jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
All distributed databases shard data. If you hammer at only a specific shard area, performance will be limited to the speed of that shard.

ActorDB fits a specific data model extremely well. Some less so. But that is the case with all databases.
I really liked the old servo logo too:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d9/Servo_l...

In case it isn’t clear, I’m serious.
I would suspect so, since matrix is not about message passing, but about state synchronization, which is more data-intensive.
Employees do not take the same risk as owners/founders.

If a startup fails:

Founder loses two years, his life savings, and gets paid nothing.

Employee loses two years, keeps his life savings, and gets paid salary for that time.

Completely different risk propositions.
>May as well claim torrenting is used for downloading Linux isos so its not a piracy problem.

May as well claim the internet is used for something other than piracy so it's not a piracy problem.

See how silly that is?
The original question still stands. If the issue of hedge funds shorting GME above 100% is true and (theoretically) hedge funds can pump as they like because they have the capital capacity and act as one entity, how can you regulate it?

It's not so much different that people banding together to pump a stock.

EDIT: I don't defend GME, imo it is a pump and dump. But how can SEC can regulate equally for this specific issue?
Thanks! Genuinely didn’t know about these
I wonder if this will for some area's of science be a step like going from seeing the surface of your skin and then suddenly seeing it under a microscope and initially being shocked at what you see.
What do you mean by "sample their training data"?
It gives a probability distribution over possible values for the next token, in a way that was trained to do well on the training data, yes.

But, something which gives a uniform distribution over characters, has a nonzero (though of course minuscule and entirely negligible) chance of giving any given sequence of characters, and so if there is any text which would be "novel", it is "possible" that it would give such a text.

A distribution which has a greater tendency to give meaningful text, is, I think, more likely to give text which is "novel"? Like, a uniform distribution over "text which is grammatically valid English text" is more likely to produce text which is interpreted as corresponding to a novel idea, than a distribution over all possible strings of text.

Of course, that's not the distribution that GPT3 produces.

Now, something which took random full sentences from the training set, that seems like one might say that that "can't produce anything novel", because even if the sequence of sentences it produces hasn't been seen before, they basically won't ever make sense together, much less in order to describe some novel idea? Well, I guess it is probably more likely to do so than the one that generates uniformly random strings of characters?
> Access Car View

> This simplified Spotify dashboard appears automatically when your phone is connected using Bluetooth.

Oh. Nice. Looks better than the "main" UI. I guess I'll have to dig up a BLE module and try to make it pretend it's a car.
Thanks. WOFF format now has enough traction that everything except Opera Mini supports it. Originally, Apple's IOS only supported fonts in SVG, of all things. Then they added TTF in 2010, and WOFF in 2012. Unless you need to support something pre-2012 and have it look pretty there, WOFF is enough.

If you need to convert a font for which you have the rights, there's Font Squirrel. (http://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator). That tool can convert a font to all the popular formats. Throw in SVG if you need to support old iPhones.

You don't really need Google Fonts as a service any more. That was a workaround. Just host on your own site in WOFF.
The reason behind selling the project is that our team decided to split up and angel investors need their money back. Nobody does marketing now and I began to work on other initiatives.
Flywheels are pretty neat too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage
Love this community, Merry Xmass <3
The point of graphs like these (aside from making a joke) is to describe the learning curve. These graphs admit that the beginning of haskell is a nightmare, but claim that eventually you have "unbounded" productivity.

It seems rather hard to evaluate the tail end from "little experience".
Congratulations, you are now an exceptional developer!

In all fairness, this is merely a label and I would argue one that only applies at your current employer. ie It's not automatically transferable.

If you want to appear exceptional, get an advanced degree from a great school and get large, well-known companies on your resume.

If you want to be exceptional, help others around you become exceptional. Always be learning, always be teaching.

Best of luck on your journey!
For interested readers who want follow up reading: learn about loop unrolling. Commonly used with SIMD vectorization to get rid of loop overhead. Then we can also start doing cache based optimization, cache blocking etc
>Yes, I, as an employer, keep my staff doing "bullshit jobs" because I want to "keep control over the lives of others." WTF?!?! Why would I do that?

One reason bullshit jobs exist is because decisions are made by managers, not some ultimate rational owner who thinks only of profit. In many big companies a manager's status is based on the number of people they manage, if they invent more jobs for people they are more important and get promoted. The same problem exists with corporate budgets, the more money a manager spends/controls the more status that manager has, the faster they move up the ladder, thus managers are incentivized to get as much of the budget as possible and to claim that all the projects and things they purchased helped the company. This prevents the company from even understanding the level of waste which is occurring.

Same thing happens in governments or any hierarchical organisation above a particular size. It is an extension of Celine's second law[0].

For a deeper and much more cynical view of corporate dysfunction read the Gervais principal[1].

