jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but this comment is pretty misinformed. Clojure has numerous facilities to address the performance issues you mentioned. You can, for example, annotate parameters to a function with type information to use primitives, java arrays, and remove the need for reflection.

Additionally, JRuby has had a JIT that attempts to do smart things to avoid unnecessary boxing and reflection. They've been rather impeded by the JVM on this front, but JVM 7 looks to open a lot of doors for the JRuby team to remove a lot of unnecessary dynamic dispatch in the execution of Ruby code.

The problem I see with Scala is it reeks of Perl 6's "everything and the kitchen sink" language feature-a-thon. Having learned Clojure and started Scala recently I'm constantly asking myself why Scala code has so much incidental complexity compared to the equivalent Clojure code. Often, it is due to the type system or the excessive number of constructs and syntax available in the language.
Can you recommend a good website designer who can fix it for me and make the site look great?
If I wanted to e-mail you, I wouldn't be able to copy and paste your e-mail address into Gmail.
We pitched EditRing at the Open Angel Forum and it was a great event for everyone. We made 3 good connections, one of whom introduced us to several key people and one who got pretty far in due diligence talks with us.

I do think it could have helped to have a little more coaching before the event (the valuation we asked for was too high, which scared off some investors -- they didn't actually approach us and say the valuation was too high, they just shied away, which is probably because of the awkwardness of being pushy on price).
To be fair thaumaturgy, even economists regularly append values onto 'priceless' things. For instance (this excerpt taken from Freakonomics):

> "Consider the effort to save the modern spotted owl from extinction. One economic study found that in order to protect roughly five thousand owls, the opportunity costs -- that is, the income surrendered by the logging company and others -- would be $46 billion, or just over $9 million an owl."

This is followed by a list used by the state of Connecticut in determining the amount of compensation allocated to work-related incidents - a specific value for the dismemberment of each body part.

The OP's point wasn't that this habit of affixing values is ethical, or even wanted, but that it is possible. You are arguing that 1) this is ridiculous and 2) it is not wanted.

The first is not true because thought experiments usually are ridiculous (hence the qualifier 'if') and even if this were not so, as the Freakonomics example shows, there are certain instances in real life where you would have to put a dollar value on a 'priceless' transaction in order for things to work.

And the second is also mistaken because, while something may not be nice to think about, that fact doesn't detract from the fact that it can be done, and is done, sometimes for good reason.
Love this kind of stuff. It can be trippy driving through these things though.

How long before traffic systems start broadcasting the schedule for the next minute or two so cars can plan ahead and always get there when the lights green?
Takes forever to save.
ha i can't access this article at Panera since their internet content filter blocks the domain. but i'm actually trying to read Playboy for the articles here!!!

EDIT: Question for discussion - how many of you would be afraid of clicking on that link at your workplace? discussions of workplace internet monitoring/censorship are welcome ...
As long as it costs money and is not open source, this will never become hip amongst the cool guys.
Your major isn't that important, read anything by Cal Newport. It's better to have a coding mindset, and produce code of your own and/or contribute to open source projects.
IMO, web startups choose Java when:

1) founders are most familiar with Java

2) founders are more comfortable with top-down engineering practices and not with bottom-up, release-early release-often approach.

3) core technology depends heavily on non-trivial open source Java libraries.
The problem with frameworks like Play, or Symfony in PHP world is that they only play catchup to frameworks like ROR and Django and since they started way later, they still lack the polish.
A U.S. nuclear warplanner from around a decade ago (I can link you to him if you're interested) recently stated that he'd suspect that a typical full exchange between the U.S. and Russia would kill 95% of the people living in both countries within 18 months of the attack. Main causes of death would be complete collapse of infrastructure; no supply chains, no food production, no fuel, no heat, no power, no water, no medicine or health care. Most major cities would be destroyed, many cities along rivers would be under fast-flowing as water dams would be targeted to cascade fail most hydrology management, anything downwind of spent fuel storage for nuclear plants (which, in the U.S., are stored above ground near the actual reactors) would be uninhabitable for months to decades, etc. It'd be a very messy 18 months, too, as those left alive immediately after that attack and fallout, which would probably be around 2/3rds of the population of each of the countries, competed for limited resources. And his estimates assumed that nuclear winter was not a real thing. It goes downhill from there if it is.
If you're a small bird, try not to be seen and spend most of your time in areas cluttered by trees and other object to exploit your size and maneuverability. If you're a big bird, spot your targets from distance and strike at high speed.
Those are simply file hosting accounts, so there's ability to run something like a Tor node from them.

More likely is they're using the same botnet that was attacking PSN/XBL to run Tor relays.
20% more of what? How am I used to "train"?

