jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Fine. But I'm saying if you want to actually understand how music works (rather than play an instrument) the standard notation IMHO
actually gets in the way.

Because the most important thing is the actual semitone intervals, and the standard notation hides them and gives them weird names like augmented fourth (it's just six semitones, just call it that). And it names the 12 semitones based on the c major mode even though that's only one of about 50 modes/scales/keys you might want to use.
However, to use your analogy, ceasing to use PHP is like stopping smoking and dropping 50lbs. Sure, it'll still happen eventually, but the expectancy curve is a lot flatter.
I did an oven reflow on an RRoD Xbox motherboard years ago. Worked like a charm. I was a little worried about bursting the caps, but a little insulation and aluminum foil protection apparently kept them cool enough. Lasted for about a year.
> through analytical metrics

That sounds very "Google." They tend to be quite data-driven. Seems to have worked for them. I tend to be a bit sloppier, myself.
Tried an alternate shell for a while, ran into the basic problem that the moment I SSH'd somewhere else it was gone, and my instincts for how to get things done expediently were degrading.

If I was going to use an alternate shell, it's got to have some solution for this problem that's transparent - something I can load into any sh/bash environment to get it running remotely.
Seeing the recent news out of the state of New York regarding the actions taken by their governor, it's hard to blame all of this on Trump. This article seems to be very partisan and biased.
If python continues to be this popular, there will be more maintainers who join the project.

Surely you’ve seen volunteers join existing projects out of their own interest and need now. The decades that you contributed (thank you, BTW): were those all on projects you started, or did you also join some existing efforts?

I don’t see any reason to think that will stop in 10, 20, or 60 years.
If we want to solve this problem we need to start with a way to assign credit and identify neglected parts of the stack. After we have awareness we can find the funds.
control plane exposed to WAN, that's a good idea, NOT.
That perfectly describes my sentiment, too. I did not know I needed this until I had it.
Dithering is also really handy if you're screen printing and want to do things in one ink cololor (IE grey to 1-bit B&W). Having Illustrator trace the dot layer is a bit painful but it seems to work!
It might be true that there are some chiropractors who are also skilled physical therapists or massage therapists.

But that's just a coincidence -- the name "chiropractor" does not imply those things. Chiropractic itself is not evidenced based in any way.

Aside: I wish you the best in your life and hope you find justice/success/happiness.
What I don't get is why anyone who wanted "fastest page loads" would touch CloudFront with a ten foot pole. Check the testing; they're by far the slowest.
When YouTube tells me to install Flash, it isn't on a page with the words "HTML5 and web standards" as the header.
But how would one represent a configuration like "don't require auth for /, but do require auth for /foo/*.jpeg" in a table? It would be great to just use a row for each possible URL, but with overlapping wildcards, folder hierarchies and multiple levels of allow/deny it gets very complicated very quickly. Granted, the allow/deny and order that Apache uses isn't great, but at least a configuration is understandable by reading it because the admin can lay out the configuration file with whitespace and comments in a way that makes sense. The equivalent might be achievable in sqlite, but it would be very challenging. It's basically a step backwards towards a poorly featured, confusing GUI configuration mechanism like the old IIS configuration used to be.
Hmm, I clicked a few links from that page and ended up at an article about Giles Bowkett being fired because someone said he was a child molester.
People with Steve's wealth don't keep their life savings in a checking account. Any single checking or savings account is on the order of 100,000th of his total net worth.
If it had been a Harlequin romance novel, the vaguely abusive but mostly misunderstood VC would probably have gotten the founder, after several speeches about how she was not to be tamed.

My not-so-secret shame is that I have a Kindle full of urban fantasy, which is essentially isomorphic to romance, except the bodices get ripped with retractable claws. Oh, and the lover is her sire, so he has a excuse for being abusive and controlling when he isn't being a suave sex machine. By the way, she didn't consent to being turned but kind of enjoyed it anyhow. Both parts of that are major plot points, frequently returned to.

The worst part of it is I just can't stop reading them. sigh
And the company would have died. The VCs needed a short term 10X or better return on their money due to the fund ending and were willing to bet everything for a chance to get it since "shares in an illiquid company are useless to the VC". Profitable enough to return 2X the VCs' money and growing at "double digit rates", just not enough.

The 5 to 10 year lifetime of current VC funds coupled with the slow (at best) economy and the much greater difficultly in cashing out post the doc.com crash suggests that taking VC money today is particularly risky and taking it near the end of the fund's life far worse.
What a great idea. Most processes use internal and inaccessible memory as configuration storage. When they start up, or when you issue a special command, they reload some of their configuration from a file in some custom dialect. Sometimes, configuration is exposed with some custom interface to hosted code. Django, for instance, lets you manipulate settings from your application, but there is no external interface for it.

