jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's a way of representing information in a local context, which tends to become necessary as you have large amounts of info to track. Much like a massive crowd makes more sense as several circles of friends showing up at the same place, rather than a random mob.

-sent from your iPhone (you should lock it)
Anybody remember WinFS? It's really promising technology back when it's announced, but Microsoft failed to deliver, along as many of the Vista stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
Hierarchical filesystems have an inherent sense of place, but are non-HFS about meaning. "This has to do with to these ideas." That doesn't translate to storage, though - if it has to take up space, where does it go?

This is why I think non-HFS ideas work better as indexes on top of existing systems. We don't have the right metaphors yet.
A good explanation was posted here a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1896643

(After looking it up, I discovered it was from the same site.)
Security shouldn't be optional.

That seems like a very dogmatic attitude. Security almost always comes at some cost (e.g., inconvenience), and sometimes that cost is not worth the benefit.
It's incredibly hard to understand that generated voice, especially with the music on top.
Is that a trick question? Because it is clearly allowed by the constitution? And in the "US System", whatever that is, the states can further limit penalties.
I love how he completely undermines his own point in the last line of the post:

Lesser intelligences cannot create greater
intelligences... dumb luck notwithstanding.

If "dumb luck" can do it, why can't "smart luck" do it too? You and I are already an existence proof of the fact that it's possible to build "intelligent" systems out of matter. So what's stopping us from actually understanding what it means to be "intelligent" on a theoretical level then solving the resulting engineering problems to implement it in practice?

In other words, since "dumb luck" can optimize a fitness function that results in intelligence, why can't that same (or some similar) fitness function be optimized a little less dumbly, like using human intelligence to navigate the through the solution space?
Someone clearly didn't read Godel, Escher, Bach.

I've long pointed out that human brains are far more complex than computers. However given Moore's law it seems likely that somewhere in the 2015-2030 range (depending on how one defines the complexity of a neuron), computers will be a match for human brains in complexity. At some point after that happens I expect human level AI to appear.

The growing power of statistical techniques for previously impossible tasks like translation and answering Jeopardy questions (see the computer IBM is putting together) suggests that once the requisite CPU power is available, it won't take long for computers to match humans on a wide variety of cognitive tasks. Once you hook together the right selection of abilities, I expect something that looks suspiciously like original thought to emerge.
The "reasonableness" test is bullshit also. Last I checked, a salary is a predetermined amount of money that will be paid over a predetermined amount of time, for a predetermined amount of work. A reasonable salary for the owner of an S Corp should be whatever the company can guarantee they will be paid over the course of the next twelve months, or, in retrospect, their lowest monthly cash income over the last twelve months, times twelve, or a comparable employee salary, whichever is lower.

The fact of the matter is, as the owner of a company, you are at risk of not getting paid, or getting paid less than you would if you were employed somewhere else in the same position. 15% is a substantial amount of money to blow on a social program that will likely never benefit the individual paying into the system. Unless the government plans to begin compensating S corp owners that are making below a "reasonable" salary, to bring them up to a "reasonable" salary, something I also don't support, they should drop the onerous tax and allow small businesses to grow.
Ah yes, well if that's the case then we should definitely heap some blame on the local planners who allowed residential zones so close to the big scary gas canister of death.
Typically, if the project meets its goal, the project is allowed to make updates indefinitely, even if the project never comes to fruition.

It's a shame, really. Speaking from experience, I once raised over $20K USD on a $48K goal. The project failed on Kickstarter; however, I was able to raise funds and complete the project by other means, but Kickstarter does not allow me to make updates to the project because it 'failed.'

I have to ask, though... which project is a failure, the one which is completed despite failing to meet the Kickstarter goal, or the one which meets the goal but never delivers?
This HN cliché notwithstanding, economists actually do understand a lot more about the study of economics.
Many components of this approach are theoretically at work in a 'smart grid'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid
It's very likely we're going to see another pandemic with a much more lethal pathogen in our lifetimes. Counting on overnight development of vaccines and throwing out proper testing to bail us out is a mistake.
I mean leave a salaried full-time position to work freelance for multiple clients (not the company you used to work for). Find your own gigs and clients where you have more freedom over how you choose to work.
It's a subset of what NR provides. Bucky gives you aggregate stats on the performance of your endpoints and pages as experienced by your users. NR gives you that, and a bunch of other stuff which we hope to build as OS tools of their own some day.
ft.com links don't do well here because of their paywall.
I agree completely. I think a lot of people will look at the things that I say and call me an asshole for saying them, but I really think that's true. If people don't take a stand against this sort of shit, it will continue. The game keeps going because people keep playing it.
Pretending they're tiny and poor isn't a long-term strategy for becoming a mainstream, trusted brand in e-commerce. Security is one front they need to win on, just like every other successful payment processing business; they can't hide and become big at the same time.
As a human asking you for a response, I think I'd deserve one to my first email. I am writing the follow-ups in advance in case you starred it and forgot it, opened it on your cell and forgot to 'save as new.' Things like that.

