jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The media really seem to love pushing downright naive logistical assumptions trying to make online shopping a villain while expecting us to believe our own cars and brick and mortar store's logistics run on pixie farts. You never see them talking about the impact of junk mail.

To be frank at this point it feels like they are trying to extort ad money to stop negative press coverage.
Microsoft is the enterprise company. Google never was.
> faster on average

What kind-of time measurements? What kind-of average?

This chart shows some time measurements:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

:and the geometric mean is faster for the C++ programs, but the median seems faster for the rust programs.

Statistical artifacts?
That's true, but you have to also realize that Nixon looks wrong on TV in general. Maybe they did too good of a deep-fake. ;)
Sure, and I doubt you would take someone to court over most definitions of vandalism. But I could pretty easily argue that when they affixed it to my car it scratched the clearcoat resulting in $XXX of damage.

CLEARLY he's not going to counter-sue, but it's ridiculous to claim it's THEFT when you violated my privacy/trespassed on/against my property while affixing the thing to my property (without a warrant) in the first place.
Personal choice is a very small aspect here. Americans can not choose to have lower carbon cement, steel, manufacturing, shipping, airliners, etc. Yes, we can do a lot by not flying ourselves, buying less items, eating less meat, but at the end of the day: MOST of our solutions are going to come from corporations and government.
I like the Fiat Multipla! It is cute, it looks like a beluga. De gustibus...
Why go to a different site? You can see the "hivemind, circle jerk communities" phenomenon right here. I'm not trying to be cynical but HN certainly displays the same criticism you levy on reddit (as does apparently any community that allows voting).
The Semiconductor industry is driven by major market economic forces, like most. It's not terribly volatile. If you sell capital equipment to the semi makers, though, there's a compounding effect that makes the annual revenue for equipment makers very volatile. There are few Semi players, and their capital spend $s are huge and 'lumpy'. As in $10B for a new, state-of-the-art fab. 70% of that $10B is spent on capital equipment. There are very few players that can spend at that level, Intel, TSMC, Samsung & the Chinese government. What you wind up with is the spend schedules being grouped together in time. I.e., they all buy at once. Or, they all stop buying at once.

The most recent roller-coaster peak was actually driven by technology innovation. NAND Flash chips were made via a '2D' process until about 2016 when '3D' processes were perfected. That meant many more bits of flash could be built for the same real estate on the chip. It also required many more deposition and etch process steps for the same output. This drove Samsung, Micron and Toshiba to all spend huge $ on equipment at the same time in order to capture market share in this new tech. Then, they realized they'd overbuilt and turned off the spend.

The end result: Our business was +90% 2016-2017. Then -60% by mid-2018.

We thought it had stabilized from 2010-2016. But in reality, the consolidation of players simply made the spend numbers larger and we got clobbered by 3D NAND. Next up, COVID. There will be a cliff, only question is when.
The WSJ paywall link doesn't work for most HN readers. This one does by following a google search referer.
Nim. http://nim-lang.org/tut1.html
JavaScript apps have been broken for a couple weeks now with links to things like:

http://twitter.com/mattyglesias/statuses/7.1157195777E+15
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/google...
My favorite Google "No comment" response is still their response to Randall Munroe about his analysis of how big their data centers are:

https://youtu.be/I64CQp6z0Pk?t=2m59s
I wonder if something like that is implemented in 3D printers.
From my perspective, it's generally the working culture (long working hours) of the country/city/communities that make people "shut-in" - not the fact they order online. What choice you have if you work from 8 am to 9 pm? I assume delivery guys would be "shut-in" as well if their job obligations wouldn't take them outdoors.
On the one hand, he spends an entire multiple-page blog article mentioning reasons why he thinks the general quality of the site is poor, none of which have any direct connection to the TSA. On the other hand, he mentions the TSA by name twice. Which is more likely to be his primary concern?

I'm sure that if you try hard enough, you can read hidden, shameful motives into everything people write, but it's damn rude to use that as an excuse for ignoring what they actually wrote.
From the linked 'seeing yellow' site:

"They are present in both color printers and copiers but do not show up in pages printed in black-and-white mode."
Don't discount the chance that this was caused by two totally different 'once in a lifetime' chain of events... i've seen it happen.

However, as you point out it is far more likely that there are architecture or implementation issues that caused the repeated outages.

There are so many reasons that I don't want to have servers in California... high costs, dense population vulnerability to earthquakes and a hot terrorism target. Massive bandwidth but massive utilization, somewhat shaky power grid, heck even the state has financial issues. I picked Atlanta for my Linode server which is better (it's still a little close to the coast for me) and I host my WordPress sites at a company in Dallas, TX. Did you know texas has their own power grid - separate from the rest of the USA?
pssst... don't scare the crowd in their comfortable zone :)
With 4gb, it won't do well, from experience.

