jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I upgraded to a paid Historious account a couple of days ago and I just imported all of my 4000+ bookmarks from Delicious. What drew me to historio.us was the caching: I love the fact that all my bookmarks are cached.(1) Lately I've been trying to cut down on the information I consume so the lack of 'social' features doesn't really bother me -- right now I'm more interested in retaining the stuff that I've already bookmarked than in finding new stuff to read.

(1) It looks like pinboard.in has the same function for about the same yearly price.
I want to apologize to anyone I offended with anything I said in this thread.
They probably didn't have much of a choice on this one, strictly for legal reasons.
I first saw it today and I was about to thank the administration for this new feature when I realized that it was a user's (or bot's) comment.

The functionality is imho highly desirable, but a more dynamic solution (regularly updating the number of comments, for instance) would be a better implementation.
Pipes is a great example, with even more of a niche audience than any of the non-profitable Google products I can think of, aside from maybe Refine.
I agree that there's just a slight miss re: HN style and community behavior, and also think that it's a beneficial service. Does the robot update the comments automatically?

I wonder what people would make of you using your 'real' account with a note that it's a robot posting. On some sites this would be considered karma whoring, but maybe here it would get a better response?
The complexity of a system probably in use by Netflix comes from the number of instances and - most importantly - probably the number of accounts that they have. I strongly doubt all those instances they have are running on a single AWS account.

Agree that implementing similar system for a single AWS account is not going to be very difficult.
You kind of have to keep up a regular cadence of new content to get people to keep coming back. For instance, Coding Horror has had only 9 posts in the last six months. For the most part, I don't revisit programming/software dev blogs unless there is new content or there is something relevant that I want to go review again. Ergo, if you write most of your posts on the latest teacup-hurricane scandal or the newest version of X software/hardware product, you aren't going to get the kind of long tail that sustains page views when your posting rate slows down. On the other hand, if you are producing quality content that stands the test of time (something like lazyFoo's SDL tutorials comes to mind), then you are going to move up the search rankings on that topic, which will reinforce that long tail.
I sold cars for a month back in my early 20s. This article is spot on, right down to the training class and not knowing how much you REALLY make on each deal. Half of the customers wouldn't qualify and the other half didn't realize how math works so you can't get a $30k car for $300 when you are $2000 upside down on your trade with no money down.
Well, they do mention Pohl's evil twin, Frederik Phol (a soup nazi of the vietnamese persuasion)
Software engineers are out of focus. The focus is not the code, the focus is the end users. Great code that functions without logic (most of MSFT) is generally useless. Users should not have learn to a new vernacular nor change their logic use patterns to use a new software. Software that fails to reach users without extensive documentation is useless no matter how great it is.
Users should do the dreaming; software engineers should be limited to "making it so".
Moral to this article: anyone who can write prose can write code....
I like this idea a lot; I sent it to my fiancee and she liked it too so we will both be implementing it in some variation. Thank you! Btw, diction? On point.
I think if you've gotten to the point where you have to assume ignorance in somebody obviously well read just to feel right, you've made a mistake.

If you want a modern fictional take, try Richard Morgan's stuff. He shares Moorcock's suspicion of power and antipathy to Tolkein's reactionary political leanings. And he likewise avoids Tolkein's indulgence of Manichean ethical notions.
Popups are not the problem.
Sometimes common sense trumps data.

You dont need data to know that the sky is blue.

That being said parent did not help himself throwing statements out there without a foundation.

Here is what i believe he should have said:

CPI for goods fails in the following:

Accounting for changes in sizes and quality of certain products (i.e. instead of raising prices vendor will lower quality or amount of product )

Accounting for healthcare costs is fundamentally flawed. This only factors out of pocket costs when the majority of americans are effectively paying 80% of healthcare premiums via reduced grosd wages in the form of "employer contributions"

Accounting for substitutions of products in the cpi itself which are not reliable substitutes, or the exclusion of certain items (housing) which are clearly inflationary.

There is also a lot of criticism made for the boskin commision changes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boskin_Commission to cpi which messed with base prices and thus with true measurement of cpi.
Unfortunately IMHO this is horrible. Having a white-list/black-list of companies like this seems to give despotic power to the Minister and prime-time for corruption. Even if it can be gamed/biased (by both sides), I'd strongly prefer a general "by-metrics" like "search engines made by corporations over X millions" and then let the courts decide on abuse.
How is "we were hiding from the DOJ" supposed to make anything better, not much much worse? If this is what politicians making amends looks like, they're operating at a staggering baseline level of corruption.
I'm puzzled by your aggressivity. You obviously do not agree with my point, but there is no reason to be dismissive and aggressive.

Very sad to see how discussion is becoming impossible on a forum that aims to promote discussion and open mind. Good day.
"...Wu did not receive the Nobel prize for her contributions to the groundbreaking find."

