jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
One reason I've been hesitant to use Evernote is that I don't want to put a lot of valuable information into a service that could easily disappear. I'd actually be more comfortable with Evernote if they charged more because then I'd believe they were actually covering their costs and making a profit.
I think your heroku instance is dying under the traffic :P
Yup. I'm gonna crank it up for a short bit then see if I can scale it down to not end up with a $500 bill at the end of the month. :)
Go back far enough and everything boils down to "something from nothing" or "something was always there". Both options violate everything in cause-and-effect.

We either don't exist - demonstrably false - or the universe's start doesn't necessarily abide by cause-and-effect as we humans understand it.
The Chrome team doesn't fully work in public either. For example, Crankshaft was developed in secret and then dumped into the bleeding-edge branch on the day it was announced.
The really interesting thing is how long they let this play without any kind of clarification at all. This ran for 24 hours before Yahoo jumped on this. I think you're probably right, surely if they meant to sell this then the response would have been far quicker? Letting this sit out there as a dead service for 24 hours doesn't do a lot for valuations.

Which does raise an interesting question: why the hell would you just shut the thing down and not even attempt to sell it?
Some are (on top, anyway), some aren't. There aren't many other big black snakes in North America. They also have that big triangular viper head and that bright white mouth I hear they like to flash at you as a warning before they strike. (I've never lived in a cottonmouth area, so I don't have any personal experience with them.)
> My experience is that it takes at least 6 months to reach the “performing” level, and sometimes much more. If staff switch teams more often than that, teams never reach their full potential.

On one hand, I agree with this, as I have been moved quickly between projects in the past, when I was more needed elsewhere. It helped to keep things interesting but I would have liked more stability.

On the other hand, there is a risk that people get stuck in one place for a while with no mobility, working on something they don’t like. I have seen this as well. Good people weren’t allowed to move, so they quit. As the team was shrinking, the others had to stay. Needless to say that morale was poor.

There is a fine line between the two.
First I've heard of it!
COVID epidemic is not a social crisis, but you certainly can spin it as one.
But the engineers at FB do need to be able to write sorting algorithms from scratch rather than just have knowledge of sorting. The reason is that the engineers have to be reasonably fungible so that they can be easily moved between projects as projects are started and stopped. So they could easily be tomorrow thrown into an environment where a sorting algorithm is needed, they are the ones responsible (so they'll need to build it, not just have a high-level idea of how to do it), and at FB scale every bit of squandered efficiency is very expensive (if their photo search algorithm, let's say, takes 5% more memory than it needs to, that will end up costing the company much more than their salary).
"to think about a problem in a broader context" << this
Pretty much. Nortel Guangzhou had bamboo ceiling on (mainland) Chinese management roles in the late 90s even foreign nationals, i.e. (mainland) Chinese Canadians. Big surprise when entire engineering teams got poached by ZTE and Huawei. Pretty consistent complaints from other industries. Emphasis on mainland because it didn't apply to Taiwan / HK / SK / Singapore expats. I think institutional inertia and seniority played a big part, but didn't sit well with people being blocked.
CSPAN reporting "The National Association of Manufacturers just asked Mike Pence to 'seriously consider' invoking the 25th amendment", which would remove Trump from effective control as President.

Quoting a tweet by Sam Mintz

https://nitter.net/samjmintz/status/1346931121423077376#m

https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FErFCshI
I learned Pascal when I was in my teens (not my first language, but the first "serious" one after Basic and LOGO) so to me it's always associated with my childish hacking attempts and very bad code IN ALL CAPS.

I remember a couple of my friends bought a C book and their code looked so cryptic and weird in comparison, so I didn't bother learning it, and then I kinda lost interest for a few years before picking up more serious programming in my 20s. In the mid-late nineties everyone was doing C++ and Java, so I never got back to Pascal. I had some good fun with it for a few years.
There are other apps that allow you to stream your local music if that's what you want to do (AllCast, BubbleUPnP, etc).

But I've always wondered about this argument - Why wouldn't you put your local music library on Google music? It's free and means you've got access to your library everywhere. I could understand before they had matching that uploading 100+GB of music is probably not desirable, but it now even big libraries are fully uploaded in a day or so.
Comprising 20 percent of the public and 0.2 percent of Congress, it seems atheists are the least proportional represented group of all minorities.
Well in the US, look at the top 20 cities for developers - a simple Google search and then go to salary.com. That range is average.

As far “bog standard”, I’m referring to a CRUD developer doing “enterprise software” that may never see the light of day outside of the company or your yet another software as a service developer. They don’t spend all day worrying about “computer science” and algorithms and they don’t spend time worrying about the complexity of reversing a b-tree on a whiteboard.
> greatest strength of the current implementation is that it has 0 (well ok, very little) explicit state

I don't think that's the greatest strength. I think the greatest strength is how easy it is to get started using it and hooking it to personal tools. Whether it has or doesn't have an internal explicit state is totally irrelevant (to me anyway).
> Not really.

