jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well duh!

Was it not obvious from the outset that (at the very least) it was pie-in-the-sky fantasy thinking?

They came form nowhere, with an idea to run a reality show about sending people to Mars. At this point we're already talking about it needing to be the best-funded TV program (or movie) in history, because not only would the tech to do it be hideously expensive, most of it doesn't even exist yet.

Then, before having secured any of this massive amount of funding, they start inviting applicants?

Not a surprise.
First, absolutely: social networking must become decentralized. I think it's a great idea whose time has come.

Second, perhaps it's your marketing, but something feels not quite "there yet" about this: selling your unit of attention currency (AMPs) for money is a big red flag. Why hand over my social capital to just another set of folks who want to monetize it? I get that it's "decentralized", but the market aspect looks to me like you're still trying to maintain control.

Third: I'm absolutely excited about this idea, though, and will definitely keep an open mind. I'll start with your whitepaper and post any more thoughts (or retractions, or apologies!) here.

Good luck!
It's worth watching the video of that (link from APOD):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwjvduR3_Ho

The video is 15 seconds long, the actual transit is less than 1 second.
It sounds like to me despite Baidu not being involved they are being used as a vector of attack. It seems reasonable for anyone using Baidu to find an alternative for all of their services. After seeing that China is modifying responses how can we trust any request that goes past the GFW?
In theory it's all fungible and doesn't work this way. If it did, they would just take out a loan and buyback their stock and skip all the extra steps.
I mean, not really. Gyms are open in many cities but people that built home gyms are still actively using them.
Aren't all experiences by definition subjective?
> Later this year, US merchants will be able to accept Apple Pay and other contactless payments simply by using iPhone and a partner-enabled iOS app

The target user is a US-based merchant. Most likely, it's a small business, perhaps a sole proprietorship, that uses a small Square reader today. This gives that business one more way to accept payments, but without the extra hardware.

A business with multiple employees/points of sale has alternatives. This is probably not the solution for them.
This isn't required for a shared Plex server, they proxy external connections via their servers automatically.
It has probably been 5 years since I've encountered the most basic Square reader in the wild (the $10 magstripe one), and I can think of a single time in the past two years I've encountered the cheap one you're referencing (which is why I forgot about it in the first place).
yeah I've never seen a crypto investigation that made me impressed with the government's abilities, nothing that surprised me about the utility of OPSEC best practices, only people with weak links and dumb behaviors that are incompatible with doing something criminal.
My kind of car sound:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPXHIMHIcvQ
If you are into the Photoshop experience, you might want to look at Affinity Photo. It is modeled after photoshop and the price is a very reasonable one time fee. You will have a little bit of a learning curve as it is not identical to PS but it is much closer than any other photo editor.
Unless you really do have evidence that they very often allow subjects anonymity?

Like any American news firm, they regularly "allow" anonymity in "national security" pieces. Some will argue that this anonymity is for "sources" rather than "subjects", but invariably those groups are the same. Deep-state and MIC reptiles talk their own books, using these media firms as sock-puppets. Without anonymity the whole exercise would be obviously pointless. With anonymity they're able to stoke lots of fear of brown people.
I'm applying to jobs now (in the UK) and I'm yet to speak to a single company that plans on a full return to the pre-pandemic normal. Everyone is either staying 100% remote indefinitely, or they're hoping to adopt a hybrid approach like what you describe.

It's a bad time to own city-centre commercial real estate.
This isn’t answering my original question, how do you get teams to adopt this?

Until this process is made easy this will always just be a fever dream of fools in ivory towers
IMO this is a really stupid move by Lego. There's a whole world of military model making that they could get involved in. Little boys want to build cool aircraft and tanks, they don't want to build a Lego version of the set from "Friends" (which is an actual lego set that I saw at the store one time.) The military is not evil, and they are not going to go away. Lego should stop being stupid.
Scarcity of people who can create websites and computer programs as compared to the demand for that vs the lack of scarcity of people capable to make T-shirts vs the demand for makers of T-shirts.

This is in large part driven by most website development being semi or entirely custom. (People who use Shopify to make storefronts or Facebook to make company landing pages don’t make the same amount as Shopify or Facebook devs.)
"screenshots and video" YouTube link is broken for me.
Anyone managed to watch it? what am I doing wrong?
European salaries are absurdly low. As an expat who doesn’t benefit from government services the same way an EU/UK citizen would, it’s a non starter. London is easily as expensive, if not moreso than San Francisco. I don’t understand how engineers can work for 30-45% less.
I didn't know of this one, that looks really nice! Do you know why they chose to start over when K9 already existed for a long time (it says copyright 2018-2021 on the website), or is it a fork?
Because it's a mixture. Some rowdy kids are just bored sick, and can't see any point in memorising crap for another stupid exam. These same people might really benefit (let's say, HN) finding out there is more to coding than their teacher knows about, and that you can get paid to do it. Finding out that school-teachers aren't the only adult role models.

