jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Pretty good execution. We recently build something pretty similar for keeping track of who was in our office and where they were (partial write-up here: http://matthewmacleod.co.uk/blog/passive-wifi-tracking.html) - strictly opt-in, but we still had to wrestle with the privacy implications.

Problem is, this is a really effective and totally passive system with great benefits. But privacy-wise, it's scary.
As I mention below, the empty lot isn't the floor. It is easy to imagine a scenario where a development provides negative impact to those who live near by. If the development has the impact of hiring people from other areas, increasing traffic to the community and eventually causing further development which leads to a loss of affordable housing, then yes, they are benefiting from that empty lot. Having nothing there isn't the bottom of the scale, it's only a measuring point.
Did you just assume 100% reliable HW+SW...

Why would you think that the parent assumes 100% reliable SW? Having SW more reliable than humans would be enough reason to replace humans with it. This does not seem impossible to me.
The same money that brought about the Bush government, which instituted most of this junk in the first place, is behind FreedomWorks.

"Freedom" for billionaires means something different than for you and me.
I don’t think the first conjecture is as iron clad as you make it out to be.
Can you please omit personal swipes from your HN comments? Your post would be fine without the "you sound bitter" bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
qml is by far the best way to create frontends. its just so good.
I'll have to disagree there. It's regarded as successful because it was all that was available. Pierre Sprey, John Boyd and Harry Hillaker envisioned a light weight, day only, radarless aircraft with no bomb hard points.

Yet the single-role F-16 was morphed into a bomb truck and was considered successful by block 70 or whatever in the late eighties. Hillaker said "if I had realized at the time that the airplane would have been used as a multimission, primarily an air-to-surface airplane as it is used now, I would have designed it differently".

So as a square in a round hole, it was made to work but it wasn't brilliant foresight or (early) development.

http://www.codeonemagazine.com/article.html?item_id=37
Agree 100% Literally all the "experts" said it was impossible to land the booster, and now it's almost routine.

Nobody else in the industry can achieve what SpaceX have done successfully 40 times.
So, they did a bradley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA
Taxing property has a massive advantage of stability and predictability for local governments. If you have a local sales tax, a neighboring jurisdiction might compete for lower tax rates; you might have a high-volume retailer close or move to the neighboring town; you might have a large business close (or get enticed to move).

I'd like my city to have a stable source of funding, so we don't have problems issuing bonds and don't have to cut school funding during a recession.
For what it’s worth, that’s not an example of the motte-and-bailey fallacy. It’s a simple denial and does sound plausible – though I agree that the sentiments expressed by both DiAngelo and the training seem similar.
To me, it’s very simple: I work and my wife works. After some maternity/paternity leave, we both need to get to work again to earn money to provide our kids with food, shelter, a future etc.

To be able to work, we need to sleep. For us to sleep, our kids and the baby needs to sleep.

So we put the baby in his own room on day three. Always had him sleep in his bed in his room. Didn’t let him sleep anywhere else (or when he fell asleep, put him in his bed). When in his room, he was there to sleep, not to play. So in short: sleep = bed = sleep = bed.

He slept on his own through the night after seven weeks, with only two half awake feedings lasting maybe 15 minutes.

Maybe in 1950 the wife was raised to not expect a career and could be up all night taking care of a crying baby, and the man could sleep and then on his own earn a living wage for the family during the day?

Maybe in 10.000 b.C. parents could be up all night taking care of a crying baby and “the village” could then take care of the baby during the day while the parents slept?

Maybe maybe maybe, but in 2021 there is almost no viable alternative apart from making sure your baby sleeps through the night sooner rather than later.
Actually, when I was on this team, I think I was the only person with a CS background. Almost everyone else was physicists and electrical engineers.
You don't understand how hard it is to gain weight when you're perpetually skinny.

You're quite right, I don't understand how that could be hard. :)

When your trying to gain weight, eating becomes a chore and it gets expensive.

