jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Right. There are thousands of species of mosquito, most of which don't carry human diseases.

Of the ones that do, many of are of African origin -- they evolved there along with us (and the diseases they carry). They are thus essentially invasive species in the rest of the world.

The nice thing about potentially using CRISPR-based gene drives to extirpate (e.g.) Aedes aegypti is that it would affect only that species, unlike our current pesticides which tend to kill insects of many different species indiscriminately.
This is an incredibly complicated and abstract subject, yet you have somehow managed to boil it down into a sweeping generalization about the basics of media and reporting. Masterfully done.
The lack of portability of WhatsApp between the two mobile OS platforms is infuriating.

Of the three (WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal) I find WhatsApp to be the worst from a UX pov and Telegram the best.
Personally, I find this exodus of users from WhatsApp to be a good thing even for no other reason than having to deal less with their UX.

Signal is not much better UX wise, but at least it gives hope of being better because they have to compete and because they are open source. If they fail to bad at growing the project or providing the infrastructure, someone will eventually fork and setup a separate network. WhatsApp has no pressure. It is in Facebooks interest to eventually migrate everyone to FB Messenger.
You can completely silence all alarms on anesthesia and icu monitors, even though it's forbidden to do so. Or do you mean for the surgeon? Well, unfortunately not all surgeons come with an off switch.
Chicken manure is high in nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. By moving his birds behind his cattle, he is adding nutrients back into the soil that are being used by the crops that are grown afterwards. On top of that, the birds are scratching and spreading the cow manure which are full of other nutrients that are being removed by crops.
A) it’s true, B) why does the world need yet another currency? Why didn’t they partner with Bitcoin or Monero or LTC, or ETH, etc...
I don't think that is true. The build that is distributed through the site has the Play Store "features" disables and has other things like an auto-update mechanic. When built for the website the build config `PLAY_STORE_DISABLED` set to true.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/1f578ebd2c1...
Thank you! I wanted to reply last night but got rate limited. I've been questioning my side project recently (hence why no updates for a month) so hearing positive feedback from people does help motivate.
OP said no management positions:

> Only tech, I do not want to manage people.
Pypy isnt used that much because you may run into problems. And nobody wants to research strange runtime errors in production.

But the speed improvements would be welcome if they were in cpython because you can be quite sure there will be no problems.
Actually I loaded many programs onto my phone without RIM getting involved.

App World is just their attempt to copy the Apple "curated" model, with worse results. Access to the BB push infrastructure is a special case though.
Goodbye Blackberry.
One thing often overlooked is the social aspect of getting a degree (CS or otherwise) -- getting a CS degree will give you more opportunities to meet/get to know CS people. This has a soft benefit -- the people around you start to talk programming more (and you pick up a lot of casual knowledge from them). I think this is even more powerful than classes; it 'keeps you in the game' if you will. Of course, this works both ways (as you may lose connections to other people/majors because of this).
"Apple essentially has no consumer-level desktop outside of the iMac. For example, there's no "headless iMac" to select. "

I know they're expecting to compare a low-price tower, but I wonder why they didn't consider comparing the mac mini.
it really cracked me up that my comment was voted down so heavily ... especially given's Matt's point about how people misuse downvoting
Do they have an English website? Or should I just try to figure it out using Google Translate.
I don't think you are using the horizontal space well enough. Unless it's reserved for future adverts I'd like to see results in a table with colour coding of the table (i.e. all entity/special results in one column, "classic" style results in another).
Have you used it? I use it all the time now and can't go back to 3.6, despite the comparative bugginess of 4b7.
I was in this boat a little bit, working remotely for someone in an expensive city. Initially I was paid a little bit less, and probably still am, but not that much. But anyway, at one point my counter argument was: location is not the only factor. If you're not going to compensate people based solely on their performance, then you also need to include other factors, not only their location because it's not the only expense in life. One can have rich parents, and the other parents that need support, etc. One can be a single person, the other can have six kids. You can go on and on. If you go that road it will be hard to figure out any compensation because there are too many individual factors.

One other thing is: a company operating in an expensive market will itself be expensive. When they start paying the workers less, I doubt they will become less expensive. Basically somebody will just pocket this difference, most likely few at the expense of many.
There is a conceptual misunderstanding here. Raising the dose doesn't mean you have a higher efficacy, in fact it can just as easily have the reverse effect. Vaccines aren't beer where you consume twice as much and get twice as drunk.
“We did not enter the search business. They entered the phone business."