But the guy who might show them that might, this semi-retired engineer, may not have the skills or the desire to do crowd control, well enough and long enough to get through.
The performance price can be made pretty much 0. For example compilers for C can produce optimal machine code for many realistic example programs.
I'd buy this one in a minute if I had the need for a truck. It's so beautiful. I totally dig into this retro futuristic design. Wish they made a car like that. Tesla is killing it.
I think it's the exact opposite: It's sleek, beautiful and futuristic without being pretentious.

Good thing is: You won't have to buy it.
They are gone in Spain at least. They show 2 people you know and then its just "and others" with no way of seeing a full count.
cult much?

"science" lol...
As someone who has a truck in an urban area I have one just for the reason you listed. I dont use the bed often but when I need it I do not have to make special arrangements. While it is true that sometimes its possible to get free delivery for some larger items thats no guarantee and you have are dependent on their schedule versus being able to do it on yours.

If you're going to have a vehicle the flexibility of a truck is second to none.
We could probably learn a lot from 7 year olds. It is an incredible age. First grasp of reason and a real understanding of the world, and nothing has been beat out of them yet.
Try @tlively52
The way I'm making the tool, yes, you could do that
the transistors are actually getting smaller, that just doesn’t lead to more clock rate any more
I started writing a similar app in 2005 using Ruby on Rails. I called it Grocs and even registered the domain name grocs.com. I dropped the ball but I'm glad to see that someone else built it! Downloading now.
And all those medium.com articles they write...
It'd be an immense effort to do it for a book but it surely could work
This is actually something I thought of doing, but you actually did it. It would be amazing if you can find a way to open-source at least part of it.

But my application was to be able to use raw SQL queries instead of an ORM in an application. By statically analyzing the SQL queries, then you can, in a statically typed language, automatically type-check the parameters to and results of the queries.
Combining that and an IDE like the Jetbrains ones, which provide intelligent SQL autocompletion/refactoring, then tbh., I think it would beat an ORM in terms of ergonomics. Some people like LINQ or various Haskell/Scala ORMs because they are type-safe. This would be totally natural to those who know SQL without the downsides of being totally unanalyzed and type-checked.

It would be like the clojure library called hugs, but with static type-checking.
> It's not really acceptable

I think using these kind of terms is unwise in these troubled days, unless you are a professional in the relavant field, and if you are, Hackernews isn't the platform for the discussion.

An epidemiologist friend explained various things to me the other day:
1. hardly anyone dies OF covid-19 (cause of death on death certificate), people die WITH covid-19 (in which case it would still be mentioned somewhere on the death certificate).
2. A great many different statistics are generally gathered, but these are complex and need a lot of knowledge to interpret. These would include cases where Covid-19 was suspected to be involved, confirmed to be involved, prime cause of death (which is very rare, according to my friend). In the end, the general public is presented with a single number which indeed doesn't tell the whole story, but at least gives some indication of the situation.
> why the Go language has been so widely adopted and successful

That's because it has tons of funding and support from Google, not because people did experiments and found that it worked better.
To compete with what? Apple's 20% market share that has little to do with a distinguished operating system and more to do with hardware and culture?
Hhmm. You didn't actually mention my first reason (though #3 is sort of related): Google creates more value than it captures. Remember the Web in '98? Remember domain name bidding wars, because typing "www.shopping.com" into the address bar was actually a plausible strategy for attempting to buy something online, because search basically didn't work? Google made search work, which made the Internet work, which changed millions of lives and created many more billions in value than they have ever booked as revenue. Wave was an attempt to fix the way hundreds of millions of people work. They are trying to substantially improve the way we get around the planet. Succeed or fail, Google persistently tries to make the world a better place. How many companies can say that?
Yeah, me too. Hate those popups. To remove: (1) download Stylish add-on for chrome or firefox, (2) add CSS style below

#vspb, button.ws, button.vspib { display: none !important }
.vspi { background: none !important; border: none !important }
It's unclear how quickly Microsoft can deliver a new tablet-friendly version of Windows. The next major release of the operating system, Windows 8, isn't expected until 2012 some time. "They're desperate to show they're in the game," one of the people familiar with Microsoft said.

Microsoft shouldn't be trying to show they're "in the game" - they should be rewriting the game. Apple didn't release the iPad or the iPod to be in a game. Both were widely derided (even here on HN with the iPad) but resulted in an entirely new "game" others were left to catch up with.

