jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Or the auction does occur, someone bids all of their money, and the next turn that person goes bankrupt (making the game take, what, 5 seconds?)
What's the justification for deleting apps that grow too fast?
biohacker looks very interesting (also same Joyce quote on the website as in the TECS book!)
If it's just HTML + JS, you can host them both on S3.
If you liked all that, you'd probably enjoy the tv show "In search of perfection" by Heston Blumenthal, which is all about optimising common recipes (supposedly in a manner reproducible in a domestic kitchen, although I'm often a bit skeptical about that part).

The first episode I saw was on fish and chips too.
I am not sure how you quantify toughness, but this is the worst use of "orders of magnitude" I've ever seen.

More so, since I have spent a nontrivial percentage of my life playing both games.
I see this competing more with Kiss Metrics actually. Especially since they went all expensive on us.
Oops I was mistaken, there is now a fullscreen menu item in the tools section. Anyways they are certainly making some good improvements.
Nobody plans on paying the principal. Not even Clinton did this.
They won't do a TV. Replacement cycles on TVs are long, especially now that we're unlikely to see a persuasive tech shift that would drive upgrades. Current 1920 HDTV screens are going to be 'good enough' for quite a while.

If Apple released a TV, they'd soon find themselves with a large installed base of outdated hardware and customers in no hurry to upgrade because the main functionality is still entirely adequate.

It's to Apple's advantage to sell easily-replaced $99 external boxes that attach to whatever TV the consumer already owns. In one or two years, the consumer can replace it with the latest Apple product, with its faster CPU and GPU, additional storage, and new features, without too much pain.

People just aren't going to want to replace 60" TVs as often as they replace a cell phone or a laptop or a game console.
I feel like you're misrepresenting the results, though. Note in particular that they "reached their twelve month target of 100,000 clients six months ahead of schedule." If I had to guess, I would say that users were mostly dismissing the ads out of hand, and Blyk was unable to charge acceptable rates for ads, but I really don't know.

It's also not clear how targeted this advertising was--it may be that the sacrifice was in UX only rather than privacy, in which case it's not exactly relevant.
What language was this in? In ruby this would just be "hello".reverse, and even if you didn't have that available to you there would always be:

acc = "" ; "hello".size.downto(1) {|i| acc += "hello"[i-1]}

or the more rubyist way of doing it

"hello".each_char.to_a.reverse.join

Or probably something more clever I can't think of at the moment. Was the language so crippled that they were worrying about UTF8 characters? It can't possibly be that 95% are that bad. How could they possibly do anything?
One man's pork barrel, another's essential government function...
I think the commentor is stating that you and I have no reason to presume innocence until proven guilty. We can make up our own opinion. However, the judicial system has to assume innocence so the defendant can get a fair trial.
I mean, if we're going for complete absurdity why not build a Dyson Sphere?

Getting back into the real world (and the original point, although accidentally I think you've made my point that energy generated per-capita isn't relevant) and putting aside that there are actual thoughts to build a solar farm in the north Sahara [1]...

Texas has lots of surface area currently used by agriculture so while it's cute to suggest cornfields don't need electrical power there's a conversation about whether there's space which could productively generate power and send it over the grid which the rest of the state (and through HVDC interconnects, the rest of North America) is connected to?

1: https://theconversation.com/solar-panels-in-sahara-could-boo...
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This particular exercise could've been done with EEG. Where Neuralink excels is in having a much higher possible bitrate.

Pong is the absolute POC. Neuralink will most likely be able to achieve higher differentiability and thus be able to complete tasks of higher complexity, so stay tuned for even more impressive tasks. EEG can't get past pong; it's limited by physics itself. The solution is to put the electrodes in the brain, and there is likely no other solution.

Looking forward to the future.
Right. This “CEO” story was a test I made yesterday. From a blander “build internal reports fast” kind of message.

It clearly produces stronger reactions. In smaller organizations, CTOs often are of type 1, so I am not exactly certain that the message wouldn’t land. Though I agree it is a weird approach.
my assessment is that 200-600VDC inverters would be far far far more economical & considerably more efficient since they're simple buck converters.

but there's no general market atm for such inverters. so building lots & lots of lower voltage packs & using low voltage solar targeting modules, which are everywhere, works out.

but it's for sure not as good & makes less sense.

repurposing motor controllers is an interesting notion. but I'd probably rather diy than try to circuit bend that. big awesome mosfets &c are cheap. motor controllers have to deal with inductive loads (big coils) so they tend to have slow slopes. which matches up ok for low 60Hz. but it's still be an effort to repurpose & reuse. just redoing the inverter seems like the win. don't even try to find out what design parameters don't line up between motor drive & inverter drive, don't spend the time, for something that won't work as well as having the right thing.
In this case it really is just a genetic grouping. Refers to the understood native population of, roughly, Australia--there is some overlap nearby.

