jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wow! Assuming this is true and not journalist license, this is real Hacking. Get a 1024 * 1024 resolution on that thing and millions of blind people will get a chance to see again to live a normal life.

"With the power shut off, the view is complete darkness. Weiland flips a switch and asks me what I see.

"Vague gray shapes. Big dots. Blurry edges."
"Can you see the door? Could you walk to the door?"
"Yeah, I could, if you want me to trip over things and fall down."
"That's a 5-by-5 display. Hold on," says Weiland, "I'm going to up your pixel count to 32 by 32."

It's Weiland's belief that a 32-by-32 array, 1,024 pixels, should satisfy most vision needs. This is probably 10 times the count on Dobelle's implant and much closer to Normann's design.

Beside me I can hear Weiland futzing with the computer. There's a sudden wash of light, like viewing the Star Wars jump to hyperspace through a waterfall.

"Can you see now?"
"Not really."
"Give it a minute, let yourself adjust."
"OK, I've got blobs and edges and motion."

Suddenly, things become clearer. What moments ago was attack of the Jell-O creatures has become doorways and faces.

"What happened?" I ask. "Did you up the resolution again?"
"No," says Weiland, "that's your brain learning to see."

It's a weird feeling, watching my brain reorganize itself, but that's exactly what's happening. Beside me the fuzzy edge of the counter becomes a strong line, and then the computer atop it snaps into place.

I take one last glance around. Weiland is still not visible. Then there is a subtle shift in color. A drizzle of gray firms up, and I can see the white plane of his forehead offset by the darkness of his hair.

I look around: door, desk, computer, person.

So this is what a miracle looks like."
Still trying to work out if "at the tale end" is a dumb typo or an incredibly subtle pun.
> Why are people rolling around computers on carts to perform simple interactions with web apps?

Please, don't even ask that question. It's the wrong question. They are a temporary placeholder until tablets come along. The clipboard metaphor is what you want.
the form factor is huge. The clipboard metaphor is very valuable. However, the maximum dimension that most white coat pockets can accomodate is a 8.5x11 folded in half the fat way, narrow edge down.
There are much more enjoyable readings on ZH. =)
It is one of them: http://www.zerohedge.com/article/welcome-insane-asylum-%E2%8...
At Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center where I work as a Software Engineer one of our biggest current needs (software-wise) is a working LIMS (Library Information Management System) that tracks the progress of DNA samples through our analysis pipeline (chemistry and software sides).

There is also a great need for Software Engineers/Mathematicians to improve the analysis software and the algorithms behind them (primarily string matching) to account for advances in the "chemistry" that companies like ABi and Illumina are making in regards to their sequencing technology.

These are both just on the "production" side of the process - i.e. the processes and people that produce the first round of analysis and statistics from the raw read data (sets of As, Gs, Ts and Cs). Further analysis that looks for SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms, what Wade calls 'variant DNA units'), carries out genome annotation and eventually attempts to statistical link both of those results and numerous others to disease traits is carried around by teams of programmers and biologists/geneticists. However, as the data becomes increasingly large and complex so too does the role programmers and clever software play.
I'm not sure if shipping buggy code can be considered productivity.
Maybe it's time for Slack to adopt the Axolotl ratchet, too.
Really? You think the NSA is more interested in your bank password than random criminals in [country over there]?
Being predictive of something is the beef here. There is no sound theory of what that something is and what specifically it would predict.

Binning people into excel rows by an arbitrary process is one of the hallmarks of either a pseudoscientific hoax, or an entertaining but scientifically unremarkable party game.

You might as well divide people into Hogswarts houses by a similar test and it would serve similar purpose.

In other words, it's a pastime driven by fictional representation of human psyche. Some groups may find this exercise fun.

But this is no reason to stop hating Meyers-Brigs given it's driven by psedoscientific marketing. While it might not be harmful, it totally is a similar type of activity like homeopathy.
Exactly, haha.
I'm not sure PostgreSQL is the right choice for large analytical workloads. Unless you considser TB size datasets less than 1% of the cases? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26186955

I'd appreciate if anyone could share their experience with using PostgreSQL for large enough data.
I would worry about the safety of the employee doing the bank run. You close your pizza joint at midnight and what do you do with day’s cash? Leave it in the restaurant overnight and deposit it in daylight the next day, or send an employee to the bank drop box at 12:30 in the morning?

Even 33 years ago, I got more training and policy drilling on how to do the bank drop than I did on sales to work my Electronics Boutique mall job.
Sure, but there are advantages to have them available on the internet as well.

What I’m thinking is having a seperate domain, which many companies already have, for corporate services. We have a .dk for our actual service, products and email, but we also use a .net domain for things like AD, Azure integration and a ton of auxilary services.

