jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's also true if you employ a ten year old laptop as I do, quite power-efficient and has a built-in UPS (todo: get one for the router). No CDN or anything and the couple of pageloads per second (at peak), as the HN homepage generates, barely raises the load average into the point-tens.

The software/service you run makes most of the difference between whether it can run on standard at-home hardware or if it needs some distributed autoscaling system (when speaking of HN homepage types of traffic). Of course, if you're serving video or large images/audio, you're going to need more than a few megabytes per second of uplink. Or if your site trains neural networks custom for every visitor, that's a special case. But for regular websites...
Yeah, I just posted a short opinion piece from my personal blog on here and was surprised to see someone criticize it first as clickbait and then because I didn't cite any sources or scientific research.

Then again, maybe HN being especially critical helps keep the quality of submissions high.
Your comment is snarky and categorically dismissive. Care to explain why you have taken such an aggressive stance against JS?
Maybe we're talking about slightly different things here. The suggestion to use individual keys to encrypt personal data is usually made so that deleting a key has effectively and immediately destroyed all copies of the data including any historical ones. That way you're definitely fully compliant with any right to be forgotten requests with one simple act. Even if you do have some older backups or archives kept around or the backup data isn't truly irretrievable from the physical media where it was stored after being marked for deletion, that data instantly becomes random noise without the key (which you obviously don't store and backup in the same way in this kind of scheme).

In other words, it's not really about whether keeping backups for a few days or a few weeks before they are "deleted" would be considered acceptable by regulators, it's about making all such questions irrelevant while otherwise being able to continue with business as usual. It would be a clever and useful solution to the regulatory compliance problem in this area, if it worked in practice.
Fake it 'til you make it - though most people we see or hear about in the news are outliers :p
Trivial counterexample: I can't make an Apple M1 chip in my garage. I can't make (good?) LSD in my garage. I can put a metal pipe on a board with a nail and have a simple, reliable 12ga shotgun. I can 3d print a 22LR pistol, or even a 9mm subgun (just add pipe for barrel, weight for bolt, and some common springs).

I assume your response was probably born out of some political frustration, and I respect that. Happy to discuss specifics of the this position on the practicality and effectiveness of gun bans.
Yeah, unemployment benefits are around 2.8% of your wage.
I think Google bundled them in a recent update, as I had those two as well.
As a third year Ph D student I'd say that it's on the student to make the most out of their time in school. Part of that is networking, meeting people in related fields and mastering some of the softer sciences (presentations, writing style, etc.) A student that fails to build connections seems no different to me than the student that didn't gain as much knowledge from their courses or didn't master writing because they didn't have to.
It says he lives in a different state now, though, and that he wanted to give back to California.
Here are a few strategies to get by:

1. Double-count your startup as coursework. Enroll only in project-based classes. Spin off each module in your startup as a project -- e.g. Distributed Systems? Write the EC2 part. Databases? Write the Lucene part.

2. Many EE/CS departments offer bschool classes at the 400/500/700 levels. Use these to get startup advice / stay motivated.

3. Take research credits, have entrepreneurship-friendly faculty guide you through the research parts of your startup.

4. Take a semester off, work on things, come back. You'll miss out on social life, but that's a tradeoff you're making.

5. Concentrate your startup work towards the beginning of the semester, switch to coursework at the end.

6. Be hyper-vigilant about course-performance. Since you're technically constantly slacking off, you will often need to perform disaster recovery; e.g. shoot for extra credit, to make up for a midterm you didnt study for, etc.
The problem might not be strictly shipping related.

Depending on the type of bluetooth radio packaged internally, the device may have needed FCC-type registration. Of course, an FCC ID is only good in the USA. In Europe, you need a CE mark. Australia sometimes insists on yet another registration for 2.4GHz equipment.

Honestly, international RF regulatory certification is a mess, and the piles of paperwork involved make it easy to miss deadlines.
I love the articles you have, and the idea of covering hack days, because I am always looking for those. The site seems nice and the content is good, keep it up and you have me hooked.
> You can't ask people who aren't close directly why they aren't close, but maybe family members / non-work friends.

Yes! I've done exactly this, and the result is always the same: They can't believe that I'm having problems in this area. "I can't understand how ANYONE could dislike you!" is what my dad said.

Fuck... now this is making me sad.
my priority for comments is that they should answer "why?" and "why not?" questions. Why does the method/function do it this way? Why didn't it choose that other, perhaps more obvious route?

That's not necessary in every case. But it's true in a good number of them. The code alone can never tell you that - but it's often invaluable during evolution/refactoring.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khojaly_massacre

Numbers by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch
Maybe the NYT is jealous that Scott is so obviously a better and more thoughtful writer?
Maybe a fully underground, enclosed facility where scientists work and live. Oh, wait...
I am no authority to answer that question. IIRC ears can handle quite a bit of loud noise and protect themselves some way. The problem arises with long duration noise stress. Please look up this method for more info, to be confident and safe. I am sure your concerns have been addressed before.
I've been wracking my brain for years over this, and I'm still not any closer to understanding what the problem is.

