jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Can I get my minimalist Google back?
As pedoh said, the advantage of cloud options is the ability to scale flexibly.

VPS, however, is actually more aligned to dedicated servers. Sure, because their hardware limits are manually imposed by virtualisation software, you can scale them, but generally that's designed for when you decide a server upgrade/downgrade is required, rather than on an ongoing basis to meet fluxtuating needs.

Essentially, the key difference between VPS and dedi is that VPS offers a cheaper solution if you want the flexibility of your own server without the cost of hardware that you don't need - as you can get cheap VPSs that give you full root access for $15/20 a month, a deal you'll never find with any dedicated server, regardless of its specifications.

(For my company's websites, we have ~20 quad core dedicated servers because we are able to handle a steady growth of traffic without the need of cloud servers, and we want complete control over them in a way that we wouldn't have with VPS servers. I have 5 VPS servers for personal use however, which lets me spread their power across four data centres in two continents, with various different uses for each of them, without the bill that a similar dedicated server setup would cost, as I don't really need huge amounts of CPU/RAM in each)
I'm seeing it while logged out (and using private browsing, so I don't even have any cookies from previous sessions). Only for 24 hours, apparently: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/art-of-homepage.html
does it really help to boost the signal? i tried before and didn't seem to get much of a difference.
Vernor Vinge wrote a story kinda like that: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v407/n6805/full/407679a...
> But who's really doing it wrong?

You are.

The canonical source for the correct way to spell/write someone's name is that person. You should never tell someone "No, you're writing your name wrong".
Fun indeed. Unfortunately he'll probably only get offended and completely miss the part about you subtly trying to prove a point.

If only we could _counter_ their "that's easy" with a similar statement of our own thrown back at them...

Something like;

-Hey Mr. Developer we need to implement feature X. I think it's a 5 minute thing really. You only need to Y and then we're set. Should take an hour or less. Probably less if you just insert and if statement in module Z.

-Sure thing Mr. Manager/Sales/What-the-heck-do-u-really-do-around-here-anyways-guy. But may I ask... Do they [the customer] really need this feature?

-What do you mean? They asked for it specifically and besides they're paying us in gold.

-Well instead of implementing this feature can't we just convince 'em [the customer] that they really don't need this feature and would actually be better of paying us 10x what they do today? That's just simple sales and accounting! I bet all you need is a phone call. That way we could play Pong all day AND make more money.
In other words, you pretty much do whatever the heck you want, and spend a bit of time optimizing your environment so it's easier to do it?
Not to mention less range and less towing capacity.

But to be fair, it is a farm truck not for running kids to school. It has quite a bit more payload capacity (3500 vs 5000 lbs)
Your advice is to avoid giving advice. Isn't it self-contradictory?
Don’t absolutely need home charging although it helps. Charging at work or access to fast chargers around town also works.
Any names you can mention about these work ethic programming shops?
Almost every large Go codebase does this with very few exceptions. Until the advent of github.com/pkg/errors there wasn't an easy way to uniformly implement error chaining so people would just prepend strings (if they have any context at all) and used fmt.Errorf religiously. These days, fmt.Errorf is still used but now you can in principle root-cause errors with errors.Cause -- unfortunately many Go libraries do not use github.com/pkg/errors (because of the nested vendor problem that existed for many years) and so you are stuck if you want to root-cause an error in an older library.

All of that being said, modern Go (written in the past few years) could avoid these pitfalls. But very few production codebases were both written in the past few years and only use libraries written in the past few years.

I've worked on Go codebases for the past 5-6 years.
No! I agree with you that it seems like it should be cheap but imagine the UN ran it. China would veto ".tw" as just one example of the many problems with government type entity in charge.
> performed by actual academics

It turns out academia is the one place where these ideas live on, because there is zero skin in the game required from those defending them. There is no consequence for backing a nice sounding theory that is deadly in the real world (e.g. Sartre and Pol Pot).
I think it's fair to see private equity as red-flag, and I feel ideologically aligned with the folks raising the alarm here. OTOH, the concerns raised include a lot of speculation (in the form of "could do bad" or "has the power to do bad"), and that's also a red-flag.

It's interesting to compare ISOC's blog (https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2019/11/the-internet-so...) and the followups like EFF's blog (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/nonprofit-community-st...) and SaveDotORG (https://savedotorg.org). They touch on a lot of similar themes of community and transparency - which, on paper, makes it sound like there's some meeting-ground.

As an outsider to the discussion, questions would be:

1. What are some specific problems facing the ".org" registration process for which capital/investment would be helpful? (Obviously, there's no perfect answer. But as an outsider, it looks like ".org" registration already works about as well as anywhere else, so one needs some examples to animate the problem.)

