jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Excellent point. The article's based on a time that's been better for the rich than ever before in many different ways -- and reduced the spoils available to everybody else. You have to wonder how sustainable that is ...
>but it took a whole minute to boot up (Win-NT)

Wow - my w2k server takes about a minute to even start loading windows. It spends half that time giving me copyright info about the 2 different sets of RAID controllers that I'm not using.

It's easily 5 minutes before I can type something into Word - and that doesn't include connecting to the domain controller.

Nearly 30 years my BBC micro with wordwise in Rom started in about the time it took the screen to turn on
On the other hand, if we could get ahold of a human with a perfect memory, we could easily establish (at least on the basis of orders of magnitude) how much concious-level information can be stored in the brain. This could grant tremendous insight into the functioning of our brains, as it would also give us a good idea of the "size" (in terms of neural connections, for example) of memories, thoughts and so forth as they are stored.

We already have information-theoretic bounds on this sort of thing based on a physical understanding of the number of neurons and synapses in a person's skull, but they're very loose. It's like trying to estimate the storage available in a chip from the number of transistors on the die. What kind of RAM does it contain? How much is support circuitry? Does it contain RAM at all, or is it something more like a dataflow CPU? If we can fit a high-entropy sequence of N distinct digits into a brain composed of M neurons we might presume that storing each digit involves M/N neurons. If N is close to or greater than M, we might instead guess that data must be stored in-flight, which leads us down different avenues of investigation.

But this is all really a thought experiment, anyway...
Typically, when controlled studies are done on this, "naturally skinny" people systematically over-estimate their dietary calories and "naturally fat" people systematically under-estimate.

Under controlled conditions there is variation, but it is actually pretty modest. And it can be swamped by a habit of buying one Starbucks sugarcreamacino per day.
There are lots of libraries for building and consuming web services or using messaging products, which is the same as how any heterogeneous environment is integrated. Big companies integrate .NET, Python and Java like this all the time. There ARE also tools and libraries [1] for generating all the JNI code necessary to call directly into JVM libraries but I don't think it has seen much adoption. I'm not really arguing that Haskell is suitable for enterprise applications - it is not. For greenfield SAAS product companies though I think its as viable as F#.

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/java-bridge
It could be to keep track of the official weapon, which would imply they have another one with questionable purpose
I know how numerical stuff works, but no, this is pretty inexcusable. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25689916
It's 5% if you do nothing, because your health care system gets overwhelmed and people who would have lived if they got a bed / ventilator / nurse etc all die.
I'm not so sure you should admire the US so much. There is certainly an entrepreneurial spirit there, but income mobility is much higher in Scandinavia. Better chance of becoming rich if your parents are poor.

Also, Norway is usually at the bottom of the Nordic countries in corruption rankings. Usually this is attributed to the oil sector.

Dutch disease might be a problem, but /I/ think it will be quite mild, because we are so aware of the possibility. Salary increases have not been totally out of proportion this year, unless you start thinking about the countries around us with actually sinking salaries....

/also Norwegian
Actually, what Apple said was (as others have sagely pointed out), 100ppi was the best compromise given 2004 technology.

Can we cut out the silly Apple-bashing on here, please? There are plenty of intelligent criticisms to be made.
Funny as a soundbite, but really apples to oranges.
2000, rather. Source Forge was really social at some point; I used to routinely browse the "help wanted" sections and found a few interesting projects to contribute to that way.

I also like Savannah because I am a closet GNU-cultist :-)
Thanks for the link. My first reaction was similar, followed by "Who will profit", and I see the Wired article poses pretty much the same questions.
Is it common practice to let a non-native speaker write your technical documentation? (Honest question.)
I don't know, how much goes into transportation in the US? I mean, aside from the vehicles, including researching new tech for safety, advertising those features, law enforcement of safe driving laws, DMV money, roadwork, and whatever else goes into it. It seems like a lot to me.

Another thing to think about is that maybe we're hitting the safety cap in automobiles. Maybe the cost of making things more safe nowadays is just way too high. It could be that the cost of going after some terrorists is even higher, but we might not have been so sure at the time.

Also, the problem with ignoring people who set out to murder you is that it shows an unwillingness to do so. It might prompt other would be killers to attack. A car, on the other hand, isn't going to notice all the accidents happening, and choose to crash because of them.
>When I go into the bank and find a long line to reach a teller, it's of course frustrating. Mentally, I start a timer in my head, and the longer the timer goes the worse of an experience it is. What stops the timer? Leaving the bank?

>No. — It's "reaching the teller".

This is the hardest customer service lesson to learn for many, many technical people, including myself and many of the people I've hired.

the thing is, for me, that clock stops when I leave the bank. I don't see how waiting for the teller is any better than waiting in line.