Having .company rather than .company.net is just a “nice to have” and certainly not worth the $185,000 registration fee. Had it been cheaper I could see many chooce to have their own TLD just to have a more clear border between “infrastructure” and “product”. It gives the IT department more control of the domains they wish to allocate without stealing the from the product and marketing teams. I worked for a company where we already used a series of subdomains, for backend stuff, but down the road those same subdomains became more and more relevant to free up for the public parts of our website, and it was a pain to move around.
A friend of mine said a funny thing once.

He said "in many places, if you create a man-made lake and fill it, in a couple of years there will be fish in it."

go figure.
There already exists at least one popular js validation framework which removes Gmail (and others) subaddresses per default in its "normalizeEmail" method:
https://github.com/validatorjs/validator.js/blob/master/src/...
We had to change the old default because of TypeScript complaining if the param has a type annotation and no parens. So it's more consistent with TypeScript now as well. I had to argue for this exception to be added to our config, so it's a nice bit of validation that Prettier has come around.
Poverty is a consequence of a specific type of liberty: economic liberalism. Few poor people are where they are because of simply having made bad deals. Mostly they were just dealt a bad hand in life and are being exploited by those who were dealt a much better one.
Hm... I can think of a way to spray the hooks, I don't think I can figure out how to spray loops. If you figure out the loop part we're in business.
FWIW since iPadOS 13 you’re probably better off using Google Docs in a browser, even if Google suggests that you download the app.
I've seen this sentiment alot and i believe it's mostly right but it depends on who you are. There is no 'Best investment Strategy' for everyone.
Should a 20-something invest all his savings into crypto? Sure. Should a 45 year old with kids? hell no.

If the 20-something losses all their savings, that sucks. If a 45 year old losses all their savings they have people to provide for. Which doesn't just suck, it's detrimental to his life and hapiness.

A 20 something has 40 years to bounce back, a 45 year old has 15. Time horizions dictate risks that can be taken.
The smart move would be to make people wait 3 days by default, and then charge a premium for "overnight construction".
It's not about whether it's going to fly. It's certifiably insane to trust your coins to any third party unless you either have multisig control to prevent those coins from leaving, or they have insurance to replace your coins. Do not ever trust anyone, or you'll lose your money like I did. They won't replace it unless they're legally obligated to replace it (insurance) or they're technically incapable of losing it (multisig).

Anything else is magical thinking at its most dangerous, since it can ruin lives.
Autonomous cars probably make transit optimization easier, but there's a tradeoff here that doesn't have very much to do with autonomy: The more people in the car, the less convenient for each rider, both because of comfort and delaying the trip with stops. It's basically the difference between a cab and a shared ride van today. It's certainly conceivable that cabs mostly disappear and are replaced by shared ride vans, but lots of things are conceivable...

Autonomous vehicles will be electric but so will some (perhaps a smaller fraction of) non-autonomous vehicles. Anyway, that doesn't save the calculation. It's clear all these benefits are there but maybe not to the degree you claim, at least not in such a simple way.
> What were the toxins?

Fantastic question, actually. Besides removing the test-indicated food sensitivities from her diet, she also went to eating "real food" -- as much as possible, pure fruits, vegetables and meats. Without additives -- preservatives, anti-caking agents, food colorings, and processing.

Of course, with this many variables changed in her diet, it's impossible to know whether she's feeling better due to removing foods she's sensitive to, the various additives (toxins?), the medicine for the candida, or psychological changes. Humans are complex things.
Cofounders with good relationship > sole founder >> cofounders with poor relationship or other issues.
Pretty much. In all seriousness, it was used a bit like that.

I know of a bank who set up excel "farms". You'd start a bunch of computers somewhere. Send them a spreadsheet. Have Excel open them and run some macros. Get back the results. They would do it to calculate various scenarios that took a long time to run.

That was 2007...
It's a pretty disingenuous way to blame Microsoft. Afterall, there are two ways that Windows 10 on Mac M1 could have occurred: Microsoft could relax the licensing so that end users could buy/install Windows 10 onto the Mac M1, or Apple could approach Microsoft like any other OEMs and license/preinstall Windows 10.

We know the latter isn't going happen.
Any clue regarding Relay and Graph-QL?
This is well known and corrected for in properly conducted experiments.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_comparisons_problem
> Said changes utterly failed to even make a dent in my depression, finally convincing me that nothing I did would ever make me feel good again (this was after multiple trials of antidepressants and talk therapy over the course of 10+ years; it's not like this was the first thing I tried).

