jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I watched the whole thing and like the philosophy of the approach. Unfortunately there isn't a single demonstration of the software, nor a direct comparison between the software and other machine learning algorithms.

At one point Hawkins even says he's not going to waste time by talking about specific data sets they've applied the software to because there are too many! Then pick one! Pick the best!
How about making customers happy? How about making a personal gift more personal?

I call this baseless speculation.

It's not like you are forced to have engraving. If you want to resell it, don't engrave it. If you want the person at the receiving end of a gift card to be able to reuse the card, don't sign on the card.
Could it be that the DNS system needs to be decentralized and deregulated?
How difficult is it to implement a P2P based name lookup system?
"Green Computing: mutating lesser bits generates lesser heat."

I call BS. Can someone actually prove to me that using this language would actually non-trivially reduce power consumption?
The assumption here is that everyone wants a SmartPhone. I don't think that's true. A telephone that also does e-mail (and IM, BBM) while offering great battery life is a totally different class of device.
I don't understand why so many people on this site defend intellectual property theft. I own a small software company that suffers from piracy every day. I worked day and night without pay for more than a year to write the software that I now make my living from. And after all that hard work the thugs and criminals at The Pirate Bay and elsewhere just steal it and make money off the ads or subscriptions. IP is a central and essential part of the world order and no single thinker in the piracy movement has advanced any serious alternative - and yes, I include Lessig in this.

Maybe the loud voices in this forum just enjoy stealing other peoples work without having their own work stolen, but bogus free speech arguments and hysterics about jack boots do not justify what is at it's core an immoral act.
I finished reading this today, really enjoyable book, very insightful and often thought provoking - it's nice to hear topics from people who have differing perspectives.

Not sure what you mean by hardcore hacker though, unless you mean....most of the programmers in the book come from an era where assembly code and primitive machines were the only tools they had?
It's really handy if you need to jump back and forth between two directories with diverse paths.
If there is a recent event that makes the posting of this three year old article immediately relevant, then it eludes me.
A large part of the issue is that many major copyright owners have proven themselves to have very little regard for law or morality themselves. When the RIAA blackmails people (with very little evidence against them) and forces them to pay a few thousand dollars for a settlement or be sued into oblivion by a battalion of corporate lawyers, the masses will hardly defend the RIAA. Or when they try to write laws to spy on and censor the entire Internet for their direct gain, many people get very upset at the implications. When game publishers sell games that are so heavily DRM'd as to be difficult to play legitimately while still trivial to pirate, people shrug and get the pirated copies if they want to be able to play.

On the other hand, there have been lots of stories where creators have open discussions with pirates, without reflexively making them the enemy, and are rewarded by respect and increased sales. Pirates are people too, and many act with a higher moral compass than you might expect, though it may differ from your own.

I think it's not so much that piracy is seen as good, but that it's not as evil as some would make it out to be, and the other side makes themselves so unsymphathetic that nobody cares about them.
You'd need to strip back the casing to see the actual circuits.
I personally have had a good experience buying a LC2430E from LinuxCertified.com, which sells laptops with Linux pre-installed (for no additional fee) and, as an option, dual-booting with Windows (for an additional fee which can't be much more than the cost of a Windows license, from what I saw).

http://www.linuxcertified.com/

I mean, as long as we're doing product reviews.
This gave me a really good laugh. :)
I'm a Nature subscriber; here's some information from the paper:

> To record events occurring at subnanosecond scale, currently the most effective approach is to use a streak camera, that is, an ultrafast photodetection system that transforms the temporal profile of a light signal into a spatial profile by shearing photoelectrons perpendicularly to their direction of travel with a time-varying voltage.

It references:

Guide. to Streak Cameras http://www.hamamatsu.com/resources/pdf/sys/e_streakh.pdf (Hamamatsu Corp., Hamamatsu City, Japan, 2002)

From that PDF:

> The incident light on the photocathode is converted into a number of electrons proportional to the intensity of the light, so that these four optical pulses are converted sequentially into electrons. They then pass through a pair of accelerating electrodes, where they are accelerated and bombarded against a phosphor screen.

The paper does present a new method, but they are still using a streak camera:

> To overcome this limitation, here we present CUP (Fig. 1), which can provide 2D dynamic imaging using a streak camera without employing any mechanical or optical scanning mechanism with a single exposure.

---

I do not know anything about the topic, so I can't answer any questions. I was fascinated by the paper back in December when it was published---I'm curious to see eventual applications.
21M was built-in to the specification. I don't know the entirety of the reason, but presumably to help prevent decreasing the value of existing bitcoins for all time. (If you kept minting them, there'd always be new ones devaluing existing ones, like how the US gov't does with dollars).