FreeNAS, which is generally the set and forget ZFS option, wants 1gb per Tb of data, but can cope with 1gb per 3tb. It's more of a cache issue with the Cluster and drive size.

IIIRC, 6gb or 8gb on FreeNAS enables the read ahead caching and a few other tweaks. But it's still not fast.

Once the initial file write/read cache is empty, you get the regular throughout, which is 5-12mb /sec on a slow system, basically however fast the CPU and HDD can search for and supply the data in surges.

setting up a HP N54L microserver with 5x 4tb drives and the standard 4gb, (getting the compatible non registered ECC DDR is ridiculous), Gigabit transfers just slow down to USB v1 speed. Booting up with 16gb ECC, I get 85mb/sec Gigabit transfers with no problems.

For a box that's job is storing movies and TV, music and photos for plex, it doesn't have to do a lot. Transcoding would be nice, but not worth the extra. All up, 20tb was $1500,$400 on top of the wddriveWD red NAS drives.
No, it'd be like calling Zhongguo University "China University." Can you see how that is qualitatively different?
DRM is not the reason youtube uses flash, browser support and feature usage. HTML5 video APIs are still frustrating to use compared to flash's pretty well built-out mechanisms.
That's not a bad thing, just someone capable of a really big startup stuck with one going sideways could be a bad thing.
Ok, I want a lesson on this.
@tenzwarszawy
It will really depend on how well Google accomplishes their goal. If it becomes a money sink, it won't be a revolution. Part of the reason Google is doing this is to get first hand knowledge of the costs and challenges.
Any mailing list I can get on for notifications about that? I'd be all about a seersucker short-sleeve button-down or something.
I left one just a second ago
Absolutely.

They won't do it for application/xhtml+xml, so if you want to see this in action, try sending your page as text/html and then application/xhtml+xml. You'll notice that the XML-based page seems glacial.

(Why does this happen? Who knows. I have been using streaming XML parsers since like 1990...)
What struck me as disappointing about Facebook is that, despite my friends being an interesting bunch, I could never seem to provoke any kind of discussion on Facebook. It seems that most of the people I had a connection with view Facebook as a broadcast only medium (or at most, a case of comment once then move on).

It may be wrong to generalize about the people using them, but social networks seem to have the net effect of stifling discourse in my experience. I'm not sure why this is, and I'd rather it wasn't the case.
I'm just curious, but this is not similar to IE css filters, right?
People are forgetting about Pavlov and the basic idea of 'image' or 'brand', sacred to advertising. When I think about searching something on the internet, I subconsciously think about a blank Google search page. If that's no longer an option, I am no longer going to use Google by default. (Forget that I know that Google is a better engine. Now I'm thinking -- maybe I should try Bing, and see what advantages it has.)

People working on search and UX at Google probably think about Bing much more than the millions of people who use Google regularly. And thanks to Google's attempt to prematurely optimize (forcing people to try a new background based on local maxima tests), they've now accelerated the long curve of leveling the playing field.

Basic psychology 101 though. Same thing applies to other tech companies. Tread very lightly around any type of modifications to the core feature set and always make it optional at first.
Well, he did create git. Not that your point isn't valid, just pointing out Linus is actively helping forward progress.
I see, so noone can explain the details.. I thought they opened up the nda policy a bit.
doh... didn't dawn on me that this could be return... too many airline websites!
Junk science peddler.
Wonder if slightly EV with a working range extender would be economical alternative for off-grid situations. These often seem to be cheaper than dedicated battery system + range extender is probably better weather resistant than regulator gensets.
> you should consider switching from... Google Maps to OpenStreetMap

I've looked into it, but there is very, very little in OpenStreetMap in my area. And I do not have the time, resources, or expertise to map out my entire area enough to make it useful myself. I would like to contribute to the project, but switching over entirely just isn't an option for me.
What is stated is absolutely true...
Yeah but can we go there?
I don't speak for everyone as situations differ. In my case, I'm not just writing long-form English prose, but I write technical articles that need stuff like <var>/<sup>/<sub>/<code>/<abbr>, decent control over block structure, custom-styled content, and lightly interactive content. You'd have browse my website to see examples of my existing work and why raw HTML works much better for me than Markdown/AsciiDoc/troff/etc.
5. is like this tweet that suggests there was an engineer that worked at both Google and Facebook simultaneously.

https://twitter.com/arrington/status/1311520168200163328?s=2...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24650817

The issue is that this thread is suspicious, says 'a friend of a friend' so there's literally no way to verify this as being real. It got 20k likes on twitter so it might have just been a made-up tweet to garner a day of fame.
A great many people spent a great deal of time and effort making unions seem like a bad deal. However, the underlying truth is unions are till useful for Actors making millions of dollars on a movie let alone FAANG programmers.

