jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> People needed to be evacuated, but left to its own devices, our AI would have discouraged them with a higher price.

There's two sides to the market. If off-duty drivers saw the higher price, they would be inclined to join. The price conveys information to both parties. Similarly, if I could, but don't have to, take a cab, seeing a very high price would dissuade me. But if I'm in a dangerous situation, I would gladly pay that price. Prices exist whether you want them or not. Charging everyone a low price when there are extraneous circumstances that affect the supply or demand doesn't miraculously solve the mismatch.

Variable pricing in general is a good idea, but you obviously need caps and floors. For instance, I have an adjustable rate mortgage. It makes sense to me, and when it starts adjusting the maximum rate it can go up to is around 10%, still not unreasonable worst case scenario. These contracts apparently didn't have a reasonable maximum rate, but there's no reason they can't be built with one.

We should encourage transparent prices. If energy is constrained, we should discourage people from using energy if they can and encourage supply. And the simplest way to do that is the price system.
Off topic...I heard that a common Polish swear-word is "cholera", because the disease is so bad. Is that true?
How big portion of these approvals is to have right people to get paid and to actually make sure the product is safe? We're the any "blunders" like with Boeing?
AmigaOS manages it with 512Kb of RAM.
> At least our public schools are ranked 38th.

My go-to is "at least we'll have a fast train between Bakersfield and Fresno in 2040" but damn, you hit me in the feels with that one.
I wonder, would the time spent programming and integrating all this be less than just walking the dog? For me, this would defeat the purpose of having my dogs my our life.

Having worked in robotics quit a bit this is a common trap. There are plenty of things that we can think of for a robot to do, but most of them would require more concessions, programming and maintenance time than it takes to just do the task, or hire folks to do it. The areas where the value prop holds up it really works well, but these kind of low value, high complexity applications like walking a dog around the neighborhood without dragging it by it's collar if the dogs knee hurts and it walks slow that day.

A $75k robot arm with legs is not a completed application. We can already buy robots with the needed mobility to do things like walk dogs for far less. This is a classic hammer nail situation. I think this is the issue that BD keeps running into, they have an amazing team, amazing tech, amazing capabilities, but are still searching for that killer high value application. There are over 400k industrial robots sold every year, its a huge market. They sell well because it relatively straightforward to program and integrate them into workcells and factory lines to create value. To program and integrate one of these robots to do something so complex that it would necessitate a BD robot and not a standard industrial robot would be a huge development effort. It just doesn't hold up when we have folks that need work. The cost of one 75k robot plus two person years of engineering labor is 4 or 5 years worth of traditional labor. The value prop just isn't there until our ability to control, program and integrate these complex robots (cobot stuff) gets better.
> It seems my remark that confused you [...] I feel it's nicer to just ask a question rather than to say someone is confused.

So you can say that I was confused but I cannot say that you were confused? Ok then.

What do you find unclear, really?

The 1st edition of AIMA is from February 1995.

The "Python for Lisp Programmers" page is from May 2000.

The second paragraph starts: "I looked into Python because I was considering translating the Lisp code for the Russell & Norvig AI textbook into Java."
If I could meet the person who invented termination fees for month-to-month service, I would break their arms.

A provider who can cut your service off immediately for non-payment and charge you to cancel your plan, BUT which cannot be penalized for shitty/failed/falsely advertised service is lead by criminals.

Contract pricing, with termination fees and terms which do not allow for reciprocal credit for failure to provide the contracted service (i.e. without an SLA) should be fucking illegal.
It's a fist of its kind thing in India and will definitely encourage people to build something useful. But I am not sure how far the 'driverless car' can be developed under this program.
Vim is hardly a requirement to manage a server, and the amount of changes required live on a server should be approaching zero - apps should never be written on the server and even config files etc should be handled by some form of config management - chef, puppet, debian config packages, etc
From Tom Preston-Warner himself: http://discuss.atom.io/t/why-is-atom-closed-source/82/8

> Atom won't be closed source, but it won't be open source either. It will be somewhere inbetween, making it easy for us to charge for Atom while still making the source available under a restrictive license so you can see how everything works. We haven't finalized exactly how this will work yet. We will have full details ready for the official launch.

