jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Have any nations found success with that strategy? Could it be that we simply couldn't conduct that level of investigation fast enough at scale to be effective? And are the tests accurate enough for that approach to work?
Sure. But if there was a need for the goods and services those companies provided before, then there will be a need for those goods and services again. I don't think enduring financial collapse logically follows from even an extended quarantine.
Yeah, for a supposed entrepreneurial web site, there sure are a lot of people here nowadays who don't understand basic economics.

This site has turned into a tech-flavored subreddit of Think Progress.
Most people list the registers in alphabetic order, but numerically they are encoded with the B registers in the 4th place: EAX=0, ECX=1, EDX=2, EBX=3, ...

If you ever find yourself writing an AMD-64 assembler, it really feels like you're digging through archaeology with all of the weird quirks you need to implement. The SSE, AVX, and AVX-512 encodings add even more levels of, "why did they do that?!?" which don't make much sense except in the context of history.
I’m a little confused by your comment. Digital Minimalism talks a ton about root causes and solutions. I get if you don’t agree with them, but it’s weird to act like they’re not there.
I wonder why Wuhan authorities opted for new construction over using available spaces that surely must exist in a 10M city when everything is shut down?
Is that a technical question? All of that information is immediately available because you typed it in when you made your account, or because of the nature of the internet.

Seriously, you've given this information to any service you've ever signed up for and / or ran.
In English, "America" is nearly always synonymous with "USA".

If GP meant "North and South America", he would have said "the Americas" instead. I understand this is different in other languages which I imagine must be confusing and arrogant-seeming for those with English as a second language.
I downloaded Safari 5 more or less as a routine update, but I must say I'm very pleasantly surprised by its speed and Reader. S5 rocks on Snow Leopard.

That said, S5 is still plagued by some of the problems I had with earlier versions - such as "completed 7 of 8 items" ... (I'm waiting), not logging in to my univ's network, etc. So Chrome it is, for now.
Hrm, reminds me of the oldie obfuscation contest winner that derives PI from a circular layout of '-'s and '_'s. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Obfuscated_C_Code...)
Modern high-field superconducting MRI magnets can hold tens of megajoules of stored magnetic field energy, equivalent to the explosive energy in several kilograms of TNT.
This is the stupidest bit of "hurr it's viral no really" advertising I've seen in a long time, and I get pitched a LOT of stupid "viral" advertising/marketing campaigns.
Poetry is code.
Well, OK.

But being able to pop in a nice terse URL where a long one would break in some E-mail client is handy.
No, you had something entirely different so don't try to trivialize something you don't know anything about. Ours fired through the ceiling of the garage and gouged the underside of the roof sheeting because of how the door and springs was engineered. It went off like a slingshot and sent metal fragments upwards at high velocity. Also, they looked like they were from the early 1970's and the springs separated completely as a result of metal fatigue into 3 segments plus some other bits of shrapnel here and there.
You know, I was thinking about this before I saw these comments and I did think "maybe it would be better if Who Is Hiring 1/15 was posted on Monday cos fewer users will see it", but then I thought about it some more and changed my mind. I now think that it's OK and you should just leave it and not do anything else.

The reason why is because HN WIH has now gotten to the point where it's a regular feature and people expect it, like clockwork. I think folks who check in on Monday who read it every month will find it and upvote it anyway. This isn't a strongly held opinion, though.
Take a look at https://gittask.com/developer – work remotely on coding tasks using your favorite libraries and languages while supporting open source.
Oh yeah. "The difference between practice and failure is simply a matter of attitude." Nothing is more true.

I recently pulled out some code from over 20 years ago, an experiment in mixing fuzzy logic and Conway's Life that... didn't exactly work out. But it had some intriguing results. Was it a "failure"? Not in the least: it produced results that were intriguing enough for me to remember two decades later, even though it never "came to anything" in the meantime.

That said, I do like the word "failure", and I'm happy to say, "My hard drive is full of failures!" It just sounds better than "practice" and it challenges anyone I say it to. What can they say in reply?

The world is full of little people desperately attempting to tear you down. When you say, "My hard drive is full of failures" they have nothing to come back with. They know you've actually done something, which is more than they have. So go forth and embrace your failures. They prove you're alive, and doing something interesting with your life.

My attitude is in part informed by this quote: "One word characterized the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perseveringly during fifty-five years; that word is FAILURE" -- Sir William Thomson. If Lord Kelvin can fail, so can I, damnit!
Can't believe they didn't test the vehicle prior to demo. Very amateur
Depends on the GRB. A supernova 50 light years away is supposed to eliminate all large animal life (including us). Fortunately any stars capable of it are more than 100 Ly away, where they would only eliminate, e.g., civilization.