The core misunderstanding is unions adjust to the conditions of the workers they represent. Collective bargaining is hated by upper management because it shifts more power to the workforce be that someone making minimum wage or millions. People think great healthcare when they should be thinking more worker friendly stock vesting schedules and other issues that impact highly compensated individuals.
It's actually pretty easy, you just have to DMCA the service the image is actually hosted on.
To stress your point, hubiC supports the OpenStack API to access your storage: https://api.hubic.com/
Was there some specific case you're referring to, or are you making broad sweeping generalisations?
What are the expected use cases?
Curious how C# is up but .NET is down. Are they differentiating between .NET Core and .NET Framework?
code2flow already does that, albeit for flowcharts only. https://code2flow.com/
Most people don't know Java as well as they think they do.
Some months ago I sat in a meeting to discuss design and implementation details for a medicine delivery system. The fact that it was about medicine I thought it would be obvious to everyone that we would have to use a relation database with ACID properties. Last thing we want is to send medicine at best effort, I assumed everyone would be on the same page on the need to use transactions, foreign keys and all other data integrity mechanisms baked into relational databases. I was taken aback when the app developers really could not understand why we needed to use a relational database. A document database was going to be fine. Needless to say it was a long meeting and I wasn't invited back.
I believe for many years, that kind of supply/demand relative comparison typically determined that COBOL was the skill to have :)

I've been on projects with COBOL (yay!:), and there's always a complete dearth of skilled people...
They likely have probable cause that they used for a search warrant. I doubt there's much evidence for possession.
This.

If you are putting your secret sauce in the PCB, you’ve already lost. Doesn’t matter if your board is one later or twenty.
"Following the initial declaration of 'functional extinction' in May, Christine Adams-Hosking, a conservationist at the University of Queensland, penned an article for The Conversation more accurately outlining the fate of the koala in Australia. In it, Adams-Hosking made it clear the functional extinction tag was one likely applied with a little too much haste. In a study conducted in 2016, a collaboration of researchers attempted to quantify how many koalas were left, but it's a complex game."

https://www.cnet.com/news/koalas-are-not-functionally-extinc...
There seems to be some confusion between a population becoming extinct and a whole species becoming extinct. More information here. [1]

[1] https://theconversation.com/a-report-claims-koalas-are-funct...
Honest to god answer? I think this would be hard to sell to most companies as a consultancy.

Rarely will you get a broad enough mandate to actually pull it off (based on your description). The other problem is entirely custom solutions put companies off because they then have to rely on your for support (one lucrative area that I do consultancy is supporting such programs for companies silly enough to go that route :) costs 'em a fortune). A custom solution sounds expensive from a companies perspective; both in cost but also in development time.

But most importantly the concept of "data liberation" and custom built databases are just not really on the commercial radar at the moment. Selling it to them could be pretty time consuming. To give you an example Im currently working with a company that are doing some pretty cool things - they've asked me to work on expanding their web app and database. It's a total mess and I have suggested a complete redesign which will cost about the same and be a lot easier for the both of us; they are resisting like hell...

(this is purely my opinion ofc, YMMV)

Not to put you off; but it is worth considering it from this perspective now rather than later. To answer your questions:

Where should I look for my first client?

People you know. I started contracting through a friend who, via religious connections, had a lot of eager clients/friends with work. However based on your description this is probably a very hard market to sell to.

Would I have to link up with an existing consulting firm or can individuals find success in this space?

Depends how much success you want - but I would say no. The resources and tools (legal templates, time tracking, invoicing) are now freely available on the web with a little looking. The only real need you may have is getting a foot in the door with large corps (which strike me as your target market).

Is this even a problem that businesses acknowledge?

See above. I suspect you will have to work pretty hard to sell this as a concept - at least initially.
pretty sure I wrote this, except I'm 34, not 23.

It's so easy to be all talk and no work. No one will make your dreams come true for you. If you let yourself be held back, at least be honest with yourself and admit you're doing it to yourself.

No one but you will make you succeed in achieving your dreams. Trust me. I'm wondering where the years went, and all my cool domains names lay there, half completed.

As for practical advice, if you feel the need to relax, try watching movies you've already seen, and working while they are on in the background. For me, it's The Goonies and CB4. Anything you know like the back of your hand, so you're entertained, but can fade in and out of paying attention and keep on cracking on the work. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. This works especially well with "gruntwork" but it's probably not going to be something you want to do when really working on new, core aspects. There you just need to buckle down and do it. And if you don't... well, then you want to eat cheesy poofs and lay around more than you want this other dream.

How you spend your time _is_ your dream. You might not like your dream, but there it is. In the long run, we all end up with the level of productivity we want, and that we deserve.

