jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I haven't had a chance to watch the video, but I question the thinking in various parts of this article.

The first thing that hit me was: Cell phones? Sure, they don't need a lot of juice so a tiny patch of solar could power them. BUT there's 2 problems: These panels work on UV and infrared. Unless your phone owner spends a lot of time outdoors, he won't be exposing his phone to that kind of radiation, neither of which is found (significantly) indoors. Second, where do people carry their phones? Where the sun doesn't shine - I'm referring to their pockets, of course.

I wonder about the efficiency of window panes on buildings too: UV and infrared are in short supply when the sky is overcast, whereas visible doesn't dip nearly as much. So this is low-efficiency technology capturing light that's mostly restricted to sunshiny days? I still think it makes a heck of a lot more sense to simply slap "normal" PV on the roof, or possibly the walls around the windows. This looks gimmicky to me and I'm not sure the author understands the technology.
Unrelated to the library itself: I dislike when python projects have an external website containing the docs, and have no docstrings in the code itself. Not only is the code harder to read, but it makes the inbuilt help() useless.
Only BNSF and UP, from what I remember (in the US).
This is one of those "I can't prove it but I know this to be true"s. I would bet on this with 1/50 odds.
I don’t really understand this line of reasoning; it’s not like the person bearing the most rudimentary weapons is at an advantage? What’s the plan, lose in aerial combat but win in a fist fight?

Who says it has a fragile supply chain anyway? It certainly has a complex one, but then so do things like nuclear weapons and nobody is clamouring to abandon them on that basis. Protecting that chain and the logistics around it is a staple of military operations. It’s not like someone is going to surprise them by going after supply chains.
I interviewed Dalia and a few other people referred to us by Manara at Repl.it. It was such a pleasure meeting kids that are so smart and have an insane drive.

We have a really high bar for hiring at Repl.it, Dalia and the other youngsters from Palestine performed better than at least half the experienced engineers I've interviewed in the past. We extended an offer to one Dalia's classmates and he started yesterday as an intern with high potential for full-time, as our internships usually are since we invest a lot in them.

It was such a pleasure meeting you Dalia, wish you all the best. Hope to work with you in the future (maybe when we can offer US visas).

P.S. We're still hiring
Where is Azure here?
I thought something like that could be done here in Boston: a land bridge to connect East Boston with the main part of the city. Though since that channel is the outlet for the Charles river, it would need to be raised so that water and shipping could get through.
We aren't focused on being a transcript editing tool. You can upload a video, get a transcript, and edit it in Milk Video, but thats not our focus.

Our focus is helping make a visual clip that is engaging, based on the transcript information.

Here are some examples I posted above:

- https://twitter.com/rememberlenny/status/1339618249575714816...

- https://twitter.com/rabois/status/1310644068326629376?s=20

- https://twitter.com/m_cieplinski/status/1356331228954292224?...
> A majority with no standing in the matter should have zero influence over the rights of a minority whose interests are directly affected. You're advocating the two wolves vs. one sheep model of unchecked direct democracy, which is pretty much the worst of all possible choices short of a malevolent oligopoly or dictatorship. When people speak fondly of "democracy" what most of them have in mind is a representative, republican form of government with at least some legal protection for the rights of minorities, even when the majority disagree.

Sure, but this never happens in the real world - all people are connected.

> "Voter suppression" is frankly not a very plausible explanation for why a majority of outsiders with no particular interest in the matter have thus failed to vote to set aside local planning rules (which for the most part don't affect them) and force cities to allow more high-density construction.

I'm not sure you're from the USA but this is just not true at all. Blacks and women, for example being able to vote could and would have made a difference - which is exactly why they were not allowed to vote to begin with, e.g. suppression.
Next morning, am seeing a notice on the landing.
Really nice !
I have seen code written by folks who have participated in Gaza Sky Geeks program. I was really impressed.
Almost every one I interacted with virtually were very good at html / css / js.
Some of my common CNC manufacturing runs use jigs with screws to hold odd-shaped products cut from large plate stock. I’ve tried many different styles of screws. Philips is great if you match the driver to the screw. The wrong driver will sort of work ok. If you buy a pack of Dewalt driver bits, you will note that each one is labeled. Match that label to your screws, and you should have a good fastener experience.

When I need to use a screw thousands of times, in manufacturing processes, I buy 18-8 Philips.

I use Torx only for one specific application: for user-serviceable finished products that have previously had support problems with idiots who can’t be bothered to select the right screwdriver. Some folks simply can’t do it. So, the most problematic products end up with Torx fasteners, which problematic customers mess up by using the wrong size Torx or even hex wrenches, and my support guys have a script for these problems that goes through “you didn’t use a T-10 wrench; there is nothing more to be said and nothing to be done for it. It’s black and white. Sorry.”
Don't redefine theft to mean "unethical" or "creating a inefficient market" or something.
And how do you feel about Google Analytics?
I've seen him. He's rubbish.
86. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
85. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
80. Possession – AS Byatt
really? what do they use Cassandra for?
> I wish I could tell amazon to just ship everything together on a particular day instead of piecemeal.