>Marx would love it - it puts the means of production in the hands of the common man.

Not sure Marx would love it as it could individualize production and thereby reduce the mechanization and discipline of the proletariat which he felt was necessary for the class to act effectively. I think Proudhon would love it as he was more in favor of individual freedom.

You might be interested to know that Mao tried a maker revolution[2]. It was a complete disaster because it was poorly planned and executed, but shows that Mao was at least open to ideas of radical decentralization.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celine%27s_laws#Celine.27s_Seco...

[1]: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_furnace
How long ago did you see the UK ones? ~5 years ago, the style of them was overhauled. Now, they're really actually pretty nice. They sell some really decent quality food.
To be fair though, the majority of ISS funding comes from NASA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station_pro...
Being Swedish, I've always had to surrender my I-94 upon leaving, though that's always been by air (including at SFO). (And there's always a warning on it that says essentially that "if you fail to surrender the I-94 we will think that you've remained illegally".)
Yes. We were influenced by the large number of YC alumni that they got to recommend them, but not by the dinners they organized for the applicants.
It doesn't look like planned downtime to me, so I don't see how it could be directly related.

But that doesn't mean that someone hasn't blown PSN's security wide open after figuring something out on a hacked PS3, or something like that. I get the feeling that Sony doesn't plan to tell us, either.

Once again, I'm glad that I haven't bought any Sony products for ages.
"most of the revenue goes into the retailer's pocket"

I thought the standard model at Groupon was 50% to Groupon (who carries no inventory, or service costs) and 50% to the retailer (who carries all the costs of the product sold to the customer).

Outside of advertising and sales, Groupon is close to 100% margin (they carry a bit of the per-coupon merchandising and servicing cost)- the retailer carries all the cost of the product that the customer actually buys.
That was the idea, but they immediately made a prototype kilogram mass in 1799 when they came up with that definition, and it turns out that it was off by about 25 ppm, and we've been working from that prototype ever since — so water only has that density to four significant figures.
I clicked expecting to see a video of UIs from real medical devices. My own misreading of the title. But this is cool too.
"given that you've already demonstrated that you don't really have a lot of regard for the privacy of fellow YC interviewees"

The only thing they really did wrong was publicly tweeting at everyone, had they just used people's twitters to look up their emails they would have been completely in the clear. And even then if they had still tweeted at a few people who were already in the bay area whose emails they couldn't find that would be kosher also, as long as the tweets were carefully worded. They took one short cut they shouldn't have, but otherwise it was a good idea that was well executed.
I have a T60 and love it. It's built like a tank. Has a good keyboard and the "stick" mouse pointer (which I really like). It is a bit heavy to lug around, but it is my only machine and it is a good compromise between portable and usable.
Whack a screwdriver blade against a strong magnet a few dozen times, all in the same direction. Presto, your $1 screwdriver is now a $2 magnetized screwdriver.
This is all pretty technocratic. I would recommend Peter Drucker's "The Effective Executive" for some useful thoughts on organizing your day and being more effective at work.
I just have to ask why? What is so neat about it? Please enlighten ..
I can't speak for their Cloud offering, but I have been using their Kimsufi Large (2.6GHZ) dedicated servers for around a year.

It's renewal time next week and my plan is to stick with them and drop my Slicehost.

Pros:
- Pricing is great. Hardware performs well. The value for money is far better than anything I can get in my own country.
- Most countries now have local sales/support teams so you can deal with a friendly local representative and they will deal with France and Octave.
- They're very fast with getting new Linux distros prepped for their manager system.

Downsides:
- Routes from your ISP to OVH may not be optimal. I've seen reports from people here complaining of routes going right around Europe the long way, from various ISPs.
- Pulling a large file from Novell to my Slice in the US I was getting around 2MB/sec but to OVH it was just a few hundred K/sec. Decide the value of bandwidth and where your customers are.
- I've had an unexplained reboot that I haven't been able to track down. It didn't bother me enough to track it down with support.
- The Manager user interface seemed to be a machine translation from French into English. Quite often the statements made no sense at all. This has improved quite a lot within the last 12 months though.

I've had more positives with them than negatives. Their Kimsufi dedicated offering suits me well and I'm incredibly impressed at how Octave has grown the company
Right, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. But when Facebook decides to give the iOS app more attention than the Android app... well, I can't really blame that on the platform.

Really? Someone drive by downvoting both posts without any discussion? Come on, man up and have a discussion. I'm sorry that I don't accept "Android sucks lol" as a reason for why the Facebook app is so much better on iOS devices.

It's the same darned reason that the design studio projects my class is working on this year are all based on iOS devices for limited use-cases that would be more easily deployed, serviced and cheaper with an Android solution.
> My bank charges less for an international wire transfer.