Mongrel2 has exposed it's internal configuration storage for programmatic manipulation in an easy and standard way. If you would prefer configuring it with a file, you could create your own configuration file format and loader. Good luck doing that with, say, apache.
"The big company execs don’t realize nothing happens at a small company unless you personally take initiative. Nothing comes to you by itself."

This part hits very close to home. Every single one of the executive, sales, or biz-dev people our VCs pushed on fell into this trap. Without fail, they would dig into their network until reaching an impressive contact, put together a powerpoint proposal with shockingly good projections, and then expect someone else to make it all happen. However, in every case they were ousted by the board and the VC firm after 1 year of not producing results.
Hi Patrick! You mention several times your past as a salaryman, and from your posts I get the feeling you're very happy about not being one anymore :) Besides the "pull" factors (such as loving to develop your own product, manage your own time, etc), could you mention some of the "push" factors that made you want to leave the salaryman existence?

I guess most people on HN could elaborate a lot on why working for a salary is not among their first options, but now I'm particularly interested in your story, if you don't mind :)

(For reference, here are some quotes from your blog:)

My name is Patrick McKenzie. I’m an ex-Japanese salaryman

reacclimating myself to a human existence after years of salarymanhood

After several years working as a Japanese salaryman, I quit my day job and went full time on my business as of April 1st of this year. This was the best decision I have ever made.
SEEKING EXPERIENCE / WORK

Location: Europe

Remote: Yes

Technology: Javascript, Typescript, React , Vue

Email: erwin.h.pierce@hotmail.com

I'm currently looking for 10 - 20 hours per week of development work. Looking for experience rather than direct remuneration. So I'd be happy to work on anything from open source source projects to commercial applications. I am self taught on technologies but confident that I would still be an asset if I can be pointed in the right direction.
I can't speak for the poster but obvious issues include:

* Having any kind of separation between work and home.

* The requirement to have an office space that you likely pay quite a lot of rent for.

* Lack of spontaneous interaction with co-workers (especially new ones)
Major cities are first due to travel and busy airports. The spread of the epidemic is in different phase in different areas.

Other areas have still time to prepare.
I may be missing something, but that post doesn't address the expense of power, it talks about the relative consumption of networking equipment compared to the rest of the facility. Power is expensive, and James Hamilton generally spends lots of time talking about it, his Velocity keynote (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHW-ayt_Urk) about datacenter innovations focused primarily on power and cooling (heat being a biproduct of power consumption).
I like how they're sharing features with each other.
There is no reason why payment for community nurturing and common services needs to extracted by force and administered by a monopoly.
"In effect, a job doing research in Computer Science is more prestigious than an industry job building real system"

That's actually no longer true. Hence why a Prof leaves to take a job at Google
Great tips, thanks! :-D
CrashPlan, friends. CrashPlan.
The problem isn't that their ids have already gone past the 53 bit (much less 64 bit) marker in sequential order. The problem is that they are going to start generating ids in a different fashion which is causing the issue.

This seems to be the relevant id generating code:
https://github.com/twitter/snowflake/blob/master/src/main/sc...
Also curious about this. What does "at an executive level" mean?
Well, at least it has a webcam.
While the author has a lot of valid points, he forgets the goal of Go. Go was designed as a simple language, that is fast, but has similar power to existing dynamic languages such as python.

The tradeoff in these designs are to prevent tuple types, always keep using structs, prevent using algebraic types over structs. Allow for nil, but try prevent common Null errors etc.

Haskall is theoretical a much better language. But Golang was designed to be practical & simple over being mathematically sound, and theoretical better.
You kind of need to accept that it sucks for you to want to make it better.

If you thought it was already perfect there would be no reason to.
Nothing by wittgenstein qualifies as "one of the most accessible pieces of philosophy ever written". If you believe this, you probably didn't understand what you were reading. If you want accessible, then I'd start with the pre-socratics.
> You should have no doubt that, for example, Facebook would make a "the internet" which was 100% Facebook-operated sites.

AOL already tried that back when they were still sending floppies through the mail. They were the largest ISP on earth and couldn't keep people in their little walled off corner of the internet. I don't think anyone else is going to be more successful.
Wow, despicable. Thank you.
Same. Time for a completely different stack / protocol? Like a cloud that is actually a cloud rather than corporate centralization with a side order of surveillance?
What private information? If you give a random website your email address or phone number, it's not private anymore and you're the one who released the secret. Unless they promised to keep it private in a legally binding way, in which case, your wish is already true.
Exactly. As a community, we have routinely given the advice to “own your identity” by buying a domain. Since most of the good com domains are long bought, someone newer to the internet is likely to have looked at org. If someone took us up on our advice in, say, 2014 that means that he or she has had a domain for five years. Five years to integrate that into a life in various ways, remembered or not. And now, that thing could cost $75/year with no recourse.

