jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For more on this topic, see The Colonel Comes to Japan, a 30 minute video with a fairly scholarly treatment of KFC's expansion to Japan in the 1970s. It is part academic study and part compulsively watchable television.

The single best anecdote among many is how the statute of the Colonel, which is outside every KFC in Japan, came to become associated with the brand here. Apparently when the guy in charge of KFC Japan was put in charge of the unit, HQ didn't really think a poor Asian country merited any marketing support, but they let him use anything they had in storage. Somebody had produced several hundred Colonel statues but they were deemed too ridiculous to use. "So I said 'I'll take all of them.'" "And did you know they would be a hit with Japanese people?" "No clue, but something is better than nothing."

(Also worth mentioning: the guy's right hand man, who was Japanese, gets into an argument with him over whether selling KFC as "aristocratic American elegance" to Japanese people is exploitative, since, quote the American executive, "We sell fried chicken to poor people." "Maybe you do over there, but we won't over here." Topics in the discussion included cultural appropriation, memories of the war and associated famines, and the desire of an emerging economic superpower to consume things associated with wealth, like meat.)

The easiest way to find the video is probably your local library or university library, as it was made in the early 1980s.
I know you're probably refering to open source projects, but a lot of software doesn't even have ways to report bugs to send feedback.
Good point. I was just going off wolfram alpha's figures for average population density of both countries.
This is a great suggestion - thanks for the reply
i'm psyched that you liked it :)
This is relevant. I wonder how many of the people in OP's company suffer from this, and to what degree it's the cause of their behavior. OP should stay put (being the smartest person sucks too) and stop worrying about being thought of as an idiot. As soon as he does that, he'll start asking questions and engaging and my guess is it'll seem less and less like he's an idiot.
> . For example, why would an auto-pilot system allow a jetliner to nose dive?

It doesn't... usually. Everything can be overridden.

> I'm curious if the plane has enough input to determine "if we continue this course we will crash into the mountain range"

Yeah. "Whoop Whoop TERRAIN". "Whoop Whoop PULL UP"

Haven't actually heard the recording, but those are probably among the alarms in the cockpit. The pilot is still required to raise the altitude.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_proximity_warning_system

As other comments pointed out, sensors are still faulty. Not sure if any airplanes actually have auto pull-up capability.
to be fair, between SRTM, ArcticDEM and REMA, you could get all but maybe some southern islands already?
Technically this is amazing but I find it too disturbing as a thing. This is like creeping out the past into something it was not. Again, I applaud the technical aspect of this and it was bound to happen sooner or later. Will it become a thing where we take our long dead great great grandparents for a ride? Im not sure but I hope it will not
Haha that's just what we need here, all of the "winter storm electricity" debt becoming (yes, a lower amount of) "income tax owed to the IRS" debt.
If I was saving $50-100, I would have put the extra towards a decent generator.
> On the same day when ERCOT announced that it had a $2.1 billion shortfall, it decided to take this action against only one company that represents a tiny fraction of the market and that shortfall. We have always been transparent and customer-centric at every step.

Griddy defaulted and was unable to pay their financial obligation to the market. They tried to put some marketing spin on this but simply put, if you cannot pay your obligations, then ERCOT will initiate the default procedure. This is terrible for the remaining market participants who are still solvent because now Griddy's debts will be shared by the market.

Griddy should inform the public how much exactly of the $2.1B short pay they are responsible for.
You said a lot of words that can simply be countered by a 22yo saying "yolo" and they aren't exactly wrong either. As an individual, you do only live once. How do you want to spend that time? Being upset at the way things are, or enjoying it to the extent that you can? I'm not advocating for this thinking, just saying it is valid point of view. It is actually helpful to cut off you criticism of things at a certain point and focus on a realistic balance of concerns, cause, you know, yolo ;)
Turbo codes and low density parity check codes are two classes of iteratively-decoded capacity approaching codes, amongst others.