The subject of human migration as revealed by genetics is super interesting: really puts into perspective how small we are, story wise, and to my mind, lends a sense of gratitude to the almost unimaginable hardships and victories that got us to where we are now, typing words into this temporary format.
>Pictures are an intellectual property of the author

This just isn't true in practice on the internet. It never has been, and it never will be.

Plenty of argument about copyright law on my siblings, but if you've ever been anywhere near a community that posts porn for each other, you will know that copyright law is the last thing they care about. Consent a close second.
Funny you should compare understanding biological neural networks to a microprocessor. Check out this paper (https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...), which systematically addresses how applying traditional neuroscience methods to analyzing a microprocessor would get you.
Why not just link to the project page?

http://www.amarino-toolkit.net/
You probably forgot to combine the intermediate certs with your domain cert. That said, I use startcom (http://www.startssl.com/). You can get free SSL certs there that work in 99% of browsers. If you pay the identity verification fee (I think about $50), you can get free WILDCARD certificates!
I've tried to use it and... they could work on improving the installation guide. I gave up after an hour or so of failing to provision the database and create configuration in a way that gets me to the initial setup screen. I was using their docker setup for this.

It's kind of my job to take random apps, deploy them and manage properly, so I'm not a clueless user here. I could press on and figure it out with more time, and I understand they'd be happy with people using the cloud offering / paid support instead. But I also feel like a working docker-compose (or comparable) setup is table stakes these days for an open-source service.

See Loki+Grafana for a good example: https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/installation/docker/#in... - it's not a production setup, but it's a valid "play around with it in 2min" setup.
Due to the amount of people blocking Google Analytics with browser extensions, Pi-Holes and other tools I find GA increasingly lacking good analytics.
Freezing up in a meeting can get you fired just like freezing up in an interview can get you turned down for the job.

Not really. A job interview is your one single chance to make a good enough impression to get the job. You could freeze up in a meeting and it would be fine, if the rest of your performance is on par.

One meeting in a job is a very tiny part of your overall employment. An interview is the one and only impression you get to make.

(For further reading, please consult the lyrics to Eminem's "Lose Yourself". Mom's spaghetti.)
This is amazing, what's the plan for it? Open-source?
When one searches on Amazon for `Catullus` and sees the many translations and other books about him, some quite recent (Catullus' Bedspread is especially interesting https://www.amazon.com/Catullus-Bedspread-Life-Romes-Erotic/...), the following, from another great Roman poet, comes to mind:

exegi monumentum aere perennius
regalique situ pyramidum altius,
quod non imber edax, non Aquilo inpotens
possit diruere…
(Odes III: XXX, lines 1-4, published 23BC)

(I have built a monument more lasting than bronze,
higher than the Pyramids’ regal structures,
that no consuming rain, nor wild north wind
can destroy…)
https://collation.folger.edu/2016/03/more-lasting-than-bronze/

If you haven't yet read the one about Lesbia and her sparrow you're missing a great poem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_2)!
Regarding the Russian collusion... manafort is in jail over those crimes. Flynn and others were charged with obstruction of justice. You don't obstruct justice because it's fun and dandy.

The trump campaign and admin has made huge efforts to cover up crimes relating to it's behavior with respects to Russia. What exactly are they hiding?

I personally believe it isn't as deep as it seems, but it is also very serious. I don't think Trump is given orders by Russia, or that there was deep cooperation. However, even somewhat of coordination and discussions of sensitive information is criminal.

So yes, the Russian collusion narrative is entirely true. The only reason Trump wasn't charged with obstruction of justice is because of a memo saying they shouldn't charge their boss, not because there isn't enough evidence.

One of the big differences between what happened in Portland and DC is INTENT. The insurrectionists yesterday intended on forcing the joint session to declare Trump the winner of the presidential election. They were attempted to do by force what they failed to do at the ballot box, and at the court house. The fact they were inept and failed does not excuse them at all.

That does not compare even slightly to what happened in Portland. Protests that turns into riots aren't good. However, there was not an intent to overthrow the presidential election there at all.

This kind of whataboutism needs to stop.
If you really think that no buildings had to be evacuated during BLM protests I’m not sure what news you’ve been watching or why you want to participate in this discussion.

1. Police stations were burned to the ground. Federal courthouse under sustained assault for months. $2 billion in property damage, thousands of police injured.