I don't mean to be negative, but having your hand held and being told it's OK isn't what you need. You need to get your ass in gear. So do it.

Take a sick day to get started if you feel like you can't get started on the weekend. Get the ball rolling. Do whatever you have to do to get started, or you'll end up where you deserve - nowhere near your goal.

You have to make it happen.
That's why i'm more productive when i know there's school the next day.

A few things that helped me:

1. Making a list of productive things to do and start doing one of them. If you notice you're starting to procrastinate, choose something else from the list that seems to be more enjoyable to do. This way, you might not finish what you planned to do, but you would still have done something productive and you won't beat yourself up for procrastinating. Then just cycle through the list and eventually you'll end up doing everything on the list.

2. If there's a very boring task that i need to do, i just tell myself i'll do some work for 5 minutes and then do something else, but once i get started i'll probably work until i get the task done.

The only thing that really bothers me is when i have very productive days followed by a sequence of very unproductive days. It feels like i have some sort of bi-polar. Does anyone else experience something similar?
Once burglars figure out what it is, they will use it to their advantage.
I'm sure this sounds disappointing, but basically there's nothing you can do other than start.

I've been giving this same advice to others, and I have started, but like edw519 said, I'm using the spreadsheet as an excuse.

Thanks eelco.
Small note: it could be conditioning but you also do need "mental recovery" time
Did you do a show HN?
Great question and it does make you think. I did notice the story quickly made the front page with very little up votes or maybe I just don't understand the ranking algorithm that HN uses.
I would argue that having your own company just shifts the control from your boss to your customers.

Absolutely. But, personally, I would find that preferable. There's a big difference from having to be accountable and responsive to "the market" in the aggregate (and especially when you consider that you can "fire" a bad customer) and having a "boss" - one individual who has you under his/her thumb and can unilaterally order you around.
Exchange administrators usually disable IMAP. K-9 originally was one of the few apps that could still talk to Exchange servers. But it's failed to keep up with the times.

Currently you have to allow "less secure apps" on your Google account to use K-9.
I'm very back-end oriented (read basically 0 design knowledge and 0 knowledge of design tools). Whenever my friends wanted to show me something on Figma or I had to sketch something on Figma I strongly disliked it. I get overwhelmed in the interface and have no idea how to do some basic stuff. I think that's mainly because there are too many options, when really I just want to do some basic stuff.

I just tried doing some quick sketches in Penpot for a project I was working on, and found the interface way better for my use case. Granted that I didn't spend a lot of time in Figma or Penpot, but for the amount of time I've spent in each app, Penpot seems superior to me in terms of usability for my use cases as someone who just needs something quick and simple.
That's probably not a wholly fair characterization. Part of the takeaway is that the perpetrator had a sophisticated palate and spent a lot of time mixing already high-end (but not $thousands/bottle) wine to work out the recipes.

I'm as skeptical as anyone that someone can distinguish between a $2k and $200 wine. But to someone that drinks wine daily, the difference between $6 and $60 wine (red, of similar varietal and style) is pretty dramatic. Yeah, some rich guys got suckered, but I don't think they were chumps.
We're all somebody else's chump
I have lots of empty 2 liters Coca-Cola bottles without any idea what to do with all that garbage. If it would be possible to buy it in 5 liters bottles, that size is much more reusable.
Science is something you should use, learn, study but not trust or believe. If you're looking for something to believe, maybe religion is possibility, science should continually be tested.

Science is important because you know it can be wrong. It evolves when mistakes or errors are found, not when it is confirmed.
Police unions have so much power that they’d force cities to cover them completely.
Right the algorithm ofc takes “fairness” and “user experience” as its training inputs no doubt
I think you're making a bit much over a phrase.

True, no matter how long something has settled in science, it can be overturned by more evidence (hence Newtonian gravity, once quite well settled eventually be doubted then disrupted by GR). But, even given that, it's still true that science on a topic may be presently settled.

So, it seems to me, more import than dismissing every use of the phrase is to judge the context of how it's being used. If it's being used to dismiss the presentation of evidence or anomalies ("hey, it seems odd the Mecury's orbit doesn't quite fit the prediction") then the phrase is absolutely being abused.

But if instead it's being used to dismiss a claim that lacks any evidence ("the apple falls because the earth is flat and accelerating upward due to the giant turtles it rests on"), then the phrase is better applied.
Reminds me of how we had Windows 98 computers at school which required an administrator password to access the internet, else the system was limited to a few applications. We managed by opening a text editor or Word or whatever, file -> open, right-click a file, Explore which gave you access to the file system. Typing in an URL in the address bar changed windows explorer to internet explorer (a feature which MS later had to pay a fine and a browser selection window for), and huzzah, internets!