A magnetar quake 500 light years away would sterilize the planet (but not harm the magnetar at all). Fortunately, the nearest magnetar we know about is 9000 light years away, so its blast would be ~300 times weaker, just enough for a garden-variety mass extinction, and end of civilization. But there might be one closer.

All the ones we detect happen millions of times farther away. So they are only terrifying if you think about how we can even tell something happened that far away.
The Matrix crew walked out of it. Definitely going for the 90s cyber look.
Did they not test this?
China’s best tech is mostly just stolen American tech so I can understand why they’d want to focus on US startups.
Just to be pedantic: That's going up superexponentially.
The Tesla Armor Glass demonstration on the actual truck was such a fail. And now the broken glass is on full display to everyone watching.
Same energy: https://i.imgur.com/TwfJ8v1.jpg
Articles are used to distinguish between whether or not you are talking about a specific item, or a general item (which I'm sure you know). This is actually very valuable. I've studied Latin, and sometimes you can't know which is which, because Latin doesn't distinguish. Also, I don't think 'a' and 'an' are fundamentally different. 'An' just has the extra sound to smooth speech over. It doesn't really matter if you write "a apple" or "an apple".

Also, verb conjugation in English is pretty nonexistant, compared to other languages, like Romance languages. There are usually three different verb forms: the standard (write), the past (writed) and the third person singular present (writes). I know there are some irregularities, but generally if you want to say a verb, you use the standard.
The 'Singularity' (in the sense of a super-human intelligence, for example either augmented human or purely machine) comes into being and, basically, gets to exert influence over humanity's future.
Google Voice was great for me until I started my business and needed a toll free number as well as an extension for each of my 2 employees. I looked at RingCentral and Grasshopper and ended up going with a similar company called my1voice.
50 hours in a 5 day work week isn't bad. 50 hours over 5 days after working for 15 days straight, as the GP claimed, is something different.
I thought so too, but they have a real sounding TOS and quotes from executives at the various partner companies that check out. Seems like a really involved joke from a company that is quite serious about a lot of ridiculous sounding things (drone delivery for one).
Even if it's Wifi, an ESP8266 only uses 78µA in deep sleep mode, which is how these buttons will spend 99.99% of the time, so it could last more an year on a single AA battery.
My 1.5 year old will be excited to see this button in our dishwasher. Every time we goes that side, he will make sure to press it at least 11 times. More so, if he gets a good music feedback when the button is pressed.
Fwiw, a properly fixed, permawashed, and archival washed silver gelatin fiber print should outlast our grandchildren.
Well, considering this is a representative democracy, we actually kind of should do what the folks we elect to tell us what to do say we should do.

If we don't like what they're telling us to do, we can always pick different people.

But anyway, the military isn't going to do the same thing they've always done with intelligence -- liaise with civilian government orgs to gather intel and ultimately launch operations based on that intel.
(note: creator of http://www.cocoacontrols.com — I see a ton of custom iOS controls every day as I curate the content that gets posted to the site.)

I was about to post the same link. This isn't that unique.
How long was the "guaranteed spec" on this film, do you think?

SD cards easily survive the kind of rough handling that would destroy a film; I can imagine the contacts corroding to the point where you'd have to replace them to read it, but the plastic casing is close to indestructible, and the stored data should be inert. Of course many will be lost or destroyed, but I would happily bet on any random SD card outlasting any random piece of film from the same era.
That all sounds nice, but the fact of the matter is that Richard Stallman is one of the few anchors left, keeping the Overton window of the politics of software from falling all of the way into the ocean.

Personally, I used to think that Stalmman was a crank. And as time passed, and as I watched some of his prophecies come true and as I noted ways in my own life in which my own devices became harder to use, and my own data became harder to store and retrieve in the ways that I wanted to - I began to change my mind.

Without that irascible, loud-mouthed, doom-sandwich-board-wearing maniac... who else would exist at the intersection of "knows enough to know what he's talking about to speak with authority" and "has nothing left to lose"?

My advice to anyone reading this is to not be so quick to "solution" on his behalf, or to reason against his ideas, in advocacy of a more "moderate" approach.
It's also difficult to make progress when you have certain self-aggrandizing individuals who are out there falsely claiming that software development is a den of misogyny. If you were a young woman considering going into software development and you read Jezebel earlier this year, you might be led to believe that female developers are subject to a constant barrage of sexual dick jokes and are fired if they complain about it.
Makes one wonder what the performance of Mysql/Memcached would have been.

From my work experience, time-series data is quite stable in definition. I would see this more as a business case for a relational database than a NoSQL database.
At least in California, employers are statutorily prohibited from claiming rights to IP that was created on the employee's own time and using the employee's own equipment, and agreements that purport to waive this prohibition are void.