Ironically, LDPC was actually developed in the 60s by Robert Gallagher, but were reinvented in the 90s when the decoding was practical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-density_parity-check_code
True, the rules data is small, which is why there's no point in not bundling it in the first place. Better to have an instant and smooth experience rather than try to save a few MBs by introducing a blocking network call before you can even interact with the app.
Apple Watch has a water resistance of IPX7, that's the same as a Garmin, for example. It is fine in a shower. There's no point comparing it to other sport watches because unlike the Apple Watch, they can actually be used under water. A smart watch (at least one with a capacitive touch screen) cannot. Why make trade-offs (e.g. making it bulkier, perhaps) when there's no benefit?

Addressing your second point, there certainly are touch screens that work whilst wet - however I suspect there will be significant draw-backs, such as responsiveness, colour clarity, etc. Again, I don't have the details but if Apple could make Apple Watch usable underwater without any compromise, I'm sure they would have.

However, it would have been interesting if they had released the "Sport" model as a bulkier, water-proof version, leaving the regular Apple Watch as the dress watch. There certainly could be interesting applications for divers, etc.

Edit: check out this review of the CAT phone you linked. http://www.cnet.com/uk/products/cat-b15/

"Very poor screen" and "The screen has been designed to operate when wet, too. You can't use it underwater, but it's fully functional when covered in flecks of water". As subnaught says, it's all about trade-offs.
Or have a progressive image format. Wherein the smallest/lowest quality image is at the front of the file and is enhanced by loading more data of the same file.

It should be up to the browser and the image file format to determine the best option.
Super cool! I'll hop in my time machine and go back to 2005 when these kinds of domains kinda made sense!!!
"Built in" and "included as a preset in the default set" are entirely different animals.

By that logic, Safari ships with Apple and CNN "built in". Along with a bunch of other undesirable bookmarks and feeds.
I read something from a real estate blogger that has stuck with me since: People often pay for a bunch of space they do not need, even use. The argument that the space is an option is the same argument used to justify why someone would need to keep some random piece of garbage in their garage, taking up space. "This is a potential hobby of mine, so I am keeping this around," says a guy on the "Too much clutter in your house" reality show.

The disconnect here is that what people HOPE to use is not what they are using in REALITY. Buy what you expect to use immediately or in a definite foreseeable future with a timeline. Get rid of things that merely represent possibilities; in many cases, those things become obsolete anyway. You might as well try to get a return on your investments when others might find immediate value on them.

When it comes to square footage, this is like any other investment on potential. If it is not exercised, then it sits there, taking the extra heating and cooling, adding to your taxes, and so forth. Buying bigger than you need has more costs than the initial sale. A good budget keeps in mind all these flows.
Never say never. Froyo currently runs (in very crude form; drivers need work, as does power management) on an iPhone 3G today, dual-booting iPhone OS. (I'm currently experimenting with Android 1.6 on my 3G.) As long as the phone can be jailbroken, you can run another OS on it.

(For me, it's a perfect marriage. Apple makes incredible hardware; full-stop. Android is a vastly better operating system and developer ecosystem. The only unfortunate part is AT&T, but at least T-Mobile is available as an option for unlockers.)
> No one that sees these videos or ads on the web will be using a 300dpi screen so they need to overcompensate

No reason to overcompensate. What Apple shows is one enormously blown-up pixelated "before" screen compared to an "after" one displayed on the native best-possible resolution of the display people are seeing. They show much more than a 2x improvement (it's twice as high, not 4 times, because resolution is measured linearly, not by area)
I used TomCat in a 256M VPS with no problem with loads. Threading definitely helps in sharing the same memory space.
The way this is traditionally done is by writing a demomaker tool, then writing a player for the procedures (instructions) which the demomaker generates.

One can then generate the instructions to the 3D rendering engine and the highly custom software synthesizer in the player. This information easily fits in (less than) 64 KB. The achievement is not in the final result, but in writing the demomaker.

