jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I love this & embrace this so much. so much.

but the consequences imply something massive to me, which is the need to be able to iterate & improve & hack on things. every one of us is always getting a ton of things wrong, & it's ok, but we also need a human liberty to revise, address, try to improve our circumstances.

and in the age of cloud computing, with APIs vanishing & drying up, endless fear about data privacy often helping justify the removing more & more capabilities & access points & APIs, well, this ability to work through things, to keep trying to be adapting, in spite of the vast faultiness of everything about: it's dying. the death of accessible, personal computing, the rehmainfeamehization of all our computing systems, the lack of human at hand control: it's the bitter bitter regressive certain-heat-death-of-the-universe to the sincere & real truth offered here. the malleability, adaptability of the universe, our individual ingenuity & tenacity & adaptability is what makes civilization & humanity so great. and by gods we are losing it.
Horrific but people keep buying it.

From Jira’s owner POV, Jira is pretty great.
High-performers (read: well-payed workers) like to complain about the nefarious corrupting influence of unions but seldom consider the case that the high-performers (read: upper-middle class) might have a vested interest in the corrupt status quo where the majority of workers facilitate their high-performing (read: privileged) lifestyles.
The real problem is that health insurance is overly expensive - mainly thanks to the relationship between gov / insurance. You should fix that; thinking that nationalising health care will fix the problem is just some politician's dream.
The extra money needed for nationalised health care will have to come from somewhere - and because poor people don't have money and rich people are too good at eluding their tax obligations, the usual middle class will pay for it.

I'd rather have a fully private market without national entities messing with the prices and charities for those who can't afford it.

Of course, no politician will ever champion such a system, because it removes the gov from the equation, making them less powerful and needed by the masses that keep paying taxes.
i'd say the average house has only one wifi-ap and since 5ghz (AC) just barely pentrates a solid built wall, 2,4ghz-N is where the majority of wifi usefullness originates, which is even older ...

but yea, cell confinement and directional interference optimisation is the way to go for high density applications.
This is still a mystery? I thought it was widely accepted that Karpeles stole the money for himself to buy Starbucks.
The limit was originally 50, then they changed it to 150 (and then 500?) and then removed totally.
This is bad!! what are they thinking!!! github is blocked??
Yep. We actually support image embeds right now, but we haven't set up our own image hosting yet. But if you post an imgur link or something using markdown, we'll show it as an image.
40 km/h in towns is common in Skåne. Malmö, Ystad, Sjöbo, Skurup, Vellinge, Svedala, Hörby, Helsingborg, Höganäs, Båstad, etc
Maybe she shouldn't be allowed to, and should consider that 20 minute code as not existing. (Because on day 1 of her week, she could have written it properly.)

Completely agree with this, and I wish it was said more often.

Prototypes are a valuable tool for testing hypotheses, but you have to discard them when testing is no longer all you're doing.

That means the key to responsible use of prototypes is to make sure you remain able to discard them! This is why shipping the prototype is so dangerous - because now you're locked into either maintaining the prototype, or a rewrite followed by a tricky, risky live migration.
I'm pretty certain you can have a Messenger account with just a phone number, no FB account required.
I know you’re not saying you are encouraging it and it’s just a related but of trivia, but I find that hilarious. Because when someone asks “why start there?” the answer “it’s a thousand years before Jesus Christ was born, the millennium heralding his arrival” is better?

(I’m not even Christian but I also don’t have a chip on my shoulder and can accept its influence on the world)
Agreed, this is the best programming-related thing I've seen on the internet in a long time. It reminds me of when I was a teenager, excited to become a computer programmer. Then I grew up and joined the real world workforce and it was all far less exciting than I imagined.

The coolest thing about this Actually Portable Executable is that once there's a compiler and linker built with it, I can play around with writing C on Windows without having to faff about with WSL or MinGW or learning what makes MSVC different from the C I learned in university and coded in my first job before I became a Java/JavaScript/Python/etc programmer. When I discovered Go I thought I had discovered the better C that just worked everywhere, but the idea of having plain old C that also just works everywhere is very appealing.
Any choice is arbitrary. What is a week to the solar system? The only things that are real are days and years.
>I must be doing something different from you.

You do. From my perspective you are barely use laptop as laptop for any serious work on the go.

Look at my use-case https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26271855
They should require facebook login just to troll people... it may even be profitable!

Seems reddit is dead. Not dead in the sense that it has no users, but that the original user base has been alienated from it and has been supplanted by a profitable horde of "normies". Does anyone disagree?
Reddits feature removal is probably evidence for people using the opt-out.

