jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What does meeting people have to do with anything?

It's pretty straightforward to figure out what the costs are of an UberX or Lyft driver, knowing their car model and year and also knowing how much they drive. These are facts, and they can be calculated once and held to public scrutiny and review. There's no need for everyone to redo that calculation.

Now that we have something that can be calculated, we can move forward based on reason, without having to decide which of two assumptions we prefer.
Advantages of having a common set of conventions might not be apparent if you look at them through the lens of a single ISA (x86 in your example); however, if you consider that porting UNIX and a C compiler to a new hardware architecture was everyone's favourite pastime back in the day, having the $ and % conventions greatly helped with reducing the cognitive load and shielding the engineer from quirks and idiosyncrasies of new assembly languages / ISA's.

Registers can have vastly different names across hardware architectures, e.g. they could be named r0, g0, gr1, f2, Motorola 68HC16 has registers named X and Y, or simply numbered register names have been used as well (if my memory serves me well, the IBM System 360 ISA was the most egregious example where LD 1,1 meant load a constant of «1» into the register number 1, albeit I can't remember in which the order). Then there are widly varying processor specific control register names, e.g. i860 had «psr», «epsr», «db», «dirbase», «fir», «fsr», «kr», ki», «t» and «merge» control registers in the ISA, whereas the PDP-11's own processor status word (PSW) was mapped to the 177776 address in the hardware and PSW was a widely used (but not mandated) MACRO-11 preprocessor alias that had to be manually defined in every assembly file.

Also, the register window SPARC architecture utilises names gN for global registers and lN for local registers, and with C compilers habitually emitting jump label names that start with a «L», without the help of extra semantic cues, it would not be immediately obvious whether ld l0, l0 meant «load the address designated the label named l0 into a register named l0», or «store the contents of the register named l0 into an address the label l0 refers to» (I am stretching the SPARC example a bit here to highlight my point as it has a load/store architecture). Therefore seeing a $ was an immediate «heads-up, a constant is about to follow» and, likewise, seeing a % indicated a upcoming register name. It certainly has helped me quite a bit with squickly settling into a new architecture by skimming over assembly outputs of C compilers and assembly parts of UNIX kernels.

AT&T conventions were rather widely applied across for some time, but it appears that they are less frequently followed nowadays.
> A large part of the list is ‘they cooperate with X that I don’t like’ ‘X that I don’t like works there’ and similar conjecture.

Exactly. By this standard I should not buy my food from any grocery store on this planet because they sell cereal sold by Nestle which want's private ownership of water that I'm against. This type of logic is not scalable in the least.

Edit: spelling
> No, I did not.

The person I was replying to said it. You asked why I was rude to them.
Yes I do, I wasn't disagreeing with you. I just thought 'bills and stuff' was amusing and not the first use that would come to my mind.

So yes I already had and used that space for 'personal stuff', (well actually I mostly worked from home anyway there too) but I do understand there's still an argument that it's nice to have a physical divide between work (employed work) and other. I definitely sit there working longer (or going back to work later) than intended sometimes.

When I want to be doing something else, but work's still on my mind or have some sudden realisation, and all work stuff is right there too so it's too easy to 'just quickly' do.

I don't know, there's no perfect answer, sometimes it really is quick and I'd rather get it done and off my mind (easily, because again, it's all right there) than it be harder or tomorrow.
I think the problem here is you have two complicated things to solve, both hardware and software and you're trying to do it with out too much money.

A small hardware project on its own might be doable.
An "unstable society" and "high inflation" or two very different things. Bitcoin could easily help (and does in some parts of the world) in the latter case.

In an unstable or even collapsed society things are different. While true that historically gold could be used to buy things it might be at a very depressed buying power or it can be used when dealing with a stable outside society. A hedge for a unstable society is something that actually has "need", for example, antibiotics. Even then, once violence is a standard part of life and interactions the usual calculus of interactions changes.

History provides examples for societies that kind of collapse but sort of kept going on money surrogates that could get daily necessities at a high price; history also has examples for the violent kind of collapse/instability and there I would not count on bitcoin or gold to help absent access to violence.
Looks like it's still tapering off towards the edge.

Feel like they might've been able to fit slightly more space for port swapping if they had gone for the uniform aluminum slab design of the Chromebook Pixel, which, to me, is still beautiful:

https://regmedia.co.uk/2013/03/02/google_pixel_chromebook_he...
Go to a group of BLM or antifa activist protest and tell them you voted for Trump, see how that works out for you. Not all activists do not want you to think, but that doesnt change the fact that the majority are against it.
Anyone else find it interesting that their revenue graph only starts in 2017? At what I’d assume to be a pretty low number given how long they’ve been around and how explosive the VM world has grown? Seems like if they hadn’t taken all that VC capital there’s no way they could have afforded any of their growth.