Also, you won't know it's machine generated, though we are considering an option to add a blurb explaining that it is a friendly reminder powered by Rebump.

Would you feel differently if that were the default?
I think that it is merely a consequence of when you have a small number of people that get a huge benefit which is paid by the rest of society contributing just a little each. It is greatly in the interest of the smaller group to continue this by whatever means, even criminal ones. It is not really in the interest of the rest of society to end this because, as individuals, they contribute very little and it would take a huge effort to stop paying.

You get the same effect when, for example, governments subsidise an industry such as agriculture. A tiny group benefits (and lobbies for this to continue) but the cost to the rest of society is individually quite small, for example in Europe around EUR 5-10/person/week.
As far as I've seen, not very web specific at all. Everything that you might fear being included is actually linked in and is not part of the VM at all (e.g. all Web APIs).
Which regions have significant Bronze Age battles that weren't dominated by chariots, whether due to forests, hills, mountains, or any other factor? I mean certainly it's true that war is complex, and clearly trying to attack a warship with chariots would be doomed (chariots don't float well) but I'm not familiar with historical battles fitting your description. But there are a lot of things I don't know!
basically, as with everything else humans do, things are cyclical and trend-based. Can't wait for 2030 when beige CRT's are back in style
I recently managed to watch Fogel's _The Dissident_.

The Twitter manipulation campaign that's covered in the movie was fascinating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dissident

It's on Apple TV. It's a shame that Netflix appeared too nervous of the backlash to run it.
Isnt that the FBI's job to vet people?
this type of nitpicking pedantry is what makes HN shine
(If the nominal growth was 2%/yr, prop 13 didn't help you.)
I've tried adding my phone number, but the system won't let me: "Your account is suspended and is not permitted to perform this action."
Sounds like an place I wouldn't want to go back to, either. If my office environment was anything even close to that, I think I'd be looking for another job. I actually look forward to going back in and seeing people again, but only like twice a week.
i've stop using FB for 10 yrs now. i just check my number. not pwned.
Really well debugged and proven numerical processing libraries like LINPACK ???.
The other firms were better at listening to the music, and knew that it had stopped?
> I said that the programming field is a fertile ground for beginners, and it is. But what’s fertile for grain is fertile for weeds too, even moreso. And we need to talk about these people, taking advantage of the fertile ground.

Yikes. What a gross, self-congratulatory rant. The author tries to defend against the term "gatekeeping" by getting out ahead of it, but that doesn't change how deeply exclusionary the result is.

It doesn't even stick to a specific complaint; it jumps around to different things that emotionally feel related in the author's mind but aren't actually. First we're talking about boot camps, then we're talking about how StackOverflow is "the scariest thing that happened to the programming community in the past 10 years", then we're talking about "diversity" speakers at conferences riling up "mobs" in some kind of conspiracy against the author and people like him?

Buried under all of this (literally, at the very end) is perhaps a poorly-executed attempt to tell beginners something of value, that it may not be easy now, but you can push through and it will get better. But I don't see any actual beginner reaching that part before getting discouraged by the rest into doubting whether they should be in this career field at all.
>Tesla is going to need to address this competition at some point

They're building a factory in Berlin already, they're importing as many cars from China and the US as they can, and they're selling everything they make.

What else do they need to do?
It's an interesting idea, but is it really usable? If you ever need to change the master key, you'll have to update all the websites you are using, and you won't even know on which websites you used the password manager with since there is no database. I just don't see how I could ever want this. Or is it assumed that master keys never need to be changed?
Could anybody explain what problems this was designed to solve?
It seems unlikely, considering the fact that the lands conquered by Mongols were later the most backward parts of Europe till at least XXth century.
No sophisticated software, but you could take a turntable and play a 33 1/3 RPM record at half speed (16 2/3 RPM) and that would drop the recording by an octave but keep the notes the same.
And what of China? Have they approved? Because until then, none of the other stuff matters.
That's a good one. My favorite is this one:

- F is the 6th letter of the alphabet.

- I is the 9th letter of the alphabet.

- S is the 19th letter of the alphabet.

- H is the 8th letter of the alphabet.