But it's very clear to me that Steve's article is correct for most people. The thing is, if a task is going to take from 2-48 hours, and you email them and say "I got your order, you will be up in two to 48 hours" and you convince them it's not an autoresponder, for some reason, they will be quite a bit happier than if you write the exact text on the order page, or send them an autoresponse with the same text.

I don't know /why/ this is... I mean, it's not that way for me. But it is, and it's been hard for me and my people to learn and implement this. But we need to do it if we want to branch out into the higher margin, higher support markets.
I've stayed in loads of hostels in the US and other countries during my travels. The HI ones are generally better in my experience.
I'd argue that Rails is in the business of making new technology boring, so it kind of sits at the edge of both; hence the breakage.
did anyone actually read this whole... thing? If so, does it ever get to a logical or sane point or reasoning?

After about 20% through I started scrolling through, looking for something, but this seems to be just... a bunch of words? Maybe the author should have just kept it in one of those paper notebooks that was mentioned.
You can always do what the author says (maybe the only thing I'd take from that rant) and write a blog.
The problem is this extremely dangerous research is bound to lead to a leak eventually, because in fact there have already been hundreds of lab virus leaks around the world in the past, and the stakes get higher as the viruses they engineer get more and more lethal. China is actually doubling down and increasing the amount of risky virus research they are doing. If it isn’t regulated eventually something even worse could leak out of another lab.

So yeah, it is important to find out what the origin of this virus was because whatever the reason was we want to ensure that it isn’t the same reason for the next big pandemic.
Not being smooth is not a disadvantage of PWA but sign of bad Developer. PWA can be made as seemless as a native app, there are many examples of PWA for that. People still prefer native apps for various reasons. This will change in future.
The advice about using both grep /and/ the IDE is very good. Often they are framed as in opposition to each other, but in reality they're just tools. IDE's are great when they work, but it's entirely possible to make it confused.

I keep hearing to get better IDE's, especially from Java developers who seem to have nicer IDE's than us C++ schmucks, but even the best IDE will not save you when your program is really an interpreter for some ad-hoc, unspecified dynamic language implemented on top of YAML or XML.

I highly recommend having shortcuts for both ripgrep, fd and clangd in your editor. Also remember you can use the .rgignore file.
Consider that you know a lot about this topic and are disgusted by their handing of it. Consider that this might not be an outlier, and you may not be outraged by their handling of other topics simply because you know a bit less about them.

I don't know if this is true for you, but I've found it to be true for me. It took a good deal of time researching and revisiting to realize.
Direct democracy is a (very rare) form of democratic government, a republic is a (common) type of democratic government.
I agree. We should treat this as the existential threat that it is.
This piece may be of interest:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/inside-the-new-york-...
I think this is true. We want to be as honest and open as possible, that includes being honest about the laws we have to comply too. On the other hand, we have a strict no log policy, we have nothing to hand over to authorities accept for the registered email address, a hashed password and the last 4 numbers of a creditcard. Authorities will need to find different ways to get the information they want.
We should peg minimum wage to some multiple of the 5 year rolling average of per-capita GDP.
You may not be able to AC your entire garage, but you could cool an entire rack with a rackmount AC unit (tripp-lite sells them). It costs more since you are constantly having to cool hot air as it comes in, so it's not an ideal solution from a performance or affordability perspective. You can buy ducts to push the heat out, but garages typically have poor insulation so ugh.

I live in Idaho and keep my 24U rack in my office, total idle draw on it is now around 4A@110V and considering power tops out at $0.11/KWh during the summer there's no real reason to colo it somewhere else.
ODF has its own issues. When I'm sharing a spreadsheet between libreoffice and gnumeric I use XLS, because the compatibility is much higher than using an ODF.
There'll be a point of rotation the legs are equidistant from for any _symmetrical_ trapezoidal arrangement of legs - it just might not be under the table. After all, a demilune table is a circular segment!

Of course, as most demilune tables are put against walls, rotating them into the wall is probably a better idea in theory than in practice.
I don't think that applies here, although maybe I'm only right about users who understand what they are doing/have the right mindset.

I've lost the attribution, but someone said that "dating is a numbers game. The goal is to go on as many first dates as possible, to get in front of as many people as possible. At this, tinder (and associates) absolutely excel. There is no other way to reliably find a lot of single people to go on dates with."
Businesses need cheap labor from outside of the US because everyone in x industry is using cheap labor that has an artificial ceiling due to years of unchecked illegal immigration. Competition in x industry is now centered around this new labor price point and in some cases is far below minimum wage. At that point, many drop out of the labor force instead of working a difficult and manual labor job that pays less than minimum wage. This is a failure of government to have a coherent and sensible immigration policy and an additional failure to deal with the spillover effects of not having one.
In my experience (years of talking IRL with thousands of users of my B2B SaaS product), there exists a large cohort of users that don't want to improve their computer skills. They want the software to make things as absolutely "user friendly" as possible.