It worried me that they’re only at a couple hundred MM in a self-proclaimed 116B+ opportunity after 10 years.
I’m asking out of curiosity, as someone who is thinking about implementing a subscription model, do you not like it even though you know the product you’re using has recurring costs for usage (e.g. charges for API/DB calls), or are you only against subscription models when the cost of usage is minimal to none (e.g. MS Office, Adobe CS)?
I haven't made a book with them, but Newline splits 50% on profit.
I work on Lighthouse (user of the Chrome DevTools protocol) and work with the DevTools team (obviously the main user of the protocol) - and when I first saw browserless I was blown away. So cool! Good job with your success.

What was the hardest part re: working with the protocol?
> given the need for 100% uptime

When I was a teen, I ran a personal mail server on a dynamic IP (using DynDNS) over dialup with about 25% uptime. Miraculously, mail still got delivered to my server. I was in awe of the reliability of SMTP.

The greatest problem today affecting reliablity is that mail gets dropped silently by the major providers.
I am willing to bet, attorneys who specialize in exerting money from ecommerce sites based on fluke accessibility lawsuits will not take notice of this problem that presents an actual hardship.
>To me, it seems pretty terrible for BK to advertise something which we all know of as "vegan food", and then not have it be vegan.

as someone who has had to be confined to celiac and vegan diets for health reasons, I think it's absolutely ridiculous that anyone would assume that any single ingredient in a meal that can be vegan, produces a vegan meal.

If we were to use the criteria of 'food that's known as X but isn't' as a way to judge whether or not we should sue restaurants, celiacs would be having a field day. Celiac-neutral ingredients are used throughout the food industry in ways that will harm celiac patients that are too ignorant to inquire about preparation and contamination.

I guess having been a part of that struggle made me realize that a) food preparation, as an industry, is exceedingly vague both about what you're receiving and how it was prepared, and b) that my food consumption is no one elses business, and that to make informed decisions about it requires personal legwork and investigation -- folks who want the industry to do it for them are going to have a real hard time of things.
talk about having the right idea at the wrong time!
If someone is born with dwarfism and wants to be a dwarf (sorry if this is not the PC term), they can be a dwarf. If someone is born a dwarf and wants to be a normal height, they can be a normal height. Are there really dwarf organizations arguing that no dwarf people should even be allowed to be a normal height? Or is this just manufactured outrage for a news article?
If you have any feedback regarding running Arch Linux in a VM under Mac OS X, I would be glad to hear about it, I'm just curious about the drawbacks.
Is this similar to what Epic Games has been doing with their Unreal Engine, specifically the Blueprint system? The main difference appears to be that you can directly write code, which does seem more powerful. There's a lot of power in bridging the gap between developers and designers, would love to see where this goes.
So you think it's possible to create "true AI" without free will? That is a very big assumption, and an unlikely one, IMO.
My friend's mental health was seriously and irreversibly damaged by a one time adventure with psychedelics... Apparenty, non-negligible (over 1%?) portion of the population reacts this way.
To be more precise, I rent a dedicated server for personal hosting. But to be fair, I have modified this sentence, it's not logical to ask money for something you can find for free.
And I'm already convinced by static site generator, because I'm using Hugo.
If you're looking for an hourly rate or a salary before funding, you've missed the point.

Pretty sure you have that backwards.
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On the other side, this is a actually very good thing.

If cops aren't allowed to use any evidence they gather illegally, it puts a damper on their enthusiasm for such illegality.
original source is http://gigaom.com/video/vlc-for-android-coming-soon/

linked page is just a conclusion.
My hunch is it uses the MacOS accessibility APIs.
In netscape the default background colour used to be black on light grey. I find that much easier on my eyes than black on white. Even a light yellow with dark green text. But given a dark room I like to switch the other way. See how you feel with a terminal/editor in different colour schemes. So bright room, bright scheme, dark room dark scheme. What I can't stand is flipping between the two modes. At night on a phone, some apps are incredibly painful to read. Even darkish flavours can be ruined with bright splash screens. There's just no consistency here.
This reminds me of this tangentially related movie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth_(2009_film)
Yes, of course, I was using street LSD.

But I had a steady high-volume supplier, and bought for resale. So I'd carefully test stuff before buying. I'd start with half the recommended dose. Then, a week later, a full dose. And then, a week later, 2-3 doses.

So what gave me a "standard trip" I considered 0.1-0.2 mg. And when I say 0.5 mg, I mean 3-4 times that.

