jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You can see some openly available artifacts of earlier efforts at the more agile approach to highly complex cyberphysical systems with programs like DARPA's Adaptive Vehicle Make (RIP).

Though AVM was killed by sequestrations, the work continued in other programs — and of course there was a lot of learning taken from various unclassified programs to behind the green door, so to speak.
Hah, that's I called game life simulator :)
It's partially fixed now, it'll show the "Quit and Close Tabs" dialogue now if you check "Warn you when quitting the browser" in the preferences.
It's a bit foggy but I think a German emperor (might have been Wilhelm II) wanting to know the language of angels took several babies and instructed their caretakers to take good care of them but not to talk to them, at all.

His reasoning was that the babies would start to speak the original language of humans.

All the babies died.

Whatever you do, read, talk, sing or even rant but communicate with your baby.
> You quite obviously don't know what you're talking about.

Please don't do this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I am currently crafting together a new desktop, seeing this makes me feel really silly.
Unfortunately being first to market is key (I think). But yes, you're right, she is already changing so much everyday :-)! Either way, I need to find a better balance, is 3 months too young to teach her to code?!
My problem with the Aspartame studies is that the control group on average lived for a shorter duration. The test group always lived longer so without dying of heart disease the next prime killer is cancer.

I have yet to see a fixed time limit test (IE when the first mouse dies, kill them all and do the autopsies rather than wait for them to drop one by one). If Aspartame causes cancer it should be significantly visible in the subject animals. However they're living longer and dying of naturally occurring cancers, IIRC one study gave a 20% increase in longevity in the test group that was being fed ridiculous quantities of aspartame (equivalent to pounds a day for humans) but this was never mentioned or pointed out as being a relevant variable.
I had read "Inside the spam cartel" by spammer-X from Syngress press a few years back. I was really astonished as to how sophisticated the spam economy is. Previously I thought spamming was just someone opening a free account and sending dozens of hundreds of emails for a affiliate account of his/her.(Ah... the ignorant days!). But they use high tech solutions to get through spam filters and covert channels for payment. It requires skilful use of a lot of things just to send email. At first I was just curious of how these things work. But by the end of the book as was astonished by how creative these people can be in there use of tools.

The OP is right in presuming that this creative entrepreneurial energy can be channelled to make greater things in the favour of man kind. (That will also reduce the internet traffic and free the precious limited bandwidth).
What's the difference in the marginal investment required to go from illiterate to literate vs. uncreative to usefully inventive? Assuming that the market will get you what you want because it got you something else you wanted before is dangerous and wrong.
As with many other crimes, it's done because it's easy, low-risk money, and a thrilling activity -- not as a part of any kind of bigger plan.
Better not to give any suggestions to them as their license states:

>Please Do Not Submit Ideas, Suggestions, or Other Content to Us Unless Your Intent is to Give Us That Information Unconditionally
Be as blunt as you like, I don't mind.

A few reasons I guess.
1) Cost. Because it's such a backwater it's incredibly cheap. I can still get a lot done here and communicate with others online... but I guess that's only good for so long. Face to face is so much better.

2) I guess, if I'm honest, fear of not being good enough. I make good money here but worry that I wouldn't if I went somewhere else where there are much more talented developers. Maybe it's justified, maybe it's not. I guess I won't know unless I try.

Thanks
What amuses me is how threatened people can get by a photo of a phone, that they have to start insulting people for their appreciation of it.
Reading this I was thinking how important it is to be able to run the demo from any computer, but that's probably not always possible.
Calling him smart was to try to get him to read the rest.
Yes, non-U.S.-flagged, which is almost all cruise ships.
"a higher risk of ... death"

is there really a higher risk of death? i think my chances of dying are already pretty close to 100%.
I've been wondering if part of this SpaceX satellite gambit is to help Tesla Motors. Think about it: if and when there are 500,000 or a million or several million Tesla vehicles (including the Model 3) all over the world, plus thousands of SuperChargers, and they all need to be connected to the Net for messaging and value-added services, then what better way than to just have 'em connect to the SpaceX service?

Right now Tesla Model S vehicles connect via AT&T (at least in the US, don't know what the carriers are in other countries). It's a tiny number of "devices" connected to the network so it is probably expensive for Tesla. At some point it gets really expensive. One assumes the Model 3 will have the same always-on connection that the Model S/X has. Millions of Models S/X/3 around the world mean a lot of communications costs. And then there are the SuperChargers, that will in time no doubt be communicating with cars too, to improve the user experience.