However one tries to soften that language, that translates to a proprietary license of any standard definition of "proprietary"[0]

[0] It actually sounds rather similar to the old proprietary license that Microsoft used to use (not sure if they still do anymore).
Have you tried SLIME?
I'm wondering why you put DrRacket above SLIME.
Being one of those Indian developers, I'd happily switch with you (assuming you're one of those US devs)

Morally we'd both be better off, I would like a better quality of life (subjective I know) and you'd be able to contribute to Indian development.
In my first job out of college we used linear programming to solve combinatorial auctions - two things I had no idea existed until I interviewed with the company. It was sort of the nexus between OR and econometrics.

Very interesting to learn there was one man who helped give birth to both fields.
Hey! You're so right and we are working on making a demo available on the website - but in the meantime, let me just share one we have in our system -- here ya go:

https://docsend.com/view/hxra3rnfevsytg4v
I do wonder if some of the "No" requests are being throttled. Seem to be a lot slower than "Yes" on a lot of sites.
Not in equal amounts - cancer is highly correlated with senescence.
This "Beej" fellow is a legend. This is an example of very clear documentation that scales well with your level. When I was learning C/C++ as a teenager, I found the guides to be very accessible. They were recommended all the time to people asking questions on cprogramming.com forums. As I've referred back to them as a professional I still find them comprehensive and helpful. This is an excellent model and level of quality for other technical writers to aim for.

Brian Hall: thank you!
>most other developed nations where the government just sends you a receipt for you to verify and your taxes are otherwise taken care of for you

... is quoted literally from the original post on this thread.
I guess this is just a point upon which we disagree. I'd rather any given dose make it into the arm of a some rich asshat than go down the drain.
It's easy; there's mill, maven and fury. Mill is quite good - but I've had to dive into the source code a few times to do things.

If you're dealing with dependencies only, then it's a straightforward change. OTOH I've never had an issue with SBT since it's cleanup a couple of years back so YMMV.
The wiki page links to the EPA which does advise against fans in a closed room when it is over 90F:

Don't Use a portable electric fan in a closed room without windows or doors open to the outside. ... Don't Use a portable electric fan to blow extremely hot air on yourself. This can accelerate the risk of heat exhaustion. ... Don't direct the flow of portable electric fans toward yourself when room temperature is hotter than 90 °F."
So remove the 'limit', and instead make state support programs reduce by a fraction of the earned amount. I.e. (as I mentioned elsewhere), if every after tax dollar earned equaled 50 cents loss in state support...there is no ceiling any longer where it doesn't make sense to earn more, while at the same time cutting state support off entirely at 2x what it pays if you don't do anything.
No. Well educated and innocent pedestrians who cross at crosswalks but are clobbered by hurried drivers who don't recognize that they actually need to look out for pedestrians in between gawking at their cell phones and eating an Egg McMuffin.
Do you have a terms of service and/or privacy policy? I can't locate it.
I can confirm that many of these websites are still working on my university connection in India.

And I promise, if they don't revert their decision, I will launch a proxy site for all these websites.
> Assuming there's a way to verify every trade reported by BTC-e on the blockchain

There is no way to verify the veracity of trades on any of these exchanges. The only part that touches the blockchain is deposits and withdrawals, and those are extremely hard to track.

I agree that including BTC-e on that list is a very odd decision, considering they have excluded OKCoin, Huobi, and other Chinese exchanges which make up the lion's share of the market (even ignoring the wash trading).

