jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is only useful if you're based in the UK. Also want to look at this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8680033
How did you get your T420 to have no heating issues? What processor/GPU combo do you have?

I have a T420 and have major heating issues with it playing games. I've tried everything: thinkpad fan control that turns the fan up to 7000RPM, clearing everything out with compressed air, replacing the thermal paste..

After a few years of observations, I think the problem may lie in software.. It seems like when I'm playing games and what not my CPU gets turboboosted, which stays there until it reaches about 90C, when it gets severely throttled, killing framerate and all. I use linux, so right now I have several scripts that goes and disables turbo boost. However, even at that point, it still will boost the CPU when running certain GL applications... Not sure why.

In fact, I've noticed this issue on all Sandybridge laptops I own/have encountered: the 2011 MBP, a dell inspiron... Ivy bridge computers seems to have no issue with this (W530, 2012 MBP).
Scala is pretty nice. Concerning the JVM startup time: It's usually in the range of milliseconds for your use-case.

What gave the JVM a bad name regarding startup time are large JavaEE application servers which had dependencies to hundreds of MBs of libraries. In this case, startup is slow, otherwise: not so much.
This reads a bit like early internet critics complaining about how there are too many voices online. "Why isn't the Times enough for everyone? Why do these bloggers need to be telling everyone what they think? Some of them don't even check their facts!"

> It is Torvald’s “Release early and often” without the community smashing the ego of anyone publishing sub-par code.

The relative lack of Torvalds-esque public shaming is exactly what I love about the Javascript community. There is an acknowledgment that we can all do things our own way, and that it's OK. We don't need a dictator shouting down people "doing it wrong".
I'm not going to say web sockets are the silver bullet as I don't think it is, but the "only thing you can save are a few header bytes" is a bit reductionist.

If you have authentication then cookies have to be going out also and any other information that has to be kept in order to provide state over a stateless connection. You still need to handshake on each connection (maybe http2/3 bring this down a bit), and you also don't have bidirectional flow, so if you need something resembling client side "real-time" functionality you now have to implement pooling, or server side events.

The biggest issue is basically how to load balance/scale and that becomes a problem only given a scale that 98% (scientific) of the websites online won't ever experience.
Yeah, people really underestimate how good a deal they get from government programs.

When I was studying in Austria there were still tuitions for universities (it was later made free) but they were just 350€ per semester and people were complaining about having to pay for their education - I had to laugh/facepalm because that was such an insignificant amount of money compared to what students pay in places where the government doesn't automatically pay the lionshare of their tuition for them.
It'll be really sad if SpaceX flies tourists to orbit before Blue Origin or Virgin Galactic send any tourists on suborbital trips.
Bitcoin not so much but other cryptos will definitely going to improve in terms of transaction costs, speed, and energy efficiency and that will make paper money obsolete.
>Why $20/pop? Just reuse the same untrusted computer for all untrusted things?

Because the hardware could have something planted in it... and if what you're tinkering with turns out to be useful, then what? Then you have to spend $20 for another computer that you can trust with that one little thing.

Yes, in the days of MS-DOS, there were virii spread by floppy disk, but those could be guarded against fairly easily. You could always start fresh with a clean copy of your OS and use it to clean up the mess.

A better way is to have an OS that protects the hardware, and itself. Then you can have a single computer for everything, without having to trust any piece of application code, ever.
Related: https://youtu.be/OqvQeI_ekVA?t=30

I imagine them being faceless streamers does more to ease their anxiety than their fabricated persona. But my imagination doesn't come with a p-val so guess you'd have to ask them.
This is a relevant discussion of cancer ‘clusters’ - the TL:DR is that whilst they should be investigated, there is actually no evidence of a ‘cluster’ being more than background noise generally, because actual causative agents have a distinctive pattern.

Not saying this is or isn’t, but useful to bear in mind

[0] https://www.mja.com.au/system/files/issues/192_11_070610/ste...
"Those who fight", in this case, means the military aristocracy.

Compare to the three estates of the French Ancien Régime (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estates_of_the_realm#Kingdom_o...). The first estate was clergy (aka, "those who prey"). The second estate was nobility, original the "nobility of the sword" (aka "those who fight"), but later including administrators and judges as the "nobility of the robe". Note that the second estate was exempt from most taxes and forced labour, which underscores their power and prestige. And then the third estate was "everyone else", basically peasants, serfs, wage labourers, etc.
And to go along with that, the Renaissance was actually an incredibly violent and turbulent time.

https://www.exurbe.com/black-death-covid-and-why-we-keep-tel...

is a good post about that, and the Dark Ages myth. There's a lot of propaganda from this time period that people still believe today because it was used to justify a lot of the European nationalism of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Are you talking about flyer miles when you say the card gives you 1% back? (I'm not in the USA, so I might not know what you're referring to)
They are asking for 50% for 5 years for the city (which has a higher tax rate), and 100% for 20 years for the county (which is a smaller govt entity with a lower tax rate).
On Amazon, I usually ignore the average rating. Read some 1 and 2 star reviews, and see whether they make serious critiques or are one-sentence complaints that the writing style was too difficult.
I'd consider structs that implement various traits (to use Rust's terminology) to be more of a 'usual' approach to an object model. You can see the approach with mixins in many scripting languages, Rust's entire object model, Haskell's typeclasses, Elixir and Clojure's protocols, ect. ect.

