jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Oh, well you certainly keep the total number of workers below a maximum.

All I'm saying is that I have N sites that get different amounts of traffic. If more people are hitting one, I want it to get allocated more passenger instances to handle the traffic. With mongrel, I'd have to, a priori, decide how many mongrels each site gets and hope for the best. With passenger, it dynamically allocates them to handle traffic on an ongoing basis.
UPDATED: Would like to know your thoughts! I was wondering, if companies can pay that much for consulting with AWS , why is consulting in general still considered something not to do , for instance VC's hardly fund any company that is doing consulting.
This came up a ton when I was doing particle filters on mobile. We had optional doubles that were initialized to NaN but NaN isn't a valid value. Being able to use optionals instead would be great (to avoid having to backtrace where an accidental NaN propagation may have started from) but the memory hit was impractical. I bet some parts of the science community might need this but the need is so spread out (each individual application) that it might not be as obvious as a popular library identifying the need.

I wish I knew language design & compiler development better & had the time to propose it & see it through.
Square agreed to acquire Credit Karma Tax.
Re Windows all the time: I don't think Linux is the right alternative. GPOS use should be as minimal as possible for safety-critical systems like this.
>But is it possible that maybe, just maybe, wealth distribution isn't a 0 sum game? And maybe being in the bottom 90% is better now than it was 40 years ago, because of, I don't know, iPhones

Telling homeless people that they are better off than the middle-class 40 years ago because they have a smartphone is basically the 21st century equivalent of "Let them eat cake".
Which rule?
You know, your point about Tesla has given me lots of conflict. What did I miss? Obviously this question came when I sold off my TSLA stock at 500$ thinking — it was overvalued — and then watching it rise to the equivalent of 4,000$. I reached the conclusion it’s no longer solely about cash flow and debt ratios and market cap and addressable market and whatever other traditional metrics we previously used to value companies. The emotional component has become more important.

People are buying TSLA because they want to do something about climate change. Or maybe cause they worship Musk. This is probably holding for other companies in other industries. Bitcoin is definitely not only being bought because it’s digital gold. It’s being bought because people are emotionally attached to resetting the system. A bunch of middle fingers to the dollar rich (Bitcoin poor) by a bunch dollar poor (Bitcoin rich). This is why people are buying BTC.

Whether it is TSLA or BTC — value itself is being disrupted.
There's definitely room for both types of keyboard. For me, I have tried ortholinear, but I just can't handle it. Or more specifically - I use too many keyboards during the day, and switching one of them to a linear layout and not the rest is a nightmare. Switching them all would be expensive... maybe one day. But I don't feel like you get enough benefit to justify it.
Great idea - let's rewrite the most security-critical piece of container tech in plain C!

Red Hat literally took a memory safe Go program and rewrote it in C for performance, in 2020.
Just a thought here....these stories get tons of coverage here on HN (and rightly so), but at this point pretty much fall on deaf ears for the rest of our population. Our media is too busy keeping everyone distracted with stories about how a Coke Ad offended 0.000002% of the population and Russia's leaders hate gay people. Nothing against the importance or validity of those stories, but I would hope everyone reading this could agree that this is a bit more of a priority and a far greater threat to everyone's future than those stories. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions on how to push this to the forefront of the mainstream media's agenda again, it would be great to hear them.
Yes, there are problems. Soyuz could fly pretty close to Columbia, but to get to the bay could be tricky. It was not going to be a regular docking - but something for a saving mission.

If Soyuz could be taken to the Columbia bay, an astronaut in the Columbia spacesuit could approach Soyuz and open the hatch. Spacesuits could be extracted from Soyuz without entering the spacecraft. Talk about ingenious ideas with rope, attached to the front hatch, etc. The Soyuz spacesuit then is delivered to inside Columbia, where somebody could wear it to get to Soyuz.
In theory, anything can be the subject of attention. But at least at first, it's best to practice sticking with one thing, to build your focus.