BTC-e has a reputation of being something akin to Liberty Reserve, in that they exist primarily to enable drug dealers, thieves, and anyone else with dirty money to obtain fiat no questions asked.
I almost didn't catch the epilogue - he's shutting down the RubySpec project entirely, because it hasn't accomplished what he hoped.
There's a thorough overview of current techniques and how they would be invalidated by encryption in the post I linked to. I agree that e2e crypto would enable new techniques, but that wasn't my point.
It publishes all of them, I thought, unless you select the "do not publish my results" box on the main screen.
They are banned, you just don’t see it... because they’re banned.
I wonder what other disciplines are this badly skewed. Theology maybe?
Anything with garbage collection does not count. For many uses cases it is completely out of the question.
Why does FCC even exists then? It clearly violates the freedoms of private companies. What about their freedoms?
Agreed with the first part. Never heard of it, looks cool.

As for the second, I disagree: https://wit.ai/docs
What good is a receipt if a user can literally “correct” votes in a silent “adjudication” process and just print the “corrected” numbers?

I don’t buy a lot of the claims going on here, but what does a receipt do if you don’t trust the machine? Or more importantly the operator?
Did my comment break some guideline?

"If only Trump had you as a lawyer" crosses both the personal attack and snark lines, especially with your other comment guiding interpretation.

I'm just a bystander who likes to hang out here, but FWIW here are the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've noticed a recent uptick in startups filing their electronics certification paperwork at the KCC in Korea as opposed to the FCC, even though these are China-manufactured goods designed by US companies meant for and exclusively sold in the US market.

Usually I pull entries from the FCC site for easy-mode "reverse-engineering," as the FCC-native products include teardown imagery and all kinds of delicious iCandy. When there aren't any datasheets to be had without arm-wrangling NDAs, it's usually the first goto stop.

However, whenever it's a product certified only by the KCC, all that information apparently isn't required. Is this really what's going on? Are more companies transitioning to a similar legal compliance setup in order to protect their IP privacy? Why haven't tech behemoths known for proprietary shielding such as Apple or Tesla taken this route?

Quick example chosen from a company on this month's Who's Hiring.

Astropad.com's Luna Display adapter

https://fccid.io/RR-AHQ-USB-C01
$ units
Currency exchange rates from FloatRates (USD base) on 2020-12-21
3677 units, 109 prefixes, 114 nonlinear units

You have: 10m * 1kg/s * gravity
You want: W
* 98.0665
/ 0.010197162
You have:

You lack some units and prefixes.
I can't find any info about the memory bus of apple m1. Is it 8 channels 16 bit each? That's drastically different from AMDs 2 channels 64 bit each.

It looks like apple m1 is much less eager when caching memory rows. Maybe because it doesn't have l3 cache.

Edit: This test utilizes the 8x16bit memory bus of apple m1 fully. It's mostly just fetching random locations from memory, which can all be parallelized by the cpu pipeline. It explains why the results are exactly 4x slower on my ryzen 3 with 2 memory channels.

So the summary is that m1 is optimized for dynamic languages that tend to do a DDOS attack on RAM with a lot of random memory access, but it might take a performance hit with compiled languages and traditional HPC techniques that tend to process data in sequence like ECS.
Is there a ‘server room’ in the Capitol? Was is breached?
One difference could be that old people in Japan are all too often living a solitary existence or not in frequent touch with their family. My wife brought this up last night as I was discussing this thread with her and out of everything I've seen, read, and considered, this seems to be the one thing that could stop it - they were already socially distancing the most vulnerable group.

Still, there's a long way to go for this thing.
(thought this was about deep fake, kinda disappointed)

Wait a minute. Zuck, a Jew himself, is saying the Holocaust denier ads are okay-ish?

Edit: note that (1) paid ads are not free speech and (2) while you can say what you want, a commercial entity has no obligation to amplify your voice.
You heard the man. He's going to buy one for "status symbol".

God save us...
Uh, how can I, being a hardcore Bladerunner fan, not have spotted this? Thanks.
I haven't yet seen a car on the road with anything other than tempered side glass.
I think Ousterhout’s pragmatic definition of complexity is the best one when discussing actual code bases: complexity is anything that makes the system hard to change, taking into account how often the relevant part needs to change.
But when or if you have a child to look in the eyes and be a role model to, would it not make you a bit queasy?