The fact that you can classify things into a classification tree does not mean that the classification is how things actually work. If it so happens that classification trees work for a problem, you can build them with trait inheritance, but structural inheritance hasn't been that useful IME, so the marrying of both types with classical inheritance just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Maybe their guts were telling them, "Food. Here. Now."
It's sitting open on the desk next to me. I have loved seeing SICP-related links show up on HN over the past 6 months that I've been reading it.
For those who don't know her, she won the Nobel Peace prize in 1991.

From http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/world/asia/14myanmar.html
"She is a hero of mine," said President Obama, "and a source of inspiration for all who work to advance basic human rights in Burma and around the world."
I feel like the two things economists need to know are:

1. You don't know what you're talking about.

2. You don't know it yet.
I'm surprised by this. Overdrive (http://www.overdrive.com/software/omc/) seems to be able to handle 'loaning' MP3s out to Android phones, so there must be some internal DRM involved that they're satisfied with.
I've written game delivery systems which were smaller, like 1/20th of the size.

You aren't exactly going to be writing the CODECs and DRM for XBox Music in TypeScript are you?
A few hundred thousand vehicles does put them at Subaru's level in America though.

http://www.subaru.com/company/news/
You do know that v8 is generally much much much faster than cpython, don't you?
I interpreted that as "bonus points if it's contributions to a big official Open Source project, as opposed to your personal pet project with no exposure or users".
That is a truly awesome image. Here's the Model X: http://image.automobilemag.com/f/57687390+q100+re0/Tesla-Mod...
What'd be cool is an editor that had LLVM IR as a low-level extension language. At runtime, it'd JIT your plugin, and go.
This is classic Apple strategy. Apple now makes its own chips, buys up memory by the billions, etc. It uses its economies of scale to further solidify its moat.
Bespin, Skywriter, Ace, Brackets… now Atom. Everybody seems to be having the same idea: that browser based technologies are the future for code editors.

I for one am more enticed by the possibility of a WebKit frontend, with a NeoVim core and a libuv backend. Finally, Vim as an embeddable library.
Yea, power query is fantastic! Only caveat is you can’t (yet) use the editor on Mac, though it’s coming.
I edited my post to say “conspiracy group”, because I thought “qanon drivel” was a bit inflammatory.

He does not mention qanon specifically. That being said, his talking points of an omnipresent evil cadre who control politics would be right at home. The post is full of classic anti-Semitic tropes.
Suggestions:

* Offer a bundle of these books, makes it easier to download in one go

* If you are on reddit, make a post in relevant subs, niche community tends to give better feedback

* I don't directly offer downloads from my site, but only through leanpub/gumroad. That way readers can get updates automatically

Thanks for the offer and good luck :)
No, it never comes together and the ending seems entirely disconnected.
The first industrial revolution (which btw happened long after the dark ages and well into the early modern era) was marked by a transition to waterpower & steam (which can also be generated by burning wood) and of course windmills are even older, so it's possible to have happened without fossil fuels - it would just develop differently.

Maybe we'd have massive build out of hydroelectric dams, wind turbines, steam engines powered by wood harvested from artificial forests optimized for fast growth/hot burning trees. You could still have air travel by airships & trains will still be workable albeit slower than our trains.

Maybe Iceland would be contentious territory due to geothermal resources, like the middle eastern petrostates in the 20th/21st centuries.
Visidata is great. My main problem is that I use it so infrequently so it's hard to build up the muscle memory to use it really effectively.
World's richest person excluding dictators and royal families?

Like the Forbes list or the real richest person?
Zoom out. This action is YouTube controlling the dialogue and acting as though they're the Ministry of Truth.

Here's an amazing suggestion for you: if you don't like someone's opinion, don't watch their videos. Amazing. Super easy to do. Just click that little X button at the top right and move on with your life. No draconian censorship, no 1984 bullshit required. Just walk away.

Adults who can handle contrasting opinions should be allowed to see, read, share, and issue them to their hearts' content. Even if you think they're wrong. It's kind of the whole damned point of free speech, which is being pissed away by childish morons who never understood why people fought and died for it to start with.
Plain HTML+CSS is really good nowadays. You can for example lazy load images with `loading="lazy"` attribute. You don't need JS anymore just to lazy load images. You can use plain CSS for simple interaction like opening and closing menu, toggling pricing plan, etc.