Microsoft doesn't need to play catchup - it needs to start inventing the future again (Kinect hints at what they can pull off).
The context here is that a recruiter calls you and says, "Y Combinator is looking for an Arc programmer to work on new versions of the language as well as maintain the HN site. Please give me your resumé and your current salary."

You say, "Here's my resumé." The recruiter demands the salary, saying that Paul won't interview anyone without it. My first advice is that you can just say no. The sun will still shine, you'll find work elsewhere that you enjoy.

But if you really, really want to interview for the Arc job, the thesis of this post is that giving the range is better than giving the salary at your current job.

If the recruiter then tries to jam you into a job paying Ramen noodles because five years ago that's what you were making working for a startup... I agree that's annoying. Only you can decide whether that downside is unbearable.
The counterargument is that this fails to address areas where one municipality's decisions impact another municipality. For example, suppose each township has a different order and coloring of traffic lights. This would cause car crashes wherever incompatible road networks meet. Or, suppose each township has its own electric grid, complete with different voltages and AC frequency. This would mean that equipment and training wouldn't translate to the next township over, prolonging any power outages. (See for example, the multitude of voltage standards in Japan.)

Overall, I would say that for any given problem, it should be handled at whichever level results in the fewest coordination/externality problems, with ties being broken in favor of more granular control.
On the coasts it's normal to not have kids until your early 30s, so you can definitely graduate and work 10 years in the Bay Area before moving elsewhere and establishing a family.
You’re still confusing your costs as important here - which is very convenient for employers!

No, I'm just saying sometimes employers can reasonably take employee costs into account - health care, maternity leave, day care, etc. Not here, I agree employers should not consider this. But I think saying employers should never take variable employee costs into account is an argument that's wrong, so making that absolutist argument won't help the case.
>You can still have right wing, even extreme right wing views without calling for violence or organizing insurrections

The insurrectionists did not actually use Parler. They used Twitter and Facebook.
Vaccines (especially mRNA vaccines) are not a bad field to be an expert in.

As an example I have chronic sinusitis without polyps which totally destroys my quality of life, while I can probably live with it for a long time. I’m looking at the successful cystic fibrosis inhaled vaccine trials that looks like a great way to help the cells produce missing proteins.

I’m hoping for similar treatments to be available in the near future, and I have some money that I would happily use to invest / donate in a chronic sinusitis vaccine development, but so far I see only biologics trials that are probably much slower to go through because of the greater toxicity.

Actually your knowledge is enough for you to have an edge over other people in investing in biotech companies.
> Volunteering is nice but it’s not the answer to systemic problems.

Agreed - a prominent example of this in the UK in recent years is the sharp rise in volunteer-run food banks. Which was a reaction to the huge cuts to public services, in both funding and availability, driven by our government's toxic right-wing ideology.

It's great that people stepped up to help, but it shouldn't have been necessary, and indeed wouldn't have been if things were being run effectively and for the benefit of all.
Not a direct answer, but you can adjust the active layers on https://www.eia.gov/state/maps.php to show pipelines. It's pretty well interconnected.
How many of us actually come to a complete, full, zero-mph stop at a stop sign if nobody is around (or we are in a hurry).
Amazing. This is something that I would happily recommend. I've never seen so mature and deep guidelines and best practices. Kudos to the author.
My favorite piece of 'boring' technology: Sphinx (the search software).

I've been using it for maybe six years non-stop. I've thrown large data sets at it and it always runs fast; it's trivial to set up and always has more than enough options for my search purposes. It has also become a much better product over the time I've used it, with an active development group behind it. Sphinx works so well as is, I've never had a reason to look elsewhere at the latest hot search tech, it would be a waste of my time to do so.
I generally agree with your post, but I think there is a critical difference between your argument and that of the blog post. Of course teams are more productive with technologies they know, but that isn't necessarily an arbitrarily-defined "boring" technology.

To pick on one specific example in the post: Node.js is popular enough that there are lots of teams and engineers that are most comfortable and productive working with it. For these teams, choosing Node certainly wouldn't cost an innovation token, while deciding to build some service in Python, Ruby or PHP (if we take at face value that this is more "boring") may end up being more costly.
The Justice Department report on the Ferguson PD is ample evidence that, there are plenty of routine traffic stops are racially biased and seriously unjust, even if the person just gets a ticket and is waved on.
I wonder how much of the "Fear to 10x" mentality comes from the illusion that software development is not a team sport; that if I go off in my hole, work hard enough, think enough then I can achieve anything.

I think the supposition that all that is required is "discipline" is very difficult to accept for anyone who has ever seriously played competitive sports...

As an athlete you end up realizing pretty early that in spite of similar levels of training, practice and dedication, you just don't have the talent (raw or cultivated) for certain levels of performance. It's just not going to happen. For me, I _maybe_ could have made a Division III or Division II team, but there was no way I was going to get accepted at the Division I-level, not to mention Pro-level. It just wasn't going to happen.

