jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813138
Is it not true that baking it makes any "cracking" in the soldering smooth out since this is similar to what is done to boards at the factory during construction?
>Why not scale down the CPU at crazy temperatures?.

Are you kidding me? What's the point of even buying the faster CPU then? You could just, you know, design the computer properly. You hive-minded Apple fans are so unaccustomed to critical thinking that you don't see Tim Cooks writing on the walls.
Won't Rust and Go likely get there equally easy?
For learning languages, everyone I know who has learned from the LanguagePod101 Series has enjoyed it.

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I went through maybe 20 of the JapanesePod101 lessons and it helped my grammar and expanded my vocabulary a bit. A friend liked the ChinesePod101 which he was listening to in Taipei at the same time as taking formal Mandarin Chinese lessons.

There's a full access no billing info required seven day trial, and you can download as many as lessons as you want during that time. They're fun and easy to listen to, worth checking out if there's a language you'd like to brush up on or get introduced to.
EDIT:

IT LAUNCHED! I can't contain my excitement. That vehicle will transport astronauts to space stations (and beyond?) in the Dragon capsule.

At 11:48, stage separation confirmed, and 2nd stage ignition as well. So, so amazing!

At 11:54, Falcon 9 achieved earth orbit.

The video signal has now been lost (too far away, apparently!)

So, so cool.

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From the website:

It looks as if we may have experienced a shutdown
condition just after ignition. In these situations the
vehicle puts itself into “safe mode”. There may be the
chance to “recycle” the count and try again.

The reason appears to be (as of 10:57)

We are hearing from Mission Control that the pad abort
involved an out-of-limit startup parameter.

It looks like they're going to try it again, but that was from 10:30 Pacific Time. (Edit: they say they are, as of 10:58.)

At 11:26 (PST), a bird flew by… still waiting on "T-zero time from Mission Control."

Retry scheduled for 11:45 (PST)!

Systems checks looking good (11:41 PST).

It's the little kid inside of me, I know, but I want SpaceX to succeed. Their goals have been dreams of mine all my life.
Unfortunately that doesn't really work for us. We do have some minimal costs - it would be great if we could live for free but that's not going to happen right now. I think even PG says that the money they give to companies is mostly to cover living expenses for a few months. Anyways, the question is how a founder in the earliest of stages takes money out for personal expenses when they need to.
SMART Goals have been around for a while. Amazing how often we neglect them.
Seems bit old, originating from 2008? Any notable progression lately?
> Strange to think that human communication represents only a small portion of what's possible.

But humans can communicate 3d scenes and imagery in words. Perhaps inelegantly. But universal turing machines do lots of things inelegantly and it doesn't really matter. English is universal language (taking into account its ability to define new words), so we're not missing out on anything fundamentally important (and nor are, e.g., the French missing out on anything fundamental by not speaking English: French is universal too).
I think the problem is that currently Ads are shown to you Not as a service to you but a way for the companies to sustain themselves.

Ads as a service, that's a nice idea!
Do you (or any fellow HN'er) have any suggestions about, or personal experience with, trying price elasticity testing for longer revenue models like subscriptions? I will be launching a SAAS soon with a subscription model and am curious about experiences with price testing like this.
I'd agree with you on Cormen's Algorithms but the original post already mentioned Algorithms (which could mean one of two texts that are considered standard in the field but both cover about the same territory).

But I'd be interested in knowing what books you refer to as far as giving faster results beyond that(TAOCP is dense which I'll agree makes it a difficult read). I've never found a book that covers the same information as TAOCP and while I hated every second of reading it when I was being forced to do so I have to admit the knowledge has served me well
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Was it this one? http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_google_algorithm/al...
TAOCP is a reference book. Almost no one reads it cover-to-cover. It's the thing you pull out when you need to do some red-black tree magic that you've long since forgotten.

Personally, I still think K&R is the best CS/programming book I've ever read.
That someone thought and made possible this kind of peaceful protest uniting these specific gangs is in itself incredible!

The story of the people behind this strike must be fascinating.
That's what happens when central planners try to "design" a city from scratch. Cities sort of happen, they rarely succeed all at once from the drawing board. I think the only successful cities of this sort were national capitals (Brasilia, Abuja).

To use a software analogy, they built a costly application, shipped without any debugging or testing.
There is a list of milestones on their site. They verify each step and don’t rush anything. Seems perfectly reasonable to me. The goal is not to launch the thing quickly but to verify that everything works as expected and if there is a problem to either fix it or at least being able to to learn from it.
Just get an indoor bike with ANT+ FEC if you want to avoid the real bike + trainer form factor, plenty of those available (e.g. the Wahoo Kickr Bike).