If you're curious with what you can build with plain HTML+CSS, check out my side project[0]. It's a collection of free landing page templates in plain HTML+CSS (no JS). No frameworks, no preprocessors.

[0] Uisual: https://uisual.com
I like this.
Didn't realise it was possible to set up auto responders on WhatsApp via Tasker.

Thanks for this :-)
It's treated as such by a lot of it's users. They do not have expectations of being censored. The items you mention are paid services. Facebook isn't for most of its users.
The reality is that we just don't know what happened. We cannot know what happened. Perhaps some nations and companies are just too big and too powerful to exist and people are now starting to realize that.
Using a platform to widely spread toxic disinformation about election fraud is probably against Facebook's ToS.
Very interesting proposition, I hope the company flourishes!

I'm not HR but I'm pretty sure the anti-overtime provision is completely illegal at least in countries like the US and Canada. I would outlaw overtime instead of pay people less for overtime.
Purely analog hard-wired landline.
Agree on the Dobsonian on being a great entry level option unless you need to be mobile. You can still be mobile with a smaller dobsonian, but the bigger you get, the harder mobility becomes.
oh, I love jwz's HN DoS mitigation image.
Great review, but the highlight for me is that windows task manager view of CPU utilization. It's like looking at a spreadsheet:

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/15044/3970X%20Task%20Manag...
Is it just me, or is Sir Tim Berners-Lee unveiling a new plan to save the Internet every 4 months or so?
From reading this article it looks like a lot of American men behave awful...so why not just treat these questions from a man as red flag?

She could just find a man from any other country (even from Finland), why is it so important for the man to be American, if she's not going for the green card anyways?
Being right has /never/ been enough to convince people. Changing peoples minds has to have enough of an improvement to overcome switching costs /and/ any anchoring biases.
People who want Uber banned are often middle-class people following their left-wing ideology pretending to be on side of the working class worker. That or black cab drivers.

If you actually listen to vast majority workers working Uber they're ok with it. They enjoy the flexibility and the lack of obligations. If people want more fixed work they can get it at the moment.

Essentially you are taking the choice away from these people to work for uber, based on your own version of your morals and not theirs.

Your imposing your own morals on people who don't want your morals. That can be dangerous.
Hi, we’re familiar with Excel Solver but it doesn’t let you run a sensitivity analysis. You can do it using data tables which is (a) not that easy to set up and (b) can be quite slow for larger models.
It's almost completely killed the minicab business.

It looks like their offices are still there but when you go in there is an empty room with a phone.
Ever heard of Skype? Bittorrent?

Servers are awesome. :-)
It's hard work hey ;)
Bitcoin wiki article on aonymity: http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Anonymity
And academically the prestige is poor. One is not granted 'research time' to develop software, but to 'get things done' (see u/Danso's comment). As such there's no one to take the first step in actually making software that would benefit anyone. And in the generous circumstance that one can be allotted time to write the software, the result is a pat on the head - 'good job' - for reducing everyone's workflow from weeks to minutes. Sometimes you get an acknowledgement. And no one will ever support/read your software when you leave - it will be used ritualistically until the lab's last computer's OS no longer supports it.

On the topic I see two other significant problems:

1) In basic research there is often a need for 'Every Option' style software - you're doing something that's never been done before and you need to be able to tweak it exactly how you need (but also be able to 'just hit run' for a first pass when coming from your native field). And those types of software are inherently a mess to design and build (ie. photoshop, CAD, 3D, programming languages).

2) Some of this software can only be written by those who directly do the research - or someone who very closely collaborates with them. Scientific software contains scientific assumptions in it that are very hard to evaluate if you're not part of the field. Deciding to go right-way-round, or rounding up, or leaving off the last element in an array, or any other of those programming tricks can really mess up scientific work. Or conversely, using the entire array, using a non-weighted, 'avg' or treating the red channel mathematically the same as the blue channel is a very different way of designing software than other industries - and is not common and rarely given much thought.
Mr. Joy is a really ironic name.
the sources can be found on github
http://github.com/robb/Marbleo.us
The number of js frameworks popping up is kind of crazy. Clearly tons of overlap between them all. It kind of makes me want to not choose one and wait for tech natural selection to whittle the options down and hopefully along the way the best elements of each are demonstrated and incorporated into the few winners.
Hi, I made this some years ago. In fact it was the reason to sign up as a hacker news user :)

I didn't had the time to update it, so some things are broken (login, auto complete). And the open source project never caught traction.
It is out of the market at that point.