This is a rich persons point of view, you have rich persons financial accounts and knowledge.

Also Australian's largest Bank's fees are often more in total than $30, perhaps you are transferring to your motherland of England? A small town in Africa is hard and costly.

https://www.commbank.com.au/international/fees-charges.html
Thanks for the review! I'll give it a serious try then.

Does your code happen to be available anywhere? I'd love to learn by example from someone who's used it for so long on real work. (Feel free to DM me on twitter: https://twitter.com/theshawwn if you'd like to share it privately.)

Have a great night!
Being behind the wheel of a car with "autopilot" is not quite the same as being stuck in the back seat of a self-driving car where you have no control over it at all.

I'd gladly drive a Tesla with autopilot, but wouldn't want to let it drive me while I lounge in the back seat.
Are alternatives free? no
What happened to "focus on the business logic / application"?

Are we just making rabbit holes out of rabbit holes of abstraction using kubernetes?

I just use and push code to Heroku and I'm done for the day, simple. NoOps I call it.

I wish more tools and platforms were like this.
He's been voicing off on so many things, it's become a running joke between me and my partner to say:

"Yes, but what does Bill Gates think about it?"
He is trying to push his own digital currencies in developing countries that compete with Bitcoin. So obviously, he tries to defend his position.
https://www.google.com/search?q=bill+gates+as+super+hero
This is another interesting article by the author of this one:
https://medium.com/@adeyinkaadegbenro/coping-with-deafness-i...
>In theory Chemotherapy is a research-backed approach. In practice it is simply the best we have for those that reject proper nutrition and exercise.

Cancer is the result of DNA damage, which you can get from viruses, chemicals (of all types), sunlight, and even background radiation. Plus, I suspect, random errors in DNA transcription. That's why your body has multiple overlapping systems to detect and destroy cancerous cells.

The idea you'll never get cancer if you just eat right and exercise is a fool's hope - if you don't die of something else first you'll get cancer.

And yes, chemo isn't ideal, but it will normally stretch your life out some. It's certainly not the best we have in all cases - there are targeted drugs for some cancers now.
"Equilibrium real interest rate"??? What a load of horseshit. Interest rates are low because if they raise them the entire world goes broke. They dropped them down in order to sell more and more debt. Now all the debt is sold. This is the result of globalization; there's only so much "good" debt to buy. With all individuals and governments in developed countries maxed out on their debts, the banking system is basically stuck. Economists dredge up techno baffle-gab like this to fool the public into thinking there's some complex mystery to the financial system that only quants can figure out. It's not that complicated. Declare debt amnesty, make all the banks suddenly smaller, and if you really want to prevent this kind of thing from happening again make currency speculation illegal. That's a good start.
I searched for "Ben R. Rich" on Google, and I can't find any non-UFO sites that substantiate your claims.
In my opinion, Chrome was funded for two reasons,

(a) At the time Chrome was launched, IE was dominating with ~69% market share:
https://d28wbuch0jlv7v.cloudfront.net/images/infografik/norm...
And, Firefox/Mozzila was topping out at 25% market share! They were basically resting on their laurels! Remember that the SPDY protocol which is the prototype standard for HTTP 2.0, was invented at Google and was the main innovation within Chrome 1.0. If you do a timed google search 2008-2010 for SPDY you will see that the SPDY whitepaper page was Nov 12, 2009 : https://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper So Chrome was launched to make web browsing faster.

(b) Google Search does not want to be excluded from all browsers. The solution to this problem is to fund your own browser. If IE will dominate Firefox forever and Google was depending on Firefox defaults for much of its search traffic, then Google was virtually FORCED to create its own browser or they could always be limited to 25% (or less) search traffic share.

I think that having a "Browser account" which synchronizes browser bookmarks and settings and history across all instances of Chrome for a given user, is one of the greatest improvements in browsers in the past 5 years, and all other browsers seem to be copying this idea. If google were the evil empire as you imply, it would be suing the pants off these other browsers, but it is not.
Yes, and that's not the problem at all.

But I do want to thank you for a perfect demonstration of how misinformation spreads. Folks like you don't even care that the content of a tweet is factually incorrect, and in most cases, it's made up so they can get likes and retweets. The post-truth world is alive and well. And, unfortunately, profitable for some.
It doesn't need to inspire sympathy, it just needs to be a much more likely cause/effect explanation than video games.

Why was there an increase in carjacking in Chicago?

My guess is Covid, at least it seems a pretty good candidate to start digging deeper if there's a correlation. Less people in the streets, more parked cars, lots of people without a job having nothing to do and no good source of income.

One way to refute this would be to profile people cought carjacking. Are they rich? Do they still have a job? Are they kept busy with activities? If so, that could disprove my theory, otherwise it could reinforce it.