6 + 9 + 19 + 8 = 42. IOW, the dolphins probably manipulated the experiment so that humans would give them more fish.
The inventor listed on this patent left Spotify four years ago, and it clearly hasn't made it into any products released in the meantime. Not sure it's worth getting riled up about a patent filing — it could just be something the inventor wanted on his resumé.
It's a bit mean to call you out over an affiliate link; but if you didn't care about the commission, you wouldn't have provided the link.
This has been already posted, flagged and killed today
The repeating of the sentences every day has to do with your subconscious mind. Repeating it will record these words in your brain and with time your thinking will change along. If you read it once, probably tomorrow you won't remember what it said.
All of my store discount cards work just as well if I give them my phone number instead of the card itself.
Tech folks are sensitive to arrogance and jabs at pride in context of knowledge. It seems like every other top ten list poster seems to be standing on the shoulders of giants we never knew of.
I tried to go to google.com but it showed me ebay... Switching browsers or going to a different site didn't update anything.

Its a neat idea though!
umm.. no. I mean the headers and link libraries(e.g. mysql and mysql-dev).

This is an opinion - frequently development libraries, header files, etc. are dependent on kernel versions, glibc, etc. More so than binaries themselves. At the very least, a rolling release will change your kernel and glibc. Which means unless your header packages change in tandem, they might cause incompatibility problems.

It is less of a technical issue and more of a workflow one - would you want to handle the explosion of support requests similar to "I have mysql 5.1 but my PHP client does not connect to the DB.... oh crap, I forgot I have mysql 5.0 headers. heyyy, what gave you the right to upgrade my mysql ?"

If you go with the notion that disk space is cheap (and indeed packaging headers and dev libraries would be not too expensive in terms of disk space ), there is really no real reason to separate them both.
When Glyph Lefkowitz (of the Twisted project) was hired, he posted unboxing pics of his job offer to his blog (which has since been closed down). He praised the usability of the letter.

Second-hand mention in: http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/unboxing-an-apple-job-off...
Ellsberg was not in uniform though.
The comparison doesn't seem applicable here. Women's suffrage was about gaining a right that was, at that time, forbidden. Preference shouldn't play a role in basic rights, but it certainly plays a role in an individual's choice of career.
It's for a different purpose. (as in mitigate to some extent security bugs) And isn't an Apple feature only but an Arm one. (that is only rolling out on Cortex with Cortex-A78C and A78AE)

A paper on it from Qualcomm: https://www.qualcomm.com/media/documents/files/whitepaper-po...

And there's also MTE which is upcoming.
with all the caveats of not being a doctor and all the risks known and unknown, "don't try at home", etc. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17139208

while i didn't get totally cured, the condition went down very significantly, a couple orders of magnitude (by subjective feeling and some objective metrics), and since then i've mostly been maintaining the situation by a daily teaspoon of activated charcoal mixed into 2 cups of water (i drink it at least 3 hours after meal and at least 2 hours before meal to minimize charcoal binding on food instead of its intended targets).
It's quality over quantity. Forests tend to recover from the edges. If you spread all of your available resources over a hectare of land, you get something better but not good. If instead you dumped all of those resources into six squares, they get closer to healthy faster and then begin to spread.

I've heard others opine that if we forced foresters to leave a large intact area in the middle of a clearcut, that the land would recover faster. I don't doubt it. I think we could accomplish the same by making them take out narrower strips. It's just not 'convenient' and so they won't unless we force them.
Java - the terraced housing of programming. Still, point taken.
If you like to discover more on İstanbul see Ara Güler's photos which are also used by Pamuk in some of his books.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ara_G%C3%BCler?wprov=sfla1
> In the US, is it cheaper to live rurally?
Yes, sort of.

It can be significantly cheaper yes.

A friend of mine works for a pharma company in SE Michigan. The job pays him ~$200K with bonus for good years. Michigan has a flat 4% state income tax.

A new, 2000 sq. ft. house in the nice part of town is $150K ($800 mortgage with 20% down). The schools are great due to the solid tax base and plenty of highly educated parents. You can buy a nice 1960's bungalow for $100K. A big house (4000 sq. ft.) on a couple acres would run you $350K.

It's not a bad setup if you can find it.
Except that through their intervention they have laid bare their connection to this private company. They're culpable.
Cheers, yeah I imagine for lab work it makes more sense to have it tethered.

I was just thinking how cool it'd be to let it climb up the whole tree by itself.
If even politicians are unable to differentiate extremism in thought experiments and science vs. actual action, then how bad must it be among the general population? Doesn't that consideration justify placing certain things under a taboo?
> I think we need a serious discussion about paywall content.

No. We've had this discussion ad nauseum and will not keep having it. There will never be a consensus, but the HN question is settled. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=....

We all hate paywalls, but an HN without NYT, WSJ, The Economist, The New Yorker etc. would be much worse. These are sources of high-quality articles and intellectual curiosity is what HN tries to optimize for.

I'm thinking of adding the following to the FAQ to reduce the endless relitigation about paywalls that has been choking so many threads like a weed. Objections? Additions?

