jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit late to the bitcoin game (and gearing up to accept bitcoin payments in an upcoming project) so excuse me if my question is trivial, but how does bitcoin show that decentralization is a bad idea?

Aside from energy consumption and stability, bitcoin seems like a resounding success to outsiders like me.
Oh no, he has a low/midrange Android and upgrades every couple of years. But occasionally he mentions he's thinking of switching to Apple, and mentioned that as the reason every time.

Incidentally and unrelatedly, I have had the same iPhone for the last 7 years, but I've been using a feature phone for the phone part the last 5. I'm reemerging into the smartphone world with Verizon's 1X network shutting down and I've realized I am also definitely rapidly becoming "old people" myself.

All of the phones I thought were so cool are now hopelessly obsolete, and most may not even be able to activate on a current network. Even beyond the obvious headphone jacks, physical keyboards, and removable batteries, what happened to phones with FM radios, tiny secondary screens, and IR blasters? Everywhere I look all I see are big screens and fancy cameras.
Related: mailgun’s gubernator[1]. No redis.

[1] https://www.mailgun.com/blog/gubernator-cloud-native-distrib...
It's a really well designed distributed system for calculating access control decisions at scale. It makes a specific authorization CAP tradeoff that allows for consistency around access checks to different "versions" of a piece of content, allowing older content to be protected by checks served from read replicas and cache.

Full disclosure: I am a co-founder of a company building and hosting a Zanzibar implementation as a service: https://authzed.com
Starship Titanic was awesome, I love the random Monty Python cameos and the surrealist humor.
Reminds me of Listen Notes: https://www.listennotes.com/blog/the-boring-technology-behin...
Semi related, it always bothered me how cool we are with the term “therapist”, even for someone who treats rape victims.
No, I did hot know that, repeated everything manually. Will try that next time, thank you.

BTW, pijul docs mention rerere as helping "in some cases":

> This is why in these systems, conflicts are often painful, as there is no real way to solve a conflict once and for all (for example, Git has the rerere command to try and simulate that in some cases).

https://pijul.org/manual/why_pijul.html
Another way was put stacks of coins on the LP to slow it down
> Git should work the way we think it does!

I think it works using snapshots... or are you saying that Git should work the way that you think it does, and not how I think it does?

It's clear that Git is not the final evolution of version control systems, that we are just currently in the "Git era" and at some point we're going to be in the "post-Git era" of VCS. It's unclear what that looks like, but I am skeptical when I hear these claims about Pijul.

> One can share just a patch, and applying it is guaranteed to be the same action everywhere if that's possible, which it often is.

My understanding is that you need to define a very weak version of "same version everywhere" which is useless. With Git, you can merge and get no conflicts, but that is no guarantee that the patch applied successfully... it just means that the merge operation didn't run into any obstacles. It's not just the patch that needs to be vetted by humans, it's the state which must also be vetted, and that's one of the problems that Git solves well.
I got it from searching on google scholar, there were lots of papers on it because it's both a buzzword and a seemingly effective training technique for even high-level athletes. The basic issue with the whole concept is that it's supposed to produce similar improvements to long steady sessions of cardio, but only very hard efforts with short intervals produce such improvements. So beginners can't really do hard efforts very well, and if they also use long rest periods, and especially if they don't go all-out, then the benefits aren't there for them at all and it just becomes false advertising. I think it's a little sad how a valuable bit of sports science got mangled. If you do all this stuff to save time and you don't even get the benefits, then doing low-intensity cardio is just so much better. I run a lot these days but I can't imagine an all-out anaerobic sprint that's 2m long, it seems both difficult and biologically impossible, I think that's just regular interval training (not high-intensity).
> should a task execute for too long, the runtime will automatically react by spawning a new executor thread taking over the current thread’s work.

That is a super interesting strategy, though obviously only works when you can « afford » a multithreaded scheduler.

Anyway I wonder how they manage this, signals?
This legislation will make the day-to-day existence of Australians worse.

However there is an argument that the price to pay might be acceptable if it pushes Google away from the Australian market. Strategically, these companies are a huge risk of foreign political interference.
One more recent example of this: a professor of Chinese uses the Chinese word 那个 (nage) in a lecture on Chinese, and is promptly suspended because somebody thought it sounded like the English N-word.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/08/professor-sus...
Who knows. Google is almost certainly bluffing, they wouldn’t pull search from Australia. Especially if that meant conceding the entire market to Bing.
More than just slightly jealous here.
I don't think it's about the FBI as much as the rest of the three-letter soup. NSA, CIA et al. most certainly are a threat to anyone outside the USA holding valuable secrets.
Would you say not being in the browser is an important barrier for education?
The app is super small (~30MB), runs on all mobile and desktop platforms natively, we even respect all sandboxing requirements to be present on the Mac AppStore. :p
We’re also making sure the app runs well on ~4yo devices (including smartphones)

That being said, we agree supporting web browsers should be on the roadmap. But we’re a small team, it’s just not a priority currently.
Aside from pushing children to complete their homework and take it seriously, what does a parent's attitude toward education do to help?
iperf is the gold standard for measuring throughput but it requires a shell on both ends.