Why would they actively remove it AND go through such a communication debacle for no change in revenue and/or data collection?
Which is a side effect of being consistent with the way we write all other numbers, with the value represented by each digit declining as we go left to right.
I would imagine this is less the case than Subaru and Saab benefiting from their own aeronautical research. Unlike Subaru and Saab, SpaceX is a different company with different engineers than Tesla.

Rather, I think this speaks more to Elon Musk's uncanny ability to attract and hire good engineers.
If you're giving Youtube comments as a shining example of quality and stimulating comment, I guess something is totally wrong in this world.

Even with the new rating system, the comments on Youtube are the best example of human stupidity.
Congratulations on the fact that your work is getting recognized, and good luck on the presentation!

You might find this helpful:

Public speaking for introverts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6198997

Note patio11's advice in that discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6199544
So it's like Server Core for Windows Server 2012? Stripped down to the essentials?
> Before that we ran openvz. And before that, we ran vserver.

If you have a minute and can share, I'd love to hear why you switched away from vserver (and then openvz but especially vserver). Or maybe you have those transitions written up somewhere?
Does anyone know what Wolfram would say about the tickrate? I bought the huge book and know that he believes space is quantized, at least, and I assume he believes time is as well, as the rate the universal state machine changes states. But I never read enough to learn what he thinks that rate might be.
You use C! You have no right to complain about ugly hacks! (jk)
> Five years ago or so, I might have dismissed you as a lunatic

Six months ago I'd have dismissed me as a lunatic too! Stallman, whether by luck or foresight, was right.
Is that a fair comparison? The EU is still made of up sovereign countries with their own economic policies.
All they had to do is simply check if the guy had an unprotected wifi signal or not, but it was much easier breaking down the poor man's door and harrasing him.
Twitter had reached critical mass before Buzz came out (I don't question why YouTube or Groupon or FB were targeted), I am asking about companies that lack traction and revenue.

Most of their acquisitions are those little guys.
I work at a small shop who was badly burned by Sun/Oracle. :-)

It's not that I believe in overprovisioning I think. It's that if data is really that critical, and it's availability is critical, then that has to be taken into account during planning.

Everything fails at some point. The Enterprise Storage Vendors would have you believe their stuff doesn't. In practice it's pretty scary when the black box doesn't work as advertised anymore though _after_ you've made it the centerpiece of your operations.

So with those lessons learned, our replacement efforts took into account the level of availability we wanted to achieve.

I did go off on an NFS tanget. Sorry. But this article was about block-storage, which is a different beast from what you describe.

Seeing all networked storage lumped together is like seeing: FastCGI isn't 100% reliable, which is why I hate two-phase-commits.
The metaphors are still flawed, since it's both the route and the destination that changes, which makes things a lot more complex than just taking a different route.
Yes! I wasn't expecting the correlation to be quite so strong. It seems much easier to get listed in a variety of categories than to bump up your Yelp score by more than half a star.
"...not a general comparison of Japan to China, rather that China's "growth" has a component to it which is artificial." - yes, exactly.

The example of the cities being built is just a symptom of the unsound economic decisions being made by the authorities in China. The cities aren't being built to satisfy demand, but rather to keep the unemployment rate artificially low. In a western-style democracy, those cities would never be built as there would be no demand for the apartment at the prices being offered. A company who made such investments would go out of business sooner or later. No such qualms in a centrally-planned economy.

Also, I'm watching this video at the moment by a guy called Jim Rogers. He makes some interesting points about why the Chinese economy may be over-hyped. Examples he uses include locals digging a new canal using picks and shovels instead of modern heavy machinery - the purpose of the exercise is to keep them employed. He also talks about what he calls the disturbingly consistent nature of the offical GDP growth rate, which seems too good to be true.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2387093

EDIT: I realise that this all makes it sound like I'm totally down on China. I'm not - I don't have skin in the game either way. To me, it just seems too good to be true.
Hi Yoric! Can you provide a test page url you are using please? The current version of a site grabs only local JS and CSS files, maybe you have some remote files thats why?
Thanks Nishank!
This is a great paper. If you haven't read it, it suggests a common scenario where endemic network delays tend to nudge all participants in a periodic broadcast protocol to send their broadcasts at the same time, so that some hours after you start all the participants, everyone has synchronized and on a timer saturates the network with updates.

The solution (I didn't reread so this is from memory) is to add random jitter to each participant's timer.

However, is there evidence to suggest that's what happened to Amazon? I can see this being a big issue in '93 with high-latency low-bandwidth links a commonplace. But we think that Amazon wasn't engineered well enough to deal with multiple orders of magnitude spikes in C&C traffic?