It's damn time these horribly unfair Nobel Prizes were grossly overhauled or scrapped altogether and replaced with something better.

Time and time again we hear of the Nobel Prize committee making both questionable and unfair decisions by failing to award deserving people and instead awarding the Prize on political grounds rather than merit, and or overlooking people who made
significant contributions to a discovery such as Wu, or bypassing deserving mavericks who have upset the establishment but still deserve to be honored (Fred Hoyle for instance). The fact that Nobel Prize awards cannot be awarded posthumously is also an utter disgrace.

The Nobel Prize system is a bloody sham more reminiscent of an age of patronage than it was even suitable for the 20th Century let alone the 21st.

The way of fixing it would be for some other philanthropist to offer alternative awards based on a much fairer system. The Nobels could then be easily undermined if an alternative prize system offered much higher prize money to Nobel winners for them not to accept their prizes after they were awarded. If nothing else, the publicly alone would bring the Nobels into disrepute once the wider world knew the reasons.

I'm well aware that rules governing the Nobel Prizes are fixed in stone by Alfred Nobel's estate but if it wanted to then Sweden could easily legislate law to override this arcane unfair system.

It's a good start that at least the US Postal Service is honoring Wu.
I suspected it, thanks for confirming. What about fonts.googleapis.com, is it cached client side?
> We can build a classifier that would look at lots of pairs of successful movies and do some kind of inference on it so that it could learn what would be successful again. But it would be looking for patterns that are already existent. It wouldn’t be able to find that new thing that was totally out of left field.

Just a baseless assertion without any evidence.

There is no reason to assume you couldn't build a system that emulates whatever the human brain is doing there.
Nice victim blaming there.

So she was too dumb, and she got what was coming?

Or even worse, with the "if you don't want people to look at them" hint, perhaps she wanted this. Maybe deep down. Subconsciously or something.

That's a particularly classy form of victim blaming that. Doubly so since you created an account on HN specifically to post it.
I see no interactivity there. The mouse only shows the x and y coordinates. As I said, I am looking for examples where the data is manipulated. Mouse over that shows data values would also be interesting though.
Exactly, it's a stupid thing to say. It currently sells for "$450 on a 2 year contract" - this is why people end up paying insane amounts for mobile phones.

"Have you seen my phone, it was free." [ie £45 a month for 2 years]
> so many get rich trading forex ads all over the web
Anecdotally, as a publisher, the CPCs (cost-per-click) are quite high, likely to make up for low clickthrough rates.

In other words, it doesn't seem like many people are interested in it, but the forex shops must be making fairly good money when they get a new customer.

tl;dr it's high-margin and low volume in terms of actual customer counts.
Location: Seattle, WA (US)

Remote: Sure

Willing to relocate: Not currently

Technologies: Python, JavaScript, Perl, jQuery, Amazon Web Services (& the usual college exposure to Java, C++, etc)

Résumé/CV: https://careers.stackoverflow.com/daviross

Email: vgnessvg (at) gmail.com

I'm a former Amazon SDE who interned with IBM, and graduated from the University of Oregon.

I can show publicly released projects from my time at Amazon and can talk about my role and the challenges therein. I also spent 8 years in public speaking on a nationally-ranked level, so I'm comfortable working directly with people.

I'm eager to learn on the fly, so I'm willing to pick up any languages, frameworks, & domain-specific knowledge needed to ramp up on projects.
Github is totally replacing resume. But resumes will always be necessary to scale-up career beyond code-monkey to consulting and semi-management roles.
Could they not just support .snap or whatever the container as an app system of the day is?
Corporation are tools wielded by committees of people.

If you don't like the outcome, change the people.
You make $200k/m delivering cookies in two cities? That’s incredible!

Always amazed by these niche businesses that make bank
My first reaction was "this can't possible work", but it's interesting to think about.

I wonder how the market would price it.

If there was a "vaccination passport" in operation to let those vaccinated travel freely, I would be happy to pay up to 1/2K to jump-the-queue. It's a minor premium on the expense of an overseas summer vacation.

Would also be happy if part of the fee included a subsidy for low-income.

However, morally, I would prefer to wait for first-line responders and elderly at-risk to be prioritized with first doses. Which kind of leads us back to where we started with government prioritization.

Would be interesting to see how an SV startup revenue team would price it with their huge data points on pricing models. Worth an A/B test perhaps.
Once upon a time the world used money whose value the oligarchs and governments couldn't easily manipulate: gold (and gold certificates).

The outcome? Widespread poverty, depressions, wars, etc.