As a pragmatic matter, if the counting is distracting, try paying attention to the breath without it.

Likewise, if the breath itself is problematic (something I'vep ersonally wrestled with), try another anchor: full-body awareness, or just listening.
Yes, and for free :)

Plus there is always Pingdom, AlertFox, Webmetrics, Keynote...
The studios take more than 75% of the ticket price for themselves. The popcorn is keeping the theatre owner afloat.
No different from buying random small name stocks.

Sometimes you luck out and your stock grows 20x in five years. Sometimes it doesn’t.

On the other hand, buying, say, Apple stock, is not much different from buying a first edition Charizard card or an unopened copy of Super Metroid. It’ll probably steadily grow in value over years and has been. But both could end up collapsing tomorrow for unknown reasons.
Becu for washington, 1st tech for oregon. I'm sure others too. I only use credit unions
Don't know why you got downvoted, when I had problems with my PayPal merchant account, I called a phone number and was able to speak to a real human being.
This is sad to read, but perhaps an opportunity in disguise.

It is a risk for any firm to be highly dependent on one customer for most of its revenue and SETI appears to have been highly dependent on US government funding.

It is dangerous to make conclusions based on a newspaper article, but it seems they found $50 million in private donations way back when to build the network. Now they can't find $2.5 million per year to run it?

If nothing else, something is seriously wrong if donors that ponied up $50 million to build the Ferrari no longer want to shell out $2.5 million run it.

The quote: "if everybody contributed just 3 extra cents on their 1040 tax forms, we could find out if we have cosmic company." suggests that the organization is focused on government funding, rather than individual donors - and continues this focus even after an evident failure of that model to keep things running. Meeting the needs of government funders and meeting the needs of donors are entirely different things. In my experience, you can have one or the other, but not both.

They should step back and rethink how they can make their non-profit work primarily based on voluntary donations. The world is full of non-profits that manage it with budgets much larger than the $2.5 million/year SETI appears to need.

Link to send SETI money: http://www.seti.org/page.aspx?pid=1468
Thats what I thought. Thanks.
The law appears to be designed to ensure that foreign workers aren't hired for cheap to undercut the wages of US workers.

If visa paperwork lives up to its reputation, however, a rational company would only hire foreign workers if they are talented enough to be worth the hassle or have skills that cannot be found elsewhere. Presumably these people would be paid well. These numbers may be higher than the true average.
One thing that struck me as I read through the list that 'programmer' will be the first one to go once we do reach that 'hard AI' goal. We'll be the first profession to make ourselves obsolete, I guess that serves us right for doing the same to lots of other professions.
> Just to be clear, then: the analogy from the original post doesn't apply.

The analogy from the original post applies to the cases the original post discusses.

The original "coffee latency" blogpost innately applies to a 1980s style computer: a simple in-order machine. Its truly correct for that model of simple computing.

I've added in complications: pipelining, superscalar, and speculative execution, which were inventions deployed in the early 90s and 00s to CPUs. So things work differently on modern machines, because modern machines have many, many more features than the "original" computer designs.

The original "cups of coffee" are a good way to start thinking about latency vs bandwidth problem. I really like the analogy. But it would take a LOT more writing before I really cover everything going on in modern CPUs.
And while you're at it, multiplayer Dwarf Fortress sounds like an opportunity if you don't mind staying in a niche. The author of DF says he has no interest himself in implementing multiplayer support.
http://brix.wikispot.org/ was pointed out to me by a friend - it has a collection of a number of the "weird" articles on wikipedia, everything from the "Baghdad Battery" to the "Ordo Templi Orientis"
What you did with the Caps Lock LED is cool.
Have there been sightings of a polar bear wandering around?

Maybe a crazy French woman?
They also talk past each other because the value of debuggers vastly depends on what you're debugging.

It's relatively easy to get value out of a debugger in a straightforward synchronous userland process.