I suspect a few million "devices" connected to the SpaceX version of global wifi would be way cheaper than connecting to a dozen or two carriers in countries around the world.

Just a theory.
I'm guessing they are referring to real-estate capacity. Not including space junk there are about 2,300 satellites in orbit. This is quite a proportional increase and the risk of collision with junk will go up.
I think parent means reference counting built into the language (like Python)
Yes, exactly. I did a lot of my dissertation work and writing in my favorite local coffeeshop. Basically, I didn't feel shut off from my community, despite the fact that I was working.

The only difference with a coffeeshop in a small college town is that after a while, you become a regular, and know all of the other regulars and the staff. So actual conversations happen. But, as someone who spent a lot of time working, I figured that amount of social interaction was good. (And I met some great people this way.) It's genuine social interaction, though. It was quite different than the conversations I had at the office with professors and other grad students.
I've just started to get into it, it's a fantastic job so far so please keep it up. I think you, the nodejs team, and webos are doing a great job.
You use recur in clojure for tail optimization. Don't think the jvm has tail optimization support currently.
It's not really 'detrimental', hence my smiley and wink; it's more that I feel it's a fashionable word which will lose it's cool next year when the next buzzword shows up. It's a bit the startup equivalent of 'synergy', the much-maligned MBA word.

(I recognize that it's a perfectly valid word (both 'pivot' and 'synergy', actually), and conveys lots of information in a simple word, which in general is good; it's just that it has become the epitome of MBA-speak which is sometimes scoffed at for its perceived vapidness or attempt at sounding important).
I think this article nails the description of a problem that Russ Roberts also alluded to on EconTalk -- that bitcoin can change and those changes are made somewhat democratically.(http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/04/andresen_on_bit.htm...). I think libertarians assume that the bitcoin network will be full of other libertarians. The article is right that the network may also be full of big entities whose behavior is regulated. Whatever your feelings about regulation, this would seem to make bitcoin less interesting.

I think one option is to accept that the bitcoin protocol will be forked massively and design it from the ground up to support exchanges between various versions of the protocol. That way, libertarians could avoid versions with inflationary policies. In this setup, would there be any reason for an entity to choose an inflatable flavor of bitcoin? Perhaps certain businesses and banks would be coerced to through regulation and that would create more widespread demand for those forks. It seems possible that most users would use the regulated bitcoins and the libertarian version might become a black-market currency.

All this feels not too different from the current situation where you can invest in gold or leave your money in a fiat currency. I guess the main difference is that the "gold" (i.e., the non-inflating bitcoin forks) might be less traceable and more liquid than true gold is today. I'm beginning to suspect that, while bitcoin is a damned-cool technical idea, it isn't likely to massively change the world other than, perhaps, to grease the wheels of black-market transactions.
Maybe Google just doesn't want to fight the RIAA and prefers to fight Grooveshark. Maybe fighting the RIAA would open up a debate on the legality of YouTube, which Google also wouldn't want.
Thanks, I'll check it out tomorrow and give you some feedback.
Is there a performance comparison anywhere between creating a big API of channel, each for every different task that you may want to achieve ( let's say add/search/remove from a global slice), versus simply performing mutex to protect the state mutation ?

I've seen a golang informal chat where one of the golang team member advertized using mutex instead of having a huge select, but i wonder if anyone has real experience of the two here.
I think you are misunderstanding what he is saying. If you use Google to prove your identity to every website you use, you are giving Google access to all of those websites.
> electricity is significantly slower

As a rule of thumb, most signals travel at half the vacuum speed (√ε_r for FR4 is 2.15), with a slight variation due to the copper trace shape. So, 150 mm/ns or 6 inch/ns one-way. I love how we can say nowadays "That's not all that much, is it."
I am not a CPU designer, so could someone explain the threat model of cpu microcode? Is it plausible that you could fit memory scraping code, including code that interacts with OS network drivers, all inside the cpu microcode without causing catastrophically impact on performance?
"The bill that would cover the rest of workers is the Paycheck Fairness Act. The law would both strengthen penalties to employers who retaliate against workers for discussing pay and require employers to provide a justification for wage differentials."

I'm cool with the first part. Information makes the free market better. The second part is problematic and will just add paperwork with about as much hope of being honest as the justification body shops use to get H1Bs instead of local workers.
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Looking for a Senior/Staff-level software engineering role. I'm the epitome of "jack of all trades"... over the past decade I've worked at companies from 30 to 30,000 people doing front-end, back-end, architecture, cloud, integration, modernization, greenfield, and several other types of dev work. If you're looking for somebody that does software in true DevOps fashion instead of chucking it over a wall them I'm your ticket!
MLM dynamics actually do apply to monetized assets in some cases. Cf. “Bubble Theory Of Money”, Gresham’s Law.

