jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For those who look at this link and find, in the depth of the discussion, my comment with an ASCII diagram of a dynamic system:

At the end of that comment, I wrote "I think we should be doing more of this kind of modelling. Building more accurate maps of the world, and reasoning straight from them, instead of trying to build complicated webs of arguments.".

I still think this is what we should do, and my remarks about Argdown upthread still stand, but since writing this, I actually did try and model the mentioned scenario in a tool for playing with dynamical systems. The end result is here:

https://insightmaker.com/insight/206860/Musings-on-a-HN-comm...

(Press "Simulate" to look at the pretty graphs; note that behavior changes at T=10 years, to demonstrate how the steady state changes after increasing the export target.)

and commentary is here: https://mastodon.technology/@temporal/105044866452071486.

TL;DR: trying to express things as bona fide dynamical systems is very much like coding: there's a wide gap between an idea in your head and a model of a dynamic system that's specified precisely enough to do maths with, and that gap is the space where it's easy to make errors. So I'm no longer convinced models of dynamic systems are a way to improve the quality of discourse within a non-specialized audience.

(The particular problems I faced here were the problems of finding reference data for interesting quantities, and that modelling emissions required domain knowledge I didn't have. I've also made stupid modelling mistakes that I only caught because I decided to sanity-check the model before publishing, and the results didn't match my expectations. Also note that to get the system into a state that could be simulated, I had to use ~4x the amount of nodes I envisioned in the original comment.)

Perhaps there's way forward with better tooling, but I worry this is a problem isomorphic to "low-code": you need a certain level of experience in maths/computation/precise thinking before being able to navigate complex problems, and this probably applies not just to telling computer what to do, but also to any non-trivial social and political problems. In other words: the interesting problems may be intractable to lay audience without upfront work to get them thinking precisely enough - you can't offload this work onto a computer.
> although, admittedly, popular Java build tools currently lag in their support for jlink

Just an anecdote. We recently ship a CLI app companion to one of our WebApp that mostly dedup few dozen XLS files before uploading the content to the WebApp using jpackage.

We are using this Maven plugin [1] to generate an exe, a rpm and a dmg.
We spent far more time figuring out how to notarize an application on MacOs that using jpackage.

[1] https://github.com/akman/jpackage-maven-plugin
> Berkeley posted a bunch of free course content. They got sued under ADA because they hadn't captioned the material.

This sort of thing really bothers me. Accessibility should absolutely be supported where feasible, but never to the point where it prevents releasing content in the first place.
This is just fraud nothing more or less. It's not even that interesting of an exploit and especially not worthy 689 words.
Instead they're providing jobs to thousands year round and generate hundreds of millions in income.
ahhh so it's less fantasy football more stock exchange where value is determined collectively by the market, as opposed to externally e.g. with fantasy scores every week. i understand now.

this could indirectly be a good way to reveal peoples biases (including angels) about what companies will be successful... it's especially interesting as it removes from the equation the one component that vcs/investors say is most important which is their feeling about how good the team is... if the stock exchange can accurately predict which companies are going to be successful without that information that has interesting implications for vcs approach in picking companies.
Hi, I'm the founder of BigStash.

We have been working with AWS Glacier for two years now, and we are very well aware of its complicated pricing scheme.

Part of our offering is the abstraction layer over Glacier's pricing. Yes, you may download all your files today. But this will probably be just 0.001% of the total Glacier storage we manage, and as such, it will not cost BigStash as much.

Something you didn't mention, is that there are also bandwidth costs involved. But the way our service is designed is more suitable for the kind of data you will rarely download. (And BTW, this will probably be a long-term relationship, if we live up to our promise and offer a good and reasonably priced service.)

Plus, most users will not use 100% of the storage they purchase. We expect this to be more often in larger plans, that's why we are offering a lower price per GB.
I read that as a short story in the Nebula anthology, and then again when "Story of your life and others" came out.

That was more than a decade ago, and I still think about it more often than most sci-fi stories I've read.
I like another theory I read recently: That it's because women's mitochondria are more fine-tuned to their nuclear genome:

"The inheritance of mitochondria is asymmetric: you only get them from your mother, and your father makes no mitochondrial contribution at all. Your father’s mitochondrial contribution dies with him and is not passed on. What does that mean? It means that there can be no selection to fine tune mitochondria to the male nuclear genome."

Mitochondria are extrmely important to the cell and have been linked to many effects of aging. The reasoning above suggests that mitochondria work more poorly in males. And indeed, the paper (linked below) explains that in fruit flies, mitochondrial genes in males are expressed with much higher variability than females.