2. Would any of these folks care to improve their engagement/trust with each other? Talking more specifics about "Stewardship Council" and "Community Enablement Fund" might help. Or is some reason for bad blood?

3. What kind of track record does this private-equity shop have? Have they worked with other non-profit or socially-oriented endeavors? Maybe some founders/staff/customers can give some positive or negative testimonials?
Do you / commenters here really “enjoy” programming as a career as much as when they first had enough skill and enthusiasm to build things?

I think this is a big misconception among devs with less than five years of exp.
http://www.datc.edu/files/datc/departments/bookstore/textboo...

Like most things, no one is getting terribly rich off textbooks. What bothered me most in college was when they would release a new edition and refuse to buy back the old one.Even when the difference between the versions wasn't noticeable.
Historically, C compilers really did run an assembler in a separate process and communicate with it via pipes or files. gcc still ships with gas. gas is more oriented to the needs of a compiler than to human writers of assembly code.

Some compilers emit machine code from their own low-level intermediate representation, though. The trade-offs are similar to any other build/buy technical decision: full-custom gives you more control, while forcing you to reinvent the wheel.
Does monopoly has a set of notations like Chess for game tracking?
By providing this list, they are making it super easy for the secret service to give the "no dot" manufacturers a call/visit (which is who asked for the dots to be on there in the first place if I am not mistaken).

They could always use the lego printer http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1397675
I wrote a comment on the site, but I think this is a terrible analogy.

Keep in mind, I've both been fired by VCs and I've fired VCs. And while I've never fired a produce supplier, I've fired other vendors and I can pretty well imagine what it would be like.

And it's not just firing that makes VCs and produce suppliers different.

While they both might help you build your meny, you don't need to check with your produce supplier for approval before you change your menu.

You also don't need to check with your produce supplier before your sell your restaurant.

I could go on...
I think I'm going to print out "coding is procrastination" and stick it to the top of my monitor.

The gratification with coding is short term - find a problem, think of a feature and get stuck in and get it done. When it works you get a nice glow of self satisfaction.

I don't know about others, but having the self-control to not open the code editor and do something else is probably the most difficult challenge I face in getting projects out there.
Two counterpoints:

a) Your experience from a previous career might translate well to the new one.

b) The cost of developing an iPhone app is now low enough, that you can give it a shot and see if your idea is any good, for example by virtue of a)
There's dollar cost, and then there's political cost. A pilot shot down and killed or captured is a political liability and military planners have to take that into account when deploying manned aircraft vs drones.
> Because they paid tax on a gain that wasn’t real.

Exactly. Imagine one bought GME at $10. It rose to $350+ because the market went nuts. You never sold so none of that is real to you.

And the IRS comes back saying you now must pay taxes on your GME shares based on the $350 valuation because someone else paid that much for it.

Fortunately stocks don't work that way. A home shouldn't either.
Well, people like you cause wars.

China is a huge economy, soon to overtake US. No, they don't lack natural resources. What they do lack is knowledge in some key areas (semiconductors) but they seem to be capable enough to just steal whatever they need.

What you seem to be forgetting is that US owes at least 1 trillion dollars to China and that overall, China holds over 2 trillion dollars in external debt.

More than that, US needs even more debt and there aren't many places at the moment where you can get a loan of the size that US needs.

Even more than that, US is currently incapable of producing much of the stuff they need and buying it from elsewhere (EU?) would cost a lot more.

I am pretty sure it would be US that would be critically wounded by the sanctions.

US companies are as much reliant on being able to offshore their work to China as Chinese companies getting that work from US.

The difference is, that these Chinese companies are able to produce stuff on their own vs most US based companies having no production capabilities of their own.
You can also use noti to watch a process id, in case you start a process but forget to append noti
I'm 38 and have a 1 and 3 year old (we had a fit of optimism I guess), and am terrified that having them just in time for them to suffer the collapse of civilisation around them could end up being an act of cruelty.

We've moved to a location that should fare well enough, ecologically, but of course that makes it a target for hungry, thirsty, better-armed groups of people.
> And additionally that they can sustain this irrationality for some time.

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
I think you're comparing the wrong things. When I was a kid, I tinkered with clocks and watches. I thought digital ones were opaque boxes and remember calling them boring. The mechanical clocks were much more fun and reconfigurable.

Does that mean we've sadly come to the end of the era of hobbyist friendly alarm clocks? Maybe, but so what? We then got computers instead. Now we have Raspberry Pi's for kids who see cellphones as boring black boxes. There's always something and it's fine if it's not the same thing it used to be. The same thing happened with cameras - people used to build their own cameras out of bits of wood and develop their own pictures from glass plates. but cheap film cameras eliminated that hobby from the mainstream. It's fine. Technology moves on. Now we have 3D printers that enable kids to make things they never could have before without access to an expensive milling machine.
Gone deep on IAM in AWS, attempted a similar thing on GCP later for another project, was very surprised how weak GCP IAM was.

