jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The size requirement of integers grows with the number of records. Uuid's tend to be a fixed size.

IMO that's a big advantage for integers that uuid's will never be able to overcome. Key size matters when you are dealing with heavily indexed data.
DC bill will pass house soon. I think it should be the #2 priority of the senate after COVID/economy. Puerto Rico is less of an obvious one and not nearly as popular on the island as DC residents
Yes exactly, I will just not have these things and the more people do that instead of giving in, the more alternatives can survive and thrive. See the other post of using apps that are actually free to install on Google Play, but you sign up for an account that you might also pay money for. Now the thing that you rely on for your life is no longer tied to a specific Google account.

If you loose access to the account for that 'thing', sure you're screwed with regards to that 'thing'. But it's just one of the eggs in your basket.

If you do _everything_ through Google, then Google is your basket full of eggs and if you don't play ball with the basket, it will take away all your eggs.
I meant people who are comfortable with scala’s advanced features, not necessarily better engineers.
I did not intend to draw any comparisons. My point was that the narrative about "Taking" wealth is false, and that it has been used for evil political purposes.
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Sounds fun. I wish I could be a part of it. But I live too far(India) :D
I once read an article that discussed these tensions in excruciating detail. Below is the general gist of it from memory.

A potential cause of the rift between (software) engineers and business people could do with how each group attempts to optimize for returns in their work.

In an ideal world, a software engineer aspires to write elegant code just once, then deploy their work on as many systems as possible (for installed software), to as many users as possible. The software engineer's dream:
1) write code once
2) profit off it indefinitely
3) scale up profits by running the program on as many computers (or for as many users) as possible.

In a "business person's" ideal world, they would come up with a magical process that prints money that is easy to rinse and repeat. A good example is the fast-food franchise model. The business person's dream:
1) come up with a repeatable money-making process
2) profit off it indefinitely
3) scale up profits by running the process with as many people as possible, in as many places as possible.

Before software became big business, business people and software engineers probably got along just fine. I'm guessing it was because most software engineers (or programmers at the time) played a mostly supporting role to the core business of these big blue chip companies. For example, they might be writing software to help cut costs or improve operations efficiency at a large manufacturing company.

Then software itself became a moneymaking business. Now software engineers were optimizing their work input to maximize profits by exploiting computer cycles. All the while, some of these "business people" in software companies came from the traditional school of thought. So they were optimizing to maximize profits by exploiting human cycles (basically employees, and this included software engineers). If anyone didn't want to be treated like a computer program, it was the software engineers. You can probably see where this is going -- this led to a point of contention, or power struggle, between the engineers and business folks.

P.S. If anyone has a link to the article I was referring to please do share!
Yeah, I totally understand that the paper must be very hard to catch for someone without a minimal background on formal languages.

However, the author said that it is uninteligible, implying that nobody can understand it, and then supports this idea by elevating the guy who actually understood and implemented it in his spare time to a wizard status.

Discrediting someone's work that much is plain wrong as I see it, even more if you are using it to claim "100x speedups" in your project.
Obfuscating spam links. It is much harder to tell a fake/crappy url when it is hidden through a shortening service.
Haha = applecloud.com is available through go daddy - but they want 50K for it....
Maybe there's no financial market, but it seems like a tremendous good.

An Open Wifi protocol might be difficult to sell, but selling better routers should be possible. The current ones are ugly and difficult to use.
Burn out is always a potential problem, but it's great when the programming you do at work makes you a better programmer which makes your hobby work better which in turn makes your work programming better, etc.
Shamus Young has been doing a vaguely similar series lately, which you can find at: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?cat=66 Note that that page, unlike most blogs, is sorted earliest first, so I'm actually referring to "Project Hex" at the bottom. Though you may find the others interesting too. Interesting to compare and contrast the two fundamentally different approaches, which nevertheless have produced reasonably similar screenshots initially.
You mean, your system of virtue-based ethics do not budge. My system of consequentialist ethics do.
Since it's friday. me and my coworker just added this to a fullscreen flash application we use internally.
All great points, I would add one more:
forget the alarm clock. If you can afford a variation of 30 mins - 1hour in wake up time, get up when you wake up naturally. Access to natural sunlight in the morning is best.
It's amazing how precisely wake-up times synchronize automatically, but I find the alarm clock really really harmful. See this for a strong opinion: http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm
My military experience was in the Navy, not the Army, so while I didn't know any privates, I knew plenty of sailors fresh from recruit training.
No, sorry, I meant python-reorder-imports, not black. It's a separate project. I thought it was related but maybe I was wrong.
Is this hacker news, or a crappy men's lifestyle magazine board?

