jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
While Homebrew is perhaps technically crude and somewhat inflexible compared to other and older package managers, I think it deserves real credit for being so easy to add packages to. I contributed Homebrew packages after a few weeks of using macOS, while I didn't contribute a single package in the ten years I ran Debian.

I'm also impressed by the focus of the maintainers and their willingness (really, enthusiasm) for saying no and cutting features. We need more of that in the programming field. Homebrew is unashamedly solely for running the standard configuration of the newest version of well-behaved programs, which covers at least 90% of my use cases. I use Nix when I want something complicated or nonstandard.

(Incidentally, I also contributed Nix derivations after only a few weeks of running NixOS, so Homebrew is not the only good package manager.)
IDK why this got downvoted. State spending and economic growth are inversely proportional. The bigger the government, the less economic growth there is.
I am not attacking anyone, personally or otherwise. What I wrote applies to anybody, myself included.
I think you're both onto something here.

For art I'm skeptical (See my reply in this same discussion for why), but for creative works with utility, and NFT might be more useful if the platform they can be used on requires validation of the token. In that sense, it seems to become a sort of public DRM.

I'm sure we can spend a long time musing on the implications of that.
You shouldn't be disappointed. Nothing has changed is overwhelmingly the correct answer.

It is incredibly jarring to assume a remote player takes an action, display them taking that action, then roll back when you realize they didn't. From your local perspective, it looks like they blocked for a few frames, which makes you assume they're going to block, then they flash back to being defenseless, and your attack weirdly goes through even though you anticipated that it did not.

Even if you can get your fancy neural net to figure out that the enemy is likely to block you - which is a feat worth writing some papers about - you're still going to be wrong about the frame on which they do it. Was their reaction time 160ms? 176ms? 182ms?

If you're right about the action they take and wrong about the frame, that's going to cause each action in the game to have weird timing. You anticipate a block, then it doesn't come so you roll it back, then wait, it actually has come it was just late! The remote player flays around like they don't know what the hell they're doing, and it's not clear to you when you land your hit whether the timer started from when they first telegraphed their block or when the glitch occurred. Your punch appears to land at random.

And blocking is an insignificant action - what if you're playing something like DayZ and the neural net decides that some random other neutral player is likely to try to attack you, say because they happened to mouse over you qucikly.

It looks like they just shot you for a few frames, but weirdly your health goes down and springs back up again, but you're not going to figure out it is the netcode playing tricks on you. Instead you unload your magazine at the other player that's clearly trying to kill you.

And since you are actually shooting now, of course they're going to return fire. Your prediction algorithm just caused two peaceful players to fight to the death.

Just because the algorithm is simple doesn't mean it's possible to do better.
Future generations will look back at us and wonder - 'Wait, they called it NoSQL? why couldn't they come up with a better name to denote what it does do, instead of what it doesn't do'
I have to admit: I had never considered the fact that we can’t measure most other energy consumption as accurately.

Seems to me we really have to be having that conversation instead of just “it uses so much”.
I took M-B test and was surprised how accurate it was in describing my personality type. I suspect my personality traits are closer to endpoints of its scales, making it more precise for me.
I think Apples app reviewers have tools to analyse what APIs and permissions an app tries to access to check this.
> The o/S did good cooperative multitasking

I always thought the Amiga has preemptive multitasking.
I've been thinking about working from a van. The main thing I'm undecided about is whether satellite internet would work out?

I've read mixed reviews on whirlpool and other forums.

I understand minimum latency is 650ms. What's that like for videoconferencing?

Presumably I'd need an articulated dish so I can recalibrate every time I stop. Anyone had any experience with those? They cost about $2000. Can they be secured, or are they likely to be ripped off from time to time?
I know nothing about buying a telescope, but I went stargazing last year on La Palma. It was fun-but-janky to try and take pictures by holding my phone up to the optical piece. It's super interested to me that I was able to capture a picture of a binary star on my Google Pixel 3a. If some sort of integration w/ a camera or phone is an option on low end telescopes, maybe consider that feature!

Also, here's some photos from the stargazing outing => https://photos.app.goo.gl/oCamaWZwfH2HwykBA

La Palma is the 2nd best place in the northern hemisphere to put a telescope, and it's well worth a visit. The island itself is beautiful, amazing actually. And it's super cool to go on tours of the telescopes. I got a chance to visit the Isaac Newton Telescope & the Gran Telescopio Canarias.

Telescope visit photos => https://photos.app.goo.gl/JcD1bCUb1asU9VcE8
I don't know why the city would be the ones responsible for trimming the trees.