2. Those are what people have actually been charged with yesterday. Similarly, just because a BLM protestor is screaming kill all cops! while throwing rocks at a police car, it doesn’t make an attempted murder charge appropriate. Nor should everyone standing around chanting the same thing in the vicinity be charged with attempted murder.

All I ask is for a little logical consistency instead of the absurd political flame war.
> So how is free and fair debate supposed to work?

IMHO, storming White House already crosses the line for a free and fair debate. And so do baseless calls to do that.
Yep, I ditched the Google Analytics script, because I don;t really care about metrics. (I wish my host would give me pageviews metrics)
> marketing it to hackers is a new thing, and something I, personally, would have never considered, and the guy is doing a hell of a job of it

Really, it's textbook. He's using his ties and understanding of a subculture demographic to market to it specifically.
The huge amount of bloggers makes the market interesting enough.

But you are right about the categorization of reviewers.
God != Religion != Politics
No, you still have to meet over 200 other requirements. Prior to this certification, though, you could not meet quite a few
of them without controlling the physical servers.
You can tell a website was designed on a Mac when its fonts are nearly unreadable in Windows browsers other than Safari.
This has absolutely nothing to do with the thundering herd problem.

The skype outage probably not. This was in response to the thread going on about overloaded webapps - thundering herd is a common issue there.

The GP's question is valid: there's no reason why server software should crash when overloaded instead of simply degrading service.

Nobody used the word "crash" but graceful degradation is quite hard. You have to understand the problems at heart, plan and build for it. That is more than enough reason for most apps to not degrade very gracefully.
'gawker' and 'gizmodo' seem like pretty safe passwords, considering the context.
I hate my code but usually I hate other's code even more. What makes me think my code is not so horrible is when two days after my commit I check commits from my teams on it, and I see their updates nicely integrating the logic I built, proving they understood easily how it is working.

The more I code, the more I do it for other people getting behind, and also the more I "flatten" the code. By that I mean:

- Remove recursions

- Remove pretty hacks

- Split dense logic (one line = one thing)

- Replace comments by properly named function calls

- Factorize everything that is happening more than thrice

- Linearize sequences of steps

- Remove nice to have just in case, but never used function parameters

- etc.
+1 for webgl :)
It's already been proven that hybrid drives perform as good as, or in some cases _slower_ than traditional platter drives. The SSD part is a marketing gimmick.
This is incorrect.
Device encryption on 3GS and later devices are only for
1) Apps that implement Apple's device encryption API (ie, stashPro now has this)
2) If you have a strong password set
and
3) Unless you have a device released with iOS4.x, you will need to wipe, then restore it with the flag turned on

http://www.tipb.com/2011/03/18/daily-tip-enable-data-protect...
I think the issue with single-pass compilation is that you can't have a function a in namespace A call a function b in namespace B which in turn calls a, unless you've first done a forward declaration of the var(s). I can't see how the hell 2-pass compilation can be reconciled with Clojure's macro system; either Steve or I have not thought this one through. Personally, I've run into this once [1] and it was easy to resolve with an

(ns OTHER-NAMESPACE)
(def missing-function)

At the top of the file. I'm used to worse than that from other languages, mind. (cough C++ cough)

I don't get what the fuss is about, either. The debugger is pretty much the only suggestion I like - I've used JSwat with Clojure and it's not very pleasant. Obviously some kind of continuation-based debugging facility would be nice, but it's basically not going to happen because of the JVM, not because Rich Hickey is an Evil Bastard (he's not). Either way, a usable debugger will materialise sooner or later, Yegge-tantrum or not.

I think Clojure is being managed very well. I admittedly haven't followed the community for a while; the mailing list got a bit too high traffic for me, and I can't use the JVM for most of my projects. But whenever I am using Clojure and have a problem, it's usually because I haven't found the right bit in the docs, or because I missed/misunderstood a major feature that was added recently, or because the functional style sometimes is just a bit beyond the capabilities of my brain. (I'll write the code in imperative style, then translate it to functional, and usually learn something in the process; done) I don't see that as a failing of the language, but my inexperience with it. Doing simple things with it is simple.

I have a theory, though. Yegge talks about porting Java code to Clojure. I think that's the problem right there. Sure, if you're porting line-by-line, it's not going to be especially nice. It's a bit like translating German to English sentence-by-sentence. Most of the time it works, despite sounding a bit stilted. But sometimes there isn't a direct equivalent, and you have to change the surrounding sentences. The structure of your average Java program is so wildly different of your average Clojure program, no wonder it doesn't port directly.

