jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Excel is exceptionally good at telling you what the shape of your data is. I love being able to just turn something into a table and then see the distinct values as a filter.

Sure, SQL and most environments can tell you distinct values of a column and their counts, but they are much slower and more cumbersome to explore with. I often start out with broad filters then go through many more specific ones depending on what I see from the first filter.
Emacs also has a user interface that has a much steeper learning curve than Excel.
> that they can't fix because they must stay bug-compatible

They likely aren’t bugs. Some may have been. But they’re now expected behaviour. Moreover, by and large, they’re how non-programmers see the world.
Ray Dalio has been writing a series on this.
I don't think anyone put google-level cash into LuaJIT but it still manages to be pretty fast.
How's that going to work when Firefox is free-as-in-freedom? Or are you suggesting they go closed source?
12 years old, owned by institutions, traded on stock exchanges etc. The price and market cap too.

The beanie baby comparison is pretty low effort and doesn't reflect reality at this point
They adjust car prices based on feature improvements:

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/new-vehicles.pdf

Certainly debatable since it is impossible to actually buy a new car that doesn't have a bunch of those features now.
This makes all the hours (months really) I've wasted on HackerNews worth it. Thanks!

Edit: I should say, it's things like this that make up for the wasted time. I've seen several really interesting things on here over time.
At some point, does it become silly for the biggest companies to attempt their own solutions instead of just buying the one with the most traction or best implementation?

One example might be how Amazon never got into self-driving cars themselves, but then last year bought Zoox.
It’s relevant context
> Arduino because even though it's sizzling fast compared to a $15 RPi Zero W

Wait are we talking about the arduino uno/nano/pro? Because those are far slower then the raspi zero w, with a magnitude less memory.
What I’ve always found strange about this is that there would be far better areas to spend money that would directly benefit society. Education, rail, manufacturing modernization, health.

Instead we have jets we don’t need, and tanks sitting in a desert unused.
AFAIK PushBullet stopped to release iOS app due to Sign in with Apple requirement.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PushBullet/comments/eirc1m/not_avai...
I have used a Miele bagged cannister and a Dyson bagless cannister, both corded, and a variety of cheaper units. Miele all the way.
I guess I'll bring up the "let your kids play in dirt argument" and see if I get any comments. I've personally taken this path in life and I seem to have much fewer allergies and immune issues than lots of my friends who grew up with hospital-like childhood circumstances. It could just be observor bias but it seems like there is some underpinning to the theory of if you don't use it you lose it when it comes to immunity. I do wash my hands and keep my house tidy, but I don't dust every day or put in MERV32 level air filters. (just cheapest-that-i-can-find MERV 8 recommended by my HVAC manual)
That's not actually true, IntelliJ support for Java has always been much better, and still is today! Just try auto-completion in Java VS Kotlin in your IDE... it's much faster in Java files, something I've been complaining about as I've been using more Kotlin than Java, recently. Check also how many refactorings are available in your Java files compared to the Kotlin ones.

Jetbrains knows its main source of income is still, by far, Java, so they don't drop that ball.
I've dealt with the IRS. It was a major pain. Ridiculous pain. They were contesting some education credits some years after graduation. Showed proof of payments to the university, but they responded with "Well how do we know you were paying for education - you could have been paying for things like parking?"

They kept saying "Send us this doc and you'll be good." We'd get the doc, send it to them, and they'd say it's not enough.

Called the university. They said they'd never heard the IRS contest the form that universities provide (1098 or whatever it is). I had to beg them to find my actual bill for that year, so I could show them that what I paid match what was billed. Finally the IRS relented.

Jokes on them, though. I found some unused deductions, amended my tax form, and got back an additional $400.