Oof, I didn't have quite as hard of a time as you, but that description resonates a lot. My experience(s) with depression have taught me to never make empty promises to people — it is cruel to present psychiatry or therapy as One Weird Trick™ that'll definitely solve your problems, as opposed to an option worth trying. In reality it's a crapshoot and you might luck out, but you also might not.
I've actually started turning down places that do leetcode-style interviews unless I'm really interested in working there. There are a fair amount of places that do other kinds of interviews, if that's any comfort. But the compensation will probably be less than FAANG, with some exceptions.
Some people have all that yet have suicidal tendencies I believe. It should be normal to try to fix those bugs.
Coronavirus is perfectly okay with co-incidence.
A single four year project would be a little harsh... once you realize what you've done wrong, you'd be to too deep in it to amend your ways anymore. Give them a chance to start from scratch a few times...
English is not my native language, it isn't even my second language and I don't live in an English-speaking country.

And not that I don't appreciate a good spanking, but I really dislike grammar Nazism and ad-hominems.
I keep hearing that current JVM implementation prevents tail call optimizations [1]. Is it still the case nowadays? Kind of curious on that since there seem to be lots of folks on HN use Clojure in production systems.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/105834/does-the-jvm-preve...
One point I would make is that being a Linux developer is harder than being a Windows developer. Giving Developers neat new tools to expedite development is something Microsoft does well.

So while the figure about them being paid more is probably true the Skill Level-To-Pay ratio is probably more attractive on the Windows side.
Again, please explain in detail what bad things happen to me because they know a lot about me. Are they going to blackmail me and threaten to tell my family about my furry fetish? Are you worried about a leak?

There is a strong market motivation for them not to abuse the data they have. If you think otherwise, please explain. I'm genuinely interested because I often here people being worried about this issue but I've not seen many explain why.
I think I was a smart twelve year old for several reasons, actually. There's the genetic component, but there's also the time I spent in MathCounts (probably the best investment I or my parents have ever made) and the time I spent reading books. Standardized tests measure both what you've learned and your critical thinking ability. I believe neither of those are predetermined at birth.

I'm actually not trying to mock others. I simply believe that university standards should be a lot harder because schools could teach many subjects a lot faster and the investment of time and money from the students would be much better spent.

Regarding "to" versus "too" - I was on an airplane with a fair bit of turbulence so I'm surprised that's my only mistake.

I got a lot of downvotes for what I said and granted I could have said it a lot better, but a system where every individual goes to college is completely broken unless university bound students are much better prepared in terms of critical thinking ability, mathematical ability, reading/writing skills, and study habits than they are today.
I agree... I wrote the damn thing, and I can tell you that it's technology companies who this is aimed at. The RIAA stands up for what they believe to be their interests. However, there is no defense for Google -- a company that owns YouTube and is trying to launch their own competitive music service.
The layouts are just plain HTML with CSS or SASS.
Example of verb first:
RTFA :)
Maybe not, but this is reasonably similar to expecting paid paternity leave, something that is common (and mandatory) in many countries.
^ It should be noted that this isn't an opinion the article author agrees with! Here is how he describes that quote:

> This is an extremely hot take! And while I would not say this paragraph is typical of SSC content, it does a good job of expressing the SSC view of most of what passes for politics in the United States of America — it doesn’t matter at all. [...] I would not endorse the SSC worldview.
The following quote is interesting to me. Did everybody not learn the techniques to manipulate people through writing (very specifically the ones listed below), both to do it, and to be able to identify it? It's propaganda.

"The trouble with the NYT piece is not that it makes any false statements, but just that it constantly insinuates nefarious beliefs and motives, via strategic word choices and omission of relevant facts that change the emotional coloration of the facts that it does present. I repeatedly muttered to myself, as I read: “dude, you could make anything sound shady with this exact same rhetorical toolkit!”
> Something like Melvin Capital shorting 138% of GMS's stock

It didn't short 138% of GME stock. GME short interest increased to 138% while Melvin and many other hedge funds were shorting it. Melvin didn't do that singlehandedly.

> Naked Short selling maybe technically illegal, but that is in name only and in continues unabated to this day, hell the SEC refused to look into this obvious collusion between various hedge funds (citadel/melvin/Steve Cohen)

There is no evidence these firms colluded or engaged in naked short selling. Naked short selling is when you sell short a security without first entering into a contract to borrow the security. Short interest is orthogonal to naked short selling.
Being an online bank is largely unprofitable. You still have to operate the backend of a normal bank (which is costly) and you don't have the physical locations to enable the trust you need to get enough customers.
That would be first degree murder. Many jurisdictions have the concept of second degree murder, often including an element of "disregard of human life", and that is being charged in some street racing (and DUI) cases: http://lapdracing.com/StreetRacingcanbeMurder.html
A second point. Here you acknowledge that an alternative explanation for the evidence you have seen is plausible, and recognize the need for investigation, but that is not what you said to me. Why not?
The audits were done. Polls were watched. Close elections recounted. Discrepancies explained. None of it matters to Trump. He stuck to the same narrative. We heard it in the Georgia phone call. Even now he won't back away from it, and as long as he maintains the election was stolen a large number of his followers will too.