Show and tell day? :)
Programming is the man behind the curtain, your job is to build a simple system that might solve a complex problem. The system cares none about the age of the creator, nor do the users.

The ageism in programming is only a side-effect of it being a new industry really since the 80s for desktop and 90s for web. You don't find many people in any industry much older than the industry itself.
I'm doubtful that anyone with a VP-Level title at BofA is writing software. I have a feeling you're comparing entirely different jobs here.

Additionally, Lockheed built (among other things) the SR-71 and the F22. Its probably a safe bet to say that writing the control systems for those machines took more skill than "the simplest computer program."
if there are certain key technologies that aren't predicted correctly (like desktop computers, high-bandwidth cell signals, internet everywhere, etc), then it has a cascading effect of invalidating many of the other predictions

Which is why it's better to work on something truly innovative and disruptive that has the potential to become one of those key technologies. Elon Musk type stuff, rather than think X for Y to get buzzword soup and series A projects.
It's a huge relief to look at a file on scribd and have the file be HTML, rather than flash.

I used to avoid scribd, but now I'll happily use it. As well as the pauses and slowdowns, even the flash text rendering is wretchedly bad in comparison with the HTML rendering I get in Safari.

Scribd have done a great job in moving over to HTML, and I'd expect the growth to keep coming. Good on them!

Can't find the transition item here on YCN, but the first article of the transition to HTML is:

http://coding.scribd.com/2010/05/17/facing-font-in-html/
> Hell, you could probably skip the $6 Starbucks every day for a few weeks and save that. You could bike to work two days out of five and save it in gas. You could start a side business and MAKE an additional $56 per month.

Aside from biking to work (which is sometimes feasible but sometimes not, such as with people with disabilities, the elderly, people who live far away, people who don't own a bike, people who don't have a shower at work, people who work long hours at manual-labor jobs and are constantly tired, and you know, all the other ways this might not work) I don't think those are options that most minimum-wage workers have. Buying Starbucks every morning is not something minimum-wage workers typically do. Being able to start a business is a privilege usually of the middle class, or businesses passed down through families, or require certain education or other resources, not to mention the barriers of being either non-white, non-male or not a native english speaker... Not to say it can't be done. But most minimum wage workers can't do these things.

There's a lot of people who don't have a better way to save money because they're already saving everything they can. This technique provides a new way to save.
An IDE should aim to pass a simple UX test which is: after installing the IDE with no prerequisites and no further configuration (no I don't want to create an env var, specify where I keep my compiler or ...), a hello world program should be possible to run straight away.
> What if employers/clients actually invest their own time in recruiting ? What if they ask their team members to recruit actively and even compensate them in some way (may be a boost in performance review ?). But no, we won't do that. We have lot more important shit to worry about.

Is this how large tech companies operate? I have mostly worked at startups, and am currently employed with a research institution. At no point have I ever gone through a recruiter when switching employers. In my limited experience, team members have always been the ones to directly manage their hiring and recruitment efforts.
> There were missile strikes so hasty that they hit women and children, attacks built on such flimsy intelligence that they made targets of ordinary villagers, and classified rules of engagement that allowed the customer to knowingly kill up to 20 civilians when taking out an enemy.

Why is the article focusing on the goon pulling the trigger, as opposed to these actual killed-dead casualties?
I YOLO’d the Google interview two times. First time I failed. Second time I somehow passed. It can be done. Might have gotten a higher level with studying but I don’t think I would have ever studied.
I presume it's a marketing ploy to get more hosting customers. They're saying in the comments that they'll keep the domain at that price for renewals, though ... http://weblog.mediatemple.net/2010/11/10/mt-domain-partner-p...
When the doctor first told me that I had numerous vitamin and mineral
deficiencies, that I was almost anemic, and my B12 was so low she
wanted to give me an injection immediately, I refused to believe her.