Buying means you buy already-minted bitcoins. You can buy them privately or on exchanges. Then they're yours. The exchanges' role is to facilitate trading between users, and they operate at a profit (they charge you a % to buy). Basically, it'd be hard to sell your bitcoin if you didn't have exchanges. You'd be posting on craigslist or something. And people would be scamming you for the money. Stuff like that.

Anyone can mine on virtually any hardware, however due to competition, it's hard to mine profitably. You have to have specialty equipment that is both very good and very efficient (power-wise). You can mine on your own or as part of a pool, but you essentially have to 'get lucky' on your own, and it's very unlikely that'll happen. My advice is to not think about mining until you've done a lot of research and for some reason decide you want to do it. It's a bad idea for almost every non-expert at this point.
Great talk about Silicon Valley history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFSPHfZQpIQ

I watched this talk a long time ago, but I just noticed the name is Steve Blank, the "customer development" guy, and I have one of his books. That's pretty cool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Blank
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8709920 is the same story, posted 42 days ago.
This is the only idea I can think of that would work.

I'd be sure to lowercase it before hashing.
I would suggest looking for work in hospital IT. The glacial pace of change, entrenched legacy technologies and byzantine bureaucracy should provide the kind of environment you are looking for.
I can only second it. Deleting Facebook 3.5 years ago made me so, so much happier!
Any kind of race can lead to data corruption, or being very drastic, possible death if the outcome is related to any computer system with direct influence over human lives like factory automation systems.

This is why I think Rust discussions about this subject don't focus enough that the language only validates a very tiny subset of races.
No I don't, until fairly recently i was an ardent supporter of RMS and still do support him in most aspects.

> You equate this: "Having a photo or drawing does not hurt anyone" to "child pornography does not hurt anyone".

This was admittedly poorly written, however I do not believe that possession of child pornography is a victimless crime either.

> Stallman has most likely been stopped and searched multiple times crossing borders. You'd think if he was a pedo he would've been caught by now

I am not saying he is a pedophile but that doesn't make what he said any less bizarre.
Yeah, same here. This framework development frenzy seems to me like procrastination from doing actual work. 'Gee, I finally have time to do this web site I always wanted! Well, let's start with the OS my custom browser will run on!'.

Please note, that this is not a dig at this particular project. I'm sure it's nice and all but I'm never going to use it because 1) what's the chance this'll be around and maintained in 6 months time? 2) no community support, probably no way to ask questions or see other people's questions, 3) what's the chance that 1 & 2 will change in a couple of months? This line of reasoning can be applied to most of the new frameworks out there I think.
There are many languages without gender neutral pronouns.
Where do you live? In Germany, 30k a year is a half time job in tech.

I earn 59 working remote from Berlin for a company in Frankfurt.

Im deliberately staying at this firm even though I could earn more elsewhere because I've optimised expectations and flows

I work 40h a week but get it done in half. This is a good thing, for both me and the firm.
I have "Freiraum im kopf" (not sure how to translate that, read clear headspace) to think big thoughts that sometimes feed back into the company.

I find clear communication there is absolutely vital. Seeming lazy is the enemy.

I made it clear from the start I only answer mails twice a day at preset times (9:00 and 17:00), not because I am lazy but because I am disciplined and orderly.

My explanation for not interacting with chat / calls half the day is blocking decent time blocks for deep knowledge work. This is true, but not all of that knowledge work is directly for the firm in that moment.

I find project managers are problematic sometimes. Their core job is talking to people, so they want meetings to validate their existence. To that end, I time-block my calendar publicly.
I mark off all non work times so no meetings can be made by mistake in awkward times, and block off knowledge work times as busy. I also have recommended meeting times for non mission critical things like weekly roundups. Grouping these is important.

If you are low in the hierarchy you will be pushed around and your meetings will be scattered throughout the week.

I negotiated a day for research each week instead of a raise and do a quarterly presentation on whats new in the zoo

Sometimes its crunch time and I work a 80h week but this amounts to about 4 weeks a year max. Being flexible and open to this makes me seem like a team player.
If there is a crisis Im first on site. The image is important, and I make a concerted effort to make sure its seen.
Agreed. Makes more sense when you remember who owns the majority of media companies.
You are right, tipsandtrip is a relatively simple project (web + api + iphone) but I think that a similar process can be used also on larger project to build a MVP that can be launched and shown to investors. Better to have something working to show than a couple dozen of slides ;-)
Now who's describing the cops on TV? :)

I agree there are some real pricks out there -- only trying to say that lack of effort on a stolen laptop is not a good test case for laziness....
That makes more sense. Thanks for clarifying.
Definitely needs a sequel. I just like the really simple recipes. If you like the recipes check out the rest of the site.
Collecting sensitive data that were broadcast in the clear. I doubt it, but my sort of hope for a positive development from all this is a big de facto PSA (1) on data security.