Having said all that, I still do all my taxes myself. Neither Turbotax nor a CPA would have spared me this headache - they would have filed it exactly as I did - just slap on the form the university provides. My wife used to use a CPA in the past - relatively cheap ($150 for both federal and state). I found issues with his work - he didn't take as many deductions as he could. I amended and got back extra money. He also messed something up which the IRS (rightly) contested. We contacted the CPA so he could fix it and he went AWOL. We had to deal with it.

If your financial situation doesn't change from year to year, I suggest paying a CPA once to do your taxes, figure out everything he/she did, and just do it yourself next year.
Yes, SQLite does serialize writes and write-heavy workloads and long-running transactions are not a good fit. Small batching of writes can help but SQLite provides options to tradeoff throughput for durability if that works for your situation:

PRAGMA synchronous = NORMAL;

That avoids fsync() calls on the WAL until checkpointing. I don't know of any libraries that implement transaction coalescing as it can be different depending on if you need to batch sequential writes versus writes coming from multiple parallel threads

re: rqlite, yes it handles consensus/replication through Raft but IIRC it doesn't do sharding.
Yes. I use tax act which imports my data from most banks and my w-2s from my job. I believe this is a IRS standard protocol to get the data, they don't import from wealthfront, they tell the IRS to give you the wealthfront import data.
This is quite a convoluted way of making an electrical switch. In brief, the carriers of supercurrent (Cooper pairs) in the channel are "depleted" (actually: broken up) by a local heater that raises the channel temperature above the superconductor's critical temperature.

The circuit topology, a heater coupled to a superconducting wire to sense the local tempreature, is the same as in a transition-edge sensor (TES), and functionally identical to a supercondicting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD). [SNSPD does not have a separate heater.] These cryogenic detectors are typically used when a good electrical amplifier does not exist for the input radiation. A textbook example would be optical or x-ray photons.

I believe the device will be terribly inefficient as a transistor. The root cause is that the electrical signal gets converted into heat and back: Heater current -> Electron heating -> Phonon (lattice) heating -> Breaking of Cooper pairs in the channel -> Suppression of (super)current. Once the heat is in the phonons (lattice vibrations), it can propagate anywhere in the chip substrate.

Also, the active area needs to be continuously heated to maintain the resistive ("off") state.

Since HN is mostly a computing-oriented forum: This transistor will not be used for general-purpose logic cricuits.
> Within the original Latin text, the numeral c. is used for a value of 120: Et quodlibet c. continet vi. xx. ("And each such 'hundred' contains six twenties.")[2]

This implies those Roman Numerals we learned in school are wrong.
I've had some good Thinkpads and HP business-class desktop computers. Apple build quality is amazing if you compare it to consumer-class hardware, but once you step up to business machines it's pretty standard imo. I find Apple's designs tend to be more elegant than a lot of them though.
The right wing is all over the public sphere. I have a pretty good idea of what they're saying and supporting despite having a lot of the usual suspects blocked on Twitter. I have no idea what you think the "saner" part is, but the saner part is no longer in control.
I agree with lots of the negative sentiment on Peloton, however, the name of the luxury game is to stay ahead of the pack and maintain a premium brand. Much of what they've done to date is maintain a huge catalog of real-time and recorded streaming classes and videos.

I found the news about Peloton working with Google to use Stadia as a platform for gaming on Peloton devices, very interesting. So far, what we've seen from gamified exercise equipment has been cheesy, at best. Seems like there is opportunity there.

On the other hand, it's a durable product and they should worry about market saturation.
Specifically for the bike, if you're a "spin class person", then you're used to spending $20-40 per class - $40 for a month of unlimited classes with the best instructors in the business seems like a steal in comparison.
I'm all for automation, let's build more of it. But the current state of automation technology is nowhere near the level that UBI proponents naively assume. In the real world that shit it tremendously expensive, not very flexible, and often unreliable.