That's poor diet. Vegan or not. B12 is made by bacteria (not animals or plants) and industrial meat is full of it because we feed livestock with putrified waste foods while industrialized vegetables are unnaturally clean with chemicals. Organic vegetables have enough B12.

Also modern diet has anti-nutrients preventing absorption (like coffee and iron.)

The broad generalizations from reactionaries like political vegans and their anti-vegan counterparts disgust me. Both groups are completely uninformed and stubborn. For them it's about confirmation bias and group think.
Its a chicken and egg problem, really. Besides, I would appreciate the ability to wrangle my own dropbox client. From their api, it seems that each app which hooks into their API must have a secret key, so I wonder if an open-source client can be distributed minus the key.
I've always wanted someone smarter than me to compare the US to Canada as a case study for or against revolution. It seems one could learn a lot by comparing the violent revolution that created the US and the slow and peaceful transfer of power that created Canada. Since the cultures are so similar, it's striking that the 49th parallel created such different paths to statehood.
“By listening closely to one another, we can help illuminate the true character of this nation reminding us all just how precious each day can be and how truly great it is to be alive."

- Dave Isay, Founder, StoryCorps

Thanks for sharing this. Listening to StoryCorps is always a pleasure :)
> The MegaJobs are more like lottery tickets, than prizes in a meritocracy (think landing a spot at a top law firm, or investment bank--it's more about who you know and where you studied, than what you can do).

I could not disagree more. All people I know with what the author calls MegaJobs have them because they considerably smarter and are prepared to work harder than most. These are the guys that worked 16 hours a day at university and are now doing the same the at their jobs. To suggest that it was due to connections is frankly naive. Connections can definitely help you get in, but they are never a substitute for above qualities.
I gave up trying to parse it, and didn't understand it until I read (skimmed) the article.
Duplicated: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1248500
> Lisp does not make medicore programmers 10x better.

No language will. OTOH, no mediocre programmer will grok Lisp.
There are HFT guys making this much.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov
A bit older, but way better presentation by Luis von Ahn on duolingo:

The Royal Society - "Augmented intelligence: the Web and human computation" (Louis von Ahn)
http://royalsociety.tv/dpx_royalsociety/dpx.php?cmd=autoplay...

+ has excellent discussion at the end.
Tried to access this site from work and it's blocked by the corporate firewall. When I saw it at home last night, there didn't seem to be anything inappropriate about the site. Maybe I'm missing something?

I guess that means my current job ranks low according to the criteria in this article.
Be prepared, bring in the numbers.
Can you explain why that wouldn't lead to the introduction of parties like Tories2, Tories3, ..., Tories100? One could allocate 1/#votes "points" to each party voted for, but that gets you back to strategic voting.
Lisp has had some extremely vocal advocates. Paul Graham, certainly. "Beating the Averages" has attracted a lot of attention, outside its typical niches.

Also, Lisp has been around for a while - it's been a couple decades ahead of its time for fifty years! Much great research literature has come out of its culture.

Besides, Haskell certainly gets plenty of "blog posts by people who almost certainly don't use it on a day to day basis". Erlang's culture seems to favor ugly pragmatism over "avoiding success at all costs", though.
Pics provide instant gratification. They are also usually low on intellectual info. And thus pic-only submissions are mostly flagged/removed on HN from my experience.
iOS can already use a VPN
anecdotally, I'm sure people are curious in the short term.

but I'm pretty sure the current best practice for maximising CTR is to, well, make sure stuff is visible. feels silly to even dispute this.
Then again, git is not a consumer software. Developer should spend some time and learn 5 commands to be productive.

But I find this interface interesting, even knowing all command line git this makes browsing history for reviews easy, nice tool.
Makes sense to me. I guess the way I see it is that justified text makes it look cleaner when you are just looking at the text from afar. To actually read it though, the difference in line length seems like it would help make reading easier.