The default TCP mode is fairly intuitive and usually gives a good idea of what is going on.

For precise independent tests of up and down speeds you need to use UDP mode with increasing bit rates until you start to see significant packet loss in that direction. Repeat in the other direction.

Another consideration is that the endpoint you are testing from (probably some cloud vm or server at work) will likely have different routing to your other endpoint (home) than other sites/services you visit. It is not unusual for eyeball ISP's to sometimes have congested peering with specific networks in specific locations while your work->home path will be clean.
All commerce is interstate commerce since the constitution got shredded by the courts.
Lol Yandex is about to be the Russian Baidu if it hasn't started already. Dodging a little censorship to dive headfirst into a government controlled search engine.
There should be a large number of jobs you could take on with a physics degree (although most are more math than actual physics). Any technical role in tech, actuary in insurance cos, quant trading roles, etc. How did you not find a job in 2 years?

Of course I say this assuming you're based in the US - the European job market for technical people is much, much worse than the US.
Well thank you for saying so, and yes I tell my story in part to prick the Just World / The System Works bubble that I perceive as predominating around these parts. Like, to me, I might casually mention I started working at age 8, and someone responds “Uh, that is child labor.” To which I reply, no shit it’s child labor. By 12 I was putting in 40 hour weeks during summer, under the table, for a respected professional pillar of the community. And someone will say, “This happened in America? Exploitation!” Well maybe, but to me it was a godsend, and the one and only reason I was able to buy my first computer and learn programming. Of course that isn’t how it would go in an ideal world, but how can anyone mistake this world for an ideal one? You answered that question. And my early life (on second thought, the rest of it too) wasn’t all-ghetto either. It was always very checkered. Every part had aspects of real privilege and real poverty. Maybe the only thing it didn’t have was any consistency :)

On a different note, it just occurred to me that we talk a lot about impostor syndrome, but never about the kind I had. Usually it’s about one’s skills and ability. I never had that, but I had it really, really hard about my class, and that never went away, either.
2008 is calling and wants to talk to you.
Yes, but it is above all a culture problem.

Many developers think that they don't need static analyzers.

Actually lint was part of the original UNIX, but since it took some effort to configure and not everyone agreed with the rules, it was seldom ported to other systems, and it became part of the C culture not to use it.

I think we have to thank the LLVM project that now static analyzers are welcome in C.
There are comments on the previous submissions of this story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1897522

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1897583
Duplicate:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1905967
This sounds super for Facebook users, but does this entice any Non-Facebook users? Are they doing anything to capture the people who don't see value in it?
It is not a new system, it is an already existing technology called Apache HBase that is part of the Hadoop ecosystem.

Here is a video from the recent Hadoop World conference, where Jonathan Gray from Facebook speaks about their experiences with HBase:

http://vimeo.com/16350544
I see numbers like this often and they make me wonder how active these various users are. I have a few old hotmail accounts and a couple old yahoo accounts.. 3 of which I know are still active... But I check those addresses annually and they mostly exist to handle my spam.

Is Yahoo's 40% active people? When was the last time they checked their email? Do those people check their email via pop? What is the volume of useful communications for the users of these various systems.

Do your numbers above represent addresses you've collected or just a rehash of the general numbers on the topic? Is there any way to get more fine grained details about these various suer groups?
And we have peering arrangements with several R&E networks and more coming.
I have thought about this idea of broadcasting my plans for a while now. Everybody is saying that google's adsense is the biggest breakthrough in advertising in years. Think about the potential of being able to register that you are thinking about buying a car and then only seeing car commercials. I'm not talking about just adsense on the right margin of webpages but even in your tv shows and radio programs on the way into work. Or being able to say "Hey I'm overweight I want to ban all ads for unhealthy food and or alcohol across the board!".
Currently I'm thinking of remodeling my kitchen; I would love to only see ads for local companies that can do this. I mean sometimes I spend my free time researching which computer I want to buy. I can't imagine that companies wouldn't want to take advantage of this and put in custom ads for me.
I realize that this would represent a shift of power from the ad agencies to the consumer but so be it. I think the companies buying ads would benefit from more targeted advertisements.
Is that a cross-Europe thing then? My fiancée is Swedish but living in the UK with me; as far as I know she doesn’t pay any extra tax or have extra health-insurance.

googles
That sounds interesting! I can't think of any types of things to check for to predict a user is about to churn! Care to give more examples?