You don’t think people call things ‘fake news’ just because they disagree with it?

Calling things fake news is a common type of fake news these days!
But what did the court confirm?

In a more practical context I was in CENTCOM supporting troops in Syria when news of complete withdraw stunned the world via Twitter. The military did not act on a tweet. No formal change in policy in the government occurs via tweet.

In a more clear example remember back when Trump ordered, via tweet, the military will ban all transgender persons from military service? The military ignored that tweet without repercussion.
I meant, it's not exactly unprecedented for them to invade. I know they do a lot of the other stuff too.
>The potential lying from Google is also done by individuals who have no obligations to tell the truth.

They're representing the company in their official capacities, and as such the company will bear any consequences. There can also be individual sanctions, such as happened with Elon Musk who is now individually forbidden from being CEO because of a tweet he made.

> In my observation the more common scenarios are that the company and employees either fully get away with blatant lies

Then you're not paying attention. Public companies lying to shareholders open themselves up to massive liability, including SEC action and civil suits from those shareholders.
It's a planck style keyboard, you can find out more here https://olkb.com/planck
What do you know, that's exactly how I do local development work for the cluster ;) https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-dramble/tree/mas...
They should add SA to the banned countries list for ISP's, banks, hosting, etc seize all known funds in USA banks, end all sales, all business, etc... Saudia Arabia will be begging for water in ten years, with climate change impacts.

Make them the "new" Iran in terms of business dealings with America. All shares that Saudi Prince owns in America companies becomes owned by the Government and is auctioned off.
FaceID is great for me (and my aging parents), but not for some use cases (wearing masks, or starting usage while in pocket).

I could really get behind having both (esp if I could combined).
Swift has had ‘guard’ statements since 2015, and it’s the biggest thing I miss when programming in Rust:

guard let x = ... else {
// must not fall through, so a return, break, throw, non-returning function call, etc. is required
}
// do something with x
Could it apply to online retailers like Amazon, too?
Germany, and Europe as a whole, have lower rates, but over 160 million people live in European countries with higher per capita death rates than the US, specifically:

Gibraltar
San Marino
Belgium
Czechia
Slovenia
UK
Italy
Portugal
Montenegro

(from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/)

And, do you really think that Belgium has all of whatever bad characteristics you like to apply to the US government? Or is it maybe more a consequence of being a small and densely populated area that people travel a lot to and from, like NYC? It's not as simple as good policy response meaning lower deaths.
"Microsoft wasn't abusing it's monopoly. You could just use Linux!"

BS.
> There is no excuse for driving faster than you can react to the car in front of you coming to a full stop. None at all.

The other reply aludes to this, but it's very simple

The easiest way to cause an accident is to behave in an unexpected way

Leave a gap when no one else is? People will cut into the gap and put you and others at risk.

Brake early to increase the space you have? People not paying attention will rear end you expecting you to have braked later.

Drive slower than most traffic to give yourself more reaction time? People will pass you unsafely, and you again run the risk of being rear ended since going slower than people expect is a similar outcome to them coming across an unexpected obstacle.

That's why we see fully autonomous vehicles getting in so many not-at-fault accidents. The most experienced drivers realize there are a lot of unspoken conventions that, for better or worse, people rely on to get from place to place.

Sometimes those backfire like in that pile up, but this isn't really something you fix by being the only person doing otherwise.

You'll quickly find that you're putting yourself at the mercy of other drivers (and yes you won't be at fault, but not being at fault never saved someone in an ICU)
This is what I was looking out for. Thanks a Ton.
The patient management app at my dad's office is all Flash. There goes any chance of iPad adoption.
He's right about long form articles. It's more like using a planet than posting messages to twitter
In terms of GDP per capita, South Korea is closest to Italy out of any European country, which HN readers might feel more familiar with.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_...
Trolling aside, how would one of the others live by their philosophy? What evidence do you have that they did other than hero worship?
Not Safe for Children according to who? And how do you define children?
"My personal guess is that we’ll achieve Full Self-Driving this year at a safety level significantly greater than a person."

Is this even remotely possible?
They specifically say "My main activity was to stay up to date on events". Which seems to be a significant portion of FB users - Events seem to be/have been its most important feature for a lot of people. As someone who has never once used that feature, that was a surprising thing to learn for me.
> It's advised to use not the cheapest hoster here, because any little outage directly affects every site that implements your tracking technology.

I guess it depends on how essential your tracking is, and how you've implemented it. It shouldn't be added in a way that can take out your site unless there is some business critical reason to track.

