jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've learnt something new today, thanks for sharing. Looks like I had a naive understanding of how snapshotting actually works.

I still think that it's more intuitive to describe commits as diffs, in the context of things like cherry-picking a commit or rebasing/reordering a series of commits.

But given that you can also "check out" a commit, in order to get a specific snapshot of the repo, I can see the parallels between commits and snapshots. Maybe both analogies are equally useful in describing the different features that git provides.
> Before we started coding, we needed to estimate an upper-bound on our AWS costs with order-of-magnitude accuracy. Basically: “Is there a sustainable business model behind this idea?”

this makes no sense to me. why is amazon the only place you can host this stuff?

on aws you can hit $50-100k/month VERY easily, for infrastructure that would cost $10-20k/month somewhere else.

in other words - that's the difference between a viable business or not. straight into amazon's pockets.
me to , how did you build it
> ICANN will not delegate an obvious brand name to any entity other than that trademark's owner

Any given potential name can be the subject of multiple (registered, not to mention unregistered) trademarks in different combination of field of business and territorial jurisdiction, so even if you have high trust that ICANN won't issue something that is a trademark somewhere in the world to anyone other than the trademark owner (which you probably shouldn't be, given that it's pretty much impossible), you have very little reason to be sure that (1) your brand isn't also someone else's trademark in some jurisdiction and field of business, and (2) that person won't get a TLD for it. Especially in the early round of newTLDs when it wasn't clear the degree to which the prediction that having your own TLD would be expectation as much as having a second-level domain in the most appropriate TLD had been previously would turn out to be true, preemptively acquiring the TLD even without a clear plan to use it made a lot of sense if the cost of doing so is a small fraction of the value of the brand.
For those who want to learn more, I really like the book "Algorithms for Optimization": https://algorithmsbook.com/optimization/#outline

It's a great intro because it covers a large breadth and gives you a sense of what class of techniques are useful for what (rather than just going super deep into one particular technique).

They also have a github in julia notebooks implementing most of the ideas: https://github.com/sisl/algforopt-notebooks
Most parents DO NOT WANT their kids to be in gifted programs. It requires more time investment for both the parents and the kids.
It's not that heavy, relatively speaking, it has to spin the rotors a lot faster to gain altitude in 1% atmosphere of Earth, hence the shorter flight time.
It's valid for any time period. The crucial point is that the theorem talks about the aggregate returns. It's like if you have 10 cars in a race, and 3 of them run at exactly the same speed which is the average of all ten (i.e. they follow the index), then the average speed of the remaining 7 (the actively managed) must also match that speed, even if their individual speeds can vary a lot.
> He's a little younger and a little less experienced than me but I don't concern myself with that.

Maybe you should. A younger, less experienced colleague may be feeling insecure about the difference in skills, so they are taking critique from you more personally than they should. Perhaps you need to spend as much energy finding things to celebrate about their work, and put that in the PRs. In general if you can make > 80% of a critique positive feedback, with < 20% negative feedback, it will likely be taken much better. It will also build trust because they know you do appreciate their work, so they will not be as defensive in the future.
Also parent of Boston kids. We will start in BPS but if it's bad we will go private school. What choice do we have as parents? Thank god we have money!

The correct answer IMO is to give every parent a voucher, and then let the schools compete for students. Would quickly show which public schools are good, and allow poor people to afford private schools. But this opinion apparently makes me some sort of evil person, so what do I know.
This seems like something created by a genius mind but honestly I don't want to think about topology when I'm navigating files in vim. Ctrl-P is about as fancy as I can deal with I think...
But it is unreasonable, for one of two reasons:

1) If the architecture is in active production, there is someone somewhere trying to make money by selling it. If they are intent on only supporting proprietary compilers, they need to accept the consequences of that decision: users won't use their hardware because they can't use the software that they want to use. If they want the architecture to be widely used, they have a fiduciary obligation to ensure that they have reliable and well tested backends to major compilers.

2) If the user is using old architectures that are no longer in production or no longer supported, there isn't ever any reasonable expectation of continuing software support. You're stuck with old software, full stop.

In the case of your objection, AArch64 and ARM manufacturers have the obligation to develop openly available backends for their architectures. And they've taken that seriously, as should any newcomer architectures.
Some of us have maintained a strong anti-Bitcoin position at all times.

[edit] David Gerard comes to mind - author of Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain and Libra Shrugged - and HN user (dgerard I think) (https://davidgerard.co.uk/)

More recently Amy Castor, also an HN user (amycastor) (https://amycastor.com/)

And of course Bitfinex’d is back and public again on Twitter. (https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed)
I don't get the "nobody used my ideas" sentiment.