They aren't selling the operating system are they? therefore really the business is advertising, as it has always been with Google, and Apple has just entered that business.
Well, it's helpful to keep in mind the main goal here, which is providing young people with an education (and providing society with educated young people), not having the students produce brilliant original work (it's just a school assignment, after all). Being a little more pragmatic, rather than flunking half the students for a prolonged period, probably gets you further.

Of course students need to be thought that plagiarism is not ok, again the question is how to teach them best. The threat of big punishment is not necessarily an effective mean towards reducing "crime". The article also hints at the fact that the cause of the plagiarism is not so much malice, as difficult surcomstances, and a lack of knowledge/skill in students (though the main example around which the article centers, may not give a strong argument for this)
"... and had him take a look at some of my UML diagrams."

OK, so you give yourself only a month to launch a web-based startup and you spent some time... creating UML diagrams? I'm trying really hard not to be snarky here, but that immediately disqualifies you from writing blog posts about startup myths.

It sounds like you took the development process from your day job and applied it to your startup. But you're forgetting that these processes were designed to facilitate communication between larger teams. Which means you've given up one of the most important advantages of a smaller (even single-person) team.

Also, your version of a single-person startup is a straw man. No-one ever said being a single founder means breaking contact with the rest of the world.

As a single founder, here's my humble advice:

- You learnt a lot in this month. You'll learn new lessons on your next startup, whether you fail or not. Take some time to process it all while you think of your next startup. Maybe read some PG essays (Read them critically, the same way you'd read anything else. I'm trying not to sound like a fanboy, but his essays do have a high insight to noise ratio).

- Don't for one second deceive yourself into thinking a month of full-time work is enough. Even if you could complete all the coding in a month, things like SEO and just generally getting traction take much more patience. You said: "...get the first core part of my service in working order, and profit". Know that the road between a working service and profit is very long.

- If you need a Chief Architect or a DBA to evaluate your technical design decisions, you're probably not ready to be a single founder. Try to get more design experience in your job, or team up with someone who has complementary skills for your next startup. As a single founder, time spent talking to people means mostly talking to customers, not other technical people.

- Your article seems to be pretty focused on just development, I guess because you never even got to beta. You'll have an entirely new perspective on things once you launch a service and come to the shocking realisation that customers don't magically appear. Most startups don't fail for lack of technology.

- Have you given up on your idea now, before even giving it a chance to prove itself in the market? Then you had the wrong idea. An idea you really believe in is one you'll only give up on after serious repeated attempts to get customers deliver no results.
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I just typed that into my browser and up came that ugly horror...

I'm mostly using firefox search these day but boy, this thing is awful...
They don't write their own firmware though, they buy it from one of a few places that hopefully know what they're doing.
Ah interesting theory - it's a sort of product segmentation at work. I could buy that.
This video is also a great way to get up to speed on Erlang: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyVvGjNjBOA
If you're interested in some well thought out commentary related to this type of thing, check out:
http://earthblognews.wordpress.com
Huge may be an overstatement... http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/v...
Elon literally said as much during a previous earnings call. They were going to make it polarizing and then walk it back to a more conservative design if sales were too low.
This is awesome!! I'm gonna try running a dinner party in my area. Proposed menu:

Hickory-smoked pork ribs

Yam Champloo (yams w/nuts&fruit&otherstuff)

Coconut-Squash Soup

Stir-fry & brown rice

Fried spicy banana peppers
It's almost surely your imagination, even if other people have had the same experience. By the way, I have the same experience.
Well there's Vimeo, and a thousand dodgy sites where you can share copyrighted videos. But of course they don't have the audience of YouTube.

In the past 10-15 years I've grown increasingly uncomfortable with the de facto centralization of the web. It's especially blatant and ironic with a site like GitHub.

I'm not sure what the solution is. Maybe something like RSS, now that non-geeks are getting used to the idea of podcasts.
Not sure I understand the point. How does anyone know what their usage habits are going to be like in 10 years time? That's part of what I mean by the government framing the debate so poorly. If they are stupid enough to set a benchmark of what the future shall be like - then it's their own fault if people start complaining that what they are being offered doesn't match that benchmark.
That you have never once been forced to install ubuntu without an ethernet connection suggests that it is YOUR picture in which there is something wrong!

I mean, when I think back on the late-afternoon reinstalls I would do in the middle of class in a lecture hall... Sure, I could have waited until later, but I ask you what kind of a geek would I be then!?
Because it was not mentioned until now, one of the following might probably come in handy:

- Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists by Benjamin C. Pierce (from "Types and Programming Languages" fame)

- Practical Foundations of Mathematics, by Paul Taylor (has other interesting work on his homepage as well; http://www.paultaylor.eu/~pt/prafm/; somebody on HN pointed me to it, thanks!--Chapters 4,5,7)
That wikipedia entry is useless, there's numbers but not the numbers anyone actually would need.

