jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Writing this as a reply rather than an email because there's no contact info on graycat's profile.

Hi graycat,

I'm an applied math & CS undergrad at Caltech and I love all of your posts, especially the ones about how data center scale computing really needs to embrace statistics. The FedEx stories are also excellent. I'm personally interested in high performance computing and machine learning, but I'm also interested in solving "real problems" and like how you seem to focus on the actual value of the applications. I love the feeling of engineering solutions to mathematical problems, and this seems to be something that you also enjoy.

I'd really like to hear more about your career, research, and also the startup that you're working on. I'd be very happy if you shoot me an email at eric@ericmart.in

Best,
Eric
I searched for this! Sorry.
Previously on HN with some speculation about why those measures are in place and how some could be written off as optimizations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8808754
You can download the tool on www.synflow.com, start using it with our online course on https://eliademy.com/catalog/basic-of-the-cx-language.html and the output of the compilers are VHDL and Verilog.
Which he also sells https://www.kleinbottle.com/Tantalus.html
They did actually integrate Chomp into the App Store. Just turned out everyone hated it.

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/08/30/apple-adds-chomp-styled-...
Even still, sometimes it helps just getting a solution down in order to step back and figure out the clever solution.
> Perhaps it's because the enormous scientific illiteracy afflicting the populace as a whole (which can be observed simply by reading any popular journalistic account of scientific developments) places scientific developments and scientific pursuits into some mental category of "abstract, probably useless stuff".

This is a bigger problem amongst the general public then I think many inside the bubble of science and technology really understand. I remember a conversation I had some years ago with a co-worker who was adamant that space exploration was an absolute waste of money. Because "we have enough problems down here we should fix instead." I tried explaining all the advancements that the space race brought about in terms of technology and medicine. And the go to response was: "Well scientists should have just invented that stuff anyway. They didn't need NASA as an excuse to build it.". A complete lack of understanding or appreciation for what goes into scientific or technological discovery and advancement is worryingly common within the general public.
> Only in this case, the humans were the tools, and the dogs the tool-users.

And this is exactly why breeds like Chihuahua, Poodles and Labradoodles have done so well.

These types of dogs living in a Darwinist world, have no right to survive, but thanks to their human relationships they are thriving.

The big question, is this the dog wagging the tail or the tail wagging the human?
They were X-rayed too. X-ray imaging can only tell you so much. I think it is perfectly acceptable to destroy some to gain an understanding of what these things actually were. She did a marvelous job of documenting the teardown and should be commended for that, many more people will have an appreciation for this historical technology with this documentation.
Not really. Even if multiple extinction events hit Earth, Earth’s still going to be much more hospitable than Mars is now.
I always wonder why executives earn so much money when there is no responsibility on them when things go wrong.

I'd like to see in jail those who make decisions, and earn salaries and bonuses accordingly to the responsibility they have.

Earning tons of money and having no responsibility when things go south makes total no sense to me.
Hi, I'm Chris, the cofounder of TaskPipes. We'd love to hear your feedback!
I'll bet you a dollar they're flintstoning, using Mechanical Turk or cheap outsourcers.
I think it would be a huge improvement to implement tooltips when mousing over an outline that brings up a note saying WHY something was flagged. Otherwise, I think it's an interesting idea.
Volcanos are pretty awesome. I live a few miles from a very big, active one but it hasn't erupted yet while I've been here.
Same here, this reads like an ad written specifically for HN.
I thought his comment was more along the lines of "I cannot imagine writing industrial-strength versions of all of these things Lucene gives me."

Yes, you can write a spellchecker in 21 lines of code, that doesn't necessarily mean it will be fast enough to be a component in website search or that it will be any kind of a pleasure to query or maintain the word corpus.

I can put together toy versions of many things Lucene provides pretty easily in my own time. Building useful, dependable versions of most anything takes a nontrivial amount of time and effort, so it's smart to restrict my usage of toys to understanding the concepts.
Thank you.

I don't believe I will be doing a Dovecot chapter anytime soon, for the reasons I stated at the beginning of http://gogs.info/books/debian-mail/chunked/courier.html

But, I must admit, I really like Dovecots Sieve filtering.

I do plan to publish the books Docbook sources on Github, hopefully someone who has more experience with Dovecot would be interested in contributing.
I think there are many cultural reasons why these things tend to work out okay in Switzerland but not so much in other countries. Swiss people are (and yes, I'm about to overgeneralize about an entire country here, but I'm pretty sure it's true en massse) fairly mature and responsible people, keenly aware and extremely protective of the uniqueness of their country.
My favorite one given the limitations would be to disable the mouse, tape the bottom of the mouse (assuming optical/laser), change the keyboard to Dvorak and then change the theme to windows classic and make everything black.
Why aren't you a fan of direct democracy?

