jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wow really. Do you have a source for that?

Because if true, combine that with the facts that

- 87% of deaths occur at home and not in ICU [1]

- median age of deaths is 80 years old [2]

Are all deaths just being counted as Covid-19 (without test then)? I think it would be really interesting to compare baseline deaths in February/March from previous years to this one.

[1] https://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/cronaca/coronavirus-in-lomba...

[2] https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Report-C...
Nobody is taking refugees right now. Its political suicide.
Car rental companies purchase large numbers of cars each year (look up "fleet cars"). They are generally automakers' biggest, best, and most reliable customers.

If you restricted car rental services from buying cars, you might very well cause the collapse of the automobile industry.

In contrast, killing AirBnB does not negatively effect the housing market, because people still need places to live. AirBnB generally increases the cost of housing in every housing market in which it operates because it reduces the number of housing units available. (Example: once LA and Santa Monica cracked down on AirBnB and began regulating short-term pseudo-hotel stays, rents plateaued and began dropping, benefiting thousands of people in the LA area. The only people harmed were the investors who bought multiple residential properties and illegally converted them to unregistered hotels.)
Very good point on the need for a repetitive study system to be always available.

The bit about iPad being too small comes from asking something like "why aren't textbooks the size of fictional paperbacks?" I suppose it could be just historical accident or the need for enough page mass that the book lays flat and open. But seems to me that the answer also includes something along the lines of different types of information being better shown at different sizes, with richer learning material needing more room. When the target users already carry a bag all the time, should portability of a textbook replacement be so overriding a concern that the area for showing and writing information is slashed by something like half (iPad screen to college notebook ratio) up front? Shouldn't form follow function a little more than that?

The really old college textbooks (1950's and earlier) I have are actually smaller than modern versions, with text areas comparable or smaller than an iPad screen. So perhaps the question can be reformulated as "why did textbooks get bigger over the past century?" Or maybe there is just a lot less reasoning behind their sizes than I'm presupposing.
Anecdote: I can run Hulu fullscreen on my 32" 1080p television from my 4 year old Dell laptop, running Windows XP(!) - a laptop which cost me all of $700 when I bought it. It has 2gb of RAM and an Intel Core Duo processor T2300 (2MB Cache/1.66GHz/667MHz FSB)

Flash can layer sounds, which is something that HTML5 can theoretically do, but if I want to, say, emulate a drum machine, there's so much more I can do in Flash that HTML5 is apparently years from being capable of speedily, let alone capable of doing speedily. Additionally, I imagine it will be some time before there's an HTML5-integrated equivalent to the Flash Media Server which drives so many video sites.

If you can't run Hulu without lag on whatever your current system is, I recommend you seek out a Dell E1505 laptop. It's four years old, mine was $700 when I bought it new (from the Outlet, mind you) so they can't be that expensive now.
The solution to "teenagers having their learner's permit for two days are dangerous" is not to put an untested, shitty OpenCV car on the road, it's to make your driving tests and lessons more than just "drive twice around the block". I've seen Teslas do things learners would never do.
Is there a "tip with venmo" poster displayed or do you have to ask the bartender their venmo account name? I've never seen this before, but agreed that it's rare.
> “Today, federal law enforcement demonstrates once again that we can follow money through the blockchain, and that we will not allow cryptocurrency to be a safe haven for money laundering or a zone of lawlessness within our financial system,” said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

How is this not a total death blow for bitcoin? If the justice department can do it, anyone can. It's a public ledger. So you effectively must treat every transaction you ever make on the blockchain as totally public and tied directly to you.
>The core design principles of cryptocurrencies are actually bugs, if you think about it.

It's a system designed around a different set of trade-offs. Calling a bug doesn't really make sense. For instance, using full disk encryption means that you lose all your data if you forget your keys. That's not an issue if you use icloud (which presumably has an account recovery process). Based on this, can you say that the "core design principles of full disk encryption are actually bugs"?
The sounds weird. Please email me (jgc@cloudflare) and tell me what happened.
If you want 'creative' solutions to problems you might want to check out google code jam archives. During the qualifications this year someone wrote a solution in lolcode. Was quite interesting.
Intel has been pretty bad with bringing new products to market and sticking with them.

Intel Optane, Itanium, Xeon Phi, Cell-phone Atom (yes, this was a thing), Intel Edison, etc. etc.

Intel pretty much makes good Ethernet adapters, Wifi adapters, and CPUs these days. Everything else they've tried seems to die off a few years later.

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Its like seeing "Google" try to make a new free webservice. We all know Google has the expertise to make it work, but for some reason, it doesn't.

Similarly, Intel has a wide variety of experts in a number of fields related to chip-making, along with historically successful products and a few chips that are highly important in the field. But something is clearly "off" with Intel's current culture.