As an example, I tried standardizing on <input type="date" /> across our product (hundreds of fields). Within 24 hours we logged >1,000 tickets with users saying they disliked the change. They preferred the fancy datepicker because it let them see a full calendar and that enabled a more fluid conversation with the customer (like "next Wednesday").

Yes, Chrome does offer a calendar for this field type, but Safari for desktop does not (just off the top of my head).

I'm a vim-writing, tmux-ing, bash-loving developer. If it were up to me, I'd do everything in the terminal and never open a browser.

I recognize that the world doesn't revolve around me and my skills, interests and tastes. If a large cohort of my customers tell me they don't want to improve their computer skills and want a fancy UI, who am I to tell them they're wrong? They're paying me. They get what they want.
Maybe but it's central banks being to timid in printing money, making it too valuable and increasing the demand for it that ends up making them print much more just to barely keep the economy going. They are making fiat so valuable that it displaces private investment as a store of value and money accumulates in the economy as idle excess reserves.

If central banks had printed sufficiently and promised to push inflation high enough early in the financial crisis, the market would have cleared and much less money would have accumulated idle in the system overall.

Here are some of my musings on this:

http://bessiambre.tumblr.com/
Be very, very careful with this: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/74

But really, it's 2015. Are you really using a terminal emulator without a buffer search? Are you not using screen or tmux, both of which can do these things natively, with no external tools? Why? And what is wrong with backgrounding the tail command, running your grep, and then foregrounding the tail command?
The other ridiculous thing about subscribing is that way overstates listenership. Podcasters routinely overstate their audiences by 10x or more and get away with it. Good for them, I guess.
Awesome for the colleges, maybe, but not so much for the students onto whom they'd be pushing the cost.
Yet a number of my female colleagues have gotten torrents of abuse for much less criticism than I'm doing.

Women get more attention in general, both negative and positive, both online and off. You spent your time trolling GG, I spent my time arguing for GG. Both of us were largely ignored. There are quite a few women arguing in support of GG and they also get a large amount of attention (positive from GG, negative from antiGG). It's human nature to pay attention to women.

... it seems very anglosphere.

Considering all of the companies involved are American, this doesn't surprise me. I don't even think the UK would bother with it much if it weren't for Milo. It just doesn't affect anybody outside of American culture, thank god.

There was a period when a bunch of people had a conspiracy theory about how DiGRA ... was taking over games.

HAHAHAHA, oh man. I've never heard of DiGRA until just now, but that's hilarious. You should put DiGRA Illuminati on your business card.
Thanks for the perspective. Right now I am still just in the experimental phase of building things and even an early beta is 6 months out for my project. Like you said there definitely are a bunch of useful tools on AWS. This article definitely convinced me to actually spin up an AWS instance and see how well it works before just going with Linode or DigitalOcean.
I agree, mine is a naive forecast. But something tells me that users/markets don't like to be kept walled: they slowly but surely migrate to the better alternative (I guess we must thank hipsters for leading). It seems that the better alternative disrupts b/c it offers true value, real improvement. Then it grows like crazy, then it gets greedy and tries to hold the mass...but the mass is like sand.
You just need such a interpretation for 16 bits, that swapping one out of 16 bits will be able to generate any number 0-15 for x % 16. Trivial really.
"I'd say there's a lot of stuff more promising [...] but they would have been boring even if they'd worked out." - so which is it?

That's kind of my point, we have a bunch of ideas that are more likely to succeed, but anything that would be boring even if they'd worked out aren't really promising in the "can it result in a meaningful impact" sense; and there seems to be a lack of experimental ideas that are within our grasp and could potentially reveal something interesting instead of just re-confirming thins that we're almost certain about.
I used to worry that all this data could be used to track us, but then I realized how inefficient the government is.
Depends on who you are:) We number them with a -01 suffix, and they also have a client name prefix, but each cluster will often have 20-30 servers. Plus it's easy to enable bash auto-complete for ssh/ping/scp based on your known hosts file.
No - with current policies you are only letting in people with very highly paid jobs.

It's like claiming that flying first class makes people hungry for success - because everybody that arrives by first class is rich
Yeah but why Ruby? It's what shell scripting has been invented for :)

While I admit many looong shell monstrosities are better implemented in something like Ruby, and I myself use Ruby as a scripting language of choice for anything longer that a one screen of text, this time looks like it's kind of - excuse my language - overrubyism. I understand there's a tendency of rewriting everytning in The One Beloved Language and I'm a victim of this approach myself occasionally. But seriously, this could be a shell few-liner!