The German group Farbrausch (former Sanity on the Commodore Amiga) was the first to invent this procedural generation technique. Almost two decades ago, they wrote their own demomaker called .werkzeug (.tool).

https://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/162232
Also its worth considering that all these applications get updated like every week, so something that was ruled out in the past can be exploitable now.
> After being disappointed over and over I had settled on completely proprietary digital wireless headphones (much like wireless mice until BluetoothLE). Then Apple started making some great headphones that added a bit of "magic" around Bluetooth. I hear AirPods work great outside of Apple's ecosystem, too.

It's funny that you mention Bluetooth LE for mice. Audio has been stuck on classic Bluetooth due to bandwidth requirements. But that's fixed with Bluetooth 5, which gives us audio over BLE. There are a bunch of functional improvements other than low power radio. Lower latency and better pairing for instance. I think BT 5.0 headphones will be a huge improvement.

Given the timing of the release of AirPods and the development of the BT5.0 spec, I've had a theory that Apple borrowed features from BT5.0 in the case where you use AirPods with Apple products.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

"Another kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down and fall steadily. Only one is on the front page at a time."

Personally I find comments even on the whoishiring threads are rarely valuable, in most cases it's better to contact the company in question directly.
What a lot of people probably don't realize is that stimulants like Coffee (or even Speed) depend on the brain's structure. ADHD Brains work differently and they respond different to stimulants. And people don't like it when ADHD people self-medicate with coffee because they think it would make it worse (Heck, I've gotten detention for consuming coffee because I had ADHD. "Concerned teachers" they called it).
I have been using version 3.2 since Beta. Deployed on a production application, so far without a single problem.
I highly praise Automatic AppConfig discovery and BigAutoField for pkey.
I highly recommend the transition to Django 3.2

Full release notes: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/releases/3.2/
Ah, that would be quite awesome in my opinion.

Although the latency will likely skyrocket, I would be very interested in measuring the energy efficiency. The main CPU could even be completely shut down.

You can even imagine calling the main CPU as backup if there are too many incoming requests, though it would be better to use a (likely available) ethernet-over-USB instead of ADB forwarding, and that scenario is unlikely if just for a static blog.

Anyway, if you do so, please make sure to publish a new blog post, post it here, and plot the power consumption during the hug. That would be some interesting data!
I have had the exact same experience. Interestingly, it took them a few tries to get to my actual number and they still carried on throwing other random phone numbers I did not recognize.
As someone who has been in the "boss" role on and off for a long time I have a policy of never trying to argue developers down on estimates - I usually argue up as, at least in my experience, most developers are fairly optimistic at what can be achieved in a given time.
> I can make a bootable Linux disk on Windows, and a bootable Windows disk on Linux

Have you ever noticed how Apple considers Macs a separate platform from PCs? Not as in "Windows or Linux or macOS on a computer", but as in "macOS on a Mac, or anything you want on a PC".

They don't want you to make a bootable macOS disk on Linux, because Macs and PCs are not supposed to be friends. Like PlayStation and Xbox, their hardware is similar and from the outside they both look like general purpose computers, but they're different platforms and they're not friends.

You can run macOS on generic PC hardware (Hackintoshes) and you can run Windows or Linux on Mac hardware, but that's mostly a byproduct of the platforms being similar.

You can disagree with Mac not being a PC and not being an open general computing platform, you can choose not to buy them, use them or develop for them, but I don't think it's a difficult concept to understand that Apple doesn't sell, support or care about PCs.
I think Plato listed them in decreasing levels of desirability as:

Aristocracy->Timocracy->Oligarchy->Democracy->Tyranny
I'm not sure what I'm looking at. Hints?
> Scala is to Haskell what F# is to Ocaml

That's not quite precise, IMHO.

F# is an awesome language that I hold very dear, but it is a castrated form of OCaml. It has only a few features that OCaml doesn't have. For example Type Providers or Unit of Measurement. These are nice and useful features, they're not gimmicks, but they're not fundamental.