They have no expertise in trimming trees near powerlines which comes with special concerns and risks. Using trained personnel for powerlines probably gives them a chance to do inspection on powerlines to insure that they are in good condition.

It seems those companies which are profiting or engaging in business should be paying some sort of fee to whomever does maintain the lines. If they aren't trimming, then maybe they aren't paying enough. Which is exactly how the entire situation with not winterizing came about in the first place. I imagine those people who bought and traded electricity on the market balked at paying maintenance fees.
Ok, not being usable for the next block is not enough. It must not be usable for any other block. Competing chains, forks, other miners stealing your rewards, etc. Has to depend on the hash of the previous block, and also the transaction where you send the reward to yourself (-> even if someone else "steals it", you get the reward so it doesn't matter).
California should split into at least 4 states ;)
There are a lot of truly terrible used telescopes out there. Mostly small refractors claiming tremendous magnification power. Don't get one of those.
Admittedly the very few times I went to Frys, I just walked around them.

They yelled to stop. I yelled back to call the cops if they have proof.

And... nothing happened. Nothing ever happens. Because I don't steal; I go through the register; and I leave with product that I now own.
Manuscripts and treatises like the ones here are what practitioners are using to try to resurrect the historical European martial arts. There are even folks reviving armored combat forms and techniques.

Which for those who don't know, are as effective, varied, and storied as the currently-more-famous Asian martial arts .

But unlike the Asian martial arts they were forgotten and died out sometime into the age of firearms in the 16th - 17th century (although several sword-fighting forms survived to the 20th century).
Likewise for high performance http libraries.
I didn't say the article implied that, I was just making a general comment. There's a big taboo associated with considering an applicant's physical characteristics explicitly in the hiring process. If you don't believe me, next time you're involved interviewing candidates mention this aspect.
Hold on, you say that it's a clear fallacy that your attractiveness does not influence your output, and then you directly claim afterward that your attractiveness may not influence the work you do? That was my original point, so it seems much like you're saying I'm wrong and then restating my original point.

The problem I have with regards to your secondary argument, that attractiveness contributes to self esteem and is thus important and relevant to the workplace as a contributing factor towards building soft skills is that it equally promotes simple narcissism.

Full disclosure; I think that we may just be getting over a long standing hangover where "touchy feely" attributes of a person were valued over their actual aptitude and intellect and I'm quite happy not to see us sliding back into that particular arena and being surrounded by pleasant but incompetent people
Maybe stress that the computer is a creative tool and should not have artificial limits put in place? Compare this to a hammer and imagine that one weekend you wanted to finish that cupboard you're building in your garage, but your hammer starts throwing exceptions because your nails are not Apple iNails or otherwise MAFIAA-certified ones. "How dare you buy generic nails in a mom&pop shop around the corner?"

General-purpose computer is a tool that should be able to execute arbitrary code its users want to. I think Cory Doctorow summed it up the best: http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html.
There isn’t an engineering office in Spain. Just a small one for a very specific product acquired by Google.

Truth be told if Google started a proper office in Spain they’d be able to find plenty of good candidates at the reduced 50% salary. Google is still paying way above local market rate.

In my case the reason why I wouldn’t stay is the psychological factor of seeing my salary cut in half and feeling the need to optimize what I earn. I already have a friend here working remotely for what I saw described here on HN once as a second tier American tech company and with less experience he’s making more than I will make once I move. I have researched what other companies pay and I could definitely get my German salary back.

I’m not saying I deserve those salaries or that Google is not being fair. But just as a multi-billion dollar company is optimizing their bottom line with the salaries they pay, I’m also obliged to do the same.
That's really only a solution for his app. No way a chat app can work by polling randomly. Lots of things just need to keep a conection open.
It's an interesting risk trade off. The central hub is complex but well resourced so able to solve problems quicky (hopefully), self hosting is perhaps a simpler overall solution as it is smaller scale (so less chance of a failure?) but you probably don't have the same man power to deal with a crisis.

Which is more likely to suffer an outage? Which is more likely to suffer a long outage? Which is more likely to suffer a fatal outage?
Modern society, esp. one nearing 7 billion in number cannot live without finance. Without finance to equitably allocate resources, there would be massive shortages -> famines -> wars -> apocalypse. However, I am going to pull the intellectually lazy card and not go through all the trouble to prove this, and allow the reader to chew on it as a hypothesis. It's late, and I'm tired.
I doubt the story. BTW, I was flying back from a work day in San Jose last Friday, and the fellow sitting next to me on the airplane mentioned both that his company makes iPad parts and that they have had problems with suicides in their China factories. Probably the same company?
Nice - my office is located in North Sydney, so I'm not too far away. I've visited Manly a few times - it's about a 30 min ferry ride away. Can't wait for the summer!