This seems a little more useful: http://toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/Fluoride+Content+in+T...

Apparently tea can have up to ~10x as high a Fluoride concentration as municipal drinking water.

Also, there seems to be a case of a woman who developed bone fluorosis after consuming several gallons of double strength instant tea a day for a considerable time.

So potentially it could be a concern but in practical terms it's unlikely to be a problem. If you're concerned I'd study which teas have the highest Fluoride levels (it's dependent on region and type of tea), determine whether your municipal tap water is also Fluoridated, and crunch some numbers to make sure you're nowhere near unsafe Fluoride consumption levels.
http://github.com/rohityadav/cmakeqt
a qt-cmake example, with features like cross compiling, packaging, translations etc.
The expensive mistake was to use Amazon at all. An own domain name costs about $1/month, an OVH root server less then $10. Install a minimal Debian and Linux Containers on it, and expand your own cloud, if you need it, e.g. by extending with cheap Hetzner servers.
Yes, that.

And the people jumping between the definitions mid-sentence are doing so because they don't understand what they are talking about. And by uttering such sentences, contribute to others misunderstanding too.
It would be really stupid to mine bitcoins. I assume they were mining litecoins or some other more GPU/CPU friendly coin.
Amazon support told me (at least the ones spun up on my account), where indeed bit-coin miners.
I've been a PHP developer for years, and recently switched jobs from a place where we were proactive in ALWAYS upgrading to the bleeding edge PHP, MySQL and, when possible, CentOS version.

Now I'm at a place that has VERY loosely managed code where they virtually cannot upgrade some sites without a rewrite. They're on an old version of PHP 5.2 and MySQL 5.0. I'm doing all I can to get everyone there to understand the issues with legacy software, but it's a tough battle. Thankfully, I've got new code and features running the latest PHP and MySQL versions, it'll be several (many) years until all of it's managed enough to be upgradable.

I can also say I've always thought the PHP complaints were unfounded -- no real company doesn't understand OOP, datatypes, etc. Yeah... I completely understand now. It's a fun challenge putting good, solid standards in place and moving a horrid codebase into a great one, though.
I don't believe it's pedantic to see a difference between the words "reduce" and "remove".

No, but it's pedantic to generalize "remove errors" to "remove all errors". Actually, scratch that. It's just plain wrong.

Far better to build a redundant system that is prepared for the errors instead of building an efficient system expecting no errors.

Redundant systems only deal with certain classes of errors. You're making the same mistake you accuse the author of making.
But that's not what this article says. They're claiming the air force requesting a new manned fighter is evidence it failed.

Meanwhile the F-35 is explicitly designed to control swarms of unmanned drones.
It's trivial to turn off the wireless on your phone. If you want privacy in this day and age it's not going to be convenient. The difference is I can't turn off my face.
NO. Relying on SecureRandom is riskier than writing the 5-10 lines of code it takes to read from urandom. Prefer urandom to SecureRandom.

Look what "many eyes" did for the Harmony PRNG.
Congrats to FB for donating their engineering resources to helping Wikipedia. How do we make this more the norm for large corporations with talent? Something akin to Google's 10% time but with a social-good focus? It might help silicon valley's reputation in a larger sense.
yes, but it's still not in any way adding to the discussion.
It’s actually no code
Tell that to the people of Texas.
What are some of the typical scenarios you have seen? Any unusual sources? How do you handle custom sources or destinations?
How about for the next Tunguska event?
I like this idea, but I imagine it could be seen as anti competitive for Google to do this... I know it would motive me to use an Android phone, but that might not help Google case of being a none monopoly player... Also I could see Apple firing back by removing Google as their primary search engine inversely impacting Google search ads revenue... So definitely I think Apple has the upper hand. Although I do not believe Apple is honest in their privacy stance... Native apps IMO are far far less private then a browser application...
K8s absolutely has a steep learning curve, but it feels like we always focus on the most complex setups and use cases so that we can admire the shiniest new features.

If you're going from "our app is running directly in tomcat in our on-prem data center" to "we want to move to a mirco-services architecture with a service mesh, canary deployments, multi-cluster observability, fault injection, automatic global failover, etc...", you're almost certainly going to have a bad time.

I really like the concept of "innovation tokens" [0] here. Pick one or two big innovations at a time and don't add more until you're comfortable with what you have. Get your app running in docker first, and then get it running in a basic k8s setup first instead of leapfrogging to the more advanced stuff. Chances are if you didn't need a service mesh for your original non-k8s deployment, you probably don't need one for the v1.0 first pass of your k8s rollout.