Top of mind things I found weak/weird:
- Basically can’t do least privilege, only want a role to read messages from one pubsub queue? Nope not possible
- IAM policies seem bolted on, legacy roles seem much better fit in the ecosystem, but they suck obvs.
- different gcp resources have somewhere between very coarse grain to just acceptable iam operations. Might just be GCS that lets you do proper least privileges policies like you would do in AWS.

I was very surprised how bad it was, AWS IAM is some black magic shit that is deeply impressive and often taken for granted, even GCP can’t replicate.
You can still self-host your web analytics and they won't be blocked, plus it's 100x better than using a "free" service that centralizes data.
I have a friend who is off-grid for everything except for the fiber to his house. He even has to haul his own water in as he doesn't have a well.

I only know people who tried hughesnet, none of them kept it. There are lots of mountains and trees here, so a WISP won't work. Distances are too great for DSL. Cell service (in this area) is lucky to be good enough to send a text.

With starlink this will be a lot easier. I think it comes down to fiber or starlink - and maybe a WISP if possible.
That makes a ton of sense. Also:

> I always asked after the partner pitch, so I felt like we'd dated enough that it was an acceptable question to ask (I could very well be wrong).

This is a key piece of information that does not match my presumption. At that level in the process, to continue our dating analogy, I think this kind of question or concern is a lot more reasonable. But with that said, I think it is unfortunately a concern that will be a dealbreaker for a vast majority of VCs.

With that said, the plus side is that alternate funding vehicles are more powerful than ever, whether that's crowdfunding, angels, alumni syndicates, revenue based funding, user based pre-orders. I respect that this may not have been the case when you last raised, but certainly this past year has minted an enormous amount of new HNW investors chomping at the bit to put their money into interesting causes, some for profit and some not. Dis-intermediating the VC has never been so viable as it is now, in my opinion.
Not all recursion is tail recursion. If you traverse trees you either deal with your bounded stack somehow (or ignore the problem) ; derecursify by hand, which is a nightmare ; or refactor to continuation passing style. There are options but none is simple and elegant.
Do they not have machines in US like china?

0] https://youtu.be/QAZfHHi58AU
Clearly a big deal and congressional IT staff are going to have a crazy few weeks ahead of them. However, my understanding is that any classified information would have to be in a SCIF. I assume that would be the case with congresspeople as well.
I've also heard that the congressional paging system locks devices when an emergency is announced, but haven't seen that corroborated anywhere. Anyone know if that's true?
I was referring to this supercomputer:

https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/computer-vision-at-tesla-cd5e8807...
Certainly doesn't have to be lithium. But for frequent cycling, lead acid is more expensive. Lead acid also requires occasional maintenance to keep the acid levels topped up.

But if you want to rig you leave own setup with lithium ion, scaling up and down with smallish individual battery units over time, those are available for sale. The list prices I've seen are pretty high, about $700/kWh, however. An integrated unit can be cheaper. And as lithium ion battery prices plummet over the next two years, and factories scale, the home storage market will hopefully start to get access to $300/kWh products or cheaper.
The bet also serves as an interesting hedge for anyone whose net worth is already heavily correlated with the success of the tech sector (which certainly includes VCs). 100k is not enough to really matter to a GP at a 500MM fund, especially if it goes to charity either way. But there are plenty of smaller VCs or even startup founders (including myself) who would do that deal not because they're skeptical of tech's fundamentals, but as a way to counteract exposure to an overall macro/tech downfall.
I also thought so. Then I just went there with my two girls (4 and 6) about half a year ago and it was (still) plain fun. Nothing to fear at all.
Maybe sales force will also stop selling to customers in Russia, China, in Africa too to ensure principles aren't broken... And people aren't discriminated against.

Unfortunately I think he's grandstanding and this is simply symbolic. Which is fine, but he doesn't really mean it. It's a ploy.
Ha! So it is possible!

Personal plug: I wrote a short story concept / film script idea about a similar idea sometime between 2006 and 2008. Can't exactly recall, but I know it was in my typewriter phase. Just the idea of watching was neat, but I made up a structure with a jouranlist and I added a conflict element of an international incident which justified some suspense and action.

