jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the details! It makes a lot of sense.

Now I wonder how node 0.11.x compares to iojs :)
>Or a regulation that says all plants must be winterized to a certain degree thus the cost of electricity will just be higher for everyone to pay for mitigation of long tail risk

The Southwest Power Pool has such regulations which is why they didn't have the same level of issues in the parts of Texas they serve.
`exec #{Rails.root}/tmp/go_#{m} #{arguments}`

The escaping leaves a bit to be desired.
"20-01-2015" - seriously?
'non-hackers' is a pretty loaded term.

While I don't have any doubt that more and more diverse users causes friction for those who prefer HN to cater to the sort of stories and culture they prefer, it's worth mentioning that the site is about 'anything that satisfies intellectual curiosity', not hacking in any particular sense.

I'm not annoyed. Some of the most interesting stories i've seen here have had nothing to do with 'hacking' at all, whatever that means.
there's certainly a fanboy hobbyist requirement in making a linux-you-install-yourself work for you. it takes a bit of passion and commitment.

Just like the automobile enthusiast who always disassembles parts of their car and replaces components - although their cars probably break down more often these people are enraptured in the art of auto mechanics. What would be our expensive nightmare is to them, hours of enjoyable pastime.
I have a Macbook Pro with 4GB RAM & normal HDD and I don't recommend upgrading past Mountain Lion, since Mavericks uses at least 3GB after booting up. I'm guessing Apple engineers are provided with Mac Pro with blazing speeds so they don't understand the pain of using the latest OSX with 4GB RAM & normal HDD.

As for Spotify, it consumes a lot of memory. You'd better off with iTunes.
Great post, mirrors my experiences as well.

I hadn't thought of how great package management was on linux, there are many systems and the ones I've used work very well. Installing software on Windows is positively scary. You can't really remove programs completely unless you do some registry hacking... fun, fun, fun!
Until a version is EOL'd, sure, and that's what I've been doing. But 10.6 was EOL'd in late 2013, and by early 2014 at the latest it had unpatched major flaws, so I had to upgrade to 10.9.
I am very inexperienced and uneducated in matters like these. Is what this post is describing a real possibility?
You forgot "Ran a BASIC interpreter".

8-bit PIC's were used a LOT for "glue" tasks. Sequencing powerup, initializing complex chips, period status reporting (like battery voltage), etc. I have seen quite a lot of really complex, expensive boards with a tiny PIC hidden somewhere away on the board to control it all.

The 8-bit PIC's were also a quick way to slap a UART on a board that you could use to query all the things on your board.

Finally, the PIC18 series were actually innovative in many ways for the time. For example, they had USB and Ethernet interfaces in cheap chips long before anybody else did.
A desktop OS with a touch screen worked so well with Windows....
I am working on building a student accelerator. The first version is available here https://horizontech.dev

Everything is completely remote. Meetings through zoom. Messages through WhatsApp and Slack. Project Management using
trello. Code in github and gitlab. Video with the help of loom

We have open-sourced our code https://github.com/HorizonTechnologies/website
> Meanwhile, the liberals are in favor of big business above all else and will gladly vote to bail out companies while their attempts to help working class families is an utter joke.

Your definition of liberal seems very different than the typical definition.
I'm working on customers' projects mostly. One personal project I'm excited about - I'm writing a childrens book about space. I plan for it to teach very young kids concepts like "space isn't just about going high, it's about going _fast_", and possibly why many rockets have two stages. Would love to hear some other concepts it should teach!
All this solution only solve one half of the problem, which is input. But there's also the other half which is marking them as you use the items. Yet another part which also needs to be considered is the separate input for the expiration tracking. The latter may be solvable if you approximate lengths for each product in a database, and you assume that the product you bought is starts at 0.

But yeah, even if you can simplify the first part as your post describes, there's still a lot more work to maintain the data beyond that.
That's really exciting! Marine projects can be a lot of fun. The feeling of being out on the water on a craft that you built/repaired yourself is really great, and makes all the hard work worth it.

What size/model is the boat? Depending on your interests, you could even explore a more powerful electric motor and try to get it up on plane. There are lots of people out there building powerful DIY electric drivetrains (eg. https://efoil.builders/ for e-foils). Have fun!
It’s not clear which leak the data is from. From the articles I read there were two leaks that the data may have come from. One in 2018 and one in 2019.
> If we really want free speech platforms, lobby government to craft spaces for it in the digital age.

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything away.”

I disagree this is a job for government directly. No, I don’t want government socialized Facebook!

I want the government to enforce the spirit of antitrust law. They are ignoring that a competitor to Facebook CAN NOT exist because Facebook will smother or absorb them. I would like government to compel Facebook to use open data standards I can use to take my data to a service that isn’t actively trying to psychologically bleed me daily.