You can: https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=17928921011

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/28/amazon-prime-members-can-c...
> IT has for the most part never been a money maker of a lot of companies. They see it as a loss leader.

Exactly. I'm pretty sure that IT is harder and requires more training/practice than e.g. finance or sales, but profits from those two are very easy to quantify and it's quite obvious who the deal-maker was, whereas IT is mostly teamwork and doesn't have obvious profits.
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Interesting. I didn't attempt holding actual booking for longer than an hour, because I didn't want to take spots away from people.

But while they stated they would cancel duplicate bookings at the time, that's only regarding confirmed bookings. A user can still hold a booking for 48 hours while "booking flights", and with a 48 hour window its easy enough to time the release of said booking at the lowest volume booking period and attempt to snap it back up within few seconds with a second account.

Additionally, there is no validation beyond the email address. Name & passport are simple string fields, and you can have many different names / passports under a single account. That's all before you go all out and make 100's - 1000's of accounts.

I'm being a bit harsh, I was generally impressed with the quality of the booking system and how quickly they got it up. But once it's been out for a few months, and the cracks are starting to appear AND those crack become public it's just not good enough.

It becomes another class based system where:
Priority 1) those with contacts within the department / ministry or some other method of getting special treatment
Priority 2) those who can bot / exploit the system to get what they need
Priority 3) those willing to pay to access priority 1 or 2.
Priority 4) everyone else, ie: the public.

And this isn't getting tickets to a sporting event. This is "I want to go home to NZ because I've lost my job in Australia and I can't afford to pay rent" or "my mother is sick and I'd like to see her and spend a few moments before she passes". If priorities are to be made, they shouldn't be on class & connections.
2015 was the last year they worked well.
Well, people were pretty quick to adopt AirTable, even when they were random-joe-bloggs themselves... The difference is that people trusted them because of who they were, and because of the distribution channels they had access to.
> "that's a smile, not an upside-down frown!"
So true! I would quite like some smart glasses that can’t take pictures and record video. Just a private HUD for me!
I cannot imagine any future in which this is not terribly abused or otherwise going wrong.

People invading other people's minds, Borg-like clusters of minds outsmarting anyone who is not connected with others, forcing others to play along to stay competitive. Maybe entities that even never grew up as unaugmented, unconnected persons because they were already linked in young age - one mind with different bodies.

It is absurd to try to protect humankind against a perceived existential threat by AGI by developing a technology that would also destroy humanity if it works as advertised. Add to all that the cases in which it doesn't work properly. Developing inflammation around the implants, transmitter breaking, batteries running out, losing wireless connection, ... if you think dead zones while hiking are infuriating then wait until your cognitive capabilities depend on a network connection.

I am afraid that all the good that SpaceX or Tesla have achieved so far will be undone by the damage that NeuraLink's technology will do to humankind one day.
Wow, that sounds really bad!
The list of inventions that came out of Bell Labs is breathtaking: solar cells, information theory, the first transistor, the first MOSFET, the laser, CCDs, UNIX, and many more. Silicon Valley was essentially founded by William Shockley, one of the inventors of the transistor at Bell Labs.

At Bell Labs the absolute best scientists could come together and just work, without having to deal with writing grant applications, teaching courses, or mentoring grad students (the three activities which now consume the vast majority of an academic researcher's time).

I am convinced that if Bell Labs was as strong today as it was 50 years ago, we'd have kilo-core microprocessors (and know how to program them), all our genomes would be sequenced already, and we'd all be driving electric cars recharged by ultra-efficient solar power stations. Or rather they'd be driving themselves. Maybe Google can help get us back on track.
I still don't understand what you mean when you say, "probability of remaining consistent," etc. Either you wrote the service so it system would always remain consistent or you didn't. Similarly with availability. Either the system will always return a result, or it may sometimes hang.

Maybe what you mean is the probability of whichever of C, A, or P you gave up actually becoming a problem? But I cannot imagine a physical law of the form you are referring to applying uniformly to these disparate properties. I wouldn't even know how to formulate it for consistency. For availability and partition tolerance it would just be, "Requests to this service will (availability: hang forever/partition-tolerance: return with errors) at a rate exactly equal to the probability of network failures."

With regards to your last point, there are no reliable networks, at least where I work. That doesn't mean there won't be.
if you read what I wrote again, you'll notice that our statements are not contradictory. Even if we assume that everyone religious visited church that day, even the Buddhists, I will continue to assert that they weren't all at church during that hour and 20 minutes.

