrees near the beginning of the program.

In my engineering program I have had plenty of teachers walk out of the room for large amounts of time or do something like grade papers without looking around the room and haven't once seen an issue of cheating.

However in my freshman chemistry course which was required for a large amount of students from many disciplines they had 8 T.A.s and electronically moveable cameras (the class was recorded so the cameras were just being re-purposed) monitoring a class of about 200 and I do believe some cheaters were caught in my semester.
It annoys me when people on TV use "forward slash" when reading out URLs. Makes we want to tell people that URLs never use backward-slashes!
But are those created by Hacker News posters?

http://www.limedaring.com/im-a-designer-who-learned-django-a...

I definitely intend to use that service for my next few marriages.
A Scheme parser & interpreter helps a lot in understanding compiling & functional programming.

Resource:
Scheme 9 from empty space: http://tx97.net/s9fes/
I think the main issue here is more than media files: it's the data stored for each app on the device. Music might be a common app with lots of data (and is, as you said, relatively easy), but what if you've saved a 200MB file locally with the Dropbox app? Stuff like that needs to be backed up too, the and the backup service has no way to know if an app's data is "essential" (the user made this!) or just "downloadable content" -- and, all apps would need be updated to know how to re-download after a restore.

It's a complicated problem: it's more than just storing a few hashed and re-downloading from iTunes.
You can imagine Twitter in the early days saying along the lines of "Twitter relies on SMS almost more so than the Internet, and there are over 3 Billion SMS users in the world."
It's worth noting that Nokia have had self-updating operating systems (ie. over-the-air) for years now. Admittedly, I wouldn't expect it to get much of a note in this article, but it's definitely not something that nobody has pulled off yet.
You can also try Password Gorilla ( https://github.com/zdia/gorilla/wiki ) to create, store, manage, and make use of all your passwords.
Why did you use bit.ly to shorten those URLs? This isn't Twitter.

http://bit.ly/9yjUjN ->
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:globaleconomicanalysis.b...

http://bit.ly/b5AJsz ->
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/charting-statistical-fraud-...
Yes, I do. I think it's pretty logical to assume that you would begin to see many more money managers and executives as you go down the list. But I don't really see what that's getting at.

The point is that the same people doing the same things are getting much more than they used, and it's a direct result of actual policy changes. I'm not sure why identifying these people as individuals and professions is all that relevant. But do I think that tech entrepreneurs are a minority in those few million people? Yes. Call me crazy.

I think the real question is: Do you have reason to believe that the pretty well-documented overhaul of tax, monetary, and regulatory policy that has taken place in this country over the last few decades didn't actually happen?

If so, that's a conspiracy I'd love to hear about.
Microsoft and Apple copied AmigaOS GUI and OS/2 Warp GUI features. Even BeOS had a start menu of sorts.
This is fantastic. I learned to program back in the 90s using QBasic. It came with DOS and along with it a book very much like this PDF. I read through the whole book, entering every line of code in the examples, changing little pieces of it until I understood how it worked. Such good memories. I'll enjoy reading this. Thank you.
Live-but-throttled is a decent compromise between the first two. Maybe something that submits a notification directly to you, as chance to approve/deny/respond, moderate what gets published, and be generally aware of what you’re publishing for that matter.
> Like, if you decide to do auth and TOTP in the DB, you'll end up implementing it in PL/pgSQL.

Not really? Postgres (as well as other rdbms) support many other languages - I don't see many good reasons to insist on pl/pgSQL for uses like these?

Both python, perl and TCL are part of the standard distribution in addition to pl/pgSQL.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/xplang.html

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/external-pl.html
Here you go - https://twitter.com/sndrv/status/1356884973979115522
I thought spending money on Firefox OS and rust projects was money well spent at the time. Wish it had continued
You're getting downvoted a lot, but these days I too place very little confidence in a story that cites anonymous sources, regardless of whatever supposed gravitas the publication is supposed to carry.
Java is a long way from Kotlin feature-wise and at the current rate of "innovation" we're more likely to have expired before Java catches up with Kotlin. I mean, come on, in the 25 years since 1.0 Java hasn't even fixed the requirement to escape metacharacters in a regex. The SAM lambdas of Java 8 are also a feeble compromise with FP at best. Kotlin has a much cleaner approach to FP, immutability and null safety.
And for even more fun, you can use all the money you saved not buying a Peloton on an enormous television and spin in front of that.
Why do you think they are attacking Section 230?
> As for public officials using Twitter, a private company for their main communication channel instead of using government websites, they need to stop doing that.

That's a relevant point and I hope every public official would do this. However, what people seem to miss is that Twitter, just like other social media such as Facebook or Instagram, started to, in people's mind, transform into a public agora and lose their private status. The thing is they gained so much power and became so essential and valuable as far as society and political life are concerned that they're now considered as communication channels where everyone, including public officials, should have the right to express their opinion as long as it doesn't break the TOS, which is something I can, in fact, hardly disapprove.
The only issue would be if you run a newer version of a program that updates it's config file (or something similar) format, which ruins things when you boot back into an older partition running a prior version of the program.
Having the information normalized as you suggest would be great. Breaking it up into a ~5 point scale (especially if it took advantage of visual cues) would save some mental effort. Perhaps relative font sizes?
It never ceases to amaze me how few people forget to take this into account when choosing technologies and focus strictly on what's practical. The best route is usually to choose something that's fun and practical.