I can understand the "gets expensive" part. Also, I guess if you're not actually eating things you want to eat, I could understand the "chore" part, since there's only so much health food I'd want to eat in a day. If you were really just trying to gain weight, though, you could just eat those things that you can never get enough of (whatever they are for you), and easily pack away six or eight thousand calories a day, right? You'd have to do hard labor all day, like a farmer, to burn that much off.
I meant without gambling. Obviously 25% * 25% * 25% * 25% != 100%.
Which is exactly why I love this stanza from Pope's Essay on Criticism[0]:

A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:

There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,

And drinking largely sobers us again.

Fir'd at first Sight with what the Muse imparts,

In fearless Youth we tempt the Heights of Arts,

While from the bounded Level of our Mind,

Short Views we take, nor see the lengths behind,

But more advanc'd, behold with strange Surprize

New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise!

So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,

Mount o'er the Vales, and seem to tread the Sky;

Th' Eternal Snows appear already past,

And the first Clouds and Mountains seem the last:

But those attain'd, we tremble to survey

The growing Labours of the lengthen'd Way,

Th' increasing Prospect tires our wandering Eyes,

Hills peep o'er Hills, and Alps on Alps arise!

[0]: http://poetry.eserver.org/essay-on-criticism.html
My email address and phone number get listed by google in a tonne of press releases anyway, luckily my company's servers are decent at filtering out spam
Fair enough. I was only evaluating the content of her post within the context of that post, I did not pay attention to the title of the blog itself.

I am impressed if she's making a living off of her just her blog. I'm disappointed if she's unable take care of her other responsibilities as well. I respect her for at least recognizing that as childish. I don't find any of it humorous.
Yes, you'll be shunned by polite society for praising his vegetarianism, economic policies, watercolors, or anything else he did or said. And indeed, he's a bizarre choice to cite. There are plenty of non-holocaust-causing people you could cite instead.

The NYT's criticism of SSC isn't that he expressed an idea that Murray also had, but that he name-checked Murray. (I haven't read his books so I don't have my own opinion, but I gather he's considered Problematic by some.)

It's said that great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and small minds discuss people. When you're writing for the public, you'll have all 3 kinds of readers. Journalists are very aware of this, and make sure their stories work on all 3 levels. Actually, mostly just the last 2. A journalist who has trained himself to think this way might read SSC as "blah blah agree Douglas Murray blah blah blah".

It is lame of the NYT to try to hold other publications, that are trying to discuss pure ideas, to the same constraint? Yes.
> The article's last paragraph gives the lie to the controversy that has raged in tech circles surrounding publishing Siskind's name.

>> In his first post [on Astral Codex Ten], Mr. Siskind shared his full name.

Did you actually read the post where Scott explains why? Because at that point it was impossible to keep it private. He was also forced to quit his job. The fact that he landed on his feet doesn't mean there wasn't a cost paid.
This is hardly above the nebulous drivel of the articles that popped up during the week of the flood, just dressed up with a professional veneer. It manages to sneak in a clickbait headline, and despite the promise, you don't get to find out the cause, just three contributing theories. Also, did you know dams are bad?

The terrain in these Himalayan states is rough. Steep river valleys, no flat land, and towns clinging to cliffsides. They're vulnerable to floods every day. If anything, dams alter the risk profile dramatically, increasing the impact of the rarest of floods but greatly reducing their frequency. And, they generate soot-free, low-carbon electricity from these rivers that are hardly ecological havens: they're the upper tributaries of some of the most polluted rivers on the planet.

Altering the natural environment is always a trade-off we should examine and justify. But in this instance, they add up. Without the dams, an identical flood would've resulted in at least as many casualties, and that will continue to be the case until you build even bigger dams whose reservoirs provide more cushion against freak floods, melt, and landslides, and/or until you banish people from their homes in towns that dot these deep gorges at a great socioeconomic cost.