I don't have any evidence, but I guess we could start looking at the schedules of nearby churches :) Wikipedia says that just over half of New Zealanders identify as Christian, but cites a survey that says only about 15% of the country attends church regularly. I wonder how many of the rest of them went to church at 8am and not, say, 10am, or that night, or maybe just skipped over Good Friday and waited until Sunday?

Anyway, that whole angle of the article was kind of silly. I was a bigger fan of the store owner's commentary.
From my experience rapidshare like sites have much more content than usenet. is there a some hidden way to to access vast content in usenet ?
It's articles like this that make me realize how fortunate we are to be having Spotify in Europe. Streaming my music from the cloud for quite some time now, I actually wondered for a second whether the blogpost was a few years old!
I feel it's quite intuitive that there are more developers outside of US than there are in US. If it's not, then I'm sorry, I do not have the data for you and the comment already happened.

> There are PLENTY of web design firms and iOS shops in the US.

How is this even remotely relevant?
TBH I might have completely overlooked something the first time through. It wasn't until I saw the 'fork on github' corner tabbard (I phase out corner tabbard's like I do banner ads) that I cottoned on to there being a server involved in this.

I have to admit I have no idea what the end result of 'sharing' something would be. Is there a web-based place to find all the link shared to me, or do they end up inside the postman extension somewhere for me to view?

Props for making your code OS.
Every time I see something from Mike Rowe I'm always impressed. From Dirty Jobs, his TED talk, this email correspondence, and even his early days as a QVC presenter, he has always exuded a sense of class and gentility.
http://ask.metafilter.com prevents eternal september by intentionally making the sign-up process slightly difficult. Rough interface and a $5 fee for new accounts.
MovableType seems to not have as many issues.
Most (all?) passive investors buy index funds which perform about as well as the market but are more robust because of their diversity. I suppose it is possible for a passive investor to put their money in very carefully chosen index funds that perform poorly, but the whole point of passive investing is that you believe that you're unlikely to be able to make those sorts of allocations correctly and consistently.

There certainly are active investors who do very well, but I'm not sure if there are any that significantly beat the market over a long enough time frame.
"would a nuclear bomb going off underwater create a tsunami?"

Possibly a small one. It would vaporize a large volume of water around the blast, leading to a vast surge in pressure, and as we all know, water isn't compressible. So you'd have a large pressure wave expanding away from the blast, followed by a trough when the vaporized region cooled, forming a partial vacuum and the area collapsed. It would be like a small version of a megathrust fault.

Fortunately however, the amount of energy even our larger H-bombs can release that way is miniscule compared to what a real megathrust fault would release, so the wave would probably not be much more than a slightly rougher surf for the nearest coastlines.
My Troop has all three. Its kind of like "don't ask; don't tell".

And its really the leaders that are scrutinized. BSA is a heterosexual mens' club. There are every other kind of club; why not this one?
> I fear that Apple’s leadership doesn’t realize quite how badly and deeply their software flaws have damaged their reputation, because if they realized it, they’d make serious changes that don’t appear to be happening. Instead, the opposite appears to be happening: the marketing-driven pace of rapid updates on multiple product lines seems to be expanding and accelerating.

I've come to realize (or believe, rather) that very often, leadership is actually more aware of flaws than journalists and commentators think they are. It's hard to imagine that tens of thousands of really smart people within an organization haven't thought about these things themselves.

If Apple or any other company isn't making serious changes, I don't think it's because their leadership is ignorant about something we know. More often than not, I think it's because they know something that we don't.

Highly recommend reading Daniel Ellsberg's thoughts on Secrets: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/02/daniel-ellsber...

> "First, you'll be exhilarated by some of this new information, and by having it all — so much! incredible! — suddenly available to you. But second, almost as fast, you will feel like a fool for having studied, written, talked about these subjects, criticized and analyzed decisions made by presidents for years without having known of the existence of all this information, which presidents and others had and you didn't, and which must have influenced their decisions in ways you couldn't even guess. In particular, you'll feel foolish for having literally rubbed shoulders for over a decade with some officials and consultants who did have access to all this information you didn't know about and didn't know they had, and you'll be stunned that they kept that secret from you so well."
> There has yet ever been a startup that has developed after a rejection from YC.

And you know this how? It seems even YC couldn't know how many false negatives they have had.

> There's a lot more action in the east coast for tech then there are out here.

Citation requested...
For this to work properly, it requires https only, to prevent downgrade attacks (you stated that).

Google analytics is also served both over http & https ? Can anyone shine a light on that ?
> If he disagrees with you he's not afraid to tell you you're an idiot

Honestly, I think this is the other way around. People get defensive and call him names when he is pointing clear mistakes / bad practices. Of course you get frustrated when someone calls you names and it's natural to pay them back in their own coin.
> You would have made a valid point if git wasn't fully distributed. But it is.