I've had my resume looked at and tweaked over and over. I never send a cover letter without having someone else proofread and offer suggestions. I've lived and worked in many tech-hub places, including San Francisco for 6 years.

I just don't know... I think it's got to be socially related, but I have a hard time examining that aspect because I'm autistic. But I always make a concerted effort not to offend people, to make sure everyone gets their say and can contribute. People even say I'm a really nice guy, so then I'm left wondering what exactly "it" is that's tanking me...

It always happens the same way:

- I get a job and everyone is super friendly. Some inevitable technical hiccups getting set up for the first month, but no big deal.

- Everything goes swimmingly for the next 6 months to a year. People seem happy with me, performance reviews are fine, 1-on-1 with the boss is fine. I even make a point of asking if they're unhappy with anything about me, and they say "no, everything's fine".

Then one day things go bad (or maybe they've been bad and I didn't see). People start being rude to me, start shutting me out of conversations, start being extra harsh or petty in code reviews etc. In some cases they start name-calling. No higher-ups step in so I try to avoid the people doing this and not antagonize them.

Eventually my boss brings me in for the "it's not working out" talk. They can never give me a solid reason why, and often they resort to roundabout firing methods because it's technically illegal otherwise. There's never a warning, never a list of things to improve upon. I spend most of my days at a company wondering when I'll get "the call". The worst one happened on Dec 23rd.

So yeah... Probably nothing that anyone on HN could help with, because the feedback mechanism I'm subjected to is so vague. But it's frustrating nonetheless, and even today I have constant stress spikes whenever my boss asks to talk to me for a minute about something, wondering if this is it.
Has this ever been done in response to gain of function research?
They did using m. It's been there in powerquery for maybe 10 years now.
Lol this is why programmers should stick to programming.
> I don't think you can claim that giant squid are avoiding humans: rather our respective habitats simply don't overlap enough to have noticed them until we could build vehicles capable of exploring where they are found.

Well, we've got documented reports going back continuously to the ancient Greeks of giant squid, and photographic evidence going back almost as far as common photography. So, its not so more that we needed "vehicles capable of exploring where they are found" to substantiate them as we needed photography, etc., for people other than those who directly encountered them to be able to clearly distinguish the real reports of giant squid from all the rumors of fantastic beasts that lack such evidence.
Disconnect is an open alternative to Ghostery as Ghostery has some sketchy sponsors.
White rice would keep. I think a lot of whole grains and seeds would last ages, too. I believe in the same referenced tombs they found various seeds that could still be sprouted.

Really, a lot of completely dehydrated foods would keep in an airtight container in the desert. From your list, I wouldn't be surprised if completely dehydrated banana chips kept OK.
Apple does not want to contribute to the open source community?
Muphry's law strikes again!
So, hum, why would I accept the hefty price increase on Prime if I get quite literally nothing in return? I do not own a single one of the ‘compatible devices’ and apparently my browser (which works just fine on Youtube…) is not ‘compatible‘ either.

I just wanted fast shipping with no additional costs ¬.¬
You guys know that using a persons picture (or likeness) without written permission from that person (in this case Drew Houston) in a commercial setting is illegal, right?

I only tell you guys this because I want you to succeed and not get caught on a tiny mistake like this.
> And the environment is currently being destroyed with the current population of 7 billion. Add another half again, and you think its all fine?

Yup, will be fine. In the early 20th century people said we would all starve when we reach 1 billion people. Look how far we have come without major starvation (apart from the ones causes by civil wars or Communism)
I'm just not sure you can teach these things to a junior programmer, and actually expect to see results. A baby takes 9 months to develop, you can't expect to see finger nails develop until they've developed fingers.

As a junior, you're probably spending most of your time (and a lot of it at that) just trying to make the dang code work. Making sure it's written in a way that other people can maintain it etc is secondary, because who cares if you can maintain it if it never even worked in the first place!

When working with a new junior, It's important to expose them to existing (good!) as well as bad code bases. At the same time, let them write new code on things that aren't super business critical. You have to accept that it's going to take them some time to learn, and you should just work with them until they don't have to think about breathing any more.
Captive portals really need to die. Fake DNS entries, URL redirects, injected html/javascript, false certificates, all are very annoying essentially train users on bad behavior, and provide opportunities for nefarious actors (either by the hotspot provider themselves or attackers spoofing hotspots)

Plus the user experience is awful, sometimes when I join a network the portal shows up immediately, sometimes I only get it when I open a browser. Sometimes I open my mail first and get 10 error messages about incorrect certificates.