If you do this "full audit" he will just find more things to string it along just as he has done the whole time.
That's about ad ussefull as "everyone dies eventually, so why worry about murder?"
This is interesting, and I wonder how a surrogate marketplace would fare in the likes of like airbnb...

And I wonder also, if it'd be deemed undesirable to be able to pick and choose traits and prototypes..

All in all, fun conversation, and makes me want to read Brave New World again.
Faced the same problem a couple weeks ago. I ended up paying for this chrome extension which crawls them from the web client and worked for me: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/backup-whatsapp-ch...

A shame that WhatsApp had to remove that feature.
I run a small B2B service/product hybrid company, DevisedLabs, focused on ecommerce in a somewhat similar fashion. Our team of 12 is entirely freelancers, from engineering, to project management, to sales. We only hold meetings when necessary (we have no standups) and meetings are generally <= 2 people since it's usually for a specific purpose. We coordinate mostly over Trello and Slack, and meetings are reserved for demos or complicated questions. We use OneNote and Notion for company-wide knowledge, planning, and information tracking.

Since everyone is freelancers, most work for other clients or have regular full-time jobs. Everyone has flexibility on hours, but we try to pick those who have overlap with the team, especially for those who need to interface with our clients. Some in our team prefer to travel around, others stay fixed in a location.

Rates-wise, we don't prescribe a formula for what others should charge, nor do we usually try to negotiate anyone down. I believe everyone should make the decision of what their time is worth themselves. That is one of the biggest benefits of self-employment after all. Ultimately it comes down to what that time translates into value, so that's the lens we view it through.

I would say it's worked well for us, although I do see the value in employment for our most dedicated team members. Those who are truly full-time should be given full-time employment I believe, since it better protects them (benefits, unemployment, etc). Others who want to have a freelance life should be allowed to do that too. We will likely be offering both options eventually.
https://www.multiplayerpiano.com/ is a similar one
> I don't take notes of IRL conversation I have, they're ephemeral.

Fairer analogy: If you could search transcripts of your IRL conversations at no additional cost (no notetaking), would you?

I think most people would say yes.
Valve perhaps?

37signals probably.
> Communication via those alternatives is extremely limiting.

I disagree with this characterization of the alternatives to Facebook and Twitter. In fact, I find it hard to dispute that the popular alternatives are considerably more open-ended, more secure, and apply much less censorship.

However, for the sake of argument let's assume the characterization is a fair one: that one's communications are limited when using an alternative social network where fewer people are registered users. Under this circumstance, what right does any of us have to reach the kinds of people Facebook and Twitter offer?

Perhaps we shouldn't necessarily consider it "limiting," when we are unable to reach all stretches of the globe. One's ability to be "heard," really falls outside their full control as soon as one wants to be understood past the walls of the current room.
> Even in cities that don’t require that, rents are still expensive

Maybe you've got some good examples from other countries, but here in the US the only major city with reasonable zoning is Houston which has quite affordable homes.
Just stating an observation that way more people come to the USA for work than the other direction. This is simply data.

Your feelings are anecdotal. My anecdotal evidence comes from my European friends here, sone from the greatest of social safety nets. The money is so insanely good here and they want to earn it.
What's more important, the atmosphere of the town, or the affordability of the town?
Well, you don't buy individual stocks; you buy slices of slices of everything to dissipate your risk towards variance. And you definitely don't hold cash. Holding cash has a lot of risk as well
I was wondering about that. I read somewhere else about the birth month effect for professional athletes. Kids whose birthday falls just after the season of their sport starts are up to a year older, bigger and stronger than their peers born earlier in the year, which boosts their confidence to the point that fewer of them quit.
The intelligence of crows has always been my favorite. Joshua Klein talks about a cleaver way to create a mutually beneficial relationship with a species usually considered to be a pest.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intel...
The problem is the pressure and weight of the water combined with the temperature a mile below the sea. Nobody knows how to build stuff that deep under water, it is all hypothetical, unicorns and rainbows, that is the problem.
Don't need engineering experts to run a cleanup, which is inherently a management/organizational undertaking, not directly an engineering problem. Familiarity with the subject material is really all that's needed. They need to be able to put the problem and proposed solutions into context, and have a basic understanding of what makes sense and what doesn't so they can guide the things.

If these people were on the ground floor, working on the minute technical details, I'd be more worried. As they aren't, I'm not.

(And reading the comments on the Yahoo article are worse than your average YouTube comments. It's mind-blasting.)
I don't know if they're my favorite, but Rory Sutherland's two are excellent, and I think well worth watching especially if you ever think you might be trying to sell something to someone.

Life lessons from an ad man: (http://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_life_lessons_from_a...)

Sweat the small stuff: (http://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_sweat_the_small_stu...)
"unsigned long long"?

It's 2022. stdint.h is old enough to drink, and is probably married with a kid on the way. Just include it already?