Peloton isn't a hardware company, it's a company that sells streamed sessions with hot spin instructors. The hardware is merely tool for them and creating an ecosystem of competitors on top of the hardware is a definitive non-goal for them. But hardware companies do exist.
> It's clear that Linux 'won' in the marketplace

it depends a lot on what you mean by won and which marketplace you are talking about.

as a desktop os linux is essentially non existent with an ever shrinking 1.5% of the market share or so as more and more regular joe consumers get machines with windows or os x preinstalled at a much faster rate than expert-level geeks are installing linux.

as a software developer targetting the mainstream it is rare that targetting linux is a profitable venture, because nearly no customers use it and those that do don't spend money on software in the same way as some one living in the Microsoft or Apple ecosystems. OS X also has a tiny market share (around 4% iirc) but people who are willing to pay over the odds to have a pretty workstation seem also not afraid of spending money on software.

as a server platform Linux dominates despite the best efforts of MS and Apple to try and market slightly uglier versions their consumer level desktop OS as a server product. its easier to use remotely, and can easily be configured to not rely on heavy UI features - there are even flavours that cater better to business philosophies on 'stability' (i use that term loosely) like RHEL and CentOS - also stability and open source go hand in hand, because you can fix bugs, or pay people to fix bugs allowing you to throw money at problems to fix them in a way which is impossible with the mainstream OSs

as a software developer it makes sense to target linux first for your big expensive server product. if you don't then you are cutting out your customers...

i don't think either of these situations has much to do with the underlying technology. its much more to do with the OS and what it provides than how it is built to achieve those aims.
I'm fine if it's "I'm fine", but it's "We're fine" according to this article title. I don't know what exactly said in Germany.
It's not an accusation, it's high praise.

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/05/01/peter-thiel/suffrage...
Aw man, so glad to have had that explained. Took this photo [1] in my back garden about 10 years ago and was never quite sure...

[1] https://capture.dropbox.com/Fw1tQrHnfH3pDTRt?src=ss
Notably in the EU novamin toothpastes don't make any claims as to tooth repair, only as to sensitivity reduction. (for which it hella works in my experience)
(Slovakia is a Central European country, far from Baltic.) But all three of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania also have pretty flat tax rates I believe. Not sure about deductions and other details.
Just knowing that someone says they did something, even granting that it's true, isn't all that useful, and really only newsworthy if what's being claimed is some how truly remarkable (like cold fusion using common kitchen utensils or something).

I've no doubt you can produce music on an iPad. I want to know what kind, how complex, what audio quality, using what software, etc.
You're missing Eliezer's little joke. In classical logic, usually any predicate is True of a non-existent entity.

There are no 11 year olds who attend wizarding school, hence it is True that all such creatures read CS preprints. (Like it is True that unicorns have one horn.)
Astoria has never caused trouble for me..not once have I been refused, and I cab it back to 23av/31st a couple of times a week from lower manhattan. Maybe it's all of the tlc-oriented services along 21st that make it less of a hassle?
Or, it should be seen more as a tool for filtering people out rather than for selecting people in. And if they are used, these tests should be (1) done at the very earliest stages in the process and (2) be conducted in a manner that's as time-efficient as humanely possible.
Ya, no military service here, so I guess that option is out.

I do like the look of what intrepid is offering, and will have to research them some more. Thanks for the links.
"So do you consider your right as a business owner to be more important than the fundamental right to do whatever you want to your body? Seriously?"

If it makes it impossible for me to fire you because you are smoking pot as a result of productivity loss, it's impeding on my rights, sorry. The California law would have made it "discrimination" to do so, which is just ridiculous.

"If someone gets high all the time and is able to produce amazing output, then why would you fire him?"

Do you want someone under the influence flying airplanes, driving a school bus, or operating machinery that could potentially harm others? Seriously? I've seen enough people high to know how scary a thought this truly is.

"The only thing that should matter for you is how useful they are to you for a given purpose."

Right. Because a drug that many times causes short-term memory loss and paranoia is going to help someone's productivity.

"Reality is harsh. People try to cope with it with their own tools. Different tools work for different people. Drugs are such tools."

It's funny because you are so dead set on freedoms and rights. But when your rights take away the rights of other people, you see no problem with it.
I think you've just proven my point, that packaging the JRE isn't going to kill the distribution of apps because of download size. Mostly, it's the frugality of the app's coders which will make or break it with regards to this.
Is this FB trying to divert people from the Apple fight?
Thanks for the update. Writing a Go program now which is pretty sensitive to these, and it's pretty annoying to have to consider them in your tests.
The general idea behind directives is still there in 2.0. JSX does come with one fatal flaw in order to accomplish what it does - it requires extra build tooling from the get go, which makes it that much more difficult for junior developers to pick it up, along with the assault of other technologies, code structure, and paradigms they have to pick up at the same time. The beauty of the declarative direction of Angular is that it still is just regular old HTML.