Increased automation will raise living standards but it generally doesn't free up time for humans to do non-work things. People contine working just as much but on different tasks. And let's be realistic. Most people aren't very creative, and even the ones who try to be creative never produce much of value. If they don't have to work then a lot of them are going to sit around getting high and playing Xbox. I'm not a moralizer, I have nothing against people choosing to spend their time on such activities. But there's no way I'm going to vote to raise my own taxes in order to provide UBI for people who are capable of working but choose not to.
Swimming (when I've done it regularly) before work.

Weights, rowing, running, cycling, yoga, BJJ after work.

Bodyweight exercises throughout the workday (aiming for about 5 minutes every hour as part of my "get up and stretch" routine).

I am not limber in the morning and find swimming is the only exercise I can do that doesn't cause me more problems when done in the morning (after some stretching). Everything else, after work. For cycling, because I don't want a time limit on my rides. For everything else, because I'm finally loose enough to actually do the exercises without risk of injury.
In terms of all the choices, it's a pretty small sliver
Because you have empathy you have learned a lesson. Lots of us make that mistake and learn from it. I'm glad you came clean about it. Now don't be shy about criticizing, just be more thoughtful about it.
I don't mean to be a downer, but this isn't really novel. If you know the size of the object you are looking for, you know you can reliably find it in an image, and you understand your imaging device, then determining its distance from the sensor is extremely straightforward.
Ah, I see. I've started a list of use-cases at "uses".
A council house in the UK is a dwelling that is provided by the local municipal authority. Rents are about 1/2 to 1/3 of the lowest market rent. They are generally set by the local council. In addition to this you can receive housing benefit to pay most of this if you are out of work, the rules for this are quite complicated.

The concept dates back to postwar reconstruction in the 1950s when they were originally built at a large scale to replace bomb damaged and run down private 'slum' housing. I think I remember a lecturer saying that in the 1970's as much as 60% of the British population lived in council houses. In the 1980's Margaret Thatcher introduced 'right to buy' legislation which forced local councils to offer tenants the opportunity to buy their council house for well below the market value. This lead to a large decline in the number of people living in council houses. I think the proportion is more like 20% of the UK population now.

There has been a big cultural shift in Britain in the last 30 years; living in a council house was considered 'normal' but is now stigmatised. The quality of the accommodation can vary widely.

http://bit.ly/c3JuFb
http://www.flickr.com/groups/londonsocialhousing/

Council houses are not always in housing estates ('projects' in US) they can be normal houses intermingled with private housing that just happen to be owned by the council and rented out to council tenants. However this is rare now because of the 'right to buy'

There is a shortage of council housing, if you want to get one you have to be assessed as being in need of one and you go on a waiting list. Your position on the waiting list is based on points. The points are allocated based on criteria like: how long you've been waiting; how many kids you have; if you are being threatened; if you have disabilities etc.

By the way, I'm not totally sure about the percentage figures, they are based on a memory from a lecture about 10 years ago. I'll try and find some references to back them up.
Pretty much. Between the NHS and the dole Britain is a fairly socialist country, as is most of western Europe. I'm not sure when socialism became a dirty word.
Did you spend any time at all doing basic research? Here's some thoughts on bitcoin:

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/why-bitcoin-matters/
Nitrogen's point is that most (all?) browsers decompress the image in memory.
Interesting chat solution
One obvious use case is being able to edit files and have them saved to your git repo without leaving the browser.
One thing that sticks out to me is the price. Where did you choose $24.99 from? Recently I read Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (which is a more reputable book) for $13.60. I'm not saying that you're book isn't worth it but I don't see anything on this page to justify the cost.
Yes, a leak of unencrypted metadata like this is unacceptable.
Love your stuff, but I'm semi-anonymous here so I don't want to undo that. I do appreciate the offer, though :)
This is how GSuite works, no? I can subscribe to the calendar of anyone in my company. You have to change the visibility to Private to stop it showing the content to other people in the org, and even then it just shows up as "busy".
https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-security-flaws-encrypti...
> What anti-consumer, anti-worker and anti-environment clauses are you referring to?