Think about Eastern Front (which I haven't played) or Balance of Power (which I have, on the Amiga). There are tons of games that are similarly built, in whole or in part, on such mathematical models: SimCity, Rollercoaster Tycoon, the Civ series, any number of turn-based and real-time strategy games going back to the 8-bit era. Even RPGs use mathematical rules, with a handy dose of chance, to decide the outcome of different kinds of attack.

There's even a whole (I seem to remember) chapter in Stephen Hill's "Amiga Game Maker's Manual with AMOS Basic" on building "simulation games" using simple mathematical models.

Whilst I respect Chris Crawford's contribution to the video games industry I don't understand this perspective at all.
It didn't hurt, but I feel it didn't also help much. If you had some point that you wanted to express by reposting it, I think you better to say it plainly, because otherwise it's not coming through.
Ah I see that the request was for a "generic" SSL cert for all router.lan type addresses - not your particular install of such a beast.
Yeah this is in the poll what I call medium anonymity. Honestly I think this is a great step. Even if I don't trust Signal, it is a much better step than the weak anonymity stance.
Mine is:

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Personally, I use unfuck Google. It helps a lot, but it would be better if I didn't need to do this.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/unfuck-google...
We do not know for sure the 1 dose is highly effective. There's significant real-world data from Israel suggesting the reverse for the Pfizer vaccine (linked to some in my other comment in this topic), and since it's very similar to Moderna's the results may well transfer.
Or the culprit is famous, like Salman Khan (the actor, not the one from Khan Academy).
Think 200 years earlier, slavery and widespread poverty. The aim is bsckwards to good ol' times.
That's really cool you looked up the press release! Yeah, that's right, the central bank sets the rate. But the government could have managed inflation by other means, by regulation, raising taxes (perhaps on those who could most easily pay them), cutting spending, or adjusting trade policy, rather than giving investors 5%/year for doing no work.
When you get both the worst pandemic and worst hack in a century right 1-2 year after killing the very teams whose job it is to prevent said catastrophes, at what point do you stop blaming things on bad luck?
> I mean, one could raise taxes and offer quality free education to everyone

In fairness I'm not sure the New York Times really has the authority to do that.
Crawford says nobody truly followed in his footsteps but I think Jason Rohrer qualifies. The two even shot a documentary together, and the scene where Crawford showed off his Storytron project to Jason was pretty revealing. Jason called it baroque and Crawford responded that he'd consider his life a failure if the project fails:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA_0_dSD3-Q&t=27m35s

Crawford definitely is not doing enough introspection. I hope the man resets and makes an inspiring project without the self-romanticizing or self-pitying.
So, someone at the Department of Energy that was hired in 2012, under Obama, made a ruling, and that's translated by the NYTimes as the "Trump Administration" doing it, which then gets referenced as "Trump blocked it because they make him look orange". Fake news in action, folks.
Self awareness, which is the 'real' topic of this post is a challenging thing.

Growing up, I was naturally humble, and I knew I didn't know much and was amazed to find some confidence after ostensibly earning it to some degree.

What I found was a world of BS-ers so many people convincingly telling others they are the best, and having others believe that.

Then I found that many of these BS-ers believe their own drama - that's scary.

It's doubly scary when these people are in fact, talented, but they project it 10x further with their egos. (Think: Kanye West etc.)

I use the term 'I' here but I think this is at least a common path.

But something I struggle with is just how many regular people are like this? Is tech full of 22-year holds who think they are really that smart? It's one thing to try to change the world, fine, but another to think that you know better or are entitled to that. Or is it a generational issue?

I think we all have sparks of genius, and it takes a lot of hustle to communicate even basic ideas. We need to reinforce ourselves to keep it up. But on some level, we have to try to be objective as well. That's really, really hard, especially if you know something that others might not know, or at least feel that you do.
whahahahha
this is great <3
CCV proves the cardholder was present at the time of the transaction. Online merchants are never allowed to store CCV numbers.
When you've been around for a little while longer you will realise that pretty much all recreational drugs are harmful if you don't exercise moderation. Just because you can't detect damage now doesn't mean it isn't there.

Anyway, by your reasoning people should stick to alcohol because it is well established, well understood and has unsurpassed purity.
I suppose it depends on how they're counting uniques, but I doubt it has much, if anything, to do with how many accounts there are on the site.