I mean, really?
What's your experience with the Kindle's screen? I'm pretty much sold on it, but have a lot of image-based PDFs that wouldn't convert to the native format.
"everyone should be using HTTPS"

Can't the argument be made that if you are a startup and have launched a product to test the market, it would take up too much developer time to think about https? Depending on the nature of the service, shouldn't you defer the extra effort until only after you've validated the product/market fit?
>I've been in a number of bar fights, and I find that kicks to the legs work wonders. Of course, I train in mixed martial arts

Lol. That's like saying "the best way to win a game of street ball is to just hit three pointers all the time. Oh yeah. I played college BBall for UCLA"...
You also do not have to host the app your self, so your not paying for the bandwidth. That cost is included in the 30% cut apple takes.
I'm thinking with saved and regularly run queries and reports this could take on loglogic or even low end arcsight cases.
There is a beta for linux in the forums: http://www.zumocast.com/forums/15
>Get on your side or belly

I'm going to say that this guy is a fraud.

exposing the back of your head is the absolute worst thing you could do.

You're 100% better off eating 100 punches right in the face. This guy is an idiot.
I still remember the jingle from the Camel ads on TV, which were outlawed in 1971.
It doesn't sound like you want to engage in this discussion in good faith if you are treating it as a binary choice between capitalism and communism. Any radical extreme is going to bad.

EDIT: My views largely align with what jandrese said here[1].

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25662487
The cost of two first world nuclear armed nations going to war can't really be measured in dollars. Even if nukes didn't come into play, I'm listening to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History episodes on the War in the Pacific right now. The death tolls and misery is just staggering, and he hasn't even gotten to the firebombing where I'm at yet.
Ok, thank you, that makes sense.

I read replies from another thread before writing that (asking why people haven't been shot etc.) so I was on a different track here.
Nope, Brussels ran out of patience and basically read the riot act to them. They had the choice of EU wide legislation making a bad dent in their profits or get their ... together.
News is basically a cheap form of entertainment nowadays. The clue really is in the name, it's just "new stuff" and humans seem hardwired to always want to be consuming "new stuff".
would be even more interesting if a tech person could do a tour/photoshoot instead of a non-technical buzzhound.
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> Tax competition is what keeps governments in check.

That's true for me, because if I decide US taxes are too high and leave the country, I don't get to keep using US roads. That's not true of Amazon.

Edit to add: more generally, this is a coordination problem[0], and mutual agreements against defection are a well-studied solution to such problems. Comparing such an agreement to mafia extortion is way off base.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordination_game
There is a media bias here, but it's not what you're implying. It is Israeli media picking up a story promoted by Israeli scientists. This is common practice for media in EMEA countries.

But most importantly, you're overlooking the authors' bias. 1st/last authors seem to be making an academic career on proving that humans are carnivores. 2nd author is a self-confessed fan of low-carb diets, and listed as the founder of a company offering a nutrition tracker based on the same principles.

Not exactly an unbiased trio. And without the hinges of peer-review that would stop them from making wide claims, I would skip the news article altogether.

And not being unbiased is probably why you won't see their research on international media, that would arguably be a bit more picky, having a wider selection of science stories to choose from.
Actually, I didn't come up with my 'upside vs downside analysis' here on HN : it's how I've been explaining why I'm in the US to anyone who asks. I've had far more nods of understanding from the people back home (in the UK) than anywhere else.
Mr. Gates has identified the 50 state school superintendents as critical stakeholders in his plan. With this identified audience, he's turned what seems an impossible task into a more manageable one.

Now he has an identifiable audience, with identifiable needs. He will be able to eliminate some of the noise that surrounds such a large issue because of this.

Ultimately, the goal is to build the best possible performance based system, but Mr. Gates saves the time and effort associated with re-crafting rejected ideas, by identifying and including necessary input from his crucial stakeholders (state superintendents) on the front end.
The immediate problem I see with it is how does that person know how to do it my way? At least when I look at some pictures from a trip I don't always choose the most obvious as my favorite, there's some emotional aspect to some picture that is much more powerful than just the quality of the picture itself.