Thank you, though, for posting a (much needed) technical comment to this discussion.
Elite software developers definitely exist especially when you measure the magnitude of contributions made to the industry and how influential the contribution was. I would definitely place a guy like John Carmack in the elite class considering his contributions to many notable video games over the years. This type of measure is not all that different than sports where an athlete's greatness is measured through the number of championships won and individual stats and records. I would definitely argue that the difference in talent between a competent/average individual in software probably isn't as big as in sports. If you quantify how "elite" an individual is in software by their influential contributions to the industry versus championships won and records set in sports, you're definitely more likely to achieve "elite" status in software. Take Ruby on Rails as an example, DHH is a hell of a programmer considering he's built a multi-million dollar business in Basecamp and how popular and influential Rails has been to web development. Now consider the confluence of factors that allowed Rails to get huge. Things such as design, code quality, timing, marketing, luck, etc. all played roles to differing degrees. If you compared this to something like being an elite basketball player there are even more factors out of your control. Being elite in basketball is pretty much impossible. If you're 6ft and 180 pounds there is no way you can reach the level of greatness of a guy like Michael Jordan. In a sport like basketball genetics plays a huge role in establishing the base for an individual to become elite, and obviously a ton of hard work on top of those genetics too. If you don't possess the combination of height, athleticism, strength, speed, long arms, big hands, basketball intelligence, etc. there's absolutely no way you can reach Jordan or LeBron's level.

With every industry where you need some sort of specialized skill and are able to quantify influential achievements in some sort of way, there are always going to be elite individuals.
Meh. If this was indicative of anything other than somebody wanting to have a bit of fun when typing error messages, you might be on to something.

I don't mind a bit of humanity in my soul-less machines
They also clean up Enron type companies. It's very different from just doing annual accounts for small businesses!

Big 4 Forensic Accountants:

- Investigate fraud.

- Quantify accidental or deliberate changes in company valuations between agreeing a sale price and the new owner getting control.

- Estimate the cost to complete engineering projects.

- Identify the value of shares and other assets owned by bankrupt banks in the absence of proper records.

And many other things, usually in a completely different domain every 4-8 weeks as their client changes.

One example is this report on electronic monitoring:

http://www.nao.org.uk/report/the-ministry-of-justices-electr...

"The Department believes that both providers charged for work that had not taken place, in a way that was outside what was set out in the contracts for the electronic monitoring of offenders. PwC’s estimate is that the potential overcharge by both providers in total may amount to tens of millions of pounds."
This is great! Been considering jumping into Spark to update my Bathroom sensor: http://briiiiian.com/bathroom-f-graf/
> Of course there is nothing RPi specific in this setup

Indeed. I intend to try it on my Intel Galileo as soon as possible.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "expose multiple schemas in the REST API" - you mean pg schemas or how the API is structured?

(I wish pg named schemas "namespaces" or something else, schema is an overloaded term)
Recovery of third party software seems to be the USP here (logging and reporting aren't hard to achieve normally).

I think I would have made a script to sit in-between, standard cron and third party software to solve the recovery problem where needed.
"I cannot possibly comprehend the mindset behind someone who would choose to use Slack for these purposes when IRC has existed since the 80s and accomplishes the same task much better."

Define "better". For many people, Slack is easier to use, has a better UI, and is better supported on mobile devices.
What distinguishes Canon from Nikon?

Having used both services for a few months, I would say I only post "artsy" photos to Instagram, ruthlessly filtering on aesthetics while I find myself posting "inside jokes" to close friends on Path.

It's probably less interesting to quibble about how these apps are different than it is to ask why are the apps taking off now in the first place? Is the next generation of photography hardware agnostic, relying instead on the social features? Overall, what do people take more photos of: art or their friends?

If that is the case, betting on the Facebook guys may not be such a bad move...
What about a tab for each Path share group indicating which friends you share photos with? If you want to share photos with "work: medium-good friends" you can and insure that the "work: ok friends" or "family: mom's side" don't get the same post. I feel like the hard problem is not to keep groups separate, but to re-factor existing infrastructure to support separation and making it 'easy' for users.
"50 is the new .edu" or "50 is the new MySpace top 8"
i think they should move to the gold standard.
Do you mean user authentication?

No, I mean session management. Example of anemia: it offers no way to back sessions by persistent storage.

You just load the new code and it works.

Really? What about threads that are busy processing requests when you load the new code, which may have different assumptions?

It seems like a better approach would be to queue up incoming requests, wait for existing requests to be handled, reload the code, and then resume processing requests.
Whilst it appears there was a pretty serious of protocol, the author's hysteria verges on trivialising real sexual assault.
Every day America looks a less attractive place to visit or do business with.
At the least, there are a bunch of strategies that you gotta learn to mitigate the cost of do-overs. It's planning for all the things that can go wrong. Trying to decide whether that logo and your heartfelt "Designed in California" should be embossed or debossed on your case? Learn what "tool-safe" means, and when the moldmaker screws up your font, you'll have a cheap fix instead of scrapping your $10K mold.
Isn't mass consent, forced consent and opt-outs illegal under GDPR? The legislation is there, why can't we create incentives to enforce it?
I never intended 'extreme' to mean 'has a lot of opponents.' I think this is my fault, and I should have used 'intense.' It's all semantics, but I'll take the blame for being unclear.