Your two links depend on human biology, but early male death is a much more general phenomenon. Males die earlier in the vast majority of animals (with gender). This idea could explain it.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/02/06/mothers-curse/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23281153
I'd like to recommend The Programming Language Zoo by Andrej Bauer. It is a collection of programming language implementations, small and clear, written in OCaml.

http://andrej.com/plzoo/
That's identical to what they call the C++ approach, except it's just not part of the actual language. I don't think that's an attractive solution.
One of the problems with a focus on living cheap is that the rest of the world is still expensive. You can find ways to live super cheap, but medical is still outrageous

Or technology. A new iPhone isn't cheaper in Thailand.
It's a Dell Precision T3500 Workstation Xeon Quad Core processor 2.66GHz 64 Bit; Intel Xeon Quad Core (x5550) 2.66GHz; 12GB Memory with Windows 7.

I got a GTX 970 for graphics. (Which is so big it won't let me close the case BTW)
Apple also released a framework for Publish and Subscribe in System 7, though I don't think that's still supported!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish_and_Subscribe_(Mac_OS)
Ah, Wikipedia, that reliable source of political opinion stated as fact. Whose intent? The other option would have been just not to occupy the Philippines for fifty years. Can you see how that would have seemed like a different (better?) policy to most Filipinos? Leaving that aside, actions of USA officials and opportunists over that period was not much along the lines of "tutelage" in the finer points of democracy and very much along the lines of "let's take advantage of this preexisting Spanish feudal arrangement in order to extract as much as we can from these people". Philippines is still dealing with the effects of that.
I am sorry, what?

Open source software license does not generally allow such thing.
I didn't think they even made Maybachs any more - if you want one, aren't you going to have to settle for a ten year old used car probably? Admittedly it might cost $100K, and need expensive maintenance, but it's more of a Hoovies Garage[1] type of car than a billionaire's.

[1]https://hoovies-garage.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_vehicles_owne...

(cf the <$30K Bentley and the $80K Rolls)

(Not to mention, I think the most recent ones are essentially unchanged from the 2004s)
> If staying in a cheap hotel was cool, why don't I ever hear people bragging about the low budget roadside motel they stayed in?

The concept is so obviously interesting that it has its own CNN article and 100+ HN comments.
I think so too, but even in case one disagrees, they should have mentioned it. Otherwise you’d think they never had heard of it :)
That’s why I said sometimes. It isn’t all the time that you need to protect people but kids needs to be protected. People who are mentally ill must be protected from themselves. In some cases, even forcefully put them in mental hospitals. There is always a grey area.
I do see "that 'politics' encompasses an incredibly broad spectrum of things", but I also see the motte-and-bailey argument being presented. The "politics" of everyday life is quite a different thing from the "politics" we're talking here.

RE your hamburger example, yes, it's apolitical within the context of society where hamburgers aren't political. Free trade or democracy isn't required, a hypothetical restaurant in the Soviet Union wouldn't have a problem selling grilled chicken breast. And if ever the Party decided that grilled chicken is a symbol of capitalism and therefore banned, the restaurant would just switch to serving fried chicken, or something else. Living in the status quo is not the same as endorsing it.

To me, the "not fighting status quo = supporting status quo" view is anathema to civilization. It's the peace-time equivalent of treating civilians as enemy combatants just because they live in the country you're at war with. It's an attempt to get other people to fight in your war, and suffer the collateral damage for you, and most people rightfully oppose it. If you want someone to support your cause, your strategy should be arguing that your cause is just - and not trying to get them to switch by making them believe not supporting you means supporting the enemy.
Although PG uses the word "naughty", I think "radical" is perhaps a more appropriate word. "Naughty" is not necessarily disruptive. "Radical", however, is almost always disruptive. "Radical" also strictly represents the root of something.

Printing cardboard cereal boxes to sell at a convention sounds more "radical" than "naughty". Loading up big piles of airbeds for people to sleep on at another convention sounds similarly "radical". If you look at a list of YC funded companies, you can almost always see a hint of "radicalness" in each of their ideas.
Compiz has a similar feature on Linux, though I think it's not bound to any key combo by default.
Fair enough. I should think a little more before hitting reply.
The "pretty" [sic] code wasn't recognised by the scanner on my blackberry ("QR Code Scanner Pro").
Honestly, I'm pretty disgusted.
Goddamned ads: http://i.imgur.com/LgrlL.jpg
Neat, but you really should provide some exploration entry points.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/ does a pretty good job of this w/ the rotating suggestions and the "Examples >>" link.
I'm pretty certain you can ask them for a random number instead, as only the government is allowed (last I recall) to __require__ an SSN. I know my doctors can ask for it, but are required to accept an alternative if I don't wish to provide the SSN.

For example:

http://www.identityhawk.com/Who-Can-Lawfully-Request-My-Soci...

Sadly, it's too late in the day for me to try to parse this:
http://www.justice.gov/opcl/social-security-number-usage
I think there are a lot of commentators here that are failing to appreciate that this is not about which programming language provides the best introduction to Computer Science or Software Engineering, but which language will inspire students to continue programming.

The readership of HN is self-selecting. Almost everyone here was drawn to the world of programming. Very few of you probably had programming thrust upon them.

I teach in the UK where all students from the age of 5 to 14 are now required to study computing. I personally teach students from the ages of 11 upwards, so when I'm looking at the best programming language to use, I don't even think about which will provide the best introduction to Software Engineering.

My primary concern is what will interest an eleven year old, who's only experience with a computer is using his iPhone, and whose primary interest in life is football. Or how can I make this interesting for a student whose ambition in life is to perform on stage, and has already decided not to continue studying Computing for their GCSEs.
And if the financial incentives lined up and they actually did extend lifespans, would that be a bad thing?
I've always seen networking in relation to the saying 'Luck favours the prepared'. Networking is part of the prepared bit.
I'm thinking modern art, make no sense, have fun, be "strange", create something raw and unique... yeah. Some people will have fun with this I'm sure. Not for me at this moment in life though, but that shouldn't matter to anyone.

Cheers
slow clap

It's rants like these that really harm the perception of the functional programming community. It just portrays you as the archetypal 'misunderstood genius' trying to show everyone in the world how wrong they are and how only the 'true programmers' do what you think is right. Yet none of this is backed up by evidence that the benefits of functional programming lead to better software.
Are we reddit now?
Much as I like the inference that I've not tried journal, or that I'm immune to new ideas, thanks, thanks very much.

Look, my job is to implement new ideas. I run a datacenter that has 15pb on tier 1 storage, and 28,000 CPUs.

The one thing I care about most is this: getting home to see my children.

The only time I look at logs is if something terrible has gone wrong. Everything else is done by sourcing metrics directly from the components directly (collectd + graphite)

We do ship logs, and yes we have elastic search, but thats far to heavy and far to higher latency to be useful.

So the only real time that I look at logs is when something is horrifically broken, or we cant figure out from the graphs what has gone wrong.

At that time, I do not want to have to remember new syntax to get at what should be text files. (yes signed logs, but lets be honest thats why you ship logs.)

If I got more functionality, then yes I'll be onboard.

However I can't use bash to talk to journal, It only has a C API, which smacks of it being designed for phones and super integrated HPC, not the 95% use case.

Because it uses binary blobs, (And yes, I do love binary, just not for logs) Its a pain in the arse to inspect using a scripting language.

if journalctl _COMM=sshd | tail | grep "something" then;

really nice. also what the fuck is with starting a switch with an _? underscore indicates hidden function. seriously, why is it different to every over log inspection tool?
I understand that what they have implemented was a deliberate decision, but wouldn't actually be easier to simply to identify that a variable is new to a particular scope and generate a var statement at the top of the javaScript function definition?

Does the compiler have any notion of scope?

edit: oh right, you need nonlocal or := if you want to access the outer scope.
I just don't see where he made any of these arguments. My take is that he generally supports the CIA and does not like Feinstein. That's a perfectly reasonable stance. I take issue with the idea that torture is ok or produces anything of value. But in this case, the most disturbing part for me is that it was government policy.

He linked to http://www.ciasavedlives.com which includes these lines:

The SSCI Majority would have the American people believe that the program was initiated by a rogue CIA that consistently lied to the President, the National Security Council, the Attorney General, and the Congress. Nothing could be further from the truth. Nothing.

... Congress was in the loop. The so-called "Gang of Eight” of top Congressional leaders were briefed in detail on the program. The briefings were detailed and drew reactions that ranged from approval to no objection to encouragement to be even more aggressive. Again, none of this context appears in the Majority's report.

I think those are fair points. If I had only 140 character to make this comment, maybe I'd be perceived as a bad guy too?
Well there are some non-free ones. I know Cylance supports some linux distros, and so does McAfee. Maybe others too.

The thing is I don't really want to use those. I use both in work, McAfee is ancient crufty old crap. Cylance is OK but since the takeover from Blackberry their product has gone downhill rapidly. Also, their Linux version is not available to consumers.

Also, if I use one it'd have to be open source. And ideally free in money too, though I could compromise on that if it's not too expensive.
> sophisticated level streaming for large areas isn’t something Unreal supports out of the box

Yes it is. I don't think this is replacing unreal's level streaming tech either. I'm reading this as a tool to generate content within unreal's existing landscape tiling/streaming tools.
>rationals cannot compute something as simple as compound interest without lack of accuracy

Care to elaborate?
It's very hard to reason about this stuff from first principles... everything means something complex in the complex.

If you want to strike nearer the trunk, nevermind root, of the issue... the place to start is corporation law. Once a cascade of tax entities of different types/jurisdictions can own or control each other in cascades... it becomes impossible to tax anything in a simple way. Without that, it's impossible for corporate tax just apply to the individuals with a share. If it was, than we could (as you suggest) think of corporate income tax as a +/- to regular income tax. As it stands, it is a different sum and applies to different people/ tax entities.

In terms of economic efficiency.... I don't think any abstract economic theory beats current reality observations. If you look at some of the biggest current companies... they are obviously undertaxed. A company like google doesn't accumulate 10s of $bns cash unless they cannot find ways of putting it to work. In theory, no matter what their tax burden, they would have "produced^" and invested what they did anyway. The same is not (necessarily) true fro TSLA or JNJ. It probably is for FB or MSFT.

In any case... as "mainstream" macroeconomics rapidly turns in a loose money direction, "bring the money home, we don't have enough money here" is less of a thing. The federal reserve is making however much money they think the economy needs for monetary purposes anyway...

^Scare quotes because "production" measured in ad sales is a little abstract for me.
Just a small correction, Model 3 performance starts at $56k. I don't like that Tesla lists price with $4.3k in "fuel savings" subtracted out, we have to call them out on that.
I don't see what global capitalism has to do with Myanmar coup or jail condition in Wyoming?
Well part of the reason I use Linux is because it's free.. I'd want an AV solution to be that too. Not just as in beer but as in speech too :) The speech part is pretty much mandatory for me. I'd pay for the service if it was decently priced.
I had LG G8 thinq and it made me get an iphone after it. My previous 2 phones were pure android motorolla phones. G8 thingq one was very bloated, i had to drag an app to the screen before i can bring it up. I cannot see list of apps and just run it. I have samsung tablet the ui seems to be ok, not too much bloat.
Why doesn't the US utilize the fact it has some of the richest, most sought-after customers in the world.

If a company wants to do business in the US, just stipulate that they have to be paying a corporate rate of X% somewhere. If that X is 21% and they are only paying 12.5% then in order to do business in America they would need to pay the US the difference.

Just like California can dictate emissions standards in vehicles across the rest of the states, the US has power to dictate standards across the world. No need to get everyone on board.

Note: I'm not commenting on whether corporate tax is good/bad. I'm just asking if the US wants something done why not.. do it.. and restrict those that don't from doing business here? We do that already for corruption (see the FIFA case[0]) Same could apply to carbon tax. If they don't pay a carbon tax for their GLOBAL business dealings, pay it to the US or your not welcome.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_FIFA_corruption_case
Also, many of the reviews are from users without any history.

Apps are already shady, add to this a promise to donate money and you get a down right scam feel from this.
ThemeForest has some fairly restrictive licensing terms on their designs. If you are doing a small site that won't make you much money then of course this is the best route. If not then exploring Bootstrap designs from http://wrapbootstrap.com and looking at a fully custom design from http://99designs.com might be your best bet.
> "…corrupted is too strong a word….subsumed."

She is being extremely generous. Corrupted is exactly the right word.

The parent comment highlights the two sentences starting with "I don’t think they are evil." But I was particularly struck by the end of that paragraph:

"The people who work at Google, Facebook, etc can’t imagine how everything they make is not, like, totally awesome. If it’s not awesome for you it’s because you just don’t understand it yet and you’ll come around. They can’t imagine scenarios outside their reality and that is how they inadvertently unleash things like the algorithmic cruelty of Facebook’s yearly review (which showed me a picture I had posted after a doctor told me my husband had 6-8 weeks to live)."

Algorithmic cruelty is such a great turn of phrase.
I recently traveled through some rural, non-tourist parts of Mexico and found exactly this attitude. I thought I had some of it -- I know how to make dirt, food, clothing, yarn/rope, soap, candles, beer, wine, etc, and the car has been repaired innumerable times -- but the level of DIY in these regions blew me away again. The vision, talent, and know-how to just get things done, which I also hear about from my American grandfather. A different level than just replacing a part in our washing machine.

My only other criticism of the original article is that if it's going to get gendered, we do need to think about the making that women have traditionally done. Food and textiles come to mind right off the bat.
It sounds like the point of the equity isn't compensation - the point is to align the employees to the same goals as the VC.
I'm amused by the joke, but I don't consider it a spoiler to explain how one bad act ever leads to the uber-evil ending that has no connection to the rest of the game. It's just pointing out that the claimed 'moral choices with consequences' feature is a farce.
This doesn't really explain the value proposition to the employee, though. It seems like the only reason someone would take these deals is because they have some sort of fantasy about working at a startup, or really prefer the environment to the point of working 50% more for 50% less pay per hour. I mean, I definitely see the pros of working at a startup, but I value my time, income, and low anxiety levels tremendously more than I value having a bit of extra freedom in my job.
This is actually a pretty cool tool. The only thing I'm not so enamored with is that the loading times on the right panel are very long.