Except for Issues and Pull Requests, which are essential to continuing ongoing development.

Mailing lists are better distributed for this than Github.
Astroturfing is usually fairly easy to spot.

Of course, it can be difficult to tell those who are a bit fanatical about an issue from astroturfers, usually because the fanatical people are sourcing from blogs etc written by the astroturfers
How lucky for prof. Smil that he included that tangential sentence about Lise Meitner's Austrian passport! Otherwise the whole of his learned research might have become "weird and suspect" for our non-whiny, non-defensive, full of politically-correct chromosomes friend Semiapies.
A couple of problems with this analysis:

Using reserved instances would push the EC2 figure down 30-40% (and like the dedicated option, provide further cost savings in years 2 and 3)

You can't assume that the marginal increased technical management cost is zero. If that's true, you're employing people that aren't doing anything productive with their time. A dedicated cluster of this size would likely consume 50-100% of one employee's time, which adds at least another $50k to that side of the ledger.
i could see why someone would infer otherwise; but i think this is actually the point of the quote.
Is there any way to apply this to a full-time salaried job where you can't change your "price", but are still asked to evaluate commitments of various sizes over the course of your position?
"America is clearly overreaching at the moment."

Any facts/figures and comparisons to elaborate on this statement? I can see some arguments for this, but at the same time, the technologies we have these days might give this "overreach" some scaling power, so the US might not actually be overreaching...
If you are saying that no economy will ever overtake US...that obviously seems far fetched. If you are saying it might happen, but not in 2016, then you have obviously not provided a sound argument as to why you believe so. Just because somebody predicted Japan overtaking US incorrectly in the past- is not an argument to justify your claim.
They "lean on ZFS" for DAS.

Seriously. You tell me. What does that have to do with your rant on ZFS? It could have as well been an LSI controller doing RAID6. Or mdadm. Doesn't matter.

That's the evolved solution they came up with.

The "networked storage is broken" pitch actually comes in with the EMC/NetApp interim solution as well. I don't buy it either, but it's a joke to claim the problem was ZFS on the Zones when the Targets weren't running ZFS.

You're awfully prickly, but I didn't suggest it came down to "Enterprise" NAS vs DAS. I actually think networked storage is here to stay (and that's a good thing).

I have my doubts we'll see a stable, inexpensive (or free) Distributed or Clustered file-system ready to replace traditional solutions anytime soon. I'm happy to see people try though.

You clearly have an axe to grind with ZFS though. In my experience it's been by far more stable than any available Linux FS I've used. Pull the power again and again, replace and resilver all you want. Manage terabytes and don't worry about corruption. I wouldn't trust ext3/4fs for anything I couldn't stand to lose...

PS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-attached_storage

"People who know storage". I don't see iSCSI on that list. Nor FCoE. DAS (at least according to Wikipedia) explicitly rules out switching. Which is how I've always viewed it.
Date has been changed to April 29/30...
As you note in the article $105/mb for bandwidth is extremely pricey.

With a 4 rack commit most colo providers would just throw in the 54mb of bandwidth for free. That being the case you would save a further ~$100k a year.
I have a company in the US, I was going to avoid paying taxes this year, because I found the process hard and actually we don't have enough money. But as I understand it, you need to work with an accountant, and you need someone to fill it for you if you are outside of the US. Can you fill it online in the US?
It's pretty clear that one side is winning convincingly though.
There is also this Chinese concept train that never stops at a station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Ig19gYP9o
> This is a very vocal small minority of all engineers.

This seems to be the explanation for everything these days, so I doubt it. Just from the recruiters I know, I know this happens often at least at larger firms.

My post was mainly to raise some important milestones and objectives remote work will need to hit in order to be viable past COVID.
Clojure is nowhere near the speed of Java. That functional abstraction layer has to be paid for.
> Simply asserting this without evidence does not make it so.

Goes in both directions.

> Mostly since you are free to boot (or work on doing so at least) NetBSD and countless other things on practically every Mac they've ever released, including the latest ones.

Gatekeeper wasn't a thing either, until it was, indeed, a thing.

> They're doing a horrible job at communicating this strategy too, because they're communicating the opposite.

Surely that's the whole point of a trap?

> For this Apple Silicon phase, it seems they've also missed a huge opportunity to finally execute on this strategy by spending a little time and money to develop the tools to do the opposite of that strategy and give users a way to boot unsigned kernels.

Sure, because right now they're trying to sell the idea of M1 Macs.

> I just don't buy it, sorry. I don't even get why Apple would want to do this outside of sheer malice.

App Store, censorship, ... You could turn that around and ask why they would want to lock down their iOS devices, and why you think that those reasons wouldn't apply to Macs.