I see one of two things will happen. Our fictional speculator either accepts delivery of the thing, in which case they have to warehouse it and take the stuff away from market. Or, they form a new contract and sell in order to get it off their books. Which will have the effect of increasing supply and depressing the price.

But this can be done via futures as it has been with
Gold. There is more than 10 time more gold "owned" by
people than actually exists.

Do you have a reference for this?

With equities, when there's extra fractional-reserve style liquidity in the system due to shorting, you can tell because that info is available in Bloomberg. So if you see that there's more outstanding than exists, you could call bluff on the people with the outstanding positions.

I'm not sure if the same is true with commodity contracts.
Let me chime in here as I am the original commenter.

I did not say that it would be better if ISIS was in charge of the area.

I did say that a three state solution would be an improvement to the way that state boundaries are drawn in the Middle East - they were drawn the way they are now specifically to keep the area unstable by the British as a result of the Sykes–Picot Agreement. This is a sentiment also expressed by many nations in the UN and by scholars who study stability in the Middle East.

Regarding their 'slaughter of civilians into compliance' I would point out that as this is war, in fact the most violent geographic location today, that the cost of innocent civilians is a historical certainty (completely 'typical' even in its horrendousness) and that there is no side that is innocent of such things including the United States and our contractors, allies and the militant extremist (anti-ISIS) factions that we fund, support and arm there - and that also our lauded drone program institutionalizes compliance with slaughter of innocents. Again this is not to say "Go ISIS!" or "Boo America" - it's to say "Boo war!".

If you'd like to ask for more details, supporting media coverage, or clarification about any of my comments including this one please feel free to ask(/challenge).
Brendan, I'm interested in your reaction to what a few other posters wrote and floated to the top regarding very aggressive, tactless hiring manager gleefully indulging about firing people or brow beating about quick firings due to performance, seems several people have the exact same experience and it belies your post a bit.
yes, especially given the small amount of input data provided. Most A.I services rely on big data and days of training.
Even better are distant quasi-stellar radio sources (e.g., [0]). The detectable pulsars and neutron stars are close enough (inside our galaxy) that they will not form a fixed reference frame, due to slow motion across the sky. Though, I suppose they're probably good enough over short time intervals, depending on the needed accuracy.

There's also the issue of X-rays not penetrating the Earth's atmosphere. One could try triangulating based on time of arrival for pulsar radio pulses, but that requires a reasonable amount of collecting area with a radio telescope and substantial processing power.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Celestial_Refere...

Edit: slight clarification
Backbone is small because it doesn't do that much. After learning Backbone I regretted wasting so much time learning how to do simple things like nest views correctly. Backbone made me really long for a complete and opinionated framework.
More interesting would have been a discussion of hierarchy: how were "management" tiers motivated, where did ordered delegation stop and palace coups begin, what are the modern equivalents of that top tier boundary?
That's where the 2045 date comes from. That article mentions the 1% issue, and based on that someone came up with the date 2040/2050.
no problem, it went away pretty quick. :)
If you like this, you'll love everything this guy does: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRa1raJXF22KpZ8IknQpGEw
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It is possible to do both
I was a professional gamer for a few years. You have peoples entire personas based on the fact they are good at getting people mad. Even happened at real life LANs too.
Is that code from 6 months ago crap or just different than your current preference? I see a fair number of people churning between solutions that are more different than actually better.
The $10k I was talking about is for the GFX-100 that parent commenter suggested.
Correct. Those are Stripe API calls made through their client library.
There are plenty of good alternatives. One is: Talk to the fucking candidate and ask them about the things they have done over the course of their career. Have them explain something you don't know about yourself and see how they do.

The key thing here is you need senior engineers conducting the interviews to be able to judge properly, not the 3-4 yr out of college monkeys that Facebook uses to interview.
It was not flagged when I first accessed the short article. By the time I read the comments, it was flagged. I vouched, so it became not flagged again.

But I think that too many flag->vouch cycles will keep it permanently flagged? I'm not an expert on how HN does these things.
I am very interested to hear about this cabal that controls both Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell - how does that work? How did the ACA get passed in such an environment? How did the Trump Tax Cut get passed? NAFTA? The failure of the TPP? What about the provisions in the recent omnibus that contained all sorts of support for green energy? What are the mechanics of this system?
This makes me think that any sort of data advantage Apple may have has nothing to do with them owning an OS. Intel has a massive computer network, managed by their own IT team, just like any other large corporation. Intel could collect whatever performance data they want from actual users of actual programs just as easily as Apple could.
i paid for whatsapp back in 2012. it was a paid app on the app store. it wasn't much - $1, and everyone had to pay for it to download. later they made it a free app. i am more than happy to pay for a messaging app for myself and my close family, and i dont like the idea of sharing the data with fb. there needs to be a paid alternative.