(and before someone corrects me, yes I know sometimes you can't do that, and yes I know that in that situation you usually have to choose practicality over fun)
The last two go for communities, too. I've been a member of at least a couple great online communities where the owners lost interest but could not handle handing their baby to someone else - so they killed them instead.

They seemed utterly blind to the awesome communities that had formed, and unable to grasp how much harm shutting down caused to so many people.
I completely agree with you about the advantages of connecting directly with fans and making a living by taking a larger cut of smaller sales.

As for the value currently provided by publishing companies, everything I've ever read by successful authors about their relationships with their editors when they were starting out indicates that the mentorship provided by the editors at traditional publishers is absolutely critical. I'm not saying that there aren't other ways to get such mentorship, I'm saying that right now traditional publishing companies are the only ones providing it effectively at scale. That's why I said, in my original post, that one of the requirements for disrupting the publishing industry is to come up with a new system for helping new writers grow. Having experienced authors provide mentorship sounds like a great idea--I would love to see someone execute it by building a system that connects aspiring writers with mentors, at scale.
Also a [view votes] for the whole page, and you lose your right to vote on that particular topic.
Thank God. An article advocating Haskell that doesn't descend into some variant of "You will go to Hell if you aren't using a strongly-typed, pure, and lazy programming language."
I don't think eradicating viruses is a good thing. For one, the human placenta is the result of a virus doing its thing many years ago [1].

My personal opinion is that we should strive to create antidotes when the body fails to fix itself, instead of removing the threat altogether. Evolution needs viruses, in the same way the universe needs entropy.

1. https://whyy.org/segments/the-placenta-went-viral-and-protom...
I wonder what happens when you ask it for an impossible object, e.g. a square triangle?
Above poster suggested it's normal in US forms to separate a question about race and Hispanic ethnicity. I'm saying that isn't normal. The way the census broke this out appears to be subtly advancing the idea that there is more than one human race.
Oh we had some delays with a vendor. It'll be there next May ;) COVID trouble you understand.
Modern native canvas are hardware accelerated, browser canvas can be, but you never know, which is another reason why HTML 5 games are a glimpse of what Flash achieved.
So the guy who owns Washington Post has everything to gain by continuing the relationship with an authoritarian regime that harvests organs from dissidents and "cultists".

Sort of like how Nazi Germany was IBM's best paying client running concentration camps.
> Amiga disks were pushing 880KB onto a floppy whereas the PC floppies only wrote 720KB. Amiga's disk controller was the more flexible one and could easily read various formats, including MS-DOS but PCs couldn't adapt to reading Amiga disks.

Yes, they could; software to read/write alternative formats on the PC was, well, I’m not sure how common, but it was floating around. It wasn’t a controller issue, it was a DOS format issue. Similar software was even available for the 360KB (DOS formatted capacity) 5¼” floppies on PCs before 3½” drives were available.

> Of course, PC's later had double-density disks that could host 1.4MB

“high-density”, and 1.44MB DOS formatted capacity.

> Amiga only ever had single-density disks in practice.

“double-density”; single-density 3½” disks may have existed, but I don't think anyone used them in significant numbers.
I get that scenario, just trying to gauge the maximum price a customer might be willing to pay. But that wouldn't be surge pricing, or would it?

I suppose a "nice" company would not try to do that "price maximization" thing at all to begin with. Auctions seem fair, though.
If you suspend to RAM, and there's some kind of failure, you lose everything, likely leaving some things in a bad state. Hibernation is way less likely to have something like that happen. Of course, the best of both worlds is Suspend then Hibernate.
Lots of experts here so...: How do I get started with a tool like this? Is there a good community to join? Start with adafruit?

(Asking for my 8 year old)
exactly, cars as far i can see are going downhill (perhaps not literally). I fail to understand how anyone can genuinely see EV as a viable alternative to ICE when they cost so much and are inferior to IC by almost every metric that matters. (i think tesla model y is an amazing car, just severely hamstrung)
The battery cells are made by Panasonic on-site https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/08/panasonic-to-expand-batter...
Staying on the topic of turtles... I wonder what the box-like things with rectangular squiggles really depicts? The left side of the first picture.

They somehow remind me of the pattern on the back of a turtle.
VW builds its own packs for the ID cars in Braunschweig (with externally purchased cells) [1]

[1] https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/news/stories/2018/10/powerfu...
I am somewhat perplexed by the headline, who in their right mind would argue that FANG are fascists or even conservative? It borders on the absurd if anything having openly right-wing opinion in tech is a good way to be excluded at work.

I wouldn't say that SV leans left either, most actions are virtue signaling to appeal to changing public opinion.
Overall the comments here and several of his blog posts make me think of this: https://sive.rs/multiply

> To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.