(CA Labor Code 2870-2872; http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&gr...)
I disagree.

There's a fairly large incentive for the US military / intelligence and its supporters to demonstrate that the leaks have killed people, or otherwise caused damage. If there were casualties, wouldn't we have heard about them by now?

Of course, I could be wrong, and there have been, but in operations which are classified, but I suspect that it's unlikely that there have only been casualties which are classified.
... unless it's iOS 6 and you try to use the 'open in a new window' links (javascript window.open with a target of _blank) for the articles.

When pinned as a Web Clip, the site opens up fullscreen and addressbar-less and without tabs / as a single window. The attempts to 'open in a new window' just replace the HN mobile view altogether with the article and then strand you there without gestures or controls to move Back.
I remember the Osbornes, I had one for a few months when I was a kid.
IIRC they had parallel ports on the front that you can use as GPIOs if you fancy flashing a few LEDs or controlling relays.
There was also a dBase implementation for it.
Since you also had a serial port (RS-442??), you could in theory use the it to get internet access and in theory control a relay from the internet making the worlds oldest IoT hub/controller?

Bizarre idea, I know.
Console. Cloud login. Different VPN connection. Different credential set then other hosts. Using a hosted service from a completely separate provider. Setting up infrastructure from images without external access.

And I'm sure I missed some - there's a thousand ways to do it.
That we will never know, Xenix was the most successful PC UNIX clone after all, Microsoft just decided UNIX wasn't the future of PCs.

And they were kind of right, the Year of Desktop UNIX/POSIX is WSL, Android, ChromeOS, macOS.
Yes, and this is absolutely maddening when trying to do cross-platform work because some programs support / in filenames while others interpret them as arguments.

(Another key difference is that on UNIX the shell expands '*' before passing it to a program, but CMD doesn't so each program has to do its own globbing)
So build a non-distributed trust-based system based over top BTC instead of something else? Gold would be a much better thing to do that with?

" without going through the traditional gatekeepers of our current financial system. "

You can make create a bank anytime you want and rules are in place for regulatory reasons. If BTC ever becomes important, the same rules will apply.

So:

1) Currency -> Too expensive.
2) 2cnd layer -> Gold is better.
3) Store of value -> almost every classical store of value is better.

These are are all 'how we can make BTC possibly useful' instead of 'why BTC is useful'.

It doesn't tick any of the boxes.

There will be public ways to short BTC soon I wonder what kind of effect that will have.
The argument is that it is lighter for the device just to receive static HTML, than it is for the device to receive JSON and build HTML templates.
That is a very interesting point. I have specifically stayed longer on various platforms, because I really did feel that I had an interesting and more mature point of view that the clearly younger (and immature) general populace of those platforms might not otherwise see.

However, it's tough going, against the relentless reddit meme-spam and nitpickers who only care about being right instead of discussing ideas. I have now quit all other forms of social media except HN, and is a truly sad state of affairs that a large part of a generation has isolated itself from discussing and developing ideas, as they are sucked in by the addictive and shallow nature of social media.

Thanks for nothing, big tech.
5 GHz to 6 GHz is 6/5s faster bandwidth...
"But for high value products. Why not."

The question is not 'why not?' the question is 'why?'.
It's not that amazing if you take a step back, have a look at the background of US vs MS, and understand the different positions of the market and the companies in question.

I mean, you might be able to build a convincing case – but it's not at all as clear-cut as you seem to think.
In the general case, sure, though I was replying to your specific example. That said, the software he uses for load balancing (mwan3) does support different weights for each wan connection, it's just a matter of configuration.
Small planes navigating primarily visually, by landmarks, might stray into restricted airspace.

VFR = Visual Flight Rules, as opposed to IFR = Instrument Flight Rules.
>I had a hunch that the problem was related to the thermal paste: When I disassembled it the first time, I had to scrape some thermal pads from under the Thunderbolt controller and the system hub. This left a large gap between the heat spreader and the chip. I’d tried to fill the gap with an extra big gob of thermal paste, but I suspected that the paste hadn’t gotten a good seal.

Well yeah, that's a problem as thermal paste is only meant to fill in the microscopic irregularities of the contact surfaces and isn't some magical thermal bridge. Thermal paste has thermal properties on par with most condiments. Thermal pads are particularly bad. I would use a metal shim to bridge such a gap, not just more thermal paste.
No, I certainly don't, but the cost of insuring a $2000 laptop is more cost effective than saving the equivalent amount, it would take me approximately 20 years to put enough into a savings account to cover its loss if I put the same in as the insurance premium on it.

Insurance is there to protect against the unexpected, hopefully I'll never have another laptop stolen again, but it's cheaper to cover the loss with an insurance policy in case it happens again.