The mentioned IP clauses would be anti-consumer, criminal penalties for trade secrets, and the horrifyingly 'standard' investor-state arbitration, which can throw a wrench into any pro-consumer/worker/environment law, as they usually impact corporate profit, meaning lawyers can argue that this is an indirect form of expropriation. It has a chilling effect on legislation. E.g. Canada backed off cigarette plain packaging and pesticide registration due to the arbitration clauses in NAFTA: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141121/07460329216/corpo...

A law professor made the same argument specifically in reference to the TPP - that the government would basically have to pay a tax to corporations on any legislation that cuts into their profits: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/gord-miller/trans-pacific-part...

"Dean Baker argued that Article 18.78, under which countries should ensure that they protect trade secrets and impose criminal procedures for violators, could be used to enforce non-compete agreements.": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership

And much of the TPP's more noble language, such as environmental and worker protections, is non-binding, and even explicitly subordinate to other parts of the agreement: "In the event of any inconsistency between this Chapter and another Chapter of this Agreement, the other Chapter shall prevail to the extent of the inconsistency.": https://theconversation.com/the-trans-pacific-partnership-po...

Basically, if it were remotely good, it would not have been negotiated in such secrecy. Think about who it was kept secret from - not the counterparties in the negotiations, so it cannot be argued the secrecy was to preserve some 'advantage'.
> Also, restrictions on your efforts to communicate with co-workers cannot be discriminatory. For example, your employer cannot prohibit you from talking about the union during working time if it permits you to talk about other non-work-related matters during working time.

I imagine that Googlers are generally permitted to socialise during work time, so they also get to unionise during work time. I even imagine they sometimes use work-provided services to organise non-work-related activity and this is permitted by the company.
I have noticed that database changes on a live system are the hardest / most risky to implement. Also they are most likely to get to the heart of the problem. I learned what the article is talking about through experience - avoiding the "harder" changes and piling fix on top of other fixes until things become a mess.
Who should be having more kids? And consequently, who should not?
the counter to this argument is that the ISS doesn't really help with exploration. We could have gone to the moon many more times with the same amount of money (and probably get really good at it too!)
Ask them for the range that they had in mind
Thanks. At the time, it seemed like dotcloud was totally done, so this is weird to see it again.
In more traditional OO languages, inheritance might be more limited...

Explain.

Class based inheritance, with a good metaprogramming model, is strictly more flexible than prototype based inheritance because you can easily implement the latter. The shortest implementation that I know of is the following Ruby one:

Proto = Class.new(Class) # Beware: magic.
def Proto.clone
Class.new(self)
end

You can find out more about how to use that at http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3378.
> If these folks spent 1/10th of the time they've spent on ideological wars doing something more productive, FOSS would be a heck of a lot better, especially for end users.

People down-voted your comment but I upvoted it. I agree, to a certain degree. I don't find it useless/wrong to use software for political purposes: the author is obviously trying to make a statement. I find it fascinatingly bizarre that the emphasis is so strong on the political expression of free vs open, though, instead of the technical merits of quality.
Seems half my comment disappeared. (magic?) So did everyone know about this site or am i just slow?

Half of my comment actually disappeared when i posted this as well. Had to edit it to get everything in.
It's got a simplified web UI, see http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/finfo?name=src/checkout.c for an example. The diff has a diff(1)-like output, but you can configure a graphical diff of your choice and use it with the 'fossil gdiff' command.
Linux hasn't managed to take off because for most people it requires changing virtually every application they use to a different one.

OSX is able to make inroads because several key applications such as Microsoft Office, Adobe's products, iTunes etc. also work on Macs.

Mobile phones didn't really have 3rd party apps (they weren't popular) until they iPhone and people were switching brands pretty often anyway.
I assume you did no research on her before commenting - she’s a very successful computer scientist and spent (a little) time as a VP at Google Cloud. While I don’t know if her background makes her the most qualified to be on a board, she is most certainly not a socialite or completely useless.
via Google:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...
I suspect so, and for some other hybrids
as well, but I don't think anyone
is using a gas turbine yet except maybe
in a hybrid for, say, a city bus.
Yep.