I thought The Economist leaned right on some issues....
I know everyone has different priorities and lives, but I have a strict rule against side projects. Between spending time with my family and friends, exercise, keeping up with technology, etc. I don’t have time. If I can’t keep abreast of technology at work, it’s time to change jobs. I will stay late and work on side low priority work related projects to learn new to me technologies.

Also, I purposefully work for small companies that are in alignment with the technologies I want to learn or be in. Another benefit to working for small companies after you have the reputation, you can really make a lot of choices when it comes to the how and you get to do as much of the stack as you want.
I'm pretty certain you're right that, as expected, for tires on pavement, static friction is great than dynamic friction.

That is certainly what I've observed in my own firsthand experience.

Also, as I understand it, it's why anti-lock brakes help a car stop faster. (Though anti-lock brakes also help you retain the ability to steer, which is different but also important.)
Electric vehicles would eliminate a lot of noise pollution too.

As a city dweller there is nothing I long for more than complete electrification of all transport and the death of the ICE.
I wouldn't expect having a large sample size determines if anyone knows it. Having a diverse sample is what would determine that.

Definitely would not be surprised if a disproportionately large number of HN readers in Fintech have never heard of it lol
So? That doesn't mean they're guilty. There are many reasons why they wouldn't want to give a comment. Maybe they're planning a lawsuit and their lawyer told them to keep quiet.
I look forward to iPhone getting better. I understand your viewpoints as well. I hope the original article did not sound petty. That was not the intent.
Somebody, please correct the title from “slime mole” to “slime mold”.
Why? Interviews are an unnatural situation. I have hired people who did not interview well but were great at the work.
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OK, now do the trick for having an Apple ID and using an apple product. iMessage is a tiny slice from the data hording that apple is doing when you use their services.

A company in a significant scale that is not hording user data and is 100% pro-privacy and user protection has yet to come.

Hence, my wish that the EU will install a "Great Firewall" to block all the American tech so European tech has a chance to evolve - similar how China did that SUPER SUPER successful.
You need to try running code before posting it anyplace.

"initalize" is not going to work.
If you hit it hard, don't give up and are relentlessly resourceful, anything is possible.

However, esp if you live in London, the real question is whether you're willing to endure several years of pain in case you're not immediately successful and profitable.
At Whole Foods a lot of the things that end up being really cheap from no-name brands at traditional markets are coming from brands that have extra mark-up for being organic or slightly out of the norm. So it's easier to not buy it due to the price?

In general, most of the cheap bulk food that you can get out there ends up being not so great for you from a health standpoint. It's a lot less expensive to buy a bagged cereal knock-off of some highly sweetened cereal (Cocoa Puffs, etc) than to buy some sort of granola cereal. [That said, I haven't done any direct comparisons to the bulk pricing on oatmeal or grits.]
ooh, that shouldn't be happening. Which country are you in?
Fascinating analysis, using a different metric and coming to a completely different conclusion than Wales did. If he's right, it'll be interesting to go back and reread what various people have written about Wikipedia. Four years later, has anybody run the larger-scale analysis he suggests here?
I like it.

One comment: I'm not sure if it's my wifi - or the website, but the images took a long time to load.
it's displayed like that on purpose, so folks don't fake banking site or other important domains with unicode characters that are similiar to the standard latin characters but aren't actually them.

look in about:config for

"network.IDN.whitelist.tld" and put .ws in there
> The Sinking of the USS Maine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_of_the_Spanish%E2%8...

> That's over 100 years ago. We can stop pretending that the media has ever been some selfless arbiter of truth and protector of the downtrodden. There is nothing to replace it in that role because it was never in that role. It has always been a tool for one group of powerful people to spar with other groups of powerful people and the truth rarely enters into it.

Oh come on. That's like condemning democracy on account of all those people guillotined during the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, or the whole field of software engineering on account of the Therac-25. Maybe a few changes have happened in the intervening generations?

The idea that "the media has ever been some selfless arbiter of truth and protector of the downtrodden" is an ideal to be strived for, but like any ideal, there will always people examples of people who fail to achieve it.

Also, there's another ideal that the media there cast a skeptical eye on things, to peel back the paint and expose what's really there underneath it, which is probably more pertinent here. That kind of journalism usually pisses of the fans of whatever the journalist is examining. Fans usually want fluffy puff pieces.
What's the appropriate level of liability?

If I buy a cell phone holder for my car, and it distracts me and I get into an accident? What if Car Play lags and i'm distracted and I get into an accident? What if radio plays an ambulance and I freak out and get into an accident? What if my sunglasses make me mistake a red light?