But what is perhaps more distressing, is that you it's relatively easy to recognize the individuals that do. The ones that have that the "10x factor". Its the girl or guy that you get benched for so they can go in. They one that the team rallies behind to win. Because they _can_ win the game; they can make the shot, they can focus through the exhaustion, they can make the "play", see the big picture. It's a thing...

I think thats the real distinguishing characteristic of 10X ______ (fill in the blank): they have the ability, within a group of skilled peers, to _create almost unilaterally_. While the rest of us, require the support of the team to accomplish pretty much anything in that environment.

And its easy to ignore/forget about the vast majority; which haven't cultivated the skill/craft to perform any task beyond basic.
Well...

PIC is weird. But it does the job and as the other comment said, they had a lot of models with a lot of devices (ADC, DAC, USB, fully configurable ports, etc).

Also cheap and available in "hobbyist" form factors (DIP)

Yes, you would either go to Assembly (which is harder to use than "tradicional uCs" - like 8051 family, Z80, etc), C compilers (some limited), or there was even PIC basic, heh

ARM? Write in C, "fire and forget" unless you are doing something more complicated (like audio synth - yes, I did this)
I believe fingerprinting is like insider trading in that you won't be able to make the stock exchange invulnerable to insider trading with fixes to the software that runs the stock exchange, and you won't be able to find a purely technical fix to make fingerprinting go away. This sort of thing is best left to regulation, that's what we have a legislative and an executive and laws and courts and all that for, after all.
When done well it provides more than just toggling a switch on your phone. Examples are timers for lights to say turn on outdoor lights at dusk. Turning on thr garage light when the garage door opens. Double tapping the switch by thr front door to turn off all lights in your home.

I'd like to think that shunning home automation isn't the answer, rather demanding open protocols and no internet connection required, such as with ZWave and more so Zigbee.
I can't tell much from the gif, but perhaps. RCE for anyone that runs Zoom, or RCE for anyone in a meeting you're in or something else?
Actually, I found the language to be pretty similar to Haskell, if you do know that. You don’t have explicit functions, you use let in, and everything is an exception. It is even lazy evaluating.
Does that imply that some tilapia is raised sustainably? I can live with tilapia. I'd like herring or sardines better, are they low enough in the food chain to harvest sustainably? I can't handle vegan though, I'll switch to cannibalism before trying that again.
Just in case anyone was skim reading a bit too quickly. This is written by Charles, not Philip.
Worth noting there is no need for an extension. This comment is also submitted entirely using the keyboard. Tab navigates to the "reply" button.
I'm still upset they try to force you to use their plugin. These would be less scary if it were jst a web app.
It's naive to assume that someone working at the airport would actually know whats going on. These are the lowest level employees. They know what they need to know, i.e. "Take the bottle and throw it away". Maybe they give you some smoke screen story like "Ug there could be explosives in there. Or lord knows what."...

I am not sure, but to me it seems common sense that pouring potential explosives and poison into a bin, feels kinda shady...? No?

The real reason why they want you to dump all your stuff is simple. All these 45 million people need to rely on what the airport & planes provides. Lots of money to be made here...

A much bigger hazard: My MacBook with water damage. I am pretty sure the chances are higher that it just bursts into flames during a flight, than someone carrying explosives in a fucking water bottle.
You don't necessarily know that source for CFR is necessarily less popular than Wikipedia: plus CFR is not necessarily Washington consensus. In addition to that it's much better to have informed discussion on a topic rather than some misleading news source.
Well they should really do something since Quora now seems to be used mainly for people to gain some extra SEO points by placing links to their websites in the answers.
Several people in the thread have already recommended meditation. I’m going to join them.

If you’re already doing therapy, consider complementing it with meditation. Meditation, if done right, can be equivalent to years of therapy.

The benefits are great, and for your situation the most relevant are reduced/eliminated anxiety, more willpower, energy, clarity (to see through depression for example); but there many others.

However, there’s a catch: meditation is hard. It requires consistent effort and dedication, just like any practice involving a complex skill (e.g., going to the gym or swimming pool).

For a completely secular practice, I’d recommend “The Mind Illuminated” by John Yates [1], a neuroscientist and a master meditator, whose aim with the book was to create a modern manual for meditation by making old Buddhist teachings accessible to an average westerner. The book is a synthesis of those teachings complemented with both his experience as a master meditator /and/ as a neuroscience Ph.D. This means that along with detailed instructions on how to actually meditate the book contains theoretic chapters explaining in popular scientific terms how your brain works and what meditation has to do with it, by first introducing a simple model, and then gradually building upon it as you progress through the book and develop your skill.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Illuminated-Meditation-Integrati...