jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Had we known each other, I'd have been one of those friends who might have said "gun them all down".

But ... to whatever extent I really meant that (and I really don't know what that extent is, though I do know that the sight of the confederate flag inside the US Capitol made my blood boil) ... I didn't do that. I didn't order anyone to do that. I didn't encourage anyone to do that. I didn't even go on social media and suggest it.

Meanwhile, while I was feeling whatever I was feeling, two pipe bombs were carried into the Capitol building. Windows were smashed, offices ramsacked, and there may (just may for now) have been much more serious intent on the part of some of those who got in (reports about plans to abduct various members of congress, not sufficiently confirmed yet).

So please, let's stop with the whataboutisms and the both-sides-do-it nonsense. Yes, there's blame for most things in this country to be distributed across both political parties. But equating some of our angry, privately voiced feelings about a violent attack on the US Capitol with ... a violent attack on the US Capitol ... just seems nonsensical to me.
It's not really. You can disagree with something but still not be responsible for it and carry it on your properties. You can also disagree with it and not carry it.

I can even prove it.

That's how it works. Right. Now.
Science is a never ending series of incorrect observations, each disqualifying the penultimate while asserting the ultimate is axiomatic.

When you're young you get excited each time a new breakthrough is happening. If you manage to grow up, you get tired of the pattern, and the signal to noise ratio starts to look like a good statistical P value.
The equity is preposterously low for an early stage startup. Even if the company were incredibly successful and ended up being worth $100 million (unlikely) and your equity wasn't diluted at all (unlikely), your equity would only be worth $50k.
That would be symmetric, but no, it's not the case. Most of the SO questions are of a more naive character. ("I got this error message, what do I do?")
So for a trillion dollars, you wouldn't kill someone, only restrict them to living inside a stationary computer for eternity without their consent.
Language and syntax are not the same thing. You don't have exceptions to rules in programming languages like you do natural languages. That's the difference but in a more complex way. Through natural language, there are simply more intricate and accurate ways of describing things, than in a procedural or methodical object-oriented syntactical manner.
I wish it worked like that. That way you wouldn't have to wait for a developer to enable copy/paste in the app, it would be there by default.
One should keep in mind that there's a kernel of truth in all stereotypes. Even if that kernel represents only a small minority, that wildly different minority is what people remember.

I used to go to "gaming" stores 15 years ago to play tabletop wargames, collectible card games, board games, etc. You'd have the dads who just treat it as a fun hobby and are "normal", but you did have the occasional unwashed, overweight individual with a shabby graphic t-shirt. I briefly played a Star Wars CCG for its mechanics, but there were die hard Star Wars fans who would go on for minutes on random bit characters.

My friend works for BioWare as a creative writer. We both love our video games. Mine are cleverly concealed behind a veneer of mid-century and contemporary modern furniture so you don't know they exist. He has a 10-foot screen and front projection setup with a 1kW surround sound setup that he has no intention on tidying up. I only play about 5 hours of games a week now. He still can play for 30 hours a week on a regular basis.

I played World of Warcraft for 5 years. I ran and participated in some very hardcore groups including former FoHers and had several friends in a world Top 25 guild. I prefer a computer to be compact and dead silent, whereas some of my comrades feel a large box with a 600W power draw and sounds like a jet engine is perfectly normal. One was a big DIYer and a very sharp guy... but you'd swear he subsists solely on CLIF bars. I remember getting called out by him for stepping away to finish a proper meal.

I have a few Miyazaki films, but I've known anime fans that have no qualms about having rather vulgar figurines of female characters in skimpy clothing, walls covered in posters, etc. And they're going on 30.

I had a friend who collected DEC hardware. He honestly has a working MicroVAX cluster running on DECnet, three DEC Alphaservers, amongst other things running in his apartment. Probably a dozen operational computers, running 24x7.