Once the speculation upside is gone, you would use Bitcoin because it’s the best available reserve and settlement asset. What are your other options? Inflationary USD or Yuan? Few rational actors would prefer to hold those.
I'm sorry and I don't mean to throw stones but this is an incredibly myopic view.

- It would be unethical to issue debt the company doesn't have the cash flows to pay without assuming refinancing is possible (the ENTIRE high yield market)

- It would be unethical to buy back debt in the open market at a discount ... they should pay what they borrowed!

- It would be unethical to raise capital by selling overinflated stock, the proceeds of which may lead to the life or death of the company.

The board has a fiduciary responsibility to it's shareholders to take the best course of action to maximize share-price. Assuming they actually could pull off a capital raise in the short amount of time the reddit bubble lasted, it would arguably be unethical NOT to do so. They didn't raise not because they are altruistic saints, but because it's an involved process that typically can't be done spur of the moment without planning.
Pattern matching is distinct from switch cases, this is where the "odd" behavior people are taking issue with stems from. If it were a switch case statement, the case behavior would behave differently.
I'm not convinced any of this is legal FYI.
I use podman in my projects, no problems. And since cli is compatible with docker all my work I have done using docker simply runs with podman.
Another thing is the type of manufacturing Foxconn does is extremely labor intensive, it's essentially assembly shops. No way paying US wages would be competitive for them. But things like semiconductor manufacturing requires way less people so salary differences are negligible.
> If someone gave me 100,000 USD...

The language you use here is concerning and not empowering. Why would someone 'give' you $100k? Despite some arguable edge cases (hft, etc.) money is only earned by creating value.

> Some days I just "can't even". With my faith, my wife, my friends, I try to be upbeat and positive when it comes to the future but when I see people like Musk, Bezos, even Gates ...

Comparison is the thief of joy. My (unsolicited) advise is to narrow your focus to doing whatever you can to make you and your family's life better. Leave Reddit/Twitter/whatever, stop consuming media and focus exclusively on what is right in front of you.
The above posters argument is very simple. These program's impact on inefficiency and rent seeking are négligeable. Their benefits aren't.
Basically if the women is the CEO, their startups will not get as much funding by a factor of about 50.

Came across this paper while reading this below article from Forbes:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2021/02/09/ceo-gen...

PDF of paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.12008.pdf
I have an old Dell Precision m4600 laptop. Big, bulky and heavy, but cooling is excellent, even though it has air intake on the bottom. Discrete Nvidia GPU running at full clock (because of an external UHD display) and temperature constantly about 60 degrees Celsius. And cleaning the fans/heatsinks is dead-easy and can be done in 10 minutes.
Do newer MBPs have those overheating problems solved? I was thinking of buying one as my next laptop.
It’s incredible how little data is required for amazing output! Only a couple of minutes of talking needed.

You can find a couple of minutes of taking of anyone, so the security implications are huge!
I think the interaction between ideas is a little more intricate than that. For example, holding some ideas in high regard makes you more susceptible to other ideas and immune to others. The most infectious kind of idea is one transmitted through gossip.
Something that legally prohibits this falls outside the definition of open source. Dual licensing with part of it not available as open source can fulfill your need although many including me somewhat dislike that and consider that against the spirit of open source. The GPL prevents people from modifying/distributing modified source without releasing the source and is highly disliked by a number of companies who would have nothing to do with it. They can still use it without distributing it like on a server without releasing changes as open source.
...which is what confuses me as to why these figures are being promoted as away to be help salary negations of (presumably) US Citizens.

Surely when that discussion happens the boss is going to say

"yeah the other company is paying higher than the prevailing rate because they needed to satisfy the H1B salary requirement (that it be higher than the average local rate) but needed those foreign workers because of their domain expertise" (or whatever the reason was for hiring them)
The most recent filing of Netflix's annual report goes over some of the inherent risks they see to their business. Potential changes to the applicability of the First Sale Doctrine and ways studios may try to limit its affects is one of the risks they mention.

http://ir.netflix.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-11-4021...
I've returned a couple of their batteries for dying while under warranty. Beyond that, I avoid Sony like the plague. Hardware, software, videos, music, everything.

Bring back the company that made the Walkman, a cheap, DRM-free, durable music player, and maybe I'll change my mind.
I agree, I don't think this will target job markets that have significant IP concerns or teamwork, culture, and ramp-up requirements.