I worked in a biochem lab, and so stored my LSD under vacuum at -70 deg C.
Dark mode makes me tired, I think. I don't mind normal black text on a white background.
I'm another for dark mode. I've been doing it for years when it's been available and I switched my phone because my previous one didn't have it. Even with the backlight cranked all the way down it was physically painful to look at. Others have suggested turning up the lights, well you can't do this in vehicles driving at night. It's also difficult if you're sharing a room with someone. I suspect I may be outside the range of normal people as going outside without sunglasses isn't a pleasant experience for me and I've got added sensitivity due to chemo. I do happen to be night owl normally not sure if that really matters or correlates to anything. I don't have the same problem with books, just items with backlighting.
conclusion: "Interesting as these trends may be, they will not assist in making the odds of winning the MegaMillions lottery any better if the system is truly fair and random. However, in the event there is some peculiar factor skewing the ball selection such that any of these trends continue, a player stands a mildly better chance of winning a partial prize through the selection of weighted numbers."
How does this paper relate to https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Understanding_Darcs/Patch_theo... ("Understanding Darcs/Patch theory")?
it does not work here
the `print.tab_modal.enabled` preference to `false´ fix described below helped
What do you think is wrong with them? I think they’re really interesting and surely a great record for anyone looking back at how they were to have different angles when all we had was drawings.
Presumably the difference would be smaller or for some frameworks even negative if each request did some actual and not entirely predictable amount of CPU work (e.g. executing some html templating scenario with varying levels of output and perhaps compression), and just in general much more work and using more memory (so the memory overhead is proportionally less relevant), and if the benchmark implementations were not permitted to tune exactly for the workload and system (i.e. so that generalized scheduler defaults are used on both kernel and userspace side). I.e., in a more real-world scenario with all the normal complexities and inefficiencies and development time constraints that are usual.

But yeah, it's be super interesting to actually see that demonstrated - that'd be quite a lot of work, however.
I agree that ENV variables are useful for general configuration, that's exactly what they were invented for...

ENV variables are not restricted by user though, your process can spawn another process under a different user and give it the same environment. It's the nature of the environment that it is usually inherited from the parent which causes the issues when we're talking about secrets.
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Is CouchDB still a thing? I thought it didn't scale past 6 instances or some such. And scaling was the whole point.
We moved to Asheville a few months ago and noticed the same phenomenon. Combine low local wages with high incomes of people working remotely or buying a second home and you get a strange dynamic within the town.
Transaction rate is the only possible way to judge the value of a monetary system.

A system where you essentially can't transact is economically dead. The health of an economy is measured by how quickly money flows in it, not in how wealthy a dragon sitting on a pile of gold can get.

It can be a speculative system, but that's far less useful than being a monetary system. Bitcoin is a terrible currency in the same way that houses, or diamond rings are a terrible currency. Settling transactions in them is slow and incredibly expensive.
> Your ARK 1 subscription estimate: 365 days, ~12 month, $4,050/month

So their premise is that because people can't afford to put money down on a home, they're going to ... pay $4k a month for an RV instead?
That is remarkably ugly. (To me, tastes vary, obviously, etc.)
The above title, with "Imaginary" does not match the tone of the article's title.
Is there a video of that I can watch?
> If you can prove that the hardware or software is “unreasonably dangerous” in design or implementation, you may have standing to sue Volvo

I imagine this is true for comma as well. I don't think their little waiver and notice that it should only be used in a research setting would hold up in court. Much like "incense" were banned despite being marked "not for human consumption".

> My beef is that Comma-the-product imposes an externality on our roads by bringing experimental driver assistance software to the mass market that is not backed by the software product’s developers (or any other entity).

I think their product is safe and I'm glad it exists out there. They claim 35 million miles driven and I am yet to see one serious accident. So I think the risk is overstated.

People like Thiel often complain about the lack of innovation. This is real innovation and could transform society. I think we should applaud the people that have the audacity to tackle hard problems that can change people's lives. The only way you'll get there is real miles driven on real roads. As a society, we should not have a zero risk attitude, otherwise nothing would ever get built.
Collab is awesome. It's not really for any serious training, it's for evaluating and sharing ML models that (may) need a GPU, and learning. But for many situations, it replaces the need to have a laptop with a GPU - it's good enough for getting set up before you engage the real compute to do serious training. If collab was not free, I would consider paying a subscription for it, which is maybe the end game.