I'd argue we'd gain a reputation of being really good, and that we improve together. That's not something you can buy. It might not be obvious, but while creating a great agency, this also implies creating a great workplace of my own. So if I feel like abandoning ship I know I have to change something.

Also, what's better than building lasting relationships? I'd stay "small scale" awesome anytime over being just another asset of a "large company".

I'd argue that we live in a time where you don't have to be "centralized large" anymore to achieve big things. Rather we should figure out how to do even better with loose organization paradigms.
This is fun to watch, even funnier when you realize that any talk around this is just that - talk. But, I'm intrigued for the future, this type of hacking is starting to make its comeback, and that's a cute thing.
> Alright so first off, 150k will give you a comfortable upper middle class lifestyle in SF/SV...It's really not the astronomical salary that you seem to be imagining.

If we're going to say we shouldn't limit ourselves to 5% of workers then perhaps we shouldn't limit ourselves to 5% of the land. There's plenty of places in the country where 150k would be a very comfortable salary.
This is not remotely true, to the point that I don't even understand how you could assert it. What skills taught to physicists or chemists or biologists are even related to notions like modularity and data abstraction?

Hell, I've seen people come out of computer science PhD programs with poor software engineering skills and habits. If CS programs don't reliably teach these things, how can you claim researchers in other fields automatically have them?
SF is a very compact city (7 miles across)
It's funny you should mention that. A few years back, the operation of the shared Twitter ban list used by the Twitter left was, ah, slightly disrupted by the fact that it was being run by a British person who thought the Data Protection Act didn't apply to them and eventually received a polite official letter pointing out how completely wrong they are. (For context, their justification for why it didn't apply were that they were storing the data on a US service which had no contractual obligation to protect the data, and the list contained just about every kind of information categorized as sensitive under the DPA in the comments field... sexual orientation, political affiliation, all sorts.)

Anyway, I remember pointing out at the time that the Data Protection Act had been used to shut down corporate blacklisting efforts run by people with very good lawyers and much cleverer attempted loopholes than theirs, and that their chances of somehow finding a loophole where everyone else had failed were basically zero.
One big difference in my opinion is that a CI system can (and should) allow for guarantees about provenance. Ideally code signing can only be done for your app from the CI server. This allows users/services to guarantee that the code they are running has gone through whatever workflows are necessary to be built on the build server (most importantly that all code has been reviewed).

As a principle, I consider any codebase which can be compromised by corrupting a single person to be inherently vulnerable. Sometimes this is ok, but this is definitely not ok for critical systems. Obviously it is better to have a stronger safety factor and require more groups/individuals to be corrupted, but there are diminishing returns considering it is assumed said individuals are already relatively trustworthy. Additionally, it is really surprising to me how many code platforms make providing even basic guarantees like this one impossible.
My sister and her husband were keen cyclists in London, despite constant bike theft and falls due to terrible road condition but they now have artificial knees and a bad back respectively and can't cycle. My sister in particular is incensed about the road blocks put up all over London that have resulted in several local deaths as emergency vehicles can't get through to attend to heart attacks etc.

In dense urban areas those fit enough can cycle as they do in China and other Asian cultures but there is a concern in the west about weather conditions practicality, hilly terrain etc.
I get that lots of global warming worriers love cycling but there is a practical element to this that is all too often ignored
We talk a lot about the "You can't make me go back" crowd, but I don't think we give much thought to the "Why do I have to bend over backwards to support a few fully remote co-workers" crowd. Being fully remote works well (for some people) when the whole team is remote. My biggest fear is that hybrid environments can bring out the worst of both worlds.

I wonder how many people will quit if they're forced to work with remote-only employees on a regular basis? If you're having a meeting with 4 in-person co-workers and 2 remote co-workers, you have to make all sorts of accommodations for the remote folks that wouldn't be necessary for a meeting with the same 6 people in-person. "Can you repeat the question" / "Can you share your [other] screen?" / "Can we record this meeting?" / "Can you hold the camera up to the whiteboard?".

Similarly, if you're in the minority of remote folks on a hybrid team, you'll be at a disadvantage. You're likely forced to either miss out on some context/discussions from not being present or not being able to hear, or become "that person" asking folks to repeat themselves or specially accommodate you in various ways. Not to mention missing out on face time with the boss[es boss], which can (rightly or wrongly) often factor in to promotion/raise discussions.
You can leave if you don't want to be disturbed far more easily than leaving a room, so has the benefits of the "Hey Bob" but with fewer drawbacks

I see no benefits of an office environment for my team (but then the 6 of us were split over multiple locations before covid) - the benefits are in the informal communication with people from other teams.
That's actually a fascinating question! It turns out we don't know enough to answer one way or another.