[0]https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
Another quote from Carl Sagan:

For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.

We invest far-off places with a certain romance. The appeal, I suspect, has been meticulously crafted by natural selection as an essential element in our survival. *Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game, none of them lasts forever. Your own life, or your band's, or even your species, might be owed to a restless few, drawn by a craving that they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands, and new worlds.*

Herman Melville in Moby Dick spoke for wanderers in all epoch and meridians. He said, "I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas."

Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds, promising untold opportunities, beckon. Silently, they orbit the sun. Waiting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH3c1QZzRK4
That's correct. It's basically a loan that will be auto-forgiven. But publishers aren't dumb and they scale advance sizes to ensure they rarely lose any significant amount of money. For technical books, my impression is that advances are quite small or non-existent.
Route 53, S3 storage, load balancer, everything is encouraged to work other AWS services! Smells much like what MS was doing. Don't get me wrong, it is more open than Google Cloud and Azura.
It seems like a good alternative to raspberry pis. We use these types of small computers to power dashboards, and frankly the Pis are a pain to set up for this purpose. I hope the Chromebit works well for just loading a website.
You're right `h :: a -> c`.
sorry to sound like the hippie, but doesn't the official metric is mostly influenced by monetary institutions? which generate none of your grandiose example (science, production, etc)
I suspect we're going to wind up as a 1 cheap car (for long out of town trips) + 1 electric bicycle household. I can deal with that. Even if we're near the trolley, it barely goes anywhere. Alternately I might see how life is relying on car2go and then decide whether I really need to own a vehicle. I really, really don't miss having a car.
We are awash in energy, that's not the problem. The problem is in capturing that energy and that energy comes in many forms and only oil currently allows you to project power on a global scale.

"It's raining soup, and all we have is forks"

And energy prices for say electricity could be going down while energy prices for petroleum could be going through the roof. Utility pricing for energy is historically coupled to the oil price but that won't be sustainable as an ever larger chunk of the energy consumed electrically is generated by renewables or nuclear.

The big wildcards are:

- ITER

- further dramatic reduction in solar panel pricing

- mass transportation using electricity

- battery technology

- the first successful long range electrical airplane
1) Crowdfunded dollars are better than VC dollars.

2) Most large crowdfunding campaigns are from already successful companies.
Other issues folks frequently skip over are legal complications and benefit differences between countries.

If the salary is the same, but an employee in one country has 5 weeks vacation (legally required), but another has 2 weeks, is that equal pay for equal work?

What about when one country says that, if an employee quits (not terminated), the employer must continue paying them for another 3 months anyways? Is this the same carrying cost as employment in a state with at-will employment?

Another somewhat related topic is that if you employ a single employee in some states, your company may have to pay additional taxes because you now have a “presence” in that state. Do you pay them the same, even though their “carrying cost” could be prohibitive for the business?

This is not an endorsement of any particular approach, just surfacing that things are not as cut-and-dry as they are presented.
The "arrest" was that they said he was arrested when they detained him for 12 minutes or so. That might count as one technically for legal purposes, but it's hardly what most people would consider an "arrest."

The article makes much of the idea that they "make a suspicious activity case" but the fact is that they didn't fabricate anything, they dropped the matter when they saw it was unrelated to any criminal activity.

This may not be constitutional, but a norm of not cooperating with law enforcement is a terrible one that leads only to further bad outcomes. If this guy had simply given his real name and said what he was doing--despite not being required to--he likely would've kept his phone and not wasted so much time.

Maybe things have changed since I was last in Des Monies, but I don't see this case going anywhere with a jury.
It's strange that they are comparing output size without passing --minify to esbuild. Why compare the size of the debuggable output?

And if you care about output size, you would also need to pass --define:process.env.NODE_ENV=\"production\" to esbuild since the benchmarks include React, and you don't want to bundle both the debug and release versions of React at the same time.
Hah. While the fake garage he set up is a clear loss for the public, it is actually quite ingenious.
This is exactly what I'm complaining about. Completely anecdotal measures of stuff that truly doesn't matter, while ignoring actual data that shows the company being wildly successful.
Who would have thought private industry was better than government at things.
Windows 3.1 was the pinnacle of Windows -- seriously I think they went in the wrong direction with 95 and we may never recover.
United Artists for music. I wonder what would happen if Taylor Swift took this on as a project?
Do you have an alternative metric? I suppose we could count jobs created. My experience in the Bay Area is that as long as exits >> (funding * 2), it means that there are non-investors making some money and going on to create additional opportunities (sort of the criticality threshold for entrepreneurism).