What makes you think that wouldn't happen again with Bitcoin?
Ever scarier they might have never worked in an embedded-anything environment.
At Lenus eHealth we have been following Cord closely for some time and can only vouch for the quality of their product! Been trying out the public API and is impressed with the progress so far.
Along the same lines: if your store has multiple locations, allow me to filter by location. Sometimes I don't care so much about the exact product (think audio cables), I just want to be able to go to the closest store and pick it up.
It had gone into too details about author's life and specific cities midway and I ended up with just the conclusion that there is some chaos between different parts of Apple Maps - Look Around, POI etc.

I also felt it was building towards something really interesting.

Perhaps it could have used less examples.
Hi Ethan, I see two primary use cases currently:

1. Applications which are read-heavy & serve fewer than 10,000 requests per second.

2. SaaS applications which can be sharded so that the largest customer uses 10,000 requests per second or less.

Once read-only replicas functionality is added, I'm also excited about globally-distributed applications where local servers can serve users with low-latency read requests. For example, you could run a high-traffic e-commerce site with 20 PoPs spread across the world for only $100/month. Customers in India could get the same fast response times as someone in the US. I think that's pretty compelling.
During the pandemic, I built a home gym in a spare space at home for a couple hundred dollars. I'm never paying for a gym again.
I have thought about this a bit.

It seems like you ought to be able to run your homeserver on local equipment, and tunnel connections out to a public/shared (e.g. AWS) server somewhere that exposes ports, so that the public host does not know any important secrets, and stores no important data.
I feel like worrying about GBoard reading your keystrokes is a little unnecessaru. If Google wanted to spy on your private conversations, they can find a way, even if you use a different keyboard. They... built the OS itself. Whether they can keep their meddling secret is another matter.
gargron (Mastodon dev)'s reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25697378
Maybe unrelated, but there's actually largely even distribution of anti-vaxxers between left and right. It's not an issue split by political affiliation. You could say the same about conspiracy theorists, but it'd probably be more difficult to poll/test.
I wanted to suggest exactly that! BunnyCDN with storage is nice and cheap. And the API is quite easy to use.
Imagine thinking this is related.
Man posts like this (and their updates which always remove features I use) are why I switched to Brave. Mozilla has been circling the drain for a while now, kept alive only by googles grace.

Despicable call to arms from a zombie company coasting off its earlier innovation.
One of the main reason modern concrete structures fail is because the are reinforced with steel, which expands when it corrodes causing cracks. Adding seawater to concrete used with steel reinforcement would cause it to fail much quicker. Many other kinds of reinforcement are available, but steel rebar is by far the most commonly used as it's cheap.

Roman concrete structures have little tensile strength and depends on compression to maintain their integrity, so their design is much more limited.
BTW: A few companies that make MR spectrometers for laboratory research sell 900 MHz systems, which are = 21 Tesla (and change).

People MRI's are a whole lot weaker than many research magnets out there, today.
In the Indian culture, it was also expected for the Priestly caste to shave their heads (with the exception of the shikha. Side note: when Brahmins would mourn for the death of their parent, they wouldn't shave the shikha, it would instead be left open & unknotted) - there's a certain traditional cultural cache in India with shaved heads.
> fewer and fewer young parents can afford to live in this area.

That is due to wage stagnation, not prop 13.
Lots of us would love to believe this, and yet what does the unrestrained private sector churn out? Ad networks, app addiction, gig economy, throwaway culture, urban sprawl, climate apathy... hardly a winner.

SpaceX is everyone's favourite private sector success story, but they're basically just a younger, leaner version of Lockheed— surviving off of NASA and doing what they're contracted to do.

I don't think the private sector is ever going to do ambitious things like build rail infrastructure all on its own, nor is the current PPP model necessarily the way either, but maybe there is some option out there to get things done which looks like the bakeoff that NASA held with CRS.
To follow that analogy, it'd be like BMW using an engine from Ford. Their whole selling point is the engines, and how they are different from other manufacturers.

I'm sure there are many backend libraries, parsers, etc. that are used by both Chrome and Firefox, but they're unlikely to replace significant components like that.
> I didn't get the same thing out of the comment you were responding to

This is my fault, as I was mostly paraphrasing what he said in other comments. So that's just lazy commenting on my part, and probably I deserve downvotes for it.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here, and certainly not on classic flamewar topics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My suspicion is the "SolarWinds" hack, which is of course more than just that piece of software now, has infected practically every noteworthy computer system in the nation.
Heat pumps have thermostats so they do not run at max all the time.

So if the heat pump without the miner use 1 kW to heat to room temperature it would need less than 1 kW with the miner to heat to the same room temperature. Plus as you say the COP increases.

So it could be that 5 degC to 22 degC requires 3 kW but the heat pump can do it with 1 kW (COP=3).

The miner use 0.9 kW to heat the the outside air to 11 degC. It would take 2.1 Kw to heat from that to 22 degC. But the heat pump now has a COP of 4 so it can do it with 0.5 kW.