The environmental risks are an inseparable part of the region. You can't wish the possibility of all landslides away, the glaciers can misbehave as long as they exist (and we want them to exist), and the topography and the settlement patterns will remain vulnerable to floods. Only abandonment, damming, or relocating the towns to flattened ridgelines stand a chance to improve outcomes for its people, and all of these come at high cost and involve major trade-offs.
I miss the days when it was easy to find content on Napster and later Kazaa. Today, Solseek seems to be the only p2p network that still preserves that feeling while gnutella fells more like a graveyard and torrent needs external trackers.

Is there any decentralized p2p network where it is easy to find content nowadays?
> Have you never heard of glassdoor? Blind?

Blind completely corroborates that site. If you search "Amazon pip" or just "amazon" you'll find huge numbers of posts with terrible stories. More so than other tech companies. If anything the evidence looks even stronger if you consider Glassdoor and Blind. For example, Amazon's rating is 2/5 stars, the lowest of the large tech companies by far.
You seem to think prices and wages are set in stone by the gods or ideal free markets. They're not. Healthcare is an inelastic good, people have to pay whatever it costs.

Lots of research into the cost vs. outcomes of healthcare in the US vs. other countries shows that its very wasteful. Heck there was an interview with an ex health insurance exec who admitted they created the narrative of healthcare being shitty in Canada to sway public support for privatized healthcare. I personally buy drugs that cost $1-2 in other countries, but $100+ without insurance in US. In most cases, state owned healthcare ends up being much cheaper - so perhaps a surgery that costs $200K to one person, would cost only $100K when funded by the state because they have MUCH more negotiating power. So in a sense, public healthcare makes the entire system more efficient.

If we took on your Darwinian model, then its a very simple negotiation - life-saving medicines or surgeries are worth infinity, because otherwise you die. So if you ever need either of those, the doctors will simply ask for every single dollar and asset you have in perpetuity, easy.
Further in the article it explains that communities often form around the remote dams, bringing people closer to the rivers, and increasing the body count when something like this happens.
What's next, google gets the majority of the browser market while also becoming the biggest donor of mozilla?

oops...
This article is over a month old, is no longer news, and is no longer interesting.
It is true that it is theoretically O(n) in the worst case, but in my own production deployments I have tended to find a huge skew towards selecting the most recently inserted couple of items. Here the obvious ocular caching optimization leads to O(1) time retrieval.
> the payment goes to the recipient

doesn't sound like a dating app, more like "uber for escorts"
Is “thought” even a well defined scientific term? I doubt neuroscientists write about it either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78b67l_yxUc
This is happening since a long time.
Hmm.... $99/yr for proprietary spyware or free forever and respects you as a user?
> Unless you are 100% self sufficient, you rely on space to live. Freight logistics are reliant on space (GPS), farming (GPS optimized planting and harvesting), air travel (GPS), using your phone to get directions somewhere (GPS).

Perhaps you don't recall, but we somehow managed to deliver freight, grow crops, fly planes and find our way to places long before GPS satellites were a thing.

Space-based systems may be a great convenience at times, but they're hardly essential to my life.
Not all companies can be bootstrapped, and even more shouldnt be. How would you bootstrap an oil refinery or a floating casino? I mean, maybe you could, but why not just become a person capable of taking the shortest route to your goal?

Often, the reason you cant bootstrap companies is because opportunities are time-sensitive and your competition isnt bootstrapping. Imagine trying to bootstrap an Uber competitor in Uber's market at the same time as Uber. Even if somehow you could in the absence of Uber, Uber would destroy you.
My friend who is from Woking said that southerners typically viewed everything as an eternal crisis and were always in a rush. He said it was far different moving to the Midlands, and I think it gets less panicky the further north you go.

Perhaps it's a regional condition?
I doubt that their margin is much higher than that after factoring in discounts.
> So you actually think that intentionally killing civilians to win a war is morally okay? I just don't hold that view.

Even if the civilian deaths attributed to the A-bomb where less than that of a supposed land invasion?.