The model commonly used in radiation protection to assess cancer risk with respect to radiation dose is called the Linear No-Threshold (LNT) model [1]. The model critically assumes that (1) total radiation dose is the only predictor of cancer risk, and (2) any radiation exposure results in an increased cancer risk.

This model works at high absorbed doses, however, its applicability is highly controversial when used with low abosorbed doses or with relatively high absorbed doses that occur over a long period of time (ie: low dose rate).

The thing is, the human body has built-in defense mechanisms against cancer such as DNA repair. There is a good body of evidence that small doses and low-rate exposures do not result in cancer risk (ie: there is a threshold absorbed dose and probably also a threshold dose rate), but the model does not account for this.

This is particularly problematic when trying to assess excess mortality from things such as radiological accidents: when you multiply the small LNT-predicted risk for a low dose times a very large population, you end up with a lot of cancers. This is one of the reasons you'll see estimates for deaths from the Chernobyl accident vary by orders of magnitude.

It's also problematic when assessing something like a Mars mission: yes, the astronauts would get large cumulative doses, but the dose rate is pretty low over most of the mission (other than during high dose rate solar events where they would need radiation shielding). How much of an elevated cancer risk is it actually? Nobody is quite sure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model
15 miles is not that far. 45 minutes with a US (20MPH) e-bike. Average commute is 30 mins each way. And that's time you don't have to spend at the gym now.
No, Gold value comes from the fact that we all agreed that it should have a value, and it's scarce. Same for Bitcoin.

And yes you can parade the fact that you own a bitcoin address, this is after all probably the only reason most people know about Craig S. Wright

> There is no convenience, no government backing, and no trust

convenience is in stablecoins, government backing is in CBDC, trust is anchored at the foundation of any cryptocurrency project...

Let me put it this way: as long as people will find ways to do things with Bitcoin (remittances, darkmarket, etc.) that they couldn't do with Gold or USD or whatever, then it'll have value. 40k of value? I don't know, but it will still have value.
It just kind of ruined it for me. There is so much great content out there, and maybe I’m being too picky but I’d rather watch something else now.
It's not easy to define "species".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_concept
Discovering a new hominid species gets you on the cover of National Geographic. Discovering a new specimen in a previously-identified hominid species does not. So, in general, the field of biological anthropology has leaned towards identifying new species when possible.
Hi I am developing something that is very similar to what you want. Can you DM me? My contact is in my profile. ananth[at]zip2dotinfo
Is the assertion wrong? Cursory, recent research and my own recollection matches with the comment you were responding to.

https://www.ft.com/content/33b0a48c-ff7e-11de-8f53-00144feab...
Who in turn likely use automatic means to shrink the space of possibilities, but I really doubt the mods care about emoji.
Long term or short term, there's no counterfactual.

In the absence of a parallel universe or crystal ball, how would you know that the entities who seem to be winners after Brexit wouldn't have won twice over without Brexit? And how would you know that firms and economies that fall behind would have been more successful if "Remain" had won the day?
If your credit card gives you 1% back but charges walmart 2% and walmart takes this 2% into account when setting their prices then you aren't getting paid to use your credit card you are paying 1%.
I keep pointing out: this system of no taxes for the mega corps is a huge offence against free markets, you are creating monopolies because start-ups and local business actually have to pay taxes and can't compete.

And okay, Apple offers something unique, by why the fuck should I be subsidising a coffee company? They do nothing a random mom-and-pop business can't do, they add nothing to the local economy whatsoever.
Hi HN !

Twelve days ago, I showcased: Hubstore – My contribution to how we distribute and manage FOSS apps [1].

Hubstore is a lightweight software that lets you download, install, manage, and run Python desktop applications. I have built Pyrustic [2] (warmly welcomed months ago on HN [3]) to help develop Python desktop applications.

Pyrustic is still a work in progress, but I also want end-users (even people with no programming experience) to easily consume the work of a Python programmer (Pyrustic based work or not). By work, I mean desktop applications of course.

I got some interesting feedback [4] on Hubstore (and Pyrustic too) and so here I am again to show a major Hubstore update.

Hubstore now consumes applications built with the Python standard packaging format Wheel [5] instead of reinventing the wheel [6]. Many pre-existing Python projects are de facto Hubstore-compatible.

Pyrustic has also had changes and can now produce wheels. I will do another Show HN specifically for Pyrustic after improving its documentation and README.

I look forward to reading your comments [7], questions etc. Thanks for your feedback. Genuinely appreciated.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26008018

[2] https://github.com/pyrustic/pyrustic

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23930255

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26010024

[5] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/

[6] https://xkcd.com/927/

[7] http://sl4.org/crocker.html
To be honest, the driver assist can be removed with a single connection, it just uses your car's automated parking system.
Yeah totally fair point - bought those cards half because I'm an nba fan, half because I thought they'd pump - I def don't think this makes me a good investor I just got lucky. I put in less than 10% of my net worth in for fun - it just ended up growing. Verify here if you don't believe me: https://evaluate.market/accountValuation?externalUserName=aa...