Anyway thanks for advertising the idea of ssh -R tunnels, they are a neat trick!
We got an iPad for my SO's mom for her birthday. She was skeptical at first, but she loves it.

What are the cooking apps you're going to recommend?
For reference: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003515
but it's not a bubble ...
Mechanical switch can be automated, and it is automated in tons of industry, like sound mixer, airplane cockpit, etc.
Is an always encrypted IP standard part of this? I would think at this point public-private encrypted IP would be something that would be a huge selling point for companies. People will buy new hardware if they know it would make it more difficult for their communications to be collected.
I'd like to see the trivial code snippet that uses simple trig and other axis data to handle both tilt methods at any orientation.

Imagine your device is sitting face-up on your desk. The acceleration vector is pointing out the back of the screen (gravity). Now if you rotate the device 90 degrees (keeping it face up on your desk), the acceleration vector remains unchanged, pointing out the back of the screen toward the center of the Earth. Edit: it's exactly as if you never moved it. :-)

And as the device approaches this extreme, it becomes more and more difficult to use the 3rd axis to discern exactly what the user "means", especially with a noisy accelerometer.

The general problem is that the accelerometer vector needs to change in order for you to use it for control. And for each of the two tilt types the author shows, it's really easy to come up with a device orientation in which the accelerometer vector remains unchanged regardless of the amount of user tilt.

I mean, something can be done up to a point, but I think "works both ways in any orientation" is going to be tough. There might be a reason why the author has not seen any games do that. :-)
I love this quote from the video: "You can't time timing!"
I just came across it. If anyone has any experience with this, please share your thoughts.
Correct, even as a national language, the first amendment would clearly disallow a ban on usage of other languages by private citizens and media.
They would have to replace the equipment anyway
What's with all the hate for WP7? I've used a handful of devices now and they were a real treat to play with. I think it's amazing how they have re-imagined the way people should use their phones. They've been quite innovative with the OS, and even their packaged apps are kind of awesome too.

For instance, the mail and contacts apps are probably better than those on competing platforms.

Bing maps was arguably the nicest mapping app on the market until Google just released Maps 5.0 for Android.

On top of all of that, it's a treat to develop Windows Phone 7 apps, and I'm excited to see what people create.

All in all, it saddens me that you guys seem to hate on WP7 for basically no reason whatsoever, and I personally think that it's amazing what Microsoft has done to revive their mobile operating system.
Well, if you read about Apple and their relation with suppliers, they're borderline abusive and have been for decades.

I know it's business but they seem a pretty bad customer by most standards.

People don't have to interact with that side plus the public image is super polished.

TL;DR: What you're saying seems perfectly in character.
That's called inlining, unless I misunderstood you :)

Most compilers do that, for most compiled languages.
No, I mean the peaceful ones. There were both rioters and peaceful protesters being thrown in vans, so what's your point?
If they were scaled up to the size of an Enforcement Droid, there would be ample space to solve their battery capacity problem.
Very interesting, but i think it would be 1000 times better with an additional map.
They collect a significant amount of device information, even more if you have the apps instead of just browser, do tons of fingerprinting, all things I would consider gross as a personal opinion
Disney World is still highly restricted. Masks are required at all times. Park capacity is handicapped. Hotel services are limited. Ride capacity is restricted. Etc.
The Gunsmoke trend will continue as long as customers keep changing their minds about what the heck they think is important, or because the software needs more power to satisfy how the users actually work with it.

That certainly drove the early releases of MS Word, Quicken, Photoshop and others. Eventually, there's "enough" to work with (feature wise) and the milking really begins because the need to upgrade is more perceived than really needed...The last few releases of Word and Quicken certainly demonstrate this well.
I don't see that this marks a difference between 'what software does' and 'what people do'. Picasa and Photoshop both remove redeye ergo people remove redeye in both apps.

The original post seemed to be saying 'it's not the features, it's how usable they are', to which I agree wholeheartedly. I just felt that the clever title was a confusing way of saying 'usability trumps features'.

Furthermore, I'd suggest that the iPad is what makes GarageBand so usable and compelling an experience for audio newbies; it's not purely down to the software (although it's certainly excellent). My friend's kids love djay for iPad, for example, but they think my physical decks are 'lame'.
Going to disagree about the video postproduction services - there will always be a market for that even though editing tools are becoming cheaper and easier to use.

Why? How many people know how to use Adobe After Effects or Apple Motion and know how to use it well?

Not many!

Video produced by amateurs is a sure fire way to turn people away from your business. I think the demand for this will be just fine.
That would seem to be the case.