Then I'd ask, just how critical is the tracking? If losing a few hours of data is going to throw off your product development, do you have enough data to be making decisions? My experience is that bugs and misconfiguration of experiments is common in most orgs, so even if the system is up to capture all data, product managers check an experiment a week later to find they have only 50% of the data.
Constructive comment first: as a piece of music/art, I find this quite enjoyable to listen to!

> "In a state of frustration, they don't look for a 'middle,' but ignore one of the inputs. This is a critical phenomenon that is changing the dynamics of the network. Human networks are able to change their inner structure in order to reach a better solution than what's possible in existing models."

This may be true of trained musicians (who have to deal with this kind of thing in ensemble playing. I'm reminded of when I've volunteered in less experienced or youth orchestras), but I would be careful to extrapolate or expect similar results in other human systems.

My biggest gripe here is that I find it incredibly distracting when videos of string players do not sync the video to the sound they produced. You can easily notice it when a single violinist changes bow direction and the sound doesn't change. In a study and art piece about synchronization, syncing video to audio is pretty crucial!
For sure, China does awful things to many of its citizens.

But for an American, China doesn't have the ability to do any of that stuff. Nor are they likely to have any reason to care about my actions. While on the other hand, the USA has direct powers over me, and is likely to care more because I'm here.

So sure, China and the CCP are evil, probably much more evil than the US government. But even at that, the danger they pose to a typical US citizen is much less than that of their own government. So it's rational prefer, say, a Chinese-made phone to a US-made one.
I submitted this a few days ago without any traction: https://joanielemercier.com/the-problem-of-cryptoart/

Honestly I can’t do anything but shake my head in disapproval about crypto-art (and crypto currency in general) when it involves wasting so much energy.
I actually use QBasic in Dosbox. It works and you can find a ton of old tutorials and books.

You can find the MSDos images you need on archive.org.
On the stability point, walking/hiking sticks work well as a monopod. Some commercial sticks have threading to mount a camera.

I used one similar to this on my honeymoon: https://www.rei.com/product/155737/mountainsmith-trekker-fx-...
> prices where capped by regulators

Not true.

Early in the crisis so much generation capacity went offline that there was no way that that it could meet all of the price-insensitive demand (most consumers pay a fixed price, regardless of wholesale prices). If you attempt to run the grid when demand exceeds supply it will damage generators, making the problem worse. To avoid that, regulators shut off power to people who still had a working connection to the grid and would have been happy to consume power at their contracted rates.

As generation came back online, prices dropped quite low because demand was artificially constrained. The regulators then overrode the market and set the price to the maximum allowed by the system to encourage all generators to come online, which would then allow them to start turning people's power back on.
I found a comment from me speculating on how such a spreadsheet be set-up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12294472

I can't find any evidence of actual spreadsheets. They probably would have been setup by each programmer for their liking and maybe shared between programmers on the private sony sdk message board.

Or maybe I have an overactive imagination.

But I have heard is that the leaked Playstation 2 SDK from 2005 does contain a windows program called "VUEditor.exe". It's a custom IDE for writing VU assembly and it kind of acts more like a spreadsheet than a text editor, allowing the programmer to shift highlighted columns of instructions up and down.

It does show stalls and highlight issues. I couldn't find any screenshots, but one could find the sdk and try it out if they wanted.
This is a misunderstanding due to a mix-up of terminology.

In power distribution "high voltage" means >50-100 kV. Extra high voltage is everything >200 kV. Low voltage is everything below <50 kV.

Low voltage is what is delivered to neighbourhoods and then stepped down to the end user voltages (230 / 400 V). The power lines that run in streets are never high voltage in the sense utilities use that word.
I don’t know what it means for kids to be free nowadays. Free to visit a friend’s home seems like the only thing, because everything else is a home that’s an anonymous unit or a commercial establishment that’s gated by money.

It’s not like you’re releasing your child to be raised by the experiences of the village.

With that in mind, many parents are probably struggling to not have their kids consumed by the web during free time, esp during COVID lockdowns.
>> although you indirectly rely on Google for example

huh? how do you figure that?
Just in case you miss it, pauldisneyiv's pointed out that they're by EvoX: http://www.evoximages.com.
From the FAQ:

To make it less useful for snoops, the spatial and temporal accuracy of the data has been artificially reduced. You can only animate week-by-week even though the data is timed to the second, and if you zoom in you’ll see the points are constrained to a grid, so your exact location is not revealed. The underlying database has no such constraints, unfortunately.
You're welcome:

http://bbb.poseur.com/post/4777454362/the-last-year-or-so-of...
Yes, you could have them vote and then give them the opportunity to sign up. Store a cookie or something so they can only get one vote as an unregistered user. Of course, this could be hacked, but you could put in provisions to check for multiple votes from the same unregistered user's IP, etc.
"Trusted entities, like the governments"

comedy gold right there...
Obligatory Snopes link:

http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/420.asp
The API is a key point many people miss when they think of early DigitalOcean as just another VPS host.
What do you use to provide this?
> You're turning "fuck you, got mine" into a virtue.