If Google trying hard couldn’t dent Facebook, there is no chance an organic startup will do it. And double extra certain a state run expensive and uninspired clone would do it - not to mention you’d be more wise to trust Facebook with your data than the government directly.
Slightly cheaper than cab fare+tip from Manhattan to Newark, but ~40 mins faster. Then again you still have to get through financial district to the helipad...

Still not as good as having a private helicopter. I hear NYC to PHL is 30 mins by heli.
It's interesting that you get BAFFLE for the first one. I get the same result in both 3 and 2.

Note first that the reason you get "BAÏ¬„E" is a bit of garbarge-in garbage-out. Strangely, the interpreter isn't rejecting that with the typical "SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character <char> in file" error; instead, it appears to be assuming ISO-8859-1, and then performing .upper(). You can fix that:

python2 -c '# coding: utf-8
print u"baﬄe".upper()'

(Note, of course, that the #coding needs to match your terminals encoding, which is likely UTF-8, but it isn't guaranteed.)

That, for me, prints "BAﬄE" in both Python 2 and 3 (adjusting for 3 by adding parens around print, and removing the u prefix on the literal.) I'm on Python 3.2, so perhaps 3.3 does better. (I'm behind on updates, but last I did update, Gentoo stable was still on 3.2.)
Interesting, will try it.
I think 10 years ago, the best I got was GPRS data on tmobile on my cell, but it was uncapped! I had a high end "gold" orinoco 802.11b card that only worked at 2 places on campus. I also bought a new low-end laptop that year, a Dell 366Mhz celeron -- cost me $2000 and I worked all summer to save that much.
From the second page of the article:

"Other studies have shown that these differences in extreme test scores correlate with later achievements in science and academia. Even when you consider only members of an elite group like the top percentile of the seventh graders on the SAT math test, someone at the 99.9 level is more likely than someone at the 99.1 level to get a doctorate in science or to win tenure at a top university.

"Of course, a high score on a test is hardly the only factor important for a successful career in science, and no one claims that the right-tail disparity is the sole reason for the relatively low number of female professors in math-oriented sciences. There are other potentially more important explanations, both biological and cultural, including possible social bias against women."
The whole page is jagged and ugly and makes me upset at this design choice.
As all those skinny Eskimos and fat Saharins came attest... People will believe anything.
I don't think they're even related, Bazel is a general build tool, sjavac looks like a smarter Java compiler ?
"Chrome Dev Tools. Browsers are doing too much already."

I think he's trying to convey that the browser is getting too bloated and that there should perhaps be a native app to handle the debugging.
If you look at the actual numbers, the northern European countries are actually better at implementing the promises of a democratic capitalist society: Higher median income, higher life expectancy, higher rankings in Happiness indices like the OECD Better Life Index, way higher voting turnout...
Most web hosts and VPS solutions have unlimited traffic no?
They also had a laser that burned off the top layer of your skin lol
Here in Berlin/DE I have noticed prime delivery has been increasingly limited or removed from certain categories of items e.g. personal hygiene, cleaning. To be expected I guess but would prefer to have prime benefits (free shipping) and a longer delivery period than no benefits at all and the same extended period.
It's a reference to a quote from the 1997 film Mouse Hunt.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/MouseHunt_(film)#Lars_Smuntz
The ability to deny these freedoms makes getting rid of Macs so appealing. The potential for vendor lock-in is huge.
OMG, this is exactly what I needed! I've been working from home for five years, and the one big missing piece was "whiteboarding".

I even have an extra Osmo reflector and base! Now I just have to convince the kids to stop playing Osmo long enough so that I can use it. :)

Thank you!
I found this little gem on Software engineering StackExchange: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2469...

Suffice it to say, there are many interesting uses for string reversal :)
Does Germany not have department stores?
> Emulating x86 on ARM is very hard because x86 has a strong memory model while ARM has a weak one.

I know that to be true, but could you point me to some articles and documentation that tell more. I'd like to learn more.
I'll actually get my (short) film finished 2011 and hopefully in time to take it to Cannes where I'll eat so many hors d'oeuvres. More film nonsense but that's not too relevant for HN!

I'm also planning on building a few side projects this year and using them to learn python & node which I hope will help me smash the £20k barrier :) I also have an iPhone game idea that I will try and bash out (have held o to this idea since I had my Amiga and its time has come again).

And a holiday. I haven't a real, proper, more-than-2-days holiday in a decade. That will be happening!
An indentation-based text object solves the same problem in a language-agnostic way. There are several implementations out there. I maintain one that includes proper handling of languages without ending block delimiters (python, haml, sass): http://github.com/austintaylor/vim-indentobject
And the conclusion:

"Rather, we argue that meritocracy the idea that societal resources are distributed exclusively or primarily on the basis of individual merit is a myth. It is a myth because of the combined effects of non-merit factors such as inheritance, social and cultural advantages, unequal educational opportunity, luck and the changing structure of job opportunities, the decline of self-employment, and discrimination in all of its forms."