EDIT: (1) Public Service Announcement, a U.S. broadcasting component/convention. In return for one's licensed use of the spectrum, one agrees to air a certain amount of "community service" type messages.
Never underestimate the greed of billable hours in an idle lawyer's hands.
Here's a personal beef describing how Google places too much emphasis on engineering and too little on the experience paying customers have with its services: Google Apps. Support is almost nonexistent for nearly anything that isn't already on their roadmap, the roadmap is set by engineering and not based on customer feedback, the deployment schedule is completely closed and updates frequently surprise domain admins & their users, billing for various services (GSAs, GAPE, Postini) is non consolidated, and various features break at regular intervals. It doesn't help that a lot of their engineering showcases in Gmail -- Labs features -- they pitch and great improvements to Gmail, but offer zero support for. This included Offline when it was in Labs.

Google is a great engineering company, but it still doesn't "get" the enterprise.
Just wondering, what's the solution to the riddle at the end? The test function sets up the input, calls the routine, and then compares its output to the desired output. There doesn't seem to be a place for error there.
A better example in realtime, https://www.ftm.nl/ move your cursor over the eye in the left top corner.
Actually that's a lie. One of her agents Wolfgang Schwarz in Vienna stated about her modeling abilities that she was the worst model he ever represented. she lacked engagement, had no energy and spoke bad english.

she was also constantly lying about her background:

"Local biographers often criticize America’s first lady for distorting some details of her life in Slovenia. Pozar’s co-author, Igor Omerza, former deputy mayor of Ljubljana and parliament member, found several reasons for harsh criticism: “Melania Trump has said and written that her father was a ‘manager’; [her father owned a shop that sold car parts in Ljubljana] and her mother a designer—this is not true; and that she graduated from the faculty of architecture—this is not true either, she never finished university and neither did her parents.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-cult-of-melania-tru...

But Paolo Zampolli turned her into some interesting business model. Not modeling though. But a EB-1 visa for what exactly?
I'm nice and deep in the Apple world (iPhone, iPad, Macbook) and I generally am very pro-Apple. However, I can whole heartedly say for anyone with an even semi-complex use case, Numbers is completely unsuitable and will actually drive you insane. Just Google "apple numbers pivot table" for an example.
I remember when a 20 megabyte hard drive was a wow item
I had this idea yesterday (and even wrote it down). Too slow I guess...
And what is the number for regular cabs?
Spaniard here. They also work quite well in Spain.
A great idea.
I'm not convinced that's a bad thing if that's the type of interaction people want.
Not sure who actually made it but the main guy in the app is pretty funny. At :30 in the video 'if life gives you lemons, like your personality for example..'
1) How common was this in PA before fracking started?

The gas company's have this data. Before any activity in my area (near the PA border in Ohio) someone came and tested my well water for contaminates. I have the report somewhere but it was basically just mineral etc. Drilling hasn't really picked up yet but I will find out if it changes or not. Then again who knows if you can trust the reports when the gas companies are funding them.
TunnelBear was acquired by McAfee last year.
Picassa? Could have open sourced it. There are a few others in the graveyard that were easily able to live on any infrastructure.
Here's the video in question:

https://twitter.com/cevansavenger/status/1346920924310867968
Most of them are far closer than I would be comfortable without a mask outside. I only take mine off when there is no one around for like 25 yards, because you never know when someone will cross paths with you and end up very much in your personal space.

You can be sure if people are this lax in a busy commercial district in public, they are just as lax when they gather with their friends and family in private, which is where the bulk of the spread happens. I wonder how many are gathering to watch football matches with booze and friends.
> Yes, when people say "There was no election fraud", it's shorthand for "no large scale election fraud".

You think the shorthand is innocuous. I think the shorthand is often a purposeful attempt at using anchoring bias.

In any case, what is large-scale? Shifting the results by only 1% in only six out of 50 states doesn't seem like much proportionally, but it's all the Democrats had to do to steal the 2020 election.
hmmm... The fact that this comment is being downvoted shakes my believe in HN. Fair statements, fraud did occur.

The fact that a standing presidents twitter account was banned is also very unamerican, no matter what he's saying.
I think intelligence has for some time already been boiled down to curve fitting, even for humans. Our current accepted definition of intelligence in schools is to get a score that is higher than the average to be considered sufficiently intelligent to proceed to the next grade.

I feel anything that we develop for AI would fundamentally always be inspired by our own experiences and hence curve fitting is something we understand to be the best metric to optimize for.
"This means that somewhere, this instance needs to be connected to a proxy server, which assigns a 10.x.x.x address to the “Windows” machine, and then forwards the connections through. Basically, world’s weirdest, most hipster ISP on the face of the earth."