I could go on and on. R/C cars. Model trains. Slot cars. Operating systems. In every group, you had always individuals that took it to an extreme, and boy do they stand out. Because they stand out, that's who and what is remembered.
It's written by a woman, See http://mikkipedia.net/?page_id=156
Hmmm... and why wasn't the "pay a gig in front of x number of people each who pay $5" included as how I understand things, that's how most artists make their money.
MO has become specialized in combinatorics, graph theory, and algebra; if you didn't go deep in these areas you may feel at a loss. But additionally, the level of formality and carefulness in discourse is considerably higher than SO or HN. It's more reminiscent of LTU.
You sound like a bitter ex-employee. Why would you ever waste your energy on trashing a former employer? Go build something else - it's a much better use of your time.
Looking at the sample, I agree with you. Condensed ≠ easy to understand. Honestly, a lot of the graduate texts I deal with look easier to understand. In my opinion, every single concept should be introduced with physical analogies if one wishes a reader with no maturity in the subject to actually understand. Then again if the author is going for "no-bullshit" this could serve as a good reference for someone who just needs a quick easy to understand reference.
I do think your statement is the philosophical equivalent of 'we can't be sure the sun will rise tomorrow', except that it differs by degree. (The sun has risen thousands of times in my personal experience, and bazillions of times in the experience of humans, while only a handful of fundamental physics discoveries have been made.) In either case, it's a question of justifying the claim that "In situations of type A, X has always been true in the past. Therefore, in situations of type A in the future, X will be true".

Likewise your simple statement that "the current zoo of particles may well all be fundamental, with no 'simpler' theory underlying them." is analogous to "the sun will collapse into a black hole tomorrow". Again, just a difference of degree.

[I should stress here that the justification for empiricism is an age-old philosophical problem which isn't easy to understand, much less solve. However, I think that a proper understanding of the history of physics gives very convincing (though maybe not the-sun-will-rise convincing) evidence that simplicity and beauty will be found at the bottom of the particle zoo.]

I don't understand what the true statement

>If there really is to be a scientific breakthrough of the magnitude of a Newton, it seems likely (almost by definition) that it will be from an unexpected avenue of thought - seeing that the expected ones have been well researched and haven't been all that productive.

has to do with our current discussion.

Lastly, (basically) no career particle physicist think that any Nobel prizes will be awarded for a unifying theory in their lifetime. (See, for instance, http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=2998). Perhaps, if we're lucky, there will be a somewhat simplifying theory (which gets a Nobel prize) but that certainly couldn't come from the dominant research avenue, string theory.
Could you elaborate?? I can barely conclude anything from your comment.
IIRC, Two of those Tuskegee pilots were among the very few Allied pilots to down Nazi jet fighters. From hearing their own accounts on Dogfights, the Tuskegee pilots were exceptionally good at spotting, taking, and hitting opportunistic shots. They were flying early versions of the P-51 Mustang. Downing jet fighters that totally outclass your prop plane because you can recognize an opportunity and take it -- I find that awesome!
It doesn't consume all that much CPU, though it is possible to saturate it. The trick is to take advantage of the smooth scaling model: you an add memcached nodes until you run out of nodes. The clients have a list of nodes as part of their configuration, and the client runs the hashing function, which includes mapping the entry into the proper node.

So the only real overhead that each node has to deal with is serialization.

It's very simple, so it works very well. :)
There is no sense of competition anymore in this society, with yourself or others. Everyone just wants to blend into to previously considered notions of normality.
Unfortunately these same ADHD types can't seem to read the webpage they're ordering from.

This is a constant among all customers, everywhere. Even English teachers have the literacy sucked straight out of their eyeballs. Trust me.

(There are also pervasive trust issues, such that folks will ask me to confirm whether the three places in bold that say "Every card will be different" means that every card will be different or will every card be the same instead because that would be very inconvenient if it were true.)