Western thinking never goes further than the next election, or the next earnings report, or the next Bonus received, etc.

Much as we might knock Japanese long-term planning, or the Communist countries' Five-Year Plans, we have to recognise that those long-term plans work out best in the end.
LRU? Looks more like a stack or heap to me.
See https://www.amazon.com/Powers-That-Be-David-Halberstam/dp/02... for something more "fair and balanced".
Except that fiat money can be analyzed axiomatically, because it is essentially just numbers in a balanced double-entry ledger.

The difficult part is in translating theorems into practical knowledge about the economy, but just because this is difficult doesn’t mean that the axiomatic approach is wrong.
> filled with spam

I was there for Canter & Siegel
https://www.wired.com/1999/04/the-spam-that-started-it-all/

My first usenet post, sometime in the late 80s, was in a discussion about a possible future "digital newspaper"
The article you linked on seat belts says that people fought against seatbelts _despite_ research, and there's no mention of big auto.
On one hand: sure, anything you can express with an abstraction can be expressed without the abstraction. Some abstractions are unnecessary.

On the other hand: this introduces constraints that let you solve a class of problems without giving you so much rope that you can get tangled in it.

I'm very wary of adding unnecessary abstractions, but I'm very optimistic for solutions like HTMX. Lately I've been trying to build apps without any front-end JS, and there are pain points that make me want to allow JS sometimes. My hope is that HTMX/etc might solve these pain points without opening up Pandora's box and letting contributors write arbitrary JavaScript for managing the front-end.
The fed funds rate are not interest rates writ large however. This is the interest rates banks pay to borrow reserves over a short term. The markets for longer dated securities (i.e. 10Y and 30Y) more accurately reflect interest. The 10 year is currently at 1% and the 30 year at 2%.
I dunno, you can write malware easily with C if you're not careful with pointers, memcpy, etc. The code samples have to be full of it.
This is 22,424 words long. Literally the length of a light book. (Even long-form journalism usually tops out at around 7-8,000 words.)

Anyone got a TL;DR?
> at times a mess of ad hoc demo formulas and spaghetti, though robust enough in the parts that count.

The story of my development career.
On what planet do big business and government NOT intersect?

Saying otherwise is a bold claim.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5702793
I agree that all the reading-in-the-dark ability is fake (or at least extremely exaggerated). Someone posted a skeptical link with more info in another thread about the same boy. http://www.livescience.com/18209-china-cat-eyed-boy-night-vi...

It's very difficult to debunk completely this kind of "discoveries" but a very big red flag is the lack of independent confirmation. In particular they site as a source an article from "worldrecordacademy". (I prefer to not even paste the link here). After reading that I am even more convinced that this is not legit. (If it were confirmed at least by the Guinness World Records, I would start to look for more information, but still be very skeptical.)
Just as astronauts on the ISS drink their own piss, it is nothing but in our minds.
I would argue that the "rise of the PHP ecosystem" has been massively damaged by the amount that has been written about PHP's flaws. An ecosystem needs talented programmers working on open source libraries for that ecosystem, or helping spread best practices.

You don't see much fresh innovation in the PHP community these days - instead, you see developers who work with PHP having to recreate libraries and techniques developed by other languages.

Meanwhile, the Node.js, Python, Rails etc communities are overflowing with talented developers who used to work with PHP and are now busily inventing the future on top of different languages.
The definition is a little fluid. At the absolute minimum you'd need an HTML renderer and Internet access, but this wouldn't get you so far on the modern Web. Most people would expect some level of CSS and JavaScript support too.
> Personally, I'm looking forward to moving to India.

Keep us posted on how it goes. Good luck! (not being sarcastic).