Is there any good alternative / standard that could serve the purpose without all of the current drawbacks?
The correct thing to do is determine how much of the complaints you get have to do with lorem ipsum, or if a little bit of additional explanation might be useful for your new/prospective clients when they see the site for the first time.

Everyone will hear complaints from their customers (I hope, or they wont have customers for very long), the question is if that is a problem that fixing will save you time or make you more money.

My read is not much of either.

If you want a fallback like this black box font for the clients who wont/cant be educated that is fine, but you might want to consider firing your client if they are causing enough exasperation that you create entirely new fonts.
As a general rule, any fact you derive from a person's credibility is not a fact. Humans are unreliable and relying on their authority/credibility/good looks to establish the truth value of a proposition is a logical error.

We accept this error when we have to do some fast thinking and the consequences of being wrong are small, but the moment you make this flawed logic the general rule is the moment you lose any chance at establishing the facts.
Perhaps there are still places where you should optimize for performance where they still have a fighting chance to make it in the marketplace, such as the self driving car use case they hyped during the press conference.

I also think that Android TVs (or Ouya, if you want) could make use of some hefty power, to finally get that console gaming revolution to topple the big three that have been in the cards for quite some time now.
I just read the source. This is as much a cracker as Lizard Squad are hackers.

It's simply a script that tries truecrypt keyfiles with a provided password.
> Copyright? I'm not aware of any general problem with that.

https://www.eff.org/pages/unintended-consequences-fifteen-ye...
But in fairness, they've fully listed the data being collected. I'm actually very comfortable with them collecting these metrics (though I'm glad there's a way to turn it off just the same).

- A unique identifier that is generated by computing the SHA-1 of the machine's MAC address.
- The screen width and height
- The version of Atom being used
- The name of each item opened in a pane such as EditorView, SettingsView, and MarkdownPreviewView
- The amount of time the current window was open for
- The amount of time the current window to took to load
- The amount of time the app took to launch
Apple is going to extremes to get more power over users and force others to have less. Of course it can be painted as being "for privacy" but, really, anyone believe that coming from Apple?

EDIT:

Come-on HN. Google has nothing to do with how trustworthy Apple is. You can distrust both. This whole "for privacy" push from Apple is clearly more about hurting others than protecting users. I'm surprised HN'ers are buying into this marketing ploy.
I would love to see some more compelling use cases because I happen to love big metal knobs, but the examples he showed can already be done using mouse scroll wheels.

I thought "Palette" Kick Starter project was more compelling because it clearly demonstrated specific use cases that would make users more productive in a way not possible with existing input devices.
Old tech designed to protect the President, very likely.

A 2013 test confirmed the ability to track short-range ballistic missiles in their boost phase.

If a Nuke is to hit Washington DC, we'll want to make sure that the President is warned in time and can enter his nuclear bunker.

That said, "Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier" just came out, so people are probably thinking this is some sort of auto-kill sky cannon mounted on Helicarriers for the purpose of suppressing the US Population.
It is rare to find a language as simple and yet powerful. Much awaited Scala 3 brings more features. It is not better Java. It is an independent language which can interop with Java . It has richer set of specifications compared to any other JVM language. People think most of Scala community is about functional programming . It is not . It is a hybrid language. It is best suited for every facet of data engineering where we can make use of state of the art data abstractions and concurrent programming. There is ongoing work on improving tooling and ecosystem. I would ask of you people not to get scared of language based on others opinions. Don't go for advanced concepts when all you need as basics.
It's not a black box in the sense you can move it around, evaluate later, not evaluate at all, etc. There is fundamentally nothing you can inspect about a general IO operation: it's a handle to a computation dealing with the external world.
I think regulations and efficacy will be the hardest hurdles, as they are proving to be for non-passenger drones. Second to sensory and risk perception challenges which will just various cameras and extra code.

If you assume you're taking out the pilot and replacing him with electronics, and assuming your average pilot is ~80-90kg, that's a fairly substantial amount of weight available for computing systems.

The theory between small and large craft autonomous flight should be the same, we've already got plenty of aircraft sized drones flying about that are packed with ordnance and axillary sensors for imaging and surveillance.

You have more things to worry about regarding subsystems on larger craft, but even those will likely just be additional code rather than extra heavy hardware on board.

I think the most likely pathway for a passenger drone will be retrofitting existing aircraft, and that could amount to a bunch of sensory equipment, a main control unit and a bunch of servos. Nothing too heavy, and it would just eat into a helicopters existing weight limits which are often fairly substantial.
With stories like these, I'm not always convinced that the acquirer really had a viable offer on the table.
Yes, started sde-1 in 2010 and had been sde-3 since 2014
It would be shocking, though, if it turned out that Russia was the only country trying to influence US elections, though, instead of the only one that has been publically exposed.
The video is still up though: https://www.tiktok.com/@getmefamouspartthree/video/676265754...