As for the rest of the portfolio, don't emulate it! Do what works for you, that's what the section below is for - I'm just being transparent. Most definitely consider more credible people, I just hope my suggestions might save people from the devil that is inflation.
Parent's Haskell background is leaking, but the idea is "wouldn't it be cool if you could have a value that was either "A box containing a box containing a Person", "A box containing a box containing nothing", or "A box containing nothing""?? How supremely useful and not at all confusing would that be?

I kid, but I admit there is a valid division between coding to explore the consequences logical frameworks and coding to extract money from corporations while providing them a way to keep their orders coming in and accounted for. I'll gladly spend time on both sides of the spectrum, depending on how many drugs are in my system and how much food is in my belly :)
I don’t have the link handy, but Apple’s policies on this require apps not to track users across apps through other means if a user chooses “Ask App not to Track” at the prompt. The prompt text is just to show that Apple cannot technically prevent tracking even when a user tells the app they don’t want to be tracked across apps. There are a lot of shady practices being spread through common/popular SDKs used by apps.
It's random CNAMEs and they use the unique cname you queried as another tracking point.
So they're competing with BAT ..
One could make the argument that the drivers were not aware of the dangers of driving on ice, but then it's a fault of the regulatory body that issues licenses to these people. However, I do think it's the drivers responsibility to assess the road conditions and pick an appropriate speed. Whilst it is a failure of government authorities to not de-ice the roads and spread salt, any driver can at any point in time be caught off guard by terrible weather, and they should be ready to deal with those situations.
> your grocery bills at the end of the year will dominate your takeout and restaurants bills combined.

Only if days you cook for yourself (heavily) dominate days you order a takeaway.

Also, 'groceries' probably accounts for a lot more alcohol (assuming you drink of course!) really tilting the balance. Not least because if you order a takeaway you're probably still drinking something from your grocery order.
No.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Units_based_on_powers_of_...
It may end up being Mandarin. Although Beijing, despite half a century of trying, hasn't been able to convert the Guangdong and Hong Kong areas. Only about 53% of China's own population has good fluency in Standard Chinese.
So everybody and their brother can criticize "the west" (well, specifically the U.S.), but oh no, you westerners need to accept all other cultures carte blanche...because PC and other stuff.

This reminds me of "protected classes" in the U.S. and how can they spew all the vitriol they want against white men, republicans, etc...but oh by, if some white guy (especially a right-wing white guy) criticizes a black, a woman, a gay, etc...watch out. The P.C., anti-free speech gestapo at MSNBC and other places will be all over you.
The image contains the state that the point where the error was raised, but AFAIK it doesn't contain the history leading up to that. It's more like a coredump than an rr recording, right?
Because it's the "killer app" of VR, so far. If they own it, they can privilege their own VR platforms (earlier releases etc).
If it would be this simple, no programming would be needed. I'd recommend to look at 5-3-1 or Juggernaut Method. You need a regimen with variability to promote hypertrophy and strength with different focus at a time.
If you already have the transcript without timestamps (e.g. for an audiobook where you know the source text), you could use https://github.com/readbeyond/aeneas , which infers the timestamps by aligning text-to-speech output with the audio using dynamic time warping.

If you don't have the transcript, you'd use a transcription service that also gives you timestamps. E.g. there was a frontpage submission yesterday where someone used AWS Transcription to count the number of words in each minute of a talk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21635939
If all the advancements in smartphone photography is in software, why aren't DSLR/mirrorless manufactures doing it too?

I don't want my camera to have a touchscreen/social media/wifi but it'd be cool if Adobe Camera Raw/some alternative could do this stuff!
Hold my beer!

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https://donohoe.dev/project/jspng-encoder/

Life is too short to do something useful so why not encode all your site's Javascript code into a PNG image and then decode it on demand.

(This is a terrible idea. Don’t do it. Just for fun)
Slightly tangential, but:

> Chevron alone has thousands of oil wells around the world, and each well is covered with sensors that generate more than a terabyte of data per day.

That's around 12MB/s, which sounds extremely high for something as "boring" (for lack of a better word) as an oil well. What could they possibly be monitoring, and at what frequency, and most importantly: for what purpose?
You're not alone in that. People are out here working to pay not only their own debts but their landlords debts as well.
>It’s easy to sell 10 dollar bills for 8 dollars a piece. In what world is that considered growth?

Silicon Valley.
https://passiv.com