The closest I could think of that might work is a neural network that would be fed data for people who churned and people who didn't but even then I cannot think of useful types of data to be fed!
random, but I recall seeing a graph a while ago of average starting salaries of engineering salaries and chemical was still on top.
Wow, that's a feature that I've been really missing since I switched to Firefox from Opera.
Also from the wiki article:

"Corporations from either country can sue if the country in which they have their operations has public policies even those intended on protecting the environment, health, or safety that the corporation says "interferes with the corporation’s profitability".[10]:23[5] Canada's risk of such lawsuits is much greater than China's, since "China's foreign direct investment in Canada is much higher than Canada's in China."[5] By 2015, Chinese foreign direct investment in Canada in 2015 was roughly three times the amount of Canadian investment in China."
The news was known before the surge; I don't think they're entirely related.
For what it's worth, it doesn't involve really hard work, and it costs nothing. Google pays the reseller, the cost to the 'resellee' is $0.
Agreed. Lots of people will probably read "amid" == "because".
Students don't have a BATNA or the self worth to be able to say no, which makes sense, given how much they've invested in their degree already.

Suppose you're a 3rd year student, and you're asked to do this. You've probably already spent at least ~20K and 2 years of your life on your degree so far (if not more). At that point, it's a hard sell to ask them to just quit at that point and throw away the time and money invested. Might as well just suck it up and deal with some spying for the next year.
It’s possible for distributed services and services serving content from different geographic locations to have widespread outages that don’t affect every single user.
How many people have the opportunity to be Einstein?

How many people have the right brain, and the right interest, and write the right paper at the right time?

How many are starving in an underdeveloped country and no access to education, for that matter.

Einstein wasn't necessarily a unique genius standing at the pinnacle of an intellectual mountain. He was a beneficiary of survivor bias. We don't know how many other "Einsteins" there have been, or could have been, because we only tell success stories.
I'm no fan of FB, but to dismiss the value of a platform where you can reach 5B users is a mistake.
Yeah, this is the same type of article that, from the comfort of the author's arm chair, says things like: "well humanity survived the black death, basically no matter what we're going to be fine."

You can only shrug it off looking at the abstract numbers. You absolutely do not want to live through a period of history that's anything like that.
Let me join the international domestic mobile plans pricing party.

In Latvia we have unlimited calls and messages for 9.95€. Add unlimited 2G/3G/4G data for 9.99€. That's roughly 20€ for unlimited everything. Tethering is not disabled, however, you could get downgraded to slower speeds for abuse (torrents & alike; never heard of this being enforced).

Roaming charges in while in EU are regulated at 0.19 € per minute, messages for 0.09€ per minute. Data is still expensive, though - 0,20€ per MB. Mobile operators provide roaming data packages, which might lower your data bill to 0.14€ per MB.

There is a upcoming EU roam-like-home regulation, which would mean that you never pay more than at home for anything - including data.
Sounds very much like A People's History of the United States (http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States-1492-Pre...).
> He then got out a blank form and handed it to me, saying ``Here, fill it out again and don't mention that. If you do, I'll make sure that you never get a security clearance.''

That sentence perfectly sums up my experience with the security clearance process and demonstrates clearly how broken it is.
Bullseye, edw519. Respect.
Doubtful. That's not really making Apple any (significant) profit when you look at their overhead for that.
My 2 cents on these 6 for what it's worth...

Economy: Many successful startups have succeeded in a down economy (Microsoft and Google were started in recessions). The truth is a down economy is good for a startup because it weakens larger competitors who need large amounts of money to support their existing infrastructure.

Uncertainty: Job security is a myth. Even if you work for a big company that's secure against going out of business there's nothing to say you won't lose your job tomorrow because of some cost cutting initiative. So you really shouldn't let this become a factor.

Indecision: If you aren't passionate about what type of business you want to start you shouldn't start it. So if this is a problem you should just stay in your existing job.

Debt: If you have good credit you can get a small business loan to ensure you have a consistent salary until you can get customers or VC money. If you have bad credit AND debt you probably shouldn't be starting a business

Family: This is legit. If you have a lot of family obligations you shouldn't start a business

No Benefits: Private benefits actually aren't that expensive. I just checked ehealthinsurance.com and they quoted $79 a month for me. As for 401(k) and such you're making a bet on your new business that it will pay out big for you so you shouldn't really be worrying about retirement for that 2 year period where you're trying to start-up
It sounds like the security officer was just some low-level grunt who didn't want to go to the trouble of filing extra paperwork. Rather than someone with the power to "make sure that you never get a security clearance".
Your profile doesn't have a contact e-mail address. Drop me an e-mail at (my username) at gmail.com if you'd like, because I have some interest in discussing this a bit.