Incidentally, something I have learned about customer psychology: no promise is so binding as the one the customer imagines you made them.
i think that the chip also suits the ARM architecture without changes.
My server is having problems.
Discovering new physics doesn't move us away from a unified theory, it just means we were wrong about how much farther we have to go.
> I don't think there's nothing that technically exciting about this. 100k/month is one page view every 25sec average.

The numbers aren't meant to be brag or impress anyone. It's just an example showing real numbers based on my current site's traffic.

I wrote it because over the past year at least 40 people have asked me how I host my site and what the process looks like to build it. Now when I get future emails, tweets or Youtube comments I have a place to link folks instead of having to wing a half-assed individual response.

Also in a world where everyone thinks you need a multi-galaxy hyper inverted Kubernetes cluster with DeepMind-level AI to auto-scale to infinity I think it's a breath of fresh air to know you don't need to do that to host a lot of different types of content.
What frequency of sending GET requests to the servers of HN is an acceptable rate for a bot? I tried to look for an answer on this but didn't find any.

In the past I got the IP of my server banned from accessing HN for sending too many requests in too short of a time span. I found the unban interface that you provide, lowered the request rate of my crawler and tried again but was still sending too many requests in a limited amount of time and got the IP of my server banned again. If I recall correctly, I got it unbanned a third time and lowered the request rate even more but then got banned again and then I think it would not allow automatic unbanning.

Don't remember if I just gave up at that point or if I sent an email about it, or if I just waited some amount of time if there was a statement about how long I would have to wait before being able to use the unban interface for the IP of my server again.

Anyway, an official answer about the acceptable request rate would be nice. Perhaps put it in the FAQ?

Also, if people doing automated GET requests were to create a unique UA string for their scrapers that include a way for HN staff to get in touch, like for example (but with actual names of bot and site)

Examplebot/0.95 (+http://www.example.com/bot.html)

where the page on that URL would list an e-mail address for getting in touch, as well as having a statement about how to verify that a given crawler belongs to that service, would that help in not getting server IP banned automatically?
It looks like the disruptor doesn't like being disrupted. While Jannard is taking years to get Scarlet right, his "worse is better" competitors Canon, Nikon, and Panasonic are eating his market out from under him.

Here's Jannard's original rant: http://reduser.net/forum/showpost.php?p=615431&postcount...

Commentary from a prominent DSLR cinematographer: http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/2010/06/17/hddslr-vs-red-has-...

A technical discussion about "line skipping" vs. "binning" (averaging): http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=3871...
But the point is that it is an outlier. Most people interviewing with a start-up aren't interviewing with the next Facebook. Even if they are, paying single-digit employees who are not founders in equity isn't nearly as common as it used to be IME.
People will get used to it.[1]

In a generation, going to see an internal combustion engine vehicle may be like going to see a steam locomotive.

Here's the biggest steam locomotive, restored by Union Pacific, the Big Boy.[2] Behind it is a run-of-the-mill Diesel-electric from about 2005, an EMD SD70ACe. It's there for backup, in case the steam engine fails. It has considerably more tractive effort than the Big Boy. The steam locomotive needs substantial daily maintenance. The Diesel needs to go into the shop once every six months.

[1] https://qz.com/232833/this-is-the-sound-of-electric-cars-rac...
[2] https://youtu.be/n_OGGct1r5s
I put it in quotes, because I couldn't come up with a better word. What would it be ?
You can do this with Dependabot [0], recently acquired by Github.

We use Dependabot, and I love it for our backend repositories, but anything with node dependencies ends up being easier to manually update (because there ends up being so many dependencies that get updated every day, that opening a PR for each one essentially launches a denial of service attack on our CI system)

[0] https://dependabot.com/
I accidentally traveled here when I had a spare month between obligations. I don’t think the public can quite imagine how cool these bridges are, and how wild the surrounding region is.