That said, maybe I'm in the minority and it would actually work!
I agree this thread rocks with real life stories...
It's actually not obvious that a testing-based teacher measurement regime would be better than the seniority system. The seniority system does lock in mediocre teachers, but it has minimal knock-on effects to the actual curriculum. Test-based measurement has already made some curricula toxic to students, and those test results have minimal impact to the teachers themselves.

How much worse would it be if the teach-to-the-test incentive was "afford a new car"?
port 80 read the wrong pdf!
I fail to see why that matters - a killer app that is exclusive for Android would by definition be one Apple didn't want.

What matters is what its users wants, and clearly at least one user wants this app.
I think it would have a bit more precision.

Some people would like intricate coffee stain patterns, me thinks.
This makes sense but suggests that we need to simultaneously invest in better standardized tests. The most common standardized tests we have today make for poor year-round curricula.
So the $3000 was just for plugging it in?
There is site called Ruby Toolbox[1] and I find that helpful for doing the initial research for a library and if its active, useful to me, and how popular.

An initial Google search indicates there is a site like this for JavaScript, but checking it show it is an internet lifetime ago (5-6 years).

A fact based inventory of major JS libraries with downloads, bugs and updated_at stats would be helpful. The challenge would be keeping it fresh. If project "owners" can submit their own info that would help.

[1] https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/
Well - 10 years ago, that was a common behaviour around me. Today, at least in the bubble I sit in, it's barely the case.
This is not really polyglot quine (because the original program is only valid ruby).

It seems more like an -almost- multi quine. (The original program produces other programs that eventually reproduce the original ruby program), it is not a "real" multi quine either because it cannot reproduce itself without going through the intermediate programs...

Still interesting nonetheless :-)
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I lost any faith in these companies doing any sort of sound geological work when a company disposing of fracking water placed their injection well near a fault and caused a rash of earthquakes in the area the well was built.

I'm not inherently against the idea of increased natural gas production, including fracking, but the lack of effort put forth by the industry to recognize and mitigate the risks involved has completely turned me off the practice.
Of course conservatism isn't very accepting of new ideas and viewpoints. Nothing political you can slap a label on, and that includes any of the left-wing varieties, is very accepting of new ideas and viewpoints. Otherwise, the label itself would be meaningless. (That's not to say the meanings of these political labels don't change at all, but it takes a hell of a long time.)

When individuals decide to accept new ideas and viewpoints, this creates conflict with the label they've chosen to apply to themselves. Enough new ideas, and they simply start call themselves something else. A conservative open to too many new ideas will stop calling themselves conservative, and a liberal open to too many new ideas will stop calling themselves liberal. This happens all the time, in both directions - it's the people that change, not the labels.
I'd call The Köln Concert "protracted edging".
> It is a government that puts American interest ahead of any other concern

Usually, that's the case, but these days: all roads lead to Putin.
“Capitalist discourse” in Lacan’s theory of discourses reminds me a bit of this; it is essentially the realization of “new” constraints, ex nihilo, that can be reorganized and resolved.

The methods in the article are almost like further subcategories for the internal alchemy at play when creating something new.
Most people don't like to intentionally break the law.
> Physics simulation of solid wood blocks and metal screws is a mostly solved problem.

Not just solid wood. Frequently IKEA builds will involve either pressed+laminated particle-board (most of their cheap stuff) or drywall (when you e.g. mount a bookshelf to the wall for safety.) These materials both need to be simulated as a sort of "pressed powder", I would think, and tend to both spall/chip, and potentially jam your tooling with loosened powder. I would think a large part of the "optimization problem" would be avoiding designs that require repeatedly clearing toolways of dust.
Not OP, but I wouldn't even know where to begin trying to source street drugs, nor am I particularly interested in learning.
Sadly tyre, brakes, and road abrasion apparently account for far more particulate pollution than the exhaust does. I'd like to find another source for this because it's so surprising.

The only solution I suppose is no cars.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7236155/Elec...
Just read it as "Powered by big data" or "Powered by software" or "Powered by mathematics". It sounds fake and dumb. If it sounds fake and dumb to you, a ML practicioner, then maybe this article was not written for you. If you read the article itself, you get the feeling that AI was tacked on at the last minute, likely with an intent that has nothing to do with knowledge sharing.
Uber has a pretty good track record of bringing in more and new drivers.