I just checked their users page (http://stackoverflow.com/users) and they 8003 pages of 35 accounts, which comes out to be "just" 280,105 accounts in the system, including people who just stop by once to ask or answer a random question (you don't need to create an account there, they create a cookie-based one for you when you do something on the site the first time).

They're pretty much definitely identifying uniques via some combination of cookies, IP addresses, and perhaps some other methods. I seriously doubt you bother to clear your old cookies before creating each new account on the system.

Besides, I got the impression that the article was referring to the entire network, including the StackEx sites, in its totals.

I'm a bit like you too, btw, in that I have more than one account there, but for a different purpose. I've created new accounts there before to ask what I think are really dumb questions. It's bad enough that the top voted question on my account right now is "Should I find a new career?" which I created during a particularly bad time at my last job. That question is probably the single biggest reason I never signed up for their Careers service, right after the fact that there's basically nothing there for Canada.
Angry Birds is a fun, addictive game, but after many screens it tends to be repetitive. I've finished the full game for the Android platform, but I think that I'm done with that game. I'm not interested in a possible Angry Birds 2... A movie? I don't think that the game has a plot deep enough...
Here's my question: what's wrong with advertising?

If users don't mind adverts on commercial sites that offer free content, why would they mind it on a not-for-profit site?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for donating to charities in general (and do, regularly), I'm all for donating to Wikipedia (and have done more than once), and I'm all for websites that allow people who donate to disable adverts. But despite having donated to Wikipedia, I'd have no problem with seeing adverts on every page (as long as they're reasonably subtle, and don't consist solely of the cheapest of the cheap adverts, such as "omg you won an ipod lol!!"). In fact, I think I'd prefer seeing normal adverts than the constant reminder that they want donations.

"No ads. No agenda. No strings attached."

Why does being a "community website" mean they shouldn't use advertising revenue to support their growth?
HTML5 web apps delivered over the network, or bundled as native apps using http://phonegap.com are good enough right now.

Use jQuery Mobile, or jQTouch, or joApp, or XUI, etc.

Don't make the Lotus 1-2-3 mistake: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/18.html

"IBM was starting to ship a few computers with 80286 chips, which could address more memory, but Lotus didn’t think there was a big enough market for software that needed a $10,000 computer to run. So they squeezed and squeezed. They spent 18 months cramming 1-2-3 for DOS into 640K ...

By the time [Lotus] 123 3.0 was shipping, everybody had 80386s with 2M or 4M of RAM"

Same thing applies to smart phones at the moment.
The value in awareness alone outweighs any supposed harm.

If the article didn't exist, the discussion about it on HN wouldn't either. Thus, some people would arguably be less informed as a result.

The first step to becoming informed on a topic is knowing it exists in the first place.
Careful believing whenever HN / Reddit tells you something is bad.

It's a similar group behavior to how towns can form a hate for the opposing town's soccer team. In that case, it can get so carried away as to lead to physical violence between the groups. This is the same level of backing as there is for some of the things Reddit and HN are constantly repeating that they hate. Pure emotion, basically.
I think BLAS/LAPACK are getting old, I know of cases where they got their lunch eaten by JIT'd VMs.

Much of stats and linear alg is embarrassingly vectorizable. I would love to see modern SIMD implementations (preferably written in RUST) :)
That means they should pay child support if a divorce happens. The well-being of the child doesn't require large alimony payments.
Is this really a new space station? Or do they plan to somehow build off the current ISS? The article leaves a lot of questions. It seems the Russians had plans to re-use their ISS modules? Can they just take them back like that?
Some companies minimize advertising budget but manage do do very well. Patagonia spends less than 1% of sales on advertising. (http://www.bain.com/publications/articles/brand-strategy-tha...)
Yes, That's exactly what they are implying.
When it just isn't true.
I remember the incredible pressure I was under to get the double eyelid surgery to succeed in america.
It's just unfair, asians are under attack like this.
My personal opinion is to leave things as they are until you hear from Google. Simply be aware of the possible interpretations of the ToS. I do believe Argorak has the correct sentiment: that it's ultimately up to the individual font designer/cretor.

Your temporary caching, to me, seems fine. I read the ToS as saying that permitting your end user to obtain permanent copies might be disallowed ... at the discretion of the font designers. To be absolutely certain, you should check each font's license. Considering the fonts aren't Google's to license, I doubt you'll hear from them.
That's freaking brilliant. You simultaneously cool the CPU, keep the CPU clean, and clean your air. I might be sslliigghllyyy worried about the filter decreasing airflow if you used a HEPA filter, but probably not much of an issue with a MERV filter.
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> And they will hold the regulation tight as long as they can, regardless of what's actually best for people all things considered.