It's much harder in a complex embedded application full of threads, callbacks, asynchronous execution, and a target where you may need to set up something like remote debugging and potentially tweak the whole system config to make it possible in the first place. This is also more likely to be the kind of system that doesn't run from your fancy IDE..
First, Hasan fostered an atmosphere of intense ideological commitment that produced a constant supply of volunteers willing to carry out his deadly missions

Seems like this was the first of suicidal terrorist groups.

They never engaged in the wholesale slaughter of civilians. Many of the Sunni notables who fell to the daggers of the fida'is had encouraged pogroms against Ismailis or ordered military expeditions against their enclaves

But things seems to have changed. Now most who are killed by modern terrorist groups are civilians.

Another interesting article: http://www.weirdload.com/wl-assassins.html

P.S: I bet the one who submitted this started reading such articles after playing Assassins Creed :) I did the same after I played the game :)
Hahaha. Classic.
So you thought the central argument was about the weather? Really? It does seem that a lot of people agreed with you. Getting a geographic breakdown by voter/region would be fascinating.

Anyway I think we all now know that (for better or worse) the term 'Dead' in this context means something like 'predicted by the author to diminish in dominance' as in PG's 'Microsoft is Dead'.
A Dyson sphere seems unlikely. If a civilization were capable of it, they would be capable of far more efficient energy schemes - controlling fusion directly, in the quantities they desired (instead of in whatever units a star offered) and where they desired.
> simon says 10.0.0.2
It's a valid concern, but honestly I think the distorting effects are probably much less than e.g., having to chase clickbait topics for CPM advertising or having Carlos Slim be your largest single investor, etc.
Well you could install it on a development site or something first. You can't currently add in a domain that's not live (since it verifies its existence by pinging)— but contact me and I can add it in manually and you could try running it locally or on a private site.
For what it's worth, I assure you that putting a "query" "term" in "quotes" is identical to the retired +plus +sign +operator.

I would be very curious, if you set up Verbatim search as your default search engine in your browser, how often you have to "fix" it, and if you ever find it easier to see what Google makes of your non-verbatim query. I'd especially be interested in how often the thing you're searching for doesn't really exist on the web, and so Google is replacing "no results" with "off-topic results."
Ok great, now stop arresting people for filming the police themselves.
The Wikipedia article on the disaster[1] strongly suggests that this kind of fatalism had permeated the culture:

Throughout the risk assessment process, senior NASA managers were influenced by their belief that nothing could be done even if damage were detected. This affected their stance on investigation urgency, thoroughness and possible contingency actions. They decided to conduct a parametric "what-if" scenario study more suited to determine risk probabilities of future events, instead of inspecting and assessing the actual damage. The investigation report in particular singled out NASA manager Linda Ham for exhibiting this attitude. In 2013, Hale recalled that Director of Mission Operations John Harpold told him before Columbia's destruction:

"You know, there is nothing we can do about damage to the TPS [Thermal Protection System]. If it has been damaged it's probably better not to know. I think the crew would rather not know. Don't you think it would be better for them to have a happy successful flight and die unexpectedly during entry than to stay on orbit, knowing that there was nothing to be done, until the air ran out?"

Hale added, "I was hard pressed to disagree [at the time]. That mindset was widespread. Astronauts agreed. So don't blame an individual; look for the organizational factors that lead to that kind of a mindset. Don't let them in your organization."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster
Sure, while using windows I always setup Console2 + Cygwin killer combo. This way I don't need putty/Secure CRT/whatever and I can create tunnels so that I can connect to remote databases using TOAD.
Yes, please, click on our blogspam for more blogspam about prior blogspam controversy. All on the same site! Its like getting five clickthroughs in one!
I don't think it's a bad idea. Just don't make free work a habit. ;)

However, a new freelancer may find that getting free clients is just as difficult--or even more difficult--than getting paying ones. It's the same process.

In that case they could probably go on Rentawhatever and at least make a few dollars for the effort.