On the other hand, Scala isn't a hollowed out Haskell. Haskell, admittedly, is a more powerful language and has features Scala doesn't, like a linear type system. And it's just different, non-strict, whereas Scala is strict.
But Scala is also very powerful in other fundamental areas, where Haskell is weak. Scala has a superior module system, it's biggest strength IMO. Haskell's modularity story is that great AFAIK.
Thank you, I will clarify this with them!
In much the same way that political parties should get to make their case inside the voting booth.
So special request.
Would you consider making a theme for the Nova text editor by Panic?
It’s my go to lately!
Yes they told me exactly who I should vote for and why.
been a fan of DigitalOcean for years. Somehow they were able to bring a focus on usability to cloud offerings like no other provider could.

Most recent thing that made my life 100x easier is their Apps platform with direct Github integrations for deployment of react apps removing any need to learn CI/CD stuff which I dont want to waste time on in early alpha startup phase :)
>If you have gold, silver, platinum, you will always have at least some demand from the industry. Even if the majority of the current market price is due to speculation you still have an actual need for the metal. That's not the case for bitcoin. You could have the market losing faith tomorrow and it's done, your coins have zero value.

Is there a difference between investing in gold (30% "real" value, 70% "speculated" value) and investing 30% in copper (100% "real" value) plus 70% in bitcoin (100% "speculated" value)?
Simplicity. As a solo dev I find AWS and GCP to be a nightmare. I do t have time to learn either interface, and not doing so is dangerous as not knowing the inner workings can have security or reliability consequences. Just look at all the exposed S3 buckets over the years.

Just picking a VPS from Amazon is an absolute nightmare. All the different levels, with the credit bullshit.

DO I can log in, pick a VPS with the specs I need and be done with it. I don’t need to worry about over using it and running out of credits and being throttled and having that to troubleshoot.

DO has been reliable for me, affordable, and incredibly easy to understand and use.
Good job, sir.
> Is this still "just porn" or is that considered protected political speech that now cannot be deleted?

I'm pretty sure if you yell "Fire!" followed by a treatise on your political views, your speech is still not considered 'protected'. Similarly, I would imagine that if something has pornographic content in it at all, it would be regulated as porn.
If you're going to correct someone, isn't it worth spending just a few minutes doing due diligence? Skid row comes from logging roads where the logs were skidded down the road.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skid_row
There are already 60+ of those, and counting, all but one of them since Vaswani et al's transformer paper:

https://arxiv.org/search/?query=is+all+you+need&searchtype=a...
In most of the customer support calls I make, I speak up right after connecting that I'm recording the call for legal purposes while the IVR plays. It's a bit tricky for marketing calls received, but I try nonetheless.
That's the whole problem, the finger pointing ends in everyone pointing at eachother equally. It's why corporations can do atrocious deeds to human life or the environment and people end up with bonuses instead of handcuffs.

But imagine you are some unethical person looking to ensure as little of of your hard earned cash goes to things like a subsidized meal to a hungry person as possible. Your company is raking in millions and you want that money, but you know Uncle Sam is going to take his cut. Maybe you set your personal salary at minimum wage, and have the corporation own your nice house and nice car instead, and use the corporate card for your airfare and dining. IIRC, setting up a corporate trust similar to this was how Jeffrey Epstein was able to get Les Wexner's multimillion dollar Manhattan townhouse for nothing at all on paper. The Trump foundation also got into similar trouble for misuse of funds a few years ago. No doubt a lot of people in this world are abusing the tax advantages offered for corporations towards personal gain, and no doubt they lobby lawmakers to keep things this way.
>If someone has a problem with dogs, or anything else, then they are not qualified to perform a job that requires interacting with dogs, or whatever their particular disability involves.