[1] Okay, I'm not massively experienced with Clojure. I've written maybe a few tens of thousands of LOC of it, and no really big projects.
Sorry, I didn't realise submitting your own stuff was forbidden...?
You might be right. But I have been reading forum posts to this effect for fifteen years, and eventually eveyone switches off. Even if you are right, would you trust your career focus to a software community who had got it this wrong for that long? I am looking forward to checking out a future perl 6 but part of that is now duke nukem forever curiosity - what on earth could be in it that kept those smart people at it for that long?
Ok, but please don't take HN threads on predictable generic tangents. Especially not nationalistic ones. We're interested in the diffs (i.e. the new information) in a story—not the old saws.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
CICS itself is essentially just a way to put
up the forms for a user interface, but
a CICS application usually makes
heavy use of database, say, relational database,
e.g., DB/2 although there may still be some
IMS usage still hanging on.

One use of CICS was for heads down medical
claims processing, across all four US
time zones. The site our team from
IBM Research visited wanted high reliability:
If the site was down for, say, an hour,
then the data entry staff would have to
be called back on a Saturday, for at least
half a day, at a higher rate per hour.
One such outage in a year, and the CIO
could lose his bonus. Two and he could
lose his job. The site was very uptight.
Getting into the glass house was
not easy; might have been easier to get
into the White House Oval Office.

At one time to make CICS more secure,
there was some interest in having
processor hardware support for
address sub-spaces. Another
idea was cross memory where a
program could call and execute, say,
a function in another address space.
There were also data spaces, that
is, address spaces with just data and
no code but that could be accessed
by other address spaces with code.

Net, the IBM mainframes are not really
simple things. Cloning one would not
be easy, and at IBM's next version of
hard/software, the clone could be
unable to run the newer software and
suddenly be a boat anchor.
> The physical path from a CPU to the furthest part of ram on a desktop PC is [1-1.5ft]

That doesn't seem right.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=10887...

Looks like it might be 1ns away at .5c, which is 10% of the minimum latency and 3% of maximum (excluding refresh) latency -- and those are latencies I took off a top-of-the-line gaming RAM (my own computer is 11-11-11). It also looks like the RAM could trivially be moved closer if there were an advantage to doing so (e.g. square, stacked layout).

My point is not that the limits aren't physical, it's that the limiting physical factors are currently in silicon designs, not FR4 layouts.
Hmm, I found this New Yorker article supporting my statement: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/youngest-kid-smartest...

However, it seems to be drawing skewed conclusions from the research it cites.

From the article:

"When a group of economists followed Norwegian children born between 1962 and 1988, until the youngest turned eighteen, in 2006, they found that, at age eighteen, children who started school a year later had I.Q. scores that were significantly lower than their younger counterparts. Their earnings also suffered: through age thirty, men who started school later earned less."

From the abstract of the paper it references [1]:

"We find evidence for a small positive effect of starting school younger on IQ scores measured at age 18. In contrast, we find evidence of much larger positive effects of age at test, and these results are very robust. [...] There appears to be a short-run positive effect on earnings of beginning school at a younger age; however, this effect has essentially disappeared by age 30."

Not quite as sensationalist as the summary in the article! Students starting school younger had slightly higher test scores at age 18. However, the age when taking the test had a greater effect, so students starting older would still presumably have an advantage in tests taken at graduation (given that they would still be older). Students starting younger earned more, but only slightly and only until age 30.

I expect the real conclusion to be drawn is that it's silly to obsess over what age to start your kid in school. Start them when they seem ready, and spend more time focusing on supporting them at home (in their education and otherwise) than worrying about the findings of these studies.

[1]: http://www.nber.org/papers/w13969
The 9/11 event was Trump being president during the Corona virus pandemic. His incompetence has been killing more people every day than the number of people killed on 9/11, for quite some time now.
It’s going to be exhausting hearing people explain how censorship is cool because it’s not the government doing it.
Let's be honest. His followers, especially the ones that stormed the Capitol, aren't living in reality. They believe the lies that this election was stolen. It wasn't. It was fair, free, secure, and accurate.

But reality doesn't matter to them. We gain nothing but lose so much by pandering to these people for whom facts mean nothing. They will do what they will do, including an insurrection in the national's capital while a joint session of Congress is in order to enact the peaceful transition of power, one of the most sacred tenants of democracy, and nothing we can do will convince them otherwise.
Dude just change the name! Can you imagine if you uploaded an app to the apple App Store that contained "Apple" in the name? They'd insta-shut you down.
Could a device like this use bluetooth instead of wifi / mac address?

Or for that matter could it somehow look at cell signals?
Sure, tidying your workspace might help. But how much? How could I take a methodical approach to tackling this problem? I'd like to actually see some data, or at least a dive into the underlying causes of brain fog. This is Hacker News after all.