I do agree with #2, and it is a large part of why Angular is changing so drastically with 2.0 - part of this can be evidenced in 1.x with components being split into official optional modules (ngRoute, ngSanitize, ngAnimate, ngTouch, etc.).

I somewhat agree with #3 - I feel like in order to properly use any framework, there is no way around combing through documentation and the source code. I have found that true with most libraries I have used. Angular's documentation at least has the benefit of being very thorough compared to most at least. I do disagree that libraries should only use what programmers already know though - we should be pursuing how to best foster productivity in the long term, and sometimes this means exploring new patterns.
While I think educational accountability standards are important, the certification regarding criminal records seems to be simply copying public school rules into home schooling blindly without reference to the purpose of the rules.

The purpose of the certification for public schools is to allay parent fears of unsafe strangers (to them) having contact with their children. It makes no sense in a homeschooling situation (it might make sense as a requirement aimed at people offering paid in-home child-focused services to homeschooling parents, but that's a different issue.)
I'm sorry, but you're wrong. Complexity theory is by definition the subfield of computer science that studies the efficiency of algorithms, or the inability for algorithms to meet certain efficiency requirements.

This is my field of research, and I assure you computability theory is not a subset of it.
Really? I mean, that represents astonishingly bad value for a bunch of reasons. The first is that that's not SEIS covered, because it vastly reduces (by 70%) the risk exposure of the capital, and consequently the %. Especially if you'll include video games tax credits on thus back end that let you stretch that runway. Beyond that, you've also not used the full SEIS value -£150k, so again, shot yourself in there foot. This wouldn't be typical of valuations that I see working with startups, it's far more in the order of 10-17.5% for £150k (with SEIS coverage). Gaming is obviously it's own beast, but the same rules on making the investment tax efficient for the investor apply, and I'm surprised anyone gets any investment with ought SEIS any more.

With that in mind - advice is always to raise as high as you can on angel, because it's covered for the investor, and you can only do it once.
EcmaScript 6 and 7 are actually adding beautiful language features. JavaScript is changing in a big way, a lot of new JavaScript will not even resemble the stuff you're probably referring to.
There's a missing `with` at the bottom of the last paragraph of the landing page:

> You never need to share the car strangers and we can pick you up and drop you off at your front door.
I can assure you netbeans will change and then not be your No. 1 java ide.
I’m all for the demise of universities, at least the modern American incarnation of them. They’ve become ideological monocultures and echo chambers that are aggressively hostile to any sort of diversity of thought. They seek diversity in skin deep ways, and will accept you as long as you give up your deeper diversity and adopt their way. They are a threat to intellectual culture not a bastion of it, and the article’s implication that their reduced role in “intellectual inquiry” is a problem doesn’t make sense to me.

Leaving that aside, on more practical matters, they simply don’t provide value. I find their alleged role in developing critical thinkers to be minimal and for my earlier reasons above, they may even be working against that interest. So if they aren’t doing that then surely they provide value in a more obvious manner - but most students study degrees that have no value, which is clear because no one is willing to pay for their skill set in those fields when they enter the workforce. And with everyone being encouraged to go to college, it is increasingly a poor differentiating signal for talent.

Tack on massive expenses for their bloated administrations and I see no purpose except for college except to be a fun social environment that costs tens of thousands of dollars a year. Surely we can achieve that through other means. As the article mentions , most of college material can be learned virtually or even in self directed ways at significantly lower cost. All we need in terms of centralization is certification (testing of knowledge). I would like to instead see us do more with community colleges and trade schools, and do more by way of choice in education broadly - whether K-12 or higher education. The current model needs to die a swifter death.
I must be missing something.

Scott literally calls a study that links IQ and race "sophisticated" and calls Murray an "ally" in the study of the connection and the antecedent impact on social welfare.

It's only when the NYT times points out the connection does it suddenly become much more narrow: a specific and borderline non-sequitur claim about teaching truckers to code.

I find the whole "I'm just asking questions!" routine to be so, so tiresome and disingenuous. This whole thing reads to me that he wants to be seen as iconoclastic and he wants to associate with contrarians but doesn't want any of the blowback for doing so. He may argue that a lack of refuting the more offensive implications and conclusions of an opinion while agreeing with a portion of it (only after the fact, mind you!) does not imply wholescale endorsement, but that's naive at best and wanting it both ways and crying about it at worst.
Wouldn't it pollute the atmosphere? Is there a "clean" (modulo CO2) way to burn it?
Except for Bruce Schneier.

https://www.schneierfacts.com/
Thanks, yeah while building it I had the same thought - I bet other people would like to have an easy way to run a time-limited "vote for what you want" event like this.