WW2 saw lots of that. Think of the bombing of Dresden when the Allies whipped out the city with incendiary bombs because it was a mayor city factory (ammo, etc.).
Two external hard drives. One stays at home, the other is at my dad's house.
This is the root of the problem with contract-as-interview, as far as I can tell. It wouldn't be completely unreasonable for someone to take a few days off from their job to interview (although I wouldn't do it). But both of the points you mention are standard for creatives, at least in the US, so I don't know how many people you'd legally be able to interview.
> The government only needs to do less and society will fix itself.

And by "fix itself" you mean it will shift even more wealth from the lower 75% to the top 1% - who will step in to fill the power void.

"Money begets money, power begets power." Society is full of self-reinforcing feedback loops like that. You need a damping factor that prevents any single individual or corporation from amassing too much power.
A pretty good emulation of AmigaOS ~1.3 from the late 1980s.

This site has been around for a long time and is related to the oldskool demoscene (http://pouet.net) and chiptune music scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH7eUlri4yM).

Unfortunately, apart from the neat OS emulation, it does a rather poor job at communicating what it is about or linking to interesting samples of the art.
The Geometers Sketchpad was inspired and named after Sutherland's work, and has been around for quite a while. I remember it blowing my mind blown in the early 90's, running on the Mac.

If it hasn't already been done, it would make a lot of sense to port it to JavaScript so it runs nicely in the browser.

http://www.dynamicgeometry.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geometer%27s_Sketchpad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_interactive_geometry_so...
This is great, congratulations and thanks to everyone who's been working on this stuff!
I haven't used Groovy much, so I may be completely missing something here, but how is the elvis operator different from a simple guard in Ruby?

Based on the docs for elvis, it looks like

potentiallyFalsyValue ?: safeDefault

is exactly equivalent to

potentially_falsy_value || safe_default

in Ruby

Further, the null-safe operator seems to be the same as #try in Rails and overuse of either is probably a bit of a smell that you might be violating Tell Don't Ask
But the Internet really made some things orders of magnitude easier or faster or possible at all. But what could the advantages of having no central authority be? There are some rare scenarios like the economy of a country collapsing where being independent could be useful. Or when banks are socialized. But do these scenarios justify all the hassle? Or am I missing something? Where or when else is it advantageous?
Loading the table and chair scene caused a huge memory leak, quickly consuming 14GB of memory and then crashing Firefox.

It's still a cool demo though!
Good point! Just as @swgoof said, I posted the question to view other people's perspectives on the topic of gaining early customers. It's great to read and perceive the present mindset of our fellow HN users in regards to this topic. Thanks a lot for your comment and your time!
> as many as 15 chunks

Yes, 15 * 2048 = a 30k limit on document size
http://remote-jobs.com/
Nice suggestion - definitely (if implemented) will really help with our SEO. The thing I guess that may be a barrier is actually switching the page and keeping a javascript array or knowing where the user is (guess we can do that via the DB though).
python> 'a' * 16000

copy that to hashify, and let me know the length of the url you get.
Don't you have to have these sort of losses for the thinking to progress?

If we don't have examples of WeWorks, it's not built into the process to sus them out.

Something built on sand will ultimately collapse - and smart money shouldn't build on that particular patch of sand again (it'll find other ones).
That syntax exists in `git alias` too.
That's been my experience too and I wish more people shared it or at least valued that interaction more.
> Satellite links are orders of magnitude slower than fiber.

Minimum end-to-end latency for communications from opposite points of the earth is much lower for Starlink style LEO satellites than for fiber.
The performance tradeoff isn't as justifiable, either: most images are decompressed orders of magnitude more times than they're compressed (generally just once).
Certainly for bit players and corporate datacenters with utilization < 1% you'd expect the median server to just sit there. For larger (amazon, google, etc) players the economic incentives against idleness are just too great.
My favorite part of the Wuffs github page has to be the definition it gives for Dependent Types

> ...Dependent types are a way to implement compile-time bounds checking, but they're not the only way, and there's more to programming languages than their type systems. Wuffs does not use dependent types.