The Root Bridges:
For most of them, two people could easily walk hand-in-hand across the bridge (these are substantive, comfortable bridges). To build a bridge requires a multi-generational perspective - oftentimes, the architect won’t even live to see the “completed” creation, despite all of the nuanced care. (Of course, a structure like this only evolves, it never “completes.”) It should be noted that the locals are masters at building structures of wood. 20m tall towers made exclusively of bamboo (even the twine was bamboo), a 20-30m bridge arching over a river made entirely of bamboo and - at the beginning and end - stronger logs.

The Adventure:
I probably encountered 2-3 other white/euro/American/foreigner people here. At one city en route to Meghalaya, I got trapped by a transportation strike, and was told that I was the second white person to spend the night since the British occupation (or something like that). I stumbled into teenagers jamming 70’s rock at their school, and they made me play the bass before driving me around the city on their motorcycles. We’d be on pavement going 60km/hr, then suddenly be on dirt going through bamboo structures. They insisted I have dinner at everyone’s homes and I ate around 7 distinct meals of regional dishes that night. It was wild: difficult, diverse, different.
I visited Jordan after Cairo, so compared to the hustle culture of the largest city in the Arab world, Jordan was refreshing!

But yeah, if you visit places without tourism infrastructure, like the West Bank outside of Jerusalem/Bethlehem, it's much more people going about their daily life in the midst of various levels of physical and cultural history.
But before Prop 13, people on fixed incomes were getting taxed out of their paid-off homes they'd lived in for decades.
The newly hired faculty at my school have mostly been ML/AI people. While it seems completely wrong that ML is needed to break into industry, is it true that research roles strongly favor ML right now?
> They also ship with default SSIDs, numbered 100 to 999, so given 899 GPU days of precomputation

That would be 900 GPU days actually - off by one error
"Better" is a value judgement, and the specific value you've chosen is "makes more money". One concern, I think, is that a non-lawyer may push employees towards legally-unethical behavior. Since the non-lawyer can fire the lawyers, that gives them a big stick they can use to influence the employees.
What amazon needs is some sort of regulation blocking AWS revenues from fuelling the e-commerce business. Without that, other e-commerce players will never have a level playing field
This is a pretty neat article, but none of it really seems like rocket science. As far as I can tell, it just validates Fred Wilson's post regarding a startup's marketing budget (http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/02/marketing.html). Would anything listed in that document have mattered a hill of beans if Mint's product was atrocious?
I wonder if that has something to do with your home network or isp? I stream HD netflix constantly through my bluray player and xbox and never have so much as a hiccup.
Indeed, Schmidt was almost painful. Fey is such a pro you couldn't even tell what she was thinking.
More performance than I need (at least, my wallet tells me this)... but still, nice to see OCZ continuing to give us SSD love. :D
If you've got a charismatic leader rallying the troops every so often, it'll keep a certain type of person on board well past the time when they should bail for self-preservation reasons. Those that are loyal to a fault, take perhaps too much pride in their work contributions, etc - they're the ones who get taken for a ride. They need to toughen up, and that generally only comes with age/experience.
I've been on both sides of this coin. Once as a founder (just over 4 years) and once as a very early employee (5 years). While I can certainly appreciate the level of commitment and hard work that those early employees put in, nothing compares to the stress level of ultimately being in charge of the thing.

The fact is, the world needs both. Early stage employees may not bear the risk, but they'll certainly bear much of the responsibility. Without smart, hard working, and extremely dedicated team members the day-to-day stress of building a company would kill me. That I can offload some of that stress to a unique set of people that make up my team... is huge.

I think they're both right. Maybe there are three types of people in the world? Founders, doers, and all the rest?
I recently wrote an IO abstraction over io_uring using Zig's async/await.