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Intel has some GPU-engineers working for them. The question is if the organization as a whole can actually release a product (step 1), and then support it for more than 5 years.

I think its a bit of the "curse of the successful company". No matter what product Intel makes, there's no way its going to make as much money as Intel's CPUs. So the business-minds / bean-counters kill the product.
I think you exaggerate. If you actually look at advertisements for c/c++ developers, they tend to contain words to the effect, "Must have 4-5 years experience in high speed algorithmic trading", etc. But if you know any good-paying jobs that only require the skill level you suggest, point me in that direction. (I mean that--I can get away from my current huge and horrible codebase. Speaking of which, I remember being appalled by the consistently awful misspelling of virtually everything until someone pointed out that its DOS origins required 8 character limits on filenames. I suspect such charming beasts as atoi and strlen had similar constraints, if only for purposes of saving RAM on PDP 11s.)
Given that folks have been given longer punishments for stealing less, yes. Granted, ianal and I acknowledge that things come into play like repeat offenses, etc.
I’d just like to take a moment to compliment the author on repeatedly producing content that is deeply technical yet very entertaining. As someone who has used both Rust and Go in anger, I enjoyed this one and it’s predecessors a lot. A big step up from a lot of the typical blogspam.
And in rust you just put `` in the right scope and you're done. This is perfectly explicit and you know exactly what's going on in your code. Everything is obvious.
They already do this every couple of years, if I recall correctly. It has nothing to do with Common Core. It's just plain old greed.
Identical cars make for better, more exciting racing. It comes down to driver skill instead of who can invest the most money. That said, I think restrictions like F1 are better because they lead to interesting innovations.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9285423

That has extensive ongoing comments.
yeah that's true but not very insightful
Nope, I just interact with fine folk like you in real life and on the internet. You are a powerful person like many in this world, we simply don't necessarily understand that until we have someone remind us!
Ixquick is sort of like a proxy for Google search results. It's run by the same people who run StartPage.com
What makes this really funny to me was that it was always Steve Ballmer's theme song to be played whenever he took the stage.
This is a great example for those skeptics who claim there is never a magic recipe for anything. Looking back at all the times that I remember procrastinating, knowing this would have moved things forward a lot faster.
I think your comment and perspective hit the heart of the matter. You view your work in isolation. And if you're not working in isolation, you are assuming that your co-workers are in the 99th percentile of coders. If you're making some small webapp or mobile app, then that mentality is fine.

But think about it from a different perspective. Let's imagine you are hired by a company to come in and build a large, web-based, responsive, buzzword, buzzword application for them. It's big enough that it is going to take months to develop and require numerous developers. The strategy of "just writing a JS file and adding a script tag to their html, that's how most of us learned it." is not gonna fly. And if you are spending your time doing "If you can't find what you want, build it yourself, maintain it, and use it" then how are you getting your actual application done? You don't want your devs spending a month of time to build (and then support) some templating library or some such when your real task is to write some kind of CRM application. So how do you go about picking technologies, training teams, building upon existing libraries, etc. in order to build your actual product?
Meanwhile Apple continues to take a 30% cut from all app developers. For a distribution channel to have so much leverage over creators is unhealthy.
You can compare ratings of similar libraries.
That sounds remarkably like the broken window fallacy.

What does your company do with that extra money now? Throw it in a barrel and burn it?
"There are 2 types of programming languages, those everyone complains about and those nobody uses..."
Mandate that all pension inputs be paid by law every month as they are earned. This will make it hard for politicians to 'steal' these monies as they know that chicken will not come home to roost until they are long gone.
This problem has been caused by under paying by local and state governments of these monies. Some states have these laws - they are not in trouble this way.
Probably because already rich countries can afford to have high minimum wages in the first place. But many European countries with high minimum wages either by government fiat or because of strong unions have unemployment rates 2 or 3 times higher than the U.S. (e.g. Spain, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, France).
My point was that the neighboring country might just decide to fight you.

As for raising a whole generation: all it would take is for the current civil unrest to go up a couple of notches before it will spill over. I've seen it before and the signs are all there, whether for good or for bad once there is a certain amount of energy in the system it tends to work its way out in a violent way, rarely in a non-violent way.

For that you need different people at the helm.

> Is there any indication in the UK that anybody would be interest in that type of activity?