In short, because the universe already has an economic "state" and is changing independent of what any one individual does, the value you may derive from your own individual merit is extremely variable.
Many Thanks.
Does anyone know how to install this on Mac (preferably homebrew or macports)? It's killing me not having it.
this type of interview makes me wanna start with affiliate marketing although it seems strange to do it. I guess that comes from the bad reputation some affiliate marketers have...

Interesting though my backup plan now is affiliate marketing if all goes down.
3 to 4 minutes to recompile over a million lines of code is a lifetime? What size code base do you work with? If you write in a dynamic language, how long does it take all of your tests to pass?

Now I have to wonder if you're being serious.
A 2006 NBER paper claimed that when taking into account a wider set of taxes (state income/sales taxes, federal/state corporate taxes, payroll taxes, etc), the US has roughly a flat 40% tax rate across all income brackets.

relevant msn article: http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Taxes/Advice/YourRealTa...

full paper: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.148...
We're not bureaucrats or legalists, and I can't imagine anything more soul-destroying than trying to make HN's rules that specific. It would drive me mad.

Instead, try to internalize the spirit of this place. Religious flamewars are the last thing we want. Arguments about the truth or falsehood of entire religions are sure to lead to flamewars. Please just don't go there.
From what you've said i think you mean that it isn't the first time you've tried to understand them, or be exposed to their definition. In which case yes, absolutely the graph representation of base change exposed here is very helpful.
I was more talking for people that would start with this page.
What i meant was that the fact that the page starts right away with base change, and introduces practical uses of it later seems akward.
Honestly, this is just business as usual for Japanese govt/bureaucracy here. The only difference is that it's the first time in a while that its bullshittery has been thrust onto the international stage.

If you're living in Japan or are any how strongly affiliated with it, you'd have to be a moron or just hopelessly incurably optimistic to believe anything the government or these pseudo governmental organizations say about anything remotely controversial. I've never trusted any statements or numbers issued by any Japanese entity since day 1. Since I can't trust anything, I just largely stay out of the country. Of course, its waste waters are being dumped into the ocean all the time so I'm getting owned anyways across the ocean.
That presupposes they have sufficient sapience to make the decision.
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Neither Piketty nor anyone else wants to stop the process that creates Musks and Zucks and Brins. Surely we can agree, however, that these gentlemen live far, far down the long tail. Even though there is randomness built into the economic system, in most cases, capital increases rather than transferring to a random Stanford grad student's pockets. The story of Sergei Brin does not disprove, via "logic", "facts", or anything else, any thesis of Piketty's.
It's feasible if you use a commonly used password or if the attacker knows specific information about you or your password. Otherwise, it is pretty much impossible.

// this is about focusing on a single account. Nobody would ever bother with trying to crack the whole DB.
Exactly!!!

Encrypting user data should be a common practice like hashing passwords.
User metadata can be used for social engineering, and people are typically the weakest link.
Assuming (no evidence, it's just very common) that this was a SQL Injection, here are some ways to protect yourself:

* Use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_activity_monitoring. If you don't list users on your site and you get a query that would return more than one user record, it's a hacker

* Add some http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeytoken s to your user table, and sound the alarm if they leave your db

* Use Row-Level Security

* Database server runs on own box in own network zone

* Send logs via write-only account to machine in different network zone. Monitor logs automatically, and have alerts.

* Pepper your passwords (HMAC them with a key in an HSM on the web server (then bcrypt). Don't store key in db). https://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/2012/06/08/lets-talk-about-p...

* Use a WAF that looks for SQL injections

* [Use real database authentication, per user. Not one username for everyone connecting to db. Yes, this is bad for connection pooling]
bcrypt is only strong if their cost / work-factor is set correctly
Lot's of hype (IMO) around Slack, but lot's of money thrown at them so I kept thinking that I'm missing something! Just being skeptical as usual. The other day an invitation arrives to use Slack. Great! Let's see it, this killer feature or killer combination of features. What have these smart people come up with that hasn't been done countless times in the same space to make them so successful?

It's literally nothing. I can't believe that's the product.

Anyway, on top of a completely underwhelming experience comes this news. I can't see why a company would use them, to be honest. But then I haven't built a billion dollar company, so not many people will be asking me for an opinion.
If someone wouldn't mind explaining, what could the motive possibly be for the Chinese government to be doing this?
It's interesting but I don't understand what problem this solves, at least in the area of home improvement.

The problem in this area is finding someone you trust and is competent. I don't see how this solves that.