Then there are people like me. My org domain is so old it can legally drink and soon be able to run for Congress. What is it worth to me? $200/year? $500? $1,000? I don’t know and it sucks to have to consider yet another astoundingly high cost of “living” in a world that keeps going up in cost.
> Printer firmware does not get updates.

Sounds like you've never owned a printer before...

> IF that ever happens, which is super duper unlikely, then kill it since the clients are unfixable.

So have a possible security hole with no active developers until a third party finds a vulnerability, then shut it down?

> But this is not an ongoing cost.

You would still require SRE support for keeping this thing up running. You would also open yourself up to a lot of risk, losing user trust and potential lawsuits if it ever was hacked.

Everything you wrote sounds like an elaborate troll but I'm assuming that you've just never worked on a large system before.
>

Like I said. Needlessly contentious.
You should be validating inputs to your application anyway.
They can have my last two Legos, these blocks are no longer useful to me. They already have most of the blocks under their control anyways.
The sum-of-NIST-digits CNN+logic example was really interesting: https://scallop-lang.github.io/tutorial.html#section-10

Anybody familiar with the space have pointers to good introductory material on this field? Or terms to search on to get at current work - differentiable logic?
Yes, that part is ridiculous.

But once you normalize for all of that, then, assessing at 85% is really like assessing for 170% which would be bad.

Also - in a situation of rapidly deteriorating home values, the state may be short sighted, in wanting to pay it's bills, trying to extract some value.

It's really sad because you generally don't see entire neighbourhoods go to nothing in most of the modern world.
"...despite companies trying to get free PR by saying they'll accept it, almost nobody uses it to buy anything other than drugs."

I stopped reading right there.
I agree that laws and procedures should be tighter, but I don't expect any change. I don't even know the number attached to my SIM card. I bought it anonymously for $16 a month. I rarely turn off airplane mode. I pay $1 a month per number at VoIP.ms. Privacy and security is cheaper for me.
"I can readily tell the difference between Clarence court eggs and copycats..." is an extract from 'Middle Class British Problems' if ever I heard one! :)
Not the author, but I'll answer as someone who has owned many of Yamaha's classic FM synths. Without a doubt I think that the original DX7 Mk1 is the most interesting. The latter 6-operator FM synths such as the DX7 Mk2, or the SY77/99 were definitely more advanced, and had a 'cleaner' sound, but they don't capture the same classic gritty quality of the original.
I use a Google Doc. I’ve never really wanted anything more.
> the author seems to have a laser-like focus on the material fact that he feels insubordination has occured and that this is a problem

Indeed, how is it that in the 19th century the conscripted lined up in rank and file against grapeshot cannonade, went over the top in the war to end all wars, and only 1 of 3 discharged their weapons in WWII? Perhaps it is only the victory of management science that we more precisely know the extent to which the individual subordinates himself dutifully and unthinkingly to command.

> I don't think it's solely because someone said so.

The extent to which management reckons the rank and file's pliancy reliable -- without its image being rescued by romance (a la The Charge of the Light Brigade) -- relies upon the realism of quid pro quo and economic desperation. Where would we be without our crime-procedurals, super-hero movies, and high-school signing contracts? The omnipotence fantasy consists in wrongs that are righted, but when the bullshit wears so thin that everyone sees through it...what then? Rebel around some cultural touch-stone?

> Try to figure out why people don't want to do this thing?

I prefer management remain clueless. Can anyone imagine anything more horrifying than unthinking executors of commands? Executors who may wink out the lives of wedding parties a continent removed? I will laud you for echoing an American "leftist" commonplace for wishing to discover root-causes (exactly as quaint as "without even the appearance of impropriety").

But I cast my lot with all who reply "I prefer not to."
Bingo! I always ask for salary, tech stack, industry and client name. The first three are to help me decide if I care. The last one is so I can research the company, position, salaries, etc.

I find it slightly annoying if they don't give those details up front. If they refuse to give them when asked, we have nothing more to talk about.
Derisking. Thats the term.
It's more internally consistent by design. It means "you can't miss a update because you forget to do something or something" or "this thing only work correctly if you do something or something",

e.g. change the code in useMemo and forget to update the dependency, add a callback and forget useCallback results in re-render everytime. Those guarantees are opt-out instead of opt-in in vue by design.