Give it a few years post Brexit and economic hardship and you'll have them lining up in droves. Scapegoating is a tried and true pastime.
That's my view as well. In the vast majority of cases, where your CV is going to be first looked over by HR, just tweak the cover letter/summary to say "Experienced in $TECH_X, $TECH_Y, $TECH_Z" for everything you know that's relevant to the position. The rest of your CV doesn't change. (Relevant to where I live, YMMV.)
Very cool! This is the level of abstraction I was longing for when pretending to make a game. I'll check this out the next time I get an itch.
I have bit to share about being suicidal as a lifetime pursuit. I decided around 11 years old that I wasn’t going to participate in life and essentially committed soft suicide. I’ve had decades of persistent suicidal desire since then.

In the past year, I’ve given away all of my money (less than a million bucks). Just gave away a few thousand to a business owner yesterday who was being cheap and petty. Told him to donate it to his favorite charity.

Homeless and alone, broken and finally close to absolute destitution, I’ve thoroughly prepared for suicide. It’s a combination of gratitude for the end being near and a nagging fear of the unknown. Sorry, but the fact is nobody knows what happens to them when they die until it happens. You’ll either experience nothing, or you’ll know there is existence for yourself after death. Those who believe either way (atheist - nothingness, religious - eternity or reincarnation, unification etc) are all potentially right, with no scientific way of proving anything to the living.

My short time on this planet has given me a clear perception of the existence of higher intelligences in our midst yet I remain committed to wanting to die as soon as possible. I find the machinations of society to be utterly disappointing. I made up my mind five years ago and I’m finally close to the end now. Hoping to be gone before years end and would like to be left alone so I can die in peace.

Silicon Valley is corrupt. I became a digital voyeur long ago to better understand the machines we have built and I’m disgusted. Every moment now is another reminder of why I’m thankful to almost be dead. The sick, cruel part is that my suicide is likely part of a evolutionary process to “weed out” those who can’t handle being a voyeur. I just tried typing “handle” on my iPhone it got autocorrected to “ya die” which has been a common theme. Can’t imagine my mind is always controlling iPhones secret CIA enabled Ouija board autocorrect troll mechanism.
In Java I'm a big fan of using SQL directly versus ORM. To that end I highly recommend JOOQ. I library that allows for object oriented SQL. Its not ORM, so you still compose SQL, you just get a lot objects and methods to allow you to construct your SQL in an OO, and functional, programming type way.

It also is a DB first approach. Where you construct your DB schemas and tables first, then use JOOQ to create objects that match your DB schemas. These objects allow you to reference the tables and fields of your DB in an OO way. From that point of view it may seem like ORM, but you use SQL to interact with the your DB.

Two of the things I really about JOOQ is that you stay in-tuned to SQL, which as we all know is very powerful and popular. Second, your SQL can get constructed in a procedural way based on input. So you can added to based on , for example, if query param were provided.

The creator of JOOQ, Lucas, has done good videos out there comparing SQL to ORM. What's cool about those videos is he does not mention JOOQ, maybe at the end. The videos are just comparing ORM to SQL and makes the case for SQL being way more powerful than ORM.
The author throws Apple under the bus pointing out a forced full screen modal message advertising Apple TV+. IMO this is an unfair comparison, because the Apple TV+ modal ad came up exactly once and never again (once per Apple TV device). Whereas YouTube is nagging and interrupting the author every day, multiple times a day.

I wish there was a YouTube alternative. I dislike their Apple TV YouTube app enough that I loathe to explore videos. Yet the content creators I watch only distribute on YouTube. I won’t pay for YouTube Premium because I know the quality of the app is still the poor same.
> The point of the 5th amendment was to prevent forced confessions, not to somehow block access to evidence (which the justice system is otherwise entitled to).

It's not just about forced confessions. It's about not putting people -- including innocent people -- into a situation where they have a powerful incentive to lie because silence is prohibited. Even innocent people may have secrets they don't want in the public record, and allowing them to say nothing is better for all parties than dishonesty. Revealing a password is no different. It saves everybody a lot of trouble and crime and immorality to be able to say nothing than to make up some nonsense about how the device belongs to some fictional person that law enforcement would then have to waste resources trying to track down, or worse yet some real innocent person who the person being compelled to testify would then have the incentive to divert blame to.

Moreover, the 5th amendment regularly does block access to evidence which the justice system is otherwise entitled to. If you're accused of committing a murder then the body of the murder victim is evidence which the justice system is otherwise entitled to. They can get a warrant to search your property and seize it if they find it. But the 5th amendment still doesn't allow them to compel you to tell them where it is.

> Second, the protection doesn't apply if you're given immunity (because, again, it's not about blocking access to evidence). So if the court provides immunity and then orders you to reveal the password and you claim you can't because you don't know... the 5th amendment will not help you.