Here's how you would do a write()/fsync()/read() with this (https://github.com/coilhq/tigerbeetle/blob/beta/src/io.zig#L...):

const offset: u64 = 0;
const bytes_written = try io.write(fd, buffer_write[0..], offset);
try io.fsync(fd);
const bytes_read = try io.read(fd, buffer_read[0..], offset);

Other sync functions can use this asynchronous IO completion code in a synchronous style (as this snippet shows) and still get all the zero-syscall and asynchronous performance of io_uring. What this is actually doing under the hood is filling SQEs into io_uring's submission queue ring buffer and then later reading completion events off io_uring's completion queue ring buffer, so it's fully asynchronous in the I/O sense but this hasn't spilled out and leaked over into the control flow. The control flow is as it should be, nice and simple and synchronous.

Beyond this, Zig still allows you to explicitly indicate concurrency with the `async` keyword, for example if you wanted to run multiple async code paths concurrently.

But the crucial part is that Zig's async/await does not force function coloring on you to do all of this: https://youtu.be/zeLToGnjIUM

Pretty incredible on Zig's part to be able to pull this off. Huge kudos to Andrew Kelley. Also, thanks to Jens Axboe and io_uring, what you saw above was first-class single-threaded or thread-per-core, there's no threadpool doing that for you, it's pure ring buffer communication to the kernel and back, no context switches, no expensive coordination. Pure performance. There's never been a better time for Zig's colorless async/await. The combination with io_uring in the kernel is going to be explosive. It's a perfect storm.
Indeed. Japan is a police state. A remarkably polite one, but things at this level are done for the convenience of the police, prosecutors and judges (at least prior to adding juries to the system, but I'm quite skeptical how that'll turn out for quite a while). Closing cases is more important than finding the real criminal, and atrocities like their handling of the Aum Shinrikyo cult suggest they're not so good when put to serious test.
Reminds me of the excellent EE-trolling magic circuits by Henryk Gasperowicz[1].

The number of things you could bury a little QFN MCU or similar in to play silly buggers with people is huge, especially if you have the luxury of them providing the 'support components'.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/Fredzislaw100
The "death of the file" is a really mixed bag. The replacement is walled gardens with no privacy, control and perhaps even ownership of your data, questionable security, and the potential that your data could vanish if one is acquires or goes under.
> government run banks

What's one of these? It's the other way round - banks run governments.
The 31c3 video for this exploit is here: http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6128_-_en_-_...
https://hollyapp.com

A task tracker / outliner with a Vim-like editing mode that I built for myself a few years back. It gained a lot of popularity through HN and Lifehacker.

I eventually rewrote the application and offered extra features and mobile support for paying subscribers. It now pays for date night with my wife.
Buffer (http://bufferapp.com) - from wherever you want to be in the world (fully remote), we're looking for a Product Designer.

Over 30,000 people pay for a Buffer subscription to help them with their social media efforts, which helps us generate $420k MRR. With that we spend about $223k/mo on salaries, which is about 66% of our total spending (https://open.bufferapp.com/transparent-pricing-buffer/).

We work without managers and are fully self-managing. You pick your own projects, recruit team members from within the company or join task forces that you find interesting ( https://open.bufferapp.com/decision-maker-no-managers-experi...)

Like with everything else, our hiring process is fully transparent (more here https://open.bufferapp.com/how-we-hire/ )

There are so many exciting projects people are working on and it'd be awesome to have you lead the design efforts product experience of some of them. Just email Brian Lovin from this page: http://jobs.bufferapp.com/designer and he'll be in touch.

If you have any questions about how we work, I'd love to answer them.
> now suddenly going full Rust is the most important thing

As said above, Mozilla does not seem to have ever suggested, in the past or now, that "going full Rust" is a goal, let alone "the most important thing."
TL;DR - Yahoo! still exists and resents Google. But not for being better in their niche, no. Just for delivering a better service, which is not at all the same thing. Somehow.
Bags are a razors + blades model. The vacuum is $100 but the bags are $30 for 3 if you buy the branded bags. Plus the suction on a bagged vacuum measurably decreases before the bag is full.

These days I have a roomba and a Dyson cordless stick vacuum for occasional use.