For lower skilled work I guess there might be something here.
Gig workers don't hate how its set up, they make a nice bit of cash for hard work when they need or want.

Restaraunts don't hate it because they don't have to have staff hired to deliver, infact all the logistics of delivery are removed for them.

> The San Francisco-based company reported a fourth-quarter loss of $312 million

Excuse me while I shed a tear for the billion eur company over the riders who will get screwed for this ruling.

DoorDash's business management is not reflective of its customers, who are the riders and restaurants. Who, in this scenario are the losers.
Let's start again with more feeling.
My previous firm (in Australia) attempted to do this for commercial buildings by monitoring the 5 minute wholesale electricity price from the National Electricity Market [0]. We installed current meters on each circuit in the buiding, HVAC, lighting etc. then were able to estimate cost savings for a given 30 or 15 minute period if that circuit was shut off. We even tried to estimate the savings if HVAC was e.g. reduced by 1 degree C in the building for a given time of day, occupancy, and weather conditions by using 1-2 years of 15-30 min resolution historical energy usage data for that building.

[0] - https://aemo.com.au/Energy-systems/Electricity/National-Elec...
Last I saw her, she had transitioned to WoW and was scraping by running conventions. I wish I remembered her last name, I'm curious what her daughter made of herself.
Just noticed that sthnblllII https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25654918 has already posted the same answer.
It's interesting to note that the peak death rate for Spanish Flu was for ages around 28 which represents the infants born around the time of the Russian Flu. There might be some causation there along the lines of "being exposed to a potent flu in infancy leads to a dysregulated immune response for new strains" [1]. Maybe there are studies out there looking at this in the case of Covid, already?

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
I don't 100% understand this mindset. There are plenty of carnivorous animals on the planet and they (likely) never deal with viruses on this scale. But somehow humans should stop consuming animal product? It doesn't make sense unless there is a serious health concern. The main issue would be attempting to purchase from sustainable, responsible animal product sources, rather than the mass-produced/institutionalized ones.
A lot of people arguing about scientists should just publish to their “group” journal for free.
You all are missing a key piece though, these scientists are trained / conditioned to believe that getting “published in a top paid journal” is prestigious so they jump at the chance to do it.
We simultaneously need a campaign to make publishing in these paid journals unsexy _and_ have it be freely published.
Yup! I'm write such ones.

Working on embedded systems with low resources. This is easiest to prototype something.
> I go to an office and spend the same amount of time in it in the winter and in the summer. Employees at meatpacking plants and Starbucks baristas don't get to work outside in the summertime. Children still go to school, their school days are just as long, and they don't have classes outside even if the weather allows it. You still have to walk the dog, whether it's summer or winter.

This is very different in my case (France). In the summer, windows are often open, which suffice to make a big difference I believe, work and home. Never in winter. In summer, half or our work meals are eaten outside or in well ventilated restaurants. Winter -> at most you walk fast 2 minutes to get in a hot building again. Social activites are all closed rooms in winter.
working on a replacement for google trends, its content based rather than search based
i also include ten sentiment for the given keywords etc

you can register if you its something for you

https://insightrend.com/?term=happy%20new%20year&term=suicid...
Next time you’re in a conversation with a friend or stranger, try imagining that you’re carrying the ace card, act with a matching confidence, imagine everyone else holding the same card, and treat them with the respect that other aces deserve.

That seems to be the same thing he's suggesting.
There are several things to consider before seeing this movie. First and foremost, it's an ashcan project. The film had to be rushed into production to retain the film rights, so the writers didn't have the time to prune out lines like the one mentioned. Also, Atlas Shrugged and The Lord of the Rings are nearly the same length, yet this film is just over half the run time of The Fellowship. Finally, the budget of this film is not nearly what it needed to be, so don't go in expecting to see a visual masterpiece. It's a shame but maybe someday a Peter Jackson level director will give this story the proper treatment it deserves.
I was so impressed by pavelludiq's comment (I had the impulse to post a comment citing Greenspun but refrained, their comment was so much better than what I would have posted) and I tried to come up with a tiny example of a defmacro which would show where Lispy is reinventing the wheel, but really, why bother when much better writers and teachers have already. I think Peter Seibel's Practical Common Lisp is a great intro and this chapter is so early in the book it nearly stands on its own:

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/practical-a-simple-database....

There's a couple of simple macros in there and it's not that long a read.

Then there's Casting SPELs in Lisp which is another great concise intro to macros that shows them off:

http://www.lisperati.com/casting.html

I don't think I could do better than that. Both of those are short enough that you can read them in an evening. If you're not hooked by then, at least you haven't spent much time on it.
Surely you cannot deny that some people seem to have more of a tenancy to lean towards non-scientific thinking than others.

Everybody is rude on occasion, but only some people are rude people.