I wonder if there will ever be a business case for things like this. I sit across the hall from a startup that sells mp3 gramaphones, etsy is a huge success, there are strange Kickstarter projects every day. Is nostalgia a permanent long tail phenomenon, or a fad from which people will move on?
IANAL, but you'll find that laws tend to be nuanced and written with human judgment in mind. Such efforts are at cross purposes with formalization into a software system.
View of the quarterback in football comes to mind. Not on a regular basis, but on some plays it would be incredible. I've seen it before where the quarterback was sacked from behind. The camera panned up, you could see the lights and the night sky, then rapidly came back down past the lights, the stands, the sidelines, the players and finally into the ground and dark.
Digital laws are so barbaric and unbalanced today. I'd be worried they'd find a copy of an xfiles episode in some subfolder somewhere or god knows what. All of a sudden I'm facing federal prison and fines sizeable enough to ruin my entire life just because I was being 'accused' of xyz?

I'll take the contempt of court conviction.
If you live in Australia, you can also get kangaroo in most supermarkets. They're taken from the wild and killed with a high-powered rifle shot to the head (plus they're a native animal == less enivronmental damage) so they're about as guilt-free as you can get and still be eating meat.
> The point of the story is that not everyone can do a Vegan diet and still be healthy.

When you hear a story about how some substance 'cured cancer' do you instantly conclude that the claims are necessarily correct - even for the cured person in the story? Would you expect the story to become popular on HN? The problem with one-off anecdotes like this is that they don't even conclusively demonstrate anything.

> I sometimes wonder if Vegans worry about Lions on the savannah eating antelope.

Dude that is a really ignorant and insulting thing to say.

> Humans are Omnivores. We are built to get nutrients from both meat and plantlife.

And here you demonstrate your limited grasp of evolution which a resort to a naturalistic fallacy.

> Our metabolisms work best when we eat both in moderation.

Actually the research demonstrates otherwise.

> A Vegan lifestyle makes it harder to eat healthy not easier

That is trivially true in a society where adding animal products to many foods is routine. If even 20% of the population was vegan it would be trivial to follow a vegan diet.
It's slightly more nuanced, arguing that referring to such scenarios as genocide lessens the impact of the term for the more murderous forms of genocide.

I don't agree with that viewpoint at all. Both forms are vehemently barbarous, and the world has enough problems with genocide denialism that engaging in technical arguments over the definition is only going to give more cover to denialists.
Notion is anything but "always available". There's no offline first mode available as of yet and within last 2 months alone there have 2-3 incidents of downtime.
At the time they were the best production engines in the world. General Electric originally was competing with the Pratt and Whitney engine F-135, called the F-136 but that was since canceled. However they're is the GE Adaptive Cycle Engine that has since been developed which produces greater thrust while having the ability to also achieve greater fuel efficiency for greater range by changing it's characteristics.
Exactly this. Being able to stay sane, levelheaded, and get necessary things done is probably far more impactful than sleep methodologies, baby wearing, breast versus formula fed, or any of the thousand of analysis paralysis inducing choices that parents have to make.
AFAICT from the way that China's diplomats engage with Canada, they don't seem to understand how Canada operates. While the PMO is powerful, it's not able to dictate how the judiciary operates or pass legislation without house/senate approval.

OIC notwithstanding, I guess. ;)
The Federal Reserve is a private company.
> You could take the entire defense budget, and the defense budget from every other country in the world, and you would be less than 50% of the funding you would need for a single year of Medicare for all.

How in the world to other countries pay for Healthcare?

The USA has tax revenue per capita very similar to New Zealand, the UK, Italy and Canada - all of which have good Healthcare for all. [1]

The USA has more than double the tax revenue per capita than South Korea, which also has good healthcare.

It's not about the cost, it's about how the USA is choosing to spend it's tax dollars.

[1] https://countryeconomy.com/taxes/tax-revenue
I would argue that if Microsoft was serious about not supporting IE11 they would stop shipping it with Windows 10. Until they do a lot of corporations will continue to use it and have it set as the default browser for their employees.
'Printing money' is, in the context of the Fed, a metaphor for incrementing numbers on bank computers.
...did you happen to go to NC State? Just wondering if you took the same class I was supposed to take (placed out after a night of cramming on excel, having never used it before)
I often think, it would be cool to have a 50% job as developer. I would make enough money to live and had plenty of time to do what I want.

But somehow those 50% jobs are only available in industries where 50% don't pay for a living...

I tried it with freelancing once, but I felt the overhead eradicated the benefits :\
No clue, I guess quality/luck? Missive was featured multiple times in 2017-2018.

We had no web fame, Missive wasn't popular and it was a JavaScript app, let's say we were really surprised too.

At the end of the day, most of the users we got from those features, weren't really good fit. But it was good for our confidence.
They literally found tons of new races conditions in c++ and 2 in the rust code with their tool. And you want to act as if that little factoid makes rust useless somehow. Anyone who thinks a language is flawless is not thinking correctly and that includes rust. However it does a much better job at this than C/C++ yet somehow you twisted that into declaring rust as useless.