I get dismayed when people think of drugs in terms of social freedom and opposing government. This is quite frankly a highly liberal view. And not one at all in line with the true definition of drugs.

Drugs are an intoxicant. They destroy minds. They destroy health. And they can make addicts lose control. Not to mention destroy communities. There are laws on the books specifically for this reason. It affects society. It does not just stop at the individual. There is a reason why neighborhoods around bars fall in value. While those around coffee shops rise in value.

Drug users WHO ARE IN CONTROL OF THEMSELVES see rules against drugs as oppressive. But the rules were never made for them! Using drugs is like balancing the tight rope, not something everyone can do. And advocates need to understand this.

Lastly comparing illegal intoxicants as similar to legal intoxicants is a poor justification. You try to stretch people’s benign feelings to one form of drugs onto another.
You’re welcome <3
As someone who worked for SpaceX and Microsoft I think they are more similar than you might think. A lot of the harder persistent problems are things like managing complexity, having a good process, keeping a team running, and keeping an eye on the finer details. And those are the same. I think it's more about how you approach problems.
“Walled gardens” are worth for stuff like communications. No one likes to speak in X and being “hacked” by someone that knows how to trick the speech so people will understand or see a different message.

The downfall of email is a byproduct of “smart-ass” clients that add spy pixels, scheduled messages, automatic reminders, Rich HTML emails that looks horrible on mobile, etc.

An standard protocol, and a standard app, is good for the people who just wants to communicate something with someone; may be hackers doesn’t get it, but I’m happy some like moxie does.
no, the "unapproved software" accessing your data is third-party access. that's like the definition of third-party.
I wouldn't have thought I would have to explain this on hacker news but if you're lending a multiple of the deposit than you have fractional reserve.

(which is not the same thing as lending the actually number of shares you have ownership of)
I think the point of the this article is exactly what you said: YAML, when used as a programming language, is horrible.
> In the seventeenth century, during the Tulip bubble in Holland, 40 tulip bulbs sold for 100,000 florins, or what would be equivalent to about one million euros today. It can go up, but ultimately it must crash.

Dutch tulip bulbs aren't even close to worthless right now, and they weren't worthless after Tulipomania either; for example:

> Even the magnitudes of prices for valuable bulbs and their patterns of decline are not out of line with later prices for new varieties of rare bulbs. Single bulbs in the eighteenth century commanded prices as high as 1000 guilders. In this context, the 1000–2000 guilder price of Semper Augustus from 1623 to 1625 or even its 5500 guilder price in 1637 do not appear obviously overvalued.

This is partially because all unique new bulbs depreciated very quickly, from the 16th century on, as they were propagated and the supply was able to increase to meet demand. If you really want to compare Bitcoin to Tulipomania without embarrassing yourself, you should read some modern historical work on Tulipomania like Garber's Famous First Bubbles, and not an utterly obsolete polemical work by a hack. I've summarized some of the relevant facts in http://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/1bm9fl/the_bitcoi... & https://plus.google.com/115274377971493973150/posts/1qWmh7Cq... if you have enough time to blog but not read books.

(I would address your 100k claim, except a quick search indicates it is coming from MacKay's history, which gets many things wrong such as mistakenly taking a rhetorical exercise - 2 tons of butter, one silver cup, etc. - for an actual transaction. It's purely rhetorical, as one can quickly imagine by seeing how many tons of butter a Picasso or a Ferrari would go for.)

> There is no way a Bitcoin can be worth $122 over the long term. Not that it can't temporarily - it can climb to $200, even $300...I'm looking into how to short a Bitcoin via Bitfinex or the like. If anyone knows more about Bitcoin shorting or wants to go on the other side of the deal, I'd be happy to know.

You must be completely mad to short Bitcoin even if you were infinitely confident it was going to zero. Never has the expression "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" been more applicable. (And you know that, since you even quote it!) The best I can say for your strategy is that at least the fraudulent aspect ("However, I feel pretty secure I could survive shorting one Bitcoin via an LLC or something.") may rescue it.
I don't see what the big deal is. Disable JavaScript and you can check out all the demos. :p
grep ss[fw] .bashrc
alias ssf="import -frame -depth 8 -border ~/pic/ss/`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M`.png"
alias ssw="import -window root -depth 8 ~/pic/ss/`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M`.png"

Results run through OptiPNG.

Other than capturing windows and full screen shots, it would also be nice to have some KISS solution for doing selections, like in Mac OS X.