This product does lane assist. It does a good job according to consumer reports [0], higher than all other lane assists. It doesn't detect stop signs or traffic lights or drive for you. It keeps your lane. It acts predictably and gives the driver enough time to react.

Unfortunately the liability model is messed up. I think this product is relatively tame and should allow to exist. And you need to pay attention. They even have inward facing cameras to make sure you're paying attention, more than most other companies. They do everything they can to be safe but of course they're not stupid and they'll put in a sweeping statement on liability.

This is really pushing forward the self-driving industry and is an incredible feat of engineering. It's much more open and transparent than every other lane keeping software, and it's being developed with a lot of thought and care from a talented engineer as opposed to some nameless faceless bureaucratic commission in Ford or some other dinosaur.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/37833/consumer-reports-ranks-t...
He names references in his post. I highly doubt he’s confused about the difference between is and ==. It’s a weird leak of interpreter details that could, in very narrow situations, cause a bug.
>My favorite Python WTF "feature" is that integers can have have the same reference, but only sometimes

Many languages do the same, ditto for strings (as in TFA).
I am stupefied by this.

Many, many times I have considered:

"what would happen if I banked my own blood and transfused it back to myself 40 years later"

And of course, my next thought was "of course that has been thought of, and tried, and the reason we don't all know about it is because it must not be helpful."

But you're telling me that, in fact, nobody thought to try this ? It is 2014/2015 when someone got around to trying this out ?
Now to see if X-plane's Mars simulator proves accurate.
The lesson Warren's making isn't that you can't beat the market. Of course, Warren himself is an example you can. It's also not a statement about any individual hedge fund, which may have "different goals only for sophisticated investors."* Instead, it's that on balance, by far most managers don't beat the S&P 500 on an after-fee basis.

And if you include taxes in those fees and the benefit of deferred tax liabilities it's even harder to beat an index fund.

* It's reasonable to be skeptical about any fund having a goal that's anything other then maximizing long-term returns.
But aren't those cameras just for navigation and won't record or stream any footage?

Edit: spelling
Do you disagree with their personal experience? Does it not match yours?

Their experience matches mine. It’s one of the reasons I appreciate projects like Net and OpenBSD, who actively keep old hardware around. They find bugs, by actually exercising their code base in unplanned ways (e.g. endian differences, alignment constraint differences).
Is this a pro-Steam bot or something? The post has nothing to do with the game Half-Life, lol
> Companies should be paying for this directly: if pyca/cryptography actually broke on HPPA or IA-64, then HP or Intel or whoever should be forking over money to get it fixed or using their own horde of engineers to fix it themselves.

This about sums it up.
I feel like that’s a handwavey academic answer. In real life situations you always need both privacy and anonymity. Do you think a gay rights activist in the Middle East wants all of their contacts to know their phone number and therefore their personal identity?
Shouldn't that be a Return-to-Mars (RTM) Camera?
Unfortunately, like scott said above, persona has very poor overall support. The best resources are the official ones:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Persona

I strongly believe in the protocol, but I have stopped believing in Mozilla to actually do something with it. They have absolute technical gold (yes, it has a couple of issues, they are minor overall) and they just aren't doing anything with it.

I still encourage people to actually implement it because, unlike with centralized protocols, we don't actually need Mozilla for it to work (persona servers are open source and the whole protocol is decentralized). But I have very little faith in ever getting the critical mass necessary for a majority of devs to adopt it without Mozilla promoting it more. (And they were so close, too, with their gmail gateway...)
It would only be a legal risk if they were putting kids in the program based on race. This does not seem to be the case. It just so happens to be that a disproportionate amount of whites and Asians made it into the program.
The source is open. The system is closed.
Here one of the co-founders. Happy to answer any questions about our company and technology
That's my concern as R studio is open source; VS is not!
But anyway, I should applaud for this move of MS. It's a very smart move strategically. R usage is climbing the chart...
Really? It's abuse? Then what has RIAA been doing to actively patrol Google, YouTube and other services all these years? I'll tell you what:

https://www.dmcaforce.com/
> Wrong! Look at your computer. It's a mix-and-match of a bunch of different components designed to serve you.

It's an Apple machine bought by someone else for my use. I had exactly zero say in the matter. It's a mix-and-match, but my opinion doesn't matter.

My choice is to use the machine or not.