Immunity has very little to do with not knowing. It makes no logical sense that providing immunity could allow you to tell them something you don't actually know. Consequently it makes no sense that providing immunity should allow them to punish you for not knowing. It could allow them to require you to tell them that you don't know, but what then? How do you expect them to prove that you didn't actually forget?
Not quite the same thing. But that does give me an idea. Order drugs locally via website, have them delivered via drone... like an express and localized Silk Road...?
This is solid advice. VCs are just as susceptible to the same biases as everyone else. Learning to navigate that minefield is unfortunately part of the massive extra effort it takes to start a SV company as a woman.

My minority wife has raised millions in the past couple of years for her company. The struggle is real. It's hard for underrepresented cohorts to trust VCs, because it can be hard to tell if their motivation is genuine. Are they just interested in you as a way to improve their diversity metrics? Do they actually believe in your company and will they be able to provide valuable guidance and feedback? The investors who are looking for diversity points have tended to be net-negative contributors to her company. The social dynamics are much more complicated for her than they are for me. She and other women and minorities who deal with SV culture are badasses for having the grit to deal with it.

I also want to say that I don't really blame SV for this culture either. This isn't unique to SV, it's just human nature. Any founders coming from socio-economic backgrounds that are different from those of their investors will face this problem. The best thing that VCs can do to combat this isn't necessarily to invest more money in women and minorities. That's easy, and without changing the dynamic it's sometimes not even helpful. IMO, you can make more of an impact by looking around--work on diversifying the socio-economic backgrounds of your GPs and LPs.
How can a precise date be selected so far in advance? Shouldn't it be based on the status of the pandemic? If they decided it is already a pretty good situation, why not open now?
No, more agnostically I'm just saying we don't know what the ultimate nature of reality is.

Some people say consciousness is just matter, others say matter is just consciousness.

I do find it peculiarly interesting that it is seemingly inherently impossible to isolate and control for consciousness as a scientific variable
Organized crime syndicates needs income as well. They even printed services such as feeding the poor, building roads, & martial defense from time to time. Better yet, they also believe in Democracy.

Point being, the government can earn its money just like the rest of us; by providing services in the open market which we have the option to purchase or not purchase. If the government provides useful services, people will voluntarily purchase those services. If not, the government will need to provide more valuable services, reduce costs, or go bankrupt. Either way, the citizenry should not be liable for the irresponsible mismanagement, grifting, & mass violence that is made possible by compulsory income tax.
> This sounds absolutely horrible.

And now you know how it feels to work in an open floor plan or cubicle where someone can come along and break your flow causing you to have to waste over 20 minutes getting back into it.

The key with the all day video conference is you can mute it and set your status as away when you need to do deep work. Can't do that in an office environment.
To give some credence to your comment about insider trading immunity, I performed a quick search. (My guess is that you got downvoted for not providing any evidence to support your, arguably acerbic and snarky, comment.)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kylesmith/2011/06/01/insider-tra...

The money quote: "There is no limit to how much money you can earn on insider trading in the House or Senate. Lawmakers and their staffers are specifically exempted."

While I would consider it unlikely that NSA feeds senators with free stock market tips, the members of the oversight committee are sure to have an extensive advance view to foreign (and domestic) market-changing intelligence. There has been systematic resistance to reforms - the members probably consider making a quick and safe half-million on the stock market a necessary perk of the job.
This needs to be crowd-sourced.

Surely there are 5 million people who'd be willing to donate a dollar each for this.
I thought Facebook were phasing out XFBML?
We were first to interview today. Only PG seen our app for a second. Reget that too.
We were first to interview today. Only PG seen our app for a second. Regret that too.
Compile server, interesting concept. If no one cares to implement it, that means performance is not a high value item for people to improve upon.

That's an interesting problem in doing a lot of lookup from main memory since the data structures are too big to fit in L1/L2. But that usage is not allocating a lot of short lived objects and freeing them, and reusing the freed memory right the way for next allocations. That's what Linus arguing for to reused the L1/L2 for the short lived objects, and thus GC is inappropriate. I would imagine compilers typically allocate objects that have long lifetime, such as declarations that have scope through the whole compile cycle. Also if memory allocation/deallocation is really a performance problem, then don't deallocate, just reuse the buffers. Reusing the same set of buffers would make sure they are hot in L1/L2.

Anyway it has been an interesting discussion.
I agree and I imagine AWS, will meet this expectation, eventually. Keep in mind that the Cloud idea is still relatively new. Just look at the history of Amazon's Serivces[1] and you can see that this is the direction that they are going. I think this marks a turning point for EBS. I said this same thing on reddit and was mocked but can you really imagine Amazon letting this happen again?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com#Amazon_Web_Services
I just updated the script with 3- and 4-color gradients, and with the call to action button as a helper method with color as a parameter. Thanks for the suggestions!
And not just graduate school in science.
Professional school (re: law) might also be a good fit. The thinking skills you learn in science are pretty useful in other areas.