I had begun working on a site that tracks current hardware trends, pricing, shopping, and recommendations but I haven't looked at the project in a while. If anyone is interested in collaborating on something like this, please feel free to contact me as well.
So why do we pay more when we can’t tell the difference?

To answer this one must realize the true nature of these services. Their main product isn't in physical goods such as food or clothing. Rather, it's a psychological product. Customers are paying for the affirmation that their tastes are superior. For that they are more than willing to pay extra. Expensive toast is really a psychological indulgence rather than a culinary one.
Sorry, I misread!
The personal is political. It's not possible to exist in a non-political state. It's a lot like Stallman's victim-perpetrator phrase. Nobody wants to think of themselves as either a victim or perpetrator, but here we are and wishing it away unfortunately can't make it true.
Wow, I never looked at that page before. It's creepy from the top:

you look lovely today, btw.

to the bottom:

you need help

Well, which is it? Do I look lovely, or do I need help? What possible business is it of yours, dear npm? And what about the person who just suffered a facial injury and is very aware of how unlovely they look at the moment?

At least Slack rotates through a few different sayings that tend to be goofy instead of creepy - and you can change them.

This stuff has been around for a long time, it's just cheekier now. Ever install a Windows app and the last setup page says, "Congratulations! You have successfully installed $APP." Congratulations? For what? You congratulate people for an achievement. Are you saying that it was an achievement on my part to successfully install your app? Was the more likely outcome that I would fail to install it? :-0
Actually they do have incremental compilation at the package level. Use go install and you'll get it. Use go build and you throw away intermediate build artifacts so you don't get it. This is all documented.

In practice compilation times are not a pain point for golang.
There are very strong controls on experiments on humans, for example, and they seem to work, for the most part. Governments may circumvent them in secret, but when it's found out people were experimented on, there's a scandal.

So, while it may not be 100% foolproof, it would be quite meaningful.
Most of the gain of function research is either well meaning to understand disease or part of normal science published in journals. Banning it would reduce the amount done greatly.
Scott didn't come up with that joke.
So if I'm understanding correctly, Dershowitz asked Pinker for a linguistic opinion vis a vis laws against sex with underage girls, and Pinker wasn't the least bit curious over what this was all about?
>Gill getting rich
Did Gill sell? I thought he didn't convert his options yet and was still holding.
From Wikipedia:

> Hitachi holds the record for the smallest RFID chip, at 0.05 mm × 0.05 mm......These dust-sized chips can store 38-digit numbers using 128-bit Read Only Memory (ROM). A major challenge is the attachment of antennas, thus limiting read range to only millimeters.

Sounds to me like RFID chips can be small enough to not worry about. Even at 1mm^3, you can likely just let it fall out while melting down plastic, and collect it later.
Not that I'm advocating for doing so, I think enforcing a visible symbol indicating the contents is a far better idea.
Meanwhile fb has all of this info from the 100%...
I had the same question as grandparent. Thanks for the links, and maybe I'm not getting this because it's just way over my head, but this article seems to assume that because the non-quantum computers of today can't simulate complex (particles numbering above ~Avogadro's number) quantum systems, they can't exist.

This sounds like the article is claiming that the universe is a computer simulation, or that stuff can't exist if we can't compute it.

Can someone please help me understand why something being able to exist in our universe depends on if we can calculate the physics for it, or where I've gone wrong in getting to this question?
Sometimes it's helpful to understand why and why not evidence can be submitted in court... things like the DPR trial, for instance, start to make sense. Just general intellectual curiosity, I suppose.
No, you run into limits with some relational engines. I work in a Teradata shop and we handle relational models of this size just fine.
What do you pay for such cluster if I may ask? I assume it's not in EC2? Have you thought of adding a web-crawling service on the top of that?
Yup, I am (said by others) very good at architecture and the big picture, while I have never been great at details.

Some of the details oriented work is actually just habit, I can spot tiny issues in Ruby, but I need a diff to figure out Go code. Tools help a lot too.
I don't know what Norway's tax system is like, but there's too much detail in a US tax return. For one thing, it would tell my employer things about my family situation and spouse's employment, that might affect my bargaining power.

For another, since I run a small business, it would reveal my sales volume, which is probably the most important piece of information for someone trying to decide whether or not to compete with me.
Not only is it off-topic, but this is pretty much a USA-only post.
Well, that's what inspired Evan Spiegel to start Snapchat.
Why can't they subpoena the lawyer husband? Presumably he knows her whereabouts because of their baby.
I believe lots of home routers still use them.
Enforcing publishing through source control
only is a huge step forward. The current NPM process of allowing anyone with write access to publish a package at will is really insecure. I think that's the most exciting thing I've seen about Pika that NPM lacks.