"Watching for the Weird" was the original working title, which eventually morphed into "Satellite Seeker" and I think it's somewhere out on the 'net. I know I've got hard copies and scans around. Written under my pen name Vernon Walter. VernonWalter is also the email address via Google if you'd like to contact me for a copy or for any other writing related work of mine.
s/Scotsman/True Scotsman
That's because matrix multiplication is noncommutative, and it's traditional in linear algebra to write the inputs matrix on the right of the operations matrix. Just like in normal algebra, you write 5x+7y instead of x5+y7. So the picture matches up with the notation.
> Is it really smart to believe that childlike simplicity of purpose is morally admirable?

I don't have any idea what you're talking about but I'm guessing we like "smart" rather than "childlike simplicity."

> That never being seen to take a side in an ugly situation with horrible tradeoffs on all sides is a prerequisite for being a top quality "good person"?

On the contrary, regardless of how you define "good person," I suspect having taken a side would be a necessary factor. The more relevant factor would be having chosen the correct side.

> My sense is that rather than courageous, it is extremely easy to take sides like opposing torture in all forms at all times. Such positions receive automatic praise and require little complex thinking. That does not necessarily make them wrong, but we should subject them to an extra shade of rational skepticism.

I don't think the amount of effort or risk involved in reaching a moral decision can be considered an indicator of that decision's correctness. We would not consider someone who took one second to decide to help an old lady across the street to have acted more morally than someone who had to take a little more thought to make the decision based on the same reasoning, after all. And plenty of decisions to choose ethical conduct over unethical conduct are quite easy for most of us to make - you can think of your own examples. Effort isn't any sort of reliable indicator.
True! I just think a lot of times numbers become commodified and make rounds on the internet (accompanied by a superficial level of analysis) without touching upon the real reasons why that number is significant.
You need to atleast go into the preferences to select extra lists (if you want them) and to disable whitelisted sites (also, if you want to do that since ABP enables "some" ads by default).

(I'd probably enable the whitelisted stuff... IF I wasn't more concerned about adware than anything else over ad-networks)
"I have the right to build apartments on the land I own."

"I have the right to tell you what you can and can't build in my neighborhood."

Which one is positive and which is negative?
going out and buying gas is the dumbest thing you could possibly do -- parking your own car in front of a security camera and making a transaction

You're assuming that the police care enough to actually investigate the crime. From my experience in web-based sales, the authorities don't seem terribly interested in pursuing cases of credit card fraud.

(If this weren't HN, I'd add something sarcastic about them being too busy hunting down speeders and feeling up travelers)
The other reason the iTunes Store works is ease and speed. No matter how good your connection is, it's really hard to beat a one-click preview (which torrents don't offer), one-click purchase, and having the entire album in your iTunes library in less than a minute.
The reason Visa (and the other card networks) have been heavily pushing smartcards/RFID/etc. is that it is an excuse for them to move liability for fraud from the banks/merchants to consumers. So as a consumer who has some doubts about the security of the chip technology, I'd have to say that I welcome any slowing of the transition.
It wants a camera so it can scan and ocr documents.
This discussion presents no new information. There are a group of people who think this is bad, there are a group that think it's not a big deal and there is a group that don't understand what's going on.

I think there are plenty of scenarios where the information could be accessed and used in ways that hurt end users. I also am skeptical of this notion that it was accidental, considering the rumors that they're using this data to build their own location services, the fact that they tried to patent the use of cached location data, etc.

But the important part is that it's going to be fixed. As usual, I think this became blown out of proportion by the people screaming about it, the people trying to defend it, and Apple's usual... distortion. They're "fixing" something now that only a few days earlier they claimed wasn't occuring and/or wasn't a problem.

Of course, some will say they're just responding to criticism the same way any company would, but I can't be the only one that took Jobs' "No we're not, and look Google is too" as a bit dishonest.
it's cool but i kept wanting to pause it any couldn't
Clickable link: http://blueberrytree.ws
This seems like a fascinating topic but just the slides without any context/explanation are not that informative for me.
stackoverflow thread on best books for algorithms:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/302270/what-is-the-best-b...

similar thread asking about data structures:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/366317/good-data-structur...
I understand it to matter a great deal when you're trying to get rid of bacteria, but it is a little tricky to square with the "we use 70% for surfaces and 99% for instruments" thing I got from the professional.
I think most grants have their own form that you have to fill out so it would depend on the grant/funder.
I can toss a rock over my back yard fence into Tempe from my home in Chandler - no fiber for me!
Is Sokal really an "insider" to psychology?
Is it weirder then trying to become good in literally any other craft or skill?

People spend hours trying to become good at coding competitions, games, sport, musical instrument, embroidery, hoby electronics ... you name it. Why would "trying to become as good as possible at creating realistic drawing" would be weirder then anything else? The technical skill involved in making it look hyper realistic is huge.