Maybe offering discounted rates is a better way to bridge the gap for someone without a lot of credits.
Any good suggestions on software to do this on windows? I have an unused NAS that I want to start utilizing with my laptop for this purpose.
> Mr. Stallman is personally known to me. I could testify that he is extremely obnoxious. Due to his handicap, he has little perception of what the feelings and reactions of others might be to his thoughts and actions...

I was sat 1 meter away from Bruce at a convention when Stallman had stood up to interrupt the presentation from some marketing woman from google on a point of principle regarding an error she made in speech about the BSD license). He then turned his ire on Perens and publicly admonished him for his more pragmatic views on something related that I have now sadly forgotten.

I mention only to say i know the kind of treatment Bruce got from Richard as I was in the sightline of the pointing and the high pitched unmistakable loud voice calling him out in a room of hundreds of people.

He just laughed it off with a gesture. He seemed very affable and polite in our brief conversation.

edit a google has turned up someone who took notes including some of the detail i gave above

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8941
Again, I’m not basing what I’m saying solely on the conference example. I’m not arguing over the psychology of multiple conference conversations from ten years ago any further because it’s completely immaterial to my point (and one example of many; the point of the example was that it was openly discussed among competition, not “let’s go to the mat on what constitutes an actual opinion with the assumption that I don’t perceive conversation appropriately”).
The galaxy is only 100,000 light years across. It's been here for 14 billion years. If it's possible for a planetary civilization to go interstellar, even if they only spread at 0.1C, they would have colonized any place with useful resources thousands of times over.
I thought this was going to be about memory addresses. :)
Those terms are synonymous. I have read your subsequent reply but being run by the government does not in any way imply being run by the party that is currently in power.
"Free" as in FSF? No, but free as in "costless" - yes it is.
Who do you think is going to stop them? The US can do what ever they want because Europe permanently has its head up its ass.
> Lets see if a Pixel2 is on the horizon that gives the MBP Retina some heartache

Based on that Google had to bribe customers with giving 1TB of Drive space for 2 years for that purchase, I'd say the Pixel is pretty much dead.
Or:

- They supposedly were collecting all this info and didn't think to warn Sony about any potential issues.
Well, a Sea Bream did pretty well.

https://twitter.com/j4n0/status/1125380024733925377
That's rather extreme. If he always predicts gloom and doom sometimes he will be right. Especially within the last 15 years. Wasn't he predicting the last financial crash for a couple years before it happened?
I just want to send kudos to them. I lost 2 years trying to write a reliable stream over UDP back in the days of Zoidcom and similar, maybe 2005. I don't know how to stress this enough but...it's basically an impossible challenge.

This writeup represents the depths that an engineer has to go to get real work done. I'm familiar with the integer wraparound comparison issue, and all of the other errata around TCP windowing. Thankfully countless people have done this work and we're able to enjoy the fruits of their labor today.

Not sure where I'm going with this, but I've been programming for 30 years, and to this day, I view kernel developers and the people who isolate these bugs as the very best among us.
The n-body benchmark is slower due to a a bug in GCC's vectorization compared to Clang/LLVM.
Well, here's what it looked like on my MacBook Pro with M1/16GB:

M1-MBP async-brigade % time cargo run --release
500 tasks, 10000 iterations:

mean 761.403µs per iteration, stddev 8.929µs (1.522µs per task per iter)

cargo run --release 3.21s user 4.60s system 99% cpu 7.818 total

M1-MBP thread-brigade % time cargo run --release
500 tasks, 10000 iterations:

mean 787.149µs per iteration, stddev 67.289µs (1.574µs per task per iter)

cargo run --release 0.94s user 7.19s system 100% cpu 8.081 total

I ran it a few times and the numbers came up rather similar each time: async-brigade finished in 760.273µs-764.928µs while thread-brigade took 784.510µs-796.323µs.

As macOS doesn't have taskset, I can't easily set affinity. I tried to use the workaround documented elsewhere to use Xcode's Instruments to reduce the number of CPU cores but it would always re-enable itself at 8 cores, so that didn't work.
> Anyone know what the "select" cryptocurrencies are?