1. Paywalled articles are ok if there's a workaround.
2. It's ok to ask for a workaround in the thread and share one.
3. Generic paywall complaints about HN stories are off topic.
EC2 <-> S3 yes (this should be easy as S3 has ssl support out of the box). The bigger issue is stuff like redis (which purposefully doesn't support encryption) which means you either need to be careful not to put PHI in redis (e.g., use object IDs rather than the object themselves, don't cache things that might have PHI) or use something like stunnel (which doesn't play lovely with redis), ipsec, or use GCE.

I'd recommend encrypting from the boot volume up and not just your EBS volumes. Otherwise you have to worry about things like PHI in logs, core dumps, etc. being put onto unencrypted storage.
I would put it toward the high end myself: 2100 or later.

We have achieved decent success at specialized AI: pattern recognition, chess players, text to speech, speech to text, flying planes, even driving cars (which is harder for AI than flying planes). I strongly suspect self-driving cars will be on the consumer market by 2030, and that specialized AIs will be doing all kinds of complex tasks all over the economy by then.

But from what I know, we have achieved almost zero success at the general purpose AI or "strong AI" problem.

A lot of early AI optimism was fueled by the idea that general and specialized AI were more or less the same problem. If a computer can play chess well, then it should also be able to drive a car. We've found that this is most emphatically not the case. They appear to actually be different problems altogether. A great chess playing AI is utterly worthless at any domain other than chess. A great car-driving AI is utterly worthless for anything other than driving a car (or perhaps another vehicle with similar characteristics). Specialized AIs are very domain-specific.

The only form of AI that I know of that can work on a very wide array of problems without highly specialized domain tuning is genetic programming, and that requires serious gobs of processing power to do even trivial things.

Hubris aside, we really don't know what the brain is doing. We have some ideas, but they're fairly vague and early. There's a lot going on inside neurons, glial cells, and their genetic regulatory networks that we can't see... maybe even stuff at the quantum scale.

Then there's the whole issue of "consciousness," autonomy, self-orientation, self-direction, homeostasis, and all those related issues. This area is less well understood than neural data processing.

So I would be floored if we see it before 2100. Personally I think we'll have colonies on Mars long before we have strong human-scale AI.
Perspective: they talk about a "75% chance" of reaching production of 5,000 barrels/day in five years time. That's 0.02% of our daily oil usage (18.7 million bbl/day in 2009 according to Wolfram Alpha). A literal drop in the bucket.
And the reason for high taxes is said to be to compensate for the commercial disbalance.

A counterexample to that is Norway, which has abundant domestic supplies of petroleum but still taxes gasoline heavily.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_tax#Norway
Only Google has the capability to "beat Apple" in the OS/platform game in the context of Android as a platform. Any handset maker has the potential to "beat Apple" by making a handset that outsells the iPhone. You can beat the iPhone without beating the entirety of the iOS platform, for instance. As the below comment points out, that already happened in some places. I don't think Kottke meant his comments as platform war commentary (I think he was talking about products) but not surprisingly HN fully interpreted them that way.
I dont know about other peoples SLA's but seeing as you're hinging on my simplified description my SLA provides 100% uninterrupted transit to the Internet and 100% uninterrupted electricity so if the power goes out it is still 'their fault' but if I rm -rf / it is my fault.

I am not a lawyer or a PHB but I run a small business that has customers that pay for a service so if that service goes down I look bad and they are upset.
Wouldn't any corporation with a breakthrough in production keep it under wraps until they had momentum?

This business is doing it 20 acres at a time in perfect conditions, I've never read of such a massive undertaking before.
Personally, I consciously want the iOS to fail. I want to be able to install any OS I want on my tablet without voiding my warranty, and Apple's done a great job of setting a trend against that. If Apple provides boot camp for the iPad, I personally will probably shut up and buy one.
I am mostly worried about being deluged in low-quality apps. Sure, they may be paid in the store, but there might be a reason why they need the promotional help, you know?

However, I look forward to getting some free apps, hopefully get some real good ones!
Every time there is a new plasma release I feel like I want to try it again :)

But I'm just so happy with Gnome.

Can't complain though, having two excellent desktops to choose from is a luxury problem.
Question.

In this tweet [1] you mentioned that Dracula PRO was in the works for 7 years.

1. Would it possible to start monetizing the product earlier?

2. If yes, how much earlier in the case of Dracula PRO?

While $100k looks like an impressive number, in the grand scheme of things, it's just 14k/year, which is about $1150/month, which equates to an hourly wage of $6,50. Knowing what you know now, what would you do differently if you were to maximize revenue?

[1] https://twitter.com/zenorocha/status/1227622330731335686
Yet.

I don’t mean this flippantly.

One of the cryptocurrency is going to win out for day-to-day usage; the question is which.

As Andreas likes to say: “email used to be a multi-step series of memorized commands from a green terminal in a University.

Now my Mom can do it with a touch of her finger.”

I believe we’ll get that in the near-ish future.