I also can think of times where "my" ideas were realized in the real world - but in no way can be credited to me, because other people also had those ideas, and someone implemented them. Was I a genius because I had these ideas, or did I just have some similar experiences and knowledge to others that had those ideas that (all but) inevitably will generate such an idea over a given timeline?

To really see how he views himself in comparison to others...

> I don't want my success or failure to be determined by the idiots who populate this planet.

I think really there's a fear here to put his ideas "out there" to go through the gauntlet of other smart people. If they never become popular, you can keep telling yourself how significant they are and it will not be disproved. But if you work to get your idea out there, and it still fails, maybe the idea had less value or significance than you assigned it. (Or you can still blame the "idiots on this planet.")
> What exactly is it that you think Wayland couldn't do and why was it necessary to invent an incompatible application interface to achieve that?

From the mir technical architect (found on askubuntu): https://samohtv.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/mir-an-outpost-envi...

> And AppImage came before snap.

Exactly right! And if the ONLY goal was compatibility, we all should be using appimage over snap. But snap was and is trying to promise more in terms of end-user security and transactional updates from the vendor. So there is a legitimate reason to make something new.
The real landmine underneath all this is: what is going to be updated when.

In all probability (we did say Oracle, which means enterprise), this application code is going to live forever, and never receive dev attention once it reaches functional status (unless something breaks).

Consequently, encoding something like "SELECT *" on the app side means that will never be updated, or even noticed, which is the same as saying it will be impossible to subsequently optimize.

Because you can't optimize specifics (these columns) from the DB side, when the only information an application gives you is generic (requests all columns).

Multiple this by 100 apps hitting the same core databases, and you start to see why it's a big deal, from an organization-lifecycle perspective (over 20 years+).
This is true only when you move some of your money from brokerage account to your bank account right?
Hey HN! I made this new thing called dart.rocks for who wants to learn to code. Here's the problem I had, and the solution I thought of:

Problem

The problem is that many people don't get learn how to code because the barriers of machine configuration. Other problem that we want to avoid is the addiction to passive study.

Watching a video is easy, it doesn't take much effort. We have the impression that we are understanding everything - and we are - but we are not really deepening our knowledge. We are understanding, but that does not mean we are absorbing or paying attention to everything.

So what do I want? I want to broke the biggest entry barriers to learn to code and teach in an interactive way.

Solution

I did develop a platform that teaches how to code in Dart in the browser. So the students doesn't need to install anything in their computers. You even don't need a computer.

Also, we are creating a community to connect and help the students to grow you knowledge.

Let me know what you think!

Special thanks to @dart_lang for give the resources to build this project, @hotmart to being a great payment partner and my wife for supporting me to finish it and everyone else who helped in any way!
However, a company that was previously land-restricted to only the 98th percentile (top 2% minus top 1%) now has access to the top 1% and will be trying to compete, so there are actually more jobs available at the top.
Archived (no paywall): https://archive.is/I9DXD
Ha, ok. I was making this more complicated than it was.
Yes. A lot of COBOL compilers are designed to interoperate with C using a struct and unions as an overlay for working storage. It works, but it's not a convenient way or natural way to program in C.
Right, but it's easy to conflate two very things here:

"What are my chances of dying in a climbing accident", and

"What are my chances of dying today if I go climbing".

If you are on a plane, you* have a lower risk of some kinds of cancer than the airline staff do. This has nothing to do with the flight you are both on, and everything to do with accumulated flights

"you*" = for most people, i.e. barring a counteracting risk factor.
After reading some number of such stories I come to conclusion that you should tweak your user interface until you discover drop in signups (or other important parameters).

Basically it amounts to manually perform hill descent algorithm. ;)
If politics are so important, that is if the system wants to be gamed, then game it: accept the extra developers then have them do something totally irrelevant to the project completion.
I was under the impression that this was not a mere formality; but rather a request from a lawyer that may or may not be granted. Reading roel_v's comment though I may be mistaken.
Isn't the annihilation supposed to cause an explosion?

It releases lots of energy proportional to the mass, yes, but one proton + one anti-proton annihilating at a time, it's a very small explosion. And they only had 38 anti-protons.

I believe that one of the the articles quotes one of the Physicists saying that it "wouldn't even warm up a cup of coffee"

Edit here you go:

Prof Rob Thompson, head of physics and astronomy at the University of Calgary, one of the 42 Alpha investigators, said: 'This is a major discovery. ... We've been able to trap about 38 atoms, which is an incredibly small amount, nothing like what we would need to power Star Trek's Starship Enterprise or even to heat a cup of coffee.'
This reminds me of "Sign Up Forms Must Die" article by Luke Wroblewski (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/signupforms/ with some additional resources here: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1219)
Apparently Microsoft made more money from Mac Office than Apple did on selling the machines. I can see that being repeated with smartphones. Similarly, I feel much better about switching to Android seeing that all the core uses of my iPhone (Youtube, Gmail, Maps, Calendar, Reader) are provided by Google.