Thanks for the link. The forum seems surprisingly active.
Yes, but for an alarm clock it'd work. You can set custom sounds, etc. You can also schedule up 64 of them and have them recur.
Do anybody know how many servers is typically used by WordPress for a "VIP" site like TechCrunch?
I'm also using a very minimalistic blog theme for my own, which emphasizes the content more than anything else: http://giu.me . I have to admit that I didn't chose the best link color, but since my theme is beta, it's surely going to change (I'm using the standard Blue; a lighter color surely would be better) .

On a sidenote: I would replace the Comic Sans MS font with another one; that font shouldn't be used for homepages IMHO
Finance has been around in some form since ancient Babylon.
Besides just giving you a warm fuzzy feeling of running only one server.

What is the point of running one server?

Do you also object to them running in the cloud in VMs and not on physical hardware that they own? Sounds like an old man's "kids these days" rant..
They would never pay it, they would just pass the cost on to the customer.
Montessori may be a limbo, but is not the solution. Plus only covers the younger children. The solution is self-directed learning.

>>>One size fits all is efficient, but not everyone is the same size.
Exactly, from you briefness I am not sure I can understand the way you intended. That is the reason only seff-directed learning fits everyone, as everyone is different, having different passions, talents etc.
I disagree strongly that new reddit brings improvements.

For example cutting off the comment section under an article after just a few comments and forcing 'related' articles into your feed is a terrible user experience. Its designed only to keep you on the site and click more for more ad revenue.
As part of a small team currently using Kubernetes, I suspect it’s more how you use it - the tools and ecosystem have matured immensely in the last couple of years since I’ve first started using it.

I don’t think it suits all teams and use cases, but for us it’s absolutely fantastic and without going down the rabbit-hole of cloud-provider specific tools and recreating half the issues it solves, I’m not super sure what we’d use.
The cost is surprisingly low, too (compared to what you might expect).
Chat is not in its infancy, it has been around almost as long as email.
You can choose to pay any fee you want. The higher you pay the more likely it is for a miner to pick your transaction for the next block. You can pay $3 right now to have your on-chain transaction confirmed within a day.

Then there's the lightning network, which allows you to transact BTC an infinite amount of times off-chain for next to 0 fees. I've used it countless time this year and the prior and have probably spent less than a dollar in fees total. A lot of crypto exchanges are implementing it too, which will drastically lower the fees on the overall network. Bitfinex has support for it right now. Kraken will support it this year
H2 + N2 (atm) -> NH3 (ammonia) (Haber Process) -> ammonium nitrate, nitric acid etc.
Glad to hear your feedback. This model worked VERY well for heroku; now, the Python and Ruby communities are different, so perhaps we should examine that. However, note that it's just one free running app instance. Scaling will require payment, as will background processes and a host of other features.
OneDrive gives you that too, it now defaults to stream-first for all files. Once you open them they're downloaded locally but IIRC they're just cached (unless you check "always available offline" for them).

Sadly, they're still in a OneDrive folder and not a drive, but behind the scenes it is a virtual filesystem sort of thing (Windows calls on OneDrive service to expand the files), and you can fake the drive letter with subst.
This is sophistry. I could say an office is a cage, and a pen is better than a cage.
Good to know.

Domain redirects are useful for portfolio apps if you'd like to have some coherency in your urls, and maybe you're not trying to showcase that your app is on Heroku's free tier at that moment. That's legitimate, it's also a use case where 12 hours/day is likely sufficient. However users breaking TOS and keeping those apps awake 24/7 so recruiters don't have to wait ~30s for them to load is probably a problem Heroku's trying to solve.
It's like having a neural net coprocessor.
Are we sure it is not another April fools joke?
That's my guess. Nor eat way to test the waters with a product announcement without putting your neck fully out there.
I have multiple smallish projects that don't need to be up 24/7, but that may evolve into something more. I'm not going to pay $84/year per project to keep them on Heroku. So, I'll end up moving them, and as they evolve, they'll evolve on the other platform.
I'm not from the United States, so forgive me if I don't understand how Amazon works. But does this system imply that orders through this system will be delivered in individual mail packages, with delivery fees paid (either explicitly or implicitly) for every package? When a normal human makes an order, she will group several items in one delivery package most of the time. Especially for the inexpensive and non-urgent stuff like the laundry detergent. Will it cause more wasted packaging materials and more fuel spending overall?
I worked at two companies where everyone worked remotely.