Your suggestion reminds me of the design companies where a bunch of designers submit work and then the top ones get paid. Am I understanding you right?
I think the closing was effective in what it was going for: implying that this has all been a "grift." The abruptness is intended to leave the reader with a reverberating final note in their mind. "$250,000... $250,000..."
An interesting way to approach the documentation issue discussed in this article is 'wiki bankruptcy': when a wiki goes stale, simply tell all devs to save what they think is important before deleting the whole thing outright. Then, they can recreate those pages into a new wiki. Read more about it here:

https://critter.blog/2020/08/10/wiki-bankruptcy/

He also talks about using this 'bankruptcy' philosophy in other aspects of life, which I thought was intriguing:

https://critter.blog/2020/09/24/declare-bankruptcy-and-dont-...
Hey thanks! We support QI charging for our Relay+ devices (https://relaygo.com/relay-plus#pip-relay-plus)
I would take that wager. I certainly know what it means, and I imagine many users do, but the majority? I doubt it.
You aren’t a cop. I’m 100% in agreement that if a citizen gets attacked by a knife wielder, the use of lethal force in defense is fine. However cops are professional peace keepers. They have training, equipment and numbers on their side. You can watch videos of European cops dealing with a knife threat, it’s really not hard.
I feel like there should be some better way to recognize and promote solutions that are future proof. Like transpilers and site generators that only produce vanilla code for deployment. Because it wouldn't matter how dated the tool is. Sticking to vanilla only is not the only option.

But I guess there could still be vulnerabilities in HTML that may need to be addressed? Like cross domain or cookie security...

But then again, same for a vanilla stack.

It definitely seems like maximum future-proofness should be more of a thing.
Sorry if this sounds cringe, complete hardware novice here

> RISC-V IS THE ISA not the silicon

Doesn't that still require the chip-maker to build the chip with an interface that allows RISC-V instructions to run on it? It's not possible to "flash" a existing intel x86 CPU and run RISC-V instructions on it right?
Nintendo would hopefully become higher quality under Microsoft, that's what they'd get out of it. Microsoft has shown they can culture a good developer ecosystem, Nintendo is awful for third party developers. Nintendo also struggles with new technology, their systems are always a step behind and they were critically late to having games on the app stores (the extreme success of Pokemon Go after a decade of thinking smartphones weren't worth it is an egg on the face of the Nintendo leadership).

They really just have a strong brand, that's about all Nintendo has going for it. Microsoft can steward the brand like they did for Minecraft and it wouldn't lose any value, we'd just get higher quality games and hardware.
Damn it! This is what happens when you take a proper vacation :D :/ Oh well!

Yes I am! But we are struggling right now so feel pity for me!
20 hrs a week @ 500 is 520k/y. you only need one client.
Here's pg's official answer (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1998708) :

why is the UI so completely neglected?

Because when I spend time on HN my top priority is features that will make the content better. I believe that matches the priorities of the users-- that users would rather use a site with good stories and comments and a primitive UI than one with a slick UI and worse stories and comments. And time is a zero-sum game. Spending more time on UI = spending less on quality.

The focus on content quality above all is the reason you find yourself saying later "If there were any other community like this..."

[...]
Because it doesn't matter.
W3schools seems to cover these pieces, and a number of others, without the self regard and the "teaser" advertising. So does the Google Code University for that matter.
These are good (albeit mostly intuitive) reference checking tips. What amazes is me is how rarely anyone bothers to check references. I've been listed as a reference many times, but estimate I've been called much less than 10% of the time. That's probably because it's a pain to do this, and many companies won't give you helpful responses (and it may be that no one cares what I think), but all this suggests to me that the most important reference checking tip is to do it.
Have you been logging how many went on to be purchased?
Many false positives in early years due to 's' being written like 'f' and mistaken by the OCR software. Both the short and tall forms were used, but there seemed to have been some style preferences that led to the tall 's' being used at the beginning of a word, and small 's' at the end.

In handwriting or italic, the tall 's' was rather like the integral symbol, but when setting serifed font it looks pretty much like an 'f', but missing half or all the crossbar.
Just like an iPad works as a door stop.

edit: heh, downvotes. I am not a "css purist" there are times when tables are the correct solution, but they aren't here. Just because "it works" can be said that doesn't explain/justify their use.
Actually most semiconductor technology was developed by industry. Nowadays it is often too expensive for a university to do any cutting edge IC research without industry partnerships.