Can you explain how?

I’m not turning anything into a virtue.

I’m just stating the fact that the deal has been the same for everyone.

You seem to be trying to change the deal to make it even more onerous to own property.

> government reducing their taxes so other people can pay them

That just isn’t what you are saying. Prop 13 doesn’t reduce people’s taxes.

It only limits the rate at which they can be increased.

You want taxes on existing property owners to be increased so they can no longer afford to live there, and can be replaced by people who have more money.
Size and weight would definitely need to be consider by component manufacturers, but it doesn't seem like that big of a problem when it comes to standardizing a laptop chassis.

Heat and noise are definitely bigger concerns since a compact laptop cannot rely on large radiators, fans, and liquid cooling loops for cooling. But if you standardize the screw holes and socket positions on motherboards and graphics cards, I see no reason why a chassis couldn't ship with their own case-specific cooling solutions which leverage heat pipes and low-profile fans to provide cooling. Processor locations are already pretty consistent on desktop motherboards and graphics cards, so this wouldn't be something particularly new.
By 2022 they may feel enough of the competition pressure from Starlink to abandon that idea. Hopefully yours and every other ISP out there.
That was Boeing's approach for safety on 737 MAX.
That's why you cut them down and build stuff out of them!

But, yes, in time we can probably build something more efficient.
It is tax detectable to donate directly to a public government, if you feel uncomfortable about it.
The article states that "none of the special lending programs has lost money," implying that they were all loans, and are all being paid back.

Bernanke and co deserve huge credit for sticking to their guns throughout the crisis, despite criticism from all sides and the inauguration of a new president.
It's pretty easy to complain. When a group which operates with power granted to it by law but is uncontrolled by the public and which operates in great secrecy from the public starts giving special deals to private companies, it brings up a few concerns, including things like equal protection and governmental favors. Would a smaller motorcycle company have been given loans in critical times? Would a motorcycle company that didn't have political ties or which had certain political enemies have been given that loan?
For those who want a downloadable version, youtube-dl can pull it from SoundCloud:

https://soundcloud.com/this-american-life/544-batman
If the press release is true, these guys are going away for a long time. They allegedly bribed the owner of a US bank with cash and allegedly purchased 30% of the bank in exchange for the bank allowing them to circumvent US money laundering and anti-gambling laws.

There's a lot of civil liberty discussion in this thread, but I think this is actually a fascinating story about the linkage points between the internet and the real world -- in the real world, these guys needed bank processing. To get it, they went way, way over the line, as did the Bank owner.
>I'm not good at conspirology, sorry. Not going to debate it.

great, as it has nothing do to with my posts.

>Their public relations are largely done by women,

again, who mans theirs PR or kitchen or accounting has nothing to do with my posts.

You've brought in unrelated themes. The onus is on you to show how they are related, if any, to the original discussion theme.
If almost 50% of the users managed to crash the GUI with routine tasks in the span of a single hour, that's a sure sign that it isn't ready for prime-time yet, regardless of what anybody's opinions on features or functionality are.

I personally think this is almost definitely going to end up as another Pulseaudo-style debacle that'll jade even more Ubuntu users. This kind of stuff is exactly why I never recommend Linux to friends, even though I personally use it on my day-to-day machine: because it's just not (crashwise) stable enough for Grandma, and Shuttleworth has a very bad habit of making his end-users his beta-testers. Grandma isn't going to loyally log in to Launchpad, report a bug and reboot; she's going to complain to me, and then I'm going to reinstall Windows 7, which for all its faults at least doesn't crash once every two hours.
The most surprising thing to me was that the language choice rather than the application architecture is what's blamed (in the excerpt) for only being able to serve 10 reqs/sec.
There are ways to generate such returns if you fund illegal activities (being separated from them by an intermediary) – not necessarily drugs/firearms – stealing government funds (kickbacks, abusing authority, etc.) works even better.
Machine language, then. Assembler is compiled, too.
I suspect that anyone confident enough in the Bitcoin economy to invest that amount of money is not looking to cash out quickly. They may be gambling that Bitcoin becomes a commonly-used internet currency, in which case they stand to gain a lot of money in the long term.

edit: Ah, I see your point. You said "redeem back to cash". Yes, that probably wouldn't work in an economy only worth a few million :)
And yet, the FBI forgot to shut down pokerstars.net, the one they advertise on TV.
> so long as we balance the long term cost in future maintenance/extension work against the short term gain.

There is no "long term" unless the short term system survives.

Anything that ships is better than the best thing that didn't ship.