I think one of the big differences I noticed is that I never felt like I was that close to the rest of the team. We talked a few times/week through Webex or Skype, but it's just not the same as being there in person.

Communication was also a big issue. It's not impossible to have good communication remotely, but I've rarely seen it in practice.
No he's full of it. Branches are just tags on leaves. In fact, you can read about it on the website, but of course that'd involve actually trying to understand something first before talking about it.
As someone who has lived on the East coast the vast majority of his life, currently lives in DC, and has spent quite a lot of time with friends who live in Baltimore, this doesn't really mesh with my experiences. Specifically, I don't think comparing Baltimore and DC is a good example. There are other locations that you could compare to DC to make a better point, but to bring up Baltimore as the main subject is not a strong argument.

Yes, you'll be hard-pressed to find a beer in DC for $3, that is for sure. It's not impossible, but Baltimore is definitely more of a beer drinking town than DC.

But all of the other talk on music and cultural events is way off. Many of the museums in DC are free, and there are far more of them. I would say the Hirshhorn Museum is the finest modern art museum I've ever been to, and it's completely free, with a wide, rotating selection.

For theater, the Kennedy Center has several shows for as little as $10, so I feel like you could probably beat the "7 shows for under $100" metric Mr. MacGillis has thrown down. But there are also many, much bigger events of much more variety as well. And that's just one theater, there are a lot of theaters in the DC area.

I also haven't been terribly impressed by Baltimore's housing offerings. They aren't that much cheaper, when you start considering the commuting costs, and it's starting to age poorly. Everyone I've known to buy a house in Baltimore has had to do major renovations. Even living in somewhere like Bethesda is not that much more expensive than Baltimore and you are still inside the DC metro area. But taking an hour on a good day to drive 20 to 30 miles to work (he says he and his wife still work in DC) is ludicrously unsustainable. There aren't any major road projects going in the north-south direction between DC and Philly, as far as I know. The traffic we have today is the best traffic we're ever going to have.

Where I think Baltimore succeeds far and away from DC is in neighborhood culture. You just don't have neighborhoods in most of DC and the suburbs. I mean, there are neighborhoods, but there is no identity to each neighborhood. It's all just bedrooms for the Pentagon and Arlington contractors. Why didn't he talk at all about that? The DC area is a monotone, corporatized town. You don't have a local bar. You don't have a local hangout. You don't have that place to go "where everybody knows your name". There is no local flavor because there are no locals.

I understand the point he's trying to make. I'd like to get out of DC eventually, because the costs are astronomical (I think it's the 5th most expensive area in the country). But it won't be to go to Baltimore. The way in which he's used Baltimore is not playing to Baltimore's strengths.
The point is that electricity allows to change energy source anytime and be carbon neutral.

Yes, the issue is not plugging in some resistance. Infrastructure should be adequate. Hence, it makes sense to do it right in newly built houses. Upgrading existing buildings will also be necessary. It will also solve the EV charging.

There's no other way to replace fossil energy but to increase electrical power use. 1954 assumptions about maximum household power and current
thresholds are no longer valid.
Making a competing smartphone ecosystem isn't exactly a weekend project. Apple and Android know perfectly well how ittle competition they have. That's why they know they can get away with being user hostile.
There are people who live in countries outside the US, you know.
You don't have a right to an audience anywhere in the world and you will never have one here.

People are finally being deplatformed because they are using someone else's megaphone to spread bigotry hate lies and violence. I have a hard time seeing the problem.

The approximate 1 million military casualties ever died for many causes. So far as I'm aware enabling the spiritual successors of the confederate traitors and nazis to have a voice in someone else's house.
Well, they didn’t ban him because he thinks wrong things. They very clearly banned him because his words on the platform were intended to cause violence and stop the democratic process in the US (but mostly only the former). I think it’d be foolish not to ban people who use Twitter to communicate plans to perform acts of violence. If anything I hope they (along with other platforms) use this opportunity to get better at it.

Don’t forget this is Twitter exercising its right to free speech. If Trump is upset, he’s free to do the same and make his own Twitter-like platform. I’ve seen a few open source ones posted here that he could fork.
Is it simpler ? I only posted because there were a lot of talks about Signal on the front page and I remember Session using Signal's UI and protocol without the phone number (+tor backbones). They say the signal protocol is hard to shoehorn into a decentralized structure, hence the change.