Ethereum is pretty much where everything is happening and has been the case for a few years. On that platform there's multiple projects that are interesting and show promise like Uniswap, Aave, Synthetic, Maker, Vechain, Filecoin, etc.
Yes, the opposite of it - adjective-laden flowery non-specific hype really irks me. To me it reads like how people talked about car design before ralph nader pointed out how cars with metal dashboards and no seatbelts are a bad idea.
> supply chain management with a lot of entities and lack of trust.

This tells me you know zero about supply chain management.
Similar to The Right Tool (http://therighttool.hammerprinciple.com) for Languages, DRMacIver peels back the hype and reveals the strengths and weaknesses of different Database Engines.
What really impresses me is that even when the pointer is outside the frame, the particles still cluster as close to it as the border allows.
The Tom Gibara blog post he links to makes a few very good points, including:

I’m addressing developers here when I ask: Are you really serious providing LOTS of users with a rewarding experience of your application?

Because if you are, then you have to be ready to accommodate them, and they’re pretty a variable bunch. I don’t want to get preachy, but not everyone speaks or reads English. Some people can’t read at all. Many people have weak eyesight and some are completely blind or deaf for that matter. I could go on, but my actual point is this:

Not every possible user’s needs can be met by the same mobile phone. The user variability that application developers attempt to handle via good UI design, accessibility, and internationalization, extends outside of the software domain and into the hardware.

Most of the concerns that developers flag-up as being aspects of fragmentation are simply the realities of addressing the needs of these users, large numbers of them. Some users will be poorer than others; they can’t all afford the newest/best handsets. Some need larger screens for their bad eyesight. Perhaps their motor skills are poor and they prefer a real keyboard. etc.
I haven't kept up with developments like this over the last couple of years, but I have done a lot of commercial and personal video. The new DSLRs with video seem like a great addition to anyone's tool set.

Question: _Regular_ video cameras don't allow "through the lens" focusing either. You focus by looking through an electronic view finder or by watching a monitor hooked up to an external video source from the camera. Is there not such for the DSLRs? If not, hey, great market opportunity...
I wonder if Tony took into account Dunbar's number, the magical number (150) at which people tend to max out on personal relationships.

FTA, there are about 1,800 employees. It's not clear how they are geographically divided.
Note a very good CAPTCHA, since as a spammer I can get the answer by just feeding the question to Google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=square+root+of+minus+one

This should also work on those CAPTHCAs that ask the user to solve a simple math question.
"And the applicants come in, just out of university, never had a job, have never even heard of ProductX, and have no experience........ what are you to do? I mean, if they put in a good cover letter explaining that they recognize that they don't seem to match the qualifications, but explaining why they want a shot at an interview, or something like that, fine.... but they don't."

How did they get an interview? You don't interview everyone who applies. And if they don't put in a good cover letter, and the resume doesn't look good, why bother?

If they have technical skills that need dealing with, there are other ways to go about testing those technical skills quickly and without an interview process.
It can do if you configure it to
isn't this just some CSS design or am I missing something ?
You could build an index per person, but rather than search 500 indexes, the index of each person would be of all their and their friends' posts, so you would only search one index.
I think LiveScript does a good job too.

But it's a bit of a niche product, not a LISP and more like Python.
>There is an alternative for everything and they are better suited to Chinese culture too.

Well good for them, either way with this policy the Chinese government enforces, I don't think China will be able to compete internationally in the software industry.
Why the vote down? Should I ask for a handout like everyone else instead?

Yay Capitalism, yay products, yay materialism! Because all of these things have done wonders for the world thus far.

BURN IT ALL.
Tried to click "How it works"... This happened. http://i.imgur.com/efvbTCs.png

No thank you.
How long until someone provides a bundling service? For just $50/mo they'll give you Netflix/HBO/Discovery/PBS/etc thru a single interface.