They have a paid version now that is supposed to be faster and more lenient about disconnecting you, but I recently read a comparison that said it wasnt worth it.
The default OpenBSD ntpd config pings google, cloudflare, and quad9 by default.

edit: looks like it only queries cloudflare.
This is just pride in your work and a personal choice right? Which is great, but then sometimes you do this and it's so unreciprocated that you just burnout because you thought what you did mattered, and then your company fires you for whatever trite reason. That fucks with your head and it's probably not worth that much unless you know it can be.
I buy the implication one way, but not the other.

>>When seeking advice, ignore status, intelligence and experience. Seek out the happy people, they're the only people who can help you.

That argument needs that I would become happy following the same path as the person giving advice. That is just not true for quite a few happy people I know.
I've tried a few of the dedicated console clients for various protocols. However, I'm lazy and find its just easier to put up with pidgin. That, and I like the OTR crypto plugin.

The only reason I use IM at all is for a long-standing client who insists on using it for 99% of real-time communications.

I've been on the 'net since 1990, and I've never even used IRC (I know, I know -- I should hand in my geek card...). I've always been a store-and-forward kind of person, and have always preferred email and (in its heyday) USENET.
Don't know that acronym... feel like it should be obvious, though... maybe I'm just getting tired?
That is great that you like the product that you bought.
Yes. The discussion is almost always better on HN and in quite a few cases you'll find the correct links to the content in question.
>By this point there's no real way to fix it. The legal system is based strongly on precedent. It can't just undo major rulings of the past and replace the with something sane.

sounds exactly like the point where a major fix must be done. Life changes faster and faster. The precedent system was great in 15th century when things look pretty much the same like in the 14th or 13th century.
If it's not vimmy enough, I bet people will.
Check out the story too.
Here's a writeup about the move of another superconducting magnet, from Livermore to Seattle: http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~tanner/PDFS/Thomas12jpack-move.pdf
I'd vote for any system that gives the poor more opportunity to pull themselves up. With FairTax they would have more income, pay no tax on essentials, could save/invest more, and reduce dependence on the government. That combined with no capital gains makes investment attractive to all classes.

If you give someone the opportunity, but they choose to remain poor then it is not the government's job to take care of them.

If however you do not give them that opportunity then we are just encouraging the poor to stay poor and depend on the government.

I have to imagine no capital gains would have more meaning to the middle class saving for retirement as compared to a wealthy person netting 15% more.

Lastly - expenditures are at least linear with regards to income if not exponential past $150k looking at a recent census. If you read the FairTax proposal it states that the rich would end up paying more tax overall then they do today.
@AndyNemmity I totally agree - the Ironic guys (particularly jroll) are awesome and were very helpful.
Stupid war on drugs :(
On the one hand, I try really hard to ignore karma and remind myself that I post here to participate in conversation, not to rack up karma points. On the other hand, obsessively checking if my karma has changed is one of the most harmless things I have done while feeling like crap and being unable to sleep.

All communities have some means to keep track of pecking order. I really have no idea if karma is better or worse than other methodologies. <shrug>
how would they distribute the thing, if not through the dumps? I mean, using an scm to distribute it (I asked the freebase guys the same thing) would save time/bandwidth but it's not a conceptual improvement.

Also, how would forking be useful in any way? It's not like someone can work on a feature that later gets merged into the mainline, right? Could you explain the advantages ?
You're not telling the whole story though--of course incarceration rates are going to go up when crime goes up (though it's a lagging indicator), but the crime rate has been declining since the 1990's--or "over the last 20 years", as I put it. (2010-1990=20). Simply pointing out that crime rates haven't declined below 1965 levels yet misframes the entire issue.
>Every single one of those prisoners was convicted of some crime or another by a comparatively just court system.

Like this one?
Interesting - The paper is dated "October, 2010", but on page 10, he talks about the "$4.99 Word Lens iPhone App". Just how clairvoyant is Ray Kurzwell anyways... :-)
They show up properly for some TLDs, those that have a policy of not allowing confusing/pointless characters. Far as I can tell though, you can't register names like the following (due to TLD restrictions).
http://☁→❄→☃→☀→☺→☂→☹→✝.org/
> I figured working from home would be great for the first month, and then I would start going mad.

Why not quit after the first month then?
Not true, at least not in a useful sense (that is, without semantic games like "Putting users first is really putting profits first because it makes them money"). Google often turns down options that would squeeze out a little more money at the expense of its users. For example, Google slapped content farms for being worthless even though they seem to be pretty good money-makers.
That's a very good point. IE9 has 3% usage share right now, but because it can't run on XP, IE9 won't replace all the IE8 installs out there. In the same vein, IE10 won't even run on Vista. That's why I doubt we'll see another single version of IE being the most dominant. On top of that, Chrome usage is growing rapidly. At the current rate, Chrome will be the most popular browser in 12 to 18 months.