That said, I would argue that even in the case where there is an 'extreme' view by your definition the numbers you suggest both seem arbitrarily unmotivated by real example is not reassuring to me monetarily.

It also still does not address questions I raised about those with no expendable income whatsoever (either as the 'aggressor' minority or as the 'defensive' majority). It does not account for the question I raised about voter mobility (which looks nothing like you've pictured in the above imagined case study). Nor does it address the issue of finding a function that balancing the political mobility of the disenfranchised and capital poor with the power and financial elite. Nor does it address example groups (given both for historical and current political groups).

And there are more issues, such as enforcement (how do you prevent fronts from buying votes or families or employees from buying votes so that n becomes n/m and this f(n/m) << f(n))?

The argument you give doesn't seem to defend turning votes into a commodity, but appears to be a general argument for 'this thing I'm proposing is good.' I could use the words in the exact quote as an 'advertisement' (it really isn't an argument...) for any system, take say for example a Parliamentary system. I also disagree with it on the grounds that it claims, without any substantive analysis, that democracy as it stands tends not to improve the lives of people who are 40% in numbers for something. But I won't mention voter mobilization again...
Because 5 year old isn't really that old. My Android 5 powered phone (which is my only phone) works perfectly fine, the only annoyance i have with it is that it has become sluggish - but that is the fault of software developers bloating their code (the software pretty much does the same stuff as it did when i got the phone years ago), not of the phone itself.

Note that i do not expect someone to do free work for me, i just do not consider a 5 year old device "old" enough to be weird for it to be supported - especially when it works just fine.
I just looked at a few airliners, and the 2-engine aircraft all had significantly higher power to weight ratios than the 4-engine aircraft.
Good book, but why ignore a plethora of problems like ADHD that might have something to do with the chronic procrastination in a person's life? I just can't go past the first few pages of the book without seeing the fact that most of the symptoms that the author is describing of chronic procrastinators are in fact the exact symptoms that are used to diagnose ADHD in adults. What am I missing?
Reason would be really important. One MAX crashing from something like the SeaTac Q400 incident[1] wouldn't affect Boeing at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Horizon_Air_Q400_incident
Check out the Grand Tour episode they filmed there. One of my favorites.
Abandoning subway lines is virtually unheard of, which is why this article exists in the first place.
Are they "leading" because they lead in expertise or because they control the reigns of regulation?

I'm not sure I would describe the FDA as optimistically as you do - they are a collection of federal employees, leaning heavily on private industry expertise to navigate the demands of politicians, the expectations of the public, and needs of businesses.
Running Linux on your hardware?
I think the difference is between mail stored locally versus remote Gmail. Mail.app’s Gmail searching is subpar compared to the main web interface. It’s probably not Mail.app’s fault, but that’s what keeps me using the web version as opposed to using Mail.app (for that account).
this is cool. I wonder what would motivate someone to do this over typewriting and photocopying to get same effect.
But I didnt have a choice so this repetitive noise about chiropractors did an excellent job of drowning my signal about homeless and payments.

Do you see how vigorously he is pushing this view against chiropractors and he is pushing it here in my comments?
We don't really know much of anything about the pre-historical population of the Americas. E.g., only one unambiguous Clovis skeleton is known.

We have certain knowledge that the Amazon region was heavily cultivated ~10,000ya, which would have required substantial population. A lot can happen in a millennium or three.

Also, there is evidence of multiple extinctions in South America and South Africa at the same time, and of a strike in Syria. I don't think we have evidence yet to determine a bound on the range of effects.
SSC rebooted as https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ sooo probably there. I wasn't a part of the Discord for SSC before, and I'm only barely lurking there now, but I presume that's still the place.
Checkout his presentation it is quite amazing as well, http://acko.net/files/fullfrontal/fullfrontal/webglmath/onli...
Also search - replacing the browser's default search engine with their own or a partner's and getting a cut of the ad revenue.
Depends where you on piece work or not :-)
There are a couple in the comments above, this is one example: http://allthingsd.com/20101201/conduit-dumps-google-search-f...
The quiet ones, the different ones disabled, gay, female etc who wont push back look for the ones who where bullied at school. If you team is lucky you might have some terminally ill people you can dump at the base of the stack - this sounds worse than it is as there was medical retirement available for these poor devils.
I think the sisyphean task of existence becomes easier when another consciousness acknowledges that you exist.