Given that personal automobiles are a large sunk cost that many people have incurred, being able to generate marginal income through ride-sharing seems like it needs a lot of active barriers to entry (like restrictive regulations favoring incumbent taxi services) to really limit the supply of drivers.
Me too, but in the back of my mind is always the knowledge that it's a slippery slope argument and therefore technically invalid.
I knew the key, but now I forgot. What now? Put me in jail for a faulty memory?
It is not "easy [...] to achieve", e.g. try the code on this sentence, Dr. bootload.
They don't have to be frivolous. Do you have an office in your primary residence? Take the cost of that residence (rent or mortgage) * (area of office / area of residence) and deduct that. Bought new paint for that room? Deduct it. Did you get a new computer that you use for work? Deduct it. But talk to your tax professional first because I'm not one and this is not advice :)
In 2008 cell phones capable of texting were pervasive, and ubiquitous.

As was MySpace.
No, he also posted the timecodes from the torrent, which imply the data was transferred at USB 2.0 speeds. This data can indeed be verified with the torrent.

I agree with your criticism of naming former executives. But Schneier also expresses his skepticism towards this viewpoint, and merely states that the data transfer speeds do seem to support the "inside job" argument.

He continues to say that he still doesn't buy the "inside job" theory.
I just watched episode two of Black Mirror (on Netflix). It shows an interesting world in which tech has really taken over the human.
I think people like it because it was seminal, and just about every other pop psychology book references it. That said, the material is better presented elsewhere. A great book that I enjoyed is: http://www.amazon.com/Makes-Brain-Happy-Should-Opposite/dp/1...
Talk to an immigration lawyer, but if you have an existing real business (with real revenue) and you really want to stay much longer than 3 months, then E2 would be great. I still recommend you move for 3 months on the VWP, see how much you really want to stay, then if you do, file for E2.
Dividends are not the only way to turn stock into value. Stock is ownership, and many S&P 500 companies e.g. Apple have huge cash holdings in the bank, for example. Your share of one of these companies is a proportionate share of everything they own and everything they are likely to acquire in the years to come.
I wouldn't have guessed that "those who fight" would have had a very high social status. Can someone explain?
>There is also no doubt that if Jared Leto and his merry band had realized a week ago that Meerkat would drop out of the top 500 iPhone app chart by Sunday night, they would have slammed their check books shut in a hurry. They were obviously blinded by the tech journalism flimflammery

If the above statement was true, that would mean that this ecosystem doesn't make much sense. Am I naive thinking that founding decisions aren't so emotional, "impulse purchases"?
Could you explain what's wrong with (calories in) < (calories out) == (weight loss)? This article doesn't refute this idea and specifically talks about it. This is just showing that some genetic mutations affect metabolism in ways that reduce (calories out) independent of activity level. This shouldn't be shocking. Metabolism varies across different people and across the same person over time.
The connector for iPods, iPads, and iPhones has only changed once. And the old 30-pin dock connector was in use for 11 years. 11 years now counts as “every so often”?

As for macs, the original MagSafe connector was in production for 6 years, before it was replaced by MagSafe 2 in 2012…
True. But the focus is NK is capable of putting up ballistic missiles and naturally they are capable of cobbling some malware tools to hack into sony. Especially into sony.
I think the only languages that are "statically safer" than Haskell are the theorem provers... (agda and coq come to mind)

Disclaimer: I do not have enough PL type theory under my belt to confidently make this argument.
I think this would be great if they could do that.. but when it comes to millions of users I dont think even google can handle that much feedback publicly without falling seriously short. It's amazing they are able to address as many issues as they do, after all there are like 14000 open issues right now in that tracker.
Fair enough, sorry.
I feel like I'm pretty familiar with "monkey patching" as practiced in Rubyland, and I'm a systems C programmer from the 90s. Can you help me understand the distinction you're drawing here? I don't have an understanding of "monkey patching" that involves how "invasive" it is; in fact, a repeated complaint about Ruby is how uninvasive it makes monkey patches, since the very concept of monkey patching breaks assumptions other programmers might rely on it.