I'm holding judgment until further evidence that this is not another accusation equivalent to Iraq's WMD or Syria's chemical weapons in this trade war with China.
What you gonna do about it?
You could, in fact, dial them one-handed. A rotary phone uses pulse dialing; as the rotor turns it opens the circuit briefly, if you dial 5 it sends 5 pulses. So you can do the same by pushing the switch repeatedly and pausing in between each number as though the rotor was spinning back.

Same trick works on touch tone phones since the networks still support pulse dialing.
I am assuming sd3 role?
Could you please review the site guidelines? One thing they ask is Don't be snarky. Your point here could have been the kernel of a more substantive and fine comment, but we definitely don't need swipey one-liners with ideological overtones.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Americans insist on calling these things chickadees. This is usually interpreted by Brits as prudishness.
"Released" is a very generous term for a product that had one SKU anyone ever saw outside of 3DMark. (And two if you include the m3-8114Y, which appears to only exist in some uploaded benchmarks as far as anyone can tell.)
Halt!

Hammertime.

(I'm conflicted by this thread. Ironic? Not ironic?)
I'm very impressed. Anyone know if only the rear camera is 5 MP/720p or are both cameras? If not, what are the specs for the one in the front?
It seems that Apple has historically concentrated more on pushing towards the future instead of dragging legacy support with them.

In the long run this means that users who don't make the investment to stay current hardware-wise often lose out on being able to take advantage of the latest features.

This certainly creates a good cash flow situation for Apple, but my guess is that the cost-avoidance side is equally lucrative. Not having to run QA tests for hardware that is 3 revisions back, and possibly still running original or near-original code has got to look good on the bottom line as well. Also, knowing that you can leave any mistakes or oversights in the past, and keep drivers for massively old legacy items out of the code base probably just makes for a better overall experience for everyone.

I once worked with one of the guys who was a kernel developer for Windows95. According to him, a lot of the Windows bloat and slowness at startup was directly attributed to massive hardware base they had to maintain support for. IMO, I personally like the fact that Apple doesn't waste a lot of time and effort on worrying that every new feature is fully back-portable to everything they've shipped in the last 5 years.
Apparently not on these boxes - AXE/PLEX is a non-Erlang system (and has been around since the 70s).
I think you're closer to the truth than the author. Though it may be moral, in a sense, to keep ads away from tragic stories - I think that it's clearly in the interest of the advertisers to keep their brands separated from "negative" stories so they don't inadvertently sabotage themselves.
uMatrix is new and improved, and I use it sometimes, but it is still rough around the edges. Some websites don't work and there's no work-around.

Edit: To clarify, the above is in comparison to HTTPSB.
There is a lot of Oxygen and a tiny tiny tiny amount of Hydrogen in the air. It's in not equilibrium, so they "burn" slowly and "produce" some energy following the first and second thermodynamics law. Dew to the second law, part of that energy has to be dissipated as heat, and only a part can be potentially harvested in a useful form like electricity.

The idea is to harvest that energy, to do that they use the graphene membrane as a part of a device that separate the Hydrogen. The separation requires that some additional energy is dissipated as heat, because of the entropy requirements of the second law.

If they can get more useful energy "burning" the separated Hydrogen than the energy necessary to separate the Hydrogen, then they get a useful device. I'd have to do the calculations using the concentration of the Hydrogen in the atmosphere, but I'm too lazy.

I guess that this is theoretically possible is you use the maximal efficiency in each and every step, but in the real word the efficiency is much lower and you get no useful energy.

I think there is a little hope that this can be useful with industrial fumes that have more Hydrogen to separate the contaminants, but the application with air is only a linkbait or a grantbait.
In the frame of reference of a photon, no time passes between emission and absorption, regardless of the distance it travels.
The moderators of r/IAMA apparently deleted several of the highest voted questions.

http://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/2rgzgo/official...
I agree, it's the best mix of graphics, characters, courses and gameplay in my opinion. MK8 comes pretty close for fun (especially with the excellent value DLC), but I will always be fondest of Double Dash.
Technically it'd be fine, there wouldn't be any direct evidence... but using a VPN on campus at the same time a bomb threat comes in through Tor could be enough to draw some suspicion. For something like this though I don't think they'd dig that deep.
Wow! Wow... just... wow.
OK, so what is the problem, is maple syrup an essential product that is at risk if farmers convert the land for other agricultural use? I am an European that never consumed maple syrup, so I am trying to understand what is this about.
Not when acres directly correlate with the amount of energy being generated. The Sahara has very few people but would be ripe energy-generation space.