An allergic reaction is not just a "problem with dogs." An allergy to dog hair is no more or less important than any other disability. The law requires reasonable attempts to accommodate the individual with a service animal, and the individual with an allergy. In the case of Uber or Lyft, it seems relatively trivial (to me) to classify drivers with allergies, riders with guide dogs, and to prevent those two groups from connecting for a ride.

The real problem here is that Uber/Lyft don't want to take any action that would further blur the line between employee and contractor.
`dockerfile-run` is a tool that allows Dockerfiles from stdin, local files, or remote urls to be executed like scripts (with, or without arguments).

It also allows options to be passed to `docker run` both from a shebang embedded in the Dockerfile, and on the command line.
I doubt either China or Russia would be on board, They might though they would properly ignore it and have many exemptions for State Run businesses or or such things
Be wary of Ubuntu's certification. I have a Lenovo X140e. It's certified to work with no issues[1], but I spent months fixing basic things like graphics acceleration and screen brightness. Though it has an 802.11n card, wifi transfers at G speeds. I still can't get Bluetooth to work. The X1's all-Intel hardware should fare better, but I'd still recommend waiting for a Linux-centric review before ordering.

1. http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201309-14195/
> Ford was incredibly nosy into workers' lives.

Not sure about Ford, but it's the same thing with Tomas Bata, famous Czech shoemaking enterpreneur and contemporary of Ford. He is also still lauded as a progressive by some, and he was for his era (he built homes for his workers, paid them well, etc.); however, judging from the today's moral standards, we would consider him very elitist and also nosy. For instance, he put part of employee's savings into his own bank.
Should add "US" to this title.

2014's Most and Least Expensive US Metros.
I'm using Debian on a Retina MacBook Pro 13" with very similar specs for some months now with Xfce and my own HiDPI theme and it works very well. Here's some documentation on it: http://mntmn.com/Hipster%20Linux
I think I understand that, but it's still not clear to me how the type of the lock is the cause of the problem: the problem as far as I can see it is that the hypothetical programmer isn't acquiring a lock (regardless of type) before starting their operation and then holding it until completion. Mandatory locking certainly has its issues/annoyances, but in terms of the situation I quoted, if used properly [1], it works fine and there is no risk of unexpected results due to races.

[1] acquire lock for maximum level of operations you might need and hold it all the way through to completion, or to avoid holding a lock on the object for too long, get and release multiple locks verifying as needed that the data hasn't changed each time
So did you cancel your subscription to the Economist and the WSJ? Because they cite the BLS inflation numbers all the time, like multiple times per week.
This is nice to see -- a new Rails (and Node!) PaaS startup. Given the recent acquisition of Heroku (and my paranoia about the consequences of large companies like Salesforce acquiring small companies like Heroku), this is a good time for a competitor to pop up.
Great work Colin! I'm definitely going to jump on the free usage tier and experiment with it. I've been holding out, entirely, for FreeBSD to come to EC2.
It is tough to compare California to Missouri or any other pair of random states.

Lets lower taxes in Missouri on gains from startup companies. Would silicon valley suddenly move to Missouri? Probably not. Does that mean it is a bad idea for the US economy as a whole to lower taxes on startups and encourage entrepreneurship? Absolutely not.

Random testing works because you have hundreds or a thousand people with a relatively similar background and then you break them into groups and try different things. The states are so variable to begin with that you can't find two that are all that similar.
http://status.heroku.com/ for those on Heroku
If memory serves, Amazon's reporting of what zones are experiencing problems has been...optimistic...in the past.
The server is still up, so we can serve it right out of the load balancer.
no reddit at work today!
Believe me, the last thing I want is to be up at 3am working on this. I'd much rather be sleeping and letting you not work.
I think this is a good example of how the "cloud" is not a silver bullet to making your site always up. AWS provides a way to keep it up, but it is up to each developer to ensure that they are using AWS in a way to make sure their site can handle problems in one availability zone.

I think we will see more of a focus from big users of AWS about focusing on how to create a redundant service using AWS. Or at least I hope we will!
That's like saying "yay for relying on a datacenter"