EDIT: In addition, insurance is designed to spread the risk. If 200 people pay $10/mo to insure their $2000 laptops, and one is stolen every other month, the insurance company still comes out on top.
> [breakthrough battery technology] would seem like something that would also appear in their phones if it existed

Assuming it doesn’t require different conditions, e.g. larger capacities.
They used to have pay-once app.
Now you have to pay $12 a month and you are stuck in ecosystem that has your data and require payments forever. That is too steep, especially outside of USA.
I'll kill my first unnecessary expense by not buying it.
In the “natural state”, yes.

Organizations should be cognizant of this flaw and strive to eliminate or at least mitigate it as best as possible.

Organizations that do are likely to outperform those that do not. See Toyota.
I’ve been a remote worker for 16 years. While it’s true that remote work does blur the line between personal time and professional time, it’s not what contributes to me working late or on weekends.

I work late because I’m in meetings - either with customers or internal for most of my day. On many of those meetings I’m the leader and SME. I have to work at night to write code, lab up architectures, test equipment, research, and more.

If I were in an office the problem would be virtually the same.
What region are you located in?
If you want to compare specific bets then plenty of companies have seen 500x returns over shockingly short periods. It’s picking the winners that’s tricky and not everyone can get lucky.
I loved watching this video. I'm working on a product that turns your phone into a disposable camera that automatically mails you 4x6 prints (https://latercam.com). People have been asking for date imprinting and I found the video while researching.
I disagree that there is no practical benefit when you add the creative elements of 3D to the display of traditional 2D content. Reading a line of text is fundamentally the same in whatever format you consume - but there are serious interactions with that line of text which only become possible in an animated free space. Consider learning to read in a foreign language where HMD eye tracking is used to infer difficulty on a certain word that triggers additional supporting materials. There are thousands of examples yet to be explored and the impact to well established existing 2D information systems will be dramatic. Implementing 3D layers will offer a double win of increased functional utility combined with a nicer more human fitting and artfully expressed interface.
There's an abandoned fireworks factory site in my hometown and it's a similar story. A disproportionate amount of people who live around the area or spent time in the woods around the old factory have developed brain cancer: https://www.patriotledger.com/story/news/2021/03/30/state-de...

The area and pond where the factory used to dump their waste is now fenced and off limits.
Not to be confused with Brian Krebs, pop-sec blogger
My brain jumped to "curse" and "legal recourse," not "recursion." And I'm a software developer. Hacker School seems fine. I think you guys are over thinking it.
That is interesting. I haven't looked at that data set. At the moment, this only looks at cities with a population > 1000 obtained from GeoNames.
Does entrepreneurship feel like work to anyone?
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, your proposed time scale would be difficult to implement. Different areas have greatly varying amounts of daylight.

>As a high tech society no longer ruled by sun dials we should instead make the start of the scale 'dawn' (on average).

Aren't you basically proposing a (slightly modified) sundial?
I disagree. The history of browsers of the past couple of years shown the JavaScript has sped up tremendously compared to older browsers.

While python and ruby may be getting faster they're not seeing those order of magnitude speedups that we've seen in JavaScript.
His emphasis on lower level protocols is not what I would expect a python programmer.

I wonder what the following would say about me in an interview situation...

Device specific rendering. Localization and Language logic. Image download and display. Screen rendering. Caching, cookies & browser history. Analytics integration. Account lookup. The search being saved on the backend.
> This post is FUD.

Since this is HN, we better be careful about terminology. FUD is a term coined to describe the tactics used by Microsoft aimed at discrediting their competition. This post is not FUD but a description of an event that took place 16 years ago.
https://wiki.selfhtml.org/ (German) is where I learnt the basics of web development in high school. I'm not sure how up to date it is, though.
The real fix here is to have more residential customers either knowing the minute by minute pricing

This is insane. Do you really believe that individuals are going to be monitoring the energy prices like a rabid day-trader, making 'rational' decisions between "oh good, power is cheap now" and "power is expensive, I guess I'll just freeze"?
I prefer the US style actually. The government assumes flexibility, citizen’s responsibility and their ability to challenge their calculations / deductions by default. When that’s not the case, there is 1040-EZ [1] for people who want to simplify. 1040-EZ can be done in 10 mins max.

I also enjoy filing taxes. It’s one of those things that allow you to reflect on your work, how you did, optimize the deductions, and get a reward at the end. It’s fun.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-1040-ez
My understanding is that insufficient dosing could theoretically breed vaccine-resistant variants of the virus, but there's not a lot of data on this, so it's not known how great a risk it is.
As I understand, for example in Europe Pfizer is producing vaccines in single factory and not in sufficient number. Why production doesn't happen in more places? Couldn't they sell license to other European pharmaceutical companies to produce it? Is production process so unique it can't be replicated in other places?