You have to specifically call some api in vue to opt-out the guarantees if you really want to optimize it yourself. In other word, you are not going to get blazingly fast performance by default if you actually do nothing and use it like html, but you also won't get shit like performance if you use it like that. (Generally you get a decent performance that you won't want to open devtool to check "what the hell framework is this site use?", you are probably not even going to realize the site is using vue)
Thought up or implemented are not always the same.
This is anecdotal evidence. Nobody is disputing those exists. However I think FB and Google owe their existence a little better evidence, such as A/B testing, control group studies and even experiments to actually demonstrate their effectiveness. Until we have those (and perhaps we do; I seriously know nothing of the existing literature) the anecdotal evidence we do have should be taken only as indicative of effect, not proof of effect. Anecdotal evidence come with a ton of bias.
>2. Jung's theories (the ones used in the test) aren't just "controversial". They're wrong. He says it himself, in the same document they used to create the test.

Not a Jungian, but the "wrong" claim is a bold one, in reference to Jung's theories. Are they even falsifiable ? Psychology isn't a hard science. For example, how could you falsify something like the idea of archetypes?
That's awesome. I think what we want through these systems is very similar—I completely agree with your philosophy as you describe it.

I think my emphasis is a little different since my primary interest is annotating/finding pieces of research. So I don't need to do any data analysis; instead having an efficient UI for tagging/adding notes to things and searching are the key features.

That said, it would still probably be better for me to use your lib to sync with the couple data sources I have in mind rather than rolling my own thing :)

One data source I didn't notice was for file system locations(but I may have just missed it)—this is a major one for me: I want to point it to a folder and have it keep the recursive contents synced. That's how I'll deal with local collections of e.g. PDFs.
Seems we do have a screening app online https://www.screencovid.org/.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22649822
Yes, it's completely different. That one is a blood test that only detects infections that are pretty far along.
> I don't really believe it

That's strange.

It's perhaps worth noting that the two main points made in the two separate articles - that roughly 200 million doses will be available at some indeterminate future date including 130 million from Novartis if hydroxychloroquine is approved for treatment of COVID 19, and that the currently unfounded hype surrounding hydroxychloroquine has caused an immediate problem for some currently prescribed patients and four out of eight licensed manufacturers are in shortage - are not at all contradictory. I would not want to be one of the patients currently dependent on that drug right now.

I do appreciate your pointing out to another poster that they shouldn't acquire it without a prescription and a real need. I would think what was said might be a clue to you that the shortage the NY Times was talking about is more than plausible. People are not (forgive me for stating the obvious) fully rational or thoughtful of their fellow man when making their purchases lately.
I dream that in post-crisis clarity, some news sources will reverse the traditional "FDA as protagonist" wording of such headlines, and instead prefer formulations like:

"FDA removes threats of fines & imprisonment for one company's point-of-care COVID-19 diagnostic"
If the government has such strict criteria for testing, might it also not have implemented strict 'stages' that you must proceed through after a diagnosis? And a further, stricter criteria before even allowing hospitalisation?

My other suspicion is severe cases will try their best to hold off on self-reporting given the strict government testing criteria and lack of awareness/panic.

This is one key way that Japanese and US society diverge - Americans are much less afraid to 'make a fool of themselves' if they believe they are correct/in danger. Japanese unfortunately, much more so and especially when given direct government directions.
Also, it is far easier to harden one or two hosts than entire farm of different devices.
It's the same criticism people had for Dropbox or the first iPhone: there's nothing new. The key is that it's very well packaged with a focus on UX (especially on mobile) and it requires extremely little setup effort.
The fact that this is so downvoted that I had to cut and paste to read it reflects poorly on HN.
Are you sure you are talking about the obligatory insurance provided by national health service (NFZ)? I have never tried the first option (and hopefully I will never have to), but $25 sounds ridiculously low even for Polish standards.
I mainly submitted this here for the discussion. I really enjoy reading people's comments and I'm very curious if my hypotheses are correct.
A lot of my frontend code should probably live in a file called crime.js
Anecdotal but my relative is a teacher. The principal of their school just told them straight up that they need to improve the grades no matter what so they can compete with other schools.

It’s kind of a open secret that if you go to a bad school it will be easier to get a good grade to get into university but harder to pass university.
Many functional languages do not model effects in the type system, like the ML family. Many do not have static types at all, like Clojure/LISP.
How would those same places be doing without masks?
Yeah, but housing is also more pricey there.

It seems we are in a vicious cycle of high salaries -> higher housing costs -> even higher salaries -> even higher housing costs.

To prevent the same problems elsewhere, it might seem useful to not increase salaries too much. But the real problem is that housing cost depends too much on what the buyer can pay.
Schools don't pick students. They can't even discriminate on grades.
No, it's just a misleading HN title.
> could check a box indicating they were single

I can't remember the exact quote, but it's something like the longer your site is live, the likelier it is to have turned into a dating site.
Why do people pay attention to this guy?