We could also look at if they actively and frequently play violent video games, though I'd be more likely to believe in a coincidence or a reverse relationship here, if it was the case, based on rational.

Edit: Also, you said "I was poor" past tense. So I'm not sure you'd count as a valid sample, it might be adults that carjack who knows. I also didn't say poor specifically, I said inequality and stress. Poverty can contribute to those, but there are other factors to inequality and stress, like lack of opportunity, neighborhood, access to good schools, troubled household, etc.
Thank you, this is great information.
in a gold rush sell shovels
Quitting Twitter is by far the best thing you can do for your mental health.
I'm absolutely not a lawyer or a union expert; I'm just some guy on an orange website, so take everything I say with a grain of salt.

But the sentiment you're expressing is one of the #1 tools in the anti-union-propaganda belt, and for good reason: nobody wants to be forced!

Honestly, you're the kind of person who would be really helpful in a union meeting! You bring up great points: some industries really need to be able to pay people to strike, but others don't. Where do we fit in (whoever "we" is)? And knowing where your dues are going is important; anybody trying to hide that kind of information is immediately suspect.

> All my life I've forced myself to spend far less than I make in pursuit of [solvency].

Not to go totally Marxist on you... but some would say that this is because you live in a deeply capitalist, anti-worker society, and that strong unions are just one piece in a potential society-wide safety net that would mean people could just spend the money they make without having to worry about sudden and catastrophic destitution.

In an ideal world, I personally would love if people who found themselves out of work had a third party (potentially comprised of other workers in their field) that could support them while they got back on their feet.
Drops by Norby just launched on Product Hunt:

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/drops-by-norby

Drops are the easiest way to collect signups and send SMS campaigns when you're going live or launching something new. Send SMS campaigns for Clubhouse rooms, IG Lives, product launches, merch or content drops, or whatever your next thing is.

Any upvotes are greatly appreciated, and if you're interested in trying it out feel free to request an invite.

Would love to hear any thoughts or feedback!
I check Twitter to learn what I should be outraged about. I literally say to myself "I wonder what I should be outraged about today?" and then lo and behold, Twitter tells me. I don't know where else to get that information. I wish I did, since Twitter is very inefficient with too many people retweeting the same tidbit so they can try their hand at a witty rejoinder. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the rejoinders, but they're also exhausting and lower the signal to noise ratio a lot.
I've tentatively switched to that URL from https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/03/a-note-from-mark-zucker.... If someone can suggest a better article, we'll happily change it again.

It's just that generally, press releases don't make for great HN stories. This is a bit of an exception to the original-sources rule in the site guidelines.
I'm very excited to be officially launched as a YC company!
js_of_ocaml as well as ocsigen in general always sounds like it could be amazing but I've never been able to stay on their hideous web page long enough. The colors and fonts hurt my eyes too much.
to be fair. that's actually an article about linkbait :P
Mannnn...u rocked this big time with web. Its so performant!
> Manning swore to protect the US Constitution and did just that.

What did he reveal that was unconstitutional?
I subscribed to MLB.tv for one month so I could watch my Detroit Tigers last year. Every game was blacked out, since I live in Michigan. I could only watch, for example, the Kansas City feed, with Kansas City announcers and Kansas City-focused commentary. I don't get antenna reception in my apartment for whatever reason, so I have no alternative.

My alternative was to visit a local bar for games I needed to see, and just not watch anything else.
For those of you familiar with Docker (http://docker.io): CoreOS is a linux distribution designed to get your machine from zero to Docker as quickly and reliably as possible. It is stripped down to the bare minimum, since its primary job is to run Docker, which itself has almost no dependencies. As a result CoreOS boots very quickly, and is hard to get in an inconsistent state because it has less moving parts.

I think it's a great example of what becomes possible with the Separation of Concerns allowed by container-based deployment. With docker containers as the standard "glue", the components in your system can be less tightly coupled, and as a result they can be simpler and more reliable.

And because each component can be chosen independently of the others, it's easier for new alternatives to be adopted, because you don't have to rip out the whole system to try them out. For example, in a docker-based system, you could easily try out CoreOS on a few machines alongside your existing Red Hat or Debian setup, because they can all run Docker. You could try StriderCI or Buildbot instead of Jenkins for continuous integration, because they can all build docker containers. You could try Nginx instead of Apache for some of your applications, because they can all be bundled into a docker container. And so on.

TLDR: containers lead to better interop between tools, which leads to more innovation and competition on the tools, which leads to better tools, which leads to happier engineers! :)
As far as I understand, by design Go can't be a "nice" citizen in a C application, the Go routine will bring with itself the whole city it lives in to your flat.

That is correct, but the GP is correct as well. Using C code in Go is easy(just use cgo etc.), vice versa not so much(no such thing as goc etc.).
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