So you lose 0.4 kW but gain bitcoins.

Or you could say that you get 2.25 as many BTC for the same electricity cost.
If you look at the background Casey was in, then his thought process becomes a bit understandable. He worked for a long time doing R&D at RAD Game Tools, which is a company that provided various game development middleware and tools. So his interests naturally gear more towards low-level game tools/systems development rather than high-level design and scripting, which is why he couldn't understand the value proposition of more widely-used monolithic game engines like Unity, Gamemaker, etc. (For example, his attitude towards actual gameplay code in Handmade Hero is "It's not my concern, I'll finish the engine and then someone else will fill the gaps").

Note that he almost did have experience in creating an actual full game by himself before, though he didn't publish it eventually since he was unsatisfied with the final product, which is quite absurd to me! (https://www.destructoid.com/he-worked-on-it-for-three-years-...) He also worked on The Witness team with Jonathan Blow and others, but mainly on engine programming. He is currently working on a new game called 1935 (along with his other myriad projects like Handmade Hero and Star Code Galaxy), but details about it are very, very sparse.
> "tying people down, strapping them into their chairs so that they can't do anything that hurts themselves -- makes things worse, not better."

Stallman could have been talking about censorship and deplatforming here and it still would have made sense. His (and my) generation seem to care a lot more about idealistic freedoms than we do now as a society.
> I see a lot of ways in which this is harmful to the cause.

I'm trying to understand your meaning. You went on to say:

> You can keep long-term goals in mind while also working towards smaller short-term goals. Almost every political party and lobby organisation in the world is doing exactly that.

But every example of such political parties/organizations I can think of (in my experience) has 'puritanical' wings that serve to establish the key direction.

> It's not explaining the message very well, it's actively turning people off, and it's preventing some free software from being as useful as it could be.

I was unable to follow your logic. Perhaps actual example of this happening would be useful.

> By focusing only on the endpoint you're actually doing more short-term thinking rather than playing the long game.

Forgive me, but it appears like you're focusing on practically achievable goals rather than having a long term plan. If Ubuntu continued along its current path of just partnering with vendors, only "they" being able to build the signed boot images that machines boot, then it is not unreasonable to suspect that at some point users will lose all ability to build their own kernel for their machine.
But if Stallman is actually pursuing the OP's idea of extending the Overton window, then he's specifically not trying to accomplish short-term goals. Other people can and should be working on those short-term goals. Stallman, meanwhile, is trying to stretch the playing field out far enough that the smaller goals seem very reasonable by comparison to the extreme that he creates.

I'm not sure that Stallman is intentionally positioning himself this way (he seems to sincerely believe his all-or-nothing stance), but I could see it actually working. The big problem with Stallman is that he has to be at least moderately credible in order to extend the Overton window, but he seems to perpetually be right on the edge of being completely dismissed. If that happens then the window snaps back shut.
So first you say Azov no longer exists, and then when you get called out for spreading disinformation, you write a text wall explaining why although the Azov Nazi's are very much still prevalent in Ukraine and fighting in this conflict, that it doesn't matter.

Interesting take.
Which current board members were there during the earlier drama that Dorsey is referencing? There are probably just a few that he’s really talking about, the rest are just a rotating cast.
Thanks for saying so.

In many (most?) ways, I think Wave was ahead of its time. We were ahead of the curve on collaborative technology. Modern CRDTs would have made the federation protocol so much easier. And it was really difficult to build a web app like that at the time.

I think we're getting close to the point where we could re-make wave if we wanted, on top of modern CRDTs and using modern web development practices. I'm not sure if the world is ready, but technically? We could make software like wave scream.
> what do governments want (many politicians use twitter as an official means of communication)

This needs to be changed; ideally governments would contribute directly into a digital commons directly from their own official web presence. We've had the answer since 2008 for this too - the federated social web.

public communications funded with public money should occur via public infrastructure. Twitter could be in the business of selling this (their hosted software on custom domains) to public agencies, institutions, groups, or anyone who just wants ownership of their own ActivityPub interoperable namespace.

EDIT: No one asked me but I just want to remind everyone here that Bluesky, a vaporware "protocol" initiative, is not doing anything of value.
1.9.2 was not a minor version bump.

Ruby indicates bug fix level changes with the patch level, so Ruby 1.9.1-p430 is compatible with the earlier 1.9.1-p429, but not entirely compatible with 1.9.2-p0.
Though it's not a great example, I think the assumption is that bakeries ARE an existing market for web design. Replace by "car sales" if it makes more sense to you. In my opinion there is something to getting to know specific small business markets and going after them with tailored info. Verticalising your offer if you like.

Then again, even bakeries can be fun. This UK design agency actually built a piece of countertop hardware for a bakery which, by the press of a button, would tweet that fresh bagels are ready.