EDIT: As for the patronage model, what makes you think we ever left that system? The economics of art have always rested on patronage.
As long as you remember to keep that drive unplugged - otherwise it'll get cryptolocked with everything else.
Suppose for argument's sake that this year produces shorter days, and the trend continues.
T-Mobile has phones as cheap as $150 (admittedly probably not great but still work), and quality phones as low as $400 or $500 for lower end or older iPhone/Pixel models. If you don't know if you can spend $150-$500 for a minor emergency, then you don't have an emergency fund which is easily the #1 priority for personal finances. Same for the Aeron - if you don't know if you can afford a $150 chair, you shouldn't buy it. The amount of the sale is irrelevant by the way - buying something you don't need that is 90% off is still a waste of money.
the government wanted to buy something and they have the means to sell it to them. How is that reliance on government support?
I don't value Facebook at $2 a month, I bet most people don't either.
iMessage is shorter because Apple already uses the OS for data collection and can easily match your id:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205223
> The only positive effect that the NDA may have for a producer is that it might prevent the already existing customers to redesign their products, because they might not bother to obtain similar NDA from other vendors.

That's a positive from their competitors requiring an NDA, not for they requiring one.

Anyway, large software sellers benefit a lot from stupid procedures from their clients that create a huge cost to start buying from a new supplier (like passing all suppliers through legal or having a management vote for them). If all hardware manufacturers require NDAs, they can force their buyers into creating similar procedures, closing the market for new entrants.
I agree that it was extraordinary and extremely worrying, but:

+ Trump is not running out of channels to speak, just who supports him will believe he is censored and will develop a deeper attachment to him. Democracy works when you are able to understand somebody is fool even if you can read what they write.

+ Twitter censored his tweets partially even before what happened recently. When he claimed he didn't lost elections.

+ This time we believe it was acceptable because our political views here in HN, mostly are aligned with the ones of folks running social platforms. Next time it may be different.
I will remember this for my next post; thank you for your feedback.
I believe this is indeed an interesting data – the software is from the same project.
Furthermore it gave me the opportunity to connect with you :)
Most communication occurs in one-on-ones, with a strong bias toward the minimum number of team members for any project.

Putting my best future prediction hat on, this means only a few people know what's actually going on. If the company grows there'll be competing antagonist efforts from different parts of the business. You'll start scheduling strategy meetings to avoid this because it's a waste of money, and that will drive away your early hires who joined because there was a culture of no meetings.
A shortage of bullion in Europe during the 15th century caused problems everywhere. That was followed by a huge influx of gold from the Americas in the 16th century, which also caused massive problems across the continent!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bullion_Famine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_revolution

Both under- and over-supply had negative effects on the economies of Europe.

The gold standard really was a primitive fiat currency anyway, governments would debase coins so they contained less gold in order to expand the money supply for instance. And only a small fraction of coins would be gold anyway, silver was far more common - the Pound Sterling takes it's name from a pound of silver from the easterlings (Germans). Paper money just made it obvious that physical currency was only a representation of wealth and not a fixed unit of wealth itself.

The gold standard is basically a political myth about a system that never really existed. Money is a very abstract concept, and reducing it to physical tokens and easily intuitive rules is appealing to many.
OK, but in C I have functions to open, read, and write sockets. Do I have them in COBOL?

This matters, because with C I can connect my existing C software to a web server, which lets me tie ancient software into the modern infrastructure. I suspect that's harder to do with COBOL...
I recently signed up on OkCupid, thanks in part to some of the OkTrends posts and the string of posts regarding the site a while back. And for the first few hours I was on the site I stuck around mostly to fill in the 100% completion progress bar for my profile. It's an incredibly compelling mechanism, at least more so than I would have imagined it to be had someone told me about it without these examples to back it up.
> As a citizen of neighbouring Denmark, I find this a truly grim day. How can something like copyright infringement result in a prison term ?

I'd guess it is similar to the US: if you aren't doing it commercially, you can't get prison--it is purely a civil matter. If you are doing it commercially, then it can be a crime punishable by prison.

TPB was/is commercial, making millions a year monetizing copyright infringement via advertising.
Or Indigo http://www.indigorenderer.com/category/image-galleries/best-... and many others, you still need skill though.
You don't think its worth protecting the trade of taxi-driving? Used to be the case you could make good tradesman money to be able to afford a house and a family on a taxi salary. Post-Uber that wont be so.

Is it "stupid" to want jobs that arguably require "less-skill" to not pay out a decent wage? Are we going to try to force more and more into university and leave those that don't fit in that box to work towards minimum wage? Taxi driving in London has long been a way of making a working class individual's life much better in exchange for the investment of the cost of the cab and licence.
A company paying millions for Microsoft Office would probably get better value if they paid some LibreOffice developers to fix the issues. Or just switched to use ODF format.
+1 on this. Keynote is very good, but Numbers gets functionally useless very quickly, and Pages is.... rough for anything that isn't "school essay". So fidgety!

Turns out word processing is hard.