Wuffs looks really interesting! I don't think I've ever even heard of a language that is designed to only be used in an auxiliary role along side another general purpose programming language!

Edit: As pointed out below, scripting languages like Lua are used in an auxiliary role, but in a very different way! Wuffs is designed for use in the deepest most crucial parts of an app, where as scripting languages are typically GC'd and used at the very highest levels, often times by animations, game designers, or even end users!
Stellar is essentially a liquid democracy system similar to DNS. The core proof at the heart of David Mazieres paper is that in a densely interwoven graph, any set of nodes in a quorum slice reaching consensus is graph consensus. Regarding Sybil, nodes define their own trust relationships, so membership is open but not automatic.
I've run it on a dual-core Atom 1.6Ghz with 2GB of RAM on an old Thinkpad Tablet 2. It wasn't fast, but it ran. A quad-core Atom with 2GB of RAM can run Skyrim, so I would guess it would handle Visual Studio okay as long as you're not using it to compile a project the size of Windows Vista.
> I'd say that 80% of bugs I fixed while I worked on Firefox were identified by Mozillians

How much (if any) of that is due to bugs being somewhat more likely in prerelease builds, and Mozillians being much more likely to be dogfooding those?
Could IBM turn itself into a generic tech consultancy? Accenture & co. seem to be doing fine.
Glass runs the same TI hardware - and also 4.4.

For another anecdote, Galaxy Nexus also supported BT 4.0 BLE with its Broadcom chip, but Google decided it wont enable it for 4.3 release. When I've found that out, it pissed me off immensely, so I found a solution how to enable the support and posted it as a flashable .zip on xda [1]. Same was also for N7 2012 and N10. After flashing BLE worked just fine.

Google doesn't care for its old devices, nor did it cared when it shipped, Nexus line was always awesome hardware, but not fully utilized by software, which is sad from an engineers point.

[1] http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/development/mod...
The cuts were made by Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., a fascinating executive who made AmEx and IBM major players in the 80s-00s.

Most of the layoffs happened in the summer of 1993, but in all, Gerstner reduced IBMs workforce by about 100k in a couple years.

The 1993 job cuts saved IBM about $4b/yr and IBM's market cap rose from $29b in 1993 to $168b in 2002 when Gerstner retired.

If you're interested in more, I recommend the book, 'Who Says Elephants Can't Dance' - a memoir by Gerstner.
Yes, its because no other piece can take a king but a king can take all other pieces. The case for taking a king is actually quite rare!
"Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you play with them. They are so wonderful. You have these switches--if it's an even number you do this, if it's an odd number you do that--and pretty soon you can do more and more elaborate things if you are clever enough, on one machine."

Straight from the man himself. Page 79 of [PDF warning] http://buffman.net/ebooks/Richard_P_Feynman-Surely_Youre_Jok...
ISO ordering would make expressing time in AM/PM ambiguous, i.e. the format string "2:05PM".
You don't need the kernel source to do that.
I thought that children were the ones not allowed to curse :-)
My kids love it. Thank you!
I don't know what you would expect. Your advice was unsolicited and he treated it as such.

I'm more intrigued by your campaign than by the advice itself. It seemed to me that your primary goal was not to advise RMS, but to get front page HN.
Corporate America just doesn't have the stomach to fund fundamental research with a payback varying from years in the future (optimistically) to never (pessimistically).

Most corporations are completely beholden to Wall Street these days, and stock traders can't evaluate long-term research initiatives.
Interesting speculation, but this likely isn't what happened.

As others have pointed out, for a MiTM/ddos attack, the ps3 isn't a better target than anything else out there. In fact, given the amount of ps3s, it makes more sense to go after windows update and get what is likely an order of magnitude more infected windows machines.

Even if I had a ps3 (which I don't, while I wanted one about 6 months ago, the geohot incident has dissuaded me from touching new sony equipment), I wouldn't be worried.