It is a good way to go after trade/unskilled labour.
<smallrantresponse>

There is so much wrong with this way of thinking.

First, wages have nothing to do with the value of a person.

Second, getting rid of a job because it doesn't pay enough is the epitome of cutting off your nose to spite your face.

I hope, since this is the way you feel, that you don't patronize establishments that pay less than a livable wage or if you do that you personally make up the difference to those who are serving you.

</smallrantresponse>
> There was a flaw in the WD10EACS that made it park too frequently,

I don't know that specific model but frequent parking is not a bug, it's a (highly annoying) feature of (most?) 2.5" and green 3.5"WD drives for some years.
This is a great article.

I knew I'd see a bunch of people stating that AWS is expensive and you should use a dedicated server or a VPS. But there are many applications built by people like me who are lone developers or small teams of developers who either don't have the admin skills or simply don't want to admin their own servers and the fact that AWS handles quite a lot of this for you is sometimes worth the the added cost.
Well, sure, it's like what happened with going from Vista to Win7. But since they are mostly a software company I don't have much issue with them having a business model that makes them money, and that involves charging for software.
If you learn only 1 thing from SOLID, it would be the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP). Honestly, this is over 80% of the value of SOLID.

The Interface Segregation Principle is a special case of SRP, and Open-Closed Principle and Liskov Substitution Principle are most applicable to deep inheritance hierarchies, which are rarer than they were. SRP pushes you towards "composition over inheritance" which is also good.

Yes, using a lot of interfaces and an IoC container does push you towards a particular style, but it's not that hard to read once you know it.
The Hobbit was an oddball CPU but historically important: indirectly, Apple's displeasure with it for the Newton was what led to ARM.

But, speaking as the author, PowerPC BeOS is criminally unloved.
Beyond patent issues, TBH I would not have a problem paying for a reMarkable this very day, if I could be 10000% sure that there wasn't some shitty SaaS service involved in using it at any stage.

These days, whenever a new gadget comes up, my first reaction has become "I wonder how they try to screw you into a SaaS later".
It would be great if you could file these as bugs against esbuild! Sounds like these should be easy to fix.
What problem do QUIC and http/3 solve?
> No other systems I know of are deliberately designed to continuously become less efficient.

Well, there are - think of bcrypt :) It actually fits exactly the definition of design that deliberately becomes less efficient.

Ultimately it's a matter of the perceived cost/benefit - encryption is deemed necessary, so the benefits [perceived] offset the costs, while the cryptocurrencies' benefits don't (or do, depending on the opinion).
I'm always curious about solutions to 2, so what does unfettered mean in this instance? Audited? Someone always needs root or Domain Admin or whatever to get the company out of a mess, so do we just heavily audit those accounts and hope they aren't a enemy agent from Pepsi trying to get our secret formula?
Well I disagree, if nothing else for the fact that they never expressed that none was good enough, just frustration that there are too many (or more than one, really). Perhaps they’d be happy if everyone just settled on YAML or something.
I see that the OP is using spacehey (which I've never heard of and seems to be slow for some reason), but how can anyone be sure that it won't be overrun by bots and unsavory characters?
You could try using C to solve some problems on Project Euler, or puzzles like Facebook Puzzles, or even past problems from Google Code Jams.
I do wonder why citizens acting in rational self-interest don't just legislate themselves significantly lower taxes.

My guess is that such initiatives would fail mainly because the special interests that are the main beneficiaries of tax dollars would bankroll a huge media campaign against them.
If people felt they had "done something" with the upvote, why would they feel the need to intervene for real?

One of the negative consequences of social media in general is that it can lead to very casual and even cynical views of how we relate to one another. Thus, what was meant to bring people together can actually make them more emotionally distant. If I see a hundred stories of trouble in the world, why would I take action on even one of those troubles?
An anonymous opinion supported by reason and facts is very powerful. Galileo was brave to mess with the church in the time of the inquisition and maybe a little naive. Being a smart guy, he probably would have chosen a safer route to his truth. (Come on, being found "vehemently suspect of heresy" by the inquisition is a freaking serious charge. Ask Giordano Bruno.)
Can someone post a screen shot for those of us whom it's not working?
As a bit of meta-commentary, I have to say: it's exchanges like the one's between you and jsdalton and you and pakeha that make me love HN. It's pretty rare to see such honest conversation and useful, constructive criticism both given and then accepted in the spirit it was given. Thanks to all of you.
You are right. We are working on a new page and